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West coast. In the ocean, scuba divers are hard at the water here is 5 meters deep. A diver swims near a lar steel frame. The frame carries an electric current designed to speed up corral growth. The divers are growing coral due to the danger of the white sands disappearing. Around ten years ago, the waves gan to wa began to wash away the sands during the rainy season. What we are selling is our pristine white sand and the crystal blue water, so if its gone, then there will be no island. There w...

Commission on Community Investment and infrastructure. Mdm. Sec. Can you please call the 1st item . Secretary commission members, please respond when i call your name. [call of the roll] item 2 is announcement of the next regularly scheduled Commission Meeting will be held on tuesday, april 5, 2016 at 1 00 pm city hall, room 416 announcement of prohibition of sound producing Electronic Devices during the meeting. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar s...

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. We thank you for taking the time to join us in celebrating the release of Chelsea Clintons its your world get inspired and get going. Chelsea clinton has always expressed an interest in improving the world. As a child she favored a book called 50 simple things kids can do to xavier. To save the earth. As the vice chair where she is an advocate for child obesity Climate Change and increasing opportunities for women and girls around the globe. Chelseas latest acc...

I would like to remind the members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind, please silence the cell phones, if you care to state your name for the record. I would like to take roll. Woning. Here. Wu. Here. Antonini. Here. Hillis. Here. Johnson. Here. Moore. Here. Richards. Here. And for the recreation and Park Commission. Buell. Here. Low. Here. Lef. And mcdonnell have an excused absence. Thank you, commissioners. Under your special calendar, p...

On yerba buena. Thank you. Commissioner antonini. Yeah. A few things on the project one reason he find it xooerldz everybody mentioned the 73. 5 million of contributions theres no reason to go 0 into each with an but 12 million to transit people are concerned we need a lot of funding for childcare and schools and Workforce Development areas not small amounts 3, 5, 710 millions and doubled the open space which is very impressive and even if you consider the chronicle building is probably around h...

Here. Hillis. Here. Johnson. Here. Moore. Here. Richards. Here. And for the recreation and Park Commission. Buell. Here. Low. Here. Lef. And mcdonnell have an excused absence. Thank you, commissioners. Under your special calendar, please note that the joint commissions will hold one public hearing for the public to provide testimony on all items listed below, including consideration of whether to certificate the eir. Following the public hearing, the Planning Commission will consider action on c...

Every weekend, booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2. And watch any of our past programs online at booktv. Org. Book of continues with after words. This week peter wallisson discusses his book hidden in plain sight. He argues that Government Housing policies caused the 2008 financial crisis. He is in conversation with the deputy Global Economics editor at the wall street journal. Host peter, you new book is called hidden in plane...

Powerful interests . We are going to be concluded by reading just two sentences from the book. I have explained that historical or geographical burdens are not fate. They are not destiny. They are reasons for action. It is our job to understand how the end of poverty can be achieved and then act to make it happen. Jeff, thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] him booktv continues now with after words. This week Peter Wallison a fellow at the American Enterprise institute discusses his bo...

Boundary of the city area and it will link in with the bay trail, but every half of mile, somebody walks along, theyll be able to find open space, so in this part of the city, we have the opportunity in terms of expanding open space to have as much open space as we have in the in golden gate park. It was a figure that you just recently learned that im excited about. We have a variety of different activities all along the water front and ive been honored to be able to assist in the different fron...

Swaziland election as the countrys king prepares to marry his 14th wife. And shaping the face of german politics we look at how merkle is the most popular politician. In yemen 30 people are killed in to separate attacks on military targets in the south of the country and alqaeda fighters are suspected to be behind two car bombs which exploded at a military camp in the providence and another ten soldiers were killed by gunman on patrol. Alqaeda in the Arabian Peninsula carried out multiple attack...