The wake of Tropical Storm isabel. In 2003 isabel caused widespread flooding and equipment damage throughout the yard. The total cost of that for repair was 120 million. Weve taken several measures to ensure a similar event will not have the same detrimental impact. Weve raised the ground floor elevations of new construction. For example, wesley brownfieldhouse was built above the flood level and acts as a flood wall. We reelected the chiller plant and moved the hvac equipment to rooftops where feasible. We have raised electrical outlet on ground floors and installed check valves on ubd ground tunnels and storm lines. Where suitable weve identified opportunities for quote wet, flood proofing unquote where we designated billings and fields that will be allowed to flood once in a 100 years. They can handle flooding with minimal damage and using costs to keep them dry would not be Cost Effective. And we have protocol for equipment relocation in classrooms and labs in the event of a major
Threat at the center for American Progress. His remarks are followed by a panel discussion. This entire event is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the center for American Progress, its amazing to see so many wonderful friends here i see investor haley, some other distinguished members of the diplomatic corps. Were all here from caps perspective to launch this report, from all of your perspective to get an opportunity to hear directly from general john allen the president s special envoy to the Global Coalition to counter isis. They still say isil, i say isis. General alan is one of the great patriots and Public Servants weve had in this country. And ive had the privilege to know him for several years. He has been a man who would take on any difficult task for the United States. And hes been endlessly dedicated, dedicated to the troops dedicated to the marines he led. Dedicated to the civilians who worked in the most difficult places, and im really h
Those clinicians who were providing higher quality, better value care a big movement in general to give patients more knowledge and to let them be more active participants in their own health care. Medicare solved the initial problem. It was designed to solve. But there is so much more that we need to do to make sure that the program improves and of course most importantly, is around for our children and grandchildren. That will be a whole other discussion. What changes would you make . First i think we need to establish that something is happening. As producing much better results. Were not sure what that s there is per capita spending and medicare has essentially been flat or going up about the rate of the gdp. Its unprecedented in the history of medicare. Its always been said that actual was wrong. Were spending much less than predicted. And i think well probably wind up talking this morning about whether this is sustainable or not. But something good has been going on. I also have
Other sister agency. Its a meritorious move. You said is, quote, good people operating in a flawed system. Would you explain that . Sure. There is a misalignment between the incentives that a person giving advice has and the best interest of the consumer. So, for instance, again, getting back to the tofels, if you have four or five different products under the current suitability rule that are suitable and product the first product, the variable annuity generates 26,000 a year in fees and another product, which would have a comparable return has a fraction of those fees, you have per verse incentive to steer them to the product that generates the most fees. And again, that is totally permissible so im not casting aspersions on the person that does it. Im saying thats not right. And we can device a system and i underscore what i said in my testimony, theres a substantial number of people, including one of the witnesses who will come up on the next panel, that operate under a fiduciary m
Aiming at 30,000 before tackling its alltime record. Ntra valued at almost a billion dollars. Sophie bill gross says Neel Kashkari will be the good choice for the head of the fed but it will not happen. Rishaad lets have a look at what happened last week and what we are expecting today is for a up on the Chinese Markets. Lets look at this chart. This is what we have at the moment. It is this reopen after the holiday. Great week. To guess mainland looking at cut, trading in hong kong surged about expectations of the central bank gaining again. Sophie historically we have seen the day following the golden week holiday pretty good for the shanghai composite. We are 30 minutes away from the open in china and hong kong. Singapore and malaysia have come online. Taiwan is on holiday. We saw the msci asiapacific index has the best week since midjuly. To thecounting down reopen. Today we have south korea, japan and taiwan all closed. Australia is the leader. Report coming in from mining players