Pivotal moment. 50 years later we remember a week that changed america. With voices call forgive justice now. One of the most important issue is to fix this. To the message that holds true today. Were not going to let anybody turn us around. Our special report race in america selma. Today is that day. Its the 50th anniversary that changed america forever. Black america, White America america for years to come. It became known as bloody sunday, the day that demonstrators tried to march across the bridge in selma alabama. They were headed to montgomery, but they never made it to the end. They were met with tear gas and billy clubs. The world watched in horror. Today, 50 years later civil rights leaders and politicians from across the country are gathering in selma. President obama will be on hand as marchers make that walk again found the Edmund Pettus bridge. You can see that the bridge stands today as it did 50 years ago. This time Edmund Pettus infamous for being a member of the kkk.
Arctic nation. I wont go through the list of what other nations have in terms of their assets, but lets suffice it to say that our neighbors to the east in russia have over 30 icebreakers. Our neighbors to the excuse me our neighbors to well, it depends which way youre going around the globe. But our canadian friends the icebreaker capacity that they have are six. But its not just the arctic nations that have arctic capacity through their icebreakers its nations like china. Mr. President , think how far away china is from the arctic. India is considering building an ice breaker. Think how far away they are. It begs the question, why as an arctic nation are we not stepping up . So i am a he challenging my so im challenging my colleagues, think broader. I invited all members of the United States senate to join the arctic caucus and understand what it means for you and your respective states, the benefits but also the obligations. So i look forward to the discussion on the issue of how we
To our regular business and finish with our appeal inand know that we already heard from the Planning Department and we are now at a point where we can hear from the project sponsor which will have up to 10 minutes for a presentation good afternoon again president greed, members of the board. Charles [inaudible] public works project management and responsible for the earthquake safety and Emergency Response programs. We have a small presentation to offer today regarding the project. My colleagues sam [inaudible] has hardcopyies of the presentation if you wish to see it in hard copy form. A few components to this brief presentation, first off would like to offer a very quick recital on [inaudible] as you know we passed 2 bonds under this rubric june of 2010 and june of twen 14. June of 2010 provides fund frga rea of neighborhoods fire station projects among them station 16. It is one of 4 seismic replacement projects, 5, 16, 35 and the station on Treasure Island which is partially funde
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They were lean, i would certainly give the u. S. Postal service pretty good grades for that. They have undertaken an enormous effort to become smaller and more lean. Smart, efficient, the Postal Service is embarking down that road. The third is they are entrepreneurial and they are diversified, which the u. S. Postal service is not. They are saying those are the three key essential ingredients to survive in todays world as a Postal Service. I think one of the keys to staying out of trouble, if we do begin to enter the area of diversification, is to enable, not to compete, with commerce. We certainly have many ways to do that. As far as who would do this, i agree and understand that we have a traditional workforce that has been narrowly focused on mail and parcels in the past, but the Postal Service has the longest tradition of all the federal departments and probably within the world of creating effective partnerships with the private sector. First of all, were the long poll in the ten