comment on the excellence one. good news is we don't of any permit violations. i would say that's not a measure of excellence. that's a measure of doing your job. the whole motion of the permit process is that you do not violate those. that's the fundamental requirement. so doing that is an important thing to know and to highlight, but it's not a measure of excellence. so i would encourage you to keep looking on that >> on that point, if i may, mr. president, so what is the appropriate? >> it's a horribly difficult thing to measure, very frankly. i don't know how you do that. it's a tough one. but when you say that excellence is measured by the floor, there is just something wrong with that. i don't have an answer to that. that's why instead of suggesting i ask that they take a hard look at how they might define. >> wouldn't other agencies auto that criteria as a measure? >> like the street, they have a street index in terms of how bumpy it is and for the park's clen lens anliness -- cleanliness and the values. with that being said, this is something that folks

excellent, excellent. you saw the reflection off the water coming back down like that. excellent. also when the first beam that we-- and up here, up here. excellent, excellent. here i'm concentrating on the part i want to teach about, huh, and you saw the whole show, honey. that's great, okay? there is, there's a reflection here. it turns out water will also reflect light. you can't get any water that won't reflect a little bit. it's going to reflect some and refract some, okay? and coming down here at the mirror, reflect. some goes off here, huh? and some continued here. so you get all those, very good. lee? what's the angle of the reflected light that reflects before it goes down compared to the light reflected from the mirror. so the light reflected from the water and the light reflected from the mirror. yeah, this angle here and this angle here would be the same if this and this are parallel, okay? and this angle here would be the same as this angle here too, right? no. how many people are, "yeah, okay

excellent let's move into q and a and a thank you very much for those shout outs. you say the same ningdz or things for an a couple of years it might happen. which means i can move on. i'll move on quickly. first question is on the what is unknown as the bridge. that's not in the first phase of the first major phase so real quick where does the bus rapid transit go before the bridge economists of exists >> we've been working with the mta and the transit bus will connect into the project site. i think i'll ask chris mitch but it will be to loop it around the cps route that's a guess we're still working on that >> that would be a good one for 0 diagram before the final approval. >> okay. >> next question. so i know you mensdz this about the class 2 bike lane is that on harry many way or not >> the bike lane on harry many lane is there. there's an error on page 61 to how it's labeled. we believe in the dining room it linked it to the wrong key map but we'll make that change >> 61 that's; correct excellent arrest and then my last is in these this on the gray area its u

excellent for lenny's entrance. tighter on the door. excellent.up is from over in here, where we look, we see susan coming up. her space is down in that corner. howard's gonna go this way. lenny's going to hang at the door. the big problem, too, is that the director's line -- the sightline -- is gonna be between susan down there, howard and lenny over here. so everybody's working that side; cameras all over here. right. all right. so when howard and lenny are in here, looking over at susan, they're going to be looking offscreen left. susan, whenever she turns to camera is looking offscreen right. and we just have to make sure that when they finally come together the exits are right, the entrances are right. it's important at a time like this to wear an athletic supporter. i know. ♪ (music plays) okay. thank you. you guys are the best. you've seen the roof. nice plants and stuff, but let's augment it. let's add something. that's one. uh, chairs -- i don't know. let's get a couple of wooden chairs, but give me something else. i don't know what it is

>> that's an excellent question. we have every association and every chamber of commerce on our list and the cac and stakeholder organizations and when you take a look at the actual contractors, we taylor the outreach list to the scope of work. for instance if it's underground utility we tailor our list to underground utilities. we keep advertising for somebody that lays carpet and underground utility they don't want the information that you are disseminating. the list that we have for contractors is almost 500 companies. it's not only contractors but we also have professional services, construction related companies whether they are surveying or testing what have you. >> okay. maybe i will talk to you some other time. thank you for the information. >> thank you for the great presentation. particularly i thank lan ar for the good faith effort that you guys have put forth with the providing multiple general contractors and expansion of the cap program. my first question is there a robert yoeb she representative? a cou

. >> perhaps excellence is too high of a standard. >> it's our goal. >> we have set that objective. >> how do you measure that objective? >> that's really tough. i don't think this is how you do it. i think it's an important thing to tell people. it's important to not have violations. if we had violations, it's not that we are not excellent anymore. >> maybe we shouldn't use the word excellence but let the readers decide it. >> it's not measuring what we are saying we are measuring. so that's a problem. you can change what you are measuring or change how you measure it. >> move on to item 6 dhz customer service mentioned which is measured by whether you answer the phone in 20 seconds. without being facetious whether you can use an answering machine. i can't say it's quality. sometimes if we have customer satisfaction surveys. a lot of places you call in and you say will you hang on and you hit a survey. if there was some other way of measuring the quality, not that we got there quickly but what the quality of the response was, i think it would be more useful. >> as to the thing that s

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we also at the same time put in a very specific centers of excellence program to focus on hip or knee replacement and find fusion surgery. so that typical initiative is really focus on quality of care and cost of care. target pricing as my other panelists today have talked about is not so much about quality because we are assuming that the majority of the quality in a high-tech imaging service is relatively the same. the difference is in the variation and cost. so our two different initiatives are addressing those costs, and then on the centers of excellence peace around the quality of care. our target pricing program we partnered with anthem, they are our claims administrator self-insured plan so they are very instrumental in helping us design our target pricing and are centers for excellence program. so the target pricing program only has three levels were associates and providers get involved in making a choice about where to access a high-tech imaging service. so the first thing that we put in place is that any high-tech imaging service has to get prior authorization or precertifi

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we are asking for your approval to enter into a grant with spur, and we believe that this is an excellent effort that will help us move along and what is a very big project. and that we will all be engaging in for many years to come. >> so moved. >> second. >> all right, comment, woods? >> good afternoon commissioners i am really excited about this study, wearing two hats and i live on mission creek and so the sea level rise is an immediate concern, and i also with the committee and we have spent many years working on developing the mission bay project and the port owned parks all around the shore line. and knowing how we can adapt to rising tides is a critically important piece. >> thank you. >> any other public comment, and comments from commissioners? no. sorry. >> sue, and i am glad that you are tackling and not going to become republican naysayers, i want to point out that you have the jurisdiction along the shore line. i want to remind you what you did a couple of minutes ago. that see wall is in the flood season and at 330, and the other sea wall are all to flooding and sooner or l

there are excellent maps of the city. in fact, there are a hazard maps. in 1974, there was a landslide map. >> that's right. that is available at that apartment building inspection. these are excellent maps. >> there is a real legacy of geologists working and now cannot always published. san francisco has a great repository of some of these archives. there is a child just -- a geologist to publish letters that is a great source of information. we are on the coast, they have the definitive work for all of the [inaudible] >> and did they pick up the old [inaudible] and wetlands? >> there was a map of those that weren' off the field. you can see where these are with respect to those that have been filled in with a debris from the 06 earthquake. >> that is one of the things i've learned, the very local zones, exactly where you are building at. side-by-side, san francisco is so varied in its tomography and geology, you cannot tell by looking at the site specifically. >> this will be at the end of the drive. you can show which time we will be looking at out the

bridges can elaborate the contractor directly downloads, there is an ex- port in the excel sheet and the contractor, the developer is able to do that from the oci website. it's not a question of lost in translation between the different parties. it's a direct download and greatest and latest information that we have from contractors and we utilize the cities list as well to get the broadest reach. >> finally, i would like to say that we recognize that there were communication issues in the first bid, 50-5 # and in my presentation i mentioned the layers of communication. defer did mention we are now using a three layered communication system, we are e-mailing, faxing and telephoning. when you start a project there may be discrepancies in the data. as we engage more and more contractors and defer has created his data base, that is flushed out and we expect that communication to improve as we go forward. thank you. >> thank you. just a note on the time for our meeting today. we will be suggesting to this commission that we continue our closed session item. so don't sense is escence se c

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three excellent witnesses that gave us their insights. we're going to continue across government and outside of government. and, again, so far, there's been nothing but eagerness to help. i expect we're going to have working groups across organizations in the coming months and obviously we're going to have hearings directly on this topic. but in addition to that, this topic is going to shape all of the rest of the hearings we have. whether it's shipbuilding or airplanes or how to best meet the needs of our service people who are deployed and the contract support there. these questions are going to influence all of the hearings that we have in the coming years. now, we're not looking at this as, okay, we're going to take two years to study it and come out with a 2,000-page bill to solve all the problems in the world. we're going to make progress along the way as we go. and also have a good humility, ,- a bit of humility understanding that not all of the answers to this are going to come through legislation. some of what we need to do in co

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the questions i would raise is aren't we see a drift away from centers of excellence, as the various programs one low with money, and i think eel sigh they have all they packages that you can't go to the mayo clinic or md anderson, because the centers are excellence are more expensive and therefore don't fit into government-run health care? >> i think you're touching a broader issue about our spending priorities. i happen to believe that investing in research and development trying to understand and get a better handle on cancer, alzheimer's, is a good investment for our country. so i would invest more into these programs and into the nih. i'm not sure that my republican friends agree, but that's what i would do. >> let me go to you. i assume you are not a single payer advocate itches that's a safe assumption. >> i would assume up the private health insures to do the job, right? there have been records say the insurance companies are actually abusing people, blaming obama care, but senting out notices that are false and misleading. basically abusing the law. would you -- >> if those

much to my colleagues and to the members of the board they've shown in selfless commitment with excellence. i've seen a panorama of public life former mayor friday afternoon when he returned to our office and joel holding court with his spell bounding conversation and dianne feinstein relentless compassion. and willie brown's flaw less grasp of december tin. the the temple people's massacre and twice stopping the giant ownership from moving the city to toronto and jacksonville. the bathhouse litigation and two impeachments all unsuccessful and one city official in prison. the interrogation of rank choice voting and instant elections and local pub funding for campaigns. proposition 187 the anti state initiative. we deal with things everyday. the composer of initiative when i came in here 3 ordinances had been adapted we now have in excess of one hundred. the rise of affirmative action and the restoration of city hall to its splendor the revises of homelessness and district elections i've been through this twhis twice in litigation at least the first time around rent control and on and on. i

. >> it's going to be excellent. disney is behind it. >> disney is the parent company so if it is not good we will say it is good any way. >> it will be great. >> jay-z getting him in legal hot water any way. he is being sued. manhattan record label wants to drag him in to court. i guess they haven't done it yet. this is courtesy of "the daily news." they socked the brooklyn rapper and his record company with a copyright infringement lawsuit. saying he copied a '60s jam and he will have to defend himself. the track "run this town" features rihanna and kanye west and samples hook and sling dozens of times allegedly according to the suit.

always excelled in school. >> my s.a.t. scores were around the 1400s. >> but her small high school in the bronx had limited resources. >> we only had one school to come and visit, which was mercy college. so, everybody in my class applied and almost everybody got accepted. so, we're just like, all right, well, we have never heard of this school, but i mean, if they're all accepting us, i mean, why not? >> according to a new study from the brookings institution, only 34% of top low-income students apply to the country's most selective colleges. that's compared with 78% of top high-income students. the college she went to wasn't the right fit. after her second semester, she dropped out. >> i wanted to go in just a few months after i had left mercy, but everything happens and i was working full time and i got pregnant. >> low-income, high-achieving students thrive at very selective colleges and universities once they get there, whereas if they attend one of the nonselective post secondary institutions that they tend to apply t

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we have an excellent excellent program tonight. tonight's guest: the ledgend himself dr.ills cosby joins us a little bit later. a good man. [cheers and applause] breaking news out of -- yeah that's right -- canada. >> just into the news desk, the crack-smoking mayor of toronto has just done it again. [ laughter ] >> jon: which brings us to our brand new segment "this just in the crack-smoking mayor of toronto has just done it again." [laughter] [laughter] so apparently -- the crack-smoking mayor of toronto has done it again. [ laughter ] here is the sentence i'm assuming does not follow that sentence: saves the day. >> the hours long city council meeting deteriorating into a spectacle. mayor rob ford at one point started mocking a council member suspect of driving drunk. >> mayor, stop disrupting. >> amid the chaos he nearly knocked a councilwoman to the ground as he ran across the room. [laughter] [cheers and applause] >> jon: poor woman. you know she got into politics thinking this may be a dirty unrewarding business but at least i'll never have to worry about going to