rules to put up a bulletin board.overnments go broke. >> how can you do this? >> i can see it may cripple an employer. i'm being facetious. let's get back to the real subject. >> john: like salary and pension deal? does the state senator know about that. >> building painters and school districts get compensation of $98,000. bus drivers make 67 figure salaries. >> do they really. if you take an overall package it's going rich every than what you see in the private sector because the private sector has had to cut back. >> we've absolutely been cutting back. >> cutting back must mean something different for politicians. they do think they are special. look at of their surroundings. the cameras always focus on the protests but look up. the wisconsin state house is insured for $200 million. the politicians who built it used 43 types of stone from six countries. they copied what royalty built in europe. this is not unusual,s are grand. when you spend oth people's money, you tend to spend a lot. >> when you looking look arou

rules to put up a bulletin board.ernments go broke. >> how can you do this? >> i can see it may cripple an employer. i'm being facetious. let's get back to the real subject. >> john: like salary and pension deal? does the state senator know about that. >> building painters and school districts get compensation of $98,000. bus drivers make 67 figure salaries. >> do they really. if you take an overall package it's going rich every than what you see in the private sector because the private sector has had to cut back. >> we've absolutely been cutting back. >> cutting back must mean something different for politicians. they do think they are special. look at of their surroundings. the cameras always focus on the protests but look up. the wisconsin state house is insured for $200 million. the politicians who built it used 43 types of stone from six countries. they copied what royalty built in europe. this is not unusual, other stated houses are grand. when you spend other people's money, you tend to spend a lot. >> when yo

there are a lot of bulletin boards, facebook woods, you name it. there is a lot of media focused at local, but not every community has it, and even the ones that do often are not getting the kind of service that i think they used to historical because of downsizing and regional newspapers not serving those communities the way they used to. so you will have the council meeting not really being covered. we have had numerous examples where board meetings, council meetings, things that those members got used to not being covered. suddenly, they were seeing the week after week and seeing that we were there to stay. >> in the audience, do you feel like you're communities are being covered well? do you know what is going on in your back yard? do you feel like your stories being told? majority no? ok. let's go to pat with idg because you argue that there is a lot of local news in san francisco, based on the data you have done, and a lot of people feel like they do not know what is going on. can you talk about that? >> we pulled together some numbers about

i saw the other day on a bulletin board of a museum an osha warning prominently displayed on the bulletin board -- there used to be postcards and pictures of kids and stuff -- against eating the toner of the photocopier. now, that is something those people needed. it also had remedies for what you do if you do eat the toner of the photocopier. now, we don't need to be warned against eating the toner of the photocopier. i mean, first of all, there are more important things to warn against or it's more important just to live life, and yet we've got this absurd system of worker safety that doesn't really help. c-span: what's the john nesbit story? >> guest: the nesbit story is more of a rights story; it's a combination story. john nesbit was an assistant united states attorney... c-span: not his real name. >> guest: not his real name, but the person was -- whose boss had a terrible secretary, and he couldn't get rid of her because it's a federal employee. there's this whole bureaucracy about federal employees. his boss couldn't take her anymore so he kicked her down to john nesbit and his co

all the obvious things were brought up but it was the things how old on the things are in the bulletin boardmany cars are in the partly after 3:30. it's that in-depth look but there's no blinders. it's out of the box and learning matters has been there for these years. and all the revenue by the way from the teachers goes to learning matters. john has created 100% of the royalties. this is not a book to lend to friends. this is a book for to you buy and to encourage your friends to go out on amazon.com and buy. we want to buy and not lend so all the revenue all the royalties will go to learning matters. so that being said, it is with incredible pleasure that i recognize my good friend and colleague john merrow. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you very much, josh, marty, sandy. on behalf of learning matters, our small and energetic production company, i am -- i express all our gratitude for you folks for being here -- i want to say just a quick word about the three folks who you just heard from. marty you know as community schools, president of the institute for educational leadershi

when we went on aol -- the information, the people challenging our facts, the wonderful bulletin board culture. the other thing we had back then was the deal we made, which is when you went on aol in the early 1990's, he paid a certain amount per hour. i cannot remember exactly what it was, but your charts for an hour -- by the hour for being on. they wanted to help our content. they would pay us for the amount people stay on line. if we get people's eyeball stayed on aol for another hour, we got a percentage of that revenue. that was undermined when the web came along and everybody could put up all of their content on the web. many people started creating danes and the internet service providers, not a l l, but the people did you on the web service said it did not make any difference to them if they paid the content creators at all because they would get more money. you're paying your phone company or your cable company to get you on line. that was all right, but time passed by and we moved away from aol to be online for free. we felt we would eventually start charging. people on madi

feedback and discussion, correcting of our facts, people who added information and the wonderful bulletin board culture as it was called back then. the other thing we had was the deal we made which was when you went on aol in the early 1990s you paid a certain amount per hour. i can't remember exactly what it was but you were charged for being on and aol was in a tough decision with five or six other major internet service providers so they wanted to have our concept and they would pay as for the amount people stay on line. if we kept our eyes on them for another hour we got at revenue. it was the dual revenue model that worked. that was undermined when the web camelot and everybody could basically put up their content on the web. many people started creating things and internet service providers, people who were there getting you on line to go to the web surge did make a difference for them whether they paid the creators at all because they would get more money if all of the contents were out there for free and you were paying your phone or cable company to get you on line. that was all right

the correcting of fact, the people that added information and the wonderful bulletin board service thate called it back then. the other thing back then was the deal we made. when you went on the early 1990's. you pay a certain amount per hour. you were charged by the hour and aol was in competition with other supervisors. they wanted our content, and they would pay us for the about people were on line. we got a percentage of that revenue. it was a small thing, but a dual revenue model that worked. it was undermined when everybody could put their content on the web and people started creating things in the service providers realized that if didn't make any difference to them whether they paid in the content creators at all because they would get more money if the content with out there for free and you were paying the phone company or the cable company. we started pathfinder, which moved away from, you serve -- compuserve and others. people with -- people who from madison avenue came up with large baskets of money. that business model is not totally sustainable in the long run. we need t

hello and welcome to the business bulletin here in r t russia's biggest lender is one step closer to acquiring vokes bag international will be supervisory board of the european company has already approved the sale and the bank's reach agreement earlier this month but with no details provided analysts estimate the takeover at around seven hundred million dollars with the bed about the planning to finalize it by the end of the year the acquisition is aimed at helping the russian company expand its activity in the eastern european market. the russian car giant of device has turned a profit for its french shareholder rono for the first time while the carmaker managed to squeeze thirty seven million euros out of its affiliate in the first half of the year that compares with a fifty six million euro loss at the same time a year ago the whole group reported a fifty six percent jump in first half profit. and there's going to be petrol in the palms for all those a lot of to run on energy minister explains what the government is doing to avert a repetition of the gas crisis earlier this year. there is no risk. in the country we are keeping the. reserv

bulletin if you're an r.t. russia's biggest blunders the bank is one step closer to acquiring books by international will be supervisory board of the european company has already approved the sale and the bank's reach agreement earlier this month but with no details provided analysts estimate the takeover at around seven hundred million dollars with the about the planning to finalize it by the end of the year the acquisition is aimed at helping the russian company expanded to tivoli in the eastern european market. russian car giant after vasquez turned a profit for its french shareholder rono for the first time while the carmaker managed to squeeze thirty seven million euros out of its affiliate the first half of the year and that compares with a fifty six million euro loss at the same time a year ago the whole group reported a fifty six percent drop in first half. and there's going to be petrol in the pumps for all those lot of surat our energy minister. explains what the government is doing so avert a repetition of the gas crisis earlier this year. the growth of the with if there is no risk of a fuel deficit in the country