All of the programming of the center which involves programs for teachers, police officers, programs for International Groups visiting the area. She is an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and a masters in Museum Studies from the Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new york. Today going to talk to us about madison and the lead up to the constitution. I need to seconds to get my powerpoint up. As elizabeth alluded to you cannot have the director of education without talking about the constitution. I amwill follow today is going to do an overview. You could spend two hours on each of these topics easily but we are going to cover things in a broad sense. I do want to point out one of the things we have started to do at the centers offer classes called the constitution 101 series and we get to dig deeper into these topics for about 90 minutes each. If any of these are of interest to you after im done speaking i hope they will be i would encourage you to come back to any of those
Madisons role in shaping the constitution and bill of rights and the influence of his study of history and previous experiences. Director attion montpelier eight this was part ofthe month this was part the montpelier president s day symposium. Ms. Voss we have a tradition at James Madisons monthly a of hosting speakers for a special president s day program. This year, we thought it would be a nice change and important and fun to feature our own amazing staff. Research and just the way we are thinking about things currently at montpelier. So it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, where we are gathered today, in h. Smithof the Robert Center for the constitution. Fory has been at montpelier six years. All ofresponsible for the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for police officers, programs for International Groups visiting the area. She has
Hanging tight to southern california. We have rain coming down into the sierra. It will dry out for us into early tomorrow morning. This was a cold front, which means our temperatures are expected to drop overnight. How much rain did we get . Heres a look at our 12hour storm totals. Big sur, over two inches of rain. And the santa cruz area, nearly two inches. For a fastmoving storm, it got a good amount of rainfall. Sfo, a half an inch. San jose, a quarter. What about the temperatures . Thats going to be the main focus tonight into early tomorrow morning, because its going to get cold. Its already in the 30s right now in napa. 39 degrees. Santa rosa, 38. Dipping down into the low 40s, through the south bay and mid40s in San Francisco. It will be a frosty morning to start. It will be dry. But were tracking another storm system. This one is expected to make its arrival by christmas eve. How is this going to impact your Christmas Day plans . I will be timing it out for you in your sevenda
And i want to tell you that what were seeing right now is not a cycle change. Its a structural change, and i am sure you are aware and seen the retailers and the retailers are shrinking the footprint and it is not the Large Department stores but even tenants that used to be 5,000 feet are shrinking to 1,000 feet and trying to deal with how to market the goods online and cross market both aspects. It has had a very structural change and quite frankly t vacancy rate at union square is the lowest that i have seen in 25 excuse me t highest in 25 years of business in union square. This there is, as we all know, a lot of vacancies that are happening. Barneys is going to close, forever 21 is closing, Williams Sonoma and the multifloor retailers are going out of business and those are the only ones that can occupy the upper floors. They are just not there. We have been marketing 146 geary for four years and talking to tenants initially to take the entire building because that works the best fo
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