Seeing none, meeting is adjourned. Let me welcome everyone for coming out to this great kickoff event. Mayor lee, supervisor chiu, distinguished guests from the community, city family, all of us coming together. Last year we held a Pilot Project on stockton street to help the merchants and support the merchants in selling their merchandise. We were able we were very successful. We got a lot of great feedback from the pilot. So this year again, we are doing the second year of the pilot. All the agencies and the community and the merchants, we got together, and talked about how we can do better. And without further delay, i will ask the mayor to come and say a few words, who is a big supporter of this project. Mayor lee. Thank you mohammed. [ applause ] i am very happy to be here. Is this okay . All right. All right. [ laughter ] all right. First of all, happy new year to everyone. This is what im looking forward to every year and i know the merchants and residents and all the Small Busi
Optimistic about the european environment in europe, the emerging economies are still pretty strong. There is Economic Growth. The ukrainian Prime Minister resigns as the parliament opens an extraordinary session. But u. S. And european leaders urge kiev not to declare a state of emergency. Plus, apple loses its shine. First Quarter Results top forecasts, but iphone sales and the companys Second Quarter outlook are quite a long ways short of analyst expectations. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And a warm welcome to you. Plenty more to come on those stories a little bit later. Jules is in brussels. Jules, whats coming up then today . Morning, ross. As you quite rightly said, ive been talking to some of the heads of the business boys here in europe. We spoke to the cbk, we spoke to the french medev to see what businesses can do to hire and invest. Later in the show, im going to be talking to the head of the bdi in germany to
Youre not allowed to have it any volume you want. Thats the main constraint right now. And as far as Entertainment Commission is concerned, amplified sound is something thats within our jurisdiction. And when you suggest somebody does if they have a problem with, say, the bucket man, who should they call for resolving the case . I would probably start with if you are Government Intervention that your assumption is, you should probably begin with police, not emergency, 311, and build in the main tools that you have. From our perspective, there are no other tools, right . Your example, so its clear to everyone, is use the bucket man. Right. And a bucket is not an amplified instrument. Right. Therefore, that person, even if he or she walked into our office and asked for a permit, we dont have one for performing on the street. And, in fact, jocelyn and crystal and raj, we all get calls and emails and walk into all [speaker not understood] street performers, walking in and asking if they ca
Noise in the city. There are at least three different supervisor offices were working with now because it can be loud with this many People Living in such a small area. I know it comes in all sorts and people make it all sorts of different ways. The street music or street performance front, i should say that we sympathize with people who are disturbed by it. Its understandable that its frustrating to have to go through your work there, your home life and hear lots and lots of loud noise all day. But from the government perspective which is who we are, unless someone is breaking the law there is very little that the government can do to stop people from talking or singing or performing. The main what about playing drums . The main tour we have right now is the noise level. You are allowed to have free speech. Youre not allowed to have it any volume you want. Thats the main constraint right now. And as far as Entertainment Commission is concerned, amplified sound is something thats withi
Good morning everyone. Its a great time of the year to unveil happy new year actually. My name is claudine cheng. Im speaking as a past president of oca, organization of Chinese Americans. Every year is special; this year is specifically more special because historically the first year honoring chinese heritage was in 1993, this is the twentieth Year Anniversary of that; we are proud and happy that the happy new year series is continuing by the United States Postal Service. Oca is a National Organization 20 years ago urge the Postal Service to issue a series of stamps to honor the contributions of Chinese Americans and we have the support of many local organizations, the Chinese Chamber of commerce, the chinese consolidated benevolent associations and many other National Organizations and National Leaders that joined asking the post office to consider doing that. We see the stamp as an important part of the american cultural heritage; chineseamericans are a big part of it. This is a sp