it is a pretty modest sloped sidewalk. for this to be a solution, my concern would be a solution throughout the city. we have dates in the middle of the sidewalk, where pedestrians are walking. it is wide, but it is not that wide to have that gate there. i would like to explore other options, including the property owner taking some -- like the appellate said, doing it inside. the ' 08 drawings show that vestibule. i think this is kind of -- >> you are absolutely correct. short of doing something within the building, we could still allow some more been in the sidewalk. we do it all the -- some warping in the sidewalk. we do it all the time if a building is to take up 3 inches to bring it out into the sidewalk. 3 inches over a 15 foot sidewalk is a piece of cake. we have done that all over the city. if it is done right, you cannot even tell. based on the current design of the building, where the doors are at the property line, even though they swing in word, that still requires the 4 ft. lyndon -- four foot landing. you are

there is already a 3% slope in the sidewalk. it is the only way we can get up from the curb to the floor level of seven and nine clement, is to have these excessive slopes for the first 4 feet or so. commissioner fung: maybe we should hear from the department and then i can rephrase the question. >> ok. thank you very much. >> actually, we will hear from the appellant next and then the department. >> good evening, commissioners. i do not know what to say because i was as puzzled by what i was given about one week late. . i did not know how to respond. i also received, and just as i walked in, the response from the department saying that his drawings were not acceptable. we are back to square one and i do not know what to tell you. my view has always been the problem should be solved inside the stores. there are lots of stores that have raised flooring. here is a picture of the entryway down the street. is that not showing? it is a recessed entry and this is 55 clement, just down the street. i imagined it is not quite as slow as

there were houses on top and there was a very steep slope. you can see some debris slides where the sand is slowing. then you drop into a gully or a drainage swell. the top of the landslides' is just a drop in the middle where another clock has pulled away from the edge. the higher hill on the outside edge of the rich and the depression is the drop. surface erosion is an acute issue. >> you can see the evidence of the houses directly adjacent. we have similar conditions to that. if you go around the corner around the seacliff, where in fact there has been significant movement and in fact many of the homeowners along that portion of the seacliff have had to come back in and do extensive foundation repair and massive walls to protect the home while the slope [inaudible] >> here we have the shallow slides, a debris slides. during earthquakes, they are both activated and the movement on the deep sea slides accelerates as well as the official material that erodes. >> if there's one point that is brought home from this discussion of landslides is s

oh, man, watch out, there's a slope over there. okay. stays up on top. >> jim furyk will have a birdie putt to win his second transitions championship when we come back. >>> jim furyk into it, looking over his birdie putt, which would win it. first play is goosen from the bunker. >> a little bit of a plugged lie, but on an uphill slope, it's going to force the ball up into the air quickly, so i think this is doable, just flop it out onto the front of the green and let it release. it came out a little hotter than he wanted. >> goosen will head for virginia beach wednesday for an injection in his back, and it has been an incredible performance by him this week with that tentative back that he says has really been bothering him for a couple of years. but the stage is clear now for jim furyk to pick up his first victory in 18 months since he won the tour championship at east lake and clinched the fedex cup. since then, though, he has been waiting for the next victory to come along. coming off the heels of his worst season ever on the pga tou

oh, man, watch out, there's a slope over there. okay. stays up on top. >> jim furyk will have a birdie putt to win his second transitions championship when we come back. >>> jim furyk into it, looking over his birdie putt, which would win it. first play is goosen from the bunker. >> a little bit of a plugged lie, but on an uphill slope, it's going to force the ball up into the air quickly, so i think this is doable, just flop it out onto the front of the green and let it release. it came out a little hotter than he wanted. >> goosen will head for virginia beach wednesday for an injection in his back, and it has been an incredible performance by him this week with that tentative back that he says has really been bothering him for a couple of years. but the stage is clear now for jim furyk to pick up his first victory in 18 months since he won the tour championship at east lake and clinched the fedex cup. since then, though, he has been waiting for the next victory to come along. coming off the heels of his worst season ever on the pga tou

versus steps to accommodate the slope. in this instance, there has got to be a bit to solution. and it may involve a little pain for your client. but i think that is the direction i would lean toward. i am asking for what you would recommend, based upon that type of approach. president garcia: in other words, the new elements would be to avail yourself of whatever variances are out there, take some pain so as to reduce the impact on clement street. i think you are clear on that. reduce the impact as much as possible on the sidewalk. some combination would take those elements into account. >> ok. i can look into it, yes. president garcia: are you in any way prejudiced by the delays we keep causing to this? i mean is your client still able to operate until some solution is reached? >> i have not received any update from my clients. i assume we are able to continue working with this. president garcia: i mean, he is not out of business while all of this is being resolved. >> no. commissioner fung: would it make sense to give y

there are more than 15,000 members of the park slope food co-op. this is "democracy now!emocracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. it has been moved to brooklyn tech from seating around 3000 people. we will be back in 15 seconds to talk about whistleblowers in the united states. ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to whistle-blowers and the unprecedented attack they've come under during the obama administration. invoking the as the nosh act of 1917, the administration has pressed criminal charges against no fewer than six government employees, more than all previous demonstrations combine. last we spoke to one of the country's most well-known whistle-blowers, thomas drake, who is targeted after challenging mismanagement ways and constitutional violations at the national security agency. the top-secret agency that is a number of times larger than the cia. he was one of several sources for an article about a $1.2 billion nsa experimental program called trailbla

as winter fades, a one of a kind trip down the slopes. "nightly news" begins. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. if you listen to our president and military leaders, there is a plan for afghanistan. we know how and when we are going to draw down u.s. forces and exit this nation's longest war. but today in the aftermath of that rampage by a u.s. soldier that killed 16 afghan civilians, the president of afghanistan made a surprise demand and indicated he may have his own plans for u.s. forces in his country. it happened while defense secretary leon panetta was there. it was the first of two setbacks today. we have two reports here tonight beginning with our chief foreign correspondent richard engel in our kabul bureau. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the u.s. exit strategy today was complicated both by its enemy here, the taliban, and an increasingly difficult ally. secretary panetta met with president karzai today extending condolences and reconfirming washington's commitment to a smooth two-year transition.

it has a roof that slopes down. by the time you get to our second level, he has fully enclosed our light well. commissioner hillis: so his issue with the rail on the back blocking his sunlight -- >> which would follow our parapet. the reason the low were 30 inches are solid -- he wanted us to move a foot in. we would still have to fire grade the railing. then he wanted it to have glass 5 feet in, which is in the way of the door. in the floor plan, you will notice we have been asked by -- >> face it the way you would look at it. >> we had a meeting with the department of building inspection before applying to find a way to be able to keep the existing spiral staircase as our means of egress. the concern they had was will be you -- will be lower unit have access to the roof? we need it to only have access to the upper unit. so we have put a metal gate around the top of the stairs. if i move the railing in, we would not be able to get to and from the deck. president garcia: would you go back to photograph two? show me

we do not want to bury that down in order to create conformity to the cross slope. it would be harmful to the health of the tree. i would recommend that we go to a 24 inch box size, from a more practical standpoint. president garcia: do you think you could get three of those? >> i am certain two would fit. i am not certain about three. but i think if we had a smaller species -- i am not sure which species we would end up with. with a smaller species, there would be room for closer spacing. president garcia: i am going to assume that you are willing to assume that ms. short will be as reasonable as she always is. >> ms. short is always reasonable. we are happy to work with her again. president garcia: we believe those options open and as other commissioners have a different thought. commissioner fung: do you want to hear from the property owners? president garcia: i think they are nodding vigorously. >> i am delighted to have the opportunity to work with ms. short and take her advice on what we should do. that would be fine with me. president garcia: i would move tha

the slope of a lot also does not justify a variance. all of the properties have the same slope. it creates no hardship for use ofa the use. it variance would not help them. rejecting the variance would not result in any practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship that is not attributable to the owner. the current owner may use the entire property. in the space not covered by house is completely usable and beautiful private outdoor space. the third factor referring to nonconforming lots on the street, they are all either grandfathered in when the sun and with instituted or they are conforming with the exception of the one lot, which is a special location next to the avenue. the planning commission has rejected at least two other attempts at zoning variances. the fourth factor, the belgrave neighborhood would be materially and substantially injured. property values are premised in large part on the expectation there will be no new nonconforming lots created. breaking this variance would destroy that expectation do not only to this variants but others that may be granted to to the

so this guy can handle it, there's no question about it. >> this for birdie. >> that same slope and it turns hard from right to left once it gets up on top. >> it looked g -- good. and he liked the looks of this. it had the look that he was going to maybe walk it in. who's away now? >> well, garrigus is away. and remember that he missed a very short putt in the playoff last year at the tournament of champions against jonathan byrd, one that was shorter than this. >> that was with a short putter, the 28 1/2-inch putter. he's gone to the 46-inch putter that he referred to earlier as dr. evil. how evil will that long putter be right now that he changed to in the desert at the humana challenge. here's a good test right now for birdie. >> this putt will move a little bit to his right. this is where i'd want to be putting right now. i think this is a great opportunity if he can hold this putt. >> it looked like it started just ever so slightly left of his aim. >> the luke chants have begun. birdie putt to not only win for the fifth time on the pga tour, but just a couple of weeks after rory

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high time for our last break of the evening but when we return the brooklyn park slope co-op voted down a ban on israeli products last night and got so heated even at mayor bloomberg time then and the comments when it was night still final work and are happy our families are going into debt just to educate our children burying her garden and alicia silverstone feeds her child like a bird all that way from that. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't. charge welcome to the big picture. down the official ulti ugly cation your on the phone called touch for me i choose option. one child's life on the go. video on demand oxys mine gold coast's and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the faulty dot com. if. i guys it's time for tonight's rules on war and tonight once again go to new york city mayor michael bloomberg a man a really seems like bloomberg is trying to give santorum a run for hi

but perhaps there's one victim of this war that may be the most tragic of all, the park slope food coopat a legal co-op. >> the food ban is meant to punish israel. >> the battle lines in cooperative grocery store have been drawn. >> we would like to boycott israeli goods. we believe the food we sell, eat and buy should not come at the expense of palestinian human rights. >> so palestinians are to determine their own fate they are going to look directly to the park slope food co-op. >> not just this one but it has a role. >> another group has risen up to fight the removal of the these five israeli products from the shelves. >> we formed a group called more humous please and organized to owe pose the boycott. >> sorry what was the name of your group? >> more humous, please. >> it wasn't already take season in. >> we didn't find anyone. >> it's surprising they asked so nicely given what they are doing. >> the suggestion is to end israel as a jewish state. >> and they are doing you this through the medium of cous drrks ous? >> right. >> you can see the toll it's taken on the faces pushing t

. >> the ski slopes, when they're not in season, they tend to do some other things.o mountain hill mountain biking. in austria, they turn the slopes into a roller coaster. >> this is a single rail roller coaster. it's kind of silly looking. you can get your own car. >> that was a very sharp end. >> this is david ellis' way of coming down the coaster. david is a roller coast aficionado. he goes all over the world riding roller coasters. he's even broken two world records for riding roller coasters naked. >> in the nuded? >> in the nude. here, he's doing something slightly naked. he's going down this thing with no breaks. >> what? >> he is moving. >> yeah. >> how is he going to break? >> the break is just a little lever in between his legs. >> oh so he can control it? >> he can control it, but for the thrill, he's chosen not to touch the brebrakes at all. >> i would totally do this. good idea to make a little extra buck during the summer months. >> you want to go flying? >> that's brody, the world famous flying dog. and the answer is always the same. >> this dog flies

if you see the sloped roof that is mentioned, the reason there is not a light well is i sloped the entire roof of the building for the previous homeowner, so they would have a lot of light. they actually have views out of their bathroom. that is a lot more expensive kind of a change then we are asking tonight. thank you. commissioner fung: i have a question for mr. strasburg. the windows in your light well lead to what rooms? >> one is a bathroom. another is our large closet, our changing room. commissioner fung: you have windows on all three walls? >> it is a light well. up like that? okay. president garcia: this is the bedroom? >> that is my sequence. >> we have three minutes of rebuttal now for the permit holder. if you have anything more. commissioner fung: this is from the permit? >> we do not have any notes that say we are going to burn food on the roof. what we do have is a picture of a gas grill with a lid on it. and notes about how far that has to be from the property line to ventilate properly. most of these gas grills have these hoods on them. i do not understand how that is wh

she's a world champion, tearing up the gnarliest slopes. only because she defied the odds. how one athlete turned a loss, into an inspiring story. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, bill weir, and tonight, juju chang. this is march 16th, 2012. >>> i'm juju chang. tonight, we begin with a story how life imitates hollywood, with disastrous results. it's a wildly popular movie about an out-of-control teen party full of boozing, drugs and big-ticket destruction. the movie characters get away with just a hangover. but for real-life teens copying these parties this spring break, the consequences are far more serious. abc's ryan owens shows us when kids try to bring it home. >> reporter: if you're a teenager, "project x," is a comedy. if you're a parent, it is the scariest of horror movies. >> give us 40 bucks. >> my car is off-limits. >> reporter: the film, which opened two weeks ago, tells the story of three teenage dorks who throw an epic house party while mom and dad are out of town. >> is this big enough to be cool? >> rep

we will now down sloping affect. the west wind will come off the mountains and pushed downward in the metro area and that compresses the air and warms it. let's look at the temperatures. 54 in the district currently. northwest of town in frederick 41. 39 in hagerstown. 37 in martinsburg. 58 degrees in fredericksburg and 59 in lexington park. mid 60's around the metro area today. close to 70 farther south of town. upper 50's later on today to the north west. frostburg, near 50 this afternoon. that will be the exception. gusty wind today, 10-20 with higher gusts. a lot of sunshine. tomorrow increasing clouds late in the day, near 60 degrees. rain expected late friday and saturday with a few thunderstorms on saturday. >> thank you. 6:20, 52 degrees in clarksburg. >> mourning the loss of the front man of the monkees. how the music world will remember davy jones. of their baby? >> it's betrayal. >> next "anderson." captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> ♪ people say we monkey around ♪ >> musi

you see the dragon wagon coming down the slopes. it got out of control and slammed into some snow-making equipment on the side of the hill. some reports say as many as seven people were injured, including two children that were airlifted. there were as many as 14 people in this particular sled that was built out of cardboard. i imagine kind of hard to control. there's all sorts of weight in different areas. >> and was this a charity event, fund-raiser? >> this is an annual event that the lions club puts on to benefit the blind skiers program. >> oh, my god! >> the event is all about people building sleds out of cardboard boxes and having a good time and going down the tubing run at whisk ski resort in maryland. there are snow berms built. you can see about a foot and a half to two-foot berms to try to keep them in the run. >> but if you're picking up enough speed, those berms sort of turn into jumps if you fly off the edge. >> oh, no. >> and there's really no real way for them to stop. >>> have you ever been out camping, looked at y