to study those objects rather than objects that grew to much larger scales will give us a great windowess of planetary formation. mission control: three, two, one... we have ignition and lift-off. tyson: alan and his team hope to open that window when the new horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006, becomes the first ever to arrive at pluto, racing at a speed of 37,000 miles an hour. travel time-- 9 1/2 years. scheduled arrival-- 2015. so this is the place. this is mission control for new horizons. cool. stern: yeah, the flight control team is monitoring the data that's coming down, looking at the health of the spacecraft and sending instructions back up to basically choreograph everything that happens on the spacecraft. so how long do those instructions take to get there? like suppose it says, "quick, turn left!" like, how long does that take? well, right now it would take about two hours and 12 minutes for the instruction to get up there and then after it's executed, two hours and 12 minutes more for us to find out that's what happened. to complete the round trip. by the time it gets t

. >> i don't object to being outspent. i object to lies. i object to negative smear campaigns. and i object to things that the candidate himself refuses to support. now, you can decide who is the leader and who is the politician. but his comments today are misleading, clearly false and are politics in its worst form. understand these are his feel running his ads doing his dirty work while he pretends to be above it. >> tough words. gingrich admits that the super pack smears are hurting him in iowa saying even he couldn't vote for the man portrayed in the attacks.

when we talk about the objectives of the agency, we have to remember that some of those objectives have been set by the voters. we think of the transit first policy and was adopted by the voters should be incorporated in this plan. we think is very important to understand that that is the genesis of this agency. with regard to specific recommendations, with the conduct of 1.1 should specifically include bicycle and pedestrian safety, and that we should add an objective to improve safety for pedestrians, people with disabilities, cyclists, and with the key performance indicator of a reduction of injury and death on dangerous pedestrian and bicycle facilities to make sure that we are measuring the number and making sure that we are considering a in a goal of the agency to reduce that number. we think that if we are going to talk about it does for the agency, which should be talking about that. holly think which includes goals for disabled passengers, particularly hearing and sight impaired passengers. this is an area where we may investments going forward, have opportunities for improveme

the first objective of the -- the first objective was to verify the implementation status of some oferal recommendations from that report. the 2010 report general recommendations were, as stablishmous with each department, required changes, monitor charges against the work order and not pay data. -- without sufficient data. mta did established mous with each department. the short timeframe contributed to the difficulty of getting them properly signed before the start of the fiscal year. in the review, we did find that of the 25 departments reviewed, six are not fully signed and dated. those with bated signatures were not find -- or not signed before their effective date. with regards to requiring written approval, mta did not the menm theou -- did not amend the mou to collect taxis. subsequently the service was included in its billing. even though the error was identified in did not pay the overcharge amount of $25,000, the error might have been averted if the mou reflected the changes in the agreement. as we stated, while there are mous in place, we want to make sure it say allied s

but in my judgment, i object -- but, in the meantime, i object. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, i'm disappointmented but more than disappointed, i look forward 20 that explanation. i hope it will be -- there will be an opportunity to have a colloquy and a discussion here on the floor so the american people can see why when a piece of legislation that enjoys such broad bipartisan support can't even get a vote, when people watch what's happening in washington these day, i think they're tempted to avert their gaze because they ask the question of me and i'm sure when, madam president, you're back in north carolina, people will say, why can't people get anything done? well, it's because, unfortunately, because of things like this. these are technical objections that are not based on the substance or the merits of the legislation. i respect the chairman of the armed services committee who says there is an objection on the democratic side and he is personally not making that objection but is on behalf of some

the speaker pro tempore: without objection. without objection, five-minute voting will continue. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentlewoman from florida, ms. ros-lehtinen, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2105 as amended. on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2105, a bill to provide for the application of measures to foreign persons who transfer to iran, north korea, and syria certain goods, services or technology and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote th

the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: and as the order -- the presiding officer: under the previous order -- mr. reid: may i -- as the order that's now before the senate indicates, i have the ability to designate who will be the speakers. we have two minutes on one and two minutes on the other. and those four minutes will be used by the senator from pennsylvania, the senior senator from pennsylvania, senator casey. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the armed services committee is discharged from further consideration of h.r. 1540. all after the enacting clause is stricken and the text of s. 1867, as amended, is inserted in lieu thereof. the bill, as amended, is considered read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider made and laid upon the table, the senate insists on its amendment and requests a conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses. the chair appoints the following as conferees on the part of the senate. the clerk: senators levin, lieberman, reed of rhode island, akaka, nels

the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum. mr. president, i withdraw that. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: thank you, mr. president. i rise to ask unanimous consent of all of my colleagues, before i explain the unanimous consent request, i will give a little bit of background. this is senate bill 1874 that senator snowe and i have worked on for some time because of our mutual interest in making the hub zone process for rural economic development work better. when this process occurs with each census, there is a two-yea nightmare of red tape before communities that should benefit from this economic development opportunity have the ability to do so, and across the country right now, we have rural communities that absolutely need to benefit from this most recent census. they have high unemployment rates. they are hit hard by the drop in exports. they are hit hard by the collapse of the housing community. sawmills have shut down, paper mills have shut down. and so

without objection.visor mar: without objection appear next item. >> recommend authorizing the executive director to execute a member of agreement with the treasure of the development authority in an amount not to exceed $100,000 for the fiscal year 2011-2012 operating budget and work plan to initiate implementation of the treasure island transportation program and authorizing the executive director to negotiate agreement terms and conditions. >> in october 2011 we brought before you a recommendation to designate an authority as the treasure island mobility management agency. the purpose is to integrate a comprehensive and integrated program to manage traffic on the island as the project develops. in october, you approved the authority for the tima and tida to work together for a program to put before the board by march, -- march 21, 2012. what i put before you today is the first step of the implementation. for them to have a work plan and budget for the remaining part of fiscal year 2011-2012. over the

without objection.nk you. >> good morning, commissioners. this item begins on page 225 in your packets. i'm just going to schedule the importance slides. on the first slide, this is the key document that will maintain our cities eligibility in gas tax. regional priorities, the regional transportation improvement program will be adopted. so if you go to slide 5, these are basically the key findings to monitor how the congestion monitoring program network forms every number of years. you can see we basically have very flat travel speeds from 2009 to 2011 with the exception of amt freeways. there is a decrease in speed, and a number of reasons for that. we are positing that a number of people were deciding to look for employment coming out of the recession, perhaps looking for more regional head of freeways, and there could be many reasons, but that could be one of them. another reason to look at the congestion monitoring program is the transit, how it compares to auto travel speeds. we find that transit t

officer without objection. reid i ask unanimous consent pursuant to the budget control act of 2011, following morning business on tuesday, december 13, the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration of the following joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment. the senate proceed to their consideration en bloc, s.j. res. 10, s.j. res. 24. fusht, that both joint resolutions be amend as follows so they can play with the budget control act. "joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the constitution of the united states." that there be up to eight mors of debate on the joint resolutions to running concurrently during tuesday's session. equally divided between the leaders or their designees whvment the senate resumes consideration of the joint resolutions on wednesday, december 14, there be up to 10 minutes of debate equally divided between the leaders that are other designees. they vote first on s.j. res. 24, secondly, on s.j. res. 10. there be no amendments, motions, or

. >> without objection. >> i object. [laughter] >> good morning, welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. i am joined by supervisor kim. supervisor mirkarimi will be with us shortly. supervisor wiener is joining us. are there any announcements? >> please turn off all self loans. if you would like to make a comment, please submit speaker cards to myself. -- please turn off all cell phones. >> thank you very much. we have a number of items before us, 11 and total. it is possible that we will be calling items 9 and 10 earlier in the meeting to be able to get the general managers' report. that might be coming earlier than what you would assume. item number one. >> resolution authorizing the issuance and delivery of multifamily housing bond not to exceed 18 million for the purpose of providing financing for the acquisition and construction of a 60-unit multifamily rental housing project known as the natoma family apartments. >> we have a representative from the mayor of's office of housing. >> good

objective 3.1, emissions of pollutants. we think it is great to be concerned about that, but we should be framing it in terms of emissions per unit of service delivered. if we had people shift from cars to meet tomorrow, and we increased service to meet that demand, we would see emissions go way up. -- emissions from muni go way up. but car emissions will go down. if we are moving more people, it should be part of the denominator. within that as a more productive way to think about emissions that the agency itself produces. about capital projects, there are a lot of ways to think about capital project effectiveness. did it do what we hoped it might do? not just whether those projects are delivered on time and on budget, whatever. looking in the capital projects and asking, is this really what we should do? is this the best use of this money? does this contribute meaningfully to our objectives? if we deliver a bad project on time, who cares? the objective would make reference for new sources for the agency. this is a key cha

the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, the senate adjourn until 9:30 a.m. wednesday, december 14. that -- that's 2011. that following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. following any leader remarks, the senate be in a period of morning business for an hour with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes, with the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees, with the majority controlling the first half and republicans controlling the final half. following morning business, the senate resume consideration of s.j. res. 10 and s.j. res. 24. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: there will be two roll call votes at approximately 10:45 tomorrow morning on the balanced budget amendment resolutions. i also hope to consider the d.o.d. authorization confer

speaker. >> gentleman from maryland. >> reserving the right to object, and i will not object, i thank the gentleman. i know the american people are pleased that we have come together to agree on this extension to give certainty and peace of mind to the 160 million americans who are concerned about losing their tax cut. the 48 million seniors who are concerned about their medicare, and the 2.3 million people who are unemployed and seeking work who were fearful of losing their benefits. i thank the speaker and i thank the gentle lady from missouri and i withdraw my objection. >> without objection, the bill is engrossed, read a third time and passed and motion to reconsider is laid on the table. chairman before the house of communication. >> the honorable speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to section 1238 b-3 of the floyd d spence national defense authorization act of fiscal year 2001. 22 usc, 7002, amended by the division p of the consolidated appropriations resolution, 2003, 22 usc 6901, i am pleased to reappoint the following individuals to the united states china econom

the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> mr. speaker, today is the first day of crones and ulcer colitis awareness day. they are painful. they are incurable. they affect one out of every 200 people in our country. a few weeks ago congressman jackson and i formed a crones and colitis caucus to raise awareness in the congress and to fight for additional federal support. mr. crenshaw: and crones and colitis awareness week is part of that effort. today we will file a house resolution which will support this awareness week and hopefully as we work with the crones and colitis foundation of america, all americans will use this week, this time to join in this fight to raise awareness to increase research and to find a cure for this debilitating disease. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? mr. jackson: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. jackson: thank you, mr. speaker. i

when we talk about the objectives of the agency, we have to remember that some of those objectives havet by the voters.

the presiding officer: is there an objection? without objection. mr. durbin: madam president, last night, the house of representatives passed a tax cut bill, one that is doomed in the senate and the president has made it clear he will not sign. it is important for us to move beyond this stalemate on an important issue that will literally affect 160 million working americans. currently, those working families enjoy a 2% payroll tax cut. for the average family in illinois, it means a $50,000 annual income and $1,000 a year or more in terms of a tax cut. so if we fail to continue this payroll tax cut, families across illinois and across america are going to see an increase in their payroll taxes of about $100 to $125 a month. we can't let that happen. these families are struggling paycheck to paycheck. we want to help them. we want to make sure that we help this economy by putting more life into it which creates more opportunity for profitability for business and new jobs. we also need to maintain our unemployment insurance, which we have provided during

in the regulation governing conscience objection. there's an element that they call the crystallization of conscience and every c.e.o. applicant has to say what that was for them and the interrogation with that you noticed was my crystallization of conscience. and it wasn't that a bunch of new beliefs suddenly emerged out of nowhere i realized for me to follow christ. involves taking seriously the charge for peacemaking. in the beginning of february two thousand and five i formally submitted my application to be considered a conscientious objector. my application was proved by the thirtieth of may i was out of the army. i lived as a soldier for ten years. some of the things that happened in iraq you know things that my father told me started coming back and i like this award you were trying to tell me. and i started thinking about. changing my mind or more every want to put it but it took being over there for almost seven months and then being back here for a year and i have you know really doing a lot of deep down reflection. i gues

the exclusion of fact could do not support the objectives. that indicates this is not meeting what is required. the cultural landscape links the resources. having succeeded, who building of the beach chalet to provide for recreational use of the beach and its adjacent grass fields. preserving the original intent of creating a national sexting -- a natural setting has nothing to do with replacing the natural grass field with a toxic field of rubber, heavy metals, and petroleum byproducts. the architectural historic resources are not only consistent with surrounding cultural landscape, they are responsible for it. >> we will be taking a short recess. >> commissioners, we are taking a 10 minute recess. thank you. >> the commission is back in session. we are still in public comment. >> are there any folks still in the overflow row. i want to encourage you to join us in this room. i think we have more cards at this point. we have over 100 cards, so i just wanted to let people know that when no one was overlooked. we did receive over 100 cards to t

political objective. objects would be very much sympathetic to the notion that even if you lost all of your major battles, if you protected the resistance and caused domestic difficulty in in the attacking country that you could preserve your sovereignty. so obviously this idea to the present day is quite large. >> when did on war become popular in the u.s.? >> on war is referred to in the textbooks that the u.s. military academy during the second world war. it's interesting in that no mention is made of the phase of the public's by any other means. where it really becomes required reading as the text in the u.s. military is probably in the 1970's especially after 1976 when the michael howard and peter translation of "on war" is published and the translation that while not perfect is much more accessible than previous translation and at oxford in 2005 to the conference german scholars observe that germans prefer to read clausewitz in the english translation rather than in the original because they thought

when we talk about the objectives of the agency, we have to remember that some of those objectives have been set by the voters. we think of the transit first policy and was adopted by the voters should be incorporated in this plan. we think is very important to understand that that is the genesis of this agency. with regard to specific recommendations, with the conduct of 1.1 should specifically include bicycle and pedestri

if nobody objecting it goes through.will happen in half an hour on house of representatives but somebody there may well object. we'll carry that one live as well. >>> in the meantime a powerful storm sweeping through the state of georgia injuring seven people. high winds toppling dozens of trees, damaging homes and pulling down power lines. it left some people with little time to get to safety. >> the door got blown in and there was some glass flying around and but everybody was okay in there and nobody was hurt. >> that happened so fast i didn't have time to get off the bobcat. took tin off my garage roof. it blew three trees down at my hoist. it just blew them down. gregg: what does all this mean for holiday travelers? rick reichmuth is standing by live in the fox news extreme weather center. >> that storm is gone pretty much that is good news. things are calming down. strange things going on here. look at this map, 42 degrees in los angeles. 46 grease in new york city. this is upside down map and been this way for a l

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objections run a different range of concerns, very strong objections. people who go to church and school in this neighborhood have a strong attachment and are spending much of their unpaid time to defend it. is the overhead on again? i see. let me show this exhibit. this can be seen from the street on balboa here. the neighbors are dismayed that the antennas are going in and we respectfully ask that the gap in coverage does not outweigh the potential downfall of this project. vice president miguel: thank you. >> hi, guys, this is my second time. i'm a parent of hebrew academy. i'm objecting to the antennas. this is the first time i'm wearing these glasses, i need it. it was interesting to me. i spent a lot of time at city hall. i finished jury duty a day ago and one of the things we talked about is we have to prove that he was guilty within, without any reasonable doubt. so i thought to myself, this is the same kind of thing, if you have any reasonable doubt about this where you know that it might be some potential of harming some kids then, you don't w

this tells you the caliber of the objects in the show. to the right is a wonderful piece of jewelry, a turbaned ornaments. the show also includes objects of multimedia. for example, the largest piece. it also includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, a tremendous collection of art. as always, our visitors can enjoy the excellence of individual works of art, on an individual basis, but would be what to do differently is to add a new dimension. we want to call out those stories. we want to object to talk about themselves, to tell us what makes a maharaja. how did he conducts his public life? maha means big, raja means king. so literally, and baking. how did he live his everyday life? how did he conducts his religious duties? negotiatinart and politics is an marriage, in this case, too. so we want to offer our visitors multiple choices. you can enjoy the art on its own individual basis and focus on its artistic quality, stylistic dilution, but also, if you like, there are stories at your disposal to learn. you can make a journey of self dis

door and attacked the bartender from behind punching him in the back of the head and throwing an object at him. he was arrested. at beso november 20th at 2:15, victim left vesle and was walking over on stom stockton and bush and he was a victim of a strong arm robbery. unknown if he was followed from vesle. advantage, we've talked about that. i won't go into that any further. the last one was assault aggravated with a gun. this is a weird one. we're still looking into this. i was talking to vage about it. it happened at 46 gary in front of lot 46. it was about 1:15. two officers were going north bound on curny street near gary. and they saw this guy running in the middle of the street. they stopped him and he said he had been shot in the back of his head. he had blood in the back of his head. they called for an ambulance. they went in front of lot 46. they didn't see anything. he was taken to the hospital and they found as they put it -- the victim said that he -- he was breaking up a fight and he felt a hard object hit the back of his head. he turned and saw a lady with a hand gun. the

the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? without objection, the gentleman from michigan, mr. upton, will control 15 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. upton: mr. speaker, i would yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. upton: mr. speaker, this bill does a lot of things. it has real reforms, it's driven in large part by the unemployment reforms, extending the payroll tax and the payroll tax cut and it's all paid for. you know, most americans don't really want unemployment, they want a job. the spectrum provisions in this bill help our first responders with the allocation of the deblock and creates perhaps as many as 100,000 jobs. the keystone pipeline decision is part of this bill, too. it requires the president to review and make a decision, either way, within 60 days of enactment. just this morning there were a number of press accounts that perhaps iran will soon be conducting exercises to close the straits. the keystone pipeline will connect canadian oil sands with refineries here in

quigley has not objected. third, while cavy -- kb asserts it will sell quigley products, there is no confirmation that it would. kb looks like formula of retail even though it has been designed to skirt the. they would be compatible with a dose. we disagree with the analysis on this. compatibility with historical integrity and neighborhood character. kb cafe is not compatible with the community character we have enjoyed, content we have spent years attempting to revitalize. it is a retail business but enjoys an unfair competitive advantage to formula of retail, including predatory pricing and other economic elements. it is offering the same or similar products as many other small businesses already existing. some of them are long standing community businesses, and that does not contribute to the japan town character. >> speakers in favor of the d r requester? >> my name is rose hill sen. i am a member of the organizing committee. the project sponsor is intentionally trying to disguise this connection to get a

we will take that without objection. before we go on to the next item, i forgot to make an announcement that there was going to be another item on this agenda today. the military budget. but we actually -- it has not been scheduled. if you are here to speak on that, we will have another date for that. i apologize for the error on our part. madam clerk, if you could please call item two. >> item two, hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 48 on sale general public premises liquor license to peter acworth for the armory club will serve the convenience of the people of the city and county of san francisco. supervisor avalos: inspector. >> just for a purpose of clarity, the records show this as a valid address of 1799 mission street. i will work it out with the quebec to the hearing to make sure the our people work matches up. my report reflects only the 1799 mission address. i would point out that the premises was previously licensed. they are looking to upgrade their license to a type 48 license. we are recommendi