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Commit the same mistakes. Welcome to culturewire. Today we are at recology. They are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique Artist Residency programs. We are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. Welcome to the show, deborah. Tell us how this Program Began 20 years ago. The Program Began 20 years ago. Our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970s. She started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. She started with kids. They ...

Each of these massive movements of the earth there are lessons. Earthquakes in haiti and chile of nearly the same magnitude have caused massive differences in deaths and damages. Much of the differences are the direct results of efforts to establish standards and mitigation of earthquake hazards. In japan the Early Warning system allowed the japanese Transit System to shut down every train so not a single derailment occurred as a hult of the han shu quake. Today were here to remember those that ...

Lets take the number that you know, seven, that you testified. That still would be four times greater than your overall average. Can you explain that . I dont know what the details were. I do know when i asked for the industry statistics, once you get beyond the warranty period, the failure rate goes to 10 to 15 . Lois lerners laptop was a new laptop. It was not an old one. And actually, the probability of her hard drive failing at that time was at the lowest, according to industry standards, wa...

To the 1990s when max and a fellow named peter tieel tried transferring money between two mobile devices and they called their service paypal. Their company was bought by elon musk. If you need me to sketch out the rest of that story for you, you are watching the wrong television show. If youre worried about the women getting pregnant part, theres an app called glow which helps women track their fertility. Thousands of women have used know to help them become pregnant. So, i find it remarkable t...

Here we are at the embarcadero. We are standing at one of locations for the street artists. Can you tell me about this particular location, the program . This location is very significant. This was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the Program Began in 1972. How does a person become a street artist . There are two major tenants. You must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. A street artist, the license, then sub...

Makes we feel uneasy okaying a permit that sits around for a year i dont feel that it makes we feel taken advantage of as a commissioner in a way i dont feel were working with people that are actually moving forward and working on something as weve granted them the permit there is too much time and things could change and in a year i think the things i do in my house vary a great deal i want to make sure we dont have to look at this more closely and well, i guess i want to chime in briefly that ...

How critical this is the largest project happening in San Francisco 10 thousand 5 hundred housing unit a third below market rate and a 3rd of redevelopment space and 3 hundreds acres of new parks and 11 though permanent jobs and new academic activity and wells unfortunately is leaving and going down cigarette to the other part of the state has played a critical roll in keeping the project a mega project to keep it moving forward. Hes played a key roll from the negotiations every step of the way....

Playing out across the front pages today. We should note that defense secretary chuck hagel was also with Martin Dempsey at the briefing at the white house and he was asked what kind of threat isis poses to the United States and heres what he said. Isil is as sophisticated and wellfunded as any group that we have seen. They are beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology and the sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously wellfunded. This is beyond any...

Years and the same principles apply. Congress is a Political Animal and we are always going to act this way. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Author of point of attack and author of constitutional peril they debate the war, Foreign Policy, the use Committee Use of drones and the meaning of the constitution. This is about an hour and a half. Welcome, everyone. Tonight the committee for the republic is hosting a debate on war and the constitution with of our country ent...

The white house is supposed to be dedicated to transparency. Reports have been issued months ago that still contains more redactions than it should. I can think of some that wonder why theyre there. Im gratified that we can finally shine light on this dark chapter because among the many lessons we can take from this report is that americans deserve more government transparency. Its essential to a strong democracy. Just yesterday the Senate Unanimously passed a bipartisan bill, the leahycornyn bi...