we do acknowledge that the departments of the altman hiring authority but that human resources in the civil service commission are in place to see that the rules are followed and the procedures are followed. in our report, we asked for some letters, and we intentionally did not want to know the names of the people on the appeal letters that we review. this was a deliver it on our part that we did not know the names -- this was a deliberate on our part that we do not know the names of the applicants. in preparing for our committee report, i want to thank all the departments, from hr to civil service and public health. also, we interviewed a wide variety of people. although i cannot list the names, we did interview -- tried to interview all different parties who have stakes in the hiring process, from union business managers to rank-and- file city workers who work for the city. with that, i would like to read our findings. we have five findings. the first finding, under the traditional class-based testing, an applicant has the right to appeal to the commission at almost every point duri

. >> by pricking the universe is altman speed limit, the breeding 7 astounded researchers at the organization of nuclear research or concern. nothing is supposed to move closer to light. scientists are asking others to verify the measurements before claiming an actual discovery. among those who will be trying to replicate the experiments is the head of the theoretical physics department and illinois. this is so commenced to grasp. just explain what you think of these findings. >> if they are true, they are truly monumental in the sense that we will have to revolutionize our understanding of the way nature works. it is very difficult for us to have a theory in which particles travel faster than the speed of light. it is hard to make those consistent. if this holds of, we have to do a lot of work and try to understand what nature is really telling us. >> the man behind all this has described the results as crazy. the consequences can be very serious. where are the implications in terms of daily life? >> probably not a great deal. at least we know at the moment people said that about einstein's

. >> reporter: miami couple janet altman and tim schmand are disciplined savers with well- defined investment goals. first and foremost, they hope to be able to retire as early as in 10 years. still, they're not worried about what a recession might do to their portfolio. they have a financial planner to do the worrying for them. >> it's not our profession to track the trends and where to go next. the advisors are helping us manage our expectations for the future. >> in the last 12 months, she's reviewed my 401k plan 17 times. she hasn't had me change my investment 17 times-- it's been more like five or six. they are definitely actively looking at where we should be and giving us good advice. >> reporter: financial planner ellen siegel is their professional worrier. she says janet and tim are in good shape to weather a recession. what does she tell other clients? >> absolutely have a plan and a strategy for what monies have to be available for what reason and when. and, two, diversify. diversification is not "jump to cash when i get scared." >> reporter: for siegel, diversification means buyin

altman, it is thanking the parents of our kids -- ultimately, it is thanking the parents of our kids. the parent/teacher relationships are probably the most important thing we have in the city. as long as i keep the great communication levels on, talk to everybody, make sure the parents feel investing in their kid and making sure you are not distracted by things that will not keep you in school, those are the things that we invest in. i want to thank the students here, and i want to thank the board members that are here today, the parent/teacher advisers that are here. i want to thank the school administrators. you and i -- it is our jobs, but i think we enjoy success. we enjoy seeing this improvement. every week we have a chance to identify something else we can do for our district improvement, i will be there for you. thank you very much. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am deputy superintendent for instructional information and social justice. mr. mayer, thank you for your words -- mr. mayor, thank you for your words. in 2008, this community made a very bold statement, and the rippl

and altman the we met up at campee david in the attack was on a tuesday and by friday wel night we had pretty well gathered at camp david and spent saturday and sunday with the president. we had to pull together what ultimately eight demerged for our strategy as the global war on terror. >> the days after we saw various public officials in public displays of emotion with president bush almost come to tears along all hold atfice and heard about sea condoleezza rice the wingback to the watergate and breaking down because ofe, the emotional toll on a personal note, i was driving across the roosevelt bridge hearing america the beautiful and i broke down crying.op did you have a moment like that? >> not really. [laughter]en [laughter] >> you understand people find that peculiar.st [laughter] my wife and. daughter were with me that evening and all day she was downtown when the attacks started and the secret service broader her to the west wing and she sat beside me throughout the day so she would be the first to comment on my mental attitude. c i was focused very much of what weea had to do.

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. >> and sestina altman.e following some live pictures of the rose garden where the president is about to make some remarks about the need to congress to pass the american dog act. he is approaching the podium. >> everyone have a seat on this beautiful morning. it is wonderful to see all of you here. on thursday, i told congress that i would be sending them a bill called the american jobs act. but here it is. [applause] it this is a bill that will call people back to work all across the country. if this is a bill that will help our economy in a moment of national crisis. the bill that is based on ideas for both democrats and republicans. and this is the bill that congress needs to pass. no games, politics or delays. i am sending this bill to congress today and they should pass it immediately. standing with me this morning are men and women will will be helped by the american jobs act. i am standing with teachers. all across america teachers are being laid off in droves if which is unfair to our kids and under

officials have since insisted that this number is not final and that no altman's decision has been made. i hope this is true. everything i have heard leads me to believe that such a minimal presence which jeopardized the real gains that we have made in that country. as they testified to this committee and fannie larry, the iraqi security forces still have major gaps and their capabilities that will persist beyond 2011. this leads to a set emissions were the forces will require sustained military support from intelligence collection and maintenance cooperation and a continued need for u.s. forces in disputed territories of north and iraq. if u.s. military support is not forthcoming in helping iraqi forces to fill this gap, the stability we put at grave risk. i would urge the president to listen to the vice of our commanders and maintain the presence of u.s. forces in iraq your they claim that the bush and initiation dated iraq. i would urge them to listen to our military commanders in afghanistan. general petraeus testified before the senate test committee, no military commander recommen

and drew altman, the president of the kaiser family foundation, says, "critics of the national health reform law passed in 2010 like to blame everything but the weather on obamacare. but regardless of how you feel about the affordable care act, its effect on premiums this year is modest." so that's the assessment of the people who did the survey. i would also make clear that -- >> so "modest" implies it had an impact. >> within the context of -- again, you have to look at the fact that a lot of the affordable care act has yet to be implemented. 2014 is more of a target -- >> but this doesn't have to do with trying to bring more people into the insurance umbrella here with the -- >> again, i would just point you to the statement. the increase was large. the effect of the affordable care act was "modest" -- his words, not mine. i also think the author said clearly that this was a look backwards. and there are other -- mercer, a well-known independent benefits consulting firm, released a surveyed of employers showing that their health insurance cost increases will average 5. 4 percent fo

i am aware that paying -- having the largest payroll does not translate into altman victory. even the second-largest. speaking of a bad headline. sorry. >> the president is doing a lot of fund-raising. what has he gleaned out of the meetings and interactions with donors? can you give us a summary of how things are going? >> he has enjoyed the opportunity to get out and talk to his supporters. it is part of what you do when you are running for office. i think the message he has carried has been the same everywhere. when he took office in january of 2009, he made it clear this would not be easy. the challenges we face were enormous. as it turned out, they were even more enormous than people realize that the time in terms of the economic challenges. we have made progress, but our work is not done. we have to continue to struggle and fight to do the things that need to be done to help the american people economically. we need to make the investments in our future with education, innovation, and infrastructure the will allow american to dominate the 21st century the way it did the

issues were a major issue to the department of energy staff reviewing the loan back in 2009, at which altman because its bankruptcy. -- and which ultimately cost its bankruptcy. we will also examine how doe concludes the restructuring for the taxpayer for maximum recovery. when documents produced for the committee for theomb doubted it would prevent a slide for a bankruptcy or better recover from a -- government prevent a solyndra bankruptcy or a better recovery from the government. we also wonder why doe would allow it to be subordinated to taxpayers in violation of the clear leader of the law. what we do not know is whether the solyndra executives here today have something to hide. with all the information they some -- it -- was all the information and they singh added todoe accurate and complete? what did they know about their financial situation and when did they know it? what did doe understand about solyndra's financial situation? and did doe know what they were doing, did it properly monitored solyndra and the taxpayer money being used to prop solyndra op? these are all the questions

lincoln condemned slavery on many grounds, as economic, moral, political, but altman -- alternately lincolnoke about slavery, you might say, as a form of theft. that the theft of labor, every person he insisted, had a right to enjoy the fruits of his or her labor. slavery stole labor of one person and then appropriated it to another. this is not really a racial argument in any way. everybody is as an actual right to enjoy the fruits of their labor. that is so he understood the wonderful wording of the declaration of independence from a life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. the pursuit of happiness and the ability or the opportunity to rise on the social scale and improve your condition in life, as lincoln, himself, of course, had done coming from very humble origins in his youth. and he felt that that opportunity existed in the north. that was the civilian difference between free society and slave society. society blocked off the path of opportunity, the path of improvement. obviously for slaves there was no hope of improvement in the condition of their lives, but even many white peo