on the issue of the other things, but these are not necessarily things that mayby be tangental, i was happy to learn that the institute was also working with the lgbt community. i went to savannah awhile back. the college has done so much, with the single-screen theaters. the use them for teaching purposes and continue their operations. the same could be true of a place like this. they need to have renovation, and the two things were greatly together. by working cooperatively with the academy of our university, people can realize a lot of good things. the third issue is the threat to residential housing. i was not surprised but i knew that the number of students in residential housing is relatively small. as of the registration, only about 1600, or 9.5%. this is not all housed in previously residential areas. there were other uses that were converted. the actual numbers were probably a lot smaller. and i think that if they provide housing, they will probably be better off. having been a student in the late 60's, we were going out to collectively compete with other people for the rente

just on a bit of a tangent, one of the things that occupied a lot of my post-5:00 p.m. time last year was talking about proposition a going around the city. what i learned through that process, along with other folks who traveled around the city with me, the community members to not necessarily have as deep and understanding as the commissioners do about what seismic safety, how it actually can be implemented. the question we heard or derivative to the question -- "you have not touched my house or my block, so i do not understand. where is the seismic safety? you guys have not given me any money to fix my house." that is not inappropriate way to think of seismic safety. it is a citywide goal, requires city-wide intervention, and that is what this executive director hopefully will move us toward. if we retrofit the school, on the corner of your building, that will provide you with more tangible benefits when there is an earthquake. if the school does not collapse, you have a fire on your block, and second, it can provide shelter for people who are displaced, so we need t

no, but-- you could if you carry on like-- look, we're going off on a tangent here.on't you just go and get your schoolbook? go on. can i take your staple gun? you are to go nowhere near my staple gun! ( phone rings ) well, come on! mum: hello? oh, hi, dad. everything okay? no, you don't have to put the bins out today. bin day's friday. no, today's tuesday, dad. no, no--no, no, no, no, no. listen, don't worry, because i get the days of the weeks mixed up, it's--look, don't get anxious. i-it's fine. dad, i found a letter for you. oh, thanks. right. aren't you gonna look at it? no. uh, it's boring stuff. i'll look at it later. a postcard from auntie angela. we're gonna be late, aren't we? no, we'll be fine. yeah, right. can i get a note saying "jake was late because his family is useless"? dad: ben! ( sobs ) come on, ben! what are you doing? we're gonna get going! karen: i made these pictures for you at school. oh, lovely. that's... a lovely picture of... what is it of? a cow. a cow. killing some people because it doesn't want to be made into food. he's ripping their h

biggest eurozone economy has so far ruled out any substantial increase a reflection of the major tangents within the union now we can cross live to nigel farrar she is a member of the european parliament and leader of the u.k. nepean and sparty and joins us now live from strasbourg thanks very much indeed for being with us here in the program nigel now as we can see there is no unity in the european union as far as this fund is concerned so how much of a chance is there that it might actually be created against germany's unwillingness to do so. what in the end you see is german politicians that will make these decisions not the german people i'm quite certain that if at any point in time the german people have been asked initially whether they want to give up the deutschmark they have said no and if you ask the german people now do they want to pick up a liability that in financial terms will be six times bigger than the liability they picked up when eastern germany joined them twenty years ago again will be no so my guess is that the german finance minister the german chancellor will mak

rap was going on a little bit of a tangent. there was some success in the rock clubs. that's where the only crossover existed. no mainstream. and so they were starting to assimilate to the rock stars, or they wanted to get out of the ghetto so bad that they were willing to trade some of their souls, you know, and their attitude and their honesty for it, and so the music didn't suffer, but some of the outfits and the attitudes that they sold with the music was not as honest, and run dmc put on their ghetto uniform and did their ghetto thing, and the more honest it was, the more alternative it was, and the more integrity it had, the more mainstream it was despite the fact that they didn't assimilate. and that was run dmc's claim to fame, that they spoke the language of the people. and i think that that was part of-- that was one of the things that set the fabric for rap culture or hip-hop culture to be uncompromising, because uncompromising artists were the most successful, and honesty was the key to success, and people recognized it. and the terms, like keeping it real,

heard quite a bit the last several weeks and i never thought since he has been elected but and the tangent and black politics is there a vision for that? >> see what i've read about obama's arrogance? [laughter] >> definitely after losing the he became her again it or hide that arrogance. he has his chin up in the air and look like no patience with the senator that was debated him and the guy who was most respected and told me at that time thought barack is a smart guy but does not have a lot of success because he puts himself above other people and once people to know he went to harvard. early in his career he thought all he had to do was to say i was the first black president of harvard law review and get anything he wanted and up to a certain point* that was the case. that is how he got his job, but contract thomas support to run for the state senate. and running for congress push that as far as he could. and then working on his colleagues and working with people he considered intellectual interiors and having a student who was very gifted is to your benefit to be the smartest% in the r

islam's artist is not some weird tangent. it constitutes almost half of the faith. about 600 million muslims live in the western part of the indian ocean all the way across north africa to morocco in about 580 million muslims live in the southern philippines, southwestern burma, the indian subcontinent, indonesia, the malay peninsula and elsewhere. so we have the indian ocean is the entire arc of islam. what else is there about it? is also the global energy interstate, where all of the oil and natural gas, the fossil fuels, that is, that come from the arabian peninsula principally in the iranian plateau are transferred, are transported by supertankers across the whole width of the indian ocean 4000 miles across, through the narrow strait of malacca and lombok straits and north towards the burgeoning middle class fleshpots and east asia. the coastal cities of china, south korea and japan. so the indian ocean is a geographical tool to connect political development in both the middle east and in china and east asia all at the same time. and another thing, my book is en

inaudible] [laughter] >> well i kind of -- i think this is a little -- we've just gotten off on a tangent because, you know, the jobs programs that the doctor next peak of what we've done with financial institutions doesn't prevent us from doing the job program, so it's not like we have to choose one or the other. it's, you know, for me it's like we can view what we did as what we did but what are we going to do going forward? and as i said before, the problem is not one of can we afford. the problem is a matter of politics, not resources. as i mentioned, presented for ways of providing resources. we can also do deficit spending, and i mentioned there is also lots of other options i didn't go into. so it's not a matter of can we afford to create more jobs? we can. there is no question about that. the question is will we and will political leaders to step forward and do it? >> i appreciate your diplomatic spirit and i think you are absolutely correct. there is no reason to necessarily substitute the employment program for a program of support for the investment banking community. the only

quite frankly, that means i'm going off on a tangent.hter] only the other can create the jobs and investment we need to move this state forward. [cheers and applause] [applause] [applause] profit is not a dirty word. [applause] in fact, it is the direct and indirect solution to our challenge. the search for profit is what drives investment and innovation. without profit, no one has the incentive to create jobs or build a tax base. profit is what keeps our youths from leaving maine in search of better opportunities. profit is what makes the public site are possible. without profit, we do not have economic activity and we do not have income to grow the tax base. therefore, profit pays the bills. [applause] profit leads to more competition and through competition, we -- we the people, end up with more choice and greater value. [applause] every private or public sector job, every program, every nonprofit, every state service and every incident in society started because someone took a nickel worth of input and turned it into a dime worth of

staff get really nervous when i use two words -- quite frankly -- that means i am going off on a tangent. [laughter] only the private sector can create the jobs and investment we need to move this state forward. [cheers and applause] profit is not a dirty word. [laughter] [applause] in fact, it is the direct and indirect solution to our challenges. the thirst for profit is what drives investment and innovation. without profit, no one would have an incentive to create jobs or build a tax base. profit is what keeps our youth from leaving the state of maine in search for better opportunity. profit is what makes the public sector possible. without profit, we do not have economic activity, and we do not have income to grow the tax base. therefore, profit pays the bills. [applause] profit leads to more competition, and through competition, we the people end up with more choice and greater value. [applause] every private or public sector job, every program, ery nonprofit, every state service, every advancement in society started because someone took a nickel worth of input and turned into a dim

my fault for going on the deficit tangent there. chair bernanke, the one issue as i prepared for this panel here that kept coming up was the issue of real estate as collateral. that in the environment of uncertainty surrounding real estate values, and i really would like to leave here with a sense there's something that can be done here on this issue that either replacing real estate or is there a role for the fed or other government agencies to come this and resolve that issue so that the small businesses that are viable can get loans because there's collateral there? >> well, on the margin you can do some things. first, beyond all the stuff we're trying to do to get the economy going again -- >> tw right. >> -- you can work with appraisals. one of the issues with real estate is that in a distressed environment with very few sales sometimes the appraisals come in very, very low, and that's going to effect the collateral value. so the agent is says in december issued a new guidance, the basic message is that the comparables is not t

staff gets nervous when i use two words quite frankly -- [laughter] that means i'm going off on a tangently the private-sector can create the jobs and investment we need to move this state forward. [applause] .. drives investment and innovation without profit, no one has an incentive to create jobs or build a tax base. profit is what keeps our youth from leaving maine in search of better opportunities. profit is what makes the public sector possible. without profit, we do not have economic it to the and we do not have income to grow the tax base therefore, profit pays the bills. [applause] profit leads to more competition and through competition week, we the people end up with more choice and greater value. [applause] every private or public sector job, every program, every nonprofit, every state server, it every advancement in society started because someone took a nickel worth of input and turned it into a dime worth of output. it is a grand that has to continue. here are four steps to make it happen. one, simplicity. it needs to get a lot easier to do business in the state of maine. [a

inaudible] [laughter] >> well i kind of -- i think this is a little -- we've just gotten off on a tangent because, you know, the jobs programs that the doctor next peak of what we've done with financial institutions doesn't prevent us from doing the job program, so it's not like we have to choose one or the other. it's, you know, for me it's like we can view what we did as what we did but what are we going to do going forward? and as i said before, the problem is not one of can we afford. the problem is a matter of politics, not resources. as i mentioned, presented for ways of providing resources. we can also do deficit spending, and i mentioned there is also lots of other options i didn't go into. so it's not a matter of can we afford to create more jobs? we can. there is no question about that. the question is will we and will political leaders to step forward and do it? >> i appreciate your diplomatic spirit and i think you are absolutely correct. there is no reason to necessarily substitute the employment program for a program of support for the investment banking community. the only

my staff gets real nervous when i use two words -- quite frankly -- that means i'm going off on a tangent- only the private sector can create the jobs and investment we need to move this state forward. [applause] >> profit is not a dirty word with. [applause] >> in fact, it is a direct and indirect solution to our challenges. the for profit is -- the search for profit is what drives investment and innovation. without profit no one has an incentive to create jobs or build a tax base. profit is what keeps our youth from leaving maine in search of better opportunities. profit is what makes the public sector possible. without profit, we do not have economic activity and we do not have income to grow the tax b e base. therefore, profit pays the bills. [applause] >> profit leads to more competiti competition, and through competition we -- we the people -- end up with more choice and greater value. [applause] >> every private or public sector job, every program, every nonprofit, every state service, every advancement in society started because someone took a nickel's worth of input and turned it