My name is is joe vogel. Im a state delegate here representing, the great city of gaithersburg. And it is my pleasure to introduce all of you to the city of gaithersburg. I am so thrilled this morning to be introducing ari shapiro as he his book, the best stranger in the world stories from a life spent listening. When i first saw that this book would be presented at the book festival and before i was given the honor of introducing the session, i took note of the book i screenshotted the cover of it to add it to my reading list. Not only because i am an occasional listener, of all things considered, but also because of my own interest in listening to strangers for as long as i can remember, i have been fascinated by strangers. The very idea of a stranger. Right . What is a stranger . Its. Its pretty wild to me. And while others shy away meetings, speaking with and listening, strangers like ari, i aim to, whenever possible, do the now as a state legislator listening to strangers, turning
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thanks for joining the panel on us rok travel corporation. I am the Deputy Director and senior fellow. In the previous session we discussed ways for us rok japan to expand their trilateral cooperation in the face of growing security challenges from north korea. The second panel, moving beyond the Korean Peninsula moving beyond escalating tensions between china and taiwan and ways for the us rok japan to Work Together to maintain peace and stability in the region. I am joined its my pleasure to introduce each of them. On my left is sunghan kim from the asiapacific center for Security Studies at the institute of the Us Department of state defense based in hawaii. His area of expertise covers korea, korea, china, china, Korean Peninsula relations, north korea simply a program, us alliance in east asia. Next is the director of contemporary chinese studies and professor of the graduate school of asiapacific studie
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thanks for joining the panel on us rok travel corporation. I am the Deputy Director and senior fellow. In the previous session we discussed ways for us rok japan to expand their trilateral cooperation in the face of growing security challenges from north korea. The second panel, moving beyond the Korean Peninsula moving beyond escalating tensions between china and taiwan and ways for the us rok japan to Work Together to maintain peace and stability in the region. I am joined its my pleasure to introduce each of them. On my left is sunghan kim from the asiapacific center for Security Studies at the institute of the Us Department of state defense based in hawaii. His area of expertise covers korea, korea, china, china, Korean Peninsula relations, north korea simply a program, us alliance in east asia. Next is the director of contemporary chinese studies and professor of the graduate school of asiapacific studie
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thanks for joining the panel on us rok travel corporation. I am the Deputy Director and senior fellow. In the previous session we discussed ways for us rok japan to expand their trilateral cooperation in the face of growing security challenges from north korea. The second panel, moving beyond the Korean Peninsula moving beyond escalating tensions between china and taiwan and ways for the us rok japan to Work Together to maintain peace and stability in the region. I am joined its my pleasure to introduce each of them. On my left is sunghan kim from the asiapacific center for Security Studies at the institute of the Us Department of state defense based in hawaii. His area of expertise covers korea, korea, china, china, Korean Peninsula relations, north korea simply a program, us alliance in east asia. Next is the director of contemporary chinese studies and professor of the graduate school of asiapacific studie
Early . Absolutely. Please. Please. Well, good morning to you all. It is tuesday, september fifth. Im gloria rodriguez. September, yall. Yeah. Yeah its september the 5th. So just you know, try this halloween oratio. Thats right. Halloween. Its due. Yeah lets wait till halloween and then thanksgiving. Yes. That is christmas. And we still have some warm weather. Yeah, this year. You know, its been cool, but were having some warmer temperatures this afternoon in the summer has just been below average. And so far, you know, we havent had too many heat spells. Well say that. But it has been warm from time to time. It will get warmer later on this afternoon right now, live look from the exploratorium camera, not totally overcast. We have holes in the cloud cover right now. So patchy fog out there at best. Theres no dense pockets right now that could change over the next hour or so. Well watch that. Temperatures right now, some low 50s in the valleys of the north bay. We have upper 50s, low 6