Worst of the Virus Outbreak life slowly starts to return to normal. A homecoming for South African stranded in the chinese city of new hand where the corona virus was 1st reported. And corner virus wipes out most of the walls and made just 14 advent of the English Premier League at the Boston Marathon and formula one are all off the Global Sports calendar into chaos. Ok welcome to the news or lets get going the coronavirus pandemic is forcing countries around the world to take extreme measures affecting all aspects of life for billions of people heres a global snapshot of whats been happening now the United States has declared a National Emergency and a travel ban is in effect for most european. And planning trips to the United States canada suspending its parliament while the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau advised citizens against any foreign travel and he himself is now under quarantine after his wife tested positive turning our attention to mainland Continental Europe thats the epice
American economy. He argues that corporations, despite americans ambivalence towards them are essential in in the balanced productive and Progressive Society by spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work and creating a bounty by which americans have come to depend. Walter, Deputy Editor of Harvard Business review writes that he writes a compelling defense of big does i this finance and the tech industry. Both their critics and their defenders will benefit from reading this book. He will be joined in conversation tonight by edward, u. S. National editor for Financial Times and author of the retreat of western liberalism. Please join me in welcoming tiger and edward. [applause] thank you, thank you very much. Thank you very much for that introduction. Its a delight to be here. Ive met tyler a million times iand weve been friends for many years. We dont always agree with each other, but i think that i can confidently say that hes not just an example of disagreeing without being d
The past 10 years alone are impressive. It is showing up allaround the city as you drive through. Everything from the Veterans War Memorial building and this building and all around. We want to make that part of the discussion that happens there. We talk about the work we have to do. We want to say thanks to the citizens that we have been able to get the funding to make it all happen. Thank you. Probably the most common question i have been asked over the last six weeks. This happens before the earthquake anniversary how much better prepared are we than we were 30 years ago . The answer is much better prepared. That is in great part to the folks here but also the people of San Francisco who have supported all of this work. However, that doe does not meant we can sit back and think everything is okay. These opportunities are helpful and we want to encourage everyone to stay on their toes here and remember it is important if you can prepare, take some measures that you do so. There are m
Memorial building and this building and all around. We want to make that part of the discussion that happens there. We talk about the work we have to do. We want to say thanks to the citizens that we have been able to get the funding to make it all happen. Thank you. Probably the most common question i have been asked over the last six weeks. This happens before the earthquake anniversary how much better prepared are we than we were 30 years ago . The answer is much better prepared. That is in great part to the folks here but also the people of San Francisco who have supported all of this work. However, that doe does not meant we can sit back and think everything is okay. These opportunities are helpful and we want to encourage everyone to stay on their toes here and remember it is important if you can prepare, take some measures that you do so. There are many members of the community that arent able to do that. If we can it makes it more important that we make plans and connect with o
Of precancellations of flights and coordination with faa and airlines and airport to ensure operational disruption was minimized. We were very successful doing that. The end result was this early opening of the runway. The planning was there, execution was there at times what you heard was a little bit off base. I think we managed the message and wound up with a positive outcome. Congratulations on early completion. Thanks. Go ahead, mark. Control learns office. Every year the Controllers Office sends to all department a memo with the project costing codes and time tracking codes. I want to alert everybody for those who attended the training earlier this week they have received the memo that was part of the training. We will send that memo out today. It will go to the cfos. For all of the defendants if they would look out. What this is covering is the project codes updated every year in the Financial System utilized to track the cost for an Emergency Response situation and the activity