What did you learn about nike, microsoft and starbucks in branding . Guest its great to be with you and to have this time. When i was writing the no logo it came out at the very beginning of 2000, so its almost exactly 20 years old. The period when i was researching which was the four years before that it was a period where lot was changing in the corporate world and you have the first kind of fullblown lifestyle brand, which is an idea we take for granted now, but these were companies that for the first time were declaring that their Business Model was not sell products, but ideas, a lifestyle, a sense of belonging that they could then extend into kind of self enclosed branded cocoons and sort of sell everything along as it was branded with this logo. Nike was really the first one to do this. They didnt ever owned their factories and this the main thing i learned when researching no logo was that there was a relationship between this aggressive the marketing, it was constantly sort of
And thats how i see our investments, as an opportunity to make sure that good things happen for people here in San Francisco, and we create a Better Future with these incredible investments. So make sure, all the departments, you spend this money wisely. You dont take pen and paper home that you dont need. [laughter] and you do your very best to show folks in this city that we are the greatest city in the world because we put our money where our mouth is, and because of that, we are able to create a more thriving, equitable, safe, and secure city for all san franciscans. Thank you all so much for being here. [cheers and applause] with that, i would like to turn it over to our budget chair, supervisor sandy fewer. [applause] thank you, madame mayor. Good morning, everyone. Wow. On behalf of my 80,000 residents in the Richmond District, i would like to welcome you to this part of town where our summers look like this every day off mac. But where we are doing good work to strengthen and g
Manus yesterday we broke the news that there was a ratcheting higher in the tariff wars wars. What are the implications . The economy is stable. They will adjust Economic Policy as is appropriate. It really is about the next response lever from china for me. Nejra questions are being asked about whether they need to do more to fuel credit and support the property sector, loosen some of the controls. Some of the reaction we are seeing is not because of pmi, because they show a little more pressure from trade, but more because of the response and the words weve had from authorities today. Manus lets talk about the rest of the response mechanism. Steven major said, im talking about ground zero for trade. The new Zealand Dollar. A lower move. The market believes you are going to see a much more aggressive repricing. Cutprobability of another from the kiwi. The shorts are the highest since november. Have a look at the yuan. What is the correlation between the negative yielding bonds and gol
Demand. In all likelihood, that would be something that would be coming forward, if the exemption stays in place, at the state level, probably coming forward at a local level to require all businesses. Do we have any kind of idea on the date for ab161 . It is still in the senate. We do not have a date, at this point. Then, lastly, i just want to say that the last Strategic Plan that the department has is from 201314. I have discussed this with the president , and the Vice President , that it needs be updated. I think this is something we could work on during the Commission Meeting without having to have a separate meeting. We will be working with president adams and Vice President dwight to bring that to you. Great, thank you. Quick question, going back to the earlier thing. You mentioned onestop shopping for the new portal. This goes into an idea, i was just wondering, what does that mean like you can apply for all of the permit, just through the portal, or . We were working to work w
Board and a response to a recent article that talks about white out for the cameras, and unfortunately, i believe there were several inaccuracies to that article. One of which is that the issue of glare is not unique to the l. R. P. Four or the fact that we use cameras instead of mirrors. The glare is most acute at west portal, which is why 15 years ago, we actually put up a convex mirror to provide additional availability visibility for our operators, which is part of how they are currently trained. [please stand by] we have, as part of the costing package that we originally brought to you, we have some place holder costs for what we anticipate things to be, so Something Like the flat wheels, which is an issue that both operators and mechanics have been raising for a long time are already built into that overall package that we brought, and at this time, we do not anticipate that package changing significantly, but theres still a lot of work to do as we get to those final estimates. S