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douglas? sorry. maybe said when it happens, but i do not know. >> depending on when the permits are issued, in the process, on both of the lot, -- lost -- lots, and we're hoping it will be mid september, and then things will happen september, october and there is not specifically a date in mind, but we are thinking march or april. president maxwell: ok, thank you. all right, colleagues, we will close public comment, and without objection, on items three and four. madam clerk, item number 5. madam clerk: item number five, a hearing on the progress of the housing program. president maxwell: rebuilding some of the most distressed. in revitalizing the communities. after several weeks of hard work, we have enjoyed the groundbreaking at our first place, hunters view it. the purpose of today's hearing is for staff to provide an overview of the program and to give a progress report on several development sites in the pipeline. we wanted to bring in here today. it is not because anything horrible was happenin

governor douglas, beginning with you, how bleak a picture is it out there? are some state doesing okay and others really in trouble? or is it fairly consistent? >> well there is some variation among the states. we of course are coming out of the great recession. the longest and deepest of our lifetime. and it's going to take some heavy lifting on the part of states and the federal government to get us through back on the path to prosperity. some states like vermont have a balanced budget. we actually reduced taxes this year but other states are facing some real budget shortfalls. governors have been making tough decisions, reducing spending in many areas, in some case pros posing tax increases, depleting reserves in some states, borrowing more. but there's still going to be some heavy lifting until we get back where we need to be. >> warner: governor rendell, how does it look where you sit. >> well, pennsylvania has done very well compared to most big states and we've seen some real signs of the recovery starting to happen in the last three month, the last q

as douglas mentioned, he has been to us three times now, and he has given us all of the updates. the timing of this is especially good. and as you know, this is finally coming to pass, as well. this is for the engagement of the alley, and in closing, we have a letter we want to read to you from the association. dear supervisors. we are offering our complete support of this project. the prospect of having a parking lot and an empty lot transformed into a vital neighborhood is very exciting. more retail and

with you and, of course, we are available for questions. >> ok, i am douglas, the project sponsor and the principle of envelops architecture and design, and the newly developed proxy development for this project. our office was selected as part of an rfp from the mayor's office for development for a temporary uses on these octavia freeway lot. we have been working on this for over a year. we have been in the neighborhood three times and twice in front of a wider audience. our project,

with you and, of course, we are available for questions. >> ok, i am douglas, the project sponsor and the principle of envelops architecture and design, and the newly developed proxy development for this project. our office was selected as part of an rfp from the mayor's office for development for a temporary uses on these octavia freeway lot. we have been working on this for over a year. we have been in the neighborhood three times and twice in front of a wider audience. our project, our proposal, is a temporary constructs of two blocks with a vibrant focal point for commerce and the community. we call it proxy because it is envisioned as a place holder for a more permanent situation. tents, scaffolding, shipping containers, a cohesive project that knits itself into the fabric of the neighborhood. currently, lot k is all parking. atlot k it is bound by hayes on the north edge, octavia and linden. there is zip car parking in daily use parking, so a flat fee, $10. lot l is currently vacant. we are planing to develop the project in two phases. first, that these be occupied by temporary

but i think governor douglas' point was a very short-term fix for a very short period oftime to help get through a problem that the states didn't create to begin with, with regard to access and demands on our medicaid budgets. is a short-term solution. the longer term solution is the systemic change that's already been talked about. i think states can do it and ultimately i think states will do it. but part of that requires a little bit of the flexibility that governor douglas was talking about. >> just to follow along, federal government penalizings us for every time we cut medicaid or try to refashion it, they take away $3 for every dollar that we save and we don't get the benefit of the savings. so there's no incentive for savings. so establishing a partnership in terms of reworking it, the flexibility and maintenance of effort. if we did have that, i'm sure that we could compensate for the lack of revenues that we're looking for to some extent if it were phased out so that we would be in a better position. >> as a casual listener who doesn't spend all the time. the message is muc

michael douglas is liberace, matt damon is his boyfriend.ector. >> larry: who is the brother? >> i don't know. >> larry: george. >> george liberace. >> larry: great casting. who is going to sing? >> that's another story. i don't know. michael. >> larry: are you going to let him lip sync? >> we could do that. the piano playing was -- people don't realize that liberace was a great musician. not a good musician. he was a great pianist. that's what it's really about. >> larry: nothing slows you down, right? >> no, i don't ever want to slow down. >> larry: you never think not working? >> work to me is a vacation. i call my own shots. i do what i want to do. i have a great time every day. i enjoy -- i had a tough year last year. 2009 was not a good year for me. i almost died. i had an infection. i was laying in bed and i thought i died. i saw that light and i floated out the window, the whole deal. >> larry: you did? >> yeah, i did. i really did. and i was always afraid of death until that happened. when it happened, my doctor said to me, say good

y quienes son ciudadanos americanos residentes en areas como nogales, douglas y yuma....es dice que si logran introducir el cargamento seran recompensados con varios miles de dolares... dinero facil que se puede obtener en cuestion de unas horas.... pero en la mayoria de los casos estos jovenes son detectados por los agentes ..pues su carga los delata al caminar.... los amenazan que hay que cooperar con ellos .... tan solo el ano pasado se lograron detener a 130 menores intentando cruzar droga, en lo que es la frontera de arizona y mexico... incremento de un 83% a comparacion del ano anterior... autoridades creen que los jovenes se arriesgan a todo... porque las penas de carcel para ellos son menores... como tambien existe las amenazas por parte de los contrabandistas: de no hacerlo corren peligro sus vidas...---daniel rodriguez, telemundo. ---el congreso de argentina aproÓ en la madrugada de hoy el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo, lo que convirtÓ al pÍs en el primero de aÉrica latina en extender a los gays el derecho a casarse. ---el debate enfrenÓ a la iglesia

my name is douglas shepard and i have lived in san francisco for 15 years. i would like to speak in support of this. i think it is something that is noteworthy and i would like to make a suggestion that four students who are kind of close to dropping out of school, i think that this sort of program should be offered in writing to the parents of students and that the school should get a written reply as to whether that student is going to accept the help or reject it. something like this, rather than simply being suggested, should be done in writing in order to basically make the student and parents aware that they need to use the process. i would also like to pose two questions to the department public library. the first is if they have ever investigated allegations made by a public comment her that comes up to make presentations on video regarding friends of the library. i have always wondered if these allegations are true or false and i think that they should be publicly taking care of. i would also like to pose a question to the public library about wheth

douglas was talking about. . i agree. -- >> i agree. every time we tried to refashion medicaid, they take away $3 for every $1. we did not get the benefit of the savings. there is no incentive. establishing a partnership in terms of reworking it, the flexibility and maintenance of effort, if we did have not, i am sure we could compensate for the lack of revenues we're looking for if it were phasedown so we would be able to be in a better position. >> to the casual listener, the message here on the outside is more about give us the money than give us the flexibility. >> we cut because of shortfalls but we had cut $300 million to get $100 million in state savings. we damaged more of the economy because of what we had done and there's no savings with the federal government said there is no incentive. that is the flexibility of manages we're talking about. >> at this meeting we had the ceo of ibm, health care economists and they all said the same thing. the data was crucial so they give pass legislation which we have done in the colorado wh

. >> yes n roseville, south of sacramento, near douglas and i- 80. after douglas. major injuries, a confirmed fatality blocking the two right lanes. the coroner has arrived on the scene. a big rig hit a pedestrians. this was reported first as a pedestrians on the road. that is why it is so dangerous to be out on the freeway. i am not exactly sure why the person was on the freeway, but he was hit by a big rig. the freeway is going to be closed for quite some time. if you are leaving the bay area, heading up east sacramento to rowsville, this will affect you. -- roseville, this will affect you. and look at i-80 westbound to mcarthur mays, no problems in the toll plaza there. the weather is a different matter. hello, mark. >>> that was a nice observation about the cloud deck. a deeper marine layer with the dense fog has kind of elevated a couple hundred feet. we don't have the complete overcast right in the surface. upbound a can positive of clouds and drizzle up there. most of the regions in the 50s. san francisco on the cool side, 53. winds still come now the west,

douglas kaerny. [applause] >> how many know the song living in the city by stevie wonder. that great skit at end where stevie plays all the voices and gets arrested. new york city, skyscrapers and everything. this is a poem that reimagines that gentlemen exists the bus in that skit as john henry. this is a section of it. skyscrapers and everything. j hammer henry mallet [inaudible] could barely fit hammer poking out like natural man's skyscraper to the concrete for deep machine sleep abouts income. don't go john henry traffic man, don't go across that street. the flood song poems were poems written in reaction to katrina. how can i enter that space of writing poems about that. i'm not from there and don't have family there. who benefits from that tragedy? who benefits from that disregard for humanity and the thought animals would benefit from that. this first poem is flood songs number 4 mosquitoes drinking didy. >> drink every hour next up this hour and every hour after. was born in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour on the hour and every hour after.

. >> may i piggyback on governor douglas. one of the problem -- one of the things we were able to do, i mentioned the 42nd lowest sales taut we were able to reduce taxes for 85%. we've gone four years without a penny increase for college tuition. we have had to cut our operations budget because of it. >> part of the way you did that was by dipping into your capital funds? right? >> no game plan, no borrowing from the future? >> know. we actually diversified our transportation. we have not dipped into that. we are one of eight still has a aaa bond rating. we did this with tough choices and huge cuts, 54 $6 million. we were the first administration to submit a budget with state spending lower than it was four years ago. >> there are a lot of states that are either barring from pension funds, dipping into rainy day funds, doing things that may help for one year that will not help if the downturn will be as expected as some people think. >> you are correct. in south dakota we have a requirement that we cannot borrow money. we hav

. >> the recently retired as director of technology services for douglas county, nevada. that is reno, correct? >> south of reno. >> give us your answer on whether or not you had enough spectrum from a local perspective. >> absolutely. the interesting thing about nevada is in some cases we get it worse than anybody else and in other places we did it better. we have got a hodgepodge of 800,erent spectrum's -- 700, 150, 450. those cost a lot of money. we buy systems being built. what happened is when we were building a large site we could only cover certain areas because it would interfere with others. then we go to 450. that gets eaten up. then we go to 400. it has been the historical like scrap food off a dinner table. nobody is given sufficient spectrum at one time to solve the problem. i refer to this as the last, best hope for it. as much as great engineers design gateways, bridges, and other stuff, the user in the field house to be able to turn the channel and have it work. they are going to go, "i do not have time for that. this is our best hope. >> you are hearing t

he's douglas holtz-eakin, president of the american action forum and former director of the congressional budget office. >> the tax war of 2010 has begun. without action, the 2001 and 2003 laws expire and taxes go up a lot for everyone-- an economic insanity that only alan greenspan has endorsed. instead, congress could choose to raise taxes on nobody or-- the presidents idea-- for those making more than $250,000. what's going to happen? one thing you can count on is same tired "tax cuts for the rich" rhetoric we've heard for 10 years. the facts remain the same: everyone got a tax cut. and with the passage of time, the congressional budget office has documented that while the effective tax rate for the top 20% fell, that for the remaining 80% was reduced to its lowest in 30 years. instead of this rhetoric, two principles should guide debate: growth and tax reform. the economy is growing, it is past the crisis and past the conditions that merit so-called stimulus. but it is growing too slowly, a burden borne by millions of out- of-work americans. and the tax code is, generously, a disaster

russian security services that broke up with inspectors a terrorist cell in the southern republic of douglas stone this week that included a money linked to the deadly month. this year. on a rainy need to find tissue claims he was kidnapped and held by the cia and us for more than a year were tons but there's still an air of mystery pools in america that say he was spying for washington. and his russian remains in the sweltering grip of a heat wave summer regions.

services arrest a group of suspected you would be suicide bomb was in the southern russian republic of douglas stahl among them were fifteen year old girls who sat that dead husbands trained them. heroes and iranian nuclear scientists returns home also claiming he was kidnapped by the cia but america has denied the accusation as reports that he my have this spying in washington signed. and paid by the heat and record breaking heat wave across russia is scorching crops meaning tough times for fall.

douglas evans, professor and director, public health communication and marketing program, george washington university, washington, dc; sandra de castro buffington, director, hollywood health & society, usc annenberg norman lear center, beverly hills, california. the media obviously influences how people create their opinions, particularly about addiction and treatment issues in behavior health. and doug, why don't we review what we mean about media today. some time ago, marshall mcluhan said that the medium is the message and that is more true today than ever. media have proliferated and they now permeate our society. we're surrounded by it constantly 24/7 and users increasingly are defining what the media are and what those media mean to the rest of us. and mark, why is it important for the media to really understand addiction, treatment, and behavioral health? i think as doug just said, it's 24/7, people rely on the media to get their information and, as the media reaching out, people are forming opinions, ideas, attitudes about what they think about addiction and mental illness based on

russian security services of broke up a suspected terrorist out on the southern republican douglas done this week it included among the deadly. this year. their reign in new designs is you claims he was kidnapped and held by the cia in the u.s. for more than a good returns home but there's still an air of mystery reports in america that he was spying for washington. does russia remains in the sweltering in a grip of the heat wave some regions is suffering a severe drought of last fall. this fall's update now with dmitri stay with us. hello there welcome to the sports update here are two things for joining us this. story to tell about here are the headlines. russia's first formula one driver telepictures off is in moscow and says he is confident of a new contract with. plasters more action from the russian from a league where isn't it remain the only unbeaten side. and a new name looks likely on the clara jug who stays in leeds golf's open. but will start with football with more action in the russian premier league today have the chance to take faith sport they face a lot late this eveni

russian security services that broke opposite specter terrorist cell in the southern republic of douglas stung in the homes of six arrested women one of them just fifteen years old they found suicide belts and wills two men were also detained one of whom is linked to the deadly moscow metro blast in march. so young but deemed old enough one of the alleged terrorist teams in the russian republic of biggest gun is just fifteen years old that according to officials did not stop her from taking part in planning terrorist attacks she and the other woman were allegedly trained by their husbands. my late husband left the guns here i've held a gun i know how to fire one but i've never done it i know how to use a grenade to. yes i'm fifteen years old and you go again in the house i even help them played around with them and then put them back they all say their handling of the weapons was just curiosity but the wills suicide belts and elements of disguise found in their homes seem to tell but different story the childish handwriting and hearts make it hard to believe these women were capable of t

week are russian security services said they broke up a terrorist cell of the southern republic of douglas stung it's believed that six women arrested in a police raid were trained to attack public places across russia two men were also detained one of whom was linked to the deadly moscow metro blasts in march. so young but deemed old enough one of the alleged terrorist change in the russian republic of the good stuff is just fifteen years old that according to officials did not stop her from taking part in planning terrorist attacks she and the other woman were allegedly trained by their husbands. my late husband left the guns here i've held a gun i know how to fire one but i've never done it i know how to use a grenade to. it's i'm fifteen years old and knew there were guns in the house i even held them played around with them and then put them back they all say their handling of the weapons was just curiosity but the wills suicide belts and elements of disguise found in their homes seem to tell but different story the childish handwriting and hearts make it hard to believe these women w

governor james douglas of vermont, and governor joe manchin of west virginia.re on c-span. >> tonight, a discussion on conservative women in politics and feminism with national review's catherine lopez. also, an update on the gulf of mexico oil spill. later, president obama campaigns for senate majority leader harry reid and talks about the economy in las vegas. >> the senate judiciary committee returns next week to vote on the nomination of elena kagan as the new supreme court justice. watch coverage on the c-span networks, and learn more about the nation's highest court in c- span is latest book, the supreme court, candid conversations with all the justices, active and retired, providing unique insight about the court. available in hardcover and as an e-book. >> now discussion on conservative women in politics and feminism with national review's catherine lopez. following her remarks, she took questions from the audience. it is about one hour. >> good afternoon. on behalf of the institute and the hectored -- and heritage foundation, i want to thank you all fo

to my good friend jim douglas from vermont. he is a man of enormous integrity and honesty, characteristics that run deep in new england. he also has another new england trait of being frugal. not cheap but frugal. he is the only state that does not have the balanced budget amendment but operates as if he does and i think that speaks volumes. he is tight with the state's money and generous in his heart and i think all of you have found him to be a tremendous leader, a great friend, and an easy conversation this. jim has a way about him that i think is refreshing. he has maintained a focus on helping states to change the health care delivery system to both increase the quality of care as well as to make the entire system more cost- effective. and i think he has led by example and what they have been able to do and vermont. we are appreciative of that. throughout the national health care debate, democrat, republican governors have struggled to find common ground. the discussions we had were often contentious. i do not know of any

. >> you look at the handwriting samples, here's douglas glazer,i-a-r. >> what i saw was $200 millionand i thought, isn't that interesting. >> reporter: scott williams says he's never heard of the experts and the art world is a small place. >> what i think we in the arts would like to see is that indeed they are anzel adams negatives. >> reporter: scott nicoles says there's a definitive source to originate the art work. >>> a high speed crash caught on tape. coming up, pictures of a truck race that ended in a spectacular wreck. >>> police open fire on a cow after a wild rampage at the california state fair. >>> but first, warnings to women after a sketch is released after two attacks at a state park trail. >>> state park police today released a sketch they say resembles a man who attacked two women. they describe the man as a latino man with stocky build. the women escaped unharped. police have posted warnings at the popular wilderness park advising hikers. many hikers we spoke with said they plan to be cautious and aware of their surroundings, but they also vowed not to be intimidate

. >> you look at the handwriting samples, here's douglas glazer,i-a-r. >> what i saw was $200 millionnd i thought, isn't that interesting. >> reporter: scott williams says he's never heard of the experts and the art world is a small place. >> what i think we in the arts would like to see is that indeed they are anzel adams negatives. >> reporter: scott nicoles says there's a definitive source to originate the art work. >>> a high speed crash caught on tape. coming up, pictures of a truck race that ended in a spectacular wreck. >>> police open fire on a cow our real national pastime? saving money. and like baseball people love their stats. i started bringing my lunch to work -- 50 bucks a week in my pocket. here's a good one: state farm insures 40 million drivers. more than geico and progressive combined. i saved because i'm accident-free. of course, with so many ways to save including discounts of up to 40%, having that many customers shouldn't be a surprise. so ask a neighbor about state farm, then call an agent at 1-800-state-farm or go online. >>> state park police today released a

. >> now, remarks from the national governors association chairman jim douglas of vermont and incoming. chairman joe manchin of west virginia on how their states have coped during the recession. this is about half an hour. >> good morning and thank you all for coming. it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this kickoff meeting of the national governors association and to welcome our governors and their staffs and families to the 2010 meeting of the national governors association. we have over 1,000 reg i strants for -- registrans -- ts for this couple of days of meetings and we will have some fun as well and we are happy to welcome so many people here to pump some dollars into our local economy. we estimate that local restaurants and entertainment venues and hotels will see an injection of about $3 million over the course of the next couple days arrived -- and we're challenging our guests to beat that projection and inviting them to do so. i want to thank all of the mechanics of the n.g.a. staff, of my own staff and those that will volunteer over the next few days to help us orga

and i think that is great that vermonts doing so well and i would like to credit jim douglas, bernie sanders, patrick leahy and also brian dewpoint for these efforts. however, what do all of these people do who are still unemployed, looking at all aspects, in the hardware stores and food places and everything else who cannot find work? because i i understand -- because i understand that the census workers are no longer working and we are immediately cut off immediately. guest: i apologize, i am not familiar with the vermont letter. but i can tell you a number of states sent lette are to folks explaining the delay, buand many states have done very worried that the federal government would never act on the extensions. if you would call the number that is on the screen, if we can get you specific information about the letter. and the triggering off in states where the unemployment rate has gone there and may very well be a prlem, but because of the timing of this letter, i am hesitant to give you a mre thorough answer than that. but i am happy to do it later today once i have reviewed t

the podium over to the governor of vermont and the chair of the national governors association, jim douglas. >> thank you very much, governor patrick. let me begin by extending my appreciation and that of all our colleagues to you, to diane, to the host committee here, to everyone in the boston area who has been so hospitable . and we really appreciate the hard work that goes into hosting a conference of this magnitude. it looks easy when we're standing here at a podium congratulating one another, but there's an awful do the of hard work that goes into it, and, deval, i'm very grateful indeed for you -- your willingness to be our host this year. we travel round to a different location every sirm and enjoy the ambiance and culture and history of a different place, but we also have a lot of work to do over the next couple days to talk about the issues that are important to the people of our states and to share ideas and experiences both good and bad so that we can do the best job possible for the people we represent. each association has the opportunity to focus on a particular policy issue a

some analyzed it and took a look at justice douglas' opinion were kind of stunned to see that he even went to the third amendment to say that that guarantee a right to privacy, the right privacy in our homes, third amendment, talks about court ordering soldiers. he referred to it during the course of that opinion. so could you put that decision on gris wald and privacy in the context of this explanation you're giving me? >> well, senator durbin, i actually think that the griswald and the holding has grounding on the text. and the way that most justices think about this is the 14th amendment, the due process clause of the 14th amendment guarantees liberty and when it guarantees such liberty, it means more than freedom from physical constraints and it also guarantees more than procedural protections. there is some substantive protection of liberty that's incorporated within the 14th amendment of the constitution. most justices believe that to be the case. there are still difficult decisions on what that consists of. i think most of the supreme court judge dozen fully accept the griswald

force led by american general douglas macarthur routed the northern armies all the way to the yalu riverthat, in turn, drew in massive armies of communist chinese who sent the allied forces into a hasty winter retreat. general macarthur called for carrying the fight into china, but was overruled and fired for insubordination by president truman, in one of the great tests in american history of civilian control of the military. the war then settled into a stalemate along the 38th parallel and ended in an armistice on july 27, 1953, but never in a formal peace treaty. for years, the official american combat death toll was set at some 56,000. but in 2000, the military lowering the death toll to 37,000. long known as the "forgotten war," sandwiched between the definitive victory of world war two and the trauma of vietnam, the korean conflict was honored with its own memorial on the national mall in 1995. some reflections on the korean war now, from retired marine corps colonel warren wiedhahn, one of the first americans deployed to korea. he's now president of military historical tours, whic