catie chang in my office among other folks and contractors have been working on ways to improve the waywe do business. one of the areas is reducing withholdings to make sure we are not the bottleneck for many of the local businesses and many small businesses and also what we can do to improve the issue of prompt payment. especially during the past few years the idea of how it is the city processes payment and get them back out to contractors is an important issue for us. if you think about the prompt an issue, you can think about it in three parts: when it is that contractors submit invoices, we hear a lot about this; how long it takes for the city to process an invoice and finally the issue of when it is that contractors pass on payment to subcontractors after the receipt payment from the city. many recognize there is much to do in the first two phases of prop favorite, with has to do with how we get contractors to submit invoices in a quicker way. we have created an online system. the second portion with regard to processing in time the city already has a certain requirements around h

catie? >> lol. >> john: oh. oh yeah. i want to change>> either experience real emotion or don't. >> john: you type lol but i don't think you're laughing. >> the loud. that brings me to tonight's f bomb. we were having a debate earlier today about the word "retarded." some of my friends and coworkers are offended by anyone over the age of 14 learning that term to describe learning disabled. i'm part moron so i'm offended by the word. i worked in special ed. for years. i have heard the r word so i don't say it. i don't care if other people do but we haven't found the right word. some say developmentally disabled. over in the u.k., the guardian uses the word intellectually disabled which sounds just as bad. it applies to half of congress and most tv executives. but we had this debate over that word because tonight the u.s. 11th circuit of appeals and the georgia court of appeals once again staid the scheduled execution of warren hill. mr. hill is on death row for killing his cellmate with a wooden ford while serving a life sentence for the