Thomas explores the historical rise and fall of nations and whether the United States will remain a superpower in the book americas expiration date. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone we are about to get started so if you can please take your seats. Thank you. Good evening and welcome to the bookstore, we are excited to host the event was charlotte alter presenting her book the ones weve beenk waiting for how the new leaders will transform america, she will talk with Jazmine Hughes with an excellent evening. Before i turn things over to them a housekeeping things, please silent your cell phones, books are for cell at the register and charlotte will sign after at the table right here, if you have not gotten your copy please do so at the end and will form a p p signing line going straight back from the stable to the back of the store, single file please. Upcoming events are available at the c register. Tonights event will be recorded by cspan so we will pass around handheld mics to
Matt miller in berlin. Lets check in on whats going on in the market. We do have gains across some european indices, right now you can see the stoxx 600 up. 2 , the broader European Index is gaining. The dollar is also strengthening against the yuan, you can see one dollar now buys 689. 71 offshore, and the pound is weakening. You can see it down 123. 38. As we get closer to the possibility of hard brexit or new elections, investors continue to sell sterling. Now to the first word news with Viviana Hurtado in new york. Chief executive carrie lam has condemned the violence in her first News Conference on the city since the end of british rule. Fresheclaration follows demonstrations with Police Firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters. This week, u. S. China trade talks are set to resume in shanghai, the first since discussions broke down almost three months ago two days of talks are scheduled to begin after president s trump and xi reached a troop at the g20 although deep tensio
Have gone online to see what has been done, we noticed that there have been things that have been changed in the plans. I know maybe there is some argument that there has been some community input. I can tell you there is a large number of people here that have not had the impotent that is what we are looking for. What were asking from you is a postponement in this Decision Just so we can meet and talk with the developer so that we can have some say in terms of the small impacts whether it be setbacks, that is kind of what we are looking for. At this point, you can look at the plans and notice again, for some instants, some of the members here architects and they mentioned there is a possibility of a setback. Small things that could possibly be incorporated into the projects. That is what we are asking for. In ending, the staff, in terms of objectives, indicated that i think its on page 32 of the report, section 8. 4, ensuring that the streets and alleyways maintain their intimacy and
Provide it. We are looking for some input in terms of the impact. You can see some of the maps that have been shown to you, as to the massive notice of the projects, the building, the homeowners live is a four story condominium building. You can imagine the massive notice of this project coming up in the 40 story building. As mentioned, what we are looking for is some input we have been trying to follow the project. Sometimes we have gone online to see what has been done, we noticed that there have been things that have been changed in the plans. I know maybe there is some argument that there has been some community input. I can tell you there is a large number of people here that have not had the impotent that is what we are looking for. What were asking from you is a postponement in this Decision Just so we can meet and talk with the developer so that we can have some say in terms of the small impacts whether it be setbacks, that is kind of what we are looking for. At this point, you
Using so that is 26 times the apprenticeships. The livable wages and another big thing that people dont talk about is retention. Some people may a oh, were trying to get residents on this one job but were trying to create careers for these people so when they get into our program, they dont just go to one job they go from job to job to job for their career not having to worry about getting their own jobs when one construction is finished. And again, i mentioned this before, sometimes up here, we arent sure if someone is going to build a project or not. It leaves our hand and it may get appealed or may not and it may get built or not. They o do not fill their projects and they get approval and they build them. Thank you. Commissioner fung. A couple of questions were staffed and a couple of specific questions. In your summary, you used the term outstanding over all design. How is that designed specifically in the code if it is . I dont know that it is described in the code. We do have bo