Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Edded Additional Support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tish w. E. Studios in Lincoln Center in new york, this is pbs news hour weekend. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Secretary of state john kerry and russian feign minister Sergie Lavrov conferred by telephone today in the latest effort to defuse the crisis in ukraine. Russian separatists who occupy government buildings aross Eastern Ukraine three weeks ago say they are willing to release eight International Military observers they detained, but only if other separatists in custody are also freed. Recent satellite images show tens of thousands of Russian Troops massed along the border with ukraine. The pentagon said yesterday that russian fighter jets ha
To decrease the use of pesticides in Rice Production. Dr. Kenmore we have been able basically to substitute brains for chemicals. And in that sense, the growth rate stays up but less chemicals are used. Narrator in the yaqui valley of mexico, researchers are finding that excess fertilizer runoff from wheat crops is affecting marine life in the gulf of california. So they are turning to technology to decrease fertilizer inputs without decreasing yields. Dr. Ortizmonasterio Technology Like this can result in a winwin situation, where the farmer benefits and at the same time the environment benefits. Narrator by showing farmers how to reduce pesticide and fertilizer use, both Research Teams hope to minimize Environmental Impacts while Still Producing enough food for our growing population. A staple throughout the globe, rice is an eential crop, providing 60 of the calories for half of the worlds population. Dr. Peter kenmore of the food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations i
barking the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. Gis is a combination of maps and data. Not a graphic you see on a screen. You get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a Police District in a period of time. If the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. Other types of gis are web based Mapping Systems. Like google earth, yahoo maps. Microsoft. Those are examples of on line Mapping Systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. All digital maps. Gis is used in the city of San Francisco to better support what departments do. You imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the Critical Infrastructure where the storm drains are. The city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. Anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retr
Things that he wanted was all young people, all children get an education. Now, the sheriff was standing there i fought very hard for him to do exactly the things that have been stated here. Hes a man that not only talks the talk but walks tot the walk. I have followed him. Im not saying that because hes by the door. I say to him whatever is right. Most of the time he agrees with me. So this situation is very important to our community. Its the same with our general manager kelly. Its the same with our police chief gregory. Its the same with our mayor edwin lee. The heart is in the right place when it comes to our youth. Whether we give them summer jobs, whether we want to give them the best so they can get educated. And most importantly as i stated here again and again, we need to give our youth career jobs, not toes little jobs that they work for a week and they are let go. So i know the person is connected with the unions. As soon as they go ahead get a ged, i hope you have them get
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