There is kiva and then foundations where individuals can invest into those funds would be invested. Those are the two kinds of examples. One is an individual organization that has had a strategy such as kiva and then the other is an investor type of strategy. One thing i would add there is a federally funded program and one of the things you can do match savings for and without federal funding you can raise an additional match to that. A lot of the programs out of the country deal with dollars from individuals to help match the savings. There are also institutionalized groups like Angel Investors who do look at a wide range of applicants and i have heard that they are rich folks that just hang out on kickstart her but think generous amounts of donations to start ups. One of the questions we had e is which entrepreneurs are going to get funded so there need to be mechanisms to allow the lower income entrepreneurs to take advantage of that. If you care about this issue you should really
Millions as a bum for the president in 2012 and gave 3 million to the proobama superpac. We will have that live for you on cspan. , they recently announced nuclear deal with iran, hosted by the heritage foundation. Canadan event on u. S. Cooperation, and that begins at 1 30 p. M. Eastern. Were the 60s were different. [laughter] there were a lot of things happening involving race, the breakdown in the structure of society. I was suddenly out of the seminary and in new england, and there were no rules. Things were falling apart. Very,t structure, it is very difficult to navigate. I was extremely fortunate to be at holy cross. I was extremely fortunate to still have had a residual him the way i was raised in the structure the nuns had given me and the structure the seminary had given me. I was also extremely fortunate because i had already been in predominantly white schools. I was the only black in my high school in savanna. So, the transition to a school with very for you very few black
With each other. That was an important insight, and is one thing that we have to make sure we do not rely on english to out there to interpret what is going on because that is not where the action is. It is in the vernacular and it is important to be there. I wanted to talk about security, which i did in here. In afghanistan or around pakistan, and libya and yemen, security is a huge concern for us. In other places while we have these embassies that are much more secure, real Public Diplomacy takes place outside and disease. I argue people we want to reach do not come into our facilities. That is where the value is, going into their institutions and meeting them out there. I quoted Thomas Friedman who came to turkey after the bombings in turkey and he looks at our new consulate, and remarked how this was a bad message. It can be or it is a difficult message out become it can become, but as Public Diplomacy officers, you get out of that environment. That is vital. That is why that is no
They are created by the various political social economic environments. In other words, the lone wolf terrorist do not inherit from other states. They are a part of our society and subjects of the political and economic ideology and religious environments. In other words, many of them share values through the technology through the website and so forth. Some operate on one basis of a single attack and some operate on multiple attacks. There were a number of studies that were developed over the years that we are trying to follow on a daily basis and i think that it requires a great deal of interest in terms of radicalization and International Society tries to understand what can be done to deal with it. So ultimately the discussion would provide i think the initial context for the discussion and the first speaker as i mentioned is spike bowman who has a very rich background in the government and in the Academic Community and taking one course now sco w. And one for the interns he is a s
Present. Commissioner mar. Present. We do have a quorum. Item number 2 is approval of the minutes for the september 27th 2013 regular meeting. I see no comments lets open this up for Public Comment is there anyone from the public who would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Miss miller please call item number 3. The cleanpowersf program and the California Public Utilities Commission and cleanpowersf Energy Efficiency and facilities and local jobs patrols strategies and. Maybe thank you mr. Chair typically we start the status with the status of the puc and barbara hail is here to provide that to you. Thank you. Most of our activities recently on the cca front for in puc proceedings where pg and es green tariff option has continued to move forward. Developing a green rate the statute requires a Commission Decision by july so we are expecting that the commission will need to issue at least a proposed decision in the april time frame in order to meet that statute requir