And its my privilege to welcome many of you back to historic Decatur House in the White House Historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the Us Capital Historical Society and the Us Supreme Court historical society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my friend Jane Campbell who is the president of the National Historical society. On june 4, 1919 the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The suffragists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge an equity and bring attention to their cause. Tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens rights to vote. Before i introduce our speaker i have a couple of other introductions and things i would like to share. First of all we have guests smith college, the Washington Club of smith college. Stand up. [ applause ] they are special guests
Of course as you heard earlier, this was developed over years of workshops and reviews and collaboration between all of the utilities. So on this slide, im just kind of going over the attachments and what we do. At t is attached to approximately 26,000 poles in San Francisco. Now, of those, 2,000 are solely owned by at t. The majority we are coowners with pg e and you heard a little bit about that earlier. Our inspections as far as maintenance and inspections and protocols, our techs are required to inspect the infrastructure for safety issues every single time they touch our equipment. So if you are running around San Francisco, you see our trucks everywhere. So we are constantly doing these evaluations. They actually call it a tzone inspection that they need to do, where they look up the pole and then they look both directions as far as the ooi can see just to notice if there are any irregularities or anything that needs to be repaired and they are empowered to repair that on site or
Thats 600 pages of state rules for overhead line design, construction, and maintenance. Of course as you heard earlier, this was developed over years of workshops and reviews and collaboration between all of the utilities. So on this slide, im just kind of going over the attachments and what we do. At t is attached to approximately 26,000 poles in San Francisco. Now, of those, 2,000 are solely owned by at t. The majority we are coowners with pg e and you heard a little bit about that earlier. Our inspections as far as maintenance and inspections and protocols, our techs are required to inspect the infrastructure for safety issues every single time they touch our equipment. So if you are running around San Francisco, you see our trucks everywhere. So we are constantly doing these evaluations. They actually call it a tzone inspection that they need to do, where they look up the pole and then they look both directions as far as the ooi can see just to notice if there are any irregularitie
History tv. Announcer next on American History tv, author Rebecca Roberts talks about the decade leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment and how women gained the right to vote through marching, picketing, and persistence. Ms. Roberts is the author of suffragists in washington, d. C. , the 1913 parade and the fight for the vote. The White House Historical association hosted this discussion. Stewart my name is stuart, the president of the White House Historical association. It is my privilege to welcome many of you back to the historic Decatur House and the White House Historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society, and we have our wonderful colleagues from both tonight, and we would like to welcome you here today. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratif
Manifesto online. We talk with ellen pao, the former ceo of reddit. Plus, uber and lyft post earnings. And fedex drops amazon. The delivery giant says it will not renew its contract as the online retailer expands its own shipping and logistics game. We talked to one of the Founding Members of fedex ground. First, uber came out with secondquarter results, investors looking for signs they will eventually become profitable. Did they succeed . I asked our guests. We see multiple ways that management can move towards profitability. We see nearterm drivers in the form of reducing driver and rider promotions and incentives. We also think they are things the Management Teams can do in terms of reducing market expenses and insurance costs to help move the company toward profitability in the near to midterm. Longerterm, we see additional upside in the move toward autonomy as being a key component in reducing costs and moving companies more toward profitability. Emily except that autonomy is just