their core business is really perating their own coffee shops. the several thousands they have, tens of thousands they have all over the world. we are not in the same business. >> so what is your business, high end? is it for restaurants? for bars? home?for consumption at >> the dream upon which my grandfather founded the company coffeeoffer the greatest to the world. and this dream is now let's say converted in our mission, which clearly to be leader in quality. possible e best quality working hand in hand ith our coffee growers, developing technology, and experiences in order to enhance cough scombrirns. this is what we do. volume.on't seek for else than ek nothing quality leadership. >> does it mean you can have because you s charge more? >> yes, we charge more definitely but the goal is to sustainable, let's say, upply chain to really be a stakeholder company in which the profit is a mean, and not an end. model sure a different from the so-called share they are the parties directly or indirectly involved in the business and we have customers,

we are largely converging on three issues with uk, foreign policy, sanctions policy and military perations. obviously cooperation after brexit will have to be defined exactly what is at stake for the weeks in my egotiations. it indicates the more the uk will engage alongside eu to deeper our partnership is ikely to be. our close cooperation with the uk will not injure the network of relationships we have with ther partners. ladies and gentlemen, the eu investing in defense and security as a matter of priority and the 27 leaders and president on the commissions. it is our responsibility what we do not do for ourselves no ne will do for us. this is even more true than ever. though we are now running 16 missions, six of them are military operations to stabilize our neighborhood, fight against piracy, smugglers profiting in the mediterranean, stabilization of the balkans, contribution of the fight against terrorism. we are reviewing our common tructures to be more responsive and more efficient and we are setting up a european defense fund to stop the duplication of weapon systems across europe

this was a batch of new o perators starting out on their journey here in san francisco. it was heart-warming. it was a great reminder of how difficult the training that they go through is and what they go through to get to the point where they have the honor, privilege and huge responsibility to sit in that seat and pilot our buses through the city. i want to say again to all the trainers and the entire class, thank you so much. i realize what a big step they are taking and their families are giving them up for what is sometimes very stressful job as director reiskin pointed out, we trust them with our families everyday out there on the s treets and on the buses and street. thank you to them. any other unfinished business? do i have public comment? >> clerk: yes. >> good afternoon chair brinkman and directors. i couldn't take up this chance to behalf of walk sf thank f ormer director ramos. i'm thinking back when the project came before you all and before director ramos and what a champion he was for the safety of people getting on and off. how much he championed the b o

the commander in charge of the peration says it was fir believed the kids could be kept alive inside the cave for a long time, but now he l noger believes that is the case and did not elaborate when asked why. theas group been trapped inside this dark, flooded cave for 13 days now. >>> ovalso, continuingage this morning on embattled epa administrator scott pruitt,ho is now out. he resigned yesterday after months of public criticism and numerous ethics probes. in his resignation letter to the president, pruitt said "the unrelenting attacks on me ndrsonally, my family, are unprecedented, a have taken a sizable toll on all of us." pruitt faces more than a dozen ethics investigations for nearly $4 million in questionable spending. those investigations will the epa's deputy administrator and former coal lobbyist andrel wh will take over as acting administrator on monday. pruitt's resignation did not come up during president trump's mpaign-style rally in montana last night. he did, however, resume his attacks on massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. he mocked senator warren's heritage, c

strategically lonely power to the head of the block along with the foreign legion which is now .perating in syria iran has been transformed from -- to a country practicing encirclement with regional allies and now they are trying to establish a base of operation in the gallant -- in the gallant -- in the golan. i would hold out as an aspirational iranian goal to create a situation where they can arm palestinians in the west bank, but that will not happen any time soon as long as israel and jordan remain able to secure the border there. with syrian civil war winding investedn increasingly resources and its attention in creating an infrastructure in as a that could be used platform for projecting power in the levant as well as israel. there are several components of this buildup we've seen in the past few years. first of all, efforts to syria andfactories in lebanon, for you specifically in lebanon by hezbollah, and syria, by the syrian government and various iranian proxies. keep in mind in the past, israel and the united states have been able to interdict iranian arms and some to hezboll

after the foreclosure and financial crises, the wall street powerhouses were .perating in the black they were fully profitable because we transferred wealth to them. so, i do not think that we have a fundamental problem with the concept of transference of wealth, but we have a problem with who is getting the wealth once it is transferred? and that is a paradigm we have to change, and that change comes policy changes, education, advocacy, and it comes from holding each other accountable. i have to hold you accountable, and you have to hold me accountable. the other thing that i think we really need to do is to change our system because, now this is to -- let's say we did have reparations where we actually transferred money, teri assets, , two peopleassets underserved in the united states, and in five years, all of that money would be transferred back to the most wealthy and the nation? and that is because -- will begin the nation -- to the most wealthy in the nation, and that our systems are designed to funnel wealth away from some and to others. it is awaiting entire system is constructe

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the pipeline possible, the trade groups in the state of the weldingk about of the pipe, equipment ,perators, laborers, carpenters people within the state of alaska, the native folks in the state. everybody came forward because it was an immense effort and included people in the lower 48. they would come from oklahoma if they were a welder, let's say, and fly into anchorage and then fly 2.5 hours north to the middle of nowhere and look around them and there is nothing but tundra or snow. they would work there long shifts. everything in a 12 hour day, no out there and work very hard. the camps, where do you house people? they had to build camps, and they held hundreds of people. --re was every job imaginal imaginable from the cooks in the camps, to the folks who were cleaning, the operators on the roads. the train that the pipeline in the road passed through, it is in the north slope of tundra, rolling tundra, but there are three major mountain classes -- mountain passes, and 800 stream crossings. river.them is a large you have to attach the pipeline to a bridge, is there a bridge? no, you ha