Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Service not so familiar to readers of spy fiction, we have been with carla, the russians by world is your to us so one of the pleasures for me if it takes us into the world of state security, very secretive Chinese Intelligence Agency that is the principal antagonist in this book. Host how much of it is true . I always say in the prefaces to my books they exist in an imagined world, if you take any book i write and think it is a recipe for how to bake a cake you are going to end
And now at 5 30. The never ending construction project. Crews have been working on the bridge since 2008. The project was supposed to be finished in 2012 and theres no end insight. Were talking about the water street bridge connecting danvers and salem. And People Living and working nearby have had enough. Lets be honest. Who doesnt like to whine about construction. It should have been done have plenty of reason to complain. Its a mess, its been too long, and somethings got to be done about it. Reporter the water state bridge is a state project that began in 2008. The same year that Richard Ventura opened up the dunkin donuts. I think the whole town is frustrated. Customers pass him by, inconvenient. Its kind of outrage actually. We dont know when its going to be done. Reporter the delay has not just taken a bite out of the bottom line. The drilling has caused the walls to crack. Reporter the building would actually shake. Kind of, yes, a little bit. Its like a earthquake. Reporter the
That in the past. We are trying to be really consistent with the citys policy to limit the expansion of advertising on the cityowned property and so that is a part of what was taken into consideration when we moved forward with the mag only. I understand that the budget analyst has concerns with that, which you will hear about today. And i am sure, director martin will be happy to come back and answer more specific questions around his thinking in this. Thank you very much. Colleagues, do you have any questions of the airport at this time . Okay. Supervisor avalos . Just i know that we are going to have this come back and maybe when it does, you or john can touch about how or whether they are inside of the rfp there was a question to support local businesses. Because that has been coming up in conversation that i have with people that one of the contractors is better at than and i am not sure if that was part of the scoring that went on and if you could touch on that when you return. D
They all have all sorts of percentage. Thank you. Next speaker please. Before you start, let me call a few other speaker cards. Richard vancura. Lance burton oscar grand and survante and denisc titan and king, and dr. Seler titwell. Good morning, members of the committee, my name is darrel davis and i am the president and ceo of davis and associates communications. And i am also contractor on the jc proposal. I was really surprised to hear from the airport speaker that lbs were not considered a consideration in the proposal. This is very surprising to me and i would like to know why that is. That that was not a consideration of evaluation of the proproesal. Jc inaudible went above and beyond and they included our firm in the proposal to provide advertising. That is an Authentic Partnership that we have with jc dco that we rarely experience with Large Companies and we are glad to be on this proposal and i hope that you take that into consideration. Because it gives us an opportunity tha
For opportunities to expand and we have not had good luck with that in the past. We are trying to be really consistent with the citys policy to limit the expansion of advertising on the cityowned property and so that is a part of what was taken into consideration when we moved forward with the mag only. I understand that the budget analyst has concerns with that, which you will hear about today. And i am sure, director martin will be happy to come back and answer more specific questions around his thinking in this. Thank you very much. Colleagues, do you have any questions of the airport at this time . Okay. Supervisor avalos . Just i know that we are going to have this come back and maybe when it does, you or john can touch about how or whether they are inside of the rfp there was a question to support local businesses. Because that has been coming up in conversation that i have with people that one of the contractors is better at than and i am not sure if that was part of the scoring