Patt Morrison for Thursday, 4/22/2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Thursday, April 22, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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FROM THE MOHN BROADCAST CENTER, I’M PATT MORRISON

 

1:06 – 1:40

OPEN

 

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

The Indian Film Festival comes to Los Angeles

The eighth annual Indian Film Festival kicked off Tuesday at the ArcLight theater in Hollywood.  Five countries and 33 films—including India's entry for the foreign language Oscar "Harischandrachi Factory" and "Vihir," as well as the documentaries "At My Doorstep," "Nero's Guests" and "Babies Made in India”—will be featured at the Festival, which runs from April 20^th through the 25^th.  The festival’s founder and chairman join Patt and Kiran Deol, director of the featured film “Woman Rebel,” for a preview.

 

Guests:

Christina Marouda (ma-ROO-da), Founder and Executive Director, Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA)

 

Arnold Peter, Chair of Board of Directors, Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA)

 

Kiran Deol (KIR-in de-OOL), director of “WOMAN REBEL,” one of eight films short-listed for a 2010 Oscar nomination

 

 

2:06 – 2:30

Adoption: the statistics may surprise you

Adopting a child isn’t an easy process, but many thousands of would-be parents do the paperwork, sit in interviews, pay the fees, and take the chosen child into their homes with the full expectation that their story will have a happy ending.  Unfortunately that’s not always the outcome.  For a variety of reasons, adoptions have a significant failure rate.   And a Caltech researcher finds clear patterns in which children parents choose to adopt and not to adopt.  We look behind the scenes for the reasons why.

 

Leeat Yariv (lee-AHT yuh-REEV), associate professor economics at the California Institute of Technology and co-author of the study, “Gender and Racial Biases:  Evidence from Child Adoption”

IN STUDIO

 

NOT CONFIRMED:

Adoption agency representative

 

 

2:30 – 3:00

Smart meters, DWP rate increases and your impact on climate change—a sit down with your Public Utilities Commission President

Earlier this month, a divided California Public Utilities Commission approved Southern California Gas Co. to charge customers $1.05 billion to install radio-controlled smart meters on 6 million homes throughout the state, despite complaints that the technology just isn’t necessary.  Mike Peevey, the man who heads that commission—which regulates privately owned electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water, railroad, rail transit, and passenger transportation companies throughout the state—clues us in on those smart meters; weighs in on the DWP hikes; answers your questions about cell phones; and explains just who knows when you turn the lights on and off—it could soon be Microsoft.  He answers Patt’s questions and yours.

 

Guest:

Mike Peevey, President of the California Public Utilities Commission

IN STUDIO

 

PATT: President Mike Peevey and the full commission are in LA for public meetings today