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Good morning, commissioners this is not related to the building inspection commission, but i thought that i would tell you a story, back in 1969, during the dark days of the cold war, for 7 months i lived in cape town. Before going to a new journey across the african continent, across the bay in cape town was robin island where incarcerated was nelson mandela, back then, no one would have dreamed that he would one day become the first black leader of south africa. Even after having been served 2...

Good morning, today is wednesday, december 18, 2013, this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission, i would like to remind everyone for turn off all aoe Electronic Devices the first item on the agenda is roll call. President mccarthy . Here. Vice president mar . Here. Commissioner clinch . Here. Commissioner lee . Here. Commissioner mccray. Present. Commissioner melgar. Yes, here. And commissioner walker here. We have a quorum and the next item is item two, president s announ...

The s p gaining 6 , record this, record that. You get picture. What do i mean when i say this is what a bull should look like . First and most important, a bull market must climb a wall of worry. At no point can there be any joy, no celebration of a new high. All of our biggest advances have come on the backs of gurus who emerged after a couple down scares and say they are worried, they are frightened that valueations are too high and the whole edifice could come tim go when down. Any market tha...

And hollande calls the bid for alston unacceptable and focusing on Getting Better offers if the firm. A warm welcome to todays program. Plenty to get through in the Corporate News front. Well be focusing on the bank sectors. But before that, we have the final print of the eurozone pmis. And they have come in at 53. 1. They were forecast at 53. 1. But its the highest since june 2011. Com miss composite 54, german 53, forecast at 55. Italian april surface pmi, 51. 1, and that was forecast at 50. 2...

Different people had different motivations. I would say some of the more wary people for, say, in the afghan government. They were a little bit reluctant to have the tribes in power the way they were. So they were, they were somewhat standoffish at time, although they never were in any way hostile to we. I mean, you always have somebody with a strange personality. There were a few of those, but i was amazed at the extent to which they accepted me. And the tribal leader who jim had met in 2003 wh...

2. 0. These are some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to the washington post. Thank you for that warm introduction. It is a pleasure to be here with you at rand. I am going to talk today about something that has unconsciously and indirectly led to a tyranny of experts. Lets call that the technocratic approach to Economic Development. The idea that poverty is the technical problem. So that for example there are a variety of Technical Solutions. One involves a chemical on wal...

Mentioning the clarification on venezuela. I, too, was noticing this week the comments that dialogue cannot be what was the comment dialogue should not just be dialogue for dialogues sake. It has to be dialogue with an end point of action. And those are the actions that we both want to see. So i certainly agree with you on that. Not just dialogue for dialogues sake. Otherwise running out the clock. Exactly. No resolution. We have 0 hold them accountable. To demonstrate our disapproval. And on cu...

St. Louis fed talking about the economy later. That is what is driving this market. Everyone stops trading until a breath. , 8 30, take everybody wants to see whether the momentum continues. It is not that we are 00 iserating, 197,0 forecast. The Unemployment Rate will be interesting. The Labor Department releasing revisions to the last five years. They could move it around a little bit. It is possible we could go below 7 . Just on a revisions basis. Street into aall tizzy, able take a while for...

Well, lets begin with breaking news out of pakistan where at least 28 people have been killed in an apparent car bomb attack it happens outside a Police Station. At least 70 people have been injured. Lets go more on the story now and talk to the journalist there and joining us on the phone line now. Just bring us u uptodate what what you have been hearing about the attack. Reporter the officials have confirmed that its a car bomb and [inaudible] people are dead in the h explosion. According to e...

I do not believe that usaids action that were quoted to promote quote democratic societies that are able to realize their potential are in anyway a bad idea. I believe it is what the people of cuba, iran, burma, north korea and other nations need to help communicate with each other and help them achieve usaids stated mission of a quote free, peace full and self Reliant Society with an effective government. I commend you for giving people a less controlled platform to talk to each other, for help...