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. >> i'd like to welcome all of you to the kovac planetarium. >> reporter: it's just me, you don't tol the... >> okay, well, my name is frank kovac and i built the largest rolling mechanical globe planetarium. >> reporter: because frank couldn't afford a fancy system, he came up with a way to move evens instead. and as for the individual stars... >> i took paint and i painted every single star that you would see out in the night sky... >> reporter: wait, wait, you painted by yourself every star? >> like a friend told me he would have just took the paint and threw it up there and hoped they hit the right area. >> reporter: there are 5,000, each in its proper location and brightness. >> i never knew it would look this neat. >> reporter: it's really a shame more people haven't seen it, but friends and neighbors are confident that will change. why? they say it's in the stars. >> people who send out good receive good. frank is a good man. >> reporter: i heard that a lot. >> frank is probably one of the nicest guys you'll eel ever want to meet. >> reporter: frank is obviously genuine and if
. >> i'd like to welcome all of you to the kovac planetarium. >> reporter: it's just me, you don't tol the... >> okay, well, my name is frank kovac and i built the largest rolling mechanical globe planetarium. >> reporter: because frank couldn't afford a fancy system, he came up with a way to move evens instead. and as for the individual stars... >> i took paint and i painted every single star that you would see out in the night sky... >> reporter: wait,...
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Nov 5, 2010
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in the there were two dollars in there, 50 cents kovac to a, -- into the local economy. home productions is wrapping up to this point, $500,000 locally on local labor. prosing in kind services for the discounted rates i noted. at this time i would like to introduce susanna robins to make a brief presentation. >> the port has been working with the production company to find space for them. a great office space and potential for using the building, just when a production company needs. it would help to draw other productions here in the future. they do not even need to shoot this in san francisco. the film takes place in the past. all over the world. what he can do with these buildings issued the world in san francisco. this takes place in idaho, spain, and other european countries. he is shooting the whole thing here. much of it will be built into the production stages on the set. a big draw for other productions to come see, to come to a similar thing. we're also very excited about the local jobs. we want to provide more jobs for local residents in san francisco. it shou
in the there were two dollars in there, 50 cents kovac to a, -- into the local economy. home productions is wrapping up to this point, $500,000 locally on local labor. prosing in kind services for the discounted rates i noted. at this time i would like to introduce susanna robins to make a brief presentation. >> the port has been working with the production company to find space for them. a great office space and potential for using the building, just when a production company needs. it...
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. >> narrator: managers won't talk, but workers like marc kovac, protected by their union, explained how, back in the '60s, everyone thought the field would last 20 years. they were wrong. >> all of the modules were designed in 1966 and put in place in the '70s. and the expected lifespan of the field and that equipment was designed to last till 1987, and then it was supposed to be pulled out. after they started drilling, they knew that the pay zone was a lot deeper, but we're still using a lot of the infrastructure that was supposed to be pulled out in '87. they're going to run everything to failure, which means that everything here is going to be worn out completely by the time they decide to leave. >> there is so much money here that they're kind of in the quandary of having all this aging infrastructure, but they have to stay here to make the big money that they're making off of here. >> narrator: as in texas city, the workers say bp has focused on cost cutting. >> when i was doing reporting on alaska, that's when i really began to hear about this incredible focus on cost cuts and
. >> narrator: managers won't talk, but workers like marc kovac, protected by their union, explained how, back in the '60s, everyone thought the field would last 20 years. they were wrong. >> all of the modules were designed in 1966 and put in place in the '70s. and the expected lifespan of the field and that equipment was designed to last till 1987, and then it was supposed to be pulled out. after they started drilling, they knew that the pay zone was a lot deeper, but we're still...
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the average american, whether he or she be in the tea party or separate, kovacic we believe if you increase incentives to reducing taxes, you're going to get more economic growth. so if you say to the average american which is better, the government spending money to encourage both growth and consumption or the government cutting back and leaving more money in your pocket they are going to tell you more money in my pocket and let me do with that what i want and i am more the other thing about this that is important to understand is the tea party members and supporters and the american people generally are compassionate people. these are not selfish mean-spirited people, but they need a common sense life and common sense means you don't spend what you don't have, you don't overburden people and you give incentives and they see these as core values that if they were more perhaps what verdict they would express more eloquently, but they are no less fervent and passionate than a trained economist. and the other thing that happens, space pointed to this a bunch of times, they look at people in n
the average american, whether he or she be in the tea party or separate, kovacic we believe if you increase incentives to reducing taxes, you're going to get more economic growth. so if you say to the average american which is better, the government spending money to encourage both growth and consumption or the government cutting back and leaving more money in your pocket they are going to tell you more money in my pocket and let me do with that what i want and i am more the other thing about...
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Nov 19, 2010
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marketplace which is why i commented on the reversal where we were and then i want to comment to the kovacic am i senator klobuchar. in the 2009 cable industry prices and they concluded from 1995 to 2008 the average monthly price of expanded basic cable grew from $22.35 to $49.65. to an increase of 122.1%. and going forward, the media research firm predicts that retransmission consent revenues for broadcasters would grow from 762 million in 2009 to 1.36 billion in 2011 and perhaps more than 2.6 billion in 2016. i assume some of these can be passed on to consumers in terms of their monthly mvp. i am not sure. what are we looking at as we go forward? what are we going to be able to say as we go home and they complain about the sort of packaging and what they have to purchase and total amount of money and so forth? >> i guess what i would say is those numbers will still be a small fraction of the aggregate programming cost that exists for that universe. >> that amount of money? >> if you look with the total program cost is for the content for that same universe is a small part of its and with s
marketplace which is why i commented on the reversal where we were and then i want to comment to the kovacic am i senator klobuchar. in the 2009 cable industry prices and they concluded from 1995 to 2008 the average monthly price of expanded basic cable grew from $22.35 to $49.65. to an increase of 122.1%. and going forward, the media research firm predicts that retransmission consent revenues for broadcasters would grow from 762 million in 2009 to 1.36 billion in 2011 and perhaps more than 2.6...
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Nov 18, 2010
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marketplace which is why i commented on the reversal where we were and then i want to comment to the kovacicm i senator klobuchar. in the 2009 cable industry prices and they concluded from 1995 to 2008 the average monthly price of expanded basic cable grew from $22.35 to $49.65. to an increase of 122.1%. and going forward, the media research firm predicts that retransmission consent revenues for broadcasters would grow from 762 million in 2009 to 1.36 billion in 2011 and perhaps more than 2.6 billion in 2016. i assume some of these can be passed on to consumers in terms of their monthly mvp. i am not sure. what are we looking at as we go forward? what are we going to be able to say as we go home and they complain about the sort of packaging and what they have to purchase and total amount of money and so forth? >> i guess what i would say is those numbers will still be a small fraction of the aggregate programming cost that exists for that universe. >> that amount of money? >> if you look with the total program cost is for the content for that same universe is a small part of its and with som
marketplace which is why i commented on the reversal where we were and then i want to comment to the kovacicm i senator klobuchar. in the 2009 cable industry prices and they concluded from 1995 to 2008 the average monthly price of expanded basic cable grew from $22.35 to $49.65. to an increase of 122.1%. and going forward, the media research firm predicts that retransmission consent revenues for broadcasters would grow from 762 million in 2009 to 1.36 billion in 2011 and perhaps more than 2.6...
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marketplace which is why i commented on the reversal where we were and then i want to comment to the kovacic am i senator klobuchar. in the 2009 cable industry prices and they concluded from 1995 to 2008 the average monthly price of expanded basic cable grew from $22.35 to $49.65. to an increase of 122.1%. and going forward, the media research firm predicts that retransmission consent revenues for broadcasters would grow from 762 million in 2009 to 1.36 billion in 2011 and perhaps more than 2.6 billion in 2016. i assume some of these can be passed on to consumers in terms of their monthly mvp. i am not sure. what are we looking at as we go forward? what are we going to be able to say as we go home and they complain about the sort of packaging and what they have to purchase and total amount of money and so forth? >> i guess what i would say is those numbers will still be a small fraction of the aggregate programming cost that exists for that universe. >> that amount of money? >> if you look with the total program cost is for the content for that same universe is a small part of its and with s
marketplace which is why i commented on the reversal where we were and then i want to comment to the kovacic am i senator klobuchar. in the 2009 cable industry prices and they concluded from 1995 to 2008 the average monthly price of expanded basic cable grew from $22.35 to $49.65. to an increase of 122.1%. and going forward, the media research firm predicts that retransmission consent revenues for broadcasters would grow from 762 million in 2009 to 1.36 billion in 2011 and perhaps more than 2.6...