Counterparts. You may have seen this week that the Starbucks Coffee Company Announced a new initiative called race together. In encourages employees to engage in conversations about raise with people buying coffee. You may think this is a good approach, or you may disagree with it. For the first 45 minutes, we want to discuss what this means for Race Relations. If you live in the eastern are central time zone, 202 7488000 is the number four calling in. 202 7488001 if you live in the amount no pacific zone. If you want to post on twitter journal cspan. Org. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Or you can send us an email, journal cspan. Org. If you go to the companys website, it you can read the press release and why they are doing it. Race together is what employees have been voluntarily writing on cups this week. If you got a copy of a copy of usa today there was a pullout on Race Relations. It also has a picture of that ceo of starbucks as he was talking to members of his company about
From leadership. United states and japan decide chinas selfdeclared air defense zone and fly right through it without telling beijing. Nhps turn around efforts bearing fruits shares after hours as the Company Beats sales amid enterprise business. A warm welcome to todays show. Advancers outpace decliners on the dow jones 600 by a ratio of 6 to 3, 3 to 2, in other words. We had a very, very flat close for u. S. Equity markets last night. The nasdaq closing above 4,000. So the ftse at the moment, this morning, is just up 14 points. The xetra dax is up 13 points. But were back at this alltime high, level above 9,3 let you know. Cac 40 is up 0. 11 and the ftse mib up 0. 5 . A number of individual stocks worth looking at this morning. Lets kick off with accor. Stock down 3 at the moment. The company essentially coming out and saying, look, were going to split ourselves into two bess. One thats going to be Running Hotels and the other one we will keep holding lease holds on that, as well. So
Much bigger and we dont want to take the wrong action. We want to ask for the science, create preventive measures and look at the greatest source of risk but not create perhaps impediments for some of those most interesting areas where there is innovation, entrepreneurship and renewal going on in urban areas. So thank you very much. Thank you, paul now its your turn. I want to thank cspan on behalf of the foundation for covering this this morning. The purpose of the floor in the foundation is to bring education to the 300 million americans that enjoy the food that is produced in the United States so we thank cspan for making this coverage and the panelists for sharing their views. Now its your turn. To those on the audio cast, please send us your questions. To those in the room, please come to the microphone and state your name and organization. I am Charlie Stenholm former member of congress now with the law. Im a member of the house and do not dissipate in filibusters. I will recogni
System, tracing, certification, all of that is addressed within forums such as ours. And collaboration, businesstobusiness and with government regulators to ensure uniform compliance with International Standards and reduced incentives for fraud. The achievements of global food safety forum, we did receive a usda grant and we received Chinese Government in kind support. Weve had several conferences worldwide. We did corporate site visits. We have partners like the center food safety, defense what you probably know of in minnesota, its a consortium of 40 universities. We work closely with food and drug law institute. So these partnerships would like to integrate into these handson activities that we do. Chinese delegations visit to the United States, this year we intend to launch online courses on food safety for Chinese Companies and government regulators. And most certainly in that context there will be fsma compliance courses as well. And launching food safety comment and our big proj
Should marijuana be legalized . If you say yes, join in. 585 5853 881. If you say no, 585388 zero. If you are undecided, 202585388 two. The piece here, with the dateline line in kiev, points out abandoned by his guards, reviled across the capital, determined to reacquire his shredded political authority. This morning the wall street journal reports that the whereabouts of the president were unknown at this time. Russia will in the meantime hold off on any further loans to aid the ukraine in what they are calling for Sweeping Change in the former republic of the soviet union. Later in this program we will focus on a new study on north korea and just how bad the situation is there. We want to focus this morning on a frontpage story from the Washington Post. Marijuanas moment. As the nations governors meet to legalize marijuana, the push to legalize marijuana has flourished and floundered over five decades, but a shifting sentiment appears to be bringing it to fruition. The essence of the