Thank you. So we have a quorum. And our next item is item 2. President s announcement. Good morning, everybody, welcome to the june 17th, 2020. I have some president s announcement and in add please forgive me for any miss spelling or miss pronouncing of words in advance. As i said, good morning and welcome to our remote Building Inspection Commission meeting for june 2020. I am president of the Building Inspection Commission and im joined today by all of our commissioner members along with interim director reardon and senior d. B. I. Staff. Welcome to all of you. As we continue to cope with this extraordinary circumstances caused by the covid19 pandemic, we are now in our First Quarter of on going building safety work and different ways from back in february of this year that we have to do this report. Were certainly still working on issues. I can Sate Department is doing an outstanding job of keeping customers and staff hearing to the publichealth protocols that have been put in plac
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At any time and without objections, members not on the task force are allowed to participate consistent with the committees practice. And this is entitled robots and ai and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Financial Service industry. Thank you all for joining us for what is an interesting hearing of the task force. Today, we are looking at exploring how a. I. Is being deployed in the Capital Markets from automated trading to port follow allocation to Investment Management decisions. We are also going to consider how the use of this technology is changing the nature of work in Financial Services and rendering some jobs obsolete, and changing the skillset needed to service others. It is not an exaggeration today to say that wall street is quite literally run by computers and long gone are the days when the traders would be screaming on the floors of the new york stock exchange, and they would use t. I. Calculators and pour over the ticker tape to determine the companys value.
Picking up the pieces after a chaotic sideshows ends with cars under water and innocent woman in the hospital. Now from the areas local news station. This is kron. 4 news at 3. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 3. Im justine waldman. Our top story comes from the south bay where city workers in san jose have voted to go on strike next week. Kron 4 Charles Clifford has the latest. Well, here in san jose, thousands of city workers have overwhelmingly voted to go on strike. San jose city workers into unions have voted to authorize a 3 day strike starting tuesday, august 15th running through the 17th 4500 workers from across the city, including employees at the airport and city facilities, such as libraries are now set to walk off the job next week. The union say that the main sticking points are disagreements over wages and benefits. The unions also say they want the city to address Staffing Shortages. Striking is a last resort. Our hope is that City Council Members
To fuel the countrys economy and military. [sachs] typically, American Foreign policy like British Imperial Foreign Policy before it, paid a tremendous amount of attention to securing oil for the economy. That includes who we have befriended, but it has also included us launching wars; stationing military bases; engaging in coups and orienting a massive amount of our Foreign Policy around oil. [mcnally] by world war one, oil was transitioning to becoming the lifeblood of modern civilization. If electricity is literally the circuitry, without which modern life is impossible, oil is the lifeblood. [jacobs] its both vital to our economy and its vital to our military. And that became true once we switched to an oil based military. [narrator] in recent years, the us Energy Revolution has shifted the geopolitical balance. [gordon] this is a new state of affairs. This was not happening a decade ago, but today 80 percent of the oil in america is sourced from north america; from the continent.