powerpoint, please. thanks, margaret. i can get started. is that better? no, go ahead. there we go. commissioners, and i am very excited today to be here. hopefully, to receive your authorization to proceed with the third and final sale of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks general obligation bonds. this is a key indicator of the progress of our capital division over the past year in delivering on the promises we made to the public about delivering these " great neighborhood parks, as well as a number of city-wide programs. this is our third sale. we sought two sales prior to this. a quick reminder, the $185 million, about $150 was for the rec and park department. we have worked together. we have done very successfully and are passed two sales. i apologize for my voice. i lost my voice and i cannot get much louder than this. there were a number of issues. in the prior two years, we have worked very diligently to resolve those and ensure that they do not impact the next batch of products. we have been working diligently with the department of buildings inspection. we opened o

i am sorry about the powerpoint, but this is a complicated explanation. i have to go through this for you. we have a lot of overlapping variables that make this a story so that you can understand the complete story. i will try to go through this as quickly as possible. it will take some time to give you the necessary background. commissioner joseph, i will wake you up when i am finished. you have president carter and clinton, but i don't know if you have commissioner -- any more. let me begin. the planning department -- there is a vast rezoning effort, in 2002. showplace square ,the waterfront. a broad coalition of stakeholders -- the affordable housing providers and the standard industry representatives, lobbied the board of supervisors to remove western soma from that process and let the community plan for their own future. this is a bottom-up exercise, and eventually, 25 constituencies were identified, and the stakeholders were appointed to the task -- taskforce -- building a complete neighborhood is what this is all about. this is more than just housi

if i could have the powerpoint. i'm ken rich from the office of economic and workforce development and i'm joined by staff from the mayor's office, department of public health, the m.t.a., the planning department, department of workforce development and the city attorney. we are here to give you an overview of the status of our work on the development agreement with california pacific medical center for their proposed hospital rebuild project. as you know, this project has been under review by the city for several years. starting in early 2011, the city began after discussions with cpmc related to a development agreement in conjunction with the approval of this large and important projectment there have been a number of informational hearings on the project or aspects of the project in front of the board of supervisors, the planning commission and the health commission. in may of this year, mayor lee, at the request of both cpmc and the community coalitions, issued an initial set of requests of cpmc in terms of publ

i have a powerpoint presentation for you today. so the proposed legislation was introduced by supervisor chiu earlier this year. it is a very diverse piece of legislation that is about 351 pages and touches on just about every aspect of the planning code, so in order to sort of oil that down for you, i have put it into nine different sections. the first is coda simplification. reduced off street parking requirements, historic, and small neighborhoods serving businesses, reduced variance is, and -- variances, control changes, and additional map changes. so i am well aware -- i am sure you are well aware that this has become more complex. more things that were added to it were necessary to address the emerging code changes in different neighborhoods and various parts of the city. however, since it always a also contains redundance language, some definitions are listed in several places, and also includes several outdated sections. the proposed legislation looks to clean that up, and, for example, two of the areas of concern are the c

it's a powerpoint presentation. the idea for that came from where?ent from all of the others. that becomes hard to do 13 times so i was looking for all different ways to tell different kinds of stories. i got very interested in powerpoint because people were using it all the time. and ultimately it let me tell a very sweet, kind of sentimental family story that i think would have sounded very shmaltzy if i had written it in a conventional way but powerpoint let me tell a story that would have been hard for me to tell otherwise. >> "a visit from the goon squad" is an insanely inventive book, not novel, we'll say. appreciate uyour time, jennifer. good luck with your next project and happy holidays to you. >> thanks, same to you. >> can't wait to see what's next. >>> debbye turner bell is at the new desk with one more check of our headlines. >> good morning to you. in health news, an alert about dirty paper towels, including those you find in public restrooms. canadian researchers found that bacteria thrives on paper towels, even brand new, unused ones,

of all things-- a stick figure powerpoint briefing. it reads like iraq for dummies.e wins except terrorists, which is okay because terrorists suck. exactly the opposite of the typical military briefing stuffed with statistics and charts. major chad pal, aai worked side by side with him. >> he had a tendency to overthink things and the easiest answer is in front of us. >> reporter: one month later patriquin, major megan mcclung and specialist vincent poe monte were killed on their way from a meeting with sheik sattar. it would remain for general petraeus to embrace the awakening throughout iraq but it started with a 32-year-old army captain from st. louis, missouri. do you think he changed the course of the war? >> i think it dramatically changed our mind-set and standing of what we need to do. >> reporter: even a as the last american troops pull out, it's too early to claim success in the form of a lasting democracy in iraq. but there's no denying this simple fact. >> we lost 96 soldiers in the ten months we were at ramadi. the unit that followed us lost three or fou

. >> the girl powerpoint here, what's the brother doing? he is just sitting there like an oaf.wife supposed to get up and clean the dishes? >> everybody. this is a joint venture, people. >> how about, easy answer, how about i wash, you dry. >> last quick would be. no one in my office ever exchanged gifts until last year when an annoying new secretary arrived and bought gifts for everybody and make us feel guilty. >> why annoying? no, you don't have to. cards would be nice. >> good enough. >> 200 people work here at the "today" show. >> e-mail, use e-vite. >> gifts for people you care about. absolutely. >> thank you. >> up next, shopping for the challenging ones on your list. >>> getting you ready for your tuesday, here's a look at the forecast for the day. notice the green. this is where we're going to see the rain. the white is where we're going to see the snow and somewhere in here we're going to have that little bit of a mix. where kwe do have the clear skies, we're going to have some very clear air. the blue, the pink, we'll see daytime high temperatures only in the 20s and

. >> didn't you make a joke about the powerpoint and how it looks like a "scream" mask. >> jimmy: oh>> i love new york. i love it so much. >> jimmy: you do, yeah, yeah. how did you get here from australia? you just said, "i want to go over to america." >> well yeah, pretty much. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> and came over. i was working on another show in australia called "neighbours," and then i finished that and i came -- >> jimmy: "neighbours," wait that's a famous show in australia. >> yeah. it's like one of those iconic things like vegemite, "neighbours" -- >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> it's been running for like -- >> jimmy: boomerangs, paul hogan, yeah. >> kangaroos. that sort of thing. >> jimmy: but then like, guy pearce is from "neighbours" isn't he? >> everyone, not everyone, but a lot of aussie actors have either done "neighbours" or "home and away," so i did "neighbours." it's like boot camp for aussie actors. >> jimmy: that's hilarious. >> and then i came over here like five days after finishing that. and the pilot season, and then got "pan am." that was in january, got "pan am" i

in philly, i don't have a powerpoint because i would method. i would love to have just brought a map of the united states and pointed to different places where there is racial violence. it was unprecedented and it was in the north and the west everywhere. and i want to talk about -- there was a lot of violence in the south and south and not talk about that. there's a lot of reasons for this. broadly what was happening as we had won the war in world war i. democracy had tried him. and so it should've been this great moment for the united states. president wilson, woodrow wilson was in paris. he was working on the versailles treaty. he was trying to craft the league of nations. he was getting flowery speeches about how democracy has triumphed and we were entering a new age of peace. back at home, it was absolute chaos. there is cast over the world. the soviet union had risen. there were jewish people being killed in the ukraine. armenians were being killed in turkey. there is unrest in india. british colonial forces were shooting indian people. i

not only did you learn how to program a spreadsheet, yes they did that come are put together a powerpointpresentation, those are all valuable skills. but be on the ground for days a week or so, we are sort of living in reading that particular business. that is a good experience for later on because it really gave me an insight as to how things can be made between bosses and the people who they manage. a lot of the work we did because it was consolidation work with restructuring, which meant layoffs. i gave you sort of the human side of things. go in there and do workflow charts for you ask people what do you do? at the end of the day he put the chart together and decide who to cut. it makes a really real. when i reported my office today, you can say so-and-so company laid off 10,000 people. i will always never those days when i was at a bank and you would give news to people and walk into the restroom shortly afterwards that most people would be in there crying because they don't know what else to do. they've got a family. they are the sole income provider in the family. they've got an ag

level domain for the government so he was a contractor and he was invited in and he gave them his powerpoint presentation which he had put together in his hotel room the night before about the conficker worm. and this alarmed the folks in the room who much to rodney's shock had for the most part not even heard of conficker. and he started getting invited over the next couple days to give the same presentation to various other places so this passage i'm going to read you is like two or three days after rodney has made his initial presentation at the department of commerce. the following day he was asked to brief the staff of the senate -- excuse me, the senate select committee on intelligence. because the committee's offices were off limits to those without a high security clearance, the staff arranged to meet with rodney in the visitors center in the capitol building in the cafeteria. about a dozen staffers met him there in the middle of the afternoon. the cafeteria was quiet and mostly empty. they cordoned off part of the room and sat around a long table. before rodney got started one of th

he took out copies of his powerpoint presentation, which had been printed on new star stationery.he handed them around the table. women who had addressed him slip through your copy and pronounced yeah, this is the same presentation beside the classified white house briefing yesterday. [laughter] the meeting dissolved into laughter when the staffers realized that u.s. had simply taken radney's briefing and presented it at the white house as their own work and classified it to boot. [laughter] radney later confirmed it with this site has contact to attended all three of the sessions. they just gave worst of the radney said. so much for wanted federal cyberdefense. thank you. [applause] >> is actually a terrifying note to start on now that i think about it. >> is a net? >> and outcomes are certain analogies that appear in your boat and early on i think at a certain point you get to censor the internet as wild >> that by analogy to my mind brings up the possibility or the definition of the antis, and i was wondering, one, if the term works, is it correct? of course, i'm asking both of

he took out copies of his powerpoint presentation, which had been printed on new star stationery. he handed them around the table. women who had addressed him slip through your copy and pronounced yeah, this is the same presentation beside the classified white house briefing yesterday. [laughter] the meeting dissolved into laughter when the staffers realized that u.s. had simply taken radney's briefing and presented it at the white house as their own work and classified it to boot. [laughter] radney later confirmed it with this site has contact to attended all three of the sessions. they just gave worst of the radney said. so much for wanted federal cyberdefense. thank you. [applause] >> is actually a terrifying note to start on now that i think about it. >> is a net? >> and outcomes are certain analogies that appear in your boat and early on i think at a certain point you get to censor the internet as wild west. there's some sense of the territory stretching in cyberspace. and not by analogy to my mind sort of brings up the possibility through definition of vigilantes. i was wond

. >> the girl powerpoint here, what's the brother doing? he is just sitting there like an oaf. would be. no one in my office ever exchanged gifts until last year when an annoying new secretary arrived and bought gifts for everybody and make us feel guilty. >> why annoying? no, you don't have to. cards would be nice. >> good enough. >> 200 people work here at the "today" show. >> e-mail, use e-vite. >> gifts for people you care about. absolutely. >> thank you. >> up next, shopping for the challenging ones on your list. great prices. i just wish you could guarantee me they won't be beat. oh, actually... then i'd be like, you rule! and my kids would be like, you rule! i'd be like, yes, i do rule! ohh! that rules! oh, load up the sleigh; this is going to be a great christmas. yeah. ring dinga-ding, ring dinga-ding, ring, ring, ring me up. [ male announcer ] no need to wait with our christmas price guarantee. we're so confident in our prices if you do find a lower one between now and christmas, we'll give you the difference on a walmart gift card. save money. live better. walmart. p

he took out copies of his powerpoint presentation, which had been printed on new star stationery. he handed them around the table. women who had addressed him slip through your copy and pronounced yeah, this is the same presentation beside the classified white house briefing yesterday. [laughter] the meeting dissolved into laughter when the staffers realized that u.s. had simply taken radney's briefing and presented it at the white house as their own work and classified it to boot. [laughter] radney later confirmed it with this site has contact to attended all three of the sessions. they just gave worst of the radney said. so much for wanted federal cyberdefense. thank you. [applause] >> is actually a terrifying note to start on now that i think about it. >> is a net? >> and outcomes are certain analogies that appear in your boat and early on i think at a certain point you get to censor the internet as wild west. there's some sense of the territory stretching in cyberspace. and not by analogy to my mind sort of brings up the possibility through definition of vigilantes. i was wond

gives us a powerpoint, give us names, something. i do not know if christie would say "i delegated responsibility." we have to whittle down one layer after a while. it is u 3 sitting here. >> i very much appreciates the comment, and it is important that we get as specific information as we can. we thank all of you for coming forward and speaking with us. we look forward to continuing to ask these questions and get the answers as to where the money is and who in fact was responsible for the transactions. thank you very much. we will ask our next panel to come forward. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> on capitol hill today, the senate just wrapping up their work of the year. -- is wrapping up their work for the year. they passed a two-month payroll tax cut extension, the unemployment benefit, and a disaster aid bill. you can always watch our live coverage of the house right here on c-span and of the senate on c-span2. sunday, republican conference the vi