population-- was moved onto less than 15% of the landthese so-called homelands were often marginal areas with little inand minimal. the white minority controlled were85% of the land,areas including the richest, most productive areas. white commercial farmers who were heavily subsidized by the government prospered while black farmers struggled to eke out a living, practicing subsistence farming or as laborers for white concerns. man: people were not able to make a living in this economy, and that was the whole purpose of the economy. we saw a situation that necessarily undermined agricultural production and livelihood systems. why? because those areas of south africa designated as bantustans were in fact labor reserves. we see a compression of space. we see high-population densities on marginal lands, and proximity to johannesburg and pretoria-- the main industrial center of south africa. and so those areas served as effective labor reserves, meaning that if we can keep the people in those areas from garnering a real livelihood, keep them

and for them, the return to the land, the redemption of the land, was seen as part of a larger messianic scheme. now here, on the other hand, you have two other religious voices- the ultra-orthodox and anti-zionists- which do not, at least initially, did not see any messianic significance in the state of israel, nor in the redemption of the land. but they said, "that time will come, and we will know when it does come. but it hasn't arrived yet." most of them view themselves as living in exile within the land of israel. as a footnote, it's important to say that there are, though, maybe changes in their worldview, and they have shifted on the issue when- some of them have shifted much closer to the religious zionists. and then you have groups of religious zionists who are completely against- or completely reject a messianic interpretation of the significance of the state of israel- the significance of the state of israel is worldly, not religious. and the jews have a problem with existence anywhere else in the world, and the only place where we can have the dignity of self-defense and the

and for them, the return to the land, the redemption of the land, was seen as part of a larger messianic scheme. now here, on the other hand, you have two other religious voices- the ultra-orthodox and anti-zionists- which do not, at least initially, did not see any messianic significance in the state of israel, nor in the redemption of the land. but they said, "that time will come, and we will know when it does come. but it hasn't arrived yet." most of them view themselves as living in exile within the land of israel. as a footnote, it's important to say that there are, though, maybe changes in their worldview, and they have shifted on the issue when- some of them have shifted much closer to the religious zionists. and then you have groups of religious zionists who are completely against- or completely reject a messianic interpretation of the significance of the state of israel- the significance of the state of israel is worldly, not religious. and the jews have a problem with existence anywhere else in the world, and the only place where we can have the dignity of self-defense and the

of course, water doesn't get beneath the land surface with equal ease everywhere on the globe. when it lands on hard bedrock or asphalt pavement, it simply runs off to feed nearby streams and rivers. but if there are cracks or fissures in the surface rock, the water can pass through to collect underground. even hard rocks, such as basalt or granite, usually have some fractures in them through which water can permeate. other land surfaces consist of less solid aggregates of material such as sandstone or sediment or ordinary soil. here the water can work its way down through the gaps, or interstices, between the individual bits of matter. although permeable rock will let the water through, it still may not be a good source of groundwater. for a rock to contain abundant groundwater, it also needs to have a lot of open spaces, or pores. the capacity to transmit water is called permeability, and the capacity to store water is called porosity. the ideal rock material for the accumulation of groundwater is both porous and permeable. this kind of material is known as an aquifer-- from t

. >> the land is just north of horseshoe lane. are suingdents montgomery county, charged that the process to decide on the use the land was not done properly. >> this is personal for ted duncan. his daughter attends the montgomery county school. the land they end up being used for a soccer fields. >> this is public land being private entity by the county. is one of the faces of the new lawsuit that claims the county did not follow the law leasing thes to montgomery county board of education. the fight started after a farmer was told his lease was not been renewed. >> if they are allowed to comment --h this all public land could used for anything anywhere in this count a plaintiff in the lawsuit the decision to build the fields violates master zoning regulations. >> a spokesperson says the position has not changed and they're moving the project because follows the potomac master that public land be used public persist -- purpose. >> the government is supposed to be -- as opposed to work for the residence. is waiting fory a court dec

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that change following the holocaust when international efforts to establish a jewish homeland in the land of palestine increased by nine hundred forty seven the un adopted a proposal that would divide palestine into two states the arabs were designated forty three percent of the land despite the fact that they made up two thirds of the population and owned over ninety two percent of the land jews were given fifty six percent of the land despite being only a third of the population that's interesting math isn't it while following this announcement jewish leaders began occupying major palestinian cities expelling three hundred thousand palestinians before the state of israel was even announced in one thousand forty eight the result of which would lead to a military offensive by neighboring countries which overwhelmingly objected to the establishment of israel in the land of palestine but they were no match the military superiority of the israeli. army israeli military effectively cleansed much of the territory and following the one thousand and forty eight war they encompass seventy eight p

the bayview. in 1997 waterfront land use plan was adopted, the first waterfront land use plan for the port after a multi-year process. community planning process to develop -- to determine what the uses would be for that property, what kinds of uses would be acceptable and unacceptable for that 7-1/2 miles of waterfront property that we own and manage on behalf of the state. the main thrust of that waterfront land use plan was determining what the port priority uses would be, specifically in the maritime uses for the various subareas. there are five subareas within the waterfront land use plan. it also focused on park and open space systems as well as creating mixed use development, opportunity areas for each of the five -- each of the five subareas. i should mention again one of the primary thrust of the waterfront land use plan was reconnecting san francisco with its waterfront. when that plan was adopted, working with city family, the city's general plan and planning code were amended so that the policies including design review process within the plan were in keeping with the waterfront plan.

they don't know the people of the land. so these are the extremists and they are becoming more and more. 1/3 of the nation are newcomers. newcomers that came during fighting. >> my family lived for many centuries in germany and it was in 1920 when it became impossible for the jews, my mother left for palestine to begin working as a gymnastic teacher in a youth village. she was thinking about the identity of a jew, and she came to her parents and said to them i don't think the germans want us here. i'm looking for another place where we can do something from the beginning. so she came here. i think her motivation saved about 15,000, 20,000 children. and i think it's good that i have some roots here. so this is my home since 1946, and i love the neighborhood. up there on the corner there's a catholic convent with a huge courtyard where it was very easy to learn to go on bikes. this was from 1946, 1947, the last joint palestinian jewish house. we had a very good relationship with the arabs. and then the war started in 1947. >>

this being lot 33 and this being -- where my finger is, the 10-foot strip of land and granted a permit to the two buildings here on what is now called lots 38 and 37. each of those three and a half feet wide. the zoning administrator on september 11, 2012 without explanation or request by us as owners issued a revised letter, and issued a variance in that letter stating that lot 33 effectively didn't need the 10 feet by 50-foot piece of strip of land to be a legal lot, and gave our lot a variance saying that it would be therefore a legal lot without meeting the guidelines without that strip of land, and essentially trying to correct the 1955 approval process where the city never enforced that approval that the 10-foot by foot foot strip of land would be given to lot 33 and correct that lack of enforcement by issuing this letter. why we're here today just to be very clear and repeat what is in the briefing document before you is we would like the september 11, 2012 letter revoked and we would like restrictions placed on that strip of land so neither us as owners of the corner lot or the

i think they're tied to the land. they've been out here for generations. likelihood of more money i don't think is a real consideration. i think he's jusinove t old rm. narrator: individual holdouts can't compete with the constant pressure for development. richard greene charts the rapidly changing land use to investigate development's impact on the area's prime farmland. the geographic information system hasoweds from t soil onseiconoiquit dfoverthe twoto rlladdresd eied uan lanuses from t soil atgrne's gis pdus ap dfoverthe twoto rlladdresd highlighting in red productive farm communities which are most threatened by encroaching development. greene has also created a national map of the u.s., showing the areas that are most susceptible to farmland loss. he finds that densely-populated farming regions, like those in california and florida, are particularly threatened by suburban growth. thoumericareot angeofoi some of the best agricultural land in the world. once developed, it's almost impossible to return in the chicago area, rmers are not the only ones a

the schlage lock site. what we'd like to do is have it land as close as possible. there is an opportunity for it to come in and potentially connect at the northern tip of the schlage site which will not only connect it, but all the way across the freeway in terms of executive park and hunters point shipyard. so, that's one positive thing. the second project that's underway right now is a project called green connections, which i believe you may have had a briefing on. it is a project the planning department looks at the shape of the road, how do we better connect communities on foot and by transit to open spaces that already exist. we picked visitacion valley community as one of our pilot neighborhoods. right now we actually are planning a connection that would follow through little hollywood along blanken avenue, connect at the top of the schlage site and back through visitacion valley connecting with the greenway. so, i think that project development, when we did have our october workshops for the schlage site, we actually partnered with the green connections team

they show that the lands, anywhere from 40 to 90 percent more productive than the lands held in trustd as he said, these indians to have their land under their trusteeship of the federal government to my can't borrow against them. they are really locked into a poverty cycle as a esult. john: pretty amazing that no group has been more taking care of by big government and the indians, and no group in america has done worse. >> fundamentally the group -- root of the problem is the fact that we don't have the same property rights as others take for granted, and that has to fundamentally change. we have to be able to recognize the collective ownership and free the imagination of the individual entepreneur. we had economies that went back many, many miennia and were successful until 1492. john: indians had a form of property rights before white settlers came here and mess that up. some indians actually owned the salmon streams. they manage those streams so that they let the larger salmon go up to spawn. the result is that even today those streams have larger salmon and the streams that were

they probably would be coming to the lands that we now manage. so, what is the park services' connection to all of this? we have our centennial of our organization coming up in 2016 in four years, and we feel what we believe are america's best ideas. it's grand canyon, yosemite, but also stewarding america's history and that would include independence hall, gettysburg, mount rush more, and most recently flight 93. my dress uniform and that famous hat is really derived from the world war i uniform from 1916, little changed from that time. the first rangers that patroled our parks before there was a park service were calvary soldiers. the presidio here in san francisco sent buffalo soldiers up to yosemite and sequoia every summer to control the parks, to keep the poachers out and to begin the construction of roads. the first federal superintendent of sequoia national park was colonel charles young. he happened to be the third african-american to graduate from west point. he went on to become the first black colonel in the army. amazing story. i beli

for example, the california gold rush. a land didn't belong to them. untry did not belong to them. it was mexico. you went in, but 800 mining claims association got 3 million americans. after a while you decided, why keep on shooting at each other. in the beginning of the 20th century you go out, create a private property system. that brought in banks, and you create. >> but california really got rich. the rest of the world is not. what is the difference? >> you americans at that time were absolutely conscious of what the rule of law was about. people kept on moving from the east coast to the west coast george washington called in bandied. the band is don't have a right to be here. congress can around and said, oh, yes they do. you start rewarding property on the basis of improvement. john: we did not always have these in america. american settlers worked out their own generally exempted right to property. >> those areas where you shaved off part of he tree. indicate they had accepted it. in some cases where they grew corn, for example, the corn grew fr

so, i could not get out to the head lands. there is so much there to learn about the natural history of this area and we went to the marin head lands, i should say the marin mammal center recently. we have a visitor coming from australia that wants to get over there. if you have the bus on saturday, that will be wonderful. and i will appreciate if you have more publicity regarding it because a lot of people don't know that exists. and if we could see like the places where you're going to have the bus stop and the whole schedule, that would be helpful also. and i thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> tony ann, followed by susan casey, and then bridget boy lan. is mr. ahn here? no, susan casey. followed by bridget boy lan. >> good afternoon, ms. casey. >>> good afternoon. i'm also very excited about having the 76 expanded to saturday. i mainly wanted more information about why we wanted to eliminate stops, what the reasoning was behind that. >> thanks much. next speaker, please. >> last speaker who submitted a card, br

sure the future transit is falling where the land use needed to be. but thanks to the planning department, we've got those maps underway. what's really interesting is the comment that came out was, okay, we've got this data, we know it's happening. what's the soul of this planning? where are we going in terms of goals and objectives and what quality of the neighborhood do we really want to build? we have a lot of goals and objectives in a variety of documents already, the general plan, the transportation element of the general plan, the waterfront land use plan of the port, the area plans of south beach, rincon point, those are community objectives already set. we're going to start with those. we put them all over the walls and asked the people at the workshop these are what's in the books. help us figure out this is adequately addressing what you see emerging in this part of town because we can circle those goals and objectives and say, yes, they point to this part of the waterfront. i expect we'll need to come up as a community with new goals and obj

strip of land so neither us as owners of the corner lot or the adjoining neighbor are able to build or obstruct that piece of land regardless of who has proper owner should -- ownership and the law be we held and the way the lot is today someone could apply for a permit and build on it. the reason we're asking the september 11, 2012 letter be revoked is the letter of determination was never requested by united states as owners. the. >> >> the variance was not requested. the variance requested also is not helpful. it actually causes more confusion and more problems. it contradicts the 1955 approval process of the lots and says our lot 33 can be legally non conforming. third, the planning commission in 1954 decision when they approved resolution 4350 they wanted that corner lot at lot 33 to have open space. that's why as a condition of the approval process for building those two adjoining buildings they required that what's now lot 38 give the 10-foot by 50-foot strip of land to the corner lot. by granting the variance in september 11 the planning department now makes it impossible to ne

glaciers are large, long-lasting masses of ice which slowly flow across the land. ile most places periodically have temperatures cold enough for snow and ice to form, only in a few places do conditions permit the growth of glaciers. glaciers come from the accumulation of snow, either in polar regions or in high altitudes, or even at the equator at very high elevations at the tops of mountains. wherever you have precipitation in the form of snow, you can get a glacier. but there's one other requirement-- more snow has to fall in the winter than melts in the summer, so that in every 12-month period, some of the previous winter's snowfall is left over. so as snow accumulates year after year, a glacier begins to form. the actual manner in which snow is converted into glacial ice involves compaction and rearrangement of snow crystals. there's a process that goes on as each layer of snow is added year by year-- that's residual snow from the previous winter-- it compacts under the weight of new snowfall. and as that compaction takes place, the snow crystals are pressed clo

for building those two adjoining buildings they required that what's now lot 38 give the 10-foot by 50-foot strip of land to the corner lot. by granting the variance in september 11 the planning department now makes it impossible to negotiate with the neighbors or to try to work with the title companies to determine ownership of that peetion of land, and lastly the variance is not necessary, as we write in the briefing document, because the planning department, specifically the zoning administrator, issued an approval for the tentative map and that is exhibit c in your briefing documents saying that the lot conforms to all planning codes so in fact the september 11 letter that we are asking to you revoke is not necessary. we give you in the briefing document six reasons why you the board of appeals have authority to revoke the september 11 letter and i am happy to answer questions letter if you have any, and i would like to add one more. the zoning administrator doesn't have the authority to do this and three weeks letter revised but they don't have the authority to revise that letter three weeks from no

is a true public partnership with the land and sponsors and the state, thank you. million. that is terrific. we will look forward to that project moving forward. speaking of the trust for public land i'm proudly stealing the thunder of part of the general manager's report but last week, for those of you know, the trust republic land is one of the largest philanthropic entities in the country participating in open space, the development of open space areas around the country. they conducted a survey of the largest cities in the country. if my eyesight serves me well, they have a program called park score. and that is basically where -- this writing is way too small. but they assess the park systems in the largest systems in the country and give them a score based on the condition, proximity, size and scope of recreation and park facilities. san francisco, i am proud to say, came in number one as the best park system in the country. everybody should take credit with that. they presented the mayor and me with an etched park bench, the mayor has in his office, and will

this means it is the law of the land in ten states and washington, d.c. week in minnesota they rejected a constitutional amendment to ban guy marriage. and voters elected tammy baldwin who will become the first openly-gay senator. joining me e is maryland governor martin o'malley. it's great to have you here. you were front and center for the marriage e equality battle. chad griffin heard you were going to be on with me today. he sent me this note saying no one worked harder for marriage equality than governor o'malley. he was on the front lines getting this done. this is what leadership looks like. sir, from your perspective, what were the key factors in seeing this legislation become a reality? >> i think the key factor was the goodness and the fairness of the people of maryland. as you know, you're from maryland. we have a diverse population. but together we came to that large space that said that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law. we also had courageous people step up. two that come to mind are pastor hickman in baltimo

this is the monday, october 29th, 2012 meeting of the land use and economic development committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i feel a lot of giants fever still in the air here. over here with the giants colors on. we have three items on the agenda today, but let me first say that our clerk is ms. andrea ausbery. i'm the chair of the committee, eric mar. to my right is vice-chair supervisor malia cohen. we're expecting supervisor scott wiener any moment. could you please give us our announcements? >> yes. please make sure the sounds on all cell phones, electronic devices, speaker cards and comies of documents are included as part of the file to submit to the clerk. items on the november 6 board agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. i'd like to also thank sfgtv for televising us today, especially our staff greg burk and john ross. we have three items on the agenda today. ms. ausbery please call item number 1. >> item number 1, administrative code - port prepayment of jobs-housing linkage program obligations, ordinance amending the san francisco administrative cod

the holy land five or five muslim palestinian american men were killed by the u.s. government after nine eleven of funneling money to hamas their charity the holy land foundation and what followed was an outright chris say it against them lead to a conviction based on questionable evidence and now they're serving prison sentences of up to sixty five years so. why is there such a double standard when it comes to muslims and even more so how it's time to talk about that and more i was joined earlier by nora barrows friedman associate editor and staff reporter with the electronic intifada i first asked her if there can be any retribution for the holy land five. over the past week and a half i've been speaking with some of the lawyers and civil rights advocates that have been involved in the holy land five defense team and it's unclear what the next step is and or that the family and some civil rights organizations are talking about. paving the way towards exoneration and release. but as the legal recourse this latest appeal to the supreme court was pretty much the last

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