and these are places in laos that tend to have very high levels of unexploded ordnance still today.rrator: there are ecological concerns for lowland dwellers as well. people here continue to depend oneasol flooding along e meko river for their food production and livelihoods. dams even out the flow of water, creating problems for people practicing flood-recession agriculture. so during the dry season, the banks are exposed and people grow all sorts of vegetables on them, and during the wet season, they're inundated and silt sediments are deposited on the banks. so a hydroelectric power dam would essentially eliminate that agricultural landscape. narrator: laos is not a democracy. even if local people wish to protest the elimination of their landscapes and lifestyles, they have few options. fox: geographers might think of them as "powerless place," and these corporations, in a world of globalization and global finance, might be thought of as "placeless power." and when those come together in time and space, it can have perhaps some unprecedented geographical impacts. i think the ques

we've seen that agents will open up investigations without any reasonable suspicion. >> the ordnance is up for a second vote next week before it goes to mayor ed lee. san francisco police chief greg suhr wants the mayor to veto it. >>> parents who's children attend a san francisco school have rallied to keep that school open. the oakland school board voted last october to close it and four other schools to deal with a budget shortfall. >> in the last 10 years, every single school, the school board has closed down has been african american or latino. >> the oakland school district has planned to close as many as 30 more schools but then changed course saying the additional closures were not necessary. >>> state lawmakers today diskraoeubed ways of how to close -- today described ways of how to close gaps. lawmakers also discussed the effective one year reprieve granted to amazon.com last fall for collecting sales tax from it customers in this state. >>> this man was camping with friends, but he never made it to his tent. >>> why one hour was so crucial to saving the historic santa cru

we do recommend approval for this appropriation ordnance with the contingency regarding the qualificationarding the $2 million. and we do note, as has been pointed out, that there are two, even within this phase one, there are two still pending actions by the board of supervisors for two funding sources, and that is the $15.50 million for the certificates of participation and a possible general fund appreciation of $6.50 million, but given that this cruise terminal project has come before the board several times, and it has been the policy of the board to proceed, at least heretofore with this 27 cruise terminal project, we do recommend approval. chair chu: thank you, mr. rose. i think in light of this news that we do not have a funding source for 2 million, i think both the supervisor avalos and i find it that the cleanest way for us to deal with this is to reduce it by the $2 million, but the only reason why we may actually pass a $27 million with perhaps a reserve on the $2 million is it there is an eminent source of funding and we expect to becoming relatively shortly and also in term

the homeowner says he found the world war ii ordnance while getting his home up for sale. he said he had been getting rid of several things, until he found something he knew he could not handle. authorities evacuated the neighborhood while the bomb squad detonated the ammunition. the home was owned busy his grandmother who was in world war ii. >>> there are primaries in 10 different states, the biggest prize is georgia with 76 delegates right there. that's the home turf for newt gingrich and he is heavily favored. ohio has 63 delegates and polls there show that the race is a total toss up between mitt romney and rick santorum. all together 419 delegates are up for grabs. most states will divvy them up. the latest average of recent national polls has romney with 38%. that gives them a 12 point lead over rick santorum. we get more now from reporter, chris foster on what the republicans did today to grab delegates tomorrow. mitt romney greeting supporters in ohio hoping to cash in on his momentum after five straight victories. romney pushing his message of wanting to push the

. >> ordnance amending the san francisco planning code to extend existing uses. >> there were a number of amendments that require this to be continued until today. the ordinance before the committee today is an extension of the eastern neighborhood legitimization program which would extend the time of the program by six months from the adoption of this ordinance dated november 12 of this year. we have established a 90-day time frame by which the applicants must submit relevant application materials to department staff. i have no further amendments to this item today and would urge your support. are you interested in speaking on item number two? you don't have to. fantastic. >> i'm from the planning department. we made a presentation last week. supervisor cohen: are there any members of the public to like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor olague: i looked at the article that appeared in the "examiner" and it appeared to have exaggerated numbers. are -- do you have a response and can you clarify whether the information that was presented was accur

million, we do need to move forward because we need the cash for the project, and there is a delay on ordnancesso we would prefer that. the rest of the funds. we would like to think a budget analyst for their report, and we support the recommendation to come back to you with a full report on the phase two funding and the debt financing and how we will resolve that before we issue what makes up the balance of the sources in this project, and i am here with my budget person to answer any questions. thank you. >> -- chair chu: thank you. just to clarify, the thing that has changed is the appropriation, 7.2. there is no longer a source of the additional $2 million that was supposed to come from the reim

the homeowner says he found the world war ii ordnance while getting his home up for sale. he said he had been getting rid of several things, until he found something he knew he could not handle. authorities evacuated the neighborhood while the bomb squad detonated the ammunition. the home was owned busy his grandmother who was in world war ii. >>> there are primaries in 10 different states, the biggest prize is georgia with 76 delegates right there. that's the home turf for newt gingrich and he is heavily favored. ohio has 63 delegates and polls there show that the race is a total toss up between mitt romney and rick santorum. all together 419 delegates are up for grabs. most states will divvy them up. the latest average of recent national polls has romney with 38%. that gives them a 12 point lead over rick santorum. we get more now from reporter, chris foster on what the republicans did today to grab delegates tomorrow. mitt romney greeting supporters in ohio hoping to cash in on his momentum after five straight victories. romney pushing his message of wanting to push the

their city council adopted not an ordnance. they did not do it legislatively. they adopted a resolution setting policy for the police department which the police commission has already done here. if this were simply a requirement and all it did was say in the future, you will have to go to the police commission when you enter and mou, that would be a different story. i would be open to supporting that kind of legislation, but this goes beyond that. i also -- i understand there are a lot of people who feel very passionately about this and i'm extremely respectful of that passion and support. this is not one of those issues where you disagree with me, i think you are absolutely wrong and it's a terrible position. i i understand and respect those who are supporting this and who are passionately supporting it. i do think we have to be careful about the comparisons we drop. i don't think this legislation today is in any way connected to the interment of the japanese- americans during world war two, i don't think it's about gay people being dragged out of bars and pe

they create that ordnance and there was conversation regarding the owners about how they were being excluded. the other thing is just as the monitoring committee has to provide a quarterly report, this body needs to provide some sort of annual report as well. i am still frustrated with this committee because the people, their voices not being represented. the people who are supposed to represent us, they have nothing to say. if they do say something, it's not of any relevance. it is almost rambling. i don't think there is any thing that's going to be new or innovative coming from this body. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have to applicants for this seat. i want to acknowledge them for their service and their work on behalf of our tenants in the s r zero. i know there are other members of the task force that did not come and i did not see you in the audience. as somebody who represents many of the sro hotels in the city, what a tremendous relief is to see organized the members are and how dedicated the staff

because there wasn't enough public notice about the meeting, work on the ordnance is delayed until next month. >>> oakland mayor jean quan. under the plan police were directed to focus on the 100 most violent blocks in the city. now some city council members and people living there want to know exactly where the blocks are. the city released a map showing the outline of the neighborhoods but not specific streets. they worry that officers are being taken away from their neighborhoods. >> we definitely had to be mor wary and watchful in our neighborhoods. >> why so much of this plan is being kept secret? >> the only parts of the plan that is being kept secret is the actual location of itit. >> chief howard jordan says the exact blocks are being kept secret to protect ongoing investigations. >>> there is a new twist in the trayvon martin shooting case. for days the florida police department claimed that there was not enough probable cause to arrest gunman george zimmerman. early in their investigation officers requested an arrest warrant. they even categorized the case as negligent manslau

>> ordnance amending the codes to provide a contribution option for the establishment of a public art trust fund. supervisor mar: if i could ask people to please leave the room quietly if you can. thank you. i would like to ask people if you could take the conversations outside the committee room please thank you. we are going to resume at that meeting. you have already called item #4. we're going to resume with item #4. the item has been called, so let me introduce the supervisor and our president, david chiu. could we please reconvene? thank you. we are resuming. thank you. >> if you remember, this is a piece of legislation to provide more flexibility to our city currently uses the 1% public arts the. there was only one outstanding issue the last time we met and that had to do with an amendment i have just offered that is supported by the mayor. just to remind you, the city currently requires developments over 2500 square feet. as this piece of legislation moves through the process, the planning commission an arts commission wanted to expand this citywide. the legislation expands re

it appears some sort of military ordnance was discovered on 4th street southeast. no one was injured and right now authorities are not sure exactly how that device got there. >>> today a former mound rainier police officer will be sentenced in a bizarre attack. gene gillette was off duty at the time of the shooting inside his home last july. prosecutors say gillette lured a man to his home in capitol heights by offering him a role in a pornographic movie. according to police when no women showed up, the victim was shot when he rebuffed gillette's advances. gillette pleaded guilty to attempted murder charges last november. >>> police in prince george's county are investigating a homicide. this morning around 1:00 a.m. they found a man shot inside a burning car. it happened on palmer road just east of route 210 in fort washington. investigators are now working on an exact time live. the victim's name has not been released. >>> we have a follow-up to a story you first saw here on channel 9. arlington's police chief has rescinded a people ran mum that many -- memorandu

i am here to present our strong opposition to the discount ordnance on the grounds that without any evidence it would provide a benefit to san francisco, it gives a unwarranted privileges to a special class of private business interests and at its expense of complexity to an already extensive, complex system we have family san francisco. there has never been a finding these corporations are disadvantaged in any way as might be the case with minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and other businesses that receive particular special advantages. under the new california benefits corporation law, for- profit companies can form that do 2 things. they must promise to do public good and they are allowed to take into consideration think the other than profit when making decisions. they are not required to make decisions based on other than profit. they're allowed to do so if they wish. california state law provides no mandates for how to define what benefit is or what making a decision for a consideration other than what profit is. all run the country now, large corporations are forming

by restoring oversight, we believe the ordnance can rebuild trust quickly eroding in the immigrant communities we serve. we hope san francisco can safeguard our civil rights and embrace rather than alienate the diverse communities in our city. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> i am a psychologist and i would like to discuss the psychological impact on the individual's. there is the denial phase and day experience hyper vigilance, increase reaction and intrusive repetitive thoughts. their feelings get disturbed and there behaviors, they have difficulty concentrating and emotional instability, sleep and dream disturbances. the physical symptoms are diarrhea, sweating, nausea. they experience a lot of difficult things. compulsive repetition and sometimes various forms of self a vacation like using a call or drugs. there is also a denial that they go through and a host of the start of mechanisms they encounter. there are a lot of difficulties they continue to experience, including fear. one of the persons who spoke about her personal experience talked about fear and she was crying. it is ve

have advanced weapon systems with perception initially and we take care in matching the appropriate ordnance to produce the desired effect on a target. by foundations for the new world order will aid in the middle east in one thousand nine hundred one following the first gulf war the us established a permanent military presence in the middle east but like it had done fifty years earlier in europe and the station. the true consequences of this policy would be seen only ten years later in two thousand and one with some of the large insights of the us military presence in his homeland saudi arabia as a reason for his hatred of the united states. in a curious twist of fate the nine eleven attacks and america's military response paved the way for the path of new military bases in iraq and central asia first and foremost in afghanistan. the relationship between bases and war is a hand and glove relationship bases most of the us bases i would say the majority are the result of war they are the booty or loot of war in the sense that they were captured during wartime and never given back following th

. >> away ordnance is drafted, it prohibits the conversion to student housing and it would depend on the type of building their looking to convert. supervisor wiener: i will say the issue of conversion of regular housing to student housing is an incredibly hard one. we have seen of abuse over the years and if you have -- if you don't have controls in place, we don't have enough housing for our non-student population and it can create some real problems. we have artificially constructed the supply of housing in san francisco for a long time and it is pricing people out of the city. that was certainly the intent behind the prohibition of conversion. i understand the arguments on the other side and i will say that because this is on the slow boat and going back to the planning commission, we have an opportunity to continue this discussion. what i would say is that for folks to have input, to let ms. heyward know and one of my aides staffing me on this legislation, keep the feedback coming because we want to get right and we're willing to listen to any feedback people have. with that, i

we do have existing formula retail policy ordnances in place -- ordinandce in place for the discretionarye seeing with chain stores increasing their presence in san francisco. particularly in the three sector. we are seeing national, or even global chains starting to expand their presence in san francisco. these chains, based on the current definition of formula retail are considered the same as safeway or leckies. there qualitatively different, these new types of corporate formula retail growth chains. additionally, the way the guidelines are written, they're just looking at the impact on the immediate neighborhood or district that the business is being opened in. for many of the new kind of formula of retail businesses moving into the city, their impact is far beyond that immediate district. for example, target come up which you are where is opening two stores within the city. the impact that target has on small businesses and labor standards, the character in san francisco -- that goes far beyond the immediate districts they will be opening up in. there's a strong need for the commissi

i am here to present our strong opposition to the discount ordnance on the grounds that without any evidence it would provide a benefit to san francisco, it gives a unwarranted privileges to a special class of private business interests and at its expense of complexity to an already extensive, complex system we have family san francisco. there has never been a finding these corporations are disadvantaged in any way as might be the case with minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and other businesses that receive particular special advantages. under the new california benefits corporation law, for- profit companies can form that do 2 things. they must promise to do public good and

first of all, i think these two ordnances both potentially violate the single subject rule because they mix the campaign finance programs with changes to the code with respect to the nomination. i believe that fairly strongly. i also think in terms of procedure, where the ethics commission takes a vote on a matter, they should communicate in writing to the board of supervisors with their vote is and not have that merely be reflected by a line in the city's attorneys digest of legislation. they should communicate formally to that and. -- to that end. i'm not concerned with the particulars, i tend to favor the soft cap at i would have eased slightly different numbers, but i think this goes a distance to fixing the thing and making it work. i can live with all that. i want to focus on the municipal election code and the potential change any they want to follow- up on this, moving back the deadline date 58 days, almost two months to early june has the effect of commingling aspects of a june and november elections that do not exist. now the june election is done and put to bed, the best can'