it's always fun to follow cheng.lly think it does nothing to add, given the scope of his remarks, but i'll cover some of the same ground but you see outcome at it from a slightly different angle, and hope to have some additional food for thought. first on the congress itself, i thought overall, this was not a very good show. it was divorced from public view, inviting social networks, and, frankly, i was in beijing during part of the congress, just talking to everyone. there's a lot of popular really cool in who is being conducted. there was mark including until the very last minute. in fact, it went to part of the congress. they were ugly revelations going back to last spring that continued right up to the eve of the congress. the final choices i would argue were not necessarily driven by proven capability. all of these people at the top have a lot of capability, but when you look back at the records it's not at all easy to make the argument that those have demonstrated the greatest capability and problem management

we are calling the next case and kevin cheng and todd mavis and 1101-1103, 1105 and 1111 and dolores street and addressed to lawrence badiner at urban planner and considered confirming lot and no variances are needed. this is on for hen

we are joined by the clerk of the authority, erika cheng, and we would like to thank the following membersf sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today. nona and jessie. madam clerk, if you can please call item 1 roll call. >> commissioner avalos? >> present. >> [speaker not understood]. cohen present. elsbernd present. farrell present. kim absent. mar absent. olague present. wiener present. we have a quorum. >> great, thank you very much. if you can now call item number 2. >> item number 2, approval of minutes of the october 23, 2012 meeting, that is an action item. >> before we take action on this item i'd like to open it up for any member of the public who would like to speak on item 2, please come forward. you each have three minutes. >>> mr. chair, i was reading the minutes and normally i don't comment on the minutes. but when we comment on something that is critical and important and if just a few sentences are put in the minutes, maybe that's the style of doing it. but i think it's really important when you're talking about the third street light rail, the first street starting at fo

we are calling the next case and kevin cheng and todd mavis and 1101-1103, 1105 and 1111 and dolores street and addressed to lawrence badiner at urban planner and considered confirming lot and no variances are needed. this is on for hearing today. we will start with the appellant who has seven minutes to present your case. >> good evening commissioners. todd mavis. i am one of the owners at one one 01 and one one 03 dolores street. on the over head project ser a picture of dolores street and 24th street. we own the building at the corner. as way of background we purchased in 2011. in may 2012 we asked the planning department to confirm the process for the properties on dolores street. that being one one 05 and one one one one. the zoning administrator in the august 17th 2012 letter agreed that 1955 the planning department approved a subdivision of lots 33 and 32 which encompasses these three buildings and set aside the strip of land for lot 33. this being lot 33 and this being -- where my finger is, the 10-foot strip of land and granted a permit to the two buildings here on what is n

whatever cheng li may have called this event -- and i've actually forgotten what he's called it -- it's, above all, a celebration of wei fong. he's brilliant, he's learned, he's courageous, he's a tenacious person with the soul of a saint in fighting justice, fighting for justice, and at the same time he's a soul of wit who somehow convinces us that fighting for fundamental change in china is a joyful activity. [laughter] but don't be fooled by the twinkle and sparks of wit that flow from him as readily as sparks flow from an iron factory. as china watchers know, to forge iron one must be strong, and he is strong. the panel has been asked under a title that i do not exactly remember, um, to talk about the prospects and changes and challenges of legal reform in china, and i'm certainly honored to share the stage with such distinguished colleagues as bill alford and jerry cohen. of course, none of us know for sure what the prospects for the rule of law in china are. partly that depends on the time frame. if you look, um, at the last 30 years day by day, um, progress seems slow, the challe

so i took my combat pay from iraq, two of my friends put in money from their military chengs, and we started the mission continues with the intention of challenging veterans who had come home to find ways on this new front line in communities across america to find ways to continue to serve and to continue to inspire. so we work with men and women like josh ecoff from st. louis, missouri, who came home and had a serious traumatic brain injury. men and women like sean donahue who also had a traumatic injury. amanda, ian st. who came back with -- smith who came back with post traumatic stress disorder. julian who served in the united states marine corps who was shot by a sniper, adam burke from florida who was hit by a mortar round. all of them came back, and what we share with young people when we do this work at the mission comets, what we share with young people is they were at a place in their life where they were on a new front line, and many of them were afraid, and it was difficult. and what we did with them at the mission continues was we challenged them. we challenged all of t

could you expand on cheng ming not making a bet on to the committee? do we know about the wide there and would that affect u.s.- china trade policy going forward under his apparent successor? >> it is not clear to me whether he had a suspect -- a history, he was considered as a minister in the the parsi -- drc. he did make the ultimate and you can go to other -- the other election. usually it should occupy a member of the committee so that was fivers ago. this time is even more dramatic than he was considered high position politburo and vice premier. it means whether he goes to election, i do not know. this would be deciding the 41 german group. it is information not leak yet. i met him several times. he was quite impressive. he is closer to the other faction. there must be something beyond me i do not know. i would be happy to listen. based on the information is not clear. >> ok. >> my question is for a leave. you are talking about pushing reforms. in the old days it is like the straw man. now it is more of a consensus that you talk about. how many pe

could you expand on cheng ming not making a bet on to the committee? do we know about the wide there and would that affect u.s.- china trade policy going forward under his apparent successor? >> it is not clear to me whether he had a history, he was considered as a minister in the the drc. he did make the ultimate and you can go to other -- the other election. usually it should occupy a member of the committee so that was fivers ago. this time is even more dramatic than he was considered high position politburo and vice premier. it means whether he goes to election, i do not know. this would be deciding the 41 german group. it is information not leak yet. i met him several times. he was quite impressive. he is closer to the other faction. there must be something beyond me i do not know. i would be happy to listen. based on the information is not clear. >> ok. >> my question is for a leave. you are talking about pushing reforms. in the old days it is like the straw man. now it is more of a consensus that you talk about. how many people from the differen

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my fellow citizens, our sole candidate is cheng. we need all your support. >> ahn apologized to his supporters but said his standing against moon would not be good for the people. ahn and moon were in talks aimed at selecting a single candidate between them for the upcoming election, but they failed to reach an agreement. one of the two needed to compromise, and he was the one to do so. ahn was a former software entrepreneur. he was popular with young voters and others not affiliated with the national party. he visited colleges across south korea and spoke to students facing high unemployment. moon will challenge the ruling party's front-runner park geun-hye in a one-on-one battle for the presidency. park is leading the polls ahead of next month's election. >>> a cease-fire between israeli militants appears to be holding. no major violence has been reported since thursday when the truce went into effect. israeli military has started to withdraw its tanks and armored vehicles near the border with the gaza strip. it has also started t

as a distinguished alumnus of the louis brandeis school of law and is an outstanding alumnus of the cheng of arts and sciences. i'm pleased to report to my colleagues that ernie will not be leaving the fight for america's kids. no, his passion won't allow him to take a typical retirement. we're lucky that even as he's stepping down from his role at the helm of the center for missing and exploited children, he is a he focused exclusively on his new role as president and c.e.o. of the international center for missing and exploited children. mr. president, if there was some way for me to express the gratitude that thousands -- literally thousands of american families have for ernie and the national center, i certainly would. but that seems impossible. imagine the relief of just one family who fears the worst about a missing son or daughter and then thanks to the national center for missing and exploited children is reunited with their child safe and sound. multiply that by tens of thousands, and you will only just begin to see the enormous difference ernie has made during his career. so aim