welcome to the show. i am susan sikora. election day is almost here. as we choose a president, california will also vote on 11 state propositions. here to caulk us through this are two bay area political analysts that know the political arena and continue to inform us on print and in the air. we have belva davis and san francisco chronicle political reporter, paula maranoochi, welcome back. thank you for having us. i know you mow 2 political beat. my chain has been less than a bit, but i have had a little exposure to the real world of it. on the conventions, campaign trail and new hampshire together, it is an exciting election year. this one i think will come down to the wire. you think it will be really, really close. yes. i think a lot of people are predicting the same thing. maybe not in california, but when you talk about the swing states, it will be nerve racking. ohio seem to be that way. oh, yes. i want to ask awe few things about the presidentia
welcome to bay area focus. i m susan sikora. most of us think sharing a little bit of personal information on-line is fine. especially if a website promises to guard our privacy. be it from computers or smartphones personal information is routinely collected and sold to third parties. lori andrews is a law professor who taught at princeton and advised world governments including the united states about emerging technologies and yet she says even she had no idea until researching this book how few legal protections we have when we post information on-line or on social network like facebook. lori says, by the way, it makes no difference if you set your security settings to private. she makes the case in her book, i know who you are and i saw what you did. that s a scary title. welcome. good to have you here. i m delighted to be here. is that little frightening. there is any privacy left on- line at all? well, judges don t seem to think so they can pry into your life. and
welcome to the show. i m susan sikora. when i gas up my car these days i m holding my breath watching the price numbers fly. will prices level off or will they continue to soar as the weather warms into summer travel? let s ask david baker. he covers energy for the san francisco chronicle writing about various fuels, renewable power and local energy companies including chevron and pg&e. david, welcome. thank you for having me. i bet you don t have good news for me today. not a lot, actually, no. y we tape this early on a thursday, i filled my gas tank up on tuesday and it was $4.11 a gallon, the next day the price was up to $4.25. what is going on. i checked the prices before i came in here, the statewide average went up seven cents overnight. we were in for a couple more days of that. it will level off a bit but it s not going to go down in the near future. there are a number of reasons why it s going up and some of them are specific to california. most of them
welcome to the show. i m susan sikora. it happens more often than you think. talented pros who soar far above the rest of us are often rejected or ignored until someone saw their diamond in the rough quality. question is, what makes that happen? is there a trick to spotting rare talent? and if you are that rare talent, how do you showcase it? new york times best selling author george andrews wanted to find out. with 30 years experience as a journalist, george asked some of the best recruiters how they found people who would deliver extraordinary results, even if their background suggested otherwise. what he learned is in the book, the rare find, spotting exceptional talent before everyone else. welcome p. thank you. so you picked their brains. absolutely. how often did you go out when you were talking to top recruiters, the idea was to find out what they were looking for. how often did you find out that lot of them fell into the same ol patterns let me see your
welcome to the show. i am susan sikora. you have heard it before. overeating and struggling with your weight has little to do with food. yes, the battle with eating and losing weight reappears in your life over and over, usually around this time every year. why can we not fix this? life and weight loss coach, renee stevens, says your struggle we will food goes far beyond what you ordered for lunch. she walks you through a plan that she says work in her book called whole filled. thank you. well, welcome. a lot of snacks will be around for super bowl sunday. at least a bowl of chips and the quacamole. is it hard to start changing the way you are going to eaton day that is so tempting with parties and more. actually, susan, super bowl sunday is an excellent day to start your plan. reason is, the emphasis is on pleasure and enjoyment. so, the only change necessary for today to survive and even thrive on super bowl sunday is really taking the time to enjoy everything that y