by 1884, maine was getting back on its feet. has had a wonderful resource based industries and so we had ice, granite, lumber, we also had textiles, shoes. blaine was a part and a beneficiary of this very robust economy at the time. >> he contended against democrat grover cleveland who won. the republican party that nominated him, this was his third try for the white house, he was unsuccessful the two times earlier. what was the key to getting the nomination in 1884? >> persistence is part of this. he continued to try and he was recognized as a leading figure in the republican party, there is no question. one of his many nicknames was mr. republican and he was certainly a leading figure. >> he had some great enemies at the time who tried to deny him the nomination. explain the spit in -- this split in the republican party. >> there was a group of moderates called the mugwumps. they were the intelligence tip from boston, philadelphia, new york. they were folks that believed that blaine was a very corrupt individual. you think of

. >> i'll tell you why maine is the main reason why history books may be wrong about columbus. >> is this a biker rally, a nascar race, or maybe a sports event? stick around. the answer may surprise you. >> we'll spend some time with the real objects that make the harry potter movies so magical. >> that and much more, so keep watching "teen kids news." >> welcome to "teen kids news." i'm mwanzaa. >> and i'm livia. here's our top story for this week. >> the internet is a terrific tool, especially for schoolwork. but can you trust that the information you're finding is accurate? carina looks at how one popular but controversial website works. >> like most teens, roman comes home after school and heads straight for his computer. but unlike most teens, roman isn't checking out facebook or e-mail. his first stop online is wikipedia, the website where you can find information on just about anything. >> i believe i was about 13 or 14 years old when i first began editing wikipedia. >> that's right, roman is a contributor to wikipedia. and that's what's special about the website. it depends o

those are the main items we have asked you to see. this is one of the few times we have been able to work out with the contractor that we could allow you to come out and be physically on the bridge and go up inside the tower. we hope you will work with us, follow our safety standards. there will be a number of cal tran personnel to ask questions regarding safety or access. if you have any questions see me or tony. at this point in time we will -- mike, do you have a quick one? >> why today? just because the lights are going on? >> let's take the q&a. i will run through the presentation because it will help the folks that it is their first time doing it. >> paul, are you ready? this presentation is available on line at our media bar. this is just to give you an understanding of the different elements for the bay bridge. the first piece is the arrival of the final steel deck segment on the transport ship that came in yesterday, on sunday. here is some of the footage of the pieces arriving in the bay underneath our western span. there is

we have 137 of those strands that make up that main cable. when they are in place and we have the rest of the hardware, the cable is compacted into a insul cylinder form. that will be happening in 2012. then where we are going today? there. that is the top of the world's largest self-anchored suspension bridge. you can see it iis clearly part of oakland and downtown san francisco. that will be empty today and it weighs over 800 tons. over at the island we have another project to connect this back into the tunnel. here you can see the bridge has been designed, the eastern span, with side-by-side travel. as we come on to the island we have to reorient that traffic into a double deck configuration so it can go into the tunnel and on to the west. so we have the traffic detour and right now we are building the westbound structure that will take the traffic off the suspension bridge and connect it to the top of the tunnel. after that is done we will have the eastbound traffic headed from san francisco to oakland slide underneath that structure and

they could be 6- or 8-inch mains, but being 100 years old, they actually may be 2-inch mains. and they reduce the amount of volume of water that's available to us. johnson: there were a number of things that we have had to do in order to get the system back up to an acceptable standard. replacing mains and valves and fire hydrants and other components of the system to ensure that it operates properly. egan: we consider both the underground infrastructure and the above ground assets to be a part of the critical infrastructure of the city. johnson: and if the infrastructure is not there to actually deliver that water in the volume and the quality that's necessary, then communities simply can't exist. man: infrastructure is vital to the american economy. water, after all, is an essential ingredient in hundreds of thousands of everyday products. narrator: agriculture and industry use roughly 80% of the water consumed in the united states. water is the basis for manufacturing many goods and provides the ability to clean and sterilize everything from computer chips to the surgical i

maine is known for its blueberries and potatoes. to the right, you see a sailor. >> the sailor symbolizes maine's connection to the sea, including its fishing and shipbuilding industries. the north star has served as a guiding light for sailors since ancient times. just below the star is the state motto, "dirigo" -- latin for "i lead." a knotted fringe of yellow silk gently surrounds the state seal. unlike other states, maine's first european explorers were probably not british, spanish, french, or italian. it's believed that nordic sailors arrived here almost 600 years before columbus. we know these seafaring adventurers by a more familiar name -- vikings. with "flag facts," i'm scott. >> you may not be able to change the time you need to wake up for school, but you can change how you wake up. instead of a jarring noise, there's now a clock that gently rouses you with the aroma of sizzling bacon. the wake n' bacon alarm clock was created by art and technology major matty sallin. the pig-shaped clock uses halogen bulbs to safely coo

waterville, maine, glad to have a maine person involved in this discussion. alexander, you on the air. >> what other tactics did he use against cleveland other than a child out of -- van claiming he had a child out of wedlock? >> as far as i know, that was his primary personal attack against him. there were the local attacks as -- there would have been political attacks against him as a democrat and a representative of the party that fomented the rebellion. >> how much of a scandal would it have been to have a child of wedlock? >> quite scandalous. >> i would think so, too. >> just to answer that question, there were nuts and bolts issues to the campaign of 1884. one of the strong issues that republicans and democrats differed on in the post-civil war period was the tariffs. how much to tax goods coming and going. and that tariff was a major factor. >> the curfew was getting to be -- and i believe currency was also getting to be a major factor. d> the civil war hav proliferated the use of paper currency. the whole issue of greenback currency was very much in

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s main bailout -- the eu's main bailout fund. angela merkel is seen as europe's key leader. she could not count on her own side to win the vote, she risk humiliation -- if she could not count on her own side to win the vote, she risked humiliation. she walked across the floor as the chief whip told her that she had survived the crisis. >> i am really relieved. it was a very strong signal of chairman commitment -- german commitment to european integration and to the euro. >> what did germany's politicians agree on today? the expansion of the eu's man bailout fund to 440 million euros -- main belau fund to 440 million the bureau's -- main bailout fund to 440 million euros. rebels within her coalition have served notice that, if further demands are made on german resources, their support cannot be taken for granted. the german people may be less pleased with today's news. they are against further bailouts. many believe a much larger bailout fund will be needed in the future to protect some of europe's larger or economies. that might test angela merkel's leadership all over agai

that is the main purpose of the agency. as long as i live in this country the leaders and putin and medvedev are no exception of the fighting corruption the they haven't been successful yet well there are some some some there is some success bad but not total so russia is a country of corruption not the only one in the world but still so how would you guarantee that corruption doesn't spoil your ideas who will be the experts selecting the business how would you guarantee the transparency of what's going on within your age if we if we choose if we choose a projects then they go to our expert council extra council would consist about maybe about forty five people are its experts in different spheres afterwards it would good to supervise the council and the head of. as a concert mr putin. could you give an example of any project that you are looking at now maybe maybe maybe you already know. the first project that will get money from you you know only three weeks passed from. thought through through three weeks pass and you kn

this would be on the north side of howard, just east of main street. during non-commute hours, this area would revert back to regular parking meters. there is a section of main street that we're going to designate as passenger-loading. the east side of mian street, just north of howard street. that would be all they. this is a graphic showing those two sections of curbs. you can see the 105 feet of passenger loading zone on howard street and in the 40 feet of passenger loading on main street. we're working with the operators. they like this location. division of sustainable streets is on board with that. they are looking at a couple other options, but we think that this one probably holds the most promise. for bicycle sharing, the original design of a temporary terminal has 10 bicycle racks on the center island. this is a very well-used by the commuters. recently, we were approached by mta staff. we're working on a bicycle sharing pilot program. they had an interest in having a bicycle sharing site near the temporary terminal. so we are working with th

the main legacy of general petraeus career. of a counterinsurgency doctrine which he coauthored be the us marine general martin dempsey the importance is not only limited to that general petraeus pioneered and led the way to recess aetate to revamp grades and to promote the counterinsurgency doctrine in the new century the most significant fact is that general petraeus coined doctrine that has ignited the intellectual and wakening all across the military services and well beyond the united states it was the first step into the right direction from the calcified my optic bunker mentality conventional wishful thinking into the new vision of the world that's what the general of the trails to be older respected remembered and have myint for well beyond the military community because it was his intel actual endeavor with the coin dog training that precipitated the parity shift in the military thinking from the conventional and place and mentality to the conventional and symmetrical model operandi. well there's more analysis of the w

the state of maine bought their remains back to a customer. date resign in a beautiful blaine memorial here in a customer. >> we have very little time. we have a local college. -- we have a local caller. >> what was the relationship between mr. blaine where the native population of the state? we know there were natives in the civil war that had it there are regiments in the south. >> i am but to stop their speed is our time is short. >> i am not sure i have a quick answer for that. >> is that right? any place to go for that? is there material available? >> we definitely look to niels' book to start with. >> i would like to close. we have just a minute left. i'd like to ask you the question. what was the legacy -- what is the importance to america today of james g. blaine having been a politician here? >> is his desire to build some kind of cohesion. >> i think there is bad and if you look at his career in public life, he is one of the key builders of the republican party. he is there at the beginning in 1854. he is still there almost 40 years

tragically earlier on wednesday an open with a moment of silence then he continued addressing the main topics of the forum talking about multiculturalism and the challenges of diversity that face modern countries saying that diversity though is essential to the cultural and society of societal development of modern countries he talked about information technology the advancement of social networking the russian president known to be a lover of technology and trying to make russia a more high tech country he addressed class inequality class where warfare and income inequality and its role in shaping modern societies said that there needs to be a focus on diversity and multiculturalism in a russia specifically something that he also addressed including the tensions that it could lead to in modern society and in modern russia also address the challenges that are. facing russia in terms of terrorism and the wealth gap that exists in this country he also talked about progress of russian democracy and about how to preserve the integrity of the country in the face of the challenges that it fa

another news russian technology says it's going to hive off its main subsidiaries in an i.p.o. in four years time and the say it will most likely off electronic biotechnology and engineering as it is they run corp is going to spend the proceeds on a new investment bond to buy into foreign assets russian technologies controls twenty five companies including russian helicopters and the s.m.p. of it's my. turn over on the russian stock market last month was a record for best sales at the ten largest brokers on them i say it's almost double the usual volume to more than seventy eight billion dollars brokers say they're benefiting from an increasing number of clients who are rushing to buy into the market after the sell off in just. russia has seen its first monthly fall in prices in six years consumer prices fell zero point two percent all this knowing inflation for the first eight months to four point seven percent and. say the unexpected result was due to a good harvest and slow economic growth russian prime minister vladimir putin says he expects consumer prices to grow eight pe

turnout operation some of the world's other main news right now is very nearly eighteen minutes past the hour a yemeni warplanes reportedly bombed a mosque in the south thought to be occupied by islamic militants killing at least thirty it follows the killing of seventeen extremists and yemeni air strikes in the region insurgents were linked to al qaeda and took over the city of jar in april amid the ongoing anti-government demonstrations and political crisis in the country . the much delayed trial of former french president jacques chirac is resuming with judges deciding whether the frail seventy eight year old is well enough to face court he's charged with embezzlement while mayor of paris and pay party members for non-existent jobs and long serving its leader is the first french president to go on trial since the second world war in faces ten years jail if convicted. and its main opposition party the former rebel movement which is now the ruling party in the newly independent south sudan police arrested members and seized property claiming the s.p.l. quality is illegal decades of

what you're seeing here in the blaine house and a caustic, maine. -- in augusta, maine.se is still very much in use. as we look at the characterization there, you think politicians are colorful today, but turkey gobbler struck. how do these stories get passed along to us? >> the press was very lively in those days. the way in which the information was translated to other newspapers around the country was through the telegraph. stores could be written and then they would be telegraph to other papers. and then copied in some cases to other papers. >> it was entertainment. much of it was not just about the politicians, but the entertainment value that it had. great writing and clever phrasing. >> just like a sports team. helen, from new jersey. >> this is a wonderful series. i hope my class is paying attention because there will be tests. [laughter] i have a question about the blaine amendments. he tried to adopt the conduct -- he tried to amend the constitution. was there other motivations the one along with it? >> more than 20 states have blaine in amendments even though

miles away nato troops are wiping out existing afghan poppies with bombing burning and spraying the main question is why we destroying crops and then having to grow poppies in fields in oxfordshire it's been used by the american and british governments repeatedly one of the so-called soft arguments that they want a liberal audience is that they're fighting a war on drugs this is completely poppa's the it's not true it's not what the war is about and we should all not it's easy to understand why afghan farmers to grow then sell opium to the taliban there's an effective distribution network and they can make around seventeen times more profit per hectare than they could on wheat despite the obvious economics farmers are still being encouraged to grow other crops critics m.p. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans would punch america and we're following this behind them. and so what this relationship should be about when you're putting bush's lives at stake not to be able to use it as a bargaining position with the americans to rethink a strategy which i think most peop

is gold the only safe haven when the two reserve currencies themselves are in question here the two main reserve currency in the euro both early in a situation where the world is losing confidence. and so nobody has confidence in the reserve what happens to the monetary system so people street people keep looking for a safe haven and gold supervisors have to continue to rise europe's economic woes are also being felt in the u.k. driving some parts of the country to crave more control for their finances. when scotland becomes independent and the next logical step is for me to speak out maintains a. separatist sentiment intensifies across parts of the u.k. as we bring you later in the program. but first a bomb blast has rocked the indian capital new delhi killing nine and injuring at least forty five people outside the city's high court for the latest we go live to our correspondent priya sridhar standing by in the indian capital so pretty what more do we know about this and the early stages. hi there matt will that's correct there was a bomb blast sir and it's a lotion at the new delhi hi

on but one of the main purposes of the debt debate in madrid today is to send a message to markets that the government is serious about tackling its runaway finances but right to a journalist. who believes it's those very markets that are responsible for spain's predicament today the markets are not rational and they are driven usually by fear sometimes by greed. they just think they feel that the spain could be like greece or like ireland or like portugal because. contrary within the euro so so they tend to lump together countries that are very different but they resemble each other because they are part of the periphery and i think that that's the real recently sets a psychological perception and then again it's true that the growth in spain konami growth is not very good so that in the long term will be a problem for there but we don't have a problem now but we may have it in the future that is true. he watching r t international from moscow good to have you with us in a few minutes the fast fading friend as turkey's relations with israel thanks to a new low r.t. here is that that co

if you want to shut off the power you shut off the little guys first than the main. when you throw a switch there is the arch. like water when water flows in an old house any you shut it off quick you get the hammer effect? that's like electricity. is it safe to do it if you smell natural gas? show of hands. >> nobody has their hands up. it's not safe to flicking any switches if you smell natural gas. how about if there is smoke coming out of an outlet. if you shut this off in an area where there is no gas, good idea. >> just about anything can be a hazardous material, cleaners, solvants, hair products anything can be hazardous. they are every where. the only time they are hazardous if they are misused our there is a disaster. do you see these in san francisco? that's probably propane. we have a port. in an industrial area. it identified where they are stored. are there hazardous storage places in this air? no. are there a dry cleaners? yes. who remembers grand auto. they have solvants, cleaners, octane boosters. it's great until there is a natural disaster. where do

this water main break shut off water to 2,200 residents. woman: how many breaks are you working on right now? we have 24 breaks working right now. man: in our company, washington suburban sanitary commission, we had 479 water main breaks in february -- the most ever, for any february. man: this 10-inch water main in willard park is 73 years old. man: at wssc, we're having a year of record -- a ramp up slope of water main breaks that soon is going to reach exponential. man: the damage has been done. and this is the culprit. brunhart: today, 25% of our 5,500 miles of underground water pipes has reached the end of useful life. by the year 2020, 85% will have reached the end of useful life. woman: what to do? wssc is working on that costly problem right now. brunhart: it's not only true here, but it's true throughout our nation. narrator: across the united states, cities and towns are facing the challenge of aging and outdated drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure. it's a national problem. but it needs to be approached syste

our main headlines this up to our main headline i should say this our prime minister vladimir putin announces he's to run for the russian president seen twenty two hour binds by the man in office now dmitry medvedev present preventive also revealed he leaves the country's ruling party united russia in december parliamentary elections and become the new prime minister should it when enough votes and. right now more on the main news story here in moscow and the latest edition of people of ours debate show crosstalk. welcome across the time people of russia's great political parlor game has come to an end president dmitry medvedev announced he would support but i mean putin's candidates to succeed him in next year's presidential poll was this the plan all along was a good idea and was what is called the tandem can it continue to work. to cross talk russia's political future i'm joined by fred we're here in the studio with me he is the moscow correspondent for the christian science monitor adrian pap's in cambridge he's a lecturer in politics at the university of kent and in london and across the

if but so too are the challenges they face internal leadership divisions regional evil and the new main threat of an israeli palestinian showdown could at any time take center stage who are jerusalem. and. palestinian statehood layer of this while the israel says it will allow security forces to shoot at palestinian protesters if they marched in support of their bid in order to protect west bank settlers we've got reaction of our web site r.t. dot com. this issue is the one to be affected most of the cases the greatest baby i've got to wait to sit was the opinion of a peace activist who says a tough response by israel could only escalate tension between israelis and palestinians also background on the long running conflict ahead of the historic vote and much more a flick away at our t's dot com. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe police are in negotiations with a man who is holding a child hostage outside a courthouse in sydney australia with the surrounding area cordoned off witnesses say the suspect claimed he was carrying a bomb in his backpack

the main assets of our economy the investments that were made that. were only to sell germany you know what's the biggest investment it's made in greece for the past ten years super markets. and we ended up buying german productions buying german because maybe greece borrowed a lot of money in the past ten years from the european union from germany especially why don't you check out how much money germany has made out of greece the past ten years you'll discover that it's more than what we borrowed. as country after country in the eurozone imposes cuts leading to more cuts causing public anger to spill out into the streets we ask if there is a way out but later some financial people in the know joined a debate on crosstalk. the banking interests in europe crippled the central bank they didn't want to some troll bank to create credit they say we want governments to come to us and pay us interest and we want to rip off the economy don't have a central bank don't have a public option let us raise your cost of doing business give us the business so of cou

welcome back you know here's a quick look now the main stories we're covering today on r.t.e. russia city of the us labile as paying its last respects to the victims of wednesday's plane crash that killed almost all of the local ice hockey team and that's as investigators rule out two main theories into the cause of the tragedy and failure and of poor quality of fuel. security is being stepped up across the u.s. on the eve of the out of verse three of nine eleven as new threats emerged somehow fear that america's war on terror has created more enemies than it's destroyed. last eleven cairo strike its new soured noted relations as an angry mob with the egyptian capital storms the israeli embassy forcing its staff to leave the country . and coming up next our special report about the deadly legacy of war and the illness that can hit servicemen even long after they're back home that's next art. of course for me here the relationship between the media and the military develops on a technical level you know it's not a very important relationship actually there are ways to use the m

here is a recap of the main stories we're covering today on our t.v. germany's. issued a much anticipated ruling on the legality of bailouts holding participation and eight years old rescue funds the court also said that the german government would have to get the approval of parliament before providing for their financial aid in the future. people have been killed and over sixty injured by a bomb blast near the high court in new delhi about a sauna based terror group has already claimed responsibility. number of the loyalists including his security chief libya for neighboring niger and the whereabouts of the colonel himself still well that sounds concerns grow over what could be replacing him. all right well now.

we've destroyed one of the main acids of our economy the investments that were made europe were only to sell germany you know what's the biggest investment it's made in greece for the past. supermarkets. and. buying german cause maybe greece borrowed a lot of money in the past ten years. from germany especially why don't you check out how much money germany has made out of greece in the past thirty years you'll discover that it's more the more we borrow. while watch the full interview with greek m.p.c. must be called live in just twenty minutes time here on r t also ahead this hour america remembers the victims of the worst terrorist act in history a decade after the nine eleven attacks. and egypt and turkey turned their backs on israel which has warned a could soon be isolated in the region with two former allies expressing growing or examples. wealthy british soil sorry. that's not right on. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report on our. soon r

big spate are on whether or not extraditions would take place british authorities narrowed down a main suspect a russian citizen alexander a andrea should say lugovoy and russian officials basically refused to extradite them because it's their policy that they don't extradite their citizens and also just recently andre lugovoy himself has said that back then he was willing to cooperate with investigators and even now he's willing to do so going as far as to say he himself is willing to sit down with david cameron and try to work things out if you will so that was something that really really really put a strain on relations both sides like i said understand that they need to somehow moved. past that it should be said as well that british authorities over the past couple of years have been very reluctant and denying extradition of russian citizens who have asylum in the u.k. they're wanted for other crimes as well as being involved in the literally a good case not of course is very severe is all ski and off med is a high of so a lot of issues that do eventually hopefully need to be work

russia's two main bourses my sex and the r.t.s. are putting the finishing touches to their five billion dollar merger the new brand of a combined stock exchange will be presented early next year and the new entity will be sold to the public for an i.p.o. which is so far planned for twenty thirteen and artie's lore and that has all the details for us. there is no new legal or political to the merger between the r.t.s. . exchanges the mergers being approved by the federal monopoly service and it's now on to the technical details which are not you when you're talking about joining together and index the trades mostly in equities and currencies and another index that trades mostly into riveted and that a lot of different technical platforms and nineteen person has already been appointed from the banking community and from the brokerage community and now from here until the end of december it's that the legal merger between the two indexes will be completed and also the merger of some of the markets during that time will be testing the

cutting back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering today on our take brushes. city of yet us law is paying its last respects to the victims of wednesday's playground who killed almost all of the top local ice hockey team that's as investigators rule out to may be a reason to the cause of the tragedy as the search for answers continues. security is being stepped up across the u.s. of the eve of the anniversary of nine eleven as new threats emerge some now fear that the america's war on terror has created a new enemies than it's destroyed. plus television and cairo strike a new sour note in relations as an angry mob with the egyptian capital storms israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee the country at least three egyptians were killed and more than a thousand injured as rioters clash with police and kyra. next on our t.v. continue to explore the russian capital with a song from some of moscow's cozy parts of historic neighborhoods all that after a short break stay with us. montero. historic old. friendly. dynamic. to do friends but he'll. go. hello welcome to

plus in business russia's two main bourses are a step closer to foreign allies in their multibillion dollar merger and we'll have more on that in business in twenty minutes. watching are you live from moscow ninety and here on marina joshie welcome to the program palestinians deserve a ride to prison and their case for recognition in front of the u.n. security council despite u.s. threats to veto the move that's moscow stand on to statehood bid president abbas is preparing to introduce on friday or he's worried a fortnight has more from new york. issue that remains at center stage for those attending the united nations general assembly is the issue of the palestinian campaign for a u.n. membership and statehood is something that the majority of the general assembly does support but it is something that the united states has been speaking out against that the u.s. has the right and use its veto in the security council because no sides palestine or israel are ready to return to the negotiating table but foreign minister lavrov did say that it is within palestinians right to ask for u.n