And noble Young Adult Book Club pick for winter 2020. Not bad for a first time novelist, abigail hing wen. Born to a family of immigrants; mom from the philippines, dad from indonesia, abigail went on to graduate from harvard and Columbia Law School and now works in silicon valley. Oh, and she also got her masters of fine arts and writing from Vermont College of fine arts. Welcome to the show. Abigail hing wen thank you for having me. Robert and its so great. This is your first tv interview about your book. Abigail it is. It is. So youre breaking me in. Robert okay, well, loveboat, taipei first of all, you did a great job coming up with the title that everybodycatches everybodys attention. What is the significance of loveboat as well as loveboat, taipei . Abigail so theres this program that is fairly wellknown in certain circles in the asianamerican community. Parents would send their kids to taiwan since the 1960s to learn language and culture and to find a spouse, potentially. So tha
90 years old. Have you made a Needs Assessment on how many millions of gallons of water leach into our watershed . We talk about it in very general way. We talk about some gap that was arranged in the 1980s, we talk about certain targets, on always thinking about how are we going to make more money . Those in San Francisco are conserving water, and in our previous discussions i used to be here, and the only person that had a vision about something was tod, the chief financial officer. I never see somebody with a vision. They are always talking about generalities within some subject where you can throw some arrows in the air. So if we have over 1100 miles of clean water pipes in San Francisco and they have a percentage of maybe 70 of them leaking because they are over 90 years old, what are we doing about it . Do we have a responsibility . We talk about a common footprint, this, that and the other. Do we have a responsibility about this precious water that was stolen to get it for free
Mayor breed hello, everybody. Im london breed. Im mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, and i am so excited to be here today. We all know that there is a real crisis in our city, and i know that we hear that word used on a regular basis. But in this particular case what we see happening with those who are struggling with Mental Illness and Substance Use disorder and chronic homelessness is something that we see every day and we need to take aggressive action to address that issue. I am standing here with supervisor Hillary Ronen and mandelman to announce that even though we have had two competing measures, we have come together to do what is in the best interest of this city to introduce today at the board of supervisors a compromise that is going to help us address the most significant problem in our city. [ applause ]. Mayor breed i not only want to thank the supervisors, but i wanted to thank lou girardo. You remember lou has someone who worked with the board of supervisors
And quality. Government television reported last year that nearly 90 percent of vietnamese people took part in the event not even communist vietnam is immune to black friday to india where the economy grew only by 4. 5 percent in the 2nd quarter thats the most sluggish its been in over 6 years current slowdown is due to a slump in consumption related to rising unemployment in this 3rd largest economy is also feeling the effects of trade conflicts elsewhere for some countries a growth rate of nearly 5 percent would be a dream india its alive. And that is palpable young and well educated indians are leaving the country in a steady trickle favorite destinations the u. K. And the u. S. An army of dark uses every spare minute to swat up on law the delhi attorney wants to apply for a masters degree in london she thinks it will improve her career chances at 26 she wants to put Indias Economic crisis behind her i have been thinking about doing it are doing my masters for a very long but i thin
Ccba president. Dont take that kind of commitment lightly or for granted. Thank you so much. The ed lee democratic club. You guys gave the best testimony, but you also had the best stickers hands down when we were in the testimony room. Many of you worked hard with and for ed during his years as mayor and that came out when you gave your public testimony. Thank you. Also to our grassroots leaders to the community associations. Our Nonprofit Community leaders from a. P. I. Council. Your coming out really showed that this campaign was Something Special to real people and not just us political types or quoks out the there and i thought that was meaningful. Jan sey, you came out, wayne lee. The sisters of cities communities, you came out. You clearly relished eds relishment. That will be my only bad joke. Individual friends of ed lee came out. You guys were really amazing and you were there all the time. Eds city family was incredibly helpful, the johnsons who arent here. Those who are her