The funding report, our Community Outreach efforts as , as well as our plans for 2014. 2014 marks the fourth year of Successful Operation of the temporary terminal and continues to operated and maintain the terminal with the level of [strefrs ] or service that exceed ours customers expectations. In 2014 we upgraded some of the cameras that have reached the service life with highdefinition cameras and also endered into a Lease Agreement with amtrak to bring Amtrak Service to the temporary terminal this spring and we extended the Facilities Management contract with abm to spring of 2018 in order to provide sufficient time for a smooth transition from the temporary terminal to the Transit Center when its opened in late 2017. For the Design Effort in 2014 we completed the Construction Cost update for phase 1. This update was a joint firefighter between the design team and c g reflecting current market companins in San Francisco and took into account changes in costs and cost pressures for
Author sean mcfate is next on booktv. The associate professor of the National Defense university and former military mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today. He says we are headed towards a future that will resemble the middle ages hiring mercenaries to fight in wars is the norm. [applause] thank you. Thank you to Atlantic Council for hosting us and thank you for making at out on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private military force International Relations today. I wrote this not simply as an International Relations scholar but also as a practitioner that i work for a Company Called dyncorp national for several years in africa and while i was working there i saw many press reports, many think tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing kneejerk reaction to simply did not get what i thought the industry was right. The genesis of writing this book was not in any way a whistleblower book. It was really to paxton s
And because the minimum standard can vary dramatically so too will costs vary dramatically. So youre having the epa consider costs before the epa can know what the costs are. Your honor if i can respond to that before the other question at the other end of the bench, epa does know what the costs are through the rulemaking process in which it undertakes notice and comment with respect to both the m1a determination and the Emission Standard. Section 7607 d1c of the Clean Air Act lists subsection n as one of the provisions that requires notice and comment rulemaking und your the special Clean Air Act procedures. And this is why the agency explained that theres no final m1a until the end of the process, until notice and comment, and weve taken and determined what the costs are. And this is then confirming what Justice Breyer said. The point that you had an opportunity and apparently took advantage of it to tell the epa that it should subcategorize this source. And it decided to subcategori
Its with jobs. The issue is balancing the adjustment costs of moving people in markets to the longer run growth benefits of having more efficient markets. And that doesnt mean always that more is always better. But it means that preventing competition is always worse. So you have to figure out how to get around this. And thats the struggle where all of us in good faith are trying to figure out where the right point is on this issue. The final thing, before we turn to lunch and then to mark bertolinis speech, is that we are in a world and i dont want to come down on the public because i dont know enough. But were in a world where the reality is yuanou on union nigh zags is at an alltime low. And so in that context for those of us who care deeply about the distribution of wages, one thing you can talk about is giving more power back to union. Another thing you can talk about is well that doesnt seem to be happening at the moment. Do we have another avenue. And there again is where the pr
Their considered to be routine by the commission and acted upon as a group. Is there anyone who would like to separate an item . 8e. And 8 h. With respect to 8abcfg. Its been moved. Any discussion. I guess i will call for items 8abcfg. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I will call for a vote, all in favor say, aye. Aye. 8 e. Madam secretary. Approve plans and specification in work contract. Mr. President , my question on that goes to why we only had one bidder. I understand we did it twice. There was only one bidder the first time and only one and the same bidder the second time. I couldnt see in reading through this anything that made this work unusual. It seems like the bread and butter stuff we do, why on earth only one . The first time we put it out to bid there were four bidders and only one of them actually had a qualified subcontractor do a lining the sewer. The other three did not. We had to rebid it and rebid it out and only the one with the pipeline did the bid. There wa