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Alert ferry riders about tomorrows strike. Charles. Reporter well, today the Golden Gate Bridge districts general manager Denis Mulligan said that he is disappointed that the ferry boat c and the other the other maritime unions that are supporting them. Have decided to strike on friday. In the meantime, the district is also trying to get the word out to communters that Ferry Service will be disrupted tomorrow. Reporter thursday afternoon, the bridge district was putting out fliers on ferries war...

To order. Today the finance committee focuses its attention on what in my view is the biggest challenge ahead for medicare and the future of Americas Health care system. That is managing chronic illness. To understand why this is a growing issue, one need only to look at how medicare has changed over the years. When the Medicare Program began, in those early days i was codirector of the cancer, full head of hair and rugged good looks. Medicare was mostly about caring for seniors who needed to go...

Settlements and find just as vile and vitriolic rhetoric amongst the settlers there. And we, we also have grievances by muslims that talk about how they have lost so many lives by western powers. But we dont need to go into that point. The question that i think these people are having is, are there muslim clerics that are spreading this ideology . And answer is, yes. And we need to confront those clerics. And we need to confront that ideology. Do that no other way to then to have muslims confron...

But all of us learned a great deal along the way about our profession, about the middle east, and about the promise of american leadership. Through sams remarkable journey and my own checkered thirtythree year career in the foreign service, i have learned that the middle east is a place where pessimists seldom lack for either company or validation, where skeptics hardly ever seem wrong. It is a place where american policymakers often learn humility the hard way, a place where you can most easily...

Records on Governor Scott plan kept secret with you go to plan for the Governors Mansion grounds in tallahassee. This from the Arizona Republic as the Arizona Republican selecting as republican candidate for governor in arizona the we will follow all of these races and you can check at the schedule online at cspan. Org with regard to the debates coming up in a key house, senate and Gubernatorial Races. A contributor to cnn. Com on the issue of mitt romney. Is joining us live on the phone. Caller...

Image of a time that never really was. Its something beautiful, romantic and exciting and they can get away from how much their lives absolutely suck. Thats why the movie industry does incredibly well during the great depression. You wouldnt think it does well, but it does incredibly well for that reason. So we are to the point where we talk about what the movie does right. 12 minutes left. How does the movie measure up historically speaking when dealing with some of the elite white characters a...

There are other establishments in new york city, artisan 00 where they try to harken back to those older recipes. To get a taste of 18thcentury tavern culture. The chamber of commerce, the new society, sons of revolution, only a little bit later, those kinds of club survive. The rituals that were invented in the 18th century still survive. Think about freemasons or Something Like that. Is a way people today can experience something i can do the drinkings culture in the 18th century. [applause] y...

Those hospitals. I think brooke put in our comment too that the women werent really around the men changing bandages but scarlet was all up in there. Shes was literally watching what was going on. Women usually removed from that because they were that pure for that sort of thing. She was kind of like a traditional, say your typical war nurse you would think of. Thats really not what it was like. Another thing to think about is that all of the hospital scenes that are portrayed are in the south a...

[applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] civil war, union forces repeatedly targeted the port of charleston, South Carolina, using a variety of tactics, including new naval warships. , ironclad historian steven wise talks about the seize of charleston. The various artillery methods the role of blockade runners in keeping charleston supplied. Hosted by the South Carolina historical society. It runs about an hour and 10 minutes. Good evening. Im faye jansen. Like to than...

Tactics, including new naval technology, ironclad warships. Historian steven wise talks about the seize of charleston. It includes the change in leadership and federal forces, the various artillery methods used, and the role of blockade runners in keeping charleston supplied. This event was hosted by the South Carolina historical society. It runs about one hour and 10 minutes. Good evening. Im faye jansen. On behalf of the South Carolina historical society, id like to thank everyone for joining ...