and thanks to the support by the private sector's local construction firms, we were able to reopen 15 routes among 16 routes within four days after the earthquake and tsunami. and i want to say that those private sector workers were very brave to implement these activities. they started their activities on the very day of the earthquake and tsunami, even though the tsunami alert was still in effect. so as this slide shows, we were able to reopen ten ports within ten days and also after about a month, we were able to reopen the airport. and i'd like to mention some points that were effective for clearing the roads. i'd like to go back to the last earthquake before this earthquake, which was in 1995. so we had some reenforcement activities that had been done prior to this disaster to some structures. and for those bridges that had been done with reenforcement activities, those survived the tsunami accident. and the second point is that our ministry intensely used our resources to open 16 routes. and i'd like to repeat again that the support that's given from the local construction compa

the investment risks for the farm. local people are now hopeful the expansion will go ahead. >> translator: the farm is contributing to the economic development of the area. i hope that by helping each other, the village will become prosperous. >> reporter: this combination of public and private investment is helping improve the lives of people living in the small village in laos. it could also serve as a model for other developing countries. akiko ichihara, nhk world. >>> people across southeast asia are preparing for the monsoon season. last year the rain caused widespread hardship across the region. so, many people are hoping and praying that this year will be luckier. in thailand, survivors of last year's deadly floods participated in an annual rocket festival on sunday. villagers fired rockets into the sky in honor of the local guard of rain. the ceremony calls on the god to fertilize the fields and bless farmers with abundant crops. the rocket that stays airborne for longest wins a prize worth some $5,000 u.s. dollars.

i do support the local hire advisory committee. we need to make sure that we have the pipeline as full as it can be for local residents and making sure as well that women can also get higher levels of employment in the construction trades. that's one thing the reports emn trades. that is one thing the report looked at. we need to look good veterans as well, veterans who are in need. the challenge is still ahead. i look forward to rolling up my sleeves and a working with the administration to make that happen. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. as you heard, supervisor of loews and merely talk about the city build students -- supervisor avalos and mayor lee talking about the city build students. we're proud to work on our construction project. i now next want to bring up to the stage jason chan, a current city billed student. this class is going to graduate in june. -- a current city build student. at this class will graduate in june. [applause] good morning. thank you, mayor lee, office of workforce and economic developme

i do support the local hire advisory committee. we need to make sure that we have the pipeline as full as it can be for local residents and making sure as well that women can also get higher levels of employment in the construction trades. that's one thing the reports emn trades. that is one thing the report looked at. we need to look good veterans as well, veterans who are in need. the challenge is still ahead. i look forward to rolling up my sleeves and a working with the administration to make that happen. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. as you heard, supervisor of loews and merely talk about the city build students -- supervisor avalos and mayor lee talking about the city build students. we're proud to work on our construction project. i now next want to bring up to the stage jason chan, a current city billed student. this class is going to graduate in june. -- a current city build student. at this class will graduate in june. [applause] good morning. thank you, mayor lee, office of workforce and economic developme

i do appreciate the concerns supervisor kim has around local hiring. i think the room is packed with people here who are local residents who i think expect to benefit from the film program. if we need to tighten up, and i sure if we do it in this legislation or separately, but it makes sense we invest locally in our protection element and staffing and services we have in san francisco. but i will be supporting this ordinance and i want to see a move forward and be successful. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor farrell: a few comments -- i take your point about the local nature of this. one thing to note is when we talk about the number of residents employed in the local wages paid, those all local wages put in the statistics. i worked very hard with susanna and we spent a lot of time with spread sheets to make sure we carved out what are the real benefits locally. if we're going to spend money on any programs, that we spend our money as efficiently as possible and get the biggest bang for our buck locally. a few other points -- although it's not a re

it was created by japan's group together with the local. the plan is to expand to set up the new exchange. he has lived in myanmar for 14 years. he stayed behind even when many left the country due to u.s. and european sanctions. he has created a wide network with key figures. he wears ethnic clothing to work to fit in with the local society. while working on the project, he runs into strong competition from south korea. in the end, the deep trust he had earned over the years made all the difference. >> translator: japanese people take time and nurture relationships. it's not all about money. i think that our culture struck a cord with the people in myanmar. >> reporter: a major japanese bank is also making myanmar ahead of its competitors from other companies. has joined hands with myanmar's leading bank. aiming to test the partners' network to japanese funds when the local market opens its door. in myanmar most payments are made with cash since automatic machines are not so common there yet. >> translator: this is myanmar's leading bank. i

they grew first and they are pulling the local sector of the economy forward. when that upswing went down in 2008 and we had the start of the recession we are currently in, those industries went down first and local industries or more successful. when we went into recession, the local industries suffered the most. in 2010, the creative industries and disaster industries were showing growth while local industries were showing a decline. these industries are seen together in one the city economy but the ones driving the change are competing in markets outside of san francisco and bringing the income in or not selling it in as they're doing badly. i want to talk now about how these different sectors of the economy have been doing competitively. these charts offs are a device to simply see how different industries are performing competitively. each type represents a bubble and each sizes the number of jobs. the board to the right they are is how fast they have been growing in the past business cycle. toch where they are on the vertical access is san francisco's con

was created by japan's security group together with the local bank. the plan is to expand this to set up the new exchange. he has lived in myanmar for 14 years. he stayed behind even when many left the country due to u.s. and european sanctions. he has built a wide network of personal connections with government and other key figures -. . -- to fit in with the local society. he ran into some competition from south korea. but in the end, the deep trust he had won over the years from local officials made all the difference. >> translator: japanese people take time and nurture relationships. and it's not all about money. i think that our culture struck a chord with the people in myanmar. >> reporter: a major japanese bank is also making inroad in myanmar ahead of its competitors from other countries. sumimito banking corporation has joined hands with myanmar's leading commercial bank. sumimito is aiming to top the partner's network to offer loan and other financial services to japanese firms when the local market opens its doors to foreign banks. at this

investment risk for the farm. local people are now hopeful the expansion will go ahead. >> translator: the farm is contributing to the economic development of the area. i hope that by helping each other the village will become prosperous. >> this combination of public and private investment is helping improve the lives of people living in a small village in laos. it could also serve as the model for other developing countries. akihiko ishihara, nhk world, saravan. >>> all right, let's go straight to rachel ferguson now who is standing by with the world weather forecast. >> good morning, catherine. >> i noticed you had your rubber boots on this morning. >> i did. i saw you with your umbrella as well. japan, it is a wet day for much of the country. unfortunately, we'll see almost as much as 120 millimeters in some places. central japan is going to get the worst of it. we have this frontal and low coming across toward the country enveloping most of it in this pretty unstable weather. strong gusts, some thunderstorms embedd

and they also have the 38 local. people have a choice of using the rapid bus and also the local for people who want to go in between the bus stops. i do not know. we need to figure out what is the solution for just using the van ness corridor because people have to walk up the block to get to van ness and then go back down. it is one of those things that we need to look into more. and you know, talk about it more. thank you. >> thank you.

the fire service is inherently a local operation. the chairman referenced the landmark america's burning in 1973. you described it as being very lean and that is correct. some of my testimony is predicated on ems and credentialing. i don't offer that with a criticism with the limbed resources that are dmining, usfa is having a hard time doing its job. the authorization level is great. it needs to be at least at the current level, but it certainly needs to be appropriated. this is a lean agency. there's not a lot of fat there. it's supporting over 300,000 professional firefighters and probably twice and half as many volunteers across the country in every community. we just really encourage congress to recognize that this is an efficient use of federal funds. it's protecting communities and that in our view is government's biggest responsibility. to be able to deliver those things. is that correct? >> yes. i would like to expand our capacity and really since i have been at the fire administration, we have excellent people working there.

much of the basic training is done locally, so those are handled outside. what we do try to do it on a larger basis is a lot of that online. with respect to the rural areas and wildland, we have courses in development right now for the weigel and inter to develop the structures close to the wild land, and we have some widely and courses that are being offered to the national wildland coordinating group, so we are i guess the over all the answer is that we are reaching out trying to make the course is more available to the volunteers and working with the volunteer association also that held that to happen. >> think you for that and i think it's very important and i yield back my time, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and i now recognize mr. bonamici. >> i want to join the other members of the committee in thank you all for the work that you do to try to keep our communities safe. the minister michel, in your testimony you talked about the indirect cost of fire and estimate that according to your testimony here the indirect cost which includes

the local politics. and you might say split the difference which is some of those nationalists and local sentiment. as you know, they interpreted key cases in ways that continue to maintain. so what was the effect of the war on national unity, the growth of federal government, the war of 1812, the civil war. a fight to name one factor that was visible growth of the state, there is plenty of that. in the case of the war of 1812i would say two things. before the war, leading a toward jefferson felt that americans would rally around his plea that they remain neutral, that they not trade. americans perceived self-interest. jefferson needed to impose an embargo. let's think about this. this would be like rick santorum imposing the deep -- draconian income-tax of all americans. jefferson was supposed to be adapted deregulation. what to get government out of the riding. jefferson had to impose this pretty draconian step for you republicans to a supposedly did not like a lot of government interference. after the

the definition of a local resident under this plan. it was mentioned that the language around what makes a local resident comes in the ordinance from voter registration. i want to make sure the commission is aware, it is not enough to live in san francisco for weeks to become a local. you have to make the city your domicile. a driver's license, a long with a second form of proof of intent, such as a utility bill or a lease. it has worked really well. local hire increased 70% in the first year. with respect to the project itself, we share a lot of the concerns that have been raised about the project. but i cannot overstate the importance of this project for our unemployed tradespeople, who are sitting idle. we aren't a period it where we are in protracted unemployment and construction. the cpmc is a private project, it complemented by creating a lot of jobs for a lot of workers. it is at the point when the concerns were real. the potential for a larger st. luke's, increased charity care, an important part of this discussion. some of the

that is a significant amount of money that can offset expenses and be put into the local economy. we believe we are addressing key issues in our city. i am very proud to be your. we chose to launch in san francisco. we felt this was the place to join the sharing revolution. we have about 10,000 cars signed up across the country. we are available in four markets. we're lucky to have the backing from the community. a little bit about how it works, you can sign up on your smartphone right now. as a car owner, you would go to the website and list the car you want to share. you have complete control over who you want to share it with. he will get requests. you can decide if it is convenient to share at that time. you can choose just to share with friends or neighbors. we provide the insurance during the rental. it is completely covered. there is nothing to worry about. we were pro-active in drafting the public policy to be innovative by launching a campaign to address this at the state level in 2010. we got a law passed in california that is continuing to go to new states. we are excite

officials that came before the committee, if you're a local mayor in a rural community, you want to be able to figure out how to use the rural development title. and so we have worked very hard to make it simpler both for farmers, but also for local community leaders to be able to access the services that are available. any amendments in rural development? >> madam chair. >> senator casey. >> madam chair, i have one amendment that i would like to offer. if i can make a few comments first? we know that agriculture provides a critical source of income and employment to many rural americans and remains the backbone of rural economies across, i know across the commonwealth of pennsylvania as well as the country. like other small businesses, farming is central to rural economic development, and local farms are in fact job creators in our communities. my amendment will support -- >> excuse me, senator casey, we're not clear on which amendment. if you could just reiterate the number? >> number one. this amendment will support local farm businesses which are vital to getting he

the ada issues. there are four items. no. 1 is local building departments are not responsible for enforcing the access requirements of the americans with disabilities act. however, they are required to enforce state and local building codes which have incorporated the federal requirements. would our state is doing is trying to make their requirements match the federal requirements. they have not set a date to do that by and they have not quite achieved that yet. no. 2 was local departments are not authorized to a letter to enforce the federal access requirement, however, they are required to enforce state and local building codes which have incorporate the federal requirements. so if there is a part of our state code that agrees with federal requirements, we are required to enforce that. as i've mentioned in past meetings, our local building department -- the san francisco building department is not proactive in going out and finding ada complaint. we are reactive. people can call in and file complaints with us. we do have an ada compla

time on the roads, how does that affect the local economy? >> well, what we are seeing out there is you know, 70 of the top 100 cities in the country had decreases in track congestion over last year. traffic is down about 30% nationwide. so baltimore is not dropped nearly as much as the rest of the country and what that does tell sus that while we are seeing some economic struggles out there on main street, things in baltimore are not as bad in other place around the country as far as that is concerned. >> back he is the coauthor of the traffic scorecard thanks for the time. >>> time tore the local traffic with -- time for the local traffic check. >> reporter: 20 hours -- over 20 hours wasted in the car. 95 in white marsh is clear and southbound no delays to talk about from the beltway to downtown baltimore. that stretch will take you 14 minutes altogether. and heading out on 695, here's what it looks like in towson. top side in great shape this morning. and inner loop moving very, very well down towards 95 and that outer loop will be delay fr

local iraqis doing the bulk of the fighting. >> host: the local iraqis doing the bulk of the fightingwas, again, zahiri's behavior. >> guest: exactly. >> host: he had not only been sponsoring attacks against civilians, but can you walk us through some of the things he was putting the local communities through? i remember hearing at the time on everything from he's trying to force us to marry off our daughters to him. he won't let us smoke cigarettes and on and on. >> guest: well, there was one awful case, one that's in one of the chapters of the book, where al-qaeda in iraq kills some local civilians, and as the tribal leader in that area tries to get the bodies back, al-qaeda in iraq holds on to them for well over the time period allotted for in general, at least in that area, muslim practice, and they are rotting in the street, and then at some point after a period of time, the family's called to retrieve the bodies, and they have been laced with improvise explosive devices, so as the family members are gathering the rotting corpses in the street, they explode and kill more members

has been ruled out of the tournament with a stomach problem the local t.v. moscow foldback missing training the last couple of days after coming down the stomach complaint the bug later deemed to be more serious than initially thought with the twenty five year old starting to lose weight combined with showing no improvement in his condition the decision was then made to leave him at home to further blow for of the canvas central defender facility brzezinski who also missed the tournaments with a feisty and head coach meanwhile also stating he will be in his final twenty three months after friday's friendly with the euro why are. so troubles ahead for dick advocaat and co the dutch specialist prepares to leave russia into battle against one of the world's stronger national sides this week why the team in moscow local fans grasping at the chance to meet at liverpool forward louis swore as in person the luck motif stadium in the capital fellow superstars do you go for lomond edison

and they also have the 38 local. people have a choice of using the rapid bus and also the local for people who want to go in between the bus stops.

there is one subcommittee when i go there, none of the members of the local homeless coordinating board -- they are not there. so, they are not there. the other problem i am having is everybody is meeting and out of town waiver. like these people want to come to san francisco, but they do not want to live in san francisco. something is really, really wrong. [bell rings] i just -- i just get frustrated. you need to do better. you need to do better. this is not good. supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello, supervisors. my name is meghan alliance. i am the policy analyst for the homeless coordinating board. i want to apologize. this is a bit confusing. it may appear to the public that there are four positions available. there are not four open positions. there are only two positions being considered today. dr. ma has had an excellent attendance record and has been very active. i am happy to answer specific questions. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. we have two applicants for one seat and reappointment for th

i am also a member of the stationary engineers local 39. i wish i could stand here before you and tell you that i support the rebuilding of cpmc. sadly, i cannot. the cpmc eir is flawed to downplay the adverse affects of building a hospital at the cathedral hill location. all one has to do is drive around the area to realize that the location is a very poor choice on which to build. the traffic and congestion will more than quadruple within the hospital. the major disaster, access to the hospital, will be very difficult. while cpmc focuses on efforts to rebuild, the existing facilities are being neglected and are deteriorating to the extent that patient and employee safety is in jeopardy. trade unions that have spoken in favor of the current plan to rebuild are being duped into believing that cpmc has their best interest at heart. i stand before you today having stood in the street for the past five weeks fighting for a contract, which cpmc has failed to negotiate with us. as an employer, cpmc has become a tyrant in their treatment of their

the local power information about the rollout is maturing. well, indicating a lot of very good things. it looks like there will be a lot of creative ways that we can use to build out to, for example, reduce the opt-out rate, which was raised at the beginning by very specifically targeting consumers who are willing to buy into the program at the beginning, to become part owners of that, things like that, renewable energy shares. if local power is able to come up with what it believes that it can, that also will give those customers a comparable rate to pg&e's correct rate, so it actually would not be higher, and that changes the whole dynamic with the polling. if we get that to happen, we don't have to pick and choose which customers and what region we start out with, we just find anybody who likes the idea at the same price. let's keep in mind that is a possibility that will become more -- i think we will find out in the next couple months how doable that is. and that gets me to reiterate what a couple of you have said, which is that it is go

for the local communities have established security because of the permanent presence by central government forces yet that was our answer for several years to push our police permanently. we didn't have enough, many locals didn't want them to to push those things together and created a problem. >> host: there's something you eluted to several times that you're quote is a war that decides to kill the most civilians loses. we saw that working against zarqawi in iraq there was a backlash. in afghanistan frequently civilian deaths and a version caused by the nato forces makes far bigger headlines than the taliban death caused by tel dan say improvised explosive devices it's a school bus instead of the u.s. army patrol that meant to get. is that part of your argument because we have these larger numbers of conventional forces with varying range of competence that because more civilian casualties or is it less that we in power a force of afghans that couldn't keep the peace? >> guest: it's less of the civilian casualty front because frankly i spent a lot of time in rural areas and recognized pre

whereas the local states want alliances with the great powers to help them in the local little games. now, this asymmetry that exists between a great power and a local powers has become so much more pronounced and strengthened since the collapse of the soviet union, and i am sorry to say that i don't think that -- even academic community, but definitely policy community, least of what i'm sure they know it maybe in the private deliberate rath deliberations, we don't understand quite well our interests and pakistan's interests and afghanistan are not the same. i wrote an article in 1989 saying that. the title if you look at lexus nexus in afghan act ii, america beware, interest is not pakistan. the same thing, our interests in afghanistan are not the same with saudi arabia. our interests in the peshen gulf not the same with saudi arabia, or even iraq. yet we pursued both in afghanistan, after our victory, and in iraq, a strategy that ultimately afghanistan we favored the pashtun, pashtun equals taliban, to a great extent. again, in iraq, i'm sorry to say, certainly after 2005, 2006 we

but the reaction from local tribal places was anger. demonstrable anger where you see by the fall of 2006, large-scale revolt against this kind of brutality. brutality that goes well beyond basic dignity and humanity, and that really causes the population to ship. >> and you are saying that is what drove the local tribes to work with the americans? that was the awakening? because we were the only other tough guy on the block available to help them beat al qaeda out. of course, there was the rise of shiite violence at the time. they are pinned between two enemies. >> at that point, al qaeda was killing anybody who is not supporting its broader effort to take more control, especially the sunni groups. they were killing large numbers of sunnis as well. we look at the classified documents, it is interesting that by 2006 or 2007, the awakening starts to make inroads against al qaeda and iraq. there are a number of captured documents were you can see al qaeda in iraq beginning to see the understanding. they have lost support. they are fracture

there is understanding which allows the fa to act as a support agency. local fire departments work well for wild land fires. however, based on its relationship with the nation's fire and emergency services, we think the mou should continue with the sfa playing a stronger role in struckal events. in addition, we support the establishment of teams of firefighters that can quick ly deploy in the event of a major all hazards disaster. as we witnessed in arizona last year, local fire departments are the first on scene and last to leave the incident. these teams can provide a major benefit by helping the management recovery activities and working with state, tribal and local agencies. the authorization expires on september 30th. joe lieberman and susan collins have introduced mark up 2218. this would introduce funding. on behalf o the the leadership, i ask the committee consider companion leadership. i would like to thank you for the continued support over the years. we have made manl progress, however, we have much more -- thank you for holding this hearing and i l

crew and the local actors, local background, so they were supportive of our san francisco work force. since its inception in 2006, the scene in the san francisco rebate program has been used by one television series in six feature-length films. one and title animation project by disney, which is currently in san francisco for three years. it has applied and been approved to receive a rebate. the disney production has not submitted any fees yet to be rebated at this time. as you can see, four of those related productions participating in the program since january 2011. this increase in rebate production is in part due to the increased visibility of the scene in the san francisco rebate program, which our office has been promoting strongly through attendance at trade shows, one-on-one meetings with producers and studios, and placing targeted ads in trade papers, making the rebate much more visible. we're also currently seeing a lot of press mentioning our rebate programs with the impending release of the hbo movie. so the word is out and the interest is

the postal service was laundered through local officials. and the person end sitting in the store who collected the mail was often a relative of a person in a key political party. it was very a much as joint operation. even though the funding came from the local government we use a lot of contractors. those to carry that male. that provided a lot of jobs and incentive for people to write the postal service. we know the story of the pony express private sector ingenuity, the pony express is a set up job to get contracts carrying the mail. the reason they rode the horses out west was to get the long term regular contract. it is that kind of ongoing relationship between the localities and the private sector, churches, a charitable groups, in conjunction with those groups that is our americans like to govern. >> host: you write professor for most americans living in the mid-19th century but it was civil society that forged the nation and america is history that capped government at today to create a national unity. >> bright. all those factors ho