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Cases that are decided on the merits. Before he was our Supreme Court justice, john roberts was confirmed to sit on the d. C. Circuit. Ten years ago, when chief Justice Roberts was confirmed to sit on that circuit, the average judge on that court had only 125 pending cases. Today, with three vacancies on the court, that number is 185 cases. Those are the complex cases that are pending. Even if we fill all the empty slots, the judges on the d. C. Circuit will still have more pending cases on aver...

Very funny thing because actually i went to school to make money out of pharmaceuticals. That was my training, to use all the scientific knowledge and use my business knowledge to make money out of medicines. It is very interesting when one listens in many of the debates that the claim generally from the pharmaceutical industry gets fired up by this crisis we have only 13 of the u. S. Spending is due to drugs. Actually, that is true but not quite because the issue is that every single interventi...

And those who are engaging in the fear, particularly pitting shias against sunnis, that these issues can be starting points to frame narratives against extremism. Media and Communication Networks also remain underdeveloped throughout the countries, there are fewer opportunities for organizations to speak out. Theres also significant misconceptions of Civil Society objectives despite some of the initiatives i highlighted earlier. Corruption, nepotism are also cited as significant problems. Anothe...

Project is really critical. We can just keep funding that project for the amount of work that we want to get our pile repair crew to address over the coming years. Actually just to go back to that slide, but i just want to emphasize that this is a neutral change that im not counting it as Additional Capital spending because were reallocating it from other projects and reallocating it to new priorities. So just to reiterate, i believe we have controlled our operating expenditures. Like i said, it...

Budgeted revenues closer to what we think we are going to generate and be consistent with those prior year trends so we can really identify the sources that were going to designate as revenue. And then for expenditures i also show the twoyear growth and as you can see, salaries and fringe is a huge investment. Our people are obviously a critical part of how we run the waterfront and of the growth over the two years, over 2 million of it is just for salaries and fringe but its important to note t...

City certificates of participation or cops. It was part of the americas cup financing package. When port inaudible came to you in september we identified these savings so we would be returning to you to figure out what to do with that funding. Well, this is us coming back and saying that theres a plan to spend those funds, about 1. 2 million on public restrooms, we have amador street repairs and pier structure repair. You can see the pier structure repair project is really critical. We can just ...

The meeting will come to order good morning, everyone this is the San Francisco Transportation Authority plans Programs Committee this is the meeting of tuesday, march 18, 2014. Our clerk is erica chang could you please call the roll supervisor breed. Supervisor kim. Supervisor mar. Supervisor yee. laughter thank you id like to thank Jessie Larson and others for brooet us on sfgovtv. Item 12 the Citizens Advisory Council report. I know that supervisor kim was going to make comments about the unf...

For the last two decades has shn that china has no ability to observe the rule of law in many aspects including the ipr, the wto, the manipulation of currency, no reciprocal [inaudible] the protection of its own market and many other problems. Thats different between communism and democracy. Thank you very much. So im asking you which of us all of you, how to move toward so that china can observe the rule of law, so we can develop a better trust, and we can have a more stable and peace ful regio...

Colleagues weve or february 25, 2014, meeting. Can i get approval . Those minutes are approved. Madam clerk, any communication . There are no communications. City clerk mr. President , supervisor mar is not in the chambers. Can we get a motion to excuse supervisor mar. Without opposition. That is the case. Next item. All matters on the consent agenda, they would like to be pulled. Roll call. City clerk ferrel, kim, tang, wiener, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos, supervisor avalos. There are 10 ...

Thank you commissioner. Through renee martin we have contact with the firm to oppose come up with a Strategic Marketing plan. I dont think of the ready by the next meeting but if i may wait bringing it to you as soon as it is. I like to suggest a outreach to some your thoughts as well. Any other volunteers . Rates. Seeing none, i move to move the agenda meaning in memory of Robert Billingham [inaudible]. All in favor aye. The meeting is adjourned. Good morning. This meeting will now come to orde...