Todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today. I am going to just start up i talk a little bit about what how we kind of framed this panel and how we are hoping what we are hoping to accomplish. We have the roundtable intensely. We are each want to speak about 10 minutes. Just a few roof remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking about the 1970s and what this unique time means to us today. And then we would like to open it up for a lot of conversation both with each other and most importantly with the audience. So we will be sticking to a pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for comp for conversation. One of the things we were thinking about was the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking about the 1970s, both in the contemporary clinical imagination of a time and also in historical scholarship. From watergate to the energy crisis, the urban crisis, a fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is huge with extensive danger and hi
Youre dealing with garvey bonds, governor bentley said to wall street weve got an ongoing Funding Source from the feds so i can turn to the folks of alabama and say with certainty were going to be all right. But we need it too because obviously we make similar decisions. I think all governors do. So the two versus the five actually drives the cost up . Not only is it a certainty issue. You got it. Its a challenge for the states. Driving up the cost of the Construction Projects also. Absolutely, senator. The second piece is in terms of the partnership. My experience has been that weve had to increase our state contribution just to keep up with our federal match. And what i mean by that is unfortunately the gas tax is a dwindling tax. Unso unfortunately. Its for good reasons. People are driving less miles and theyre driving more efficient vehicles. But we all know that in the long run were going to have to figure out another way to drive revenue both nationally and in the states. Were go
Is that agricultural employers dont like it very much. Because it includes theyre required to pay temporary workers more than they would have to pay u. S. Workers because its designed to protect u. S. Workers. And so agricultural employers have found it cumbersome and inconvenient to use. And because we dont really enforce employer sanction laws theyve gone around it and hired a lot of unauthorized workers instead. The h2b visa is for lowskilled nonagriculture workers in temporary jobs. The reason i dont consider it a fix and employers are willing to use that because it offers less protections than h2a to workers. The reason its a limited fix is that its only limited to seasonal jobs. So if you want to hire a worker to work in your restaurant or your factory or, you know your Service Sector job as a janitor, none of those jobs are covered. It has to be a job that is timelimited and its limited to 65,000 visas a year. So it only covers it basically covers people in truly Seasonal Work l
U. S. Feels about this new peace proposal from france and germany, particularly in the context of merkel coming here next week and these discussions about whether to send lethal aid. Im also wondering if you have anything on that magical piece of paper to share with us, feel free to do so. Purely administrative issues. That better not be the case. Let me say a couple of things on this. The United States has been saying for some timing that it will that its a diplomatic negotiation thats required to bring this conflict in ukraine to an end. This is not something thats going to be solved or resolved militarily but rather through diplomatic negotiations. We certainly are encouraging and supportive of ongoing efforts to try to find a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the conflict in ukraine. One concern that we have is previous diplomatic efforts have resulted in agreements that the russians and the separatists that they back in Eastern Ukraine didnt live up to. There were commitments made
Problems up front back onto the developer . Question. Technical weekend and the tools exist today apply agile techniques not only to the Actual Software Development but to the methodology of the Program Management for software development. We can adopt things like continuous integration and. Ontinuous tests and monitoring think about what this means. There you are as a developer. You are pushing the new code in, and that code is tested. We dont only do functional tests. We look at the other four areas. If you dont pass those tests. If your software doesnt make it in, you dont make it in. You dont get credit for it, and it doesnt go up the ultimate enduser. It is a question less about what software and my delivering then the mechanism by which we deliver software. It is about changing the thought process in terms of Program Management for Software Delivery and project development. Adams opinion, four dollars . Four dollars gets you in a mature right now. On the metro right now. We need