peter cohen and i chaired the committee and the working group level along with levitt and dan murphy who had to leave and fernando ortiz from the eastern neighborhood. we spent a lot of detailed time on this and overall it is a good policy and will be an experiment to see how it works and we went through self-iterations and you could only quibble over words and how well it will work and these are any own personal positions on the whole topic of in kind improvements and i was talking with dan murphy earlier and how that was baked into the eastern neighborhoods and market octavia and we were never talking about privately delivered in-kind improvement and the delivery system wasn't talked about much at all and the whole notion that private development should be contributing to public amenities that really complement the impact of new growth. and so it was a lot of debate about what the sensitivity was and the role of the advisory committee and talking about how it happened and a presumption that it would be happening through the public sector. this is a very new conversation and with th

vice president olague: i agree with the comments from peter cohen and not going to reiterate them and when we were looking at the neighborhood plans, i don't think the intent was to ever sort of go the route of in-kind and wasn't something that we have discuss ed in-depth or encouraged that and i didn't support that and members of both places were participating and trying to create a policy for in-kind agreements instead of an automatic green light on them. i feel comfortable with what is before us and especially a couple of years. >> there is the commitment of the department to come back and report on that faster review. >> it seems there is a public process attached to this and so i am comfortable with moving ahead with it today given that there's been a lot of public input and the opportunity for that when we have the in-kind come before us and will be back to us in a couple of yearses and allow for the public scrutiny and open to whatever. >> i am also open to go ahead on it today and a couple of comments on new parks and open space and a minimum of three year maintenance and the

i have peter cohen. gordon lee. and chin pang. two minutes each. please come and line up now, if i called your name. >> okay. good evening members of the school board, my name is peter cohen. i -- i have a -- a friendly suggestion on the attendance areas for the elementary schools. i have talked with staff abou >> good evening, c incoming kinder garters and looking at the recruiting strategies are. my concern is that the bunedries wherever they are around the city are hard boundaries. just anywhere you draw a line, it is a hard line. no matter how clean you -- cleanly you try to cut it, i think the situation is that we might have families on either side of a street or happen to be literally a block away who have very intact relationships -- relationships at a committee level that are moved in different directions. that may be for total gee gravek distribution. what i suggest is a buffer around the hard edges that allow families outside of the area who are choosing what they think of as a local school to have a priority over families at large throug

cohen he's the president of peter cohen associates and author of capital rising how capital flows are changing business systems all over the world and another member of our cross talk team on the hunger martin if i go to you first in hong kong you've got three letters w. l. and you pick one and why. none of them i'm very commies in the western countries they have never been they have never been in any assad's offer of coverage they just have been destroying trillions of dollars at the problem if you give me trillions of dollars i can produce a few more cars and remember my g.d.p. figure. to some extent of course but if it's just all financed by debt that it's going to hyperbolic out of control exponentially that doesn't mean anything at all the us isn't even in a recession it's more in a depression already now and the real question in our war really is is this depression going to lead to hyperinflation or is it going to lead to a different nation or a collapse of the system like you saw in nine hundred twenty nine in an hour we'll it's going to be i've been faking because the governme

peter cohen from the triangle. and i actually am glad paul wormer brought up universal notification and that is not why i was here, but i want to reinforce that because i spent time on the initiative and realized it was 50% there and there are resourcing constraints but it would be an excellent set of reforms and i would encourage that to move forward. and i did come here to address this orphan block and the last block about the market between noee and decastro and just to acknowledge that we've got some good movement on this and that seems and working the coalition and fixed to that zoning issue. and we are going to have a committee meet iing and understanding that this is technical kind of stuff. and we'll be having that meeting. want toing a knowledge it's happening. looking forward to that. president miguel: and if you could let the commission know the october 25 time and place. the neighborhood groups are working hard on that. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i will speak about the neighborhood and as a volun

sasha bahron cohen is being cast as freddy mercury in a biopic about queen. it was written by peter morgan. he also wrote "last king of scotla scotland." looking at a 2011 release date. >> the resemblance is uncanny. i never realized it before until they had pictures side by side. >> he's a tall dude. i don't know how all the freddy was. >> courtney, have a great weekend. >> for the latest entertainment news. log onto scoop.todayshow.com. >>> vice president joe biden is joining the democratic candidate for u.s. senate in delaware. chris coons. he will take on the winner of the republican primary, christine o'donnell. with that we'll be right back. than anywhere else in america, and the people who've lost them have no idea what to do or who to turn to. in fact, local tv stations have started running public service announcements that tell people where to find food banks, even as the food banks don't have enough to meet the demand. ♪ [ male announcer ] we touch a lot of things throughout the day. so it's nice that clorox disinfecting products help kill the ger