Up the competition, and we like competition in this area. We also passed a business tax exclusion for clean tech firms in our city. Weve taken advantage of our position as being in the center for business and innovation to become a hub for International Clean tech firm. Our historic strength and our city has been in finance, and, so, solar firm are moving here to San Francisco to be close to their Financial Partners and to major utilities and Government Agencies such as pacific gas and electric, our San Francisco Public Utilities commission, our california Public Utilities commission as well as the Environmental Protection agencies. We are now home to more than 35 Solar Companies and five of the top 10 solar module manufacturers in the world have their offices here in San Francisco. Were home to energy Major Developers and installers, including sun run, sun edison, teetion energy, basse electric, [speaker not understood]. So, to the Solar Companies already here in our great city, thank
Rec and Parks Department at the anglers lodge. What do you think about this . It is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. There are people from all over the world come to San Francisco and say this is the place to be. Yeah. Its amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. I flew from ireland to be here. And been practicing since for the competition. All the best casters in the world come here. My fellow countryman came in first place and james is on the current team and he is the head man. Its unique. Will not see anything like it where you go to compete in the world. Competitions in ireland, scotland, norway, japan, russia each year, the facilities here in the park are second to none. There is no complex in the world that can touch it. Im here with bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. Im going to suit up and next, were in the water. What any gentleman should do. Golden
So much so that home prices across the nation are rising at their fastest pace in more than six years. The latest data from s pcase schiller shows prices in 20 u. S. Cities in November Rose 5. 5 from a year ago. It was also the tenth month in a row that prices have increased, the longest stretch of gains since before the Financial Market started to crumble. Suzanne pratt takes a look at whether the housing recovery will continue. Reporter Mortgage Broker gary leib is taking a lot of calls these days even though the spring selling season is still a few months away. We are busy. Im busy with both refinances and purchases, always helping people to save money or get into a home with a really good Interest Rate. Reporter the activity in liebs office is a direct result of whats happening in the Nations Housing market people are buying and selling homes again. As a result, home prices are also moving higher. In 19 of the 20 major markets that s pcase shiller tracks, prices in november were up
Mike from the building and trades construction council. Anytime i get a chance to speak on the mta board i say i am so proud of what we do and we move 700,000 people in the city and its a difficult task. We have a wonderful staff. We are privileged to have the talent of ed of course for his leadership and i couldnt tell you how proud i am to work with the people on the board of directors and christine, the newest member. And the other members and malcolm couldnt be here today but we are proud to Work Together on behalf of the people of the city and we are happy to have john fung head this up and behalf of the board and all of us and thank you mr. Secretary. Mr. Administrator. Senator feinstein, leader pelosi, Congress Woman spear and mayor lee and thank you all for being here and now its time to make it official. Its sign that document. Okay. [applause] thank you tom. And as were getting ready to sign this grand slam document let me make sure we give a great appreciation to our county
Okay, good morning, everyone, and welcome to this press conference today. As you can see, im honored having the mayor here with us who is tremendous partner in this process. As well we have dr. Morassi from the department of health and women. And we have behind me a group of advocates that have tirelessly worked with our office and the community to make sure that Domestic Violence victims in our city are well treat and had provided with the services that they require in order to recover, in order to be able to move on. Today were also announcing a grant. We were given a grant of 650,000 from the department of justice. This is a grant that my office applied for with the assistance of casa de las mujeras. I dont know why i keep saying that. [speaker not understood] the issue of womens shelter and other organizations. The goal of this grant is to be able to enhance our ability to deliver services, especially for the most vulnerable victims of Domestic Violence. As many of you know, this y