spreadsheets, a tabular form. it is not .pdf or word documents, and because of that, it is a machine readable, and that is an important part of it here you can create applications and analysis out of it. there is a lot you can do. open did it is also freely available to the public at no charge with very minimal restrictions. it also respects existing privacy and security laws that are in place, whether local, state, or federal, and it is really a proactive disclosure of government information. departments and agencies are for one actively putting structured machine-readable data out into the public. so why is open did it important? if improve transparency and accountability. journalists have access to more information. artists, technology community -- generally, anyone interested in government has structured information they can use for various reasons. it also stimulates economic development. we have seen a number of companies that have been substantiated both here locally and elsewhere. an example i would like t

these are spreadsheets which can be used to calculate or create applications. this information is usable. this is able to be examined for accountability reasons. this is so that the developer can have private applications. does that answer your question? >> not really. i did not hear this in committee so i apologize if we missed some of the more pertinent points. this is no harm, no foul but i don't see how this does anything

these are spreadsheets which can be used to calculate or create applications. this information is usable. this is able to be examined for accountability reasons. this is so that the developer can have private applications. does that answer your question? >> not really. i did not hear this in committee so i apologize if we missed some of the more pertinent points. this is no harm, no foul but i don't see how this does anything. >> any additional conversation? >> a roll-call vote by this item. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> this order and it is passed on the first reading. item 24. >> item 24 is in motion directing the budget and legislative analyst to conduct three audits for fiscal year 2011 and setting the priorities. >> i would like to start buying banking supervisor -- by thanking the supervisor mar for supporting this. i have a couple questions for the budget analysts. first, the on indigent defense, we just approved a $80 million supplemental. can you discuss the proposal? >> good afternoo

and click on agencies and the planning department on the planning department home page there is a spreadsheet they update when they have time of neighborhood organizations that want to be notified. so and many are interested in getting money to improve their neighborhoods. we usually have applications along the order of 2-1/2 times the funding that we have. like we will have 500 thousand dollars available to give out ask and we get 1.3 million dollars worth of applications. it's competitive. we are not hard and fast about breaking down the money between small, medium and large. we are pretty flexible. we like to look at good projects. we always try to fund one large project if it's a hundred thousand we may be might not fund 2 large projects. so, with that, i will quit and invite david and neil and joseph to talk about some of their projects and how they have looked at their neighborhoods and tried to figure out who the stake holders are that can be really activated to produce a lasting physical improvement in their neighborhoods. >> you want to go first? >> sure. >> everybody hear me i don't

the civilian leadership and the uniformed military, and the obama case, as is laid out in great a spreadsheet detail, as one reviewer said, you see the military resisting and saying, look, you have to send 40,000 troops. this was last year in the strategy review. you have to kind of an open ended commitment. president obama did not buy that. and the are some in electric moments where he confronts the generals, and the pentagon and said look, you promised me and you're getting the essentially one. secretary gates, defense secretary, five assists yes, mr. president president, we argue that option but it never comes to the president has to take things from memos and things that get has said to come up with the 30,000 troops, and a beginning, a big beginning of drawdown next july. so it's cobbled together. again, the problem of not having personal a personal relationship with the generals. mcchrystal was put in last year, additionally, to be the commander in afghanistan. president obama met with them for 10 years. i asked the president in the interview i did for this book, you're picking your eye

this information can be downloaded into spreadsheets, excel spreadsheets, things that you can print and venues at meetings and in conversations about what you happen what you might want to develop in your community and you can copy and paste the pictures of the map as well. bullying info as part of find youth info.gov. this is a federal web site that the interagency working group on youth programs has developed and includes the federal partners that have been part of the bullying prevention steering committee and more for 12 federal departments and agencies. you can find additional information on crosscutting topics on youth like positive youth development and the latest federal news on issues. this is a slide of the homepage. as i noted, as you can see on the right-hand side, one of our other activities is more generally gathering strategic input or a plan for youth programs and policies and you can enter input on that site as well as find out about some of the sessions we are convening to get input. you can also give us feedback about the development of the web site more generally, in

circle that in red at the top, put is it at the bottom of your spreadsheet, stick to that limit.ue that. keep your receipts, right. make sure you pay cash when you can. i think this helps you you. if you can, shop with a credit card online. look for a free shipping day where thousands of merchants guarantee you'll get your package before christmas. freeshipping.com. >> it's not just the gifts, it's everything around it? >> absolutely. you're going to pay for that annually. >> that's right. >> and think about the reward points you're racking up, airlines, hotels, grocery card. look at your gift list and look at what you can redeem the points for. one thing you can do is get gift cards with your points. you might want to get gifts for people. and or if you want to give gift cards. speaking of gift cards, look for discounted gift cards. can you buy these cards at a discount. yesterday, i saw an apple card for $500 reduced to $480. restaurant.com, can you get a restaurant card for $15. >> what about the pre-paid debit cards that seem to be the rage? >> and your kids are going to ask

that to solve all these longterm problems, it would push us back to -- i do not know, i have the spreadsheet from yesterday. it would push us back to our life style of 1987 or something. or 2007. life was not bad in 2007. it should not be beyond us to solve all these problems. but i sort of worry that it might be host: where do you see us, the trajectory of the next two years? guest: well, nothing is going to happen legislatively, but the economy seems to be coming back a little bit. that is the question. is it going to be another double dip? i do not know it, let's ask the pessimist -- what is the one bright spot -- i don't know. host: let's ask the pessimist -- what is the one bright spot for the country? guest: technology. you're using an ipad, i say. i think there will be great things come along that will improve our productivity. host: i use that to look up questions that the viewers were talking about in the last segment, which is what is on top of the washington monument. i think the caller was probably -- on the internet, it suggests that all four sides of the obelisk at the top of t

i want to follow the money and thwart the applications and put them on a big spreadsheet and see what the data indicates and i think we'll find that there is a massive amount of fraud and we may lose this vote tomorrow. if we lose this vote tomorrow, that still calls upon us to shed sunlight on this shoe so the -- issue so the american people know what happened and don't go down the list. so i come to speak of the pigford farms issue which i'm convinced has more fraud in it than legitimate claims and the american people deserve equal justice under the law and if they have a legitimate claim it should withstand the scrutiny and i stand in opposition to the funding of pigford two and the people who would perpetrate it, madam speaker. and i would yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. does the gentleman have a motion to adjourn? mr. king: i move the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. accordingly

that to solve all these long-term problems, it would push us back to -- i do not know, i have the spreadsheet from yesterday. it would push us back to our life style of 1987 or something. or 2007. life was not bad in 2007. it should not be beyond us to solve all these problems. but i sort of worry that it might be. host: where do you see us, the trajectory of the next two years? guest: well, nothing is going to happen legislatively, but the economy seems to be coming back a little bit. that is the question. is it going to be another double dip? i do not know it, let's ask the pessimist -- what is the one bright spot -- i don't know. host: let's ask the pessimist -- what is the one bright spot for the country? guest: technology. you're using an ipad, i say. i think there will be great things come along that will improve our productivity. host: i use that to look up questions that the viewers were talking about in the last segment, which is what is on top of the washington monument. i think the caller was probably -- on the internet, it suggests that all four sides of the obelisk at the top of

they came back with a spreadsheet. correct me if i have this wrong. we saw that there were 393 total jobs that have been done from 2009 until 2010. that seems like a large number, but if you look at 33, we understand -- only 33 of those were on the final production in the deep water, where you are trying to achieve the zonal isolation of the hydrocarbon layer. of those three, only four were bp. the rest were shell. would you characterize bp being somewhat inexperienced with the use of foam cement in the deep water in the gulf of mexico? >> i do not know about an experience. >> from this point, would you say bp was relatively inexperienced? >> yes, we had to rely on halliburton to give us advice on the nuances of phone, yes. >> how would you rate their level of expertise? do you think that should have or would have influenced the advice he gave them on this job? >> i think we are making recommendations based on what we think is the right job for the well. under these conditions, and the design engineer working with bp said this was the best recommendat