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Addbacks, but there is some great benefit to providing targeted funding to specific neighborhoods and we all acknowledge that, but from the procurement standpoint we have to first of all get the funding and get feedback from the Supervisors Office of what they really intended for the funding and then we have to fit that into our normal procurement schedule. So often times board of supervisors addbacks as wellintentioned take 34 months to fasttrack and this particular one, because we were fortuna...

Welcome to hamilton recreation and Aquatics Center. It is the only facility that has an integrated Swimming Pool and Recreation Center combined. We have to pools, the citys water slide, for little kids and those of you that are more daring and want to try the rockslide, we have a drop slide. Exercises for everybody. Hi have a great time. The ladies and guys that come it is for the community and we really make it fun. People think it is only for those that play basketball or swim. I have been com...

Helping us envision this hospital and doing a lot of the hard work on many fronts to enable us to get to this really magnificent day which is a landmark day for health care in not just the city of San Francisco but in the greater bay area and tluts the United States and some places globally. It is truly a remarkable building but as mark said while we are celebrating the completion of the facilities today, what will happen on sunday is really the event we are looking forward to and that is welcom...

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Fords as he sat in the president ial box with his wife mary, watching the popular comedy, our american cousin or go he died the next morning. We sat down to talk about the widow lincoln. Thats monday night at 9 30 p. M. Eastern on American History tv. All this month, the presidency, we will be focusing on the life and legacy of George Washington to mark the anniversary of his birth on february 22. Next, author hugh howard talks about portraits of George Washington. It explores the works of Gilbe...

Bring something new to it. You are in for a treat. Now, as a narrative historian rather than a art historian or art history professor, what i do is write books. In order to do that, i look at the topography of the past and i try to identify fault lines that other people have not seen. This book is a case in point. Eight years ago, i had a conversation with my editor. I just finished a book about Thomas Jefferson and the early days of architecture. She said to me what to do you want to do next . ...

My talk will be a little shorter than his introduction, i think but thank you. [laughter] my thanks to susan, the invitation for the miscellaneous arrangements. Michael and stephen. And coming to mount vernon is always a joy. I feel like i have lots of friends here starting with mary and through carol and on and others. This is a uniformly welcoming place for scholars. And i have spent time in using the archives here. And coming here has been able to enabled me to write all of the significant po...

Millions. Americans waking up to record low temps, snow, and dangerous commutes. The biggest bulls eye tops virginia and West Virginia significant snow in d. C. Federal offices closed today. More than 1,000 flights are already canceled. West virginia massive Train Derailment forced hundreds from their homes this morning. When it blew up it was higher than the mountain. I could feel the heat on my face. Judge in texas temporarily blocked president obamas executive action on immigration. Chilling ...

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