Carotenuto is a professor at ste university with which we frankly Work Together on african issues which also runs an Excellent Program in nairobi that just celebrate its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni alone on the trigger and then finally joining the panel is jon temin from freedom house, works on their Africa Program and previous work in the Obama Administrations policy plans to use institute of peace. I want to thank jon for outstanding article he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs on some of the new promising Democratic Movement in some of africas biggest countries which was largely aspiration for this event although we modified a little bit but we had kenya and tanzania to the list along with south africa, democratic republic of congo or as a peace corps volunteer 100 jews ago when it was still practically before Belgian Congo days, and also nigeria and ethiopia. So between the six countries with roughly half of africas popu
Absolutely shocked at that. We have had a change in leadership. Our former assistant general manager for operations retired, and tamar allan who is an engineer and shes been with bart for over 30 years has come into this role as being our assistant general manager for operations and engineering. We now participate with the International Systems supply association, issa, which is an International Maintenance and cleaning association that im sure city hall belongs to, the empire state belongs to. So now we have two Certification Programs that we have for our custodians and they love it. Our new employees, our continuing employees, love the fact that we have he will elevated the art of cleaning and maintenance and how important it is because it does set the tone for our riders. I think we are remiss in that it would have been good for our assistant general manager tamara allan to come and latifa simon and janet lee, we work closely with her. I think in the additional years maintenance sho
To excuse supervisor rafael mandelman. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes, please silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Anything to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. The items today will appear on the next agenda. Commissioner fewer thank you very much. Can you please call item New Brunswick 1. Clerk item no. 1 is the resolution retroactively approving an agreement between the city and county of San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District bart regarding administration of Capital Funding to fund half of the cost of the bart muni Market Street entrance Modernization Project with proceeds from the sale of general Obligation Bonds, in an amount not to exceed 45,000,000 for an Agreement Term from february 1, 2018, through december 31, 2025. Commissioner fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, last week we heard this item and continued it for more information. We heard from the bla last week. We may not need
At the 16th and mission station, the first day that i swept when i was by myself, i had a gentleman who identified himself as being homeless and said that he pretty much lived in the plaza and there hadnt been a fulltime custodian daytime for eight months, and i was absolutely shocked at that. We have had a change in leadership. Our former assistant general manager for operations retired, and tamar allan who is an engineer and shes been with bart for over 30 years has come into this role as being our assistant general manager for operations and engineering. We now participate with the International Systems supply association, issa, which is an International Maintenance and cleaning association that im sure city hall belongs to, the empire state belongs to. So now we have two Certification Programs that we have for our custodians and they love it. Our new employees, our continuing employees, love the fact that we have he will elevated the art of cleaning and maintenance and how importan
Puerto rico has suffered enough, and its pretty much barbaric, what hes doing. We are tired, and we are angry. Hello and welcome to bbc news. The uk is seeking to put together a european led Maritime Mission to protect ships passing through the strait of hormuz. It comes after a british registered tanker was seized there by iran last week. It is the latest development in the growing tension in the region. This is the strait of hormuz. On one side are the arab states, including a number of key western allies and oil producers. On the other is iran. At its narrowest point, it is only 21 miles across, about 35 km, but a fifth of the worlds oil exports pass through this narrow channel. Our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet has more. First images of the men seized at sea, the crew of the stena impero. Indians, russians, a latvian, a filipino. Images released by iran. Is this what life is like on board now, or is this just for show . A crew member heard saying, dont look at the c