Hello, North Carolina. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you. I tell you what, its great to be here. I tell you what, its the reason why hbcus are doing so well. Well make them do even better. I tell you what. Thanks for sharing your story, thats what this country is all about. Youre making your family proud, man. I want to thank the speakers ahead of me. Commissioner, soontobe commissioner, jessica holmes, where are you . I know youre here somewhere. And also, stuart holley, zach hawkins, folks, coach, i tell you what, my granddaughter is with me today. She went to a school that the coach went to for a little while in washington. Apparently, the coach is tell me that shes recruiting some of the Girls Basketball team from where my granddaughter went to school. And she showed me, coach, she showed me a video you were doing for your team where you made the distinction between competing and winning, the heart of winning. You talked about working hard and competing. Everybody, you poi
Not kovach. We were introduced i tom, local scribe here years ago and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms ofbackground and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just wanted to give you background before ron and istart speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead end her, i know hope as they were called. Its the average lifespanwith 18 months for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was the game changer. The advent of penicillin, they had surgical units right behind the battlefield, right behind the front line and they had better evacuation back to the mainland. So by the end of world war ii we do have a cohort of about 2500 us veterans who are paralyzed and returned home and they had a chance at a normal life and this was the first cohort that was going to have this and it presented a dilemma and a bit of an issu
Test, how will this impact our sunday football . Surging covid cases across the country overwhelming hospitals. Theyre exhausted we have been going at this for nine months now. The struggling front line workers and the people most at risk live from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. And good evening, we begin tonight with hope, a Silver Lining even, as another wave of covid sweeps across our nation in big business and small brace for the fallout. There is a new and promising sign for our economy as we head into the weekend the numbers are in, and they show americans are spending. Retail sales up sharply last month. We just got the numbers today. More than doubling the expectations shoppers spending big on clothes and accessories, up 11 . Music and book sales jumped 6 car sales up 3 1 2 . Thats all good, and now the big test Small Businesses and Big Box Stores are heading into a make or break Holiday Season with the virus bearing down now and no
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President yee good afternoon. And welcome to the october 6th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Commissioner fewer present. Clerk supervisor haney . Supervisor haney present. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman present. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar present. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin present. Clerk supervisor preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk supervisor safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton present. Clerk and supervisor yee. President yee present. Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United St