Your commission and pg e, we have a lot of common interests. Park and rec need to dredge the site to keep it operating as a marina. We have an interest in that theres historical facts from gas plants that operated about a hundred years ago that are underneath the harbor. Weve been trying to figure out a way forward. We have designs for a large dredge project out there. The more our team looked at this, the more i think people just said this does not feel like the right answer. Its a heavyhanded approach. It has a lot of impacts of the actual construction. Some kind of questionable environmental benefits and importantly, very high costs. Were talking tens of millions of dollars here. Our team went back to the drawing boards and said whats the best thing to do for the environment and can we look at this through a different lens . Can we come up with something that might be for attractive to the citizens and to the parties involved . What we came up with, i handed out earlier a onepage sh
The one thing that may not be reflected here, as youre aware, the National Trust will have its conference heres in november. We are working with the trust and discussing with San Francisco heritage to be a partner in that in that dofrns really help guide the intangible heritage tracks and the Community Involvement in the overall conference. There may be some financial commitment that the city is willing to provide to make sure that happens. So well make sure these numbers are adjusted to reflect that. If they are different. It wont be a huge change, though, from what you see here. And then finally, the legacy Business Programme and Cultural Heritage initiatives, which as you recall from last year, creating that position, now we have a full f. T. Devoted to that. Quick question for you. About the pick. Is that reflected in this or is that you said that the pick is being increased from the parttime position to a fulltime position, is that correct . That occurred last year. Michelle langl
Gets underway here in berlin also coming up a promise that cannot be kept kenyas chief election official calls into doubt the upcoming election by saying he cannot guarantee a free and fair vote and chinas president xi jinping heralds a new era for his country at the opening of the communist Party Congress in beijing. Im bored gough its good to have you with us tonight germanys political leaders are trying to build bridges in territory that theyve never heard never seen before today german chancellor Angela Merkel began reaching out to other Political Parties with the goal of forming a new Coalition Government now she has done this several times before but this time shes trying to bring four parties together to form one federal government its never been done if it works it would be called a Jamaica Coalition because the colors of the Political Parties here are the same as the flag of jamaica. Black yellow and green for now the colors of the jamaican flag are just hot air on the banks o
Subcommittee will come to order. The chairs authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Members of the full committee who are not members of the subcommittee on terrorism may participate in todays hearing. All members will have five minutes to submit extraneous materials for inclusion in the record. This hearing is titled the exploitation of Cultural Property, examining illegal activity and antiquities and art trade. Now recognize myself or two minutes to give an opening statement. Most of the statement will be presented into the record but to talk about the nature of the sale of historical artifacts, archaeological artifacts, the isis groups are now destroying entire Cultural Properties and putting them on the market for sale, many times the money goes into terrorism. That is what we are here to discuss today. The rest of my statement will be just printed into the record and with that i will yield two minutes to the gentleman from colorado. Thanks, mister chairman.
Some of the women who shop in this part of Northern Virginia use harsher words to describe bishop. Its creepy. Yeah. That is not right. Stephen bishop turned himself in yesterday on child porn charging but he has bonded out. The covert photos of women may be disturbing. From what investigators have seen so far they dont rise to level of criminal. Leon new information for briggscheney area. They have a sketch for a suspect who tried to sexually assault a 16yearold girl. Attack took place in castle boulevard. The suspect followed the 16yearold in her Apartment Building and exposed himself there. Her brother came to her aid and forced suspect alison trains were forced to single track between vienna and East Falls Church station. This is after a problem on West Falls Church station. The u. S. Secretary of transportation announced he is not opposed to shutting the metro system down. Brianne carter is live in bethesda where the metro general manager met with the rest of the system manager to