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Contract agreement because of what one board member calls a hand grenade in this deal. We are now live with details heather . Reporter interest this is disappointing to say the least. After two strikes, a cooling off, and months long torturus negotiations a tentative agreement was reached last month. Now, what the bart director calls a clerical error threatens to derail the deal the error has to do with a revision for fmla, federal federal family leave act, it was signed by all parties, and agre...

Founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about the field. This kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say but its a Distinct Community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community he put on with me as his sort of deputy a big conference on nonfiction writing a...

1997. I guess 25 years ago part of the founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about the field. This kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say but its a Distinct Community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community he put on with me as his sort of deputy a...

Welcome everybody. Were here for the J Anthony Lucas prize pride project ceremony will be honoring excellence in Nonfiction Book writing with four awards. Im nick lemon. Im x dean now faculty member here at columbia journalism school, and im especially happy to be here because i was back in 1997. I guess 25 years ago part of the founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about ...

Creation of an efficient index to all human knowledge, ideas and achievements. To the creation that is of a complete planetary memory for all mankind. He was one of the early inventors of science fiction, the idea of time travel, the possibility of invisibility, of intergalactic struggles and then he came up with ideas of how we might reorganize the knowledge apparatus of the world, which he called the world brain. For wells, the world brain had to contain all that was learnt and known and that ...

Trend. Is a global we walk in this morning and futures are soft. I would not say they are down. They are soggy. In the u. S. , Producer Prices come out at 8 30. Earnings after the bell. Pretty quiet until we get going in october. Note,ouple items of president obama announcing expanded efforts to fight ebola. Whats the number . Under 2500. It is growing. It is not going away. There is a reinvigoration of what the u. S. Will do. Point 500 deaths. The u. N. General Assembly Begins a meeting in new ...

Of money plans to raise in its ipo. 6060 sixl range was dollars per share another top end is 68 per share. It one price range puts step closer to breaking a global fundraising record. 22 william dollars. The worlds biggest ipo. 22 billion. We expected this range to be raised yesterday and it was but it was not as high as some had said. I think we continue to see the company and its underwriters generally pursue a fairly conservative outlook as it relates to pricing. It might just be a reflection...

End of the san joaquin valley. Bakersfield is the ninth largest city in california and the seed of Current County which ranks third in the u. S. For agriculture and oil related production. With the help of Bright House Networks the next hour well bring you to the birthplace of the bakersfield sound to learn about the citys history and meet the local authors. We begin our special look at bakersfield with a look at russos books a family owned and operated bookstore. I am Michael Russo of russos bo...

Earnings today, 8 00, citigroup. Scarlet will be all over that. We know Second Quarter trading revenue will probably be around 20 to 25 down. Potential settlement with doj. 7 billion . That is the number circulating. Two separate events. Items of note, watch out midwest, theres a polar cortex coming your way. 40 degree temperatures at night, 60s in the day. 70 here, maybe. Tom, youre looking very serious. Trying to figure out which scarf to wear with your bow tie . There goes the gdp numbers. So...

Literally the house that copyright built. And with that, let me start by just introducing briefly the distinguished panel that we have. Their bios in depth, of course, are in the program and online. But to my immediate left is tom allen who is a former congressman from maine and is presently the president and the chief executive officer of the association of american publishers. To his left is James Shapiro who is a professor of english and a shakespearean scholar and author and Vice President o...