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The labour party takes a beating. Those are pictures of David Cameron arriving back at 10 downing street earlier on. How are the markets reacting . Jonathan guy, you saw the fx moves. Sterling stronger. You see the move here on the bloomberg terminal. Theres the exit poll. The pound surging not just against the dollar, against the euro as well. Heading for the best day since 2009. Dont just call this a tory bounce. This is about certainty. I go straight to one week volatility. The pound against ...

Im excited to be here on the 150th anniversary of the date godfrey weitzal occupy the house. People are surprised, they have not heard of him before. Over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when he walked out of here when you walk out of here. I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What an understatement that is to capture t...

He discusses his involvement in the fall of richmond in 1865. The museum of the confederacy hosted this event. [applause] mr. Quatman mr. Quatman a thank you for joining me. It is a visiting story the story that very few civil war buffs know. Ive given this talk all over the country and people are surprised, they have not heard of him before. Over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when you walk out of here. The book i...

Done jet and the mta is embarking on a lot of community outreach. We want to see the results of that and want to make sure as the board goes to make more decision about tep, the needs of our community is taken into account. There is planning before the larger questions of been answered. We are not here to oppose the planning money, just making sure we are paying attention to it movg forward. Thank you. Is there anyone else from the p be that would like to speak, seeing none, Public Comment is cl...

President obama, fema, the rest of the administrations team working hand in glove with their state team. In this case there was really a team. As i like to say there is no i in the word team. I should have the army corps of engineers has been particular in responding to Hurricane Sandy. Over the years, funded by a series of storm protection projects in maryland are polite, robust and strong, healthy systems. These types of projects criticized at the time by some on my opinion because they perfor...

Tell me a little bit about that. Guest they colonized when it started i introduce you might start the idea of when the human colonized arrived. So they were First Permanent european call me somewhat is that u. S. Territory with three people in puerto rico in 1585 commotions for the first parliament. It was established on this country. I didnt want to take anything away from the tremendous creativity achievement as the anglo has jury of the United States because the wonderful stories of pioneerin...

Leveraging so much more money for what the city is doing. Example the 14 million for the escalator, the 2 bay area grant and the potrero avenue, no, thats federal money. A lot of good work leveraging money and making major improvements in many nabz. Neighborhoods. Thank you for bringing this forward. Thank you, i just want to know who the contract was awarded to . I would let sf mta cover that. Does that include funds or does that come from another source. Thats in a request for prop k funds. Ba...

Have to reduce service because of the lack of operators and lack of equipment. Lets be honest. While i like sean, he does a lot of work at the tep program. The truth of matter is tep is based on reducing service. If we are doing everything to do with transit first, we have a lot of work to do. Now, recent with john hailey, he knows what hes up against in terms of providing Economic Service that these citizens of San Francisco defer. Deserve. We know what we are up against. Tep, its not going to ...

Have to complete the project. Everybody is chasing the tail. Nothing is getting done. I just ask once again, scrutinize the tep for what it is. Honestly, it looks fine for the future. But if you look at whats going on now with the projects coming forthwith tep, its not going to work. You are taking that a tunnel. Thank you. Next speaker, miss sacs . Turning to tep, i have spoken about this many times at the full Board Meeting and Citizens Advisory Committee and i also went to the workshops and t...

Have this conversation. [laughter] [applause] [laughter] thank you. And linderman was not a top ranking scientist but he was, of churchills social class and political convictions, and most usefully he was skilled in the art of flattery. When criticized for his unhealthy closeness to linderman, churchill responded love me, love my dog. Even so, churchill always retained a healthy skepticism. In a 1937 article published oddly enough in the news of the world, the article titled live in a world cont...