To go about this repair technique what i mean by that is after you take all of the paint and primer off the dome, the cast iron of this generation flash rusts in eight hours. The timeliness of the application is important. We have to have those processes down very well so that we dont have to double do work. What about the scaffolding gives you mild concerns . The fact that it is a massive scaffolding project, i think getting that scaffolding here, lifting it up to the roof of the dome, and then getting it installed and taken back down is just a massive logistical effort. That is probably one of the biggest risks on the job. When they did the reflecting pool in the mall, they used fairly exotic technology to keep the algae out and later we saw algae forming. Is there any exotic techniques that you will try here that are not tested . Know, there are no exotic techniques were using. We tested many, many repair techniques over the course of nearly 10 years to help advise us and test a wid
Technology which basically speeds up the natural composting process to a 21 and a batch cycle, so after about 48 hours, it begins producing methane gas and all of the bye gases. And after 21 days, all you have left is an agricultural quality compost, and all of that gas that is collected is transformed into either electricity or cng fuel, so it is a completely closed loop cycle that we have, and we just celebrated the grand opening of our project in san jose, which is 1. 6 megawatts of electricity, about 34,000 tons per year of compost, if i remember correctly, and it is processing 90,000 tons per year of organic waste, so that is just one of our projects, and that is what we do. I want to point out that that is the largest facility of its kind in the world. Yes, it is the largest in the world. The energy that it produces is eligible for inclusion in the renewables portfolio. That is a goal set out by the government of california. Utilities have to use one third of their energy by rene
Capitol, a twoyear, 60 million renovation is underway. Gaveling will be constructed around capitol dome but work continues with the house gaveling today at noon. They are expected to approve a resolution and limiting the need to hold sessions while on break. They do return on letter slated for it on tuesday, january 7. From the Labor Department this morning, reports that the number of unemployment benefit applications dropped by 42,000 last week. Planes had jumped by 75,000 over the two weeks ending december 14. Todays news is a sign of a decline in the improving job market. The issue of Unemployment Benefits is shaping up to be a good focal point when congress returns. Congress failed to agree on a deal to extend longterm benefits which were said to expire december 31 for 1. 3 million americans. President obama has called for a retroactive or wrappers asian of the program, and house and Senate Democratic leaders have vowed to make it there first order of business when they return from
Issue congress should address next year . Make a 57 minute video and be sure to include cspan programming for your chance to win a grand prize of 5,000. The deadline is january 20. Get more info at student cam. Org. This week on q a, former Ohio Republican bob ney discusses his newly released memoir entitled sideswiped. Former congressman bob ney. Prettypter headlined alice. Pretty alice the most coldhearted, vicious, stunning instrument of evil that karl rove and the administration had. What are you referring to . Alice fisher. Is an interesting attention received from the administration. She was in the Criminal Division from 20012003. She went over to work for chertoff. She was a political operative. The bush cheney campaign. I dont want to she was a political hack. I say political hack. She then was up for appointment when Alberto Gonzalez was the attorney general of the united states. I ran a file of senator levin. He said she was close to tom delays defense team. B, she doesnt hav
In his 2004 Democratic Convention speech, a speech that got me involved in politics. He said that we worship an awesome god in the blue states. Then there was his address to reverend jim walliss call to a renewal conference in 2006, a speech that i was honored to work with him in the Senate Office and he developed a template for how this president would engage issues. In that speech, then senator obama declared that, our failure as progressives to tap into the moral underpinnings of this nation is not just rhetorical. Our fear of getting preachy may also lead us to discount the role that values and culture play in some of our most urgent social problems. He went on to say individual churches are sponsoring day care programs, building senior centers, helping ex offenders reclaim their lives and rebuilding the gulf coast in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. And he concluded, the question is, how do we build on these partnerships between religious and secular people of goodwill . It wil