shoulders of many inevitable asian pacific islander americans heros i want to random one giant hero ms. alice even though she was born in 1905 in california she was told to go back to china when she was growing up. she was told she couldn't be a traefrn in our schools she was inclines but he overcame discrimination to become the first chinese-american teacher in our public schools in 1926. as supervisor yee mentioned in 1924 when they talked about the emergence the school board we encountered many of the ovations from the school members why are we spending tax dollars and teaching chinese now many people want their children to be bilingual now because of the unwavering of the opportunity support and leader like supervisor yee and many in the audience our school district embraces our first chinese american school next week we'll celebrity the twot anniversary we're proud to say we've proved to not only being a viable school opposite but providing 21st century world-class education for the residents in our world-class city. so i'm very grateful to this recognition i have to thank my family and

and ms. aliceaffairs at the department of defense make up our first satle. our second panel will be latana abdue lahi. this hearing will be joining us later via google hangout from nigeria. we look forward to ms. adulahi's testimony. i want to thank our first panel of witnesses for being here today. and welcome your opening statements. >> chairman coons, ranking member flake, chairman menendez, other members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to update you about u.s. efforts to address the chilling threat that boko haram represents to nigeria. one of our most important partners in subsaharan africa. -- she will be attending the regional summit organized by president hollande in paris on saturday. it has now been one month since boko haram kidnapped the 200 young women from the town of chibok in northeastern nigeria. at the time of the kidnapping, these brave young women had returned to their high school in order to complete examinations that would allow them to attend university. by seekin

and ms. alice friend, principal director for african affairs at the department of defense make up our first satle. our second panel will be latana abdue lahi. this hearing will be joining us later via google hangout from nigeria. we look forward to ms. adulahi's testimony. i want to thank our first panel of witnesses for being here today. and welcome your opening statements. >> chairman coons, ranking member flake, chairman menendez, other members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to update you about u.s. efforts to address the chilling threat that boko haram represents to nigeria. one of our most important partners in subsaharan africa. -- she will be attending the regional summit organized by president hollande in paris on saturday. it has now been one month since boko haram kidnapped the 200 young women from the town of chibok in northeastern nigeria. at the time of the kidnapping, these brave young women had returned to their high school in order to complete examinations that would al

ms. hill son >> good afternoon. i deal a lot with land use issues not only for bayview hunters point and alice griffith park it's going to be a key thing for the entire city when the streets with widened to 26 feet i know in the planning code their relate to the height ever buildings and a lot of that height comes the bulk and density and what you might get later than is an entitlement right with the additional weight of street going to lenar go they'll not lose the people that have testified didn't said they didn't know whether or not they'll be at the front or back it makes no difference they'll be additional rights granted. i'm getting worried about about the development. i understand about the safety of the firefighters i've learned bmw the jack's if you want a few of the trucks 26 won't suffice he need 34 and you can't go to anthony that's stretching things. i'm beginning to one day suddenly after 2010, i thought that was done i didn't go to the hunters point shipyard and candle stick plans but this is odd. thank you >> next. >> good morning. welcom supervisor wiener and supervisor cowen and thank you for calling