Welcome. Thank you. All right, sir. You ready . You have five minutes. Yes. Okay. Go ahead. Yes, my name is john baskantelis, for the proposed be radiant beauty salons at 1327 chestnut. This will be at a location that has been unoccupied, vacant, for over 2 fa 2 1 2 years now whiche see as a missed opportunity for the neighborhood. We are proposing to invest in creating convenient Beauty Services, creating the opportunity for Small Businesses and the associated employment with that and to grow an existing neighborhood Small Business which is right next to the proposed location. While at the same time not making any exterior changes, preserving the neighborhood character and also making significant investments in improving a. D. A. Access. And right now we focus only on eyelash extensions in two rooms which has provided employment for three lash stylists and the proposed business, be radiant, will be in nine rooms, offering various services which will extend out to 19 new Small Business
What i mean, the messes they create. They dont have a public process. You know, it doesnt go to their commission or anything and someone goes in with a permit like this well, they didnt, they went in a permit that wasnt a demo under our rules. Correct. Even if i mean, the reality is that the unfortunate reality is the inconsistency between what we consider a demolition and they consider a demolition. It goes to logic of what a demo is. Im not arguing logic here. But if they go in i guess what is their incentive to make it a demo or not . If its a demo under d. B. I. s process, what are the project sponsors avoiding by not making it a demo under their process . What is the incentive to keep it under d. B. I. . Because you can live within certain codes that are different than the current codes, right, you dont have to meet all of the current code requirements if its an alteration and addition. Our advantage of having the original building date stay tied to the property. Yeah, i mean. Com
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Cuba a position that the president also supports. I want to read from you a piece from the miami herald, and get your reaction from it. They write that they have yet to see any significant action from the castro regime that would enhance the Civil Liberties of the cuban people. Do you disagree with that statement . Mr. Earnest what we have seen, john, are some steps like human government has taken, both in terms of releasing some clinical prisoners, and giving the cuban population greater access to information. They are steps that the government previously resisted. I think that is an occasion of some forward progress. I think the other thing i would acknowledge is that our expectations is that the kind of policy changes that the president initiated just seven or eight months ago is strongly in the best interest of the United States and cuban people in the longterm. What we saw is the previous policy that was in place for more than 50 years did not yield any progress that anyone could
Because of some strong gains from unh, Johnson Johnson and Goldman Sachs. We will keep an eye on futures this morning as we continue to get the Earnings Reports ibm today lets look overnight in asia. We have seen japan close higher. Youre looking at a gain of almost 27 points, 21,363 hang seng closed marginally higher the hang hishanghai was up by a quarter. In europe, in some of the early trading, the dax is the leader, up over 0. 6 cac up by a half percent the ftse is up by a third of a percentage point if you look at crude oil prices, you will see at least this morning crude oil prices are up 16 cents 52. 04 for wpi. Brent crude up by 41 cents ibm shares are jumping this morning on better than expected results. The company beat on both the top and bottom lines but ibm still saw its 22nd straight quarter of revenue declines the cfo addressing those declining revenues on the Earnings Call last night as we said at the start of the year, and reiterated again in july, we said we would se