Now theyre saying goodbye to one of their own. The nurses here say that ponders death could have been avoided. They were given the proper ppe for dozens of these nurses at Summit Medical center in oakland janine paste a punter was more than just a coworker i mention i stay ponder was devoted to her patients here at Summit Medical center for more than 25 years. But unfortunately she wont be returning to work. Family and coworkers say she died on friday after contracting the coronavirus from the hospital which they blame for its lack of proper ppe is very sad. This in need to happen. We if the hospital the Medical Center here had provided the proper ppe that the mass the council we were at went through a period of reusing masking gallons even now some of the floors nurses have trouble getting there n 95, which is the maximum protection fellow nurses at some of the Medical Center held a vigil on tuesday to honor pastry ponder. In demand proper protection of its employees angry because the
Thank you, jeff. Im honored to moderate this panel with four dear friends and valued colleagues. There is a concern afoot that as a moderator i might let it go to my head and try to interject myself too much in the discussion. So i will sit down there while they make their presentations and will come back up here during the actual q a time. You have the detailed bios of the speakers in your program so i will not repeat those first is professor richard emerman. His bio says he recent retired from temple university. I know richard well. Richard does not know the meaning of the word retirement. We are Close Friends and collaborators and the state Department Historical Advisory Council and he continues to be active as a scholar and mentor and is an active citizen in the guild of National Security scholars and historians. Next to him is a professor mel leffler of the university of virginia. Again, another titan in the field of diplomatic history. I started reading his books as an undergrad
Scholars talk about the ways in which people engage with and learn about the holocaust, on the internet and in classrooms, Historic Sites and museums. The Lepage Center for history at Villanova University in pennsylvania hosts the event. For those of you who are joining us for the first time, my name is jason and i am the center for history and the Public Interest here at Villanova University. How many of your joining us for the first time . Quite a few. Welcome. We are delighted you are here. Briefly, the center is a and ourly new project mission is to bring to bear on a a host of contemporary issues. We host Public Programs like these. We have a blog where historians write for us about contemporary hit issues from a historical specter. We are in the midst of a collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer to have more historical schaller ship in local journalism. Of things herer in kansas and out in the community. If your joining us for the first time, welcome. We are delighted you ar
Point. Hang seng was up more and in europe theres active trading taking place with the early hours and youll also see that there are, well, its a bit of a mixed picture. Stocks are slightly weaker across the rest of the continent there. In the treasury yields here in the United States, thats what we continue to watch closely theres questions about what the fed does next and right now the ten year picked up a little bit of steam its 2. 073 . The ten year at 1. 584 so about 1. 5 and then the two year, look at that 1. 558 so no inversion at this point and you are seeing a little bit of gains in the yields. Thats a pretty big move. A quick move back. Right were not following it that closely. And the 30 year is well above 2 i think just psychologically its always like this but we give it to up days not just us but the collective we theres a point we were down 250 but we only ended up down 250. Right. But we did 372 yesterday but its very its the biggest two days of gains you have seen for s
I i would briefly walked to the agenda before we invite the speakers onto the stage. First up we have Katherine Brown and jay wang will participate on a paper which is published online today called Public Diplomacy and National Security in 2017. Building alliances, fighting extremism and dispelling this information. Katherine is council of Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow and a visiting fellow with my program here at csis and weve been fortunate to have her for a couple of months leading to his work on Public Diplomacy. She most recently served as executive director of the u. S. Advisory commission on Public Diplomacy. Jay wang is an associate professor at the Usc Annenberg school for communication and journalism, and director of the usc center on Public Diplomacy. The paper theyre going to present to you today emerged from the workshop that we held jointly with jason center back in november. Essentially what it does is indexed and assessment of where weve been with Publi