we also have nixon peabody and squire. and nossman helping us. back in march of 2010, the board approved the three-year agreement with two-year options. we are currently in the third year, and the agreement will be expiring on june 30, 2013. back in december, 2011, you may remember, i brought before this committee, an amendment to that contract, to increase the contract by $300,000 to increase the contract to offset the cost spent and legal lawsuit related to the city of the presidio parkway project. >> in february of 2012, you may recall that i brought before the board an item to replace the $200 million dollar line of credit. athat time we were working with abdw and the rates were extremely high and we went out and came back with a new where it was yielding us a savings of $3.3 million over the court of three years. with that, we also encured $100,000 in services related to the commercial paper and this is the reason that i am bringing the item, a few months earlier than the contract expiration date. within, the services that nossman performs i

. >> while serving life sentences, some level 2 inmates participate in squires, an outreach program formorning, gentlemen. my name is shiab. weigh need you to understand you're in a place that no kid should ever want to be in. you should be out playing somewhere in the park but you're here because of something you did. >> every saturday, we bring in groups of kids from san francisco, oakland, richmond, all over. you're not going to scare them with the story that i'm a murderer in prison doing life. that doesn't scare anybody any more. what you want to know, that this is your life, man. you have an opportunity to leave out of this place and never come back. >> we try to show them this is what could happen if you keep doing what you're doing. >> all right, you guys. where you're at right now, you're in receiving and release. when you decide you guys wants to commit crimes and the judge sends you a certain amount of time, this is the first place you're going to go when you get off the bus. for you guys who like to wear your nice shoes, who like to wear nike, michael jordan, all of that goo

so many people think that life is random and that there are circumstances and coincidences, and squiresnot. several books he has written on the whole concept. it's not coincidence, it's a god wink these things that are happening, and it could be a source of grace. these are stories who are people who read his other books and then write in and say let me tell you that once i read your book how i started to understand how this is realized in real-time in real life. it's nice. it's $10.19 at amazon.com. >> okay. >> and then sarah has something for us too, don't you, sarah? >> i have a favorite thing. it's represented by this bracelet. it's a make a wish with gabriella. it's a little girl that i had the experience of being introduced to this weekend in d.c. she's battling brain tumor at 9, but it's been an example of a community coming together, and you'll hear more about this story, but if gu to her website -- you don't even need to do anything else. go to the facebook page, make a wish with gabriella, and the parents are telling her about these messages, and it's picking her up as she's g

. >> greg squires from george washington university. and previous board member of the woodstock institute where mr. sander was at for a while. i have a simple question for roger clegg. you gave us some numbers on the percentage of people born out of wedlock of various groups. what do you think accounts for those patterns? >> well, that's a very interesting question. and i'll tell you one thing that i think momentum account for it -- i think doesn't account for it. i don't think you can say, well, this is because of, you know, those are the wages of discrimination and slavery. because these numbers have been getting worse over time, you know, rather than better. you would think if this was a result of discrimination and slavery, it would have been worse during the jim crow era, even worse when you go back towards slavery. i think there are complicated social causes for this. i think that, you know, the great society, i think that the way the welfare system worked for years, it's cultural. and i think it's also, you know, fundamental ri,

>> he's become like a little country squire. he has. i gave him some slippers.nice slippers. >> what i learned -- and i think there's some harold ford jr. in jon meacham because when jon decided he was going to move to nashville, you know what his first question was to julia? >> i'm going to quit talking to you. >> no filter. >> do you have a church home is the first thing. >> amen, brother. what church does the lord move in? because i'm going to be in that church when harold ford jr. kneels in the pew every sunday. that remains my favorite political commercial when harold ford jr. was kneeling in the pew. born again. >> southern. >> mika, i think it's time to go to news. >> either that or we could break out the moonshine. with 25 days to go until the year-end fiscal cliff, president obama and speaker boehner spoke on the phone yesterday for the first time in days. both men agreed not to publicly characterize how the conversation went. i think that's smart. >> that's a good idea, too. >> but the stalemate in the negotiations entered new territory yesterday with,