waterfront and did not provide a lot of flexibility needed to rehabilitate the port's finger piers and basically redevelop the city's waterfront. at around the time the port was finalizing its waterfront land use plan, the port director at the time, executive director of bcdc entered into an agreement to change plans for the waterfront. the result of that effort was the special area plan. essentially, what it did was provide a plan level approach to achieve bcdc's policy goals for the waterfront, creating new plazas, open water basins for the waterfront, a way to rehabilitate the historic figure appenger piers, and provide accs to the waterfront. that success allows access to various buildings to go forward. generally, bcdc has a broad ownership of the waterfront. in the open water areas, they are responsible for phil, public access to the day, any new docks or pile-supported structures, gooding activity, open water activities, changes in use and any construction remodeling or repair of the structure. pretty much anything significant that the board does require the permission from bcdc. with respect to the cruise te

they were also able to celebrate the port city of san francisco. we are amazingly proud of all of their successes and contributions to our very own waterfront. we are so glad to be considered partners with them. on may 25, at pier 1, the heritage executive director and michael corbitt will come to the port for a brown bag lunch to present the book. we have the book available for sale and autographing. that will be open to commissioners, cac members, tenants, and anybody else. that will be made 25 at 12 noon in the conference room. to date, heritage has given presentations of the port city to the california historical society, american institute of architects. the next presentation is may 11. it is being well received and i have people ask me all the time if they can find a book on amazon. you cannot, as far as i am aware, but you can find it in books around the city. on march 23 of this year, the san francisco business times held their annual best deals of the year award. i have not seen a time when so many poor partner recognized. i thought it des

i would look -- i would like to quote another from port city. another from our architectural heritage. still working on the docks, i think this policy tries to look at the risk. "the tragedy for maritime use at the port is that you can prevail over particular issues hundreds of times, but you " -- you can only fail once and everyone is gone forever." thank you. >> thank you. public speakers? >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is [unintelligible] and i am the general manager for the shipyard in san francisco. thank you for putting together this maritime preservation policy. i see it as another example of the carnival splendor. a span of pop tarts and media. that ship could not have been docked here if it had not been for the forward thinking of port of san francisco in 2006 when they put together an agreement that allowed us to expand dry dock no. 2. that provides jobs, working closely with the port of san francisco. today we continue to work closely with the fort to maintain access to the shipyard. i appreciate the hard work and effort tha

yes, i do what your dollars, it is no secret that oakland is the port city in the bay area. our report is pretty much back to pre recession levels and terms of imports, exports. we export about as much as we import. i had a stake in -- which is an organic meat producer based in oakland. this represents some of the changing american habits. this is very interesting, i have some relatives in china. they are worried about pollution and you have this growing market for california organic foods. that is amazing. i take bart all the time. in the global world, i would bet you that we are on more national papers in china then we were in the u.s.. i caught my first congratulations. i got my first e-mail with an hour from a cousin of mine who is living in shanghai. this is a global economy. then we will be hosting a conference for the region to talk about how we can improve our import and export markets and this is a part of the future. we talked about hospitals being built in san francisco. we are taking over -- we are catching up on the retail and oakland has been underserved. there

activity of general public interest to san francisco residents or visitors to the port of san francisco that takes place in the city or within port jurisdiction and can reasonably be expected to have an in-person attendance of 500 or more persons. for a single event or 1000 or more for a series of events. the criteria defined specific streets. in addition to the center median of the embarcadero road way and jefferson street. be executive director may approve banners on of the streets have become appropriate, such as a newly developed pier 70 area. the criteria described banners in three categories. just some examples on the graphics here that you can look at as i talk. a banner announcing an event to the port or its tenants, a public agency banner, which is announcing an event sponsored or supported by the city or its departments or other government agency, and that furthers the mission of that agency, and an even better, which announces an event which will benefit a government agency or charitable nonprofit organization and that will take place on publicly- owned property within the city of san francisco and furth

nine soldiers were reportedly killed in clashes during anti-government demonstrations in the nearby port city. united nations have said that the former president of ivory coast who was arrested on monday remains in the country's main city. the united nations announced earlier that he had been moved out for his own safety. president obama has called to congratulate him on assuming the presidency of ivory coast. chinese government says it's unhappy with the way foreign countries are treating the detained artist as a hero. a foreign ministry spokesman says the artist was a criminal suspect who would be punished according to the law. he is being investigated for alleged economic crime. the japanese prime minister has said that produce is safe to eat despite continuing radiation leaks. he said radiation levels were now dropping and consuming food from the area was one way to show support. japan has reclassified the nuclear threat to be the highest level on an international scale. our correspondent explains. >> as we look at the severity scale used by the authorities, you can see that before today,

but i think in terms of description now you don't want to take these port cities and these blue counties as probleming sees for to the united states. there's regions and religions that matter. do you reject or accept the idea of american exceptional meaning we're different from europe. >> i think we are very different from europe in many different ways. you can't found ooh county in the united states that approaches not one county. you believe europe is venus, and america is mars. >> i think do think there's a tremendous difference. i think the culture badges are being won in europe in the enlightenment and personal autonomy, and personal freedom and there being one in the united states on the adjudicate christ judeo christian. with cal vun in his um. you're an individual be calvinist that and the we're in something together with god that we have sort of a contract between human beings and god and the american still think this way. you think this rhetoric out of the white house with democratic, and republican presidents. it's not going away. >> you want to comment on that. >> i think tha

but i think in terms of description now you don't want to take these port cities and these blue counties as probleming sees for to the united states. there's regions and religions that matter. do you reject or accept the idea of american exceptional meaning we're different from europe. >> i think we are very different from europe in many different ways. you can't found ooh county in the united states that approaches not one county. you believe europe is venus, and america is mars. >> i think do think there's a tremendous difference. i think the culture badges are being won in europe in the enlightenment and personal autonomy, and personal freedom and there being one in the united states on the adjudicate christ judeo christian. with cal vun in his um. you're an individual be calvinist that and the we're in something together with god that we have sort of a contract between human beings and god and the american still think this way. you think this rhetoric out of the white house with democratic, and republican presidents. it's not going away. >> you want to comment on that. >> i think tha

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they have targeted ammunition stockpiles in hopes of crippling the siege on the port city. take a look at this released by japanese power company tepco. the exact moment it hit the plant on march 11. four weeks later, they are battling to cool down the plant's three reactors. back-up power systems were knocked out by the earthquake and tsunami. >> california public schools may be in danger thanks to lax oversight by building inspectors. they poured over records maintained by the division of state architect. dan noyes reports. >>> there are thousands of school construction projects throughout california and a network of more than 1500 trained inspectors to make sure the buildings are made by plans but many aren't doing their job. inspectors help keep contractors zblons you making sure that project management is performing the job and doing the job per the approved plans. >> he says many inspectors are encouraged by contractors to overlook changes to save money. >> contractors will try to use substitute product or lesser product. many times they do that. >> inspectors are sup

sudan is accusing israel of launching an air strike on a car near their port city tuesday.e said he didn't know the reason for the attack nor the identity of those killed. an american man that wrote and published a guide book that gave advice to pedophiles has been sentenced. this is "bbc news." still to come. the times, they are a changing. bob dylan plays beijing for the first time, but not everything gets past the chinese censor. >> the trial of the italian prime minister burial ascione for -- berlusconi has begun. mr. berlusconi denies the charges. he claims they are politically motivated. duncan kennedy has more. >> these are among the serious allegations, silvio berlusconi has ever faced. the 74-year-old prime minister of italy accused of paying a 17-year-old prostitute for sex. he is also charged with abusing his power by getting the police to release the teenager from custody. this is the teenager, known as ruby. now 18, she and the prime minister deny they had sex. ruby says she did receive money and gifts from mr. berlusconi because she needed help. the prime mini

news, the syrian state news agency says a sniper shot dead one soldier and wounded another in the port city of barnyast. the government is urging a crackdown against the president's rule. the president has meanwhile ordered the release of hundreds of detainees who have been involved in weeks of protest across the country, calling for political reform. the ugandan opposition leader has been injured after the military opened fire to disperse protestors in the capital. six other opposition politicians were arrested in the walk to work protest against high food and petrol prices. the u.n. has confirmed that 34 people were killed in an iraqi army raid last week on a camp which houses iranian exiles opposed to the government in teheran. iraq has said three people were shot in the raid and the others were dead before troops moved in. the government's own bahrain says it will dissolve the country's main shiite opposition group. since february when anti-government protests began, at least 30 people have been killed and more than 400 detained. the country is now under martial law, but our security co

one the port cities. when war broke out, he was in a conference. one the first thinged she did was hail a cab and head south in the opposite direction of all of the screaming hoards that were trying to escape. she felt her place was in the war zone helping -- not only helping people, but helping east hezbollah's war effort. she felt this even though she had no official ties. she didn't work for the party. she didn't have a party boss. no one asked her to do this. this was her sense of patriotism coming into play. she viewed herself as a patriot in the society of hezbollah. here she was in her skirt, suit, and heels, literally wading through the river because the bridge had been bombed so she could get to tahrir and take up the position that she remained in the next 34 days, working in the hospital. now she didn't seem as first glance at all like one would expect a hezbollah partisan to look like. she had waist-length hair, she wore it uncovered, she was happy, delighted to talk to foreigners, she had quite a flirtation manner, she enjoyed the compa

mississippi river port city awash in its southern roots its color full french creel charms and its overtones of piety. it's very catholic very catholic very bad just even very from the the city that lives according to code it ruins gets stuck in this kind of like appearance and mentality that's completely antithetical to everything that's happening people come and have conventions here because they know there's the french quarter they know there's strip clubs prostitution. this is bourbon street it's. for about two hundred bucks you can buy yourself sex more specifically straight up intercourse. with a new orleans street walker anything else oral sex anal sex can be negotiated but anything else is also. against the law. according to a law called crime against nature it basically prohibits anything other they are in ordinary intercourse and there's no police out there going into a neighborhood saying you can't have sex with your husband you can't have oral sex with your wife right no one's actually enforcing that but it isn't forced and enforced heavily on the prostitutes of new orleans these

been the stalemate for nearly two weeks comes after gadhafi forces reportedly retreated from the port city of misrata rather heavy rebel human rights groups say more than a thousand people died in florida a seven week siege by gadhafi troops putting the city on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe meanwhile the libyan government says three people have been killed by nato airstrikes outside gadhafi compound in central tripoli chandan he's just returned from a monitoring mission in libya he thinks the decision to intervene in the country is groundless in the first place. the basis for nine hundred seventy three of the u.n. resolution was the claim was that gadhafi had bombed from the air three districts in tripoli subsume. and presumably we visited these places there was no indication whatsoever of any aerial bombardment so it go it just it just goes to show that if there's a claim this has to be actually corroborated properly and that hasn't been done and what we've what we have is a situation we need to have gone to war going to stop sovereign nation on the base off an allegation which

let's return to events in libya where the rebels say they are hoping to soon take control of the oil port city of brother and opposition spokesman says they are confident and have what he called weapons supplies from friendly countries are his military contributors as nato is meddling is plunging the country into a deadly stalemate and nature is full of sheer thinking . that is a far as we'd be a conflict he's concerned ever thought actually he's in charge of the western humanitarian bombing in leave you think about it first what started as a successful for range intelligence us against. this year in february and the momentum then overtly expanded into the u n resolution behind the united states and its allies were involved in a full fledged western military operation in libya now who ease in charge of the western military effort to leave france the united states nato allies in fact even in washington in brussels they can figure themselves who actually he's leading their western efforts and their solution to really in conflict has been help with sleep lost so far between the d.c. unity off eff

met with tear gas, and even live ammunition, in towns and cities across the country, including the port city of latakia, homs, the suburbs of damascus, and significantly in daraa in the south, epicenter of the revolt which broke out nearly two weeks ago. more than 70 people have been killed in the upheaval so far, hundreds injured and hundreds more detained. the violence is a stark contrast to a pledge by syrian president bashar al assad that protesters would not be harmed. the protests are the most serious challenge yet to a political dynasty that has ruled for more than 40 years by using harsh repression and violent reprisals for dissent, which makes the determination of those taking the streets all the more striking. allen pizzey, cbs news, amman. >> hill: it's now been three weeks since the earthquake and tsunami ravaged japan, and three weeks now that the damaged nuclear plant has been leaking radiation. today we got a new look at the fukushima plant as japan's prime minister vowed to get control of the problem. the government ordered the company that runs the plant to review how it mea

which has been in a stalemate for nearly two weeks it's counted as gadhafi forces retreat from the port city of misrata where they faced heavy thoughts from rebels human rights groups claim misrata is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis often more than a thousand people died in the seven weeks each by gadhafi troops meanwhile the libyan government says three people have been killed in nature as strikes. pound in central tripoli so john donne who has just returned from the knowledge training mission in libya thinks the decision to intervene in the country was groundless. the basis for nine hundred seventy three the u.n. resolution was that the claim was that gadhafi had bombed from the air three particular districts in tripoli sort of pushed moon. we visited these places there was no indication whatsoever of any aerial bombardment so they go it just it just goes to show that if there's a claim this has to be actually cooperated properly and that hasn't been done and what we've what we've had is a situation where nato has gone to war going to serve some other nation on the base off an allega

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into the strategic oil port city of brega but were forced back after a sandstorm grounded nato aircraft back in march u.n. security council passed this resolution that was allowing the intervention but critics say that what's actually happening there is far from simply enforcing a no fly zone journalist patrick having said says the repercussions are striking much further east in china. just in libya alone chinese contracts are valued something like twenty billion u.s. dollars initially from a chinese point of view the original un resolution is big because it was asking for a no fly zone you know if the chinese initially thought we took it on face value and said well this is going to help stability in the region but having a no fly zone and hopefully things will calm down and we can get back to business as usual obviously we know from. the variance of the last couple weeks that is it wasn't just about a no fly zone it's true it was really about a full on military intervention on the part of nato. in the region in libya so you have this thing all the time the number one economic power in

east of this country instated says it was gadhafi trying to sabotage oil supplies to the east to port city of to brook from where the rebels have begun exporting the first consignment of crude oil with some one hundred million dollars to qatar now in a separate major is trying is still confusion over what exactly happened but we hearing from doctors on the ground that at least five rebel fighters were killed and some twenty two were injured what seems to have happened very is that the rebel fighters were trying to advance with heavy weaponry when they came under attack by nato of a quickie retreated to the town of baghdad where it was some seventy kilometers to the east of the rebel headquarters in benghazi and beets and they were shelled now nato has not directly knowledge once again it seems that that is a strike and for the casualties that have brought but it does say that the situation on the ground is extremely fluid at the frontline and shifting records throwing forward and backwards and that it's not clear what's actually happening the last few days have seen bad weather so no doubt