To be honest with you. She gives her time freely. Shes a great advocate for young people. She offers them support. She offers them advice. She very much helps shape the service the way the independent visitors scheme runs. For me, before i came into care, i didnt really have a childhood. I basically raised my two young brothers. I was, sort of, given all the familys dilemmas and problems, they were put on my shoulders. Care changed my life. I did things that a normal 13 year old should do instead of staying at home and cooking meals. It was difficult, but at the same time, easy. It was just a massive relief. Have you signed in yet . I dont think i will ever stop doing what im doing, never, ever stop. For me, im going to take it further and make sure that every child in care has a voice and every child is loving being in care. Applause. Abbey is here with me now. Congratulations on your young citizen award. How do you feel . Its really, its all a whirlwind really. I never expected to wi
Them could impact the business world. And a new peek at the hyper loop. 060 in 1. 1 seconds. Phil lebeau is there and well have the latest del tails. Holy cow. Plus the governor of North Carolina will join us to discuss the impact of that controversial bathroom bill thats caused hundreds, from businesses to boycotters to ban his state. Take a wlook at all of the names being dragged down by macys. Sales missed expectations and also slashed its outlook for the year. That is its fifth straight Quarterly Sales decline. Rick snyder who had a hold rating on macys. We saw this take the whole sector down. Is this telling us how the consumer or brick and mortar is doing . Im not sure it is necessarily about either. I think it is about categories. And i think a lot of it is about weather, kelly. We havent had seasonal weather now for about a year. And i think if we can get a good cold winter the stocks can pick back up. You are telling me that 15 drop is on weather . If thats true that would see
Cease . Guest ing well, thanks for asking. By the word hacking, i mean a playful rethinking of a subject as compare today a nefarious computer hacker, and that has to do with the book that i wrote. The logic is we can rethink happiness so its not just about mood, and we can also measure happiness by using emerging technology, and thats also where the app in paren the cease comes into play. How you can be accountable, how you can be a provider and how you can be proactive. So it has to do with a subject matter i cover in the book. Host whats the role of technology in creating happiness . Guest well, i think its, the first thing is that technology is so much a part of our lives now in one sense, it has to a certain extent become us. Outside the idea of sort of cyborg questions, we have a fake limb thats wifi enabled which is pretty possible, the logic is that our iphones and smartphones are such a huge part of our lives, to ignore technology or say im just going to ignore it, i think for
To mitigate loss of staff we use flexible staffing and 3 year positions when feasible we also budget conservatively to insure were not living outside of our means another way to prepare ourselves with the use of mobile to increase our efficiency and specifically the use of tablets in the field allows staff to stay in the field longer so they dont have to upload other things lastly it is important that we continue to seek long term Funding Sources for street reas far as i am concerned the general fund constituted 11 million through the years 20142015 Capital Budget this cant continue with the economic downturn if we want to continue to improve our streets findings the dedicated sources in the long terms is critical with that, ill conclude my presentation thank you all for allowing us and looking forward to working with you on the 20152016 and 20162017 budget i object to take questions and my staff who do all the hard work and getting this package ready. Thank you, colleagues will have q
Equitable how streets are being repaved. We work closely that walk sf we meet monthly and go over the cities data of areas of high injury or areas that meet the goals of disposition and overlay our paving plan with those areas our paving plan is decided based on pc score based on the condition of the street areas we find loopholes we try to figure out how to each those areas but a huge number of fatalities is in a small area of the city so those areas are the areas we need to focus on so i think we have a great relationship i think weve never seen a good time like we have now the mta, public works and puc and planning all the agencies working together to solve one problem with the Heads Together and marketing and doing much better we meet the goals of zero fatality by 2020. Supervisor wiener. Thank you very much two things first of all, mr. Neuro. And the men and women of the public works for the incredible work you do with limited resources you have so many Parking Spaces to clean and