that would be my layman's interpretation of what is wrong. >> if this would move forward with the input from commissioners sugaya, that would be input from historical preservation. if the idea was appropriate to minimize this. what i think is a little bit disturbing as we do have the preservation commission. i think staff has the latitude and the ability to move that if they feel that they need their input. staff did not feel that was the case here. the commission was disagreeing and saying that it was significant enough. we have said enough. the direction has been set. the project moves forward with the input from the historic preservation commission as to the changes that might be appropriate. does that summarize? >> commissioners on the motion to take dr and have the sponsor work with staff? commissioner anthony? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners. you are now on the final item of your calendar. public comment. i have no speaker cards. >> is there any general public comment? general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. i was just driving around mindi

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that would be my layman's interpretation of what is wrong. >> if this would move forward with the input from commissioners sugaya, that would be input from historical preservation. if the idea was appropriate to minimize this. what i think is a little bit disturbing as we do have the preservation commission. i think staff has the latitude and the ability to move that if they feel that they need their input. staff did not feel that was the case here. the commission was disagreeing and saying that it was significant enough. we have sa

that is probably the simplest way to say it in layman's terms. >> we typically will protect the brain with an artificial layer and enclosed the scalp over it. we will put it back when the brain has relaxed sufficiently. that may take several months. >> thank you very much for coming in your attention today. coming in your attention today.

that is probably the simplest way to say it in layman's terms. >> we typically will protect the brain with an artificial layer and enclosed the scalp over it. we will put it back when the brain has relaxed sufficiently. that may take several months. >> thank you very much for coming in your attention today. >> thank you again for coming. the doctors will be available for interviews. will have another medical bulletin tomorrow at 10:00 at the same location. we'll keep you apprised of any changes in the condition of any of the victims. we will keep this very open and transparent to all of you and share the information with you. at this point we are very happy to say that we have one critically injured person left and the rest of the patients are doing better. we will see you tomorrow, and if there are any questions, the doctors will be available. thank you for coming. >> fbi director robert mueller was said to head the investigation. at a news conference today he said it is premature to determine a motive of the suspect in custody. joining him at this briefing is that pima county sherif

days but we need to work on let's talk in general about your long range forecasting explains me in layman's terms how you do that well what we saw is what happens on the saw on. the circulation patterns of the globe due to a lot of magnetic connections particles coming from the sun and the moon modulating . the impact of those particles so what we say really is well similar situation of the sun nerve magnetic lunar total straight in the past wilkie of similar weather patterns. as to some time in the future when the patterns repeat clockwork so we have to do a lot of small things to understand but that doesn't able us to predict where the toys and indeed to draw a lot of detail many months ahead i mean for example we got the correct meaning of the breakdown of. the european way for example was a trip which happened a bit earlier the we described correctly the. geezers happened in england over the last three so three summers to this one zero seven zero zero zero to no not. now you are now at climate change skeptic you said that man isn't causing a warming of the climate where do you think sci

i just -- i would be answering you as an informed layman and i would rather not. one more and then i think -- yeah? >> i just felt it should be said that as a microhistorian you have done a terrific job. it's a wonderful book. densely researched. and compassionate and real and you should be congratulated. >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much for coming up next former columnist for the "baltimore sun" presents a biography of a vice presidential biden. mr. witncover discusses his book at the women's national democratic club here in washington. it's about 50 minutes. >> i would like to talk about the challenge of writing a biography of a public figure. it's a problem because most of these people have public impressions about them and writing a biography i have to get beyond that. true of writing several other books including robert kennedy, richard nixon, spiro agnew and jimmy carter taking on this book about joe biden. a determined in doing those books the impressions on it formed of these people were pretty wrong. all of them were ambitious -- is

. >> caller: let me give you layman's point of view. we discussed this prior to the war. it's hard to imagine that a country that didn't have five smokestacks are going to be a threat to the united states. actually, saddam was ugly enough oppose iran, and now we wind up al-qaeda. there were 19 of them in manhattan. in 50 in afghanistan, and now they are all over the world? this is what we accomplished in ten years? what we have now is a jobs program in the middle east. in the meantime, we build 15 million houses with 6 million illegals, with 1% interest and the country's in debt. >> host: okay, we talk about iraq already in this round table, but we have not talked about immigration p does he write about it? >> guest: he does. george w. bush has a, and i think this is where his phrase, compassion conservatism describes him. he is a humanist. he is somebody who actually wants to help people, and he does see whether he's talking about what he did in africa or whether what he was doing with regard to imgracious. he felt that one of the things that is visitly important is that

>> usually six or seven anecdotes, 23.5 inches every day for the layman, you put two rulers on end, put it in a straight column, that's how mu much. >> how much is phoned in to you because you have established reputation? >> i think the most important tool is rolodex, and the more you can have with bureaucracy, the better. i get phone calls every day, emails, now that we are into the internet age. i stumble across things, people i see, i will write about. that happens quite frequently, so you still walk the beat in washington, but obviously telecommunications has changed the beast a little bit in terms of journalism as well. >> have you done any surveys to know how many people come to your column? >> i have been told the inside the beltway column is the second most visited site on the washington times website. >> in 1994, i believe you visited century city. >> century city. i was extremely honored as a young reporter to cover the white house. i was 27 years of age. i think at the time i was probably the youngest regular white house correspondent, and it was a very intriguing and eye ope

. >> could you try to explain in layman's terms, how your brain can function at a near-normal level with a whole all the way through? what is maybe compensating in some way? is there unimportant stuff in the brain? >> i don't want to give you my opinion, so i will let the experts tell you. >> this question borders on speculation for recovery and i don't want to go into much detail. suffice it to say, there are obvious areas of the brain that are less tolerant to intrusion. it does not mean we are using 10% of our brain or there is other parts of the brain that are not important. it means the brain is able to recover from those injuries as opposed to areas we call eloquent. you see where i am going -- i don't want to go down this speculation road. at the same time, we are cautiously optimistic. >> with a penetrating brain injury, it is always surprising to label what you think any bullet going into the brain means instant death. but there is a lot of capacity the human body has and the ability for us to compensate. >> you have said in many cases that bullet wounds to the head are fatal. w

>> did you try in more layman's terms, explain how the brain can function at near normal level with thisall the way through or what is making up where some of the -- is that unimportant stuff in the brain? >> i don't want to give you my opinion. i may tell you something different. >> because the question borders on speculation for recovery, i don't want to go into too much detail. sufficed to say, obvious areas of the brain that are less tolerant to intrusion, it does not mean that we're using 10% of the brain, does not mean the other parts of the brain are not important. it means the brain is able to recover from those injuries as opposed to areas we call eloque eloquent. you see where i'm going, i don't want to go down the speculation road. at the same time, we're cautiously optimistic. >> with penetrating brain injury, there is always surprise to lay people, you think any bullet going into the brain results in death. there is a lot of capacity the human body has and for the ability for us to compensate. >> dr. rhee, in a lot of cases, bullet wounds to the head are fatal. what do you a

put this in layman's language what it means. guest: the biggest change that consumers will see the medical-loss ratio changes. what that means that this year insurance companies will have to spend premium dollar on actual medical benefits or things related to it. and it varies on the size of the policy. for individual policies it's 80 cents of every dollar. and for larger group policies 85 cents of every dollar has to go to medical benefits. and if they don't, they have to give rebates next year. these were regulations negotiated over six months by the national association of insurance commissioners. they delivered those back and human services took them without much change and into regulations issued last december. they are very controversial and say said there could be no more enormous profit margins, if you will for insurance companies. what sorts of payments amounted to actual medical benefits were really the decisions that had to be made there. and there is lots and lots of back and forth and negotiating. does a nurse help

that is a layman's shorthand to it. the news in different places in the country has been used very effectively. in my state we have a center for this. there has been questioned about issues in other places. but in most places, the news is well. i would argue that it should be a permanent program with very specific government oversight. government and congressional oversight to make sure that it does this. the money comes into the united states, creates jobs in the united states. americans are being hired for those jobs. frankly, as an american, i would much rather see money coming from outside the country creating jobs in america that american money going into other countries creating jobs there, especially when we have 9 +% -- we have 9% or more unemployment. >> we have three questions on the nomination process. what is your schedule for the nomination hearings? and will mr. tree will likely have a nomination hearing? >> i do not think people who have already been nominated, had their confirmation hearings -- especiall

can you, in layman's terms, describe to a family what a debt crisis will look like? what will be the effect on individuals? >> i will try. if the people we rely upon to land the federal government money became skeptical that the government manages a budget in a way that they would get repaid and thus would start to demand higher interest rates to compensate them for that extra risk, that could push up interest rates throughout the economy. that would make it harder for households to borrow money. it would make it harder for the businesses for which they work to borrow money to invest and expand. on the federal side, if the government were unable to borrow the money that it was needing to borrow giving the paths of spending revenue, it could result in drastic changes, seventh large changes in the taxes people pay to the government and in the benefits they receive from the government. of the sort that we're seeing in some european nations who have hit a fiscal crisis. the magnitude and sadness of the changes in what the democrats do in the circumstances combined with t

. >> when you say full measure, what does that mean in layman's terms? full measure?, and others in military and there, i get it. when you expect to get the full measure, what does that mean exactly? full measure means, sir, that the 16.2 billion was requested for specific initiatives associated with the standup of the afghanistan security forces. so the full measure means the 16.2 would be exclusively used for that purpose without waste, fraud and abuse. that's what i'm referring to, senator. >> i see this 25 billion correctly -- how much do you -- how much are you going to spend in personnel compensation? do you have any idea? >> personnel compensation not unlike the rest of the federal community is highly. our personal compensation is, i believe, commiserate with my sigar counterpart. our staff who work in afghanistan by way of a compensation package approved by this congress, as received 70% in addition to their regular pay for danger pay and location page. we have to pay that, senator. sigar is an independent agency. i must pay as we go for everything received, p

can you, in layman's terms, describe to a family what a debt crisis will look like? what will be the effect on individuals? >> i will try. if the people we rely upon to land the federal government money became skeptical that the government manages a budget in a way that they would get repaid and thus would start to demand higher interest rates to compensate them for that extra risk, that could push up interest rates throughout the economy. that would make it harder for households to borrow money. it would make it harder for the businesses for which they work to borrow money to invest and expand. on the federal side, if the government were unable to borrow the money that it was needing to borrow giving the paths of spending revenue, it could result in drastic changes, seventh large changes in the taxes people pay to the government and in the benefits they receive from the government. of the sort that we're seeing in some european nations who have hit a fiscal crisis. the magnitude and sadness of the changes in what the democrats do in the circumstances combined with t

and, you know, i go out in a layman sort of -- i don't see this white house doing as much of that asthey could. and i think they probably hinted their own effectiveness in their regard by not doing that. you should be correcting. and another thing is that -- having a legislative affairs team that's, you know, by definition, you know, has never lobbying before. you know, i question the wisdom of that too. i understand all sorts of post employment reinstructions, but preemployment restrictions, i question. it's like hiring a baseball player to play basketball. you could do that if you are a millionaire owner. but, you know, i'd go get a baseball player. >> thank you, chuck. [applause] [applause] >> we'll take a break and come back for the last presentation. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> republican national committee chairman michael steele is running for a second term. and he faces his four declared challengers in the debate today hot rated by tucker charlesson. live coverage on the companion network c-span. h