And now heres cohen on growth and influence of Silicon Valley. Hello. Were going to get started here tonight my name is seth im the director of the Communications Forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start, these are held three times semester six times year if you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over there put your name and email and only send news about our six events a year. We have pretty good ones, we had it earlier this year john last semester. These three we have some great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights forum is being filmed by cspan so the question part of the tore rum, if you would go to one of the microphones and a also hopefully state your name and your question another reason we ask you to sate your name is because we then do a writeup of all of the forum afterwards, which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event. On our website, which is come forum. Edu and the last announcement is tha
Pretty good ones. We had sarah battle earlier this year, john hodgman, last semester, these three great stuff planned for next semester already. Also, tonights forum is being filled by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and also, hopefully state your name in your question another reason we ask you to state your name is because we then do a write up of all the forum afterward which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on a website which is [inaudible] in the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at mit. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three it is a different three than we initially thought would be here because just called me up a little past five because his daughter was puking as the father of gms kids myself i said stay home and fortunately chris couch who writes a lot about technology is a brilliant journalist in their own right and ha
Opportunity in the privilege doing a ride along of march 24, friday. I want to acknowledge chief gonzalez, but also wanted to acknowledge chief [inaudible] met me at the station, station 49. Part of that was the desire by this commission to ride on a friday night which is usually a hot night. The intention is go from 4 a. M. To about 1 a. M. And pooped out about eleven p. M. Discouraged and disaopponented in myself i didnt stay long frr the hot time. I had the privilege riding with medic 79 with paramedic chris couch and emt leslie fong. We left the station at about 5 oclock. Commissioners i encourage all you to take a site visit to station 49 and have the chief show what the layout is. Again, being a commissioner of some years, station 49 changed quite a bit. There are and a squads used to be there and closing depot is there but there is modifications of the members and room and dispatch room and a ride along like that is invaluable. Valuable in terms of getting a first pond point of
They wanted to morgue the two unit and in the end we decided okay. But their needs to remain the same number of shares and the coop etc. , etc. So the internal changes would have remained one i clearly remember it but people are not accepting that thats fine i would suggest that we again maintain that fourth bedroom and then the only other thing ill say with all due respect i think we were not arresting im high supportive of adus and creating more housing but need more flexibility in the Housing Market is other projects like this not the end of the world. Commissioner moore. Sir as were not talking about the coop but the condominium meeting of unit low require a rewriting of subdivision youre aware of that. Im curious about that that option of meeting them but leaving the two on the condo maps as separate units we dont have a fundamental problem if thats the way the Commission Wants to work. The commission actually go ahead and should be clear of what were approving the meeting of a un
But nevertheless theres huge opportunities there. I will be another example where engagement by the United States and the region has been a spectacular success. And that is colombia, i dont know what they call in english actually, company plan i guess. [laughter] i think thats a. [laughter] sometimes my mind switches and i apologize. This was the plan to deal with the dramatic social turmoil in columbia with the drug cartel and the violence was significant and the Previous Administration they made a significant effort to provide Technical Support military support economic support, the president made a real commitment to open up the economy to allow people to liberate the economy so that it would be more Economic Opportunity. And it was a huge victory. We should apply that same type of approach right now. The president has not proposed a. I havent seen the details of it, for the northern tribal states and Central America which have a very similar situation perhaps even more grave. And t