Yeah, you know, the thing thats sort of fun when im on book tour, theyll take me to some of the larger stores, the chain stores, and theyll say this is Mark Kurlansky to sign books you have in place, and theyll be running all over the place because theyre in so many sections of the store. It is a read that gets unraffled its not paper. Its actually a lot older than paper, and the nile seems to have been the only place where papyrus grew thick enough to make paper. So the egyptians had an absolute monopoly on papyrus and charged a lot, which is why parchment was made. What is there about paper, especially newspaper, that prevents it from holding up over time physically, whereas rags, sometimes it looks like something that was written written 500 years ago, looked like it came out yesterday, and the durability of paper in fact, you can go back all this minutia, books 5000 years old, completely white no discoloration, perfectly flat, and you look at a 70yearold book and its completely bro
Bay as well as the tri valley and the peninsula to 87. A little bit better in San Francisco, where it will be 76 degrees. Well talk about what else to expect as we go into the ref this week and the weekend coming up as the heat continues. Lets head over to mike. The macarthur maze looks good. Its a treat, were looking at a smooth flow here. The map shows no real slowdowns that are unusual except for the tri valley. We zoom in now for the west 580. A big jamup as youre approaching duarte, clear from the center divide. A little distraction. Thats the flow out of livermore towards the dublin interchange. Folks making the cut through to avoid the dublin interchange, thats a good idea, even if you have to go back one exit to get that. A smooth flow of track of for 101 and 87, a little build. Let me show you this map, guys. Officer kathermans memorial starts at 9 45 out of los gatos along 17, santa cruz toward winchester boulevard, then san carlos and eventually s. A. P. Center. There will b
Down. And you wont be able to use it all day. Crews are doing emergency repairs on the i70 overpass bridge today and tomorrow on the eastbound side. A truck carrying a crane hit the bridge on sunday. Highway 6 will stay closed from five am until nine pm today and extended closures are necessary for safety and material delivery. Late last night another truck hit a pole under an i70 overpass. This one was at i70 and peoria after ten last night. You can see the front end of the truck crushed against a support pillar. One person was seriously injured. The truck appeared to be hauling some sort of equipment. Denver investigators are suspicious death in the montbello neighborhood. Its the second time someone died within a one mile area in two days. East andrews drive last night after a woman was found dead. One neighbor says the womans husband is a fellow pastor. Denver police have not released details about a suspect at this time. The widow of a Lakewood Police officer killed by friendly fi
Despite increased tensions in the middle east. Isis takes full control of the iraqi city ramadi while saudi resumes strikes. Back to monday morning once again. Lots to talk about. Weve got some Interesting Data out of china as well as a big guest coming up on that and lots more u. S. Data last week. It was disappointing. It doesnt matter though. I think theres a big factor as well in what weve seen in equity markets last week which is in general we feel weve been in a riskier mode. That said the u. S. Dollar has been losing ground. Thats allowing u. S. Equities to out perform last week and hit new highs, whereas the euro has rebounded that has meant European Markets have rebounded more. This weakness that were seeing in the u. S. Dollar is being welcomed by those International Companies that make most of their revenue outside of u. S. The question is how long will this continue especially if the forecast is for data to improve to the up side. That keeps the dollar trend the dla bull tr
Other loans, and we are going to talk about why it matters to you and what you should do now in a rising rate environment. And we are also approaching the anniversary of the financial crisis. Ify yeaand simon hobbs joins me here at the nyse. Early stock market gains on the backs of the employment report turned to a tripledigit loss earlier this morning. Since then weve been climbing our way back. Mary thompson has been watching all the action. Tough day. More sensitive to the downside than the upside at the moment. Thats right. Were holding on to a 22point gain which would be the dows fourth gain in a row if it holds right here as you take a look at the markets. A wild day, the dow in a 200point range dropping on comments by putin and recovering. Here are some of the groups were keeping a watch on today. Because the yield on the tenyear has come off the 3 and it touched overnight and because, of course, that weak jobs report were seeing strengths in the rate sensitive sectors, utilitie