so, conclusions. edmonton's method for auditing graffiti vandalism is unbiased and effective as far as we've been able to determine. we use the results to work with the edmonton police service to determine our other services. the graffiti index and intensity index allow for specific locations within the neighborhood. we found we had significant results over the first year, in terms of the decrease 42.7 percent and while we have leveled off this year, we are confident that by analyzing the neighborhood data we will be able to make strong changes to our programs to be able to effectively decrease that number again. five neighborhoods accounted for 46 percent of the graffiti vandalism, compared to 60, 2011, 10 taggers responsible for 40 percent of the graffiti, 88 percent of the graffiti was small or extra small and 90 percent of it is text only. 71 percent was on private property. so that's basically the graffiti audit in a nutshell. but i always like to show this slide because nothing speaks better tha

>> i believe so, is that true? yes, my science advisors, that's why they're here. >> [inaudible]. >> yeah. there are a lot of carcinogens in diesel exhaust, yeah. >> [inaudible]. >> well, you're still seeing an oil that combusts, some of them we know burn more cleanly than others but if it's combusting, you end up with productions of combustion, it may not be better for pollution on the other side, depending on how clean the air burns and that's a theme we end up talking about a fair bit unfortunately is that bio doesn't always mean it's safer, it can, it can definitely mane we're reducing destruction of greenhouse gases but it can still make bad things outs of good ingredients if you know what i mean, another outdoor thing is to reduce your reliance on household pesticides so the active ingredients can be of concern, the pesticide itself, but most pesticide companies done label what are called the inert ingredient, that's the one that's not doing the pest killing per se, they can still really be bad chemicals, end

so you have the two together. you have the political religion aspect, where you really do have a kind of a religious background historically, and then a particular world view, every bit as extensive as religion, taking the place of christianity skim posing its own order, thereby, pushing christianity out of the public square. >> host: to really develop into the conversation, how too you define secular liberalism as a religion, and how do you see it challenging the christian world view in society. >> guest: can i go to the second one first? >> host: yes. >> guest: one obvious way is -- ssue isn.anotr issue wega marriage. there's other issues. ought anyway -- ought anyway should. my background is -- if you stood back from history and looked at the long arc, 2,000 year arc, and that's how i begin the book this way -- you see the roman pagan empire, you'd see pretty much the same kind of a society we live in now, in regard to some obvious issues. the romans had no problem with abortion. no problem with infanticide. no

so what did we find? we found that from 2010 to 2011 we had 15.9 percent reduction in the number of locations where graffiti was found, an additional 14.4 percent this year in the number of locations. so what that's telling us is the graffiti tagging is becoming centralized into some of those locations. it's not the blanket approach. so it could affect and hopefully will inform us in terms of how our enforcement efforts are being done, as well as some of our clean up efforts if they are pushing into certain areas. so basically as far as the location where the graffiti is found, we've seen a 28 percent decrease. from 2010 to 2011 we had a huge drop in our graffiti, the amount of graffiti incidents that we were seeing, 42.7 percent reduction. what we did see this year was the amount of graffiti stagnated in terms of we may have had fewer locations of graffiti but we weren't seeing any less graffiti. so, again, the graffiti is becoming concentrated into those locations. it's important for us to be able to kn

well i don't think the rate cut is going to make a huge difference the rates are already so low and so markets reacting a little bit but. rate cut stem cells are not the primary movers here i think when the when and if the e.c.b. decides to. buy more bonds when when it does that there will be a big move about the rate cut in itself if it happens i don't think has a huge impact well it sounds like they're setting themselves up for more what's called quantitative easing just like the bank of england willing there's a more quantitative easing the federal reserve bank is already eighty five billion or so a month and in buying of its own bonds so the entire globe now what the e.c.b. was lagging sounds like the e.c.b. will join the arms race toward who can solve destruct the fastest by lowering rates and buying lots of of their own paper now professor peter bofinger an economist advisor to merkel said this week that over the next ten years the rich should give us a portion of their assets like vacation homes in spain so quantitative easing is not enough wealth they want to take the people's

so about 6%. on top of that when these companies defaulted, solyndra, you know, they do have assets. and the government takes all the assets and then they can sell them off. they have buildings, they have machines, they have land. so basically the government was on the hook for $300 million. so let's say is the $300 million program that led to $16 billion in new investments in the green economy. this is a successful program. when i was doing, thinking i was doing with the energy department was they showed me this long list of a specific project under the stimulus and they said if we spend this amount of money, how many jobs are going to get out of spending this about money? and not surprisingly, the best way to spend the money was through these loan guarantees because most of the time the loans don't default. basically the government spent $300 million got $16 billion worth of new jobs. this is a really good program. that's exactly why you want a loan guarantee because there some risk. but even wi

so what do we do about it? many scholars say congress needs to assert itself and use its checking and balancing of power. if the congress serve this role we wouldn't have things like watergate in abu ghraib and other presidential authority. the problem is congress has proven incapable for various reason collective action but congress has proven incapable of fulfilling these check and balancing rules and the transfer much of their authority to the white house. all of the scholars are not worried about this. congress they say look, congress can't act decisively or did -- efficiently. it may have made sense to have a powerful congress released a coequal congress 200 years ago but in the modern american state with a local economy in the fast-moving technology we need a very strong executive. now, i don't think we need to settle that, whether we should have a powerful executive or not is not critical to my argument because even if the executive branch is not accumulating too much power it has amassed too much power

well i don't think the rate cut is going to make a huge difference the rates are already so low and so markets reacting a little bit but. rate cut stem cells are not the primary movers here i think when the when and if the e.c.b. decides to. buy more bonds when when it does that there will be a big move about the rate cut in itself if it happens i don't think has a huge impact well it sounds like they're setting themselves up for more what's called quantitative easing just like the bank of england will engage in more quantitative easing the federal reserve bank is already eighty five billion or so a month and in buying of its own bonds so the entire globe now with the e.c.b. was lagging sounds like the e.c.b. will join the arms race toward who can solve destruct the fastest by lowering rates and buying lots of of their own paper now professor peter bofinger an economist advisor to merkel said this week that over the next ten years the rich should give us a portion of their assets like vacation homes in spain so quantitative easing is not enough wealth they want to take the people's hou

so this is not a but, but an and. so i see this as where we are. it's growth. it's the expansion of this work so that our cbo's and all of our grass roots organizations don't have to work as hard to convince people that this is an investment that needs to be made. so i am very much on the side of going out broadly so that when we do go to the ballot, you know, we've all set through many a campaign rocking ourselves in the corner hoping we are going to get the 66 percent or 67 percent that we need in order to get parcel taxes and what have you. i feel really confident that the approach that we're taking is so much more thoughtful around all the things that we want to do for children across the city and how we can leverage everything that we've already put into it and how we can grow this and so i think, you know, we're going to need our, all of our organizations and all of our parents and all of our neighborhood associations and we certainly want to get business to think about this very differently. so we want them to be a part of this conversation also. and aga

so. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard luck and is a big picture. well as lawmakers today take on gun control this issue has fired off a debate in this country over guns and one college campus not too far from the nation's capital a school bus riddled with bullets brought the gun control debate on campus still r t correspondent was wall has more. theory just what. both can do thousands of bullets were sprayed at this school bus decimating it inside and out i saw this bus it looked like it was in the middle east like it was a pakistan school bus they got shot up and some sort of attack or something but this school bus did not come from a war zone it's a work of art or most artists use pencils or paint brushes but to make this piece the artists tools were guns and six thousand rounds of ammunitio

so, graffiti is not defined. it doesn't say that it slashes or it doesn't describe it in that nature. and it doesn't speak to permission either. the by law is written such that it's under community standards 14600 with respect to community standards and buildings that are considered a nuisance. there's a specific statement in there, i don't have it in front of me unfortunately, with respect to graffiti. and, so, i guess the question, then, -- question is, do we ever have trouble with property owners saying, well, i want to have this piece of graffiti on our property and i don't feel it's a nuisance and i'm not going to remove it? and we haven't had any problems actually whatsoever with our graffiti by law being challenged. how the by law works is that our by law officers, any graffiti that comes up is at their discretion. so, whether they determine what is on the property is a nuisance and it allows us to keep our mural programs running. it allows us to look at individual situations. early on we had one situation

they're out of the picture so the services are crashing basic services and one of the left so what are they going to do with the n.h.s. which is the public health care system in the u.k. we're going to privatized it are going to sold off to private developers will destroy it like the glazer brothers who destroyed many. just for united they take money out they load up with a billion pounds of debt you know the glazers run national health now the glazers run the transportation system american strip mining you know it is going to come in here and just destroy the country more take all the money out thanks to deregulation of maggie thatcher are you pretty stupid but she started this big bang across the world so this whole notion of keep on extending your debts make them go longer longer longer further out the maturity happens and so let's look at it another story in the headlines this week just keep dancing introducing the ninety seven month auto loan so the average price smacks of a car in the united states has gone to thirty one thousand dollars up three thousand dollars in the past four

so things are really disjointed so to speak in that sense. >> host: so you see over all the idea of christian marriage being weakened the society apart from the movement for gay marriage? >> guest: yeah, christians have done the work on themselves. you know, that's a good thing about the doctrine of sin. you can always think why we must think that's about it but christians have done a bad job of it. what they have left of marriage, and the society itself. been under attack, marriage has been under attack and the family has been under attack explicitly from certain aspects of running back to hobbes and come thomas hobbes and john locke. there is profound reasons why the and had to be undermined for liberalism. that's a long story. but certainly christians can be blamed for not, for continuing weakening marriage to the point where there wasn't much left of it to defend. so that's, i want to see part of the larger trajectory and not talk about as we have a truly super healthy thing that is being attacked by people from the outside. we really, really blew it, and these people are saying, why not

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they get sideswiped and generic brands, and so on and so forth.but these guys, they can't make generic brands of money in financial institutions. it's like you either roll with them or you shut it all down. >> well, when we took, let me give you a little bit of history to uerand howe got here again. 1929 there was a stock market crash and we found out at that time that wall street firms were manipulating the stock market, including stock prices, doing all kinds of stuff. so we regulated the hell out of them starting in the 1930s. we put our foot on wall street. we made wall street a boring place to work. but then when we took our foot off in the mid 1970s, 1980s, this whole game started again. basically the genie is out of the bottle. so the question becomes how do you put it back in? they are very strong that. one of these guys has given $100 million to settle for. that has given $100 million to the public library here in new york. how do you get the genie back in the bottle? >> would you start with creating awareness? awareness, is basically min

so, yes, mort has had that contract. and motorola made ~ a proposal to the national technology institute agency, ntia in washington, d.c. when the b-top grants came out to build out the system here, and they were awarded the money. so, that's how they got it here in the bay area. but it is not going to be a proprietary system once it's built. first net wants it turned over to them, and one of the things that first net says is that any device on the market that needs the specs has to be able to work on the system. they don't want it to be just a motorola system or harris system. any device. >> it's not motorola that's going to take 10 years for the technology? >> no, no, these are the experts in the field who are saying that, not motorola. >> okay. can you explain why san jose and santa clara county pulled out of bay web? i know this was a very controversial set of relationships and partnerships. and we were lobbied pretty heavily by our counterpartses in the south bay to not join under the system. >> actually, they haven

so -- a digression. so i'm in '69. and so i'm checking. and so i covered the building, and there was a guy, one of the guys i liked a lot had gone to vietnam. he was a colonel, and in vietnam he'd caught a bullet, and he'd been frocked when he was back. i happened to bump into him in the hall. this was just about a week or two after i get the tip, i check all the indexes and obvious places. i don't want to start asking too many questions because if it's real, i don't want to get them even -- that nobody should know what i'm looking at at in this point. i told nobody what i was doing. there was nobody to tell. my wife? she had her own problems. [laughter] anyway -- you know, after my lai, it's pretty tough to be married to a guy who did my lai. take out the garbage. i'm sorry, honey, i'm saving the world right now. [laughter] you guys put up with a lot, you ladies. it's probably true, what i just said. anyway, and so in this guy had been one of the guys i clowned around with, you know? and we all have fun in america, you know? that's the th

so rachel talk to me about what's happening with these protesters sure so one other thing that's been going on is beyond month santa and beyond beyond all of the things going on in the ag business is that fast food workers in new york have decided that they actually would would like to strike and they have done so today they walked out of their jobs over four hundred over four hundred protesters walked out of their jobs in places ranging from mcdonald's to burger king to k.f.c. pizza hut all of these different places they've decided what are they wanting yes what they're looking for it's a couple of things the first thing is higher wages they're currently making seven twenty five an hour now the new york state legislature has decided or they just passed last month a bill that would actually increase that number to nine dollars an hour by two thousand and sixteen with these workers are saying is this isn't enough they want fifteen dollars an hour and in addition to that that bump in wages they're also looking for the opportunity to unionize they want the right to be able to unionize wi

so does safeway. safeway sponsors one of our litter programs where they -- we pay nonprofit groups to go in the community, pick garbage for 16 weeks during the summer, and they pay those. safeway as well as many other groups pay those volunteers. so, i mean crylon, like you said, it's a huge company going to head off. you're probably not going to have the same success as somehow working with local businesses. that would be the only thing i could suggest. but it's worth a try because i think the more persistent you are -- i think a couple of them finally gave us money because rona in particular because they just didn't want to hear from me any more. [laughter] >> all right, thank you. (applause) >> i don't know why the product is still on the shelf. personally it's one of the most toxic products out there. i don't know if any of you have had ever deployed spray cans on walls and just stood there. how do you dispose of it? there are so many environmental issues it's unbelievable. and as communities, if

so it's hard to say. but what i do know is that the game somehow comes naturally. >> rose: when did you discover that? >> >> i think pretty early on. i -- you know, i was spending a lot of time on chess and somehow i kept improving at the high rate while the other players at my age that i was competing against -- >> rose: you were beating all of them and moving ahead? >> yes, exactly. and then -- and, you know, it was always fun and while not effortless, nevertheless things were going well. >> rose: what is it about chess you love? >> it's hard to say. i do know that once i got into chess i was fascinated by the game and i spent a lot of time on it simply because that's what i love to do. i don't know what it was about it. i really don't know. >> rose: but what's interesting about chess tse that you can go and quickly recall all the great games that have been played in the history of chess. >> yeah, that's -- that's the great thing about chess that, you know, there are other changing circumstances. but it

the could next decade or so and so i do think it's long public rights they'll be there in ten years and you can change many times but i think us are going to develop to deal with the at some point and i don't think going to surrender i think each side is going to give in i don't know that i have an obama successor but i think that it should have been sort of there than later dave in philadelphia go ahead jump in. well i would hope that's right i think there are forces that could lead to a conflict between the u.s. and iran and i would hate to see it. and i think that. you know my my hope is that there will be some kind of ritual response to the fact that arin is a nuclear capable power and hopefully won't get a bomb but will always have that capability and the u.s. is going to have to accept that it's going to require standing up to is really concerned including in israel there's there's a lot of argument against going to war you know it's an attacking iran so i'm. cautiously optimistic that this is going to be worked out in a rational way but let's be clear that there's a recession

so, exactly what you're saying. the word on the street -- and part of it is you're driving -- i don't notice as i'm accuweathering. moev of us are cruisers. we get what we see. that's an issue coming up. these people are networking. they spread the word. sidewalks are cool game, trees are cool, they don't touch that. you're exactly right. i experience in my own life. we're going to have to open people, we're going to have to focus on sidewalks unfortunately. >> if i can just add, we're a network, too. this is a network. your city is a network. the city is networking with the police, with the business units, with the volunteers, with the seniors groups, with youth groups, whoever is walking those streets, cleaning those streets, going down there to enforce by law and properties, they all need to be paying attention to these things and it can be as quick as a saying. recently we've noticed x is happening. we're asking you to report it to this department, this person so we can proactively deal with it. it's the same th

so what we did -- so why do an audit? graffiti is a property vandalism crime. information we share from our audits are shared with bylaw and police and affect our enforcement and programming efforts. so what we're doing is taking the information that we gather from our audits and we're changing our programming accordingly. so i am able to track what's going on in each neighborhood to determine where i ne

so surprised. it breaks everything, you know, you don't expect that an lft came in there, open up and the first getting out was clowns. so i think it was a good idea. we built a modular school because the school was completely destroyed. you have it take all the deb brae and disembark and move it to the continent. this is in another coastal area, conception, the island you see was orego island, that was the island where people was there making a barbecue. when tsunami get in there, not even the grass was safe, everything was removed, and the island in front was completely flood. there is the island down there. it was flooding absolutely. this is a fishing market. that was before the navy came in there and after the navy came in there. a lot of fishing was close to 1,000 fishing boat was grounded and it was part of our job to put them in the water again. so heavy lift cranes are absolutely mandatory to have a safe place to move them and to start working. and because as i mentioned to you before, the

the teachers, if they so choose to do so, they can implement their own curricula in the classroom. and we want to create bike clubs for middle and high school use, teach them how to repair bikes, build bikes and teach them how to ride them safely in the streets. this is an example we'd like to do at thurgood marshall. we have not reached out to that school yet, but that's the proposal we'd like to do. and also connecting walking and biking to transit. so many of those children are actually taking muni already. for the encouragement deliverables, there's a number of things we'd like to keep the same. of course walk to school day and bike to school week. although we're talking about sort of a safe routes to school celebration in the spring. celebrating all the achievements that a school has done over the course of the year. continuing primarily continuing walking, school buses he and biking train. organizing contests and promotional items in the school. we also want to create to your point, supervisor campos, we want to create transportation demand to tailor to each school. so, givin

rivers for gold since i've never heard of such a case as ours are so much money and gold still so many years. for all the gold in colombia on our t.v. . but us hunts for those behind the worst domestic terror attacks since nine eleven two blasts at the boston.

government so ok so it really tragic situation happening here so is it expected to get worse when the u.s. pulls out entirely i mean what's going to happen absolutely and you have to keep in mind right now that a lot of these interpreters are protected by the u.s. military right now a lot of them live you know very close to the base if not on the base so many of them feel somewhat secure right now but when the troops you know fully draw down when the u.s. leaves when they close down some of these bases these people are going to retreat back to you know these taliban controlled areas and they're going to face really really huge security threats because i'm sure you can imagine the taliban is probably already found and identified a lot of these people and they're just waiting for them you know to come back so that they can. see them we understand that iraq had this special visa program in place so when the u.s. left you know we were able to get those people who needed them those visas how does this compare to the program with afghanistan a the iraq program was very very similar i was al

, so mr. chairman. >> i think a couple of other facts that are relevant it's right near south park. a lot of the residents written in support and residents and businesses are in support and not in a high crime area so my assumption if the packet was reviewed by the police they would see the business plan which looks like a wonderful layout of the business and expansion and clear area where the alcohol is consumed versus the spa area, and i'm supportive i think of moving this forward today, but i'm wondering if there are other comments from colleagues? supervisor wiener. >> i suggest that we put it out with a recommendation. this would go on a week from tuesday to the full board's agenda so a week and a half and maybe during that time alu and the applicant could talk about what some appropriate conditions might be, and then if there is agreement working with supervisor kim's office as well we could then make an amendment at the full board to incorporate that agreement so we do have a full i thi

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thank you so much many thank you for your interest in our story which is a story of so many people. when we hear government officials using words like top secret or sensitive information we have an inclination to trust that certain things have to remain secret but have documented instances of torture illegal surveillance or even war crimes were being hidden from the public under the guise of national security well if it weren't for whistleblowers people who expose the truth to the public we would have never known about the government misconduct during the watergate scandal we would have never known about the pentagon papers and the lies regarding the vietnam war during the johnson administration but over the last decade however blowing the whistle on dishonest government activity has become one of the most dangerous actions a person can take you see the obama administration has been keen on using an archaic piece of legislation known as the espionage act under the facade of national security obama has persecuted more whistleblowers than any other president in american history take f

so, please keep that intact. then i also wanted to address the project that was -- the alameda creek recapture project which was called out as probably the last wsip project to be completed on alameda creek. we've been interacting with that project for about 10 years or no longer than that, probably about 13 years. i've come here a couple times before you. we've been in pretty constant communication with your staff. we see some good things industry wise, project particularly the new design. there will be no infrastructure in the creek. it's passive infiltration to a quarry pit and simply requires a pump. we like that element of it. we also see some potential problems with the goal of the project recapturing bypass [speaker not understood]. we absolutely support recapture of the flows that are released from calaveras reservoir for fishery restoration. those are summer flows, the very low flow. it's cold water that would not make it all the way down alameda creek anyhow. and there's no environmental benefit to be g

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so much. thank you. doctor. days it. makes common. to see it's so true. internationally and in the very heart of moscow. imax kaiser welcome back thanks time now to go to new zealand and talk to william lucas an entrepreneur alternative energy expert the inventor of computer based cash registers and today a real live bitcoin miner william uhc welcome to the kaiser report to be here max i want to get right into something you mentioned that buying bitcoin now supporting bitcoin now is similar to the campaign to crash j.p. morgan by silver talk a talk us through this bit coy story about you and it can be used as a medium of exchange but with the appropriate patient of software it can be used to make promises that if you could you could have a promise of a bit point in the future and not require any banking system at all it just be totally distributed ok well let's talk about the crash j.p. morgan buy silver campaign because the idea there was that j.p. morgan was short billions of ounces of silver if you took physical delivery of silver you would force them

more so we don't have to do so much.it seems they've to across-the-board cut our security assistance. more crack the week, my bureau, for example funds humanitarian de-mining programs around the world. those will be cut. in terms of u.s. industry, we rely on expertise from the depart of defense when we reviewed by his does for export. they reveal licenser tildes technology security concerns. the department of defense is to furlough, that will mean we will not get an answer as quickly when we review a license. so that his life processing times will increase. again, at a time when we are trying to eat for contracts overseas and to preserve our own industrial base, it seems it is not in our interest for an across-the-board cut to the two furloughs, which will mean it will take longer for licenses to the process. so while there has been a lot of attention focused on the impact of sequestration on the department of defense, it impacts more than the department of defense and will have been my view, an impact on national securi

taught me so much. you to become member of the nert family. and thank you again. (applause) ♪ >> to introduce our next award i would like to invite someone to the stage -- i have a cold, too, i apologize. [laughter] >> sneeze with my mouth moving. i want to invite someone who i think many people in this room know who works behind the scenes here at city hall to actually create what i think are some of the most significant physical examples of neighborhood empowerment in the city. and that, of course, is lenny denriquez. i want to invite her up here. if you walk around and see an amazing mural or amazing garden, it's a good chance she's the one that said yes to that application. so, here we go, lenny. (applause) >> good evening. i'm up here because i nominated the progress park for the best ccg nen award. i'm proud to present this award on behalf of nen to bruce and bill for their hard work and dedication for turning this vacant lot, this eyesore in their community to a beautiful green park for everyone

so you see where that leads. so there's a lot of challenges for mr. gerstenmaier and the team to work on. but that was early days of apollo is how do we get the propellants, facilities and everything to go the. and how we should do. there's also another thing, center nelson and minority leader hutchinson puts forth this bill. when you have this large sls, you have a large diameter volume in there that you can carry a payload. when you have the small diameter rockets that people say they could put together, you do not have the volume for the payload. you just can't go ann mulligan together, and you're also working against the boil off all the time. so i'm sure you've had people come by and talk to you or your staff as on that. i just wanted to put that out there. back about the main thing is the inspiration to young people, and i'll be glad to provide you step with one of those books. thank you, senator. >> very good. thank you, general. thank you, gentlemen. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator cruz. general stafford, on that point, share wi

so all the rate categories really are defined, so it is not that you can spend whatever you like- now there is different categories you must have spent. and the fifth pillar is the performance of the pilgrimage- once in a lifetime, visiting, or a pilgrimage to mecca. and this is again in a prescribed month, which is the twelfth month of the muslim calendar. and there are ten days of that month one has to go and- again, this is obligatory upon those who can bear both the traveling physically as well as financially; in other words, they are not burdened upon anybody else. so if somebody is in debt, he cannot do it until he has paid all his debts. so if somebody is financially and physically capable to do this journey, he is required at least once in a lifetime. so these would be the pillars of islam. so these make the person to enter into a community and demonstrate that he believes in god and that he believes in the message of the qur'an and mohammed. >> well, thanks to your generosity, we were allowed to attend the i guess noon prayer service. we saw a wide variety of symbolic activit

you hear stories, so and so locked so and so out of a command post in such and such city. so and so argued about who got what raise last year. here, a little bit different. here, medical resources and law enforcement are owned by the governor which, as established, comes from the turkish government. fire fighters and things like public works are owned by the municipality. let me tell you about budget discrepancies. the fire department, i got to tell you, when i went and i met with the fire chief, that one left a mark. their fire department was red tagged but they didn't have a place because it was so cold to house their engines because you can't leave diesel engines out in the cold, just doesn't work too well, so they still had to use the facility but they housed the personnel in two tents out in front. their headquarters is one tent and their dorm is another tent and they welcomed us in there, didn't even think twice. and in the story of what it was like there, for a community of nearly 700,000 people, their complete complement of fire fighters that were on duty, their pr

so, we have $20 million there. a recent low bid on the beta vision pipeline 3 and 4 also allowed us to save $13 million on that project. and we have also -- have been able to cut significantly our program management costs by phasing out consultants and city staff more quickly. >>> looking at increases, of course, $88 million in the increases for calaveras is due to the different deferring geologic condition, also the need to replenish the contingency fund for that project. i mentioned the field challenges associated with the underwater work with the csa transmission upgrade project that has resulted in increases of 29 million. the $50 million increase on the regional groundwater project includes increases in both the delivery and construction costs . and finally, a better definition of the major elements of the peninsula pipeline project has led to the $11.5 million increase. the project cost now is based on a 65% estimate whereas before it was based on a much more preliminary estimate. >>> as you know, the deferri