Our city departments. The efforts around or city department. We have a lot of things that we are doing on a regular basis and we are trying to get out as much as possible to our families that need it the most. I this i that this initiative caused us to pause and to really stop and think about how many resources and services we are actually providing to the mission and how coordinated or uncoordinated those services are. It helps us to think about that too. Marissa and i are working with other folks and Department Heads about services that we just deliver to families in general, not only families in need but middle class families just throughout San Francisco. So this has been helpful for us to think about how services are delivered to our families. Again, a deep hearted thanks to all of our partners and really looking forward to the growth of the School District and the community as one. Gardener is going to start to look at outcomes and evaluation as we roll this out. July 1st was kin
That is designed by diane von furstenberg. Cost 1800 which is more than the standard version. The roar of the Harley Davidson and you will be more like a hum with the First Electric harley. The company will be taking a few dozen of these on a tour of the u. S. And riders will test drive the bikes and get some feedback back to the company so harley will create something new. To buystrikes a deal microsystems. The Software Giant is under pressure to boost sales growth. Oracle paid 5. 3 billion for the marylandbased company. Its a pointofsale system for hotels and restaurants and retailers. Oracle has been talking to these guys along times, six years. That deal fell through but this one is a big deal, the biggest purchase in 2010. The microtem sun system fell through was that for oracle. Deal. S an interesting its not just a software company. Isexactly right, about 2 3 services and 20 is hardware and 10 is software. Its really about the push into the retail market. Oracle had an interest
Substantial. The nasdaq composite is up half of 1 . The swing is not even 100 points. We started off in the red and now we are in the green. We got in home prices that rose the fastest in seven years. This group is doing really well. Kb homes up 7. 7 . We saw double digit Revenue Growth for kb homes. Back to you. Lori thank you, nicole. Gaining 12. 4 from a year ago. There are some concerns about the home price gains peaking. Adam news alert for you, Eric Schneiderman seeking the help of washington, d. C. To help prevent highfrequency traders from getting information earlier than the rest. They paid thompson and reuters for that information. Speaking at the bloomberg market, the attorney general had this to say. We are seeing something far more insidious than insider trading. Small coop of powerful groups inside the market are able to use soon to be Public Information combined with highfrequency trading. Adam he says regulators face several challenges tracking and preventing these. He
Welcome everyone and thanks for being here today. I want to extend a special welcome to all of our distinguished speakers. So first, the honorable edwin mayor of San Francisco. San francisco clapping thank you. San francisco board of supervisors david chu and San Francisco port executive director monique mirror clapping and our president and ceo paul guests the tall guy in the back. Im sorry and sprifrp kim. There should say right there thank you so the building our standing in was built in 1938 as a transit shed and its been used for many things for many defy types of folks. Wire super proud to have our ribbon cutting. Some of you have had a tour and youll be able to see all the wonderful things. A little bit about some of the things we did if develop this space is it was very important that we use Green Building design standards. So in all of our construction of the project and so many of the things the lighting for example, the heating and cooling systems all done with lead complian
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