these parsons, they were besieged and beset. they had, they had their parsonage duties, many of them were running small farms on the side in order to make extra income, and that left them very little time and very little focus for their third role as educators. olmsted was mischievous as a boy, so he took full advantage of the situation. he was in the habit of sneaking out of these parsonages, he'd wander around setting trap for quail, wandering around in the woods. he got very little schooling, but he certainly got an appreciation for landscape, particularly the landscape of his native connecticut. now, when olmsted was 14 years old, he had an absolutely terrible case of poison sue mack, and it spread into his eyes. he tried to get a letter from a doctor that indicated he no longer needed to go to school. he was delighted. but this also meant that at a very young age he needed to find a profession. the first thing olmsted lit upon, it kind of made sense, it kind of was illogical. he said he wanted to become a surveyier. it was

there are three or four people, dick parsons, people like that as examples of how much better corporate america is that diversity. i never bought that because a handful of black folk are at the top. that does not mean diversity is setting in as a way of life. let me ask you of how well we are doing or not doing with regard to real diversity in corporate america. >> i was on a show and i was asked about what martin luther king so good about where we are today? i said he would see progress but we are a long way from having parity. if you look at the representation, and number of women and people of color who are leading businesses, we are no further ahead than 15 years ago. it is a select group of folks to get through. it is tough once you get there to ensure there is a pipeline of succession. i have never compromised on my desire and my ability to put people of color and women in the top jobs. my last business that i ran was a great guy from harvard. my chief operating officer was a white female. i have done the things you're supposed to do. diversity, people think it is a handout progra

finally, i want to recognize parsons transportation group and consultants, including chs, to have been tremendously supportive in producing this enormous amount of work and information. with that, let me turn it over to michael for the presentation. we will be happy to answer questions. supervisor campos: thank you. welcome. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is michael. i am transportation planner. the item begins on page 53. they're also going to get a quick overview about the project, as well as the environmental document and where we stand in terms of the schedule of the van ness brt. as many of you know, then as avenue was recognized as a key transit corridor, and the city has been identified in the countywide transportation plan, as well as multiple other plans. it is a close collaboration with mta, as well as other departments throughout the city, such as public works. it is also u.s. 101, so we have been partnering with caltrans. it has been recognized regionally as a priority, as well as federally by the federal transit administration as a small start creating cost effect

. >> he's a star on the small screen and now jim parsons is hoping for success on stage performing onroadway. this is the two-time emmy winner's second visit. he'll keep it funny with the pulitzer prize winning comedy harvey. that's your eye on entertainment. cbs news, hollywood. >>> good morning and thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. >> i'm mike hydeck. is it wednesday? >> wednesday. >> we're almost there. here's monika samtani with traffic momentarily. good morning, howard bernstein. how are you? >> i'm good. i got my heavy jacket, my gloves. >> are we going to need all of that today? >> it is a lot colder. it was 66 yesterday morning. >> not that bad. >> wind chills in the 30s. if you're waiting outside at the bus, 5, 10, 15 minutes, i would take it. >> who knew. >> you need to be prepared. >> i don't like to have cold ears or cold hands. let's move on and talk about today with our day planner. we're looking at sunshine in spite of the chill. mike hydeck apparently has better resolve or something. 49 degrees

i'm adam parsons. also in this program -- in london, the actress jenna miller prepares to take the stand at an inquiry into press standards. and the world's worst football team finally get a win after losing 30 in a row. >> hello. thank you for joining us. egypt's ruling military has apologized for the deaths of protesters in clashes with police, as unrest in cairo and other cities end the sixth day. thousands of protesters are still in tahrir square in the center of the capital, cairo. these are the live pictures from tahrir square at the moment. they're demanding an immediate end to military rule. egypt's ruling council insists the parliamentary elections will go ahead as planned on monday. jon leyne reports from cairo. >> well, i'm not sure there's been much tear gas flying in the last few hours. there were reports of a cease-fire overnight. i haven't been down there to check whether there were still holding. so there were some attempts at conciliation. i think the military realizes that the address

two the folks that are here with me today from the consulting company, and it is 18, ae com parsons -- a team. eric and neiman. we're making great efforts to have this be an integrated organization. this organization chart shows some of the higher level topics. watershed assessment, a condition assessments, a communications strategy, program controls, and we have been piggy about the level of folks we have been bringing in, and we have gotten great staffer from the consulting team. i think having the lagered duration many different. i will talk about some of the different tasks. on program management, we are putting together the program management plan bank, which is really the recipe book for how we're going to fix the waste water system. we're beginning the planning of a team building session. we're pulling city staff, including puc and dpw together with the consultant so we can get very good, very tight, working teams move it forward. updating the procedures created for wsip, developing our own document control systems to be of track everything. as we move to our new paperless buil

in a better position and even if europe does collapse russia is predicted to stay healthy as nick parsons from national australia bank explains. russia for example or no period in the next three years has a growth rate according to the o.e.c.d. of less than four percent so i think that that is substantially encouraging if you look at china yes there's a modest slowdown two percent in twenty twelve but again the focus for thirteen is well above nine so for the emerging market economies for asia for russia for latin america i think we've got a slowdown from some of the rates of growth in prospect for the next twelve months but the o.e.c.d. themselves are seeing some insulation from the pain and they're seeing continued outperformance and their likes their liberation into two thousand and thirteen. let's have a look at the markets now commodities first oil prices are higher this hour after seeing some gains on monday light sweet is currently trading over ninety eight dollars a barrel while brand is above one hundred ten dollars a barrel european stock markets turned higher with investors bui

much away from taking one of them following a straight sets victory over your mo garcia lopez at the parson asters the home favorite proving equally as lethal as he was a part of the court six three six four how it ended up song no need to beat the winner of the nicolas almagro three a second encounter to pick his ticket for this season ending finale in london which starts in less than a fortnight's time. through. the course. with. thomas burdick is also just one victory away from qualifying for the london tournaments after claiming a six three seven five win over from the brit just to win the second round which led to all murray federer and for the players have already put their spots. it's becoming an almost weekly occurrence now n.b.a. talks breaking dawn believe this the anti climatic installment occurring and choose day with players and officials once again on able to reach a compromise but according to l.a. lakers star derek fisher hope springs eternal. our orders are clear right now the current offer that is on the table from the n.b.a. is not one that we can accept. orders are also

sharp contraction in the fourth quarter and will continue to shrink in two thousand and twelve nick parsons from national australia bank believes that the o.e.c.d. is understating how bad it could get. quoting the worst fears the coming true those worst fears could be substantially worse than what the o.e.c.d. actually announced today you're right to point out that it's revised down substantially its growth forecasts it's saying for the euro area as a whole next year it's only going to grow by point two percent so it's a very very weak growth but it's worth pointing out the central focus best guess if you like want of a better phrase central forecast is not the midpoint of a range there is a chance that things could turn out a bit better than expected but there's also a very great chance that they could turn out a whole lot worse to use the jargon of the economics profession as an asymmetry downside skew so it could actually get a lot worse and they're even saying that. and former head of the european bank for reconstruction and development. predict that the euro may not survive until chris

it's in a better position even if europe does collapse russia is predicted to stay healthy as nick parsons from national australia bank explains russia for example at no period in the next three years has a growth rate according to the o.e.c.d. of less than four percent so i think that is very substantially encouraging if you look at china yes there's a modest slowdown to eight and a half percent in twenty twelve but again that the focus for thirteen is well above nine so for the emerging market economies for asia for russia for latin america i think we've got a slowdown from some of the rates of growth in prospect for the next twelve months but the o.e.c.d. themselves are seeing some insulation from the pain and they're seeing continued outperformance and alex aeration into two thousand and thirteen. the eurozone may be in danger of falling apart here russia has customs union partners bellerose and . trying to establish a new economic bloc they are pressing ahead with the eurasian economic community aimed at creating a common market between former soviet states one of the most important i

parson true church as well as foley square so actions are still being taken and more actions are being taken to the streets which is positive for the movement. the super committee was arguably the result of the tea party demanding spending cuts and. you know how does how does how does occupy wall street get congress i mean it seems in this town that the way the congress to do something is you walk into a congressman's office and say i got one hundred thousand bucks for a campaign contribution i don't think anybody from occupy wall street is doing that or has the means to do that or. what's the you know what's the plan here how do we get their attention and the plan most likely is to move on from the tents and from the occupy ideal and to move into a more of an ideal that everyone is part of the occupy movement because a lot of people don't understand what we're about they say one of these guys is doing intense and local small communities have to understand that they have the power to make changes in their community and by making changes in the community to be able to make changes in yo

richard parsons who was chairman and ceo of the world's biggest entertainment media images in a companytime warner. and then was asked to come back after retirement, leave his vineyard in tuscany and come back to help buy the share after the collapse. and so we had ed tete lows that if we could never have had ever in history. african-american president grappling with the worst financial economic crisis as the great depression season at a steady hand is needed at this giants broke important financial restitution and is it what to call on african-american seasoned ceo to come in and apprenticeships. they could not have happened before. so i called this tiny group, the transom in crude. actually opened the book with the scene from the party that vernon jordan sounds that was quite interesting finally i saw something new that i call them immersed in black america. this emerging group to my further subdivided. one is the record number of black immigrants from the caribbean, but especially from africa who have come to this country in the last two or three decades to a special last of the year

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. >> estelle parsons was the woman's editor on the "today" show and would fill in for dave garraway.succession of "today" girls who were not given respect or any of the serious stories on the program for years. barbara walters was the one who changed all that. she was a trailblazer. >> even in her bunny outfit. >> that is tough, too. she was hired as a writer. she wasn't able to write for any of the men on the program for years. she had to forge her way and eventually became the first female co-host. >> it was really a chimp who saved the day. let's be honest about it. it took a gorilla. >> people still didn't think the story was going to work. there were stories about it possibly being canceled. the chimpanzee was brought on to the show. it became instantly a hit with children. they would turn on tv and watch him. the parents would watch, too, and the rest is history. >> thank you so much. we appreciate it. >>> crazy colors and throw in stripes. why not? >> breaking fashion rules tastefully. right after this. >>> let's take a look at your forecast for the next seven days, starting w

after a half-hour, authorities caught up with parsons in a cornfield.the kidnapping, parsons murdered his stepfather in order to steal items from his home. scary stuff! and this tragic story out of florida, a teacher and devoted family man died after a nurse accidentally gives him a drug used for lethal injections. this happened last year at north shore medical center in miami. months later, 79-year-old richard smith's family is now suing. they say the hospital admits the nurse gave smith the lethal job after mistaking it for an antacid and the hospital has since apologized for this deadly mix-up but the nurse is still on the job! well, first, it was air traffic control workers and now customs agents reportedly sleeping on the job. the local fox affiliate in philadelphia investigating reports that customs agents were parking their officially marked cars for nearly an hour at a time and dozing off in a back lot. other airport employees say they've seen it with their own eyes and it's been going on for months. department of homeland security reportedly re