Our second panel will assess chinas role in Global Health and activities in the United States. We will start with rosemary gibson, introduce everybody first and then we will go to ms. Gibson. We will start with rosemary gibson, whose name has been mentioned already several times if you were here. Who is a Senior Advisor pasting Center Perspectives at the jama internal medicine. She is author china rx, exposing the risk ab next we will hear from ben westhoff an awardwinning investigative journalist mr. Westhoff new book retinol incorporated how roby chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic. Will be published in september. The book focuses on that know with now kills more americans annually than any drug in american history. Our third panelist is jennifer buie who is a senior policy researcher and detained chair in china publicity stall is at the rain corporation. As an epidemiologist with training and clinical medicine and quantitative methods, doctor buie Researc
On two u. S. Dollar bonds due today staving off what would have been the first default. Xpeng announces plans to expand into germany as automakers continue discussions at the auto show. The move is about prestige according to the ceo. It is the highest standard market for oems. To be here and make our Product Available to the customers in this market will help us further penetrate the continental european market. And novo nordisk dethrones lvmh as investor appetite for weight loss drug soars. Good morning. Welcome to street signs. Just in the last couple minutes, we have been getting the final pmi numbers for the month of august in eurozone. Let me tell you, they are worse than the flash. It is not positive. The final composite pmi for eurozone is 46. 7. Lower than the flash of 47. It is suggesting that the downturn is deeper than initially thought. Just to give you context as well, the number today is down from julys figure of 48. 6. It is the lowest level we have seen since november
Commissioner president loftus id like to call roll is commissioner president loftus commissioner Vice President turman commissioner marshall commissioner mazzuco commissioner dejesus commissioner wong commissioner melara ask excused commissioner president loftus we have quorum also with us the intern chief of Police Toney Chaplin and joyce hicks. Okay. Good evening and welcome to the wednesday, november 2, 2016, Police Commission meeting im going to make changes to the agenda given the length of the agenda a long closed session handling discipline matters one and 2 to our meeting next week and go ahead and start with general Public Comment. So Public Comment will be two minutes given the length of the agenda and the anticipated number of speeches. Item 3 the public is welcome to address the commission on items not on tonights agenda but within the jurisdiction of the commission. With respect to agenda items, please direct your questions to the commission as a whole and not to individua
The Richmond District on 20th and geary the reason he decided to run for the board of supervisors a few years ago i saw one of my neighbors hit by a tar car with no traffic signal it should have had a traffic signal and no traffic signal there today, we still have one dozen drshgsz on geary without a traffic signal i think that is irresponsible on behalf of our elected officials not to make safety a priority another issue in the district that i feel needs to be addressed is crime it has gotten oversee over the 40 years in the district you see more graffiti on the streets, we see litter on the sidewalk and items left on the curve maintenance for infrastructure as deratted our parks are not maintenance and roads and sidewalks what will i do as your supervisor i will reprioritize the issues weve discussed and make at translated a priority and make sure we have Traffic Signals on all blocks if the geary tunnel to ocean beach and timed so traffic can move across geary and pedestrian can cro
[gavel] good morning and welcome to a special meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee for today thursday september 29. I am the chair of the committee. Supervisor aaron peskin. Joined to my right vice chair norman yee and to my left president london breed and were joined by david campos. Our clerk is erica major. Madam clerk are there any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the. Items acted upon today anybody r will be on the eakt 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Could you read the first and only item for todays meeting . Yes. Item 1 is ordinance amending the administrative code to create the neighborhood crime unit in the mrs. And activated with the controller certifies that the department is at full staffing level mandated in the charter. Thank you supervisor yee is the sponsor of this ordinance. The floor is yours supervisor. Thank you c