Okay. Welcome to San Francisco Planning Commission remote hearing for thursday, july 9, 2020. Before we begin, as i have in the past, i would like to enter the following into the record. On february 25, 2020, the mayor declared a local state of emergency related to covid19. Further more the mayor and governor have issued emergency orders suspending select laws amicable to boards and commissions. On april 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene through the end of the shelterinplace remotely. This is the 15th remote hearing. I am requesting everyones patience in advance. The platforms are not perfect and at times may even be clumsy. If youre not speaking, mute your microphone and turn off your video camera. Do not hit any controls that may affect other participants. To enable public participation, sfgovtv is streaming this live. Sfgovtv is broadcasting and streaming the toll free phonein number across the bottom of the screen. Opportuni
I first was young corporal wayne johnson, 22 years old, citizen of the british west indies. My second was corporal manual rivera, citizen of mexico. My third, Staff Sergeant remy lebrune, of canada. Lawful permanent residents served at higher rates than itive born americans and first years in the fleet brought that home to me in human terms because the person i relied on most to teach a young infantry lieutenant his skills were all noncitizens in my first few years in the marine force. And many times i would attend swearing ceremonies when soldiers, sailors, airmen, coast n, swarthy oath of allegiance taken by all who wish to become u. S. Citizens. Here is what that says. I will read it to you. I hereby declare on oath that i absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all fidelity to any foreign prince, state or sovereignty of whom were of which i have heretofore been a subject or citizen, that i will support and defend the constitution and laws of the United States of america against
Group to the stage. [applause] michael so welcome and thanks. This is a huge crowd, coming out this evening, to talk about the subject of considerable interest and controversy, namely citizenship in the United States. From the beginning of the republic, there has been a problem. How do you form, how do we form a citizenry out of such a diverse of diverse and eclectic mix . This is important, at least our framers believed it was because their understanding was in a republic, as opposed to a other regime, it was responsible essential that citizens voluntarily out of their own passion and patriotism be committed to a much thicker understanding of the common good than is necessary in the other regimes. It is both more necessary and more difficult. And then we were lacking some things these older regimes would have that had been unifying citizen forming institutions. We did not have a monarch around whom we would rally. We were not going to have a unified established church. We were not goi
Care expert, entrepreneur for 24 years, an awardee of the 30 working mothers of the year. Janet lang is Kaiser Kaiser pere president and a major bad ass in her own right. Please welcome janet lang. [applause]. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh Kaiser Permanente is in the house today. Hello [cheers and applause] good afternoon, everyone. You know, i was so excited to be joining you today. And i was coming to the conference and i saw the theme was to be invincible. I took a minute to take a look at the dictionary to say what are some of the other ideas and themes behind the word invincible. And what stood out for me was indestructible, unbeatable, and absolutely too powerful to overcome. All right yeah thats right. [applause] those are fighting words. So i asked myself, so what exactly are we fighting for . So i have four principles that i think that were fighting for. The first is that were fighting for recognition, that there is economic value in the role that wome
Certain tariffs. Not just a trade deal, but actually removing some of the economi existing tariffs earnings continue to lead us higher just a bit. We have names like kroger and tapestry, the old coach beating expectations joining us for the entire hour is a man you know well, steven weiss from Short Hills Capital partners steven, good to see you down here at the New York Stock Exchange good to see you brian good to see us both heres the thing, earnings, trade, maybe just general positive market sentiment. One of those three or maybe something else, that has been the primary driver for what has been a nice little run we are up nine of the past eleven sessions on the s p 500 i think there are multiple drivers to the market. Trade being the most important and the most dominant. You can see the correlation. For those who say that trade is all in the market, thats clearly not true because when you get positive news coming out, the market ticks up when you get negative news, it goes down. So