The Foreign Relations committee to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of President Bidens nominees dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you to the senator for being here to lead of the republican side of the hearing. Its not always easy to find members that are willing to adjust their schedules to accommodate the hearings ander i think the senator for always being available to the committee to carry out our important work. Im going to have some opening comments and i want to recognize senator reid and allow him to make an introduction and thank t him for being here in the committee. Sometimes have a friendly rivalry but since i will soon may need his help thank you very much, chairman and senator. Its my pleasure to introduce kristine, assistant secretary of state for oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Anyone whos had the pleasure of working with chris knows a a c
An interesting move in the fx market. Sterling below. The First Time Since november. Bureau gaining euro gaining today. Ireland, belgium, portugal, italy. Your final two columns. Nokia shares are down today. They are suing apple saying they infringed on several mobile patents. Apple agreed to license patented inventions in 2011, but it refused to extend those agreements so they are now expiring. This is rooted in nokias demised as the worlds biggest phone maker. It is now a phone equipment maker. It is tapping its portfolio patents as a source of income, rather than a crosslicensing tool to protect their products. In the Third Quarter nokias tech unit generated about 40 of the companys total adjusted operating profit shares. Down. Shares are Consumer Confidence little changed this month. It is measured with household outlook. Slipping to 23. If you exclude the sharp drop in july after the referendum, that is the lowest in four years. Britains have a slightly more positive perception of
Making sure that there was basically ongoing collaborative resource stations for residents in order to make sure that anyone else from june ongoing that would end up wanting any of our support that they would be able to reach a viable source so dph provided a lot of resource stations and different events throughout the following months. And then finally ill mention under the social service piece there was a collaborative meeting where we met with residents providers that are there daytoday and heard ongoing every single month and still participate, the Mayors Office and city departments, we participate in the cbos just to make sure we understand if theres any way to intervene in any violence that occurs in the neighborhood. Just to highlight a couple of areas this area was led by the San Francisco Unified School District and Student Support department this division of sf u. S. D actually took the lead and directly contacted a lot of the students and our goal with the team was to actual
Enforcement piece. Quickly in terms of the enforcement area we had the juvenile Probation Department take lead in this area and patrol increased regularly given the incident. We also had sfpd they were directed to actually engage if a lot of positive Community Events that were hosted by the community or by city departments and then we also had the participation of the adult and juvenile Probation Department we have their support to provide ongoing compliance checks and thats still occurring. We still have them firmly commitmented especially during this time were going to encounter the anniversary. So thats the enforcement strategy. Moving along the social Service Strategy we had about 4 different leads that actually took support in intervening in some of social services needed and support of the implementation of each single Event Service onsite and actually deployed Services Ongoing and the Victim Services division and Trauma Recovery services actually targeted the children that were
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