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Syria and us military leadership in conflict zones. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome to our newly renovated headquarters. I am gerald feierstein, Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. Welcome to todays important and timely panel, examining centcoms approach to the middle east. This gives us an opportunity to reflect on the approach and explore prospects for an effective us military role in the region especially given current news from northeast syria. We h...

Current news from northeast syria. We have great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Ken pollack, dana stroul and were also pleased to welcome back in the eye senior fellow and director of the defense and Security Program bilal saab after a oneyear fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships can washington get S...

Mr. Chairman, mr. Chairman , you have a quorum. Shall i call your next item . Yes, please. Item three is clean occasions i am not aware of any. Seeing none, item four his board of directors, new and or old business. None. Seen none, item five, executive directors report. Good morning, directors. I would like to first update you on the efforts to reopen the Transit Center as soon as possible. In order to do that, we should repair fremont and first street. I am happy to report work is now complete...

It is inefficient and ineffective for military and general sublive i would like to bring us home to my state. Obviously we have the port that dates back to world war ii in terms of some of its buildings and we have temporary military construction dating back to that time and we are in an aggressive up dating of that facility which is such a key facility for our army and i notice that they even have the nerve to put military construction and to these at aces in the United States in the overseas C...

I want to thank you gentlemen for being here and your service to our country, and the meeting is called to order. I apologize for bag few minutes late. Forget we changed the time until 9 45 until 10 00 so ben could go to a meeting at 10 30. Can you for accommodating both meetings. Obviously afghanistan continues to be something that is important to our u. S. National interests. We brokered a government, if you will, the United States did in 2014, that create both a president and ceo office that ...

[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicaprg] welelcome to dense news. Ivago muradn. Overwhelmingly confirmed byhe senate, ash carter will succeed chuck hagel as the nations new defense secretary. The change comes as Congress Considers thehe obama administrations 2016 budget request. It seeks 51 billion touppo operations in afghanistan andd elsewhwhere. The request is bilon more than current bget caps allowe...

He said, if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people, their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties, somebody who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grips us. If that is what they mean by a liberal, i am proud to be a liberal. [applause] announcer those words from late senator Edward Kenned...

We asked the bidders not part of your bid but for this particular scope would you also have a deduct and this has been one of the other components of that. And in this particular case the bid that we received from shim mick was a credit and with that value we felt it was very appropriate to take that value engineering at that point with that deduct ive alternative so before i leave the slide ill bring you back to the upper left. That ve proposal scope was to give you an if you are on the cable s...

That deduct ive alternative so before i leave the slide ill bring you back to the upper left. That ve proposal scope was to give you an if you are on the cable stray bridge you got the pylon in the middle you have got the various cables that go into the main pylon. For design it basically attaches the cables on either side attach right into the pylon itself what shimmick proposed was to put a saddle system that would go through we went through the seismic safety analysis of that and the engineer...

Ramps package and increasing the Construction Services by good morning directors here to talk about trade Group Package 18. 1 bus ramps the basic scope of the bus ramps essentially replaces what used to be the old bus ramp that went into the old transbay terminal goes off where the west approach starting from the left to the right and enters into the Transit Center a big difference from the previous loop it was pretty much a unit directal way in and out of the old terminal the major difference i...