he is a union man, too. my daughter is the one i am really afraid of. i am asking my fellow board members today to join me. i am terrified to do this. it but i know in my heart that i cannot look myself in the mirror and not make this vote. i have an opportunity here to do something that i beg board members for decades to do, and that is to help the schools. and this is the best way i know how. [applause] president yee: commisioner maugus? commisioner maufas: i thought you were going to say something. president yee: i was, but that has passed, so let's move on. commissioner maufas: i want to thank commissioner fewer, because i know her and i know her heart and i know her intellect. it is not easy. i will not be joining her. i take this vote so incredibly seriously. and i will just tell you now i am voting no, period. no to the layoffs, period, because we are struggling. i know it, you know it. and to think that or imagined that we can find the money elsewhere -- we can. but to imagine or think that is not attached to another person? that is a fantasy. b

into building a stadium or some other building for big developers, the middle man, working man, a union man, families that really need the help are left out. i realized -- i am good friends with the director. i hope she incorporates it in the deliberation. you talk about project here, there, and everywhere. make sure that 10 franciscans who contributed to the building of this area, their children get some benefits. thank you very much. to go any other public comment? to g>> in light of that, i will take a point of privilege -- personal privilege. as i understand it, the executive director has been well aware of these issues, and i want to point out the port has exceeded local hire requirements, and we probably have not done a good enough job of getting the word out, but it has been important to the porch. at one of the prior meetings it was mentioned we exceeded the minimum requirements for local hire. it is something the port and port staff are very focused on and we should be touting it more often than we do. the key for raising the issue. >> any other comments? ok. >> item 8a, a work aut

director of the american civil liberties union and casual man howard explains how. >> it indicates that people went out and registered new voters, could turn in the new voter registrations within ten days. now the legislature brought it down to 48 hours. >> i did not make it within the 48 hours. >> stephen: fraud. >> i did not-- . >> stephen: fraud, fraud, fraud. >> there is no voter fraud. i don't think there is a person walking around the streets of florida that believes that the voter suppression law of 2011 is about voter fraud. >> stephen: well, here's a person walking around the streets of florida. what does he believe. >> i think this law will help insurance that we don't have voter fraud. >> stephen: done. state representative rich dollar crosso is one of 9 brave lawmakers who came out of the shadows to support this anti-fraud bill. here's how it works. >> if you are-- somebody breaks into your car and steals your stuff because you didn't lock your car, well then dow lock it later on or you have locked your car today. >> stephen: see, it's simple. the car is the voting booth. th

voters who passed the measure in 2008 which said marriage should be defined in california as a union between a man and woman. >>> in maryland opponents of same-sex are expected to start their fight next week to overturn the new law. yesterday the governor signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage joining seven other states. opponents plan get enough signatures put a referendum on the november ballot and overturn the law before it takes effect. the measure allows the first marriages to happen next year. >>> this morning forcasters warning more violent weather could be headed for the south and midwest. residents still cleaning up after tornadoes earlier this week killed 13 and flattened neighborhoods. tahman bradley has more. >> reporter: overnight, the severely battered midwest and south waited for round two. meteorologists say the storms expected today could be worst than the system that left this path of destruction. at least 33 tornadoes touched down in seven states across 750 miles, more than a dozen people were killed. survivors are picking up the pieces. they are grieving the loss of loved o

that the diocese and i will still be very involved in the effort to protect marriage as the union of one man woman, but we've decided this year that our best efforts can be to put our energies and resources into educating our catholic community better about the very nature of marriage. >> so, bishop, let me ask you. this plan of action has changed quite drastically since 2009. you know, where you had very active campaign, and now you're moving toward education and putting funds towards that. are you softening your stance on same-sex marriage? >> not at all. it will be even stronger and more vigorous. one of our discoveries in 2009 was that really, many of our catholic people in maine could use a bit more profound understanding of how the church has understood marriage for 2,000 years. so i decided, while we will certainly be in close contact with our allies who will lead the political battle, we intend to focus on the education and formation of consciences of our people. >> let me ask you, bishop. according to the public relation research institute right now -- this is a recent survey that w

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union out there. every craft known to man has a union in the movie business. i mean, the people that put in fans. but that was about the time when the communists were trying to infiltrate hollywood because they thought it would be a great propaganda. acting kraft is always a little bit to the left. i mean it became big-time to the left in the 1920's and 30's because -- and the hope on not getting too far down a side track, but the group there in new york sent a lot of these actors over the moscow to be trained because it was free. you know, the state did all the training. while there were trading to be actors, turning to be communists. they came back and there were communists. they migrated from the group there in manhattan at to the movie business in hollywood in the 1920's and 1930's. by the time reagan became president of the screen actors guild it was just about taken over by hard-line communists. some of the well-known actress. mostly -- i mean, what they did was the big time actors insist they did use. and so then neglected this business, the screen actors guild. and so anyway, this was abo

he felt he was misquoted in the story of a beating of a man in mid-february. union wants an independent investigator. the city released a statement acknowledging it has hired a law firm to further examine the issue. >>> guilty of the most serious charges. that's a verdict in the trial of a rutgers university student who used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate who ended up committing suicide. 20-year-old dharun ravi was convicted of invasion of privacy and a number of other charges. he spied on his roommate kissing another man in 2010. clementi killed himself a few days later after learning that ravi tweeted about it and urged others to watch. his parents home it sends a strong message. >> we were here every day because we wanted to be here for our son and because we wish this trial was important because it dealt with important issues for our society and for our young people today. >> ravi faces up to ten years in prison and possible deportation back to india. is he scheduled to be sentenced in may. >>> the trail of twisted metal and scattered debris is all that rem

but reagan did become the head of sag, the screen actors guild, union of air where every class known to manas the union in the movie business. i mean, they've got the road doing unions that people would put it, but that was about the time when the communists were trying to infiltrate hollywood because they thought it would be a great propaganda district. the acting classes always been a little bit to the left. but it became big time to the last in the 1920s and 30s because of really a little group and i hope i'm not getting too far down the way at the sidetrack. but the group theatre in new york sent all of these that are sober to moscow to the train because it was free. the state did all the training. and while they're training to be actors are also training to be communists. and they migrated to the group theatre in manhattan after the movie business in hollywood in the 1920s in the 1930s and by the time reagan became president of the screen actors guild, it was just about taken over by hard-line communists. some of the well-known hot or send direct heirs. mostly -- i mean, what they did

vote, to set things right will be a great victory for those of us who know that marriage is the union of one man. >> brian, is it sometimes just exhausting for you and what the national organization of marriage does to try to stand against the tide of equality? is it exhausting? >> well, again, i see the tide moving in the direction of protecting marriage. when you've had 31 -- >> marriage is already protected. i don't see anybody from new hampshire coming on here saying over the past two years that their marriage broke up because marriage equality became legal in the state of new hampshire. how is marriage for new hampshireites been interfered with? >> when you redefine marriage, you redefine it for everyone, not just for that couple. you change what's taught in the public schools. there are plenty of people in new hampshire -- you can get representative bates or the folks from cornerstone to come on and talk about the very real effects of what's changed in marriage. religious organizations have attempted to coerce them, shutting down catholic charities, adoption agency in boston because it can

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every kraft known to man has a union in the movie business. the the end of road laying union, ceiling fans, but when the communists tried to infiltrate holly read they thought it would be great propaganda. the half -- acting kraft has always been to the left but it was big time in 1920's and '30's i hope i don't go down too far but the group theater in new york send a lot of doctors to moscow to be trained because it was free. they also train them to be communist they came back and for communist. they migrated from the group theater in manhattan to the movie business in hollywood and 1920's and '30's and by the time reagan became president it was just about taken over by hard-line communist actors and directors. what they did, the bid -- big-time actors just paid their dues. one un-american activities committee held their hearing. what reagan did to say we don't need to outlaw we can get rid of it democratically to get rid of the big time actors. for them to come in and wrote so they voted the stranglehold on the union and the was the beginnin

the monument to christopher columbus to union station says he gave to man kind a new world. one of the main flaws of the current proposal is that eisenhower's contribution to this nation is not the central theme of the design. instead of the focus on eisenhower, the liberator, the commander who led the largest military operation in the history of warfare and eisenhower the president who championed freedom and prosperity, the narrative relies on a romantic, horacio alger notion, a young eisenhower viewing his future career. the eisenhower our nation wants to celebrate is not a dreamy boy but a real man who faced unthinkable choices, took personal responsibility and did his duty. with modesty and humility. symbolism will also play a vital nonverbal role in capturing the essence of ike's contribution, but we've heard from many people in the last months who have objections to the 80-foot metal mesh so-called tapestries. despite the memorial commission's references to this ancient tradition, modern tapestries have generally been found in the communist world. marx, engales, lennon

pension projections for 2015, perhaps in attempt to gain leverage in negotiations with unions and such. assembly manfor getting up early for us. assuming you get audit request approved what would you like to see come out of this? >> right now we're considering a lot of legislation in sacramento to reform pensions, and tighten up the fiscal accountability on pensions, and i think this audit will help us. it's a problem that's occurring all over the state of california, not just in san jose. so we need to look at san jose's books, find out if there's any things we can do to improve it and change state laws as necessary. that's what we hope to do. >> you are trying to help the city. is there part of this with what happened with the mayor? >> i think the way they go about making projections ought to be transparent. we ought to have an open process and established so we can truly see what the liabilities of the city are. there are serious liabilities and we ought to find out what the true facts are. >> reporter: you sim pa thoois thiz with a leader who he is in the position of trying to balance the budge

union. country against the government's mans for job market reform there, too. 12.8% is where the ten year portuguese debt stands. lots of speculation about the possibility of another bailout, a second bailout for that country. and also the prospects for the requirement of greek sil debt restructuring, too, but no movement quite there. and in spain, the ten year is at 5.5%. since the beginning of february really we've seen he's yields in spain just ticking higher. certainly well off the record highs that we've had just a few months ago, but still just creeping up a little bit. but we can hear from the finance minister saying any comparisons with greece are ridiculous and we should expect volatility in the markets and that those spikes are just that. now moving on to the currency markets, where seef aen few notable levels breached. euro-dollar trading higher, up by about 0.6%. 1.3281 is where we is an. euro also moving up against the yen at 109.73, dollar-yen 82.61, while sterling-dollar at 1.5894. the dollar has been trading at a three week low against the swissie, saying they will vigorously defend

union hall. as officers investigate, a car started to leave the scene. the officers opened fire. one man was shot in the back and another was shot in the head. daryl white survived and was shot in hand. the officers fired 25 bullets at the ford taurus that they were trying to -- driving. both officers claimed they were targets, shots are fired at them and they returned fire. daryl white was charged with attempted murder. the court of special appeals overturned the conviction, citing there was no evidence that he touched a weapon. there'll white accused them -- daryl white accuse them of planting evidence. the attorney general answered with why the cover-up? why the plan? because the defendants knew they had a problem. they had killed two people and shot a third. he claimed the officers rushed to judgment cannot accept responsibility for what they did. attorney james fields represents the two officers and told the jury the suggestion of a conspiracy, a coverup, and planted evidence is nonsense, and these officers know exactly what happened. they had no choice but to do what they did in de

man. the confederates under taylor and the union under tactical commander, a brigadier general, and another brigadier general, general lee, albert lea, face each other for four hours. and then at 4 p.m., no daylight savings time, the confederates know that the union will just bring up more men. they finally attack. the attack is designed to follow their initial placement, which is an al. and the idea is to have a hinge and the confederates will close the hinge, the middle of it being the road and the yankees in the middle of it, union forces, and instead of doing this, they are going to do that. it's going to slow them down in the union will be able to get out. it is a meat grinder. the battle will last about three hours. the confederates will is about 1000 men. the union forces, missing, killed, wounded in excess of 2000. fighting in with the confederates pushing the union forces back three miles, the woods are on fire, nobody can see what's going on, taylor captures 262 of banks wagons. banks withdraws 70 miles back. taylor thinks that banks is right in front of him. he plans a battle for

man was air lifted to bayview medical center. no word on a cause for the fire. >> police officer unions are still waiting for john leopold to resign following a no- confidence vote in their leadership. they want the man to resign following an indictment. she is accused of misusing his security detail for personal benefit. the president of the union call for them to resign. that brings us to a water cooler question of the day, you think john leopold should step down from office in the wake of his indictment? share your response on wbaltv.com. or send us an e-mail. >> 5:37, 54 degrees. still ahead, having trouble paying your medical bills? you are definitely not a lawn. >> we know exercise can change a lot of things about you. what if the changes are in your dna? >> as we get closer to 6:00, volume is building on the a >> welcome back. 40 minutes after 5:00. it is going to be a warm day. a few clouds and the city right now. we do not expect any precipitation until tonight. let's take a look of some of the and the -- other numbers. 53 in pennsylvania, 52 in hagerstown. the forecast for today, increasing clouds, a breezy, warm. 70 deg

the body of a man found on railroad tracks near metro's union pacific line in lake forest has been identified as the lake forest college president's son the 18 year-old edward shute was a senior at lake forest high school, the school's principal santa note to parents informing him of his death. he was reported missing yesterday. people from across the nation are uniting to day to remember trade on margin, the 17 year-old was killed last month by neighborhood watch volunteer who said he was acting in self- defense. >> across the nation sunday the legacy of 17 year-old trade on margin was kept alive at memorials in services in his honor. churchgoers listen to jesse jackson. >> we must end the institution of standing your ground. >> worshipers flocked the missionary baptist church in florida, track of one's home town and in new york they wore huggies to church, the outfit he was wearing when he was killed a symbol of justice associated with racial profiling. the man who killed him is still walking the streets for a. >>free. >> no family ever imagines this could have happened to their child so yo

he felt he was misquoted in a story about a beating death of a man in february. the unionants the interim city manager to name an independent investigator. the city released a statement acknowledging it has hired a law firm to further examine this issue. >>> let's turn our attention back to the weather and weekend that's soon upon us and what we can expect the next couple of hours, especially starting saturday morning. jeff ranieri joins us live in the weather center for us. >> yeah. we'll have a chance of thunderstorms saturday and sunday. the worst of the storm is hitting right now with heavier pockets of rainfall across san francisco, extending down the peninsula. we're going to do radar tracking to show you where it is the worst and what is on the way for a lot of the bay area. you see from san mateo up to downtown san francisco, that's where computers picking up on anywhere from a quarter to a half inch of rainfall per hour, likely producing some ponding. maybe even some isolated flooding on highway 101. also on interstate 280. that goes for downtown san francisco. if

police believe the same man hit a union 76 gas station on the 28th. >> the berkeley student gravely injured after he fell from the second floor of a frat house remains in a medically induced coma. he suffered head trauma. he was trying to climb down the side of the frat house via the drain pipe when it tore away from the building. police suspect crowley had been drinking. >> 5:04. despite outcry from neighbors a jack in the box in the inner richmond district will be allowed to stay open late. neighbors say the overnight hours attract crime but the city board of appeals decided to hold off shutting it down. it has suggested the entertainment commission re-examine it in six months to make sure it meets the conditions of its permit including late night security guards. the restaurant first came under scrutiny last thanksgiving when a cal fire firefighter was run down following an argument that started at that jack in the box. >> the bay area's yelp is going public this morning with shares priced higher than expected. bob redell is live at yelp headquarters in san francisco a. strong debut for

police believe the same man hit a union 76 station on february 28. >> 6:05. jack in the box in san francisco's inner richmond district can keep its hours. neighbors say it attracts crime. the board of appeals decided to hold off. the board wants the commission to watch the operations for the next six months to make sure it who meets the conditions of the permit. the hours came under scrutiny when a cal firefighter was run down after an argument that started at the jack in the box. >> san francisco's wroonion square will transform into a disaster training ground. >> so called emergency day at 11:00 this morning. american red cross volunteers and pg&e officials will help create a disaster game plan. locals will train along side bay area celebrities and public officials. today's events include activities to teach disaster preparedness skills. >> a memorial that honors more than a sentry of war veterans is ready to be rededicated. it's been boarded up after being damaged by vandals. damian trujillo is live in san jose where yesterday volunteers put some of the fi

the suspect comes in and -- police believe this man also robbed a union 76 gas station on delpry sid levard. 8:34. martinez police are trying to determine why a man brut a loaded gun -- brought a loaded gun near the alhambra campus. the man was arrested yesterday afternoon after receiving an anonymous call. he's identified as michael woodall. >>> let's get you going. tear vau back -- tara is back. she has good news and bad news. >> that's right. the good news is that the macarthur maze is finally clear. a lot of people were waiting for that. but the bad news is that the east shore freeway is looking pretty backed up from oakland all the way past golden gate. you can see just how stop and go it is. definitely give yourself some extra time. i know that -- you can kind of see on the left-hand side, the carpool lanes are not really in effect. there are sections that have carpool lanes. but once you start approaching the maze, you are gonna get parlayed. this has actually picked up. this is northboundp as you drive towards downtown, looking a lot better than it did even 15 minute ago -- 15

union. feel these choices on far to. come. the man. is. coming. home coming. lead close up she was is being killed the reality of where the floor my fours are made and can be tested to the limit if. not all of our she goes to the early years. where blacksmithing has developed from a craft into an industry. where rough rocks turn into words of beauty. and where a village called music made her hides amid keep clerks will come to the last grecian russia close up. rallies out both for and against the syrian government mark the first anniversary of the us around the country common sense britain's guardian newspaper releases what it claims are thousands of leaked emails from president assad's private account. pumping up the pressure the u.s. wants india to stop flying around in oil trying to persuade the country to go elsewhere for its crude needs meanwhile president obama has warned that the window for talks over iran's nuclear program is trying to. close the taliban suspends peace talks with the u.s. president karzai says he wants nato out of all villages after an

the european union finance ministers have held another difficult meeting today as they tried to tackle the european debt crisis. hungary was in the spotlight, and brussels issued a stern man to budapest to get its finances in order. >> if hungary fails, the european union says it will freeze almost 500 million euros in funds that are supposed to be given to the country next year. >> the most controversial issue on the agenda was the introduction of the financial transactions tax. nine countries led by france and germany are for the proposal, but britain and some other countries remain opposed to the tax. >> hungary's finance minister was taken to task by his european colleagues for his country's failure to control its budget deficit. >> the commission's proposal for suspending commitments. >> another sticking point -- franco-german calls -- the german tax products bear products like any other and therefore should be taxed. >> i have once again said that a financial transaction tax for and in europe remains our clear priority. i am convinced that it is the best solution, he says. >> the tax is also expected to put some 75 billion additional euros and a member state's coffe

. >>> the man in charge of energy policy for the european union says eu officials are drafting new safetyndards for nuclear plants. guenther oettinger spoke to nhk ahead of the anniversary of the accident at fukushima. oettinger said eu officials are conducting safety tests that cover emergencies including natural disasters and airplane crashes. they' they're testing all nuclear plants in the region. he said the test results should be completed this june. he said eu members have different nuclear policy. german leaders, for example, decided to abandon nuclear power, other nations continue to build new plants. still oettinger said all members agree on the need to creature peen standards for nuclear safety. >> the highest standards for safety and security. and i think with a new level of sensibility and of ambition to realize high standards as this new european approach. >> he plans to visit jan numbpa june to discuss policies. >>> music students from a city in italy that has seen its share of earthquakes have reached out to people in japan. l'aquila was devastated by an earthquake three ye

the man in charge of energy policy for the european union says officials there are drafting new safetytandards for the region's 143 nuclear plants. gunter oettinger believes the draft could come in october or november. he says eu officials are conductingafety nets for emergencies including natural disasters and airplane crashes. results should be released in june. eu members have different policies. german leaders, for example, decided to scrap nuclear power after fukushima, but other countries continue to build new plants. all members agree on the need to create common standard for nuclear safety. >> there's one common understanding, highest standards for safety and security. and i think we have a new level of stability and of ambition to realize higher standards, as this our common european approach. >> oettinger will visit japan to discuss energy and policies. >>> an earthquake that jolted a nation, a tsunami that swallowed a coastline, a nuclear plant that spiralled out of control. japan marks the first anniversary of the march 11th disaster. what lessons have been learned? find ou

union. the problem was that his great mentor, the man that he revered andrew jackson loved blair. and jackson just could not understand why his two great proteges and friends and people that he loves so much couldn't get along. polk pulled it off and government blair out of there and created his own newspaper the daily union. >> so what's the difference between donald graham then and the blairs? >> i think that today's journalism is very, very different because there's at least a significant pretense and a desire to reach for objectivity in our newspapers. we don't always live up to that successfully, but that is the rule that we try to follow. and don graham is of that tradition not of the partisan press tradition. >> you're raising from the state of washington and went to the university of washington and also columbia have a master's degree. you wrote for something called the national observer a dow jones publication and then "the wall street journal." how long were you with the national observer? >> i got in in the last two years of the observer. dow jones started in 1962. neve

man doesn't understand heap -- he is riding. but we are walking. the massage behind the union army while successful was slow, it was -- it was costly. thousand of men made it. but thousand of others simply collapsed into the ditches alongside the roads. unable to keep up. and hundred of them died of exposure. frozen where they fell. nobody remained behind to look after them. so what this meant was -- all through that night -- early the next morning, with every yard of ground that the confederate army gained on their -- envefl lopin movement, the hitting power, combat effectiveness of the confederate army began to erode. okay. now when the battle opened on the morning of march 7, 1862, curtis was astonished to discover that the confederates had got any round his flank and now were on his rear in his lewin of communications effectively cutting him off from missouri. his army was facing the wrong way. it was facing south. the confederates were now north of him. but curtis recovered amazingly quickly. and he immediately initiated a remarkable 180-degree change in front so that his

before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. 1961: u.s. scientists are in a no-holds-barred race to beat the soviet uniony must break free of earth's gravity. in april of 1961, the soviets launched a man into space, marking the first time that humankind has experienced complete weightlessness. but no one knows what prolonged exposure to weightlessness will do to the human body. president kennedy's promise means there's no time to lose. engineers must invent ways to overcome the challenges of living in zero-g. fifty years later, chris radus of lucas, kentucky, thinks he owns a prototype of one of the space-age inventions that helped man travel to the moon. when my dad brought this boot home from work and i asked him what it was, he told me he couldn't tell me but we'd find out later. i'm elyse luray, and i've come to meet chris to check out his father's invention. hi. hi, elyse, come on in. so what's in the box? this is the boot my father, raymond radus, brought home from westinghouse electric where he worked as an engineer. and what year did he bring this home? it was probably 1963, i think. well, it's k

all falling apart so alarmed by the build report the christian democratic union member of parliament philip this felder is the man in the list of gold ingots from the president of the german federal bank yeah weidman he told bilko i was shocked first they said there is no list then there were a list but they were secret then he told me that inquiries endanger the trust between the german federal bank and the u.s. federal reserve what does the federal bank want to hide and you know as we've been talking about we've hit peak debt this three thousand four hundred tons of gold of which about two thousand is in new york they say so if this is spend re hypothecated lent out madge. plea to create two hundred thousand tons worth of gold that you could see as the knock on effect and we could see major turmoil and a major collapse of this empire of debt both one of the more the most. grossest missed consumptions in the globe today is that the world is not on a gold standard the world has been and will always be on a gold standard the fact that right now you've got six or seven hundred trillion dollars of derivatives just m

that translates to a union jobs and a lot of union guys last year, over 2010, 2011, we ran almost 30% more man hours. what the short power will do for us is allow us to power up ships we cannot power up right now. we will see the alan shepard coming in in april. we will have the power set up for that. that is a huge contract. it will continue to push their revenues up. those translates directly into the port of san francisco. additional funding coming to the port on that. that part of working with the port has paid off. we are able to bring in additional ships. i am very impressed working with the port in the way their forward-thinking and moving forward but the project. i look forward to putting them into place and keeping the moving forward. thank you very much. >> madam chair, commissioners, i want to commend the staff for a job well done. i come from the puc, where the environment is first and foremost on the plate. being on here and having the system in places saving all of us a great deal of time and energy and atmosphere. it is a big concern with greenhouse gases. i want to commend staf

the union forces that first suffered from the effects of overconfidence and disunity in their high commanders, but their ultimate mission was too desperate to allow prolonged discouragement. on each man in blue, a profound responsibility rested. whether the nation endured would depend heavily on his faith in the union's cause and his ability to prove that faith in the most demanding of all testing grounds. so it was that the nation, searching in its agony for the promise of its future, found itself looking into the faces of its sons. the longings, fears and loneliness of a boy coming suddenly into manhood. this was so like the developing state of the nation itself. soldier and nation together found that their fears and doubts were not so strong as their faith in the cause of a unified country. the soldier in blue kept that faith and fought for it with steadfastness and courage, and a grateful people in the midst of war forged a medal to honor their courage. in the swirling fury of this war of american against american, the medal of war was born. the end, we know, because we live in the unity that this tragic war preserved. and in national shrines like gettysburg, we honored the men o

the union sailors who kept the watch and fed the engines and manned the guns on these blockading vessels, from virginia to texas, found life at sea mostly an endless tedium of routine. they spent interminable days focused intently on the horizon off to one direction, or into the harbors in the other direction, to catch just a trace of black smoke that would indicate a vessel firing up the boilers, preparing to get under way. alas, day by day, week by week passed with no sign of a blockade runner offshore or vessel in port trying to come out. soon enough, time began to hang very heavy on the watchers. night, though, was the most dangerous time. for that was when the blockade runners were more likely to attempt to slip in or out of port. in the middle of a moonless night or perhaps, during a rain squall, maybe both. a slightly darker shadow would become visible off in the complete darkness. remember, everybody is running blacked out now. they can't be seen at night. wary of firing into a friend because it might actually be another one of the blockade ships. an officer on the deck might lig

that translates to a union jobs and a lot of union guys last year, over 2010, 2011, we ran almost 30% more man hours. what the short power will do for us is allow us to power up ships we cannot power up right now. we will see the alan shepard coming in in april. we will have the power set up for that. that is a huge contract. it will continue to push their revenues up. those translates directly into the port of san francisco. additional funding coming to the port on that.