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he stone-walls. then thornton is denied. sharks go down 40. game three, tuesday in l.a. >> i'm disappointed in our team. when you look at the game, it's hard to find two or three guys that really competed at the level they needed to. >> one of the top players out at home. a lost opportunity. >> got to go out and win a game in l.a., and that's our focus, and we have two days to think about this and be ready for tuesday night game. >> at least the giants are starting to play like world champions. they're looking to face arizona, with barry zito on the hill. buster posey, continuing his hot start. see ya. second jack of the season. in the second, zito to montero. writtens one down the right-field line. game tied at 2. later in the frame. saunders, pops up the bunt. barry awkwardly makes the catch but sprains his foot in the process. he heft the stadium on crutches. mota was clutch. struck out four. in the seventh, game tied at 3. freddie sanchez. coming up with a clutch two out-two run single. the giants win their fourth straight 5-3 the final. >
he stone-walls. then thornton is denied. sharks go down 40. game three, tuesday in l.a. >> i'm disappointed in our team. when you look at the game, it's hard to find two or three guys that really competed at the level they needed to. >> one of the top players out at home. a lost opportunity. >> got to go out and win a game in l.a., and that's our focus, and we have two days to think about this and be ready for tuesday night game. >> at least the giants are starting to...
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i'm used to stone walling, mr. hechanova. let me proceed here. i have three minutes. i probably only used up one here. there is a serious problem in the department. i know you people listening telling you how wonderful everything is. everything is peachy keen. believe me, folks, that's not the case. the biggest problem i see comes from her office direct eand -- directly. and one of the first inquiry is how many inquiries that ms. day signed? in lieu of any actual information, i would have to say that the director is not directing this department. she's putting nothing in writing. the department is being run on hearsay and innuendo. i consider this gross negligence. the director is just apparently trying to manage it and not very effectively, i would say. so this issue of gross negligence. i would say the failure of putting directives in writing and actually directing the department by the director is a dereliction of duty and it's more importantly malfeasance. i mentioned this in a public meeting. i am making the commissioners aware of this malfeasance. i'll be back n
i'm used to stone walling, mr. hechanova. let me proceed here. i have three minutes. i probably only used up one here. there is a serious problem in the department. i know you people listening telling you how wonderful everything is. everything is peachy keen. believe me, folks, that's not the case. the biggest problem i see comes from her office direct eand -- directly. and one of the first inquiry is how many inquiries that ms. day signed? in lieu of any actual information, i would have to...
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answer those two most obvious of questions how or when it might tend tom watson are to see it like a stone. wall the president believes the solutions like improving the standard of living in the region well in an interview with our team he says it would help prevent militants from boosting their ranks. for extremist ideology or exploiting the problems we are currently invasive they are trying to convince the youth that the current all forty eight current regime is. where they use appears want to live in a different state with totally different laws or task is to prove that we can develop successfully the matters of upbringing eulogy are just as essential a generation of people have grown up who are not familiar with the saluki era traditions and values don't have any new ideas or values to replace them this vacuum is being filled by various radicals and extremists as is our key concern the fight for the minds the sympathies of young people is essential you know not a point is going on everywhere these days especially in the media hostile forces have a very simple newtonian for example we are try
answer those two most obvious of questions how or when it might tend tom watson are to see it like a stone. wall the president believes the solutions like improving the standard of living in the region well in an interview with our team he says it would help prevent militants from boosting their ranks. for extremist ideology or exploiting the problems we are currently invasive they are trying to convince the youth that the current all forty eight current regime is. where they use appears want...
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bay area man building a stone wall l old fashion oned way. >> and can't take his eyes off san franciscoemergency that had workers wond [ male announcer ] for 5 bucks, you can get a sub. or...you can get all this. s $5 everyday meals. like two pieces of original recipe. your choice of sides, biscuit and a medium drink. 5 for 5 bucks every day. today tastes so good. >>> we will be on the look out. pay attention to what you are doing. chp and more than 200 state police agency today began month long track down on distract the drives. increasing patrol looking for drivers who ignore the ban on hand held phone call and text message every day on the road more than 350,000 california drivers ticketed since the phone ban took effect in july of 2008. nearly 6000 more have been cited for the texting ban that took effect 6 months later. but they are going to crack down. >> water leak force evacuation today of several floors of the bank of america building in downtown san francisco. it is estimated 2000 gallons of water started pouring from the ceilin
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knocking on doors at trader joe's, whole foods, all the big guys to try to get donations i would get stone walled. they would talk to corporate. >> reporter: a wall at andy's store is covered with thank yous from schools for contributions. he says unlike the contributions of small stores target's giving is a smaller percentage of their take. >> not that i'm against target per se it is really the big corporations that take from communities and don't give back. >> reporter: there was talk of a referendum, actually a threat of a referendum if the city council approved the target store but for now they are going ahead with plans and we should see a target store here next year. reporting live in san rafael, don knapp, cbs5. >>> after years of planning stanford is taking a big step forward in its quest to expand its hospital facilities. a new offer has been approved from stanford that is expected to cover the city's estimated losses as a result of the project. that had been a major issue as you might imagine for the city. the three and a half billion dollar plans aims to expand the hospital and clinics
knocking on doors at trader joe's, whole foods, all the big guys to try to get donations i would get stone walled. they would talk to corporate. >> reporter: a wall at andy's store is covered with thank yous from schools for contributions. he says unlike the contributions of small stores target's giving is a smaller percentage of their take. >> not that i'm against target per se it is really the big corporations that take from communities and don't give back. >> reporter:...
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. >> warner: and they tried to stone wall you the first time you requested this, right? the records? >> yeah, i mean, when we went there at first bob rizzo the city manager wouldn't come talk to us. so the city clerk came to us. eventually she said, well, you can have these documents in ten days which they were entitled to under the public records act. but really it should have taken them about ten minutes to give us that stuff. once again, you know, that sort of raised our hackls and raised our radar. when we asked for a copy of this document that had had us fill out, they charged us $1 for it. i was threatening to sue them if we didn't get the documents within ten days. ultimately they did. >> warner: ruben, how did this go on for so long, do you think, without anyone noticing? i mean were they kind of taking advantage of a town whose residents didn't have a lot of political clout or sophistication and it wasn't a local newspaper looking into it? >> well, you know, the city of bell is made up of 90% latinos and 53% are foreign born. there is certainly that little part
. >> warner: and they tried to stone wall you the first time you requested this, right? the records? >> yeah, i mean, when we went there at first bob rizzo the city manager wouldn't come talk to us. so the city clerk came to us. eventually she said, well, you can have these documents in ten days which they were entitled to under the public records act. but really it should have taken them about ten minutes to give us that stuff. once again, you know, that sort of raised our hackls...
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what they do is use sexual harassment grievance in a cynical way, using the process to stone wall victimsct the university. >> how so? how do they do that with the process? >> let me give you an example. there were several faculty members that were identified to me who had repeatedly raped graduate students, allegedly, according to the graduate students. the graduate students had gone through the reporting grievance procedure. the grievance procedure is not transparent. you can't find out in any given year what's been reported, how many rapes, how many allegations of sexual assault. use of a drug comes up. >> the date rape drug? >> yes. a student said her adviser had given her date rain drug and sexually assaulted her. parents can't find out who is dangerous. they can't find out what professor has systematically a record, a track record of harassing students, behaving inappropriately or worse, rape. for instance, this one professor had two separate women in two separate years had come forward but the university did nothing, covered it up and now he's teaching at a western university and n
what they do is use sexual harassment grievance in a cynical way, using the process to stone wall victimsct the university. >> how so? how do they do that with the process? >> let me give you an example. there were several faculty members that were identified to me who had repeatedly raped graduate students, allegedly, according to the graduate students. the graduate students had gone through the reporting grievance procedure. the grievance procedure is not transparent. you can't...
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. >> reporter: we went inside its ancient stone walls with chris morton, one of the tower's famous yeomaner started it call. built in 1078 it's been guarded ever since by men like chris. today the yeoman warders, more commonly known as beef eaters is not to protect the monarch, but to protect the history of this place by educating millions of visitors, often with a healthy dose of british humor. >> remember, sometimes it takes one or more to take your head off. the beefeaters live on site sharing their home with some very well-known birds. why are there ravens here? >> it's all part of an old superstition that if the ravens leave, the town will fall down, and there will no longer be a king or queen. >> reporter: to make sure that doesn't happen their wings are clipped. limiting flight, but not their signature strut. >> keep your wits about you, about where they are, because they -- >> they'll go after our ankles, i'm told? >> perhaps they'll sneak up and try and bite you on your ankles. >> that would be bad. the tower seems to invite the inquisitive. especially those seeking a lesson in t
. >> reporter: we went inside its ancient stone walls with chris morton, one of the tower's famous yeomaner started it call. built in 1078 it's been guarded ever since by men like chris. today the yeoman warders, more commonly known as beef eaters is not to protect the monarch, but to protect the history of this place by educating millions of visitors, often with a healthy dose of british humor. >> remember, sometimes it takes one or more to take your head off. the beefeaters live...
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a serious effort was made to find out exactly what that training was, and a stone wall. i wonder -- would like to be part of that to find out what is going on with regards to the work there because as secretary, negroponte pointed out, china's birth limitation program remains harsh the course of in law and practice, including abortion. it is illegal in almost all, the -- provinces for a single woman to bear a child. if you're on with, you are forcibly aborted even if it is -- if you are not married, you are forcibly boarded. the state department noted that course of and the un comports with and it appears to chinese law. in those counties where unpa is operating, they follow chinese law. the impact and i know you know this, there is the gender disparity 10 years ago in the state department. it was revealed upwards of 100 million girls are missing in china. the direct result of gendercide. the targeting of a girl in utero and the destruction of that infant baby girl simply because she is female. some people are smiling and laughing on your staff. it galls me to no end tha
a serious effort was made to find out exactly what that training was, and a stone wall. i wonder -- would like to be part of that to find out what is going on with regards to the work there because as secretary, negroponte pointed out, china's birth limitation program remains harsh the course of in law and practice, including abortion. it is illegal in almost all, the -- provinces for a single woman to bear a child. if you're on with, you are forcibly aborted even if it is -- if you are not...
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that is a wall which becomes a tomb stone. the artists themselves are becoming ghosts. that's what he's doing there. joseph danish. head of the projects, it is it was a wonderful time that he woke up every morning wondering how long it would last. they were being paid to produce public art. well, what happened of course is the war. the war came along. and roosevelt could see it coming. so, very few people understand the new deal segways into war. they beefed up the military bases like fort mason. my 1943, they are all killed. the war did what the new deal couldn't do, full employment. there were reports, it's still with mind numbing statistic. we have to rely on other people to do it. the these projects enriched the lives of millions of people and does so today all the time. i have become aware of it, but very few people are. i have also become aware extraordinary people. here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i
that is a wall which becomes a tomb stone. the artists themselves are becoming ghosts. that's what he's doing there. joseph danish. head of the projects, it is it was a wonderful time that he woke up every morning wondering how long it would last. they were being paid to produce public art. well, what happened of course is the war. the war came along. and roosevelt could see it coming. so, very few people understand the new deal segways into war. they beefed up the military bases like fort...
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that is a wall which becomes a tomb stone. the artists themselves are becoming ghosts. that's what he's doing there. joseph danish. head of the projects, it is it was a wonderful time that he woke up every morning wondering how long it would last. they were being paid to produce public art. well, what happened of course is the war. the war came along. and roosevelt could see it coming. so, very few people understand
that is a wall which becomes a tomb stone. the artists themselves are becoming ghosts. that's what he's doing there. joseph danish. head of the projects, it is it was a wonderful time that he woke up every morning wondering how long it would last. they were being paid to produce public art. well, what happened of course is the war. the war came along. and roosevelt could see it coming. so, very few people understand
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a serious effort was made to find out exactly what that training was, and a stone wall. i wonder -- would like to be part of that to find out what is going on with regards to the work there because as secretary, negroponte pointed out, china's birth limitation program remains harsh the course of in law and practice, including abortion. it is illegal in almost all, the -- provinces for single woman to bear a child. if you're on with, you are forcibly aborted even if it is -- if you are not married, you are forcibly boarded. the state departmt noted that course of and the un comports with and it appears to chinese law. in those counties where unpa is operating, they follow chinese law. the impact and i know you know this, there is the gender disparity 10 years ago in the state department. it was revealed upwards of 100 million girls are missing in china. the direct result of gendercide. the targeting of a girl in utero and the destruction of th infant baby girl simply because she is female. some people are smiling and laughing on your staff. it galls me to no end that we h
a serious effort was made to find out exactly what that training was, and a stone wall. i wonder -- would like to be part of that to find out what is going on with regards to the work there because as secretary, negroponte pointed out, china's birth limitation program remains harsh the course of in law and practice, including abortion. it is illegal in almost all, the -- provinces for single woman to bear a child. if you're on with, you are forcibly aborted even if it is -- if you are not...
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government shouldn't build out these businesses but to go in have real good politics and regulate wall street and the stone age that's not going to solve any problems it's just going to harm our economic output as i just mentioned to get any degree and that's magnificent power now is that what it did is that it's that it it's at that banks that were taking money and core neighborhoods and not blending in those neighborhoods they were using that credit and that and that you know that that money freed out and just putting it into other areas that that was not allowed to really have the real real the real problem is a canard i have to we have to wrap this topic and so i won't even do the last word on the other than to say the u.n. when ronald reagan the regular the cells in eighty two and then they melted down in eighty six as a consequence he put two thousand people in jail and you know one of the s. the nobels in this situation is very similar and they were both backed by government when these things melted i'll never know who the president is or has and i wish he had put some people in jail ennio to tuesda
government shouldn't build out these businesses but to go in have real good politics and regulate wall street and the stone age that's not going to solve any problems it's just going to harm our economic output as i just mentioned to get any degree and that's magnificent power now is that what it did is that it's that it it's at that banks that were taking money and core neighborhoods and not blending in those neighborhoods they were using that credit and that and that you know that that money...
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government shouldn't build out these businesses but to go in feel good politics and regulate wall street of the stone age that's not going to solve any problems it's just going to harm our economic output as it is going to get any reinvestment act which is important now is that what it did is that it said it it's not that banks that were taking money in or neighborhood not lending in those neighborhoods they were using that credit and that and that you know that that money freed up and just putting it into other areas that that was not allowed the really about the real real the real problem is a canard i have to have the rafters topic and so i won't even do the for the last word on the just say that when ronald reagan deregulated the cells in eighty two and then they melted down in eighty six as a consequence he put two thousand people in jail and you know when the u.s. the noel's in this situation is very similar and they were both backed by government when these things well whatever you know the president has and i wish he had put some people in jail any on. tuesday mark equal pay day to day that r
government shouldn't build out these businesses but to go in feel good politics and regulate wall street of the stone age that's not going to solve any problems it's just going to harm our economic output as it is going to get any reinvestment act which is important now is that what it did is that it said it it's not that banks that were taking money in or neighborhood not lending in those neighborhoods they were using that credit and that and that you know that that money freed up and just...
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and a bunch of out of towners have stone walled the project on alleged environmental grounds. pipelines are the most cost effective and environmentally sound way to transport oil and natural gas. oil must reach the refinery some way. we can either import oil through a safe and reliable pipeline from our friends and neighbors, the canadians or rely on risky tankers coming from unstable middle eastern countries and dictators. even the e.p.a. should be able to figure this out after two years of delay. gasoline is nearly $4 a gallon. the administration needs to be rerealistic and approve this pipeline immediately. it's about time we start laying pipe. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. jackson lee: it's time to cease fire and sit down and negotiate. one would believe i'm speaking about the conflict in the middle east and libya. but i'm really speaking about the governor of the state of texas and the challenge
and a bunch of out of towners have stone walled the project on alleged environmental grounds. pipelines are the most cost effective and environmentally sound way to transport oil and natural gas. oil must reach the refinery some way. we can either import oil through a safe and reliable pipeline from our friends and neighbors, the canadians or rely on risky tankers coming from unstable middle eastern countries and dictators. even the e.p.a. should be able to figure this out after two years of...
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stone was extracted manually with the help of special some walls but the process became much simpler after a monkey mind invented a special system cutting machine. the average depth of the adesa catacombs is twenty five meters and a million years ago it was actually the seabed remains of shellfish slowly builds under extreme pressure to form a solid but night calculus rock layer after layer i guess as they do business there on new forests around the desa sooting become be used as building material bridge scandal made in the absence of coal and that the sioux people turn to limestone and began mining it as soon as address was founded and you constructions in the city required more limestone yep. troops there was no instruments to hold the buildings in the desert residential houses and theaters shops and restaurants and even churches. today the vladivostok fortress is abuzz with activity each a scolds attempt to quietly number seven passages. cases have taken a fancy to the central part of the country comfort attention. to schoolchildren from islam can kill to affect their skills by cl
stone was extracted manually with the help of special some walls but the process became much simpler after a monkey mind invented a special system cutting machine. the average depth of the adesa catacombs is twenty five meters and a million years ago it was actually the seabed remains of shellfish slowly builds under extreme pressure to form a solid but night calculus rock layer after layer i guess as they do business there on new forests around the desa sooting become be used as building...
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morgan stanley banks toure's as matt pointed out in a recent rolling stone article christie now the wife of a high profile banks there on wall street john mack was given two hundred twenty million dollars by the fed to prop up an investment firm that she and her friend susan had started up neither the two women had any experience in finance but the fed figured they were safe investment through a boatload of essentially free cash ip or free and interest for cash and all of this all the secret lending to major for corporations dictators and wall street wives all of whom would have gone down in complete secrecy had not been for the efforts of senators bernie sanders and franklin i was ron paul to make the fed open up their books and let us taxpayers take a look. so are you still wondering why the fed's actions aren't fixing our economy let's imagine for a second that this wall right here is keeping our economy from collapsing think of it as a giant dam but this dam is starting to crack and holes are starting to form due to all the pressure behind pressure joblessness massive student loan credit card debt student loan debt by th
morgan stanley banks toure's as matt pointed out in a recent rolling stone article christie now the wife of a high profile banks there on wall street john mack was given two hundred twenty million dollars by the fed to prop up an investment firm that she and her friend susan had started up neither the two women had any experience in finance but the fed figured they were safe investment through a boatload of essentially free cash ip or free and interest for cash and all of this all the secret...
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this is in relation to the model of the stone on a wall.is satisfied and is to the part where it needs to be -- >> sure. >> from start to finish, how long does this project take? >> it will be a little less than two months. yes. it is hard to judge. i'm not on it all the time. i have other tasks around the building to do. if i were in a workshop doing this straight through, it would probably take about five weeks working straight through. it would be a 40-hour work week. >> i do not know who has the harder job. >> the detail work is kind of hard to get some times. if it perhaps takes a while to solve. but in another week and a half, it it will be what it should be. one thing i caught was the chin. in profile, you would not see it much. it seems to be much more delicate or needing to be more delicate. it is looking good, though. >> today, and general bush hager, daughter of -- today, gen the bush hager, daughter of president george w. bush begins at 4:00 p.m. eastern here on c- span. >> now a symposium on ethics in america. panels explore ho
this is in relation to the model of the stone on a wall.is satisfied and is to the part where it needs to be -- >> sure. >> from start to finish, how long does this project take? >> it will be a little less than two months. yes. it is hard to judge. i'm not on it all the time. i have other tasks around the building to do. if i were in a workshop doing this straight through, it would probably take about five weeks working straight through. it would be a 40-hour work week....
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walls. >> there is nothing random about the process. just ask the 130 man who will have lifted 60 tons and placed it like a puzzle. >> you goat know your stones some that i don't remember. >> how big? michael began, the bed of the trolley he's pushing was straight. >> what has this done do you snou. >> there is a feat, on old-fashioned family. you only know half of it. >> i have m.s.. >> there is several year was the disease that could affect his speech or site or balance against an unseen obstacle, maybe 300 poundstones don't seem as daunting. >> and i won't let that whip me. >> so, the toil one wall at a time with each, a work of art in form and process. from alameda county abc 7 news. >> and coming up next, a bay area teenager whose athletic skills are a work of art. >> our 15-year-old national table tennis champion is just >>> join me tonight at 9:00 coming up then, can't take his eyes off it. an emergency that had workers wondering what is going on. >> and then at 11:00 here on abc 7 arnold schwartzeneggar's return to the big screen. he plays a fantasy version of himself. its coming up at 9:00 and 11:00. >> and there is now basketball un
walls. >> there is nothing random about the process. just ask the 130 man who will have lifted 60 tons and placed it like a puzzle. >> you goat know your stones some that i don't remember. >> how big? michael began, the bed of the trolley he's pushing was straight. >> what has this done do you snou. >> there is a feat, on old-fashioned family. you only know half of it. >> i have m.s.. >> there is several year was the disease that could affect his speech...
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wall of secrecy. we'll hear from "rolling stone"'s michael hastings and ac to. son and others on topics from police shootings to prison live life and the article that led to the dismissal of general stanley mcchrystal. that is tonightite eastern on c-span2. >> 2/3 of the american people depended own the network news of those three networks as their primary source of news information about the president of the united states. all were hostile to richard nixon. >> go inside pivotal moments inside american history on-line at the c-span video library. search, watch, clip and share with every c-span program from 1987 through today. it's washington your way. >> next, russian prime minister vladmir putin with his annual address before the russian parliament. topics include the country's decreasing population, the economy and a defense spending increase. it's reported that prime minister putin has not ruled out running for president again in 2012. his entire speech lasted close to four hours and included questions from members. here's a 15-minute portion. >> translator:
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talk with a rolling stone journalist matt taibbi matt welcome back to the kaiser report are you doing next all right that i want to talk to you about your piece the real housewives of wall street but first tell us what is tell for the term asset backed lending facility it's a bailout program that was created by the fed and it was ostensibly designed to help spur consumer lending you know it sort of at the end of two thousand and eight after the crash there was a whole bunch of panic on wall street and it really actually started with car dealerships that were unable to get financing from. from the banks as usual because the banks were just afraid to invest in any kind of asset backed securities so the government came up with this program the talf and it essentially provided a government backstop for the banks to lend to consumer outlets like car dealerships and it was eventually expanded to student loans and commercial mortgages and basically everything else under the sun ok so flash back to two thousand and eight the economy in the world is about to crash hank paulson go before congress extort seven hundred fifty billion dollars with a one page memo or crashed the marke
talk with a rolling stone journalist matt taibbi matt welcome back to the kaiser report are you doing next all right that i want to talk to you about your piece the real housewives of wall street but first tell us what is tell for the term asset backed lending facility it's a bailout program that was created by the fed and it was ostensibly designed to help spur consumer lending you know it sort of at the end of two thousand and eight after the crash there was a whole bunch of panic on wall...