israel hamas wore widespread the region. here s our business reporter david waddell. the situation has come to a head because two big shipping companies, maersk, the container company and hapag lloyd another big shipping container company have both announced that they would stop sending shipping through the babar el mandeh strip. i lljust show you where that is. it is at the south side of the red sea. and at the north side of the red sea, we have the suez canal. these are two of the world s biggest choke points. if anything halts shipping through these points then it has a major effect on other shipping. any ships making their way from india or the philippines to europe or the united states, further west has to come through here and here then eventually through the straits of gibraltar before going further west or north from there. the alternative is to go south around the cape of good hope, suez canal and that adds 14 days possibly on to the journey time. now the suez cana
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Back in open session, any Public Comments on whether we need to disclose the discussions held in closed session pursuant to administrative code 67. 12 [a], employee evaluations. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners. Whats your pleasure . A second . All in favor . Its unanimous, thank you. Item 11, adjournment. Commissioner covington so moved. President cleaveland the Commission Meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Welcome to the november 15th, regular meeting. Did i go too soon . Im supervisor safai, and to me is supervisor fewer and joining me is supervisor yee who is not here and my clerk is lisa wang and i thank charles kriminac from sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Clerk please silence all cellphones and complete speaker cards and documents to be part of the files to be submitted to the court and items will appear on a november 28th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Super safai i think that supervisor safai i think that item number one
Year theres just not a good picture of that compared to this one. Those are conditions we hope not to see again. Our objectives for water supply adopted in 2008 by the commission is to survive a specific eight and a half year plan scenario from 1987 to 1992 followed by 197677 backtoback with no more than 20 rationing. Theres a lot in that and that means at the end of the drought were down to zero water. Thats survival. Thats not being able to do anything else in the future. Thats a whole other question but thats the basic scenario. And its shown graphically here we start out with 1. 68 million acre feet and then you see along the bottom line theres a series of fiscal years with 86 to 76, 77 following that. The blue line shows the decreasing level of storage through the end of the year. As we got to Different Levels of storage available to us because ours say storagebased system, you end up with a new level of rationing as it gets worse and worse. Interest in the middle of 1988 we go to
[gavel] welcome to the january 31, 2018 meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer this evening is board president hon darryl honda joined by frank fung, commissioner lazarus, and commission eer wilson and commissioner swig. We have the attorney and the boards legal assistant, and i am cynthia goldstein. We will be joined shortly by Scott Sanchez who is the Zoning Administrator who will be representing the Planning Department and the Planning Commission. The board requests you turn off cell phones and Electronic Devices and carry on conversations in the hallway. The rule of presentation is as follows. There are 7 minutes to present the case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. People affiliated with the parties must include the comments within the seven or three minute periods. Members not affiliated have 3 minutes to address the board but no eare rebuttal. We ask that you provide us a speaker card or Business Card if you are willing so that board staff can have the ac