ryan patterson for appellant, building resident. my client has just retained me and, so, i'm getting up to speed as quickly as i can. i'm going to make a few important points and then ask you for a continuance until the next meeting so that we have time to continue our settlement negotiations and hopefully reach an agreeable solution between the parties. i understand that the owners are very eager to get this behind them and want this resolved tonight. however, for the reasons i'll go into in a second, we simply need a little bit of time most importantly to see the plans at issue. i understand that it has not been submitted to the board. >> mr. patterson, if you could hold on. am i continuing the 7 minutes or are you requesting a rescheduling? in which it would be a separate issue. >>> however you prefer. >> you are requesting a continuance. let's do it the continuance time period. >> two minutes on the continuance? >> yes. >>> may i ask if that continuance is denied, will we -- >> then you have -- yes. >>> thank you very much. >> t