director tang, president huie, vice-president zhou. my name is marianne thompson and i'm with the office of small business. yes! so, i'm going to do the history of shop and dine in the 49. michelle is going to do future. so, two of you, commissioners, have had presentations from me in the past. it was started in 2014 with mayor lee, who used to have a quarterly roundtable with small businesses and one of the things they came forward with is they wanted a buy local campaign. at that point, it was, how do we get people to shop in the corridors and i'll say we partnered with emc research in 2014 to actually do some research for us and it turns out that people understood by local, but there wasn't a thing that resonated with them to buy local. it turns out jobs was not a good talking point. poor josh. he's going to go, oh my god. when we talked about what resonates with residents and what resonates with folks, it's the vibrancy of our corridor. that hits people and gets them to shop local. i want to share this one fun fact that came out of

director tang, president huie, vice-president zhou. my name is marianne thompson and i'm with the office of small business. yes! so, i'm going to do the history of shop and dine in the 49. michelle is going to do future. so, two of you, commissioners, have had presentations from me in the past. it was started in 2014 with mayor lee, who used to have a quarterly roundtable with small businesses and one of the things they came forward with is they wanted a buy local campaign. at that point, it was, how do we get people to shop in the corridors and i'll say we partnered with emc research in 2014 to actually do some research for us and it turns out that people understood by local, but there wasn't a thing that resonated with them to buy local. it turns out jobs was not a good talking point. poor josh. he's going to go, oh my god. when we talked about what resonates with residents and what resonates with folks, it's the vibrancy of our corridor. that hits people and gets them to shop local. i want to share this one fun fact that came out of

i know commissioners zhou likes to give me constructive criticism. [laughter] just kidding >> thank you. let's see. commissioner herbert. >> thank you, i just want to say, first of all, thank you so much for even thinking about this because it's really important for all of san francisco small businesses, but specifically as a restaurant owner, it's really, really important that we get some of these fees waived. restaurants are, you know, a vital part of the health of the city's economy, as you know, and restaurants can also help with revitalizing areas which we badly need in this city and so, i would propose that you take it a step further and waive, not just the application fees, but i think the permit fees might be waived already for two years. >> i think those were -- that's the same thing, is that correct? the permit fees are the annual fee? yeah. >> permit is one time and then, sorry, the license is every year, so i would -- i think it's waived for two years, if i'm not -- >> i think that's right. >> okay. and then i would raise the bar for rest

director tang, president huie, vice-president zhou. my name is marianne thompson and i'm with the office of small business. yes! so, i'm going to do the history of shop and dine in the 49. michelle is going to do future. so, two of you, commissioners, have had presentations from me in the past. it was started in 2014 with mayor lee, who used to have a quarterly roundtable with small businesses and one of the things they came forward with is they wanted a buy local campaign. at that point, it was, how do we get people to shop in the corridors and i'll say we partnered with emc research in 2014 to actually do some research for us and it turns out that people understood by local, but there wasn't a thing that resonated with them to buy local. it turns out jobs was not a good talking point. poor josh. he's going to go, oh my god. when we talked about what resonates with residents and what resonates with folks, it's the vibrancy of our corridor. that hits people and gets them to shop local. i want to share this one fun fact that came out of

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but zhou emergence might be that key to turning it around.deals from global brands. >> any international sports coming to china, for it to truly become popular, it needs to have relevance. and nothing builds relevance like having your own superstar and champion to support. we have seen that in other sports -- basketball with the emergence of yao mng. how those superstars on the global stage have boosted the sport. now we have guanyu zhou. that will also stimulate commercial interest. hopefully when formula one comes back to china next year, we will start to reap the rewards and grow the popularity. yvonne: i think canceling the grand prix in china is something that a lot of fans mean want to see them bring it back because obviously you want to have a homegrown driver. rishaad: this is it, corbett has canceled the last four -- covid has canceled the last four races. a cynic would say that they have done this before a few times. it is actually a way of furthering the sport. and certainly a place where you can really have this huge room to grow.

i know commissioners zhou likes to give me constructive criticism.hank you. let's see. commissioner herbert. >> thank you, i just want to say, first of all, thank you so much for even thinking about this because it's really important for all of san francisco small businesses, but specifically as a restaurant owner, it's really, really important that we get some of these fees waived. restaurants are, you know, a vital part of the health of the city's economy, as you know, and restaurants can also help with revitalizing areas which we badly need in this city and so, i would propose that you take it a step further and waive, not just the application fees, but i think the permit fees might be waived already for two years. >> i think those were -- that's the same thing, is that correct? the permit fees are the annual fee? yeah. >> permit is one time and then, sorry, the license is every year, so i would -- i think it's waived for two years, if i'm not -- >> i think that's right. >> okay. and then i would raise the bar for restaurants in terms of annual re

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but zhou's eherremans maybe the -- emergence might be the key to turning things around.s from global brands. >> in -- international sports coming to dhina, for it -- to china, for it to become popular it has to have relevance and nothing builds relevance like having your own superstar and champion to support. and we've seen that in other sports, basketball, with the emergence of yao ming and tennis in li na and how superstars on the global stage have boosted the sport. and now we have we have zhou granu on formula one and will stimulate commercial interests. hopefully when formula one comes back to china next year, it will start to really reap the rewards and grow the popularity. haidi: bloomberg's charlotte yang there reporting. some of the stocks where watching ahead of markets opening in hong kong in china this friday. session in alibaba will be a key focus. after bloomberg revealed in its scoop that the international online shopping unit is exploring a potential u.s. i.p.o. and saying holders representing approximately 85% of its existing debt have agreed to a restru

secret mission to pakistan to meet kissinger there and fly with him to beijing to chinese premier zhoua's views and left room for the americans to present their views. then the general points of view of both sides were listed, about which we basically agreed already during the negotiations about those secret negotiations, for which the kitty was in such a hurry that he even forgot at the hotel. i had to wear a shirt. the one that was borrowed by an assistant not in size in china even made a movie where the tank, wein-sheng played an important role. after all, she allowed us to understand each other not just negotiator, in general, to china and the united states and the main message that kisanger conveyed to nixon , the chinese are undoubtedly people of deep convictions. and we are separated by huge chasms of dialogue and isolation. but nonetheless. they were ready to outline the prospects not only for the normalization of relations, but also for moving forward.

welcome caller, your 3 minutes begins now. >> my name is ellen lee zhou. i work for san francisco government as a public health worker. i represent government employees. we have 37 thousand government employees. our public health has more then 11 thousand government employees. i was one of the many people who are not vaccinated, fired by the city, the city fire more then 2,000 people and force many people to leave their job for more then 3,000 people. our government, the ethic commission is part of the government creating the laws, codes and regulations to stop government corruption, yet, your commissioners and the staff who work with ethic commission, you created a law, but you don't follow the law. i reported to you how the elected officials, the mayor, board of supervisors, the city leaders, health leaders lie to the public about pandemic 2019 by forcing the public to accept appointments, vaccine. now we see more and more people die, yet you are not willing to hear the truth. now, we have a lot of people sick and dying from cancer, we have young people

to pakistan to meet kissenger there and fly with him to beijing to premier zhou enlai, we have presented's views and left space for the americans to present their views. then the general points of view of both sides were listed, about which we basically agreed already during the negotiations about those secret negotiations on which kitty was in such a hurry that he even forgot his shirt in the hotel. i had to put it on here. the one that is not the right size assistant in the middle kingdom even made a movie where the tank is. ben-sheng was given an important role. after all, it allowed china and the united states to understand each other not just as a negotiator, but in general to china and the united states and the main message that kisanger conveyed to nixon the chinese are undoubtedly people of deep convictions. and we are separated by huge chasms of dialogue and isolation. but nonetheless. they were ready to outline the prospects not only for the normalization of relations, but also moving forward towards friendship and cooperation , those negotiations laid the foundation for a futu

uh- at the time, the doj alleges derek zhou's ponzi scheme began in 2013. >> he allegedly solicited investments with the promise of returns from the resale of warriors tickets and luxury suites at oracle and the chase center for $500,000. check january mack and john chao have filed multiple lawsuits from more than a dozen people who believe the true father and son duo worked as a team. >> this one's 100,000. you get 18% interest. wow right. so you get $1,500 a month. they say much of the fraud started by targeting a certain demographic . we believe the first round are for chinese monolingual seniors because many of these victims are seniors. they went through really emotional abuse from this. some of them were suicidal while mac and chao are not certain if victims will ever be made whole since in charging documents, derek chiu is accused of misappropriating $7.3 million on luxury cars, jewelry and credit card debts. >> they do believe the doj indictment is a start. >> now that there's steam, we want to continue this. >> kingsley hopes his mother's story will inspire others to come forward if yo

as you know, i had the very special express end of four hour meeting with zhou and lyon and the great hall of the people with two of the four gang of four i on either side him. yeah. yeah. when you act in china change how checking on him to make sure that he didn't do anything wrong so it was quite an experience. yes. my luck and the really good. i mean, when i started china, i might never able to go, but things opened up just at the right. but he did say, i wish susan shirk was president of the united states. that's and that's because his interpreter spent the afternoon with our group and she and i nancy tong had headed off and i'm from new york she grew up in new york. her father was a u.n. diplomat. and so she must've briefed him and happened to mention my name. and that's how it happened. yeah. so let's fast forward to 1998. and you were on president clinton's trip to beijing and. there was a press conference. what happened? well it was really a rumor cabal visit, all in all, because it was one of those times in chinese political history when things were really loosening up and th

as you know, i had the very special express end of four hour meeting with zhou and lyon and the great hall of the people with two of the four gang of four i on either side him. yeah. yeah. when you act in china change how checking on him to make sure that he didn't do anything wrong so it was quite an experience. yes. my luck and the really good. i mean, when i started china, i might never able to go, but things opened up just at the right. but he did say, i wish susan shirk was president of the united states. that's and that's because his interpreter spent the afternoon with our group and she and i nancy tong had headed off and i'm from new york she grew up in new york. her father was a u.n. diplomat. and so she must've briefed him and happened to mention my name. and that's how it happened. yeah. so let's fast forward to 1998. and you were on president clinton's trip to beijing and. there was a press conference. what happened? well it was really a rumor cabal visit, all in all, because it was one of those times in chinese political history when things were really loosening up and th

welcome caller, your 3 minutes begins now. >> my name is ellen lee zhou. i work for san francisco government as a public health worker. i represent government employees. we have 37 thousand government employees. our public health has more then 11 thousand government employees. i was one of the many people who are not vaccinated, fired by the city, the city fire more then 2,000 people and force many people to leave their job for more then 3,000 people. our government, the ethic commission is part of the government creating the laws, codes and regulations to stop government corruption, yet, your commissioners and the staff who work with ethic commission, you created a law, but you don't follow the law. i reported to you how the elected officials, the mayor, board of supervisors, the city leaders, health leaders lie to the public about pandemic 2019 by forcing the public to accept appointments, vaccine. now we see more and more people die, yet you are not willing to hear the truth. now, we have a lot of people sick and dying from cancer, we have young people

in vietnam on the right to zhou enlai, chinese premier. we have records of conversations with him talking about this and also mao, about how they had taken horrific casualties in the korean war and they wanted part of another conflict with the united states. in fact, the north vietnamese get extremely upset when they realize that is basically telling the americans to send a number of occasions, feel like they're being let down by their chinese ally. congress does, not start to get more involved in. the stennis hearings really fascinating event. also not much covered in the history of the vietnam war, but she quite important in telling stennis asks, mcnamara and the generals to come testify about the bombing of north which by this time there's a lot of grumbling about it. mcnamara has this policy which he calls gradual based on his conflict theories that you start off at a low level intensity and you gradually increase it as a means of signal lling your intentions to the enemy and most of the generals don't really care for this. and so the

paul: cox's search fits with the most recent data anna zhou at bank of america has seen. >> a declineeople doing gigs over the last 12 months. paul: what is going on? >> they might be rotating into more traditional jobs. so think about, they might be working in a clothing store in a mall now instead of driving deliveries, right? paul: but there are still plenty gig workers out there says economist paul oyer, an authority on the subject. >> there are long term trends in the gig economy, and those continue to be the same as they've been for a long time. and that is slow and steady growth as more workers want flexibility and as more firms want flexibility too. paul: which is how nela richardson sums up the gig economy. >> it allows people to add on to employment if they need the money to make that employment flexible. and so there is right now a symbiotic relationship between what companies need right now and what gig workers are able to provide. paul: that, and the need of so many americans for side hustles in a high inflation economy. like lindsay ferguson. >> at the end of the month,

in vietnam on the right to zhou enlai, chinese premier. we have records of conversations with him talking about this and also mao, about how they had taken horrific casualties in the korean war and they wanted part of another conflict with the united states. in fact, the north vietnamese get extremely upset when they realize that is basically telling the americans to send a number of occasions, feel like they're being let down by their chinese ally. congress does, not start to get more involved in. the stennis hearings really fascinating event. also not much covered in the history of the vietnam war, but she quite important in telling stennis asks, mcnamara and the generals to come testify about the bombing of north which by this time there's a lot of grumbling about it. mcnamara has this policy which he calls gradual based on his conflict theories that you start off at a low level intensity and you gradually increase it as a means of signal lling your intentions to the enemy and most of the generals don't really care for this. and so the

. >> my name is ellen lee zhou. i work for san francisco government as a public health worker. i represent government employees. we have 37 thousand government employees. our public health has more then 11 thousand government employees. i was one of the many people who are not vaccinated, fired by the city, the city fire more then 2,000 people and force many people to leave their job for more then 3,000 people. our government, the ethic commission is part of the government creating the laws, codes and regulations to stop government corruption, yet, your commissioners and the staff who work with ethic commission, you created a law, but you don't follow the law. i reported to you how the elected officials, the mayor, board of supervisors, the city leaders, health leaders lie to the public about pandemic 2019 by forcing the public to accept appointments, vaccine. now we see more and more people die, yet you are not willing to hear the truth. now, we have a lot of people sick and dying from cancer, we have young people die, we got not (indiscernible) it is called die suddenly. the

will have more to say about this probably in a moment, but basically zhou enlai and the other chinese leaders talk to the north vietnamese and say, you know, this is a bit like when we defeated when chiang when the japanese were defeated in 1945 and we didn't go straight for chiang kai shek. you know, we spent a couple of years trying to look at alternatives and we took the time to regroup. and you should do that as well. so yes, of course, you must reunify vietnam at some point, but need to be in such a hurry. so in that sense, they too, i think, could have been in the category of people who are somewhat surprised that the treasure in the south vietnamese state disappeared as quickly as it did. since from the chinese point of view, if things have gone a purely linear, linear extrapolation, i think they were expecting that state to certainly be around the that much of the 1970s at at least and therefore the determination which of course halpin says absolutely the autonomous choice of the north vietnamese revolutionary movement. i mean, they done and others by that stage that no, we're

what is apparent from those dark events which neither brezhnev nor zhou enlai could miss, was the desperation of nixon kissinger to get their help and pressuring north vietnam to accept u.s. terms and in burnishing nixon's message image as a man of peace. and to that end, you see kissinger making concessions on arms control and taiwan that were largely hidden at the time. what is the significance of that? from the outset, u.s. military intervention in southeast asia had been justified by the need to demonstrate credibility to. the communist superpower, soviet union and china for of americans this was a worthy and tens of thousands had their sons off to war believing that the reason perhaps to at the beginning. but by 1972 this was no longer the case. we're not displaying strength to moscow and beijing. if anything, the opposite was true. and while news commentators may not have noticed the administration's rhetoric about credibility had so subtly shifted, instead of demonstrating credibility to the communist superpowers, the relevant audience was our allies, showing them the united states wil

canada on monday expelled chinese diplomat zhou wei including him of foreign interference.nister justin trudeau defended a move his government won't be swayed by chinese retaliation. china's foreign minister chin gung they will react to penalties imposed on its companies by the e.u. the e.u. has imposed trade restrictions to several firms as it tries to crack down on banned splice to russia. in berlin talks with the german counterpart chin said beijing does not deliver weapons to any nation or region. family and supporters of australian journalist zhang weilei, has yet to receive a verdict after facing a -- behind closed doors for a year and she is accuse of providing state secrets to a foreign country and they will continue advocating for her release. a new york jury has found donald trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming writer e jean carroll. the court ordered the former president to pay $5 million in damages. aural accused trump of raping her in the 1990's and defaming her by calling her a liar when she wrote about it. the case has renewed attention on trump'

welcome caller, your 3 minutes begins now. >> my name is ellen lee zhou. i work for san francisco government as a public health worker. i represent government employees. we have 37 thousand government employees. our public health has more then 11 thousand government employees. i was one of the many people who are not vaccinated, fired by the city, the city fire more then 2,000 people and force many people to leave their job for more then 3,000 people. our government, the ethic commission is part of the government creating the laws, codes and regulations to stop government corruption, yet, your commissioners and the staff who work with ethic commission, you created a law, but you don't follow the law. i reported to you how the elected officials, the mayor, board of supervisors, the city leaders, health leaders lie to the public about pandemic 2019 by forcing the public to accept appointments, vaccine. now we see more and more people die, yet you are not willing to hear the truth. now, we have a lot of people sick and dying from cancer, we have young people

my name is ellen lee, zhou. i have been a public health worker for san francisco health department. i worked more then 10 years. i represent the government employees in san francisco. i have been living here in san francisco for more then 37 years. i care about san francisco. yes, i am the ellen i run for san francisco mayor in 2018 and 2019. yes, your ethic commission has been retaliating me after i run for mayor. ethic commission is the most unethical department that i know of. i have been coming to ethic commission many years. the last time i spoke to you, ethic commission was in april 14, 2023, i spoke to you about san francisco elected officials. some management leaders have been running a (indiscernible) we now learned san francisco has been controlled by the people within our government are enemies for us. most public elected officials were paid and bought into the office to purposefully impose agenda 21 now changed to agenda 2030, which another (indiscernible) i reported to you last month about pandemic covid-19. its plan and the crime against humanity by forcing covid-19 va