The company says it is speaking to Western Digital which is contesting the sale on high. Stock well in tokyo, but news of the talks lifted in new york. Powered by 2700 journalists in more than 120 countries, im paul allen. This is bloomberg. Shaping up by trade in korea and tokyo, we have more. More downbeatng when you look at the session in sydney as well as in tokyo here. Falling by. 4 , the nikkei to 25 losing. 25 so far. 1 . S down about the cost be just treading water there. We seeing bonds picking up nicely following what we saw given the dovish comments out of the fed. To congress on wednesday. Take a look at the currency space. Given the weakness in the dollar, were seeing gains gaining about a third of 1 . Below that 680 level. And we see that rising for a second day. We get the Confidence Index coming it and we have the aussie dollar holding from there. Take a look at commodity space. We see base metals climb. We had been seeing a rally. Continuingoil momentum here, new york
Is so clear and i have known about you since my under graduate days of stanford when we were fighting for your 10year at stanford. I appreciate all you have done. Given all your accomplishments and the demand for your service, i guess my next question is do you have time for this . I sure do. Ive been told by a couple of former members of the commission how much work it is and ive been told the version where you can do the minimalist version but you can do the meaningful version and thats what i choose to do. I pledge to you that i will devote a massive amount of time on this because i want what i believe you want. I want there to be change so that the types of incidents that weve seen are minimized or eliminated for heavens sake if we can, and thats what im pledge to go do and i know how much work its going to take and im ready to work at that time and roll up my sleeve and get under the hood and do the work. My final question. If there was a concrete or specific issue area you could
In the is that 5gallon or less include does that 5gallon or less is what we see in our offices, in a lot of the offices in the city. The dispensaries. When former mayor implemented his executive order reducing the use of single use plastic water bottles, i know our office eliminated the water, the big water container in our office. In our city, our best source tap water come from our hedge reservoir, not from imported plastic jugs. With the city, we spend somewhat some where around 98,000 a year on this type of water in our offices. What i do in my office is we have pitchers of water thats provided to folks so that were not using more and more plastic and that we are being consistent in policies like this. This policy was strongly urged by our department of the environment and i would strongly urge support for it. And i guess the question this is considered a single use container then . Thats why im confused. I thought they keep on using it. So it would be the type of plastic container
Lbe subcontracting goals. As needed contracts fell 2 below but we expect that to increase as the different scopes of work come online. This slide compares the awards and paymentses over the six months of the past three fiscal years. We awarded six contracts in the first half of each of the last three fiscal years. This time weve gone down a bit with 41 going to lbe firms but we did well in the last two fiscal years and were exceeding the mayors citywide aspirational lbe participation goal of 40 . In terms of local hire these are Construction Projects that are over a Million Dollars. Theyre subject to the local hire ordinance which is implemented by the office of economic and workforce development. Since the inception of the ordinance back in 2011 there have been 15 contracts at the port that have fallen under the ordinance and its requirements. They have all met the ordinance requirements. Currently we have one contract that falls under the threshold and that is the pier 31 roof repair
He insulted all of his opponents. He insulted all of the moderators. He insulted i guess about 80 of the American People and the rest of the world. So how do you prepare for that . I think on the one hand its a serious chance for americans to tune in and if they havent made up their minds to try to make up their minds. I want to take it seriously. I want to talk about what we can do and how important it is. But youve got to be prepared for wacky stuff that comes at you. I am drawing on my experience in elementary school. All right. Good morning. Its tuesday august 23rd. Welcome to morning joe along with joe, willie and me. I think donny is wearing poplin this morning. Hes wearing green shoes. No, they are black. They are green. Get the shoe up, its green. They are black. The managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and cohost of with all due respect o msnbc. I was trying to be donny a eesque today. Apparently donny did with all due respect. Eddie black. Before i get started, im checking m