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it ruins you. you don t. you re not a person any more, you just exist. three years ago, the prison was privatised. french company sodexo won the 15 year contract, promising the government it could save £130 million. when the initial shock of the privatisation came out, the staff were shocked that it had happened but then we thought well maybe it could be a good thing we might see a big change. you train as part of a team. jim reid was a dog handler and prison officer with more than 20 years experience. his optimism didn t last long. they got rid of 96 uniform staff over 200 in total. i myself was part of a dog team erm, and we were told, ‘you re gone . since 2011, around half a billion pounds has been taken from the prison budget in england and wales. as the prisoner population was rising, more than 6,000 officers were lost. jim reid took redundancy but colleagues who stayed at northumberland say they re overwhelmed. i ve seen experienced staff crying in the main ....
yesterday. he landed his small plane on an interstate, 10 near jackson, mississippi after the cessna s engine failed. he was cleared for an emergency landing at a nearby airport, but then he realized he needed to land much sooner. i take off. i don t think i m going to make it. i m going to put this down on the road. they go, are you declaring an emergency. that s when i said affirmative. i am declaring an emergency. so mcknight signaled drivers that he was going to land on the highway by moving the wings and the motorists made room for him. what s amazing is what was written on his shirt right there. it says keep calm and land on the center line. i think he was close to it. he s got the right motto there. and coming up, the incredible journey on other side of the world. why three wounded warriors braved mother nature to climb five and a half miles to the top of the world. what they say was actually the hardest part of their amazing trek. later in the skinn ....
and i look forward to it because this is such a great story. it is super exciting. tell me about rosetta and what was it about. what did we learn from it. , incredibly exciting. people know they are these large balls of ice and rock, that he how people don t know incredible they are. they are actually time capsules. when our solar system was forming, there were these little bits left over that became, it s omets or asteroids. we have a chance to understand where we all came from. the interesting thing to me about rosetta, there was the beauty of the images that returned, but we had the chance to learn that the water in our bodies was more like asteroids and comets. charlie: am i right in that this was a 12 year flight? that is right. in 2004. was iaunch was the rosetta actually had two different touchdowns. 2014.uched down in and today, the entire spacecraft came down onto the comet. now, there are two different little spacecrafts part of the human race that are ou ....
humans to mars by 2030 and is currently mapping the planet using a robotic rover on mars named curiosity. this is an hour and 25 minutes. [applause] thank you all for coming. we got the e-mail about 10:30 this morning that said that charlie bolden wasn t coming, and that was the bad news. because we didn t have a replacement then. but when i found out who was coming, i was actually kind of delighted because charlie bolden is a great guy, i like talking to him, but he s an administrator, and administrators are, by their nature, rather cautious. and he s also, he knows the science but not like jim green who lives and breathes the science. and when we re looking, you know, we watch nasa press conferences, and we wait until he speaks so that we can get a sound bite for our radio program. [laughter] he s the one who says something interesting every time. [laughter] so it s really a delight to have you with us. thanks for coming. pleasure. and, yeah. so we re going to t ....
of the house in 2011 that you would not be able to pass a budget. is that likely given where we are in the process? guest: we have passed a budget every year in the 12 years we had it. i think we will get there. a budget is always the perils of pauline exercise. you get to the last minute and like pauline will be run over by the train, but it never quite happens. we are continuing to negotiate in good faith. i don t think the budget itself is likely to change very much. it s a matter of law and i think it has passed out of the budget committee. but there are some things that some of the folks that have concerns are interested in in terms of addressing entitlements and rules changes that will force us to deal with unauthorized appropriations. i actually think those are good things. those are things that need to be dealt with. you have to count on the leadership team to get it done. hopefully, they will. the freedom caucus has been making requests that seem fairly diffi ....