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Her resume is so impressive. She has been the executive director of the office of Community Investment of infrastructure for the past year. In this role, she is responsible for the Economic Development of the new transbay, mission bay and Hunters Point shipyard neighborhoods which collectively provide over 20,000 new Housing Units including approximately 7,000 affording Housing Units and 10 million square feet of commercial space and the management of various properties and existing and expired ...

Failing good humor. Particularly at very long meetings. Her commitment to the department , herren enthusiasm learning everything a department does. All of the challenges that it faces and her willingness to get in there and try to solve or to advance ordeal with those challenges all the while maintaining her wonderful sense of humor. And because i think this is a job that takes well more than a year to master. Ive been really impressed by the degree to which she has mastered the jobs and the inn...

So, im supervisor katie tang, your new Land Use Committee chair. Vice chair for life. [laughter] all right. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Complete speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items asked upon today will appear on the february 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. All right. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please c...

One of the worlds busiest ports looking at how the industry has changed for the uk and what brexit will mean for its workers. In sport. Wales manager Chris Coleman says bring it on after a late victory over moldova in their world cup qualifier. Two more wins and they should be in russia next year. What a goal what a goal radford has scored. Ronnie radford odd box. After 10 world cups and more than 200 england games, the legendary commentator john motson is hanging up his sheepskin coat and calli...

And lighting up singapore, making lanterns to welcome autumn, and the festival of light. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. I am glad you could join us. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in new york, where President Trump has announced new sanctions against individuals and companies that trade with north korea. Responding to the latest sanctions north koreas leader has vowed to make trump pay dearly for threatening his country. In a mee...

Luxembourg. And its 60 years to the day since the first man made satellite sputnik one was launched by the russians, marking the start of the space race good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. In the next half an hour theresa may is expected to tell her party to shape up when she addresses the conservative conference in manchester. She will set out her vision for the uk, while emphasising the need to improve the lives of ordinary working people. Other speeches are going on at the conference....

First minister sturgeon thank you, and yes. I think you just heard how much we all love you. I come prepared. [laughter] [applause] look after these for me. Friends, leading this party is a great privilege, one enjoyed by just a few people in our history. Earlier this year, we lost one of our past leaders a true giant of our movement. Gordon wilson had the good fortune to be born in govan in this city. And to represent dundee in the house of commons. Two great cities. When gordon became leader o...

Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 7am injakarta where rescue workers have been searching for survivors after a firework factory exploded in the indonesian capital. At least 47 people have been killed, others are still missing, and dozens were wounded in the blast in the tangerang industrial zone, just west of jakarta. The bbcs ian palmer reports. A factory building destroyed. Just hours before it was full of workers but something went wrong. The fireworks inside caught fire. The explosion ...

In global News Business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation just use the hashtag bbc the briefing. We begin with a huge leak of secret offshore investments thats revealed the tax affairs of rich and powerful people around the world. The details are contained in millions of documents from a law firm which specialises in offshore arrangements for individuals and companies in tax havens worldwide. Theyve been dubbed the Paradise Papers they were obtained by the german newspaper Sudde...

There, where those signs are, a couple of hundred yards, its not an easy place forjournalists to go. Particularly when the subject of our investigation is the son of the president and someone very close to him. Hello. Accidents happen in government. People slip on banana skins. There are momentary lapses, or arguments that spill into the public domain. Events can catch cabinets by surprise. Thats normal. At a rate of one every few months. But then theres this government. Since the election knock...