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Our country and every municipality is looking at issues of aging and the ways in which the values of the country, state, local, exercise those into services and understandings of the way people age and the kinds of services they need. I am wondering if you can give a short history of what department of aging and Adult Services here is in San Francisco. Certainly. San francisco has a long history of providing services for older adults and adults with disabilities. We are a leader in that. The dep...

Hanging in the balance on what we do here on capitol hill and with white house. Three weeks from now i hope to be joining you in the passage with you and your families in your communitys of a major which will strengthen america and give you an opportunity to be part of our future. President , i yield. First, let me tell you how pleased i am to the people of maryland that we are now in the process of ending this government shutdown. Government shutdown does not benefit any and certainly does not ...

Collaborations. I wanted to talk about a few things were doing in addition to our regular programming. We have implemented a number of the recommendations of the lgbt aging policy task force that came out, that is spearheaded by tom nolan, and its just really exciting to see these recommendations turn into programs. Weve talked about some of those at commission, but i wanted to mention that one of the things that weve done more recently is to start Training Staff and also training our cbo partne...

We also we use this information also to think about how we allocate funding. One of the things weve been able to do i guess in the last year with the nutrition request for proposal, we were able to look at the impact we had on people and start thinking about allocating those dollars a little bit differently and you probably remember we talked about that when linda lou came and presented on the nutrition contracts we had. And then in longterm care operations, we launched the support home pilot to...

Some faith providers from kenya on the subject of Family Planning. So i think it is true what the first panel really emphasizes, that things are evolving and developing and this is an important moment to be exploring this further. And with this panel were eager to talk about it from the focus of the u. S. Policy perspective. And i think to begin with well turn to sandy thurman. Given your long involvement with hiv policy from the u. S. Government can you describe to us more about how pep far beg...

Here. It is interesting, the Faith Community has been a partner in response to hiv since the beginning of the epidemic both domestically and globally. So i think pet far was an out growth with faithbased organizations on the domestic side for a number of years. When we really began looking at the disproportionate impact of the epidemic in africa back in the late 1990s and early 2000, it was a lot our interest and a lot of the pressure that was brought to bear on the u. S. Government and policyma...

Okay. Well i will ask each of you on the panel youve done such an amazing work. And, you know have given us so much to think about. I would like to hear from you in summary what you would like to see as next steps as a result of your work. Been that youve put so much effort into the research and the writing, and not necessarily relating to the piece youve written, but how you would like to see this play out, so jill . As someone academy and immersed in evidence, that is what im hinting at at the...

The [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the 22nd annual texas book festival. We appreciate you coming out for the authors and just in general great literature. A few housekeeping things, president of houston university. Just a reminder please silence your cell phones or turn them off. After that session here in our authors will be signing books in the book tend and book the booke for sale courtesy of book people. Remember when you buy a book,...

Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the tuesday, january 10, 2017, board of supervisors meeting welcome to your new it colleagues supervisor sandra fewer supervisor ahsha safai and conceptually welcome to the this is not our first meeting your second welcome and it the returning members with that, madam clerk please call the roll. And supervisor president london breed supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor fewer supervisor kim not present supervisor peskin supervisor ronen supervisor...

Plan is the intent of the supervisors broad policy for different tops that is a transportation element and other documents and policies that the mta uses and follows in the implementation of their measures and things like that i think the reason that we are proposing to update the general plan previously no language and when we reviewed that an application we always referred the general plan the most important it acknowledges vision zero were doing tremendous work around the policy i think that ...