we're lking at employment levels. we're looking at for reactions to things. what do you see on the auto side? cash for clunkers accelerated some spending and it has now gone back to a more normal pect. what do you say on that side, for example? >> in motor vehicle production, we have modest growth of about 4000 jobs. in the automobile dealers retailing, we addeabout 2000 jobs for the month. >> pretty flat. >> it has not been strong, but modest. >> are there any other retail indicators? >> just the retail trade ishe most directly connected to something like consumer spending. >> in past recoveries and recessions, what have you seen in retail? what types of growth month- over-month would we be expecting to see? >> i do not know with respect to employment. i do not know what that is going to look like. i can tell you a little bit about what i know about other data. consumer spending and gdp over the long-run will sort of trapped together. in the short term, they do not necessarily do that. gdp does rely very much on consumer spending. >> on 3 of it. i'm out of t

we are lking to find if there is evidence if that money s first of all used for the purposes for which it was made available and to what extent has it helps to advance women and girls in afghanistan? the extent to which that money perhaps in other donor contributions have been effective will certainly be reflected in the extent to which women participate to any influential level and these forthcoming conferences. >> let me next ask about the development of the agricultural sector. during our visit a few weeks ago it was one of the things that was highlighted. 80% of the country is rural and agriculturally driven. they have great opportunities in developing pomegranate, fruit, nuts, grapes and that is going to be critical to their economic growth. we heard some good success stories about the way our civilian teams were partnering with farmers. also the farm income in the areas we vised in kandahar have tripled in the last year. so there is some good progress being made. can you talk about your evaluation of how the agricultural sector is developing and in particular was mentioned by mr.

. >> okay the flow meters that you're lking about, those are where on the panel? >> they're at your top -- top right-hand -- you got two panels. you got a left cap and a right cap. your flow meters are in your left cabinet >> which flow meters if you recall, on the left-hand side control panel, top right were you looking at? >> the top was the surface flow meter. >> did you have movement on the surface? >> i had none. >> none on the top right? >> well, you got the surface flow meter, and the blue pod and the yellow pod, and i seen no flow. >> ok. offer hit the eds sequence, the button arm hit, or enabled eds, did you see any lights blinking? >> say that again. >> when you hit the eds button, did you see lights blink? >> i seen them switch colors. >> did you change colors? >> i don't know, when i didn't see flow, i knew it wasn't working. working. >> w mr. harrell present when you activated the eds? >> i don't know. i mean, at some point in time he was up there but i don't know who was up there. all i know is the captain and me and i know there was other people up

. >> lking about rules of mineral management service rules and regulations that came out in 2003. mr. newman, are you familiar with those? >> i believe, chairman, you're referring to federal code of regulations 30 subsection 250 s, i'm familiar with those. >> and they're supposed to cut these things in half in case there's an accident, yes? >> blind shear rams are supposed to shear the tubular. yes, sir. >> what kind of testing did you, transocean or bp, do to make a determination that the shear rams were satisfactory and could cut this pipe if something happened? did you do any testing? >> in terms of confirming the capability of the shear rams. >> correct. required under 254.3 s16e. >> it had nothing to do with the hydrolic fluid was leaking out, was there? >> there are regular tests performed on the bop, while the bop is on the rig, prior to its deployment. >> it's on the rig, okay. >> regularly, while the bop is deployed on the seabed. >> right. in fact, section 446b says every three days, weather permitting, you must go down and look at the bop on the sea floor, does it no >>

it would also be easy to spend this time in fact, the whole hour, lking about people whom we know who have lived upstanding lives as jews and reflected our values in ways that have caused america to appreciate what they've given us. i'm thinking, for instance, of my father's mother, who came to america fleeing oppression in europe 110 years ago. i'm thinking of both of my mother's parents, my mother's parents told me their finest hour was when they got to visit jerusalem. and yet they came from europe to north america in the hope of achieving freedom and they did. but i'd like to try to do something, in some respect a little more difficult, if i may. which is try to explain in some general way what jews have meant for our intellectual and moral life as a country. i think it begins with the fact that we all lived as slaves. we not only remember that time and remember what it meant for us to achieve freedom ourselves as a people but we also make sure that each year, we come together during a time that's important to all of us to come together as families and remember the importance of t

really want to have my own tastes, my own features in the new homes so there will be buyers who are lkingfor the new home construction. and from the rock botm levels it is only one direction where it can go, which is upward. but still the home billers need to very cautious about where to build. but as i mentioned earlier in the program, some of th host: a couple more calls. here is steve from windsor, new york. caller: good morning. when you were talking about the man who just called it -- he was talking, mentioned jobs as important -- that i was going to follow up on. there was one other thing. i knew a person who was constructing homes in 1970. he went into the business, was building 10 homes per year until 2006. during 2007 and 2008 he was not able to sell that many every year. he is going out of construction. the point is, he told me it cost about $40,000 to build a home today. he was selling the homes for up to $300,000 recently. that is a very big increase in the press. people were willing to pay it. he made a lot of money, but cannot sell homes now. i checked on my home's price for

standards for the ifrs and fasb, for example, look at loan-loss provisn and whether or not the forward-lkingif you will, on the credit cycle would be useful information, would that be unbiased and useful information to new investors and part of that project. the objective is an outcome space in that it would be less procyclical, but what investors have that information if they were unaware earlier in the credit cycle of loan losses. >> i guess the next thing i would like to bring up is, a lot of the uncertainty that surrounds the violation of structured financial products and securities, things like that. andas you're probably aware, there isn't sec initiative to encouge our mandate to publication of key underlying information of these, including in the case of mortgage-backed securities you mortgage-backed securities utah zip codes credit scores, unit, the income history and all this sort of thing. as well as the water code that specifies the behavior of the tranches and so one. and this in principle will ake things much more transparent. i was wondering, do you view that as something hat i