our board of trade i'm a die of. death by definition show. in the southern portion of the richest city in the richest state in america is a cluster of neighborhoods the streets in boulevards laid out in a grid between concrete ribbons of freeway. two miles of the west is a pacific coast highway on the beaches that among. five most of the north drilled they were driving beverly hills. seven miles to the east to corner of hollywood by twenty five miles south those orange county and disneyland. surrounded by the california dream this region that's own legs. on its streets there up to the country's most violent outbreak of civil unrest not once twice it's also the home of america's two most infamous african-american gangs crips and bloods is bloody forty year feud has taken five times as many lives as the long running sectarian conflict in northern ireland it whose devastating body count continues today. but in south los angeles. life wasn't always this one. world too. in the one nine hundred fifty s. three friends from south l.a. ron byrd. grew

our project. and we had no reportable incidents in safety in the last month. in terms of trade packages as you know at the last board meeting or the october board meeting we awarded the substructure package. $120 million on that package and the slide says the bids are due january 10th. we do through the question from bidders process have requests to extend that bid date and we're evaluating those as we speak. so that is likely to be that -- that date is likely to be changed to give bidders additional time to prepare their submittals. >> how many prospective bidders are there? >> what is that? >> how many prospective bidders are there? >> five. >> that is great. >> in terms of working with the schools, we're having communication and preparation for this summer's program. there is a new coordinator, or new coordinators with the san francisco unified school district. and the school district is in the process of identifying potential candidates that they will refer to tjpa and other employers. i mentioned that our interns in the past have had a great deal of success working on our project and have been very positive exp

they said yet also the bank of england admitted to a manipulative little lie board so they manipulate lot more you're manipulating it's our global commodity and futures trading infrastructure which includes gold and some are to manipulate them down to make paper assets look better but i kind of disagree with this idea that ok we're going to turn all the commodities in the world into these highly manipulative exchange traded funds and other products and this is going to somehow cast a slightly different line in gold and so for the gold and silver still little story as a return of gold and silver as the backing of the global economy as the bond market collapses is been in play now for ten years and will become bigger or more visibly in play this year and the next year as well as people like the hunt brothers back in the seventy's try to corner the solar market they were shut down because they were in the futures business today the summer liberation army has the ability to corner the silver market until blights masters thinking of late of course now again and finally on this story banks the f.c.c. in their statement when they looked at the london metals exchang

of that trade. how did that work for you strategically and what else did you do in 2012? >> we're proud across the board of ourainly a good transaction but by no means was it the majority of our success last year. so we're very diversified across the flagship fund that you mentioned and really across all of the funds that we manage. the -- you know, i think the big theme going on in the financial markets is the changing business models of traditional financial intermediaries. and it's because of regulation, it's because of share shoulder expectatio expectations, it's because of lessons learned in the financial crisis. i think that's going to continue to be the theme going forward. when we look at what we've built at blue mountain, which we're very, very proud of and the capabilities that we've got and we look ahead at the changing landscape, we're staggered by the opportunities ahead of us. and the opportunity to bring somebody ljes board to help us capture those opportunities and keep delivering the same kind of results that we did in 2012 to our investors is very, very exciting for us. >> let's talk a little

trade-offs involved. but we have a very strong board of directors at the mta that has been making these decisions to repurpose, to rethink our rights-of-way, to reorient them back towards pedestrians, to make it safer for pedestrians, to narrow streets so that the crossing distances are shorter, and to really focus on the safety aspects of improving our public rights-of-way. so, i'm happy to have one of my boss as a member of the mta board of directors, jerry lee. >> thank you, thank you. i know that when i speak on behalf of the board of directors, we're really encouraged of the efforts that we're involved with in terms of being at the starting point of square one. this is a critical moment for our city in terms of the efforts of making the streets more attractive and safer for pedestrians. i also want to acknowledge the work of the sustainable street division who has helped in getting these speeds at the schools reduced. this strategy will help bolster their efforts in making the city streets a lot safer for pedestrians to walk in. thank you very much. >> thank you, director lee. one of our, one of our strong partnerships

of the unions reported at our last board meetings with their efforts with san francisco unified. the carpenter's union is certifying the tech 21 program as a pre-apprenticeship program. and the building trades council is looking at other trades that may be able to certify pre-apprenticeship programs as well. so that is really good news and with that i will ask ted to come up. >> hi my name is ted wong with webcor obayashi. we had two engineers being guest lectures at the technology part of tech 21. so they already had their presentations earlier this month. i was going to give you an update on our collective veterans hiring effort. i'm happy to say that we have two of our founding members in the room with us, manny flores and paula ressa of the carpenter's union. back in april we commenced a veteran's hiring steering committee, if you will, to look at issues of veterans geting into the construction field. we subsequently had two working group meetings with alameda workforce investment board, representatives, the edd there, as well as the carpenters' union and city build, as well as mission hiring hall. and what we came up with was essentially we found out that you needed to connect the dots

of these meetings with more than 70 delegations from japan and our office, organized and conducted by our staff. n. korea we led an effort to bring democratic senators on board to support the political free-trade agreement that is so important not only to our bilateral relations, the signals of united states not part of the world and we became what i believe the something of a pioneering effort to get korea and japan to come together at the table to realize common security interests. vietnam i visited, worked inside vietnam for 18 of the last 21 years in addition to having their tears in the rain i will say i fought in vietnam because i believed in the importance of that country to our relationships in asia. i spent a great deal of energy, more than 30 years now to get the final move of that war the relationship between vietnamese community in the united states and the government inside vietnam. we were thailand, singapore, laos, the first american senator to visit us in seven years first member of congress to visit cambodia when we visited indonesia. we were worked hard on the sovereignty and maritime issues and the south china sea. we sponsored two resolutions regarding china's recent aggres

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our system works. e-trade. less for us. more for you. gerri: is it time to rebrand the republicans? top republican governor of louisiana giving his own party harsh advice, don't be stupid. with that, board steve, thank you for being on. i want to play this for you to respond. >> okay. >> we've got to stop being the stupid party. [laughter] i'm serious. it's time for a new republican party that talks like adults. we had a number of republicans that damaged the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. we had enough of that. gerri: what do you think of that? >> well put, about time somebody like bobby spoke out about the republican branding problem, and, younow, the republican party, look, i'm embarrassed to admit it, we're a republican, and we are the stupid party, doing stupid things over the last couple years. just to name a couple examples, republicans should never talk about abortion and rain in the same sentence. it doesn't work. gerri: a nightmare. >> a nightmare. the republicans have to learn how to speak spanish, quite seriously. they need to learn to reach out to a huge percentage of the population, a swing vote, no reason republicans can't be getting the hispanic vot

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bub at the big board, $25 a share, which is right in the middle of the range, 84% owned by cvr energy, which trades under the ticker cvi. that's why you hear the shouts behind us. >> ouring this is a must buy. holly frontier has been returning so much to shareholders. these companies are a big beneficiary of the glut of domestic oil versus what we can charge, you know at the pump. the united states oil is so cheap. >>> a couple incongruities today. at yet the dow is positive. you made the point about the macro being positive. >> we are in a rising tide situation. you know, we're supposed to -- if you listen to anyone on how america is doing, i mean, you really think we must be doing terrible. we have higher payroll tax, a gridlock in washington, but the actual job growth is very out of sync, and it almost says like, listen, we got rid of this, let's start hiring. we may be looking at this debt ceiling, and i'm going to invoke shakespeare, the bard, that this may be much ado about nothing. i'm going there. right here. >> right now? the cliff is -- >> don't you love -- you know, when i first heard, i thought what a great title, i said no, moran, take the shakespeare cou

our project. and we had no reportable incidents in safety in the last month. in terms of trade packages as you know at the last board meeting or the to