. >> united public workers for action. we are here to oppose this sham agreement proposed by mayor ed lee. it is interesting, the supervisors are continually voting for tax subsidies for corporations, the millionaires in san francisco. this is supported by billionaire warren hellman. when it comes down to this, you want to attack city workers. this ballot proposition will be an attack on city workers' rights. you are eliminating the need to power of city workers and their representation on the board. you will have an increase in city workers and you will put it on the back of the public workers. this is an anti-labor, anti- working class tax that you are putting on the retiree's of san francisco. and you are doing it secretly. unfortunately, some union leaders and this is the best way to go. we will take the lesser evil from a dodgy. this is the wrong thing for the labor movement. -- from adachi. let's attack the public workers, let's attack their retirees. that is what you are doing. you are fraudulently telling the peopl

. >> the tragedy united public only for a short time. that disagreement played a major role in the parliamentary elections. >>> a u.n. tribunal has released the names of four suspects wanted for the killing of the former lebanese president back into the five. the members of the shiite military movement hezbollah, which has consistently denied involvement in the killings, but has yet to react to the tribunal's announcement. the whereabouts of the suspects remain unknown. >>> the legendary german soccer star is the new head coach of team usa. he won a world cup as a player into the six and that the german national team to a third-place finish. -- in 2006 and helped guide the german national team to a third- place finish. >> germany celebrated their third-place finish on home soil. in his two years as germany's coach, he introduced and refined a dynamic style of soccer that proved effective on the pitch, while exciting the fans. hi unconventional training methods drew duration initially. they have since become standard practice. into the se

units. the public defender's office has a reentry unit that has a social work component, and the clean slate program. the social work program provides high-quality clinical work and advocacy. the social workers place hundreds of clients on a yearly basis and hundreds of clients on community-based programs and social services. the goal -- the reason the realignment team will work within the office's reentry unit is so that we can build on prior successes. we conducted a study in 2009 that evaluated our program, and the evaluation showed -- and i provided you a copy of the evaluation -- that almost every client that had a social worker and an attorney working as a team together -- almost 98% had a favorable legal outcome, and they were placed in community- based programs and residential programs and in treatment services. the goal at this point with realignment is to expand on programs that are successful, and that is the point of having the realignment team working through an existing successful program. so that the realignment team will design alternative sentencing strategies and conduct tr

unit. a public hearing was held on march 9, 2011, and the matter is on for further consideration today. the matter was continued to allow time for the parties to discuss alternate design options, and no additional briefing was allowed. if commissioner peterson, you were absent that that this was first heard. commissioner peterson: yes, but i have watched the video. >> update, thank you. we will hear from the department first. -- ok, thank you. we will hear from the department first. mr. frye. bu >> good afternoon, i am tim fry, on behalf of the planning department. the board requested that the department and the appellate work on a viable compromise to the proposed project. we represent. we met with the appellant's representatives. it was a project that would be in closer conformance with the interior standards. it would not trigger any additional ceqa review, no additional review through eir, and it would allow a number of additional features to be incorporated and constructed into the design. unfortunately, the appellant was not willing to accept the compromise. i reiterate that the d

units. regarding public comment for this case, the department received a letter of support for this projecthe mayor's office of housing as well as a letter of support from an owner-occupant in the subject building. the department is recommending approval with conditions based on the following, that due to the recent legal cases in california regarding affordable housing, the planning code currently does not permit on-site affordable unit to be rental units unless it meets specific criteria. according to the mayor's office of housing, rental units and ownership buildings are not preferred from a lending standpoint because owners in such difficulties can -- buildings can find difficulty in refinancing when there are too many units. additionally, the mixed use project approved originally was already constructed. the modifications will not impact the physical characteristics of the project. commissioner moore brought to my attention today the fact that when the project originally went forward, they did have the ability to mix between rental and ownership units and the fact that many condo devel

the united states public demands anything more. from salzburg with north korea must examine your locality and plug in your own believes it's not here so does beijing so that's why i believe i strongly believe the only we are is all the tensions and stage a number of bilateral negotiations. in the biliteral form of the news going to be solved much faster without much trouble. and now a brief look at some other international headlines this hour a train has derailed and caught fire and something the syria the driver has been killed and several passengers injured state television blamed governments of a ters for the it's happening but fail to suggest any real evidence against those they say are behind the assault the area in central syria has been at the heart of the uprising that started in march the protesters demanding the ousting of president bashar al assad. reigning in a media is reporting one of the country's nuclear scientists has been shot dead in the capital tehran thirty five year old are you sure he was targeted outside his

the first registered terminal and one of the must modern and sustainable terminals and the united states. the public program continues its 30-year legacy of integrating art into the airport environment with the addition of five new commissions that are as bold and dynamic as the new building. >> this project was completed in record time, and we were able to integrate the artist's early enough in the process that they could work with the architect said that the work that is completed is the work that really helps complement and instill the space as opposed to being tucked away in a corner. >> be experience begins with the glass facades that was designed with over 120 laminated glass panels. it captures the experience of being under or over clouds when flying in a plane. depending on the distance or point of view, it can appear clear for more abstract and atmospheric. the subtle colors change gradually depending on the light and the time of day. >> i wanted to create an art work that looks over time as well as working on in the first glance. the first time you come here, you may not see a. but you may

vessels were seized in port following what activists believe is pressure from israel and the united states. of public sector workers who schools airports and job centers across the u.k. as people protested against their pensions being slashed. and three weeks main headlines a welcome to the program now this week greece erupted into some of the worst civil unrest it's seen as thousands of angry protesters flooded the streets of athens the eurozone has agreed to extend a lifeline to the economically crippled country but people raged against tough new cuts and tax hikes which were needed to secure the second hand out now faced with a twenty eight billion euros worth of austerity measures protesters gathered in front of the parliament building they threw stones at police smashed windows and set fire to property. dozens from both sides were injured while many demonstrators were detained the e.u. and international monetary fund to release an extra twelve billion euros in the next two weeks without the money greece would default on its loans within days but financial journalist dmitri says that the greek go

s from stanford but the vast majority the public does not have those skills doug what you know shouldn't the united states be taking a caring a page from the european script from the euro zone script because austerity that's what's the reality they're only going to the euro zone may have by ten years just flat growth you know austerity increase taxes that's the only way they're going to get out of their mess why doesn't the us do it. i think for one thing american working class has been experiencing austerity for several generations now so you know it's not it would not be a novelty but we look at the european example of the countries that have cut their budgets has not seen their economies turn around their problems of people and britain now is on the leading edge of an austerity program and we've seen investment fall off and retail sales weaken their very dramatically so the british economy is not strengthening in response to the to the budget cutting as a lot of budget cuts claim it would it's doing quite the opposite greece and ireland are sinking deeper as they cut i think we may see similar t