and -- when we started discussions about this think bike workshop. we did this in other cities in the u.s. and we will be in that other big california city, los angeles, in a few other days. thursday, and -- thursday and friday. and i was convinced quite easily about the use to have these kind of work shops in l.a. but i thought san francisco, there's so much going on already. we had leah and for almost nine months in amsterdam and chairman david chiu and others for a week. and there is such great organization here and there are so many ideas. there are so many professional little here already about bike infrastructure and the future of biking. but it will come down to implementation and it's perhaps a bit like riding the wiggle. you have to push hard and hopefully we might be a sort of additional support, a sort of small electricity motor for you to push your -- up that hill. and it will come down to implementation and leadership and it's great to have a sort of down to earth approach during these two days. working in teams on i think three importan

we had six teeteen workshops, se are trying to grow the opportunities we are trying to present. this year our theme is saluting the heroes of our economy. we are excited about this. we are going to have a number of ads throughout the city as well as in "across mccall -- "the chronicle,"the spanish paper, "the business times," showing a campaign illustrating some of the small businesses in our community and talking about small business week, so that is where we try to reach out to regard we try to let people know that small business week -- where we try to reach out. we try to let people know that small business week is happening. we go directly through all of our partners of the economic development organizations and our host organizations, so we host slavers of san francisco, which is our main the -- the host flavors of san francisco. this year we are hoping to take the awards program out and hold a separate event tuesday evening. we are still hoping to secure the sponsorship to create that, but it is difficult when you have 1400 people drinking and eating and having a good tim

we're talking 3 1/2 years, maybe nearly 50 different drafts and 5 workshops? . >> five workshops, yes. >> so, looking back at the journey, how has it been for you and has it come out as you expected it would? . >> what's interesting is if you work on a play this long, normally there are times that it becomes redundant and you get a little bored with the piece. it's only natural. it's pushing 4 years now. this one was interesting in that it never got boring or ever felt redundant and each thing that we did over these almost 4 years, whether it was going off to sundance or to writer's retreat they have in sheritan, wyoming -- is that where you went? . >> that was in utah and la as well, down there at the institute. >> they have another writer's retreat in sheritan, wyoming, so i spent time out there and we workshoped this in san francisco, we have done readings at the asia society in new york. each time we did a workshop, each time we did a reading, it moved the piece forward. i think in large part it has to do with working with cary pearloff, the director, but

these workshops were led by you for your alumni. they facilitated the trainings and help to create the curriculum for the trainings. you if warriors then utilize their newly learned skills to lead you to advocacy day here in city hall on wednesday april 6, an historic day of youth civic engagement when high-school students met with their elected officials to talk about the issues they care about. on youth advocacy day, you for years led interactive workshops with high school students and city government and also help students prepare for their meetings with elected officials. they met with officials from some various departments, members of the board of supervisors, and mayor edwin lee. mayor li was gracious enough to address all of the participants. he shared his history and inspiring words about the importance of youth in city politics. i am happy to share with you today that mayor lee is here to help celebrate youth warriors. [applause] throughout the fellowship, youth warriors also has the opportunity to meet other youth leaders

prior to this workshop, i was not too clear on the difference between the benefit corporation, but it is pretty clear the differences between them, and there were small-business owners to talk about how they benefit, so that is one thing, and i also attended a press conference to allow them to invest in the neighborhood strategy work crew. good -- work group. this is item number 10, to invest in a neighborhood initiative for commercial corridors, so there was a very good reading, and i was off to work on the work group. our first meeting was going to be at 11:00, so i was hoping we'd get them to come to our retreat. i also attended a meeting with the fda advocacy group as well as with the fda and the oriental food association, and as mentioned by the public affairs specialist, there is going to be a lot of new food safety laws coming out, so it is important for us through informs small- business owners, and especially the group that imports food from outside of the country, and some of the members of this association mentioned there are so many new laws coming out, it would be importa

from the time of the workshop, we have reduced expenditures for the next fiscal year by $2 million. we will walk through what some of those are. walking through the proposals for consideration in the budget that we will be bringing forward. slide #six shows the major changes from the current fiscal year projection of $820 million in the budget going to next year and the following year. again, most of this are things you have seen before. a few things about point out. on the salary benefits line, proposing management reductions in the current fiscal year, and the overtime reductions of the second fiscal year, falling in it -- falling in it -- following an increase in the next fiscal year. i think we are chronically under-budgeted over time. why we do have some over- spending over time, we will try to bring the budget up in the spending down to what we think is the right level of overtime for the next fiscal year. because of a number of initiatives that we are overtaking, including the prop g initiatives, they are expected to do better in terms of bringing the overtime costs down. it

we to have future workshops, as i mentioned. what i really need to know from the commission this evening and receive your guidance and counsel is how we want to do this. last time it was ready the commission hours. we will have myself and a number of speakers on this. do we want to have a session just focus on this? we could focus in on wastewaters staff and maybe even too long recessions and really try to wrap this up. the objective is to wrap up the program and to know what the program is, finalize cash flows, and to submit this down by the end of july. >> we have a comment on the question that you proposed to us. one of the reasons for the timer is to try to make our meetings more efficient said that we will have more time within a regularly scheduled meeting to deal with larger and more complex questions. i would hope as we get close to this and we will be able to tell whether we can do that. my hope would be that we can do structure. that said, there are going to be some very complicated decisions that we have to make. the

and the japanese government is eager for her to tell her story at this workshop. >> translator: there's so many things i can't forget. >> reporter: she came to japan from the philippines in 1959. she married a japanese man and learned the language. this is her home now, which is part of the reason why the disaster affected her so much. >> translator: i saw my neighbor waving her hands from inside her house as the tsunami swept it away. there was nothing i could do. >> reporter: she also lost her home, but her family was safe. they moved to an vacation center and soon she volunteered to run the place. >> translator: i helped with translation. i helped hand out supplies. i was thinking about what i could do for the community rather than what the community could do for me. >> reporter: she was one of 20,000 registered foreign nationals in the three hardest hit prefectures. many left after march 11th, but some stayed. and they became a great help especially in towns with aging populations. >> translator: those people started acting with the idea that they're part of japanese society. they w

i do workshops for men, for women and in schools for young adults. >> in your workshops, give us kind of an idea of what you tell people, what advice you give if they want to get out of this situation? we're going to put up some full screen abouts your workshop. >> my workshop is very detailed where i take people on different abuses and just because you don't have a scar doesn't mean you're not abused. i also give them a plan of escape. >> especially if something is really bad, if the situation gets terrible, what's the first thing someone should do? >> you should get out. call 911. there are others around you that should also be helping you. >> what about the things that you should take with you, the documents? >> that's right. there's a lot of documents that you need like your children's medical cards, your birth certificates, your important documents like banking and mortgage stuff. but at the same time you need evidence. you need evidence to prove that you have gone through. that cook pictures, your journals, your torn bloodied clothing. >> when you say pictures, though, that mean

the workshops will give you an opportunity to hear and ask questions of the sec staff of interest to you. the panelists will not be taking questions during the plenary sessions but we encourage to you ask questions during these workshops. before going on, despite the fact our conference is entitled sec speaks, i must say the views expressed by all the individual speakers of the commission staff during the conference will be their own and not necessarily those of the commission, any other members of the commission and other commissions' various positions and office. to start, it is my distinct honor to introduce the 29th chairman of the sec, mary shapiro. not many people realize this, but when she returned to the sec in january of 2009, it was chairman shapiro's fourth appointment to the commission. it is a testament to her extraordinary talent and her excellent judgment that those appointments are evenly divided. two of her appointments were by republican presidents and two by democrats. chairman shapiro's talent for understanding and reconciling different sides of complex issues has

he's hosting a workshop called sugar smackdown. >> that will prevent you from feeling like you're hungry all the time. a lot of people if they have the sugar cravings, eating fat, maybe with raw nuts or coconut oil will cut the cravings for sugar. >> reporter: try healthier alternatives, like honey. when eating fruit keep the skin on. >> that's where the fiber is, in the peels. if you're getting a fruit not treated with pesticides, eat the peel for the higher fiber content. >> reporter: be sure to read labors carefully. don't be fooled by products that are marketed good for you. >> those that end in ose, fructose, lactose, those are the sugary types of food -- as well as those that end in ol. >> reporter: tills to keep in mind, linda so. >> so the sugar smashdown workshop will be next wednesday and thursday. for more information call 410-625-5000. if you want the latest health news, you can like linda so's facebook page. you can also log on to abc2news.com. click on the news tab and click on health. there you'll find health headlines as well as different health categories to help you fin

it is something that was identified at the workshops as part of this proposal. we have had five posers which we short listed three and the top ranking firm -- i'm happy to answer any questions about the process. >> thank you. commissioners come any questions? >> who were the other bidders? >> the other bidders -- there was a joint venture and ann w. h. you are s -- >> and this was from southern california? do they have offices here? >> they have offices here. in the bay area. >> any other questions? is there public comment on this item? do i have a motion? so moved. >> do i have a second? >> second. all those in favor? >> with the commission's permission, it probably would not prevent them from voting, but to give them comfort, you can release them from voting. >> the rules of order say that is by permission of the commission. will it be in order for there to be a motion that we do that? >> that would make the record most clean. >> so moved. >> moved and seconded. >> on the item itself, we have a motion and a second. item number 12. >> a discussion to authorize

beginning march 31, we're going to is 10 treated the workshops. we will be reaching out to numerous neighborhood residents and merchants associations. we will provide updates to the advisory group and we for working very closely with the muni accessible advisory committee. they form a subcommittee that's me almost weekly to goes every proposal and to do site visits so they can get their feedback on where they think the proposals would benefit and where they would recommend changes. we're working with transportation advocacy groups, which we think is an effective way to get the word out. doing a lot of internal presentations both to coordinate with other efforts and get input from our operators and inspectors out managing the service. they see issues and problems every day. i am pleased our new union leadership will be coasting this as part of their regularly scheduled meeting and we will talk about those proposals together. the muni rapid program is a combination of a set of improvements -- the programs are in the works of their things we can deli

there were also workshops on obtaining tuition assistance.ing the right school and surviving those first few months away from home. >> some of the issues they are facing are, they select the school based on where their friends go or something that they read in a magazine or look online and don't do some real research to find out what is really happening at a school. >> attendeis had an opportunity to tour trinity college and complete financial aid applications right there on site. >>> you know the saying, everybody's irish on st. patrick's day and man's best friend is no exception to all that. a doggy daycare center in woodbridge, virginia, hosted its second annual st. patrick's pup crawl. some 30 dogs made their way to various stations at the dog easy inn for doggy treats, doggy bandannas and even doggy beer while their owners ran errands. we're told that alcohol-free beer is actually made out of beef broth. >> it's absolutely worth the trip and a beautiful day to be here. >> coming up on 9news now tonight. cherry blossoms peeking early this

. >> we're spending a lot of time in our workshops working on new material for the vegas show when wehe monte carlo in october. there's a lot of technological elements and we have robots and digital multievents that we're working on. we've been able to reach out past our own company to some of the extraordinary designers and artists from around the world, such as michael curry, who is an extraordinary designer. >> i'm michael curry. we're here at my studio in scappoose, oregon. we're workshopping with blue men joining my specialty which is scenic design, character tur design, puppetery which needs no explanation for me. >> i think when it came time for reimagining our vegas show, we were going with such large scale things and wanting to push out into some new areas and actually enter into the casino and into las vegas beyond the theater walls. we knew we were walking into michael's wheel house. today we're working on a procession that is going to leave the blue man theater in las vegas from the monte carlo, walk around the resort or on to the strip. so it's very important that it's mo

this morning, i sat in on the workshops and i was very encouraged. a lot of people like roma were there, people we have all work together at various points in our lives the last 20 years, but there were also a lot of new faces, young faces, and it is faces, young faces, and it is encouraging that our city has so

they could this amateur workshop as a relaxing environment for office of all levels they specialize in oil on the converse with the colors on this interesting three the plaster of paris images here . it's been open for over seven years and it's a great place to release your expression develop your style and skills and more importantly you're allowed to make mistakes here. discovered might be located in the underground space but as you can see and women in this room have created some excellent pieces for many it's the first time. i'm climbing it's. three months ago. in my writing my one thing i want to paint i don't know how i don't know why i never tried it before never ever in my wife it was my first three months. so this was my first picture. you cannot whatever age you are many museums aim to pay special attention to education of children the state pushkin museum of fine arts and opened a sense of the kids in two thousand and six when the museum was founded a century ago it's made objective was to educate schoolchildren in students by means of classical centuries old pieces precise

this morning, i sat in on the workshops and i was very encouraged. a lot of people like roma were there, people we have all work together at various points in our lives the last 20 years, but there were also a lot of new faces, young faces, and it is encouraging that our city has so many dedicated women were willing to spend the time, volunteer time for the most part, to make this city one of the greatest leaders for women's issues and rights and equality. i think we have proven that. i am very encouraged that perhaps in the next four, five years we will get ahead in terms of our own counst