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Welcome to the Washington Institute for near east policy. I have the pleasure of directing the institutes rinehart pergamon counterterrorism intelligence and i am very pleased to be joined here today by the acting director of the National Counterterrorism center, russell travis. Todays conversation is part of the ongoing counterterrorism lecture series. Russell took office as the acting director in august but its not his first, second or third time in the building. He told many other leadership positions in ctc including a director at the office of Data Strategy and innovation, chief data offi...

The ongoing lecture series. Russell took office as acting director in august, but its not his first, second or third time in the building. Hes held many other leadership positions including counselor to the director, chief data officer. Hes held positions at the Defense Intelligence agencies, the National Security council, the u. S. Army, joint chiefs of staff. So were thrilled that hes been able to carve time out of his busy schedule and spend some time with us today to talk about Counter Terrorism in an era of competing priorities. Russell will deliver some opening remarks from the podium an...

23 transgender people have lost their lives to antitrans violence this year. Most were black transgender women. Even in the face of tremendous inequities, discrimination, and violence, however, trans communities resilient. In San Francisco, numerous communities have won numerous awards and rights. In 2014, thanks to the leadership of the transcommunity, San Francisco became the first city to offer publicly funded transition related surgery access which continues today under the gender health sf program. In 2017, trans advocates successfully advocated for the office of transgender initiatives, ...

Is proposed for continuance. Items 3a and b for case numbers 2018007725var the variance at 244 douglass street is proposed for continuance december 5, 2019 for the variance agenda. Further, commissioners, item 17 for case number 2018012337 saturn street, conditional use authorization proposed for continuance to december 19. Im pleased to inform you on your discretionary review calendar at 1299 sanchez street discretionary review has been withdrawn. I apologize welcome commissioner diamond. Thats what i was going to say. We really welcome you, commissioner diamond. I think we are going to do re...

[ applause ] [ applause ] next up is our supervisor from district 2, katherine stephanie. Thank you, president yi. I want to start by being thankful for creating this amazing event so long overdue. Thank you to honey mahogany as well. I was so happy when we started thinking about who we would honor, i didnt know we would end up with an italian. I was very excited that we have leo patroni. Are you here today . Leo is a native san franciscan, born at Saint Marys Hospital and lives in pacific heights. Hes the child of an immigrant father. He spent former years working in his fathers restaurant, n...