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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 Kennedy at harvard university, an event he attended before his death in 2009. The dedications are many for...

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 stray bridge you got the pylon in the middle you have got the various cables that go into the main py...

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 of record went through this and we were able to accept that one so that was the 500 thousand and th...

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 is starting on the left where the west approach finished there was a spur that was left so you take t...