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Today marks the sixth anver anniversa anniversary, using that word guardedly, of the Syrian Civil War causing the largest humanitarian crisis on the planet since world war ii. There are many, many issues regarding the conflict and today we are going to explore some of those. A few we will talk about is the food shortage in syria, and the substantial starvation and deprivation that occurred there. Turkey has revoked the permit for certain humanitarian ngos to distribute food there. Education is a...

Online cspan. Org. Heres a look back at the proceedings from today. The next panel will be judge taha, ms. Masameno, judge henry, mr. Jaffer, judge cain, mr. Perkins, ms. Bresack and mr. Calamine. If i pronounced anyones name wrong, correct me when you testify. Im sorry, i thought maybe you werent here. Okay. You are obviously here. Okay. Would you do you swear that the testimony youre about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you go...

Online cspan. Org. Heres a look back at the proceedings from today. The next panel will be judge taha, ms. Masameno, judge henry, mr. Jaffer, judge cain, mr. Perkins, ms. Bresack and mr. Calamine. If i pronounced anyones name wrong, correct me when you testify. Im sorry, i thought maybe you werent here. Okay. You are obviously here. Okay. Would you do you swear that the testimony youre about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you go...

Online cspan. Org. Heres a look back at the proceedings from today. The next panel will be judge taha, ms. Masameno, judge henry, mr. Jaffer, judge cain, mr. Perkins, ms. Bresack and mr. Calamine. If i pronounced anyones name wrong, correct me when you testify. Im sorry, i thought maybe you werent here. Okay. You are obviously here. Okay. Would you do you swear that the testimony youre about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you go...

[inaudible conversations] good morning to everybody who is here, and especially those who are prepared for testimony today. We welcome everybody on what i think will be the final day of judge gorsuch confirmation hearing. Weve already heard todays of impressive testimony from the nominee. I think is shown great command of the law, and i think he has showed a humility with his humble delivery, and i think people learned a lot about not only our political system but our judicial system with whats ...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please welcome the honorable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of canada and our guest of honor Malala Yousafzai. [speaking in native tongue] [applause] welcome everyone. [speaking in native tongue] i knew that Mala...

Later another chance to see q a with students from the united date senate youth program. This past week human rights activist Malala Yousafzai addressed a joint session of the Canadian Parliament to talk about the them ordinance of providing girls and education. Before the address miss you soft ousafzai received Honorary Canadian citizen ship. This is under an hour. [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please look from right and honorable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of canada and the...

And i would like to congratulate ms. Pollock for her wedding. And our clerk. Please share your announcements. Clerk please silence all electronic phones and devices. Speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Supervisor john avalos okay, todays meeting is broadcast by sf govtv staff. Thank you for your service. Weve done no. 1. Roll call. Item no. 2. Clerk approval of lafco minutes from july 29, 2016, regular meeting. Any comments. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Publi...

What our advocacy is going to be at the state legislature and again very much like the past years the main focus for most of the directors is attrition and for us in San Francisco were so fortunate that we way over match in terms of dollars for nutrition but we know theres still a lot of food insecurities. A lot of triple as in california dont have over match. San diego makes do with what they have from them and its important for the directors to advocate for peoples basic needs and nutrition is...

This topic firsthand with much authority and much sensitivity. Randall horton is a poet having won or Gwendolyn Brooks poetry award and National Endowment of the arts in literature. He teaches at the university of newhaven and serves on the board of directors of panamerican prison writing program, it is his life before these distinguished honors that gives him the authority to write this powerful book about forgiveness and what it is like in the Prison Industrial Complex both during and after an...