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Our Park Maintenance functions and in partnership with the controller we actually keep very careful data on the work that we do and i think you can see here that weve made significant progress in the last 6 or 7 years with respect to Park Maintenance. We operated parks on a quarterly basis and the numbers speak for themselves. Also on the recreation side, where over the last 45 years weve gone from being the recreation provider to our last resort to the recreation provider and thats something we...

Attached to it. There is no free benefit here. I think that to a degree that we need to, i hope the survey will have a cover letter explaining what it is we are doing, why we are asking you to complete the survey, kind of characterizing a little bit of what the options are so people understand what we are doing here. I would strongly support that all retirees in that we are responsible for whether they are participants today or not be given an opportunity to give us in put on this. Also in the l...

Investigation into how qatar was awarded the 2020 world cup. And how a computer passed a decades old challenge fooling judges into thinking it was a real live teenager. At this hour, members of congress are holding a rare nighttime hearing to tackle one of the biggest scandals to hit the department of veteran affairs. 121,000 veterans are still waiting for va health care. Almost 60,000 had to wait 90 days or more just for their first appointment. And it is getting rid of its twoweek scheduling g...

Plus. Im phil lavelle in london on the hunt or art. Theres a big section, and this is roughly what it is going to look like. Find out why later. So the trial of the captain and crew of the south korean ferry that sank in april has begun. More than 300 people were killed in the disaster and the captain faces the Death Penalty if convicted. 15 people have been charged. Captain le joonseok and three crew members are accused of homicide. 11 others are charged on lesser charges of criminal negligence...

Retires. Opposition fighters in syria have taken control of a Major Military air base, the biggest in the country. The battle for taftanaz as been going on for two months. Theyre stealing weapons and taking over the runway right now. The fighters are also attacking another military base in the north. Government troops are trying to secure the outskirts of aleppo. As the aftermath of attack in the town. There are also reports of heavy shelling by government plans. For more, i am joined from our r...

Breakthrough technology and these are great but its just the american way. You have the ability of anyone to come up with an idea and expose it. That is why we have this event. The Big Companies respect that we have the Small Companies there and that is how we run this organization. Host where do you see growth in Consumer Electronics in the next couple of years . Guest there are growth in several categories. Sometimes categories go through a lull and the rise. We had the video area that went th...

Thank you. [ applause ] secretary of state john kerry will chair a debate of the u. N. Security council on the situation in iraq this afternoon. Cspan will have life coverage from u. N. Headquarters. It begins this afternoon at 2 00 eastern. Four years ago, 114,000 iowans were out of work, unemployment was the highest under 25 years. Our states budget was 900 million in debt. Then Terry Branstad came back and so did iowa. Today we have a budget surplus, 140,000 new jobs, unemployment reduced nea...

If youre a former journalist or if youre interested in the profession, celia wexler is the author of out of the news former journalists discuss a profession in crisis. Thanks so much. Thank you. You are watching booktv. Now Alfred Zacher presents his thoughts on why some president s succeed while others fail during their second terms in office. This is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon. Appreciate your being here for this event that we can credit cspan2 for our being here this afternoon. We are f...

Fusive. Go ahead. [laughter] sometimes im very modest about introduction. You dont have to go overboard or complicatedded. Something simple since not like marc twain. [laughter] im not here to boast, the only thing i found is temp rare isnt going out is the First Parking novel ever written. [laughter] i regret to say there hasnt been a bandwagon of people trying to write parking novels. I thought id talk tonight, since dogfight the 2012 presential campaign in verse is a sort of result of what we...

What is the Gross National product . With economic analyst richard gill, well explore that question on this edition of economics usa. Im David Schoumacher. These computer tapes at the bureau of Economic Analysis in washington document 50 years of americas Economic Growth. They provide access to the Accounting System known as gnp. When the United States faced its worst economic crisis, the Great Depression, no such measuring tool existed, until this report went to the senate. Copies of National I...