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Parody largely a Nuclear Capability and i think that in the current context with american superiority and everything but Nuclear Weapons, i think that its not likely to, you know, symmetrical reductions in nuclear arms will not achieve symmetry and security on the two side. And so that a dangerous path to try and go down if you believe that both sides feel insecure as the recipe for a stable relat n relationship. I do think that unilateral reductions could be sold on the grounds that, you know, ...

Any Missile Defense. Missile defense is likely a filter for other countries with lower level capability. Your homemade hamas rockets being defeated by iron dome. It is not for the type of weapons that the United States and russia are likely to have. So in that sense, its not destabilizing. Youre absolutely right that if it could prevent what we call limited offensive capability, or effective offensive effective capability, then it is very destabilizing. Russia and the United States would no long...

The board and the public also tha, is focused more on neighborhoods and sort of the results of that is the creation of the neighborhood transportation and the input. And that is, and we noted that the program is funded, primarily with prop k funds and there are two parts of it and there is a Capitol Program that is meant to provide the match to leverage two projects that be delivered in the next five years and the focus of todays items are planning funds and up to 100,000 available for the next ...

Largest component of travel, but, the visitor and worker, Community Also do travel, and are important to capturing our policy. And this slide here, on, and 16 shows that the peak period by the mode and you can see that the transit is moving in the right direction as we move along the scenarios. And car pooling as well and picking up more users as we go across the scenarios. And 50 percent of the market showing here. And there are two drivers of Financial Performance that we are remaining very fo...

That would, allow for a veriable toll for the toll to go up and down, as congestion vary and to reduce the toll for the bay bridge toll payers who are already paying a 5 fee from the east bay. This is how it will look like, in terms of toll structure one and where the toll will go up and down with the peak period of travel at five dollars, and the toll and scenario two will allow for the tolling throughout the midday, where we are seeing and expecting in the future, especially more midday conges...

Cheng, i am pleased to offer a update for Treasure Island in coordination for the request of 150,000 of prop k funds to support the conceptual design and the next stage system manager and engineering for the over all toll program and you should have the slides and hand outs in front of you and if could get them, great, thank you. That might not be quite the right. That is. Sorry this is the slide that presents the appropriation for 150,000. And if i dont, if you dont mind pulling up the Treasure...

Concern, and so i would be concerned because as you probably are aware, there are a number of low income residents, who are on Treasure Island, and yes, many of them use the Public Transportation system, but, there are some who sometimes use the vehicles, and so, i would be really concerned about some level of congestion pricing on Treasure Island and i am not sure if i would be supportive of that effort. Understood, and we are certainly in touch with the island residents, and one of the things ...

But are going to propose it. Well, the city identified this as the policy framework for the island development, and to support the over all Development Goals of the island and, that is something that the city by city policy and it is in the Development Agreement that we should do some form of demand management to compliment and to help to pay for the transit that we need. And i guess that the concern is someone who used to live there, who used to work there, and it is very difficult to get a tra...

Packet and the first one was taken from the original plan and it involved the total peak hour toll and the five dollar range for the weekdays oebl and we found that this one does not pencil in terms of the Financial Performance and we identified two other options and that will be to price the periods for all congestived periods and all days of the week and keeping the toll around 5, and on and off the bridge and then, finally a third option was identified that would, allow for a veriable toll fo...

Egypt has launched two rounds of air strike to areas Islamic State of iraq and the levant. In response to the killing of 21 egyptian Coptic Christians by the group. The strikes were coordinated with the Libyan Affairs ws loyal to the u. N. Government force in tobruk. Condemned the strikes as calling them against the egyptian sovereignty. Prompting growing support in italy for military intervention. New measures against i. S. I. L. Caroline malone reports. Reporter egypt has hit the libyan city o...