>> the commercial opportunity for lloyd's being very lloyd centric is 40% of our business comes fromates. 20% u.k. 16% continental europe. both of the rest from the english speaking world. business is growing in these developing countries. if you go from the west, you talk about brazil, mexico, africa, eastern europe including turkey, india, china, southeast asia, that's where growth communities are and we recently launched vision 25 which is a strategy and vision to make sure that lloyd's really increases its footprint. >> how do you do that? you rely on a network from that country back to lloyd's. how do you persuade an underinsured to say insure with us rather than going to a global reinsurer. >> the insurance market is highly competitive. lloyd's has a number of advantages. one is we're not a company. therefore we have a huge concentration of underwriting skills diversity in the lloyd's market and indeed in our oversea hubs in places like singapore and shanghai. we push lloyd's out into those markets with hubs like singapore and shanghai and the other which is the tweak we adjust

it was owned by the now deceased lloyd jowers. >> i had known lloyd.then i had known him 20 years. >> on the evening of the assassination, pepper says an employee went looking for jowers. >> and she hears this shot, boom. and she stops. and then she continues and she goes to the open door, all of a sudden she sees lloyd running toward her carrying this rifle, still smoking. >> pepper says lloyd jowers didn't actually shoot dr. king, he helped get rid of the gun as a favor to a mafia connection who came to see him. >> and gave him $100,000 and said, "your place is going to be needed for the killing of that nigger, king." >> pepper believes the mafia was in cahoots with the federal government and local police who wanted king dead. jowers told him as much. >> it was planned in his place, there were logistical meetings there with police officers, and he was given a role to do in terms of the gun being out there, taking the gun, eventually turning it over. to raoul. >> again, the mysterious raoul. james earl ray had always insisted a man named raoul, or som

>> lloyd? >>ite aye. >> reiskin >> aye. >> and that does conclude it for today. >> we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> this is a special meeting to continue the following items. items 1 a and b for 1084. items 2 a b and c for e h k r t s z to may 23, 2013. >> any public comment on this one item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini? >> our session would have been at 10, but it says to be considered at noon. is there going to be an earlier session at 10:00? on the continuances calendar we have a joint hearing. i'm with direct connection with the department chair. we won't reserving the board chambers for that maybe 23rd hearing. >> i will move to continue the items that were called to the may 23rd time to be determined. >> thank you. >> that was a second? thank you. >> on that motion to continue said items to may 23rd, commissioner antonini, hillis, moore, commissioner sugaya, commissioner wu a president fong. that motion passes unanimously 7-0 and for benefit of the publi

>> lloyd? >>ite aye. >> reiskin >> aye. >> and that does conclude it for today. >> we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> are we ready for prime time? call the roll please. >> chair recognizes the quorum. approval of march 12, 25 and 26 minutes. move and seconded to move approval of minutes of march 12, 25, 26. public comment? just want to say thank you to our secretary for the tedious task for drafting our minutes and be able to correct the misunderstanding that were created by some people that didn't understand what was going on. so thank you miss hood for that. public comments? we have no public comments today. this is unheard of. all right. we'll move on to item number five -- communications. no comments whatsoever? no public comments on communications. we'll move on to other commission business. is there any? yes, mr. /phor moran. >> just following up on the lake hearing and i thought that was a very useful meeting. i would just ask staff to return at the appropriate time, hopefully not too fa

>> lloyd? >>ite aye. >> reiskin >> aye. >> and that does conclude it for today. >> we are adjourned. >> thank you.

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>> lloyd? >>ite aye. >> reiskin >> aye. >> and that does conclude it for today. >> we are adjourned. >> thank you. hey, guys. i'm weekly buzz. have no fear because i'm here to break down the top places to be this week. this tuesday come to the french film and wide conversation class to help non-french speakers to discover french cinema. san francisco is offering weekly class. the class will take place in the theatre with refreshments and popcorn for a $5 donation at the door. the carnival maybe more up your alley. the annual fundraiser for mckinley elementary school. watch dogs compete for best tricks at the biggest dog event in san francisco. don't miss this from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.. this sunday april 14th, the block party is on in full effect when this neighborhood celebrates in street parties so pedestrians and roller skaters can take over. valencia street is a place for people to party. c'mon in and join us. that's the weekend fun. for more information click >> on december 28, 1912, san franci

here's what they came up with. >> oh, no. >> lloyd! this envelope contains the names of eight agents. anyone catches you, you eat it. comprende? nod if you understand what i'm saying. >> i understand. >> you can't just [ bleep ] nod? >> i met the actor that played lloyd. i wanted to hug him. i wanted to bring him in and tell him it was all going to be okay. >> i have to tell you, each morning i would go up to him and say are you all right with this, i swear, are you okay, i'm about to say, you know what i'm going to say to you, because i just want to make sure, are you all right with this. he goes yeah, it's totally fine. he was like yes, it's going to be fun. then i realized why do i keep apologizing, you know. he's totally fine with it. and he had a great -- he was such a good sport. rex lee, by the way, as an actor, he's an assassin. he will steal the scene from you at any point. >> of course. and he began to. he began to challenge you. there's the movie keeps being mooted but is your success in this new show, mr. selfridge, is that

>> lloyd? >>ite aye. >> reiskin >> aye. >> and that does conclude it for today. >> we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county, transportation authority, my name is john avalos, the chair of the transportation authority, the clerk of the board is erica chang and we are brought to you by the sfgtv staff, madam clerk, could you call the roll? >> roll call, avalos? >> present. >> breed? >> present. >> campos? >> present. >> chiu? >> present. >> cohen. >> present. >> farrell? >> present. >> kim? >> kim, present. >> commissioner mar? >> mar, absent. >> tang in present. >> weiner? >> absent. >> yee, absent, we have a quorum. >> very good, could you call the next item. >> approval of the minutes of the march 26, 2013 meeting this is an action item. >> any comments or questions on the minutes, we will go to public comment, two minutes and seeing none, for public comment, we will close public comment. >> and item number two, commission avalos? >> aye. >> breed

>> sure, i note that your replacing in her absence, lloyd, present. >> metcalf?> present. >> reiskin? >> present. >> director sartipi is in route, you do have ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's history dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the center was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities, including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong, and arts and crafts. >> use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16th, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at

lloyd's, xetra dax up 0.5%. the ibex is down slightly. and the ftse mib after the rally yesterday is off 0.2%. we'll show you the gainers and losers right now in terms of the sectors. deutsche and ubs, those are the banks performing pretty well. lloyd's also up, as well. so the banks really taking the top spot right now. as far as bonds are concerned, we saw italian yields down 2.9%. not far off for 3.89 low we hit. 3.9% and heading lower once again this morning. spanish yields going lower, too, despite the fact that we've got that. maybe the gdp number was as expected. that contraction up 0.5%. you get more focus on borrowing numbers from the consumer and see whether there's any appetite for that in around 20 minutes or so. as far as currency markets are concerned, sterling, just below 1.55 at the moment. not much movement today. dollar/yen, 97.77. 1.3083 euro/dollar. we'll be waiting, of course, for the fed and the ecb, as well. let's bring in li sixuan. she'll give us the wrap on the asian session. >> most asian markets wrapped up apri

matter of understand of how to dial that protection to the right level especially in light of director lloyd's comments that there is at some point exponential growth cost versus the benefit that you get. so, along those lines, one question is to what extent, if we were to not at the design phase but at the construction phase stage advance to what sense would we get a degree to secure safety act designation or otherwise buy down the liability, are they securing these things that we would be spending $60 million plus on? >> let me respond to one of your questions and i will answer this question. when fred is given direction, fred clark, to incorporate the design guidance criteria that is embedded by everyone, he's taken to pencil to paper and looking at these numbers hard. the instruction he has from us is estimates to see if we can further refine them and bring them down. on the issue of the documents that are put together by dhs and fema and from a what i understand, the documents that are put together were at least post 9-1-1 and people who do build major structures, they are not put togethe

why don't we take roll call. >> lloyd, metcalf, reiskin, aye, kim aye. item 8 is approved. >> great. much luck to the notions on this team. any more items? >> seeing no further items, meeting is adjourned. >> welcome to our regular rules committee meeting for thursday, april 4th, 2013. i'm supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing the meeting today. to my left is supervisor malia cohen, and to my right is supervisor london breed. the clerk today is linda wong. and the committee would like -- also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, jesse larsen and nona who will record each of -- record our meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. and i apologize for starting late. i just got through sitting on a committee, earlier committee just got through moments ago. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> yes, mr. chair. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today w

lloyd from illinois. lloyd? >> caller: cramer, lloyd from southern illinois. >> what's shaking?> caller: i have got cds coming out, they've matured. i'm looking to get more bang for my buck. the two stocks i'm kind of considering is schlumberger and kinder morgan partners. >> this is an easy one for me because you mentioned the cd rollover. cds from 2006, 2007, you were getting 6%. now you're getting 0.6%. that's untenable. buy kinder morgan and i think foreigners are coming in and that's how good that is. sandra in ohio. >> caller: hi. boo-yah to you, jim. thank you for having our backs. please give me your opinion on national oil varco. >> i think it's a buy. we got shaken out of that. stephanie link and i, co-portfolio manager, it is so, so hard to own because it trades so wildly. i was going to mention this as a possible candidate for ge to buy. but i worry about the quarter. wait for the quarter and then maybe we'll do some buying. oil and gas revolution was booming today, thanks to ge's acquisition of lufkin. a company we saw up close and personal in north dakota, fmc, cha

lloyd: we're targeting a completion date of 2012 for tunnel 3. and we already are starting to prepare to take tunnel 1 offline. narrator: the construction of tunnel 3 is vital for maintaining the sustainability of new york's drinking water infrastructure. but the pipeline is useless if there's not a reliable supply of clean water within it. hurwitz: the city bought up land around the reservoirs to prevent it from development. it provides assistance to local residents to see that there's no pollution of the reservoirs. it's much more cost effective to prevent pollution and to protect a source of water than to remove it at the drinking water treatment plant. lloyd: what epa said to us was, "you can have an exemption from filtration "if you keep this undeveloped, "and if you can manage the wastewater so that it does not pollute your water supply." and we feel that we've reached the point where we can really keep it clean enough to drink unfiltered for the indefinite future. and new york city is in a small club of cities that actually have that filtr

>> lloyd? >>ite aye. >> reiskin >> aye. >> and that does conclude it for today. >> we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> good morning, everyone and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance subcommittee meeting for april tenth, 2013, my name is farrell and i will be chairing and also joined by avalos and mar and the vice chair is out sick today. i would like to thank the members of sfgtv for covering this meeting today as well as the clerk of the committee mr. victor young. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes, silence all cell phones and electronic devices and complete the speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the 16th april, board of agenda. >> could you call item number one? >> item number one, resolution approving the acquisition of 30 aviggation easements from the various property owners of the san mateo county required for the san francisco international airp

and bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world and some workers are among the most it's lloyd in the world but despite its poverty in third world conditions bangladesh still has more of a backbone or moral compass than the united states at least when it comes to corporate criminals i'll tell you why and i'd still take. it as the rest of the news despite its wide wide range of environmental and health consequences the practice of fracking or extracting natural gas from shale rock beds is on the rise across the country and because of this growth in fracking the oil and gas industries and even the mainstream corporate media haven't been shy about saying how much our nation could benefit from this natural gas production boom even president obama noted in his state of the union speech that the production natural gas of the united states has never been higher than it is today . but while the actual gas production a less than desirable means may be off the charts right now in the us what about the production of other forms of energy particular from cleaner and greener sources joining

. >> lloyd? >> aye. >> metcalf? >> aye. >> reiskin? >> aye. >> that is four ayes and the consent calendar is approved. >> thank you. >> we will move into the regular calendar. >> okay. >> and the budget out look? >> item eight is the presentation of the tjpa fiscal year 2013, 14 annual budget out look. >> report on this item. >> good morning, again, directors, this is the annual budget out look under the budget policy we come to you in april with a broad overlook and in may we will bring you a draft budget for a public hearing and then in june we will bring the final budget for adoption. they will be a capitol budget and an operating budget for the temporary terminal. we will this year, as we do every year, we are taking a slice a fiscal year slice of the capitol project of the base line budget and we will this year be based on the 1.589 currently approved budget and if there are changes to the revised budget approved at subsequent meetings, we will amend the fiscal year budget as necessary. and if necessary, to take that into consider

barclays lloyds royal bank of scotland an arsonist or murderers they can't you know they're sick they're on the tit of the government or they say here the teats and it's all bad from there well george osborne of this guy mick phil pot he said that he asked whether the taxpayer should be subsidizing these sort of lifestyles which of course then you look at the headline from the exact same week. c.e.o. crosspiece sitting on twenty five million pound pension pot former chief executive james crosby is entitle to a seven hundred thousand pounds annual pension from his time at the company it would cost twenty five million pounds to buy a pension of that size u.k. parliamentary commission on friday criticised crosby and two other former boss executives for sowing destruction at the mortgage lender and called for them to be banned from working in the financial sector but while there's no deterrent for committing arson in the financial sector this guy phil pot he's going to be of course you know brought before a court and facing justice in some way for killing people but for crosby there's no jus

. >> lloyd, metcalf, reiskin, aye, kim aye. item 8 is approved. >> great. much luck to the notions on this team. any more items? >> seeing no further items, meeting is adjourned.

lloyds in royal bank of scotland commit securities fraud every single day of every single week there's no deterrent there's no societal pressure not to commit massive fraud there's no penalty there's no reason not to moral hazard you know this idea that well if you let a bank commit fraud or just continue to commit fraud that's out the window we now have serialised sanctioned banker financial hooliganism that is resulting in people like philpott phil potter get a job running h.s.b.c. don't put him in jail put phil pot the guy killed his kids and burn to death how he should be running barclays he should be running back bank of england not mark carney mark carney is just a smooth talking money printer put phil potty milissa to burn people alive put in this bank of england you frickin morons george osborne so here we have to a man responsible for awful crime of killing his children so let's see how their friends and family and people around them justify their behavior understand what is going to summer thousand pounds a year bonus and a pension plan phil pot he proved himself to be an ars

say derivatives and liquidity that's a false a people say market making as iterated by as defined by lloyd blankfein or jamie dimon that's why these markets are nothing but a shadow of a shadow of a kind of era of hola graham and they're going to block and the other thing that c m b c noted here was that it's not so much that that the computers initiated trades what happened is that they cancelled the orders so the bids came out of the market that caused the crash and you see in that chart there was zero volume not a single participant so it looks like genuinely one hundred percent of the market is by algorithms who are reading twitter where half of the tweets are fake anyway or hacked tweets but the volume is fake and i know from the technology i invented the virtual specialist technology that the shadow banking system that's run by wall street banks in the city of london banks you put into the system i call it the ghostwriter that's how it's defined the patent but they call it shadow banking system they just follow the the market maker the guy the the price discovery mechanism with ten t

it's going to give lloyd's 53 million shares. worth 84 million euros.t's about 1.8% of the capital. lloyd's agreed to keep these shares for at least one year, which is something important, giving the tension from the sannish banking market and some of those, depending on the upcoming performance would pay up to 17 million pounds on top of this transaction. depending on the mortgage margins in the future. after the prices, spanish banks are talking m&a again. perhaps it's a signal that the situation is improving. and it's also enjoying to see that the british bank is accepting as a payment shares from a spanish bank >> all right. stephane, thanks for that. catch you again later. still the to come, d.c. lawmakers are calling for action against syria over the use of chemical weapons. is it time for president obama to get tough? we'll talk about that when we come back. lets you talk face-to-face and share whatever's on your screen. blackberry z10 with bbm video. built to keep you moving. see it in action at blackberry.com/z10 >>> use trail ya's government h

from a construction standpoint and community standpoint and i want to recognize our directors, art lloyd, gabriel metcalf, director of mta and john, we also have alternate member greg harper, a founding member of the board that will be participating more frequently. i want to thank everyone today. it's been a long process to get here. everyone involved in this project knows. thank you to everyone here. [ applause ] >> i for got to mention that our state senator mark leno has also presented a certificate of recognition to the transbay transit tower. it congratulations on the tower. on this occasion we mark an historic process that will transform san francisco as the 21st century hub. the city skyline creating thousands of jobs and stimulating local economic growth. congratulations and best wishes on this endeavor. senator mark leno. [ applause ] >> thank you, supervisor, very much appreciate your work and help throughout these years. thank you. if i can have maybe one of our team members grab this. thank you so much. now, it's my great pleasure to introduce our next speaker who is the arc

i am here with -- immogeth lloyd webber.f fierce commentary was a box of crayons he would come in 24 different colors. it is gavin mcguinness. and in peru he is considered a back scrubber, bill schulz. and she is so sharp she can't travel by hot air balloon. next to me, fox news national security analyst, kt mcfarland. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. and now back to america's least favorite host. >> thank you. the star of "moon struck" had run out of luck or so some people on twitter thought when margaret thatcher died. an anti-thatcher website started the hash tag, now thatcher's dead, and instead some really dumb people read it as "now that cher is dead. rip, cher, just saw the hash tag. never was a fan myself, but you have to respect her influence. now that cher is dead. rip, cher. at least now we will find out about life after love now that cher is dead. thatcher's death was not all about cher. the associated press obituary of thatcher show a distinct difference in style. for example, critics thought she wa

from a construction standpoint and community standpoint and i want to recognize our directors, art lloydgabriel metcalf, director of mta and john, we also have alternate member greg harper, un

lloyd morgan. and then tony stein, and rose marie [speaker not understood]. >>> hi, i'm a senior researcher with environmental health trust. i'm also a member of two international scientific organizations, the epidemiology consortium and bio[speaker not understood] society. i'm also a board member of the [speaker not understood] of the united states. this june the bioelectric magnetic society has invited me, in fact, a key person who is the architect of the exposure limits has invited me to talk about how children receive more radiation than adults do and cell phones. even if industry is shifting its position concerning the increase risk to children, but san francisco is going to cave to the industry, i would urge you not to cave to the industry. the ctia is forcing this agreement upon the city, the city passed it unanimously and we have a right to know. i would also suggest that you should not go into closed session because the settlement is already publicly available. thank you. >>> good afternoo

it is powered by lloyd blankfein stroking his monkey paw!and yet obama insists on calling it "the next great american project." really, sir? i remember when "the next great american project" meant going to the moon. how hard is it to go to the brain? you just grab an ice pick and go to town. [laughter] work it around oh, i remember summer camp. [laughter] i mean obama can't even name stuff right. his mapping initiative goes by the acronym "brain," which stands for brain research through advancing innovative neurotechnologies. you heard that right -- the b in "brain" stands for brain. [laughter] you can't use the acronym in the acronym. then what does the b in the brain in brain stand for? or the b in that brain? oh my god -- it never stops!!! my brain is hurting. and i have no interest in finding out why! [laughter] folks, we know the gun registry is just a plot to take away our guns. this is just a brain registry. it means obama's coming for our brains! oh, he would love to get his hands on this beauty. jimmy, zoom in on my brain to give th