and no, i know that deputy director sweeney i didn't did a lot of daily so i don't know who you want to talk to with that. your role is giving me the information so i'll let you make the call who to talk to >> members of the commission. ed sweeny deputy director planning services. we would like to start troirlgs to doing the weather proofing involving putting in the foundation and at that point we can get weigh in from the planning department how they want to proceed. it's a recognized slide zone we have to cut we have to do something quickly the rains about come. the only time i've been up there i was seeing springs so there's water out there and we've only had 2 inches of rain in the last year >> so maybe this is an unfair question. how much of a work load is needed to get it to that open cut made safe >> there they're probably a month out. >> no to make it safe. if we're wish is to instruct the director to make it safe how much work >> 6 weeks. >> they will 3 issues. first of all, number one for safety of the site number one is the section is on the ground. we had a complaint we s

coast for the hour, bloomberg industries paul sweeney.hour, bill gates and michael bloomberg, who is in-house anyway -- they will be in our studio talking about philanthropy. bill gates just came out with the annual letter. one of the main objectives of this letter for him was to debunk some myths about helping the poor in the world. it'll be a great conversation. >> the kind of thing you don't miss, regardless of what industry, you have to tune in and watch this. bloomberg television is on the market. let's take a look here at s&p futures. dow jones up .5%. markets aree the going to open well this morning. even as we await another polar federal buildings are closing in anticipation of snow? >> schools are closing in anticipation. >> and federal buildings. they need to stay home because it may snow. >> i hope that's wrong. vortex, orr temperatures will drop to about five degrees. it begins tuesday in the northeast, particularly along the coastal areas. 6-12 inches. vortex, itolar bolt t is company by snow. >> ever since the weather channe

joining me now is steve sweeney, a democrat.ator, what grade would you give senator christie on sandy recovery? >> well, obviously it's not a passing grade right now, because there's too many people that are struggling to get their lives back in order. everyone looked at this storm as an unbelievable devastation that hit the state, and we knew it would take time, but a year and a half in, you have 8,000 people on a waiting list. they don't know if they're number one or number 8,000. this is not right, nor is it fair. >> you've introduced or pledged to introduce legislation that would be a sandy bill of rights essentially. what would be in there and why are you doing it? >> basically it's about transparency. knowing where you are on the waiting list. if you got rejected, why? ensuring that the communications are in multiple languages. and we're doing it for one reason. there's too many people waiting too long to get answers. again, a year and a half. we knew this wasn't going to be quick, but now, year and a half later, people ca

sweeney i didn't the head of the department then and he suggested to me to file the jurisdiction request. so all we want is for me and my engineer to be able to review the construction drawings so my house will not be damaged again. thank you >> hi, commissioners i'm eddy low i'm a technical engineer. i'm going to present two cases one is 13 dash 094. i think that is a straightforward case. we are protesting that permit is issued in error. the permit was the intent to upgrade to finalize what was done under the old permit. but from my observation ever since the junior 2005 to help ms. hanging no work was done for that particular permit. so in a sense that permit was issued in error and i submitted it a while back in august. so i'm going to talk about appeal 13 dash 67. as you know i come before you on behalf of overview have a tanning. i'm licensed in the state of california as a technical engineer. i have over 45 years of experience in practicing so so to technical engineering. i spent most of my professional career involved in work in san francisco. i support the appeal for the 1311051

also joining us, paul sweeney, u.s. director of research at bloomberg industry.peed that you talk about of the new new in technology. how does google try to keep up with the new new? >> it is a lot of investment in engineering, but it is also looking around in the valley and seeing who is doing what. >> is it a new delegation of authority? don't the principles of google know that they cannot do it all themselves? >> that has always been there in approach. it has been a very decentralized company all along. >> all, you have provided some insight on this. motorolaolves mobility. it was kind of a surprise for a lot of google investors at the time. here is google, a search company, software company, services company, and now they are getting into hardware manufacturing, distribution, and retail. if you step back from the motorola deal, it was all about recognizing i am interested in the patents and i recognize the future of the internet is mobile. i need to be a player in mobile. i need to be all over the mobile space, so let's get into that part of the business. >>

waterford regional hospital who carried out the post mortem examination on mr palmer first dr mike sweeney said the cause of death now in his opinion is multi organ failure with evidence of the pilot corporation and heart disease been a contributing factor. carter tim tidy return the finding of medical misadventure the setting was not finding fault with any party involved mr crawford's like come on out is suing the hospital her family say they're devastated about what happens you never expect. known for keyhole surgery of the victims so forth. you'd think it is very simple straightforward thing the speech he gave the wheel spin. damien chair north sea news kilkenny. irish language organizations have criticized couple of parcels for not attending the talk shop mistake. i'm going irish language commissioner sure recalling speaking. mr o'connor and told the committee on the twenty year strategy for the english irish has been pushed towards the margins of society to prominence last year to increase the number of civil servants speaking irish would not succeed him in his decision to leave the p

. >> reporter: coach kelly sweeney picks up his pugilists in donated cars. kids receive new desks and computers to do homework and more tutors to help. >> you have to cross multiply. >> reporter: new punching bags to train with. so hook -- and then what? >> jab. >> reporter: jab, jab. right hand? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: even a new ring. it's already gotten a good workout. for coach kelly, plenty needs to be done. >> we have over 150 kids on the waiting list. that's one thing we can't afford to do. just keep kids waiting a rnd. >> reporter: plans are now underway to build a new gym that can accommodate everyone. one thing won't change. the gym's golden rule. school books before boxing. >> it's a habit for everybody now. so everybody gets to homework first and then come to train. >> reporter: train and study to help these kids go the distance. chelsea clinton, nbc news, detroit, michigan. >>> and that is our broadcast for this first friday of 2014 and for this week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. of course we hope to see you right back h

>> it's a little bit of a -- >> dylan sweeney who covers venture capital says investors are willing to pay more because they're worried about missing out on potentially huge returns. >> it's not like there's a formula you can apply or a computation you can do that comes out with the number. i think a lot of what we're seeing right now is a product of just a lot of enthusiasm for technology start-ups. a lot to invest in. a lot of companies doing really interesting things. and investors don't want to miss out so they're willing to pay a higher price. >> and dreessen horowitz say a lot of companies are staying private longer. start-ups are bulking up their revenues which also sends their valuations higher. companies in the public markets play a role in the valuation game as well. professional investors try and model out what a private company could be worth based on the performance of a successful public company with similar financial characteristics. >> another reason for the run-up in valuation, competition among vcs chasing fewer good ideas. >> there are vc funds that have raised enorm

lieutenant governor guidano, senate president sweeney, speaker panetta, republican leaders cain and brennaall the former governors, members of the supreme court, members of our congressional delegation, members of the new jersey state legislature, family and friends, today, once again, the people of new jersey have given me the opportunity to serve. [applause] and i thank each and every citizen for that honor. and once again, i have taken an oath where i have sworn to protect the peace and prosperity of our great citizens, and a long oath it is, a long one. it is an oath i have lived by for the last four years, and it is the oath i will live by for every day i am privileged to call myself your governor. [applause] the oath, though, is just a symbol of the bond that we have created with each other over the last four years. we have endured the worst economic recession of our lifetimes, and we have begun to triumph over it. we have confronted entrenched interests and their stream of money that have previously stood in the way of fiscal sanity for our state and educational excellence for our c

study your reviews to get lebanon's military three billion dollars in a lebanese president michel sweeney made the announcement after the funeral of senior lebanese politician muhammad should cop who was killed in a car bomb attack that i was a critic of books sitting president charlotte sound and the lebanese militant group hezbollah attacks. no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing which it as allies claim iranian proxy hezbollah. saudi arabia and hezbollah are fighting on opposite sides in the supreme council. saudi arabia's it to the lebanese army is seen as an attempt to counter iran's impact in lebanon which employs as the law were in syria and its spillover into lebanon has created a regional proxy war. as far as he was involved in this year the war has resulted in the deaths of some three hundred organizations operate it. we'll announce our forces are under equipped to face multiple security challenges challenges that have been underlined by the blast that killed two top former finance minister and close aide to an ex premier who was the key saudi al i understood angry mo

brigid sweeney of crains wrote about this. brigid, first, what are the 2 new players on pea pod's turf doing doing? >well, they're frankly not new they've been here for a couple of years but amazon and wal- mart are basically testing the waters that the pea pod has been swimming in since 2001. they're trying to do same day delivery of groceries and frankly same day delivery is kind of the ultimate what the consumers want and it's something that pea pod does not deliver, they do next day delivery. what is amazon and wal-mart do when are they actually putting money into this and building facilities? > they all are. they are using existing facilities for right now and they're testing them in test markets on the west coast. amazon is testing in a couple of places in california, wal- mart is also in the west coast area just testing the market to see if people are willing to pay for this, really want this. you talked with co- founder and chief technology officer for pea pod, what is he doing? > he is trying extremely hard to ramp up

able to keep me in a tone of a concern shared by islanders caring for and judy parents like mark sweeney who also knows the value of the service to our nation has announced she was very very helpful the whole time he was out. and specifically. when he came home. at the end. she lists the constellations my go to person. he says the community nursing services on aaron moore will continue as normal the combination of them holding hands nice and degenerate a registered nurse dawson my hand or say that whatever way you don't count as this is a serious look at the end of the time of the cats in our service which they as an itunes can't afford to be with us. trade and to say that the after sitting there on demand it's like if we have that day for their snow fairies what's gonna happen then you know it's a photo of a difference an iota of phenomena and people in the name of indiscriminately and so we deserve. as much of even more because we don't have the resources to mail our house with with neighboring district nurses and so one of the health services. his emotional issue an estimate to be a v

and i agree with senator sweeney that we should have incentives for other communities to adopt the shared services agreements and regionalization agreements that are making more cops on the street possible. more cops on the street means safer communities. to make this happen, we will work with you to reintroduce a shared services and consolidation reform measure in this session of the legislature. i hope we get it done. [applause] we must also reach out a hand of compassion and commonsense to those who engage in nonviolent crime. we must do a better job of reclaiming their lives and putting them back on the road to success and engagement with our society. every human life is precious and no life, no life is disposable. that's why i proposed last year to change our approach to nonviolent drug offenders and to mandate treatment, not imprisonment. together, together we made this possible. the drug corps program has been a great success. thanks in part to your support in funding both the court and the treatment. and i thank you for passage this past year of the overdose protection act. we sho

paul sweeney listened to the call and joins me now with details. what did you hear on that call? >> we heard the team make the case that time warner had seriously under managed time warner assets over the last half decade. the charter management team is in a position to really take those assets and really maximize the value of those assets. charter is trying to make the case for shareholders that assets would be in a much better position being managed by charter. >> what about charter? do you think they are going to come up with a higher bid? >> time warner says they want a significantly higher bid. the rumor in the marketplace is approximately $160 per share, well above where the stock is trading today and well above charter's initial deal. i think it will be somewhere in between. one of the issues is how much cash charter has to come up with. how much cash will shareholders demand? right now, the deal consists of $83 in cash. my sense is that charter will have to raise that to reduce the amount of stock they will ultimately have to buy from the company. >> what about charter's

and i agree with senator sweeney that we should have incentives for other communities to adopt the shared services agreements and regionalization agreements that are making more cops on the street possible. more cops on the street means safer communities. to make this happen, we will work with you to reintroduce a shared services and consolidation reform measure in this session of the legislature. i hope we get it done. we must also reach out a hand of compassion and commonsense to those who engage in nonviolent crime. we must do a better job of reclaiming their lives and putting them back on the road to success and engagement with our society. every human life is precious and no life, no life is disposable. that's why i proposed last year to change our approach to nonviolent drug offenders and to mandate treatment, not imprisonment. together, together we made this possible. the drug corps program has been a great success. thanks in part to your support in funding both the court and the treatment. and i thank you for passage this past year of the overdose protection act. we should not be

democrat john sweeney issued a statement reading in part, quote, there are still more questions thanwers. we can't rest until we know what happened in fort lee. it turn out the chairwoman of that investigative committee happens to be the state senator who represents fort lee. >> thank you, eric it goes round and round. like a turnpike. eric shawn. so the company pushed back. they said we wanted bruce springsteen or bonjovi, we could not get either. but if you think about at the time, three of the biggest names in new jersey. his popularity was well over 0% d well over 60% to 70%. martha: we'll dig into that a little more in a while. testimony today on dozens of recommendations for the nsa controversial spying programs. this move comes ahead of a big speech the president will give friday where he he he will reveal his reforms and changes to the nsa surveillance program. what about this? a new study claims the nsa has basically next to nothing to stop terror attacks. mike baker is a former cia covert operations officer. michael welcome back to the program program, good to have you here

and as they show the iq of the sweeney is very. anybody his focus to. you are mentally she looks. ok it's only half the soul may need to stashing and iq and crawl past the pilot to them. a market based measures in both games so a boastful a skill which he sings the aisle. but do we know we use to the next three years that i too had some great updates about the itch prison into the job did they say ok is to remind you out or not is that you are safe and a frequent traveler i tend to ask you if he were to be good to you. ok so on. are you a million pain went away the shape of these parties is a very famous lake at the number one i sensed as the great nana while working as too old. or one zero to colic and put an end and that it's the substance good until one wind and a tool when two of the enemy too. because they have been very very spacious of these in the us to it he said the six mm leica in fuel is some lady brain are very and i think all cheer him on somebody's head de suisse sees it this way is does not thank you and lee is meaningful suffer from spatial meaningful name. but ap

. >> you should have been looking at pictures of al sweeney because neither of you know. ♪ >> that'shat nelly song. you know that song? they used a theme song -- >> you know it? >> of course i know it. >> what's the name of the song. >> i forgot the name of it. "country grammar." >> no, it's not. it's by nelly. it will come to you. all right. what's your new year's resolution. clearly it has nothing to do with that. what is it? what are you doing? >> i have to stop traveling, stop flying. i'm in airplanes all the time. "the voice" coming to an end. for me, it's all about balance. life is about balance. so i need to lose some weight, eat a little bit less. i'm a consumer of life. and when i have friends in my life who are -- i'm easily persuaded. if i'm with a group of friends, they like to eat and drink and go out. i'm on that train. then i have some friends really into fitness and working out all day. okay. i can do that, too. like i -- i'm like a dog. and so the answer is in the middle. i'm not going to ever give up having a cocktail or eating. i've got go back and find that balanc

steve sweeney, senate president and democrat says it's not fair to jump to conclusions as far as t government's potential role investigations will go their way step by step. investigations start in full swing thursday. we're waiting for the governor half an hour from now to speak. we'll bring some of those remarks live. gretchen. >> we will await that. thank you so much, eric. we are awaiting a major hearing on nsa spying scandal. this is a live look where that's going to take place in d.c. so what sweeping reforms could be headed to the agency to protect your privacy? don't consider yourself religious but do you still believe in god? you're not the only one. our faith panel is here to discuss the next big political demographic. not religious but spiritual. hi, faith panel. male announcer ] alka-seltze plus presents thcold truth. i have the flu, i took medicine bui still have symptoms. [ sneeze ] [ male announcer ] truth is not all flu products treat l your symptoms. what? [ ma announcer ] nope, they don't have an antihistamine. really? [ ma announcer ] reay. [ dog whine ] but alka-seltzer plus

congressman sweeney was a connected guy, jack abramoff guy. ultimately the frat party thing gave way to much more serious allegations of domestic violence, he eventually lost his seat, plead guilty to a felony dwi, after law enforcement sources in that arrest, he nearly hit the state police cruiser that was trying to pull him over, and he surprised the arresting officer in that case, who thought the congressman was alone in that car, but realized upon approaching the vehicle, the congressman had a 23-year-old woman in his lap. and yes, congressman john sweeny was a republican, but when it comes to new york and new jersey as well, it's hard to stress how bipartisan, let's say nonpartisan a disgusting cesspool of corruption and terrible behavior this really is. it was almost heartening in a way. last year after about half the state legislature in albany -- i'm only exaggerating slightly -- the new york times put out this handy rogue gallery pointing out all the people that had been arrested, censured, convicted or in one case died in prison. on

. >> we just received this statement from new jersey state senate president, steve sweeney. he says, the lane closings were an abuse of power. these new revelations suggest a pattern of behavior by the highest ranking members of the administration that is deeply offensive to the people of new jersey. if true, they could be illegal. there is no place in public service for actions like this or for people who are responsible. what is your reaction to that? >> that's certainly correct. again, this opens up new questions. and we need to get to the truth. and that is why these subpoenas are very important and this legislative committee is very important to understand what the information -- processing that information and, again, this governor wants to clean up independent authorities. it's the port authority, the first one, that he is protecting. so we need answers. >> what is the next step in your investigation? and should we expect to see bridget kelly and other high-ranking members in these hearings? >> well, you will know that the subpoenas went out on thursday. by the time w

fulop claims new jersey's senate president steven sweeney, a democrat but big christie ally killed a pension bill in the statehouse that would have saved jersey city $4 million a year. and this, the guy who said, "there's a culture in trenton of being punitive. being petty." trenton, new jersey, of course where the governor's office is located. in response to these allegations from fulop about bullying and retribution, christie had this to say. >> i don't know about specific meetings or what's going on, but certainly, you know, i will look into all of those things, but the fact is that what mayor fulop knows is when we agree with him from a policy perspective, we'll work with him. when we disagree with him, we'll express those disagreements. sometimes that will mean friction. >> as soon as christie finished speaking, this is the statement mayor fulop, himself, put out. "governor christie's comments today on my relationship with the state are a gross misrepresentation of the facts." joining me now, one of the foremost experts on the operations of governor chris christie's political ma

the senate president is steve sween sweeney, a democrat. very close to chris christie personally and is also politically been aligned with him. a bloc of pro christie democrats from south jersey and their boss is close to chris christie. there's been concern when you talk to people on the assembly side about how interested is the senate really in getting to the bottom of this. there's some concern you have these dueling investigations going on, a bunch of subpoenas come out of this assembly committee, then the senate committee, does it give the administration an opportunity to go go into court and say this is an undue burden. the legislature should be acting as one. one set of rules here, one there, asking the same individuals to turn over the same information. the legislature needs to get its act together before anybody should be asked to turn anything over. that can draw the process out. the other factor is does this become a mess where then might the u.s. attorney paul fishman step in and says i'll take this over. for good and for bad it

that's steve sweeney. he is part of an organization, a democratic organization in south jersey that has been very friendly towards this governor. so there is a lot of skepticism toward him, towards norcross democrats, especially in the state senate. and there is a fear that the existence of these two committees, assembly and senate committee would create an opening for the governor's office to go to court and basically say look, this is an undue burden. you are subpoenaing, the assembly is subpoenaing somebody, the senate is subpoenaing somebody. >> yes, steve. steve, can you hear me? >> and the court should step in and act adds one. and there is the potential for the christie administration to create a little mess that really bogs this thing up in court. that's where they talk to democrats. >> michael isikoff is reporting to us, confirming that the new jersey seat that you're skeptical about, david samson, of the port authority, and regina egea who is next in line to be the governor's chief of staff. if t

lieutenant governor guadagno, senate president sweeney, speaker prieto, republican leaders cain and bramnick, all the members of the supreme court, members of our congressional delegation, members of the new jersey state legislature, members of my cabinet, family and friends. today, once again, the people of new jersey have given me the opportunity to serve. and i can each and every citizen for that honor. and once again, i have taken an oath where i have sworn to promote the peace and prosperity of our great state and its citizens. and a long oath it is, chief. a long one. it is an oath that i have lived by for the last four years, and it is the oath i will live by for every day i am privileged to call myself your governor. >>> the oath, though, is just a symbol of the bond that we have created with each other over the last four years. we have endured the worst economic recession of our lifetimes. and we have begun to triumph over it. we have confronted entrenched interests and their endless stream of money that have previously stood in the way of fiscal sanity for our state, and educationa

sweeney to sophie's two issues together none of this decision some of the scene said the sea lion the easy beats healed of these edt on the cap might be difficult to them. teacher gets. as of the students it's hard to read growth projections for france vary between twenty nine point nine percent this year. that is well below the one and a half percent mark above with an economy starts to create jobs in earnest to one point six percent is what is projected for two thousand and fifteen but that'll be next year on. a team in light of that up again as it has been to sustain the need for a strong leader who is in charge and was decisive. it's going out on the only rider motorcycle helmet that is at play in tibet and its exact but he never eats he have another he means is that slowly on the way me was the menu. and i can't refute this way. still he said you have just distinction of ditches. nineteen cm should sweet as way to make me a comment. that is a valid point that on foreign policy the president made a snap decision to intervene in mali is not intervene in central african republic. he

leland: bill sweeney was helping to run the program. and this was march, april, may, few months after the cmi and he was walking through the capitol building and he ran into the speaker of the house, tom foley, who he knew. and speaker foley put him aside and said, bill, a few months ago, back over the holidays, my father was very ill, so i was spending a lot of time with him. there was one night i couldn't sleep so i turned on television and started watching c-span and campaign management institute was on. then speaker of the house goes through to critique each of the speakers. just goes to show you never know who is going to be watching this kind of thing on c-span and also just what kind of terrific program that amu puts together. what i am going to do is sort of talk about the lay of the land, the political environment. thank you very much. and i used to, a million years ago, back in the '70s when i first got out of college and working in politics there was a terrific political newsletter called the american political report that a

he has always had a good relationship with a democrat named steve sweeney. the bridge gate scandal is going to lessen that relationship over the short term. just after he was reelected, chris christie tried to give tom boot becausehe tom kane did not work well with stephen sweeney. chris christie need the democrat to pass the rest of his agenda before he decides to run for president. aris christie has always had pretty good relationship with the democrats. in new jersey, people scratch each other's back. statemore of a bipartisan than we think. you see that tension between chris christie and the democrats. host: the lieutenant governor will be responding to claims from the hoboken mayor that the lieutenant mayor pressured her on sending relief funds and expected to make some kind of remark today. guest: they just passed a measure after the previous themnor that instituted running on a ticket together. before this, the president of the senate would succeed any governor who quit. there have been about six temporary governors or governors who stand in for other

paul sweeney, you know yahoo! well. what do you make of the quarter?> another disappointing quarter. a revenue growth story. >> there is no revenue. >> one billion users to generate revenue growth. digital advertising is going 15% a year. yahoo!, aol, unable to take advantage. marissa mayer is probably feeling pressure. >> we saw alibaba results. they are trailing. it is slower than it has been. it starts to slip -- to show some signs it is maturing, as well. >> right. indid slow a little bit terms of revenue growth in the third quarter. people generally feel very bullish about alibaba and e- commerce overall in china. alibaba, the valuation associated with the ipo, it continues to be the driving force. >> exactly. when people look at the price, they say mercer mayer turned around the company. the results, you do not see it. what we really see is dan lothian particular finding a way , followingf alibaba the -- finding a way to make that work as well. a good jobpany did returning proceeds to shareholders and making acquisitions. from that perspective th

paul sweeney and porter bibb are here. does this make sense to you, charter and time warner?dam hit it right on the head. this is the first of what is going to be a whole slew of bids. the deal is a long way from ever getting done. >> comcast doesn't really have to partner with anyone. they can do the deal on their own, and that is what time warner is betting on. they are just waiting for another bid to come in. charter sets the floor price here. they are not going to move until time warner and charter have gone at it for a while, and then comcast will come in, probably. it's not going to really speed up the process. if comcast is smart and its bankers are smart, which they are, they are going to advise their clients to wait it out and see how far this could go before jumping in. bid againstn't yourself, in effect. >> exactly. >> and the time warner shareholders are not going to be very happy with the deal that has so much charter stock in it. >> where is it ultimately going? time warner said they want 100 $50-one hundred $60. is that unrealistic? of $140.ld go north >> they

the author of numerous stories reviews and translations that appeared in publications such as nick sweeneys, book forum in "the wall street journal" among other places. he has had residencies at the mattel in france in the land foundation. he teaches at the university of denver in their creative writing program where he edits the well respected journal denver quarterly. hunt move to rural indiana after his high school years after a childhood spent in singapore where he was born and in san francisco to the hague. he earned his bachelor's degree at indiana university. "kind one" seems to me to be an attempt to penetrate the misunderstandings, the corruptions and the mistranslations that savory has brought on this country. the story takes us back to full centuries and puts us firmly in the presence with its question of the limits and the unrelenting need for empathy and morality. for his profound assertion, these things matter. we are truly to learn to live together with all of our differences. "kind one" by laird hunt is the recipient of the 2013 anisfield-wolf book award for fiction. [appla

lieutenant governor guidano, senate president sweeney, republican leaders cain and all the former governorss of the supreme court, members of our congressional delegation, members of the new jersey state legislature, family and friends, today, once again, the people of new jersey have given me the opportunity to serve. [applause] and i thank each and every citizen for that honor. and once again, i have taken an oath where i have sworn to promote the peace and prosperity of our great citizens, and a long oath it is, a long one. [laughter] it is an oath i have lived by for the last four years, and it is the oath i will live by for every day i am privileged to call myself your governor. [applause] the oath, though, is just a symbol of the bond that we have created with each other over the last four years. we have endured the worst economic recession of our lifetimes, and we have begun to triumph over it. we have confronted entrenched interests and their stream of money that have previously stood in the way of fiscal sanity for our state and educational excellence for our children. together, we