you mentioned predictive analytics and i'm not entirely familiar with the some of the analytics of the insurance industry, but what i do know is what my co-author worked on, which is catastrophe modelling and with the insurance industry. to better predict the kind of extreme events. it's all about predicting risk and pricing properly. that's the whole business model. so that's one thing i wanted to mention. another bigger picture in terms of a positive view economically. is there a positive vision we can move towards? it's a little bit dated now from six or seven years ago, but the stern review did that, if you're familiar to the stern review. he was a chief economist for the world bank. and put together a major economic report about -- it was issued in 2005 -- the punch line is by investing 1% of the global gnp, you end up with preventing much more damage down the road. and 1% is something that we as a world could afford then and can still afford. so the investment we need to make is not overwhelming. we can do it. that's a bigger picture beyond the insurance industry. back to the ins

and one of the capabilities that we bring to that is the ability to apply our analytics to ask some of these important questions. the other element which is related, but i just want to define it as being separate is the notion of availability of real-time data at the point of care to support the physician in regard to taking care of the patient who is sitting in front of him. so there should be in fact the record locator that would allow me to identify data about you, analyze those data, and make sure that what i'm doing for you is, again, consistent with the best clinical evidence and is not contraindicated relative to other activities that other doctors are pursuing with you. thing is the aggregate and the real-time. but in any case, the availability of information that residence within the medicare database would be enormously important for a number of reasons. >> i would second that. i think what there is to be encouraged about on this topic that we're talking about it, there is consensus that data matters and sharing it among cl clinicians matter. it wasn't long ago you couldn't h

our guest this morning, mark zandi, moody analytics, chief economist and talk answer calls for fed actionfter a weak jobs report issued by the labor department last week. >>> mark zandi, chief economist analytic, thanks for joining us from west k4e69or, pennsylvania. >> good morning. thanks to having me. >> calls for federal action after we all the saw the weak jobs report come out last week, but the fed's main purpose is monetary policy. how does that relate to job growth? >> well, the federal reserve play as very key role in terms of the broader economy, and job creation. it lowers interest rates in times of difficulty like the current period to make it easier tore people to borrow money. for businesses to borrow money, go out, invest and to hire. takes pressure off people who borrowed lots of money already, debtors, and brings down debt service burden so it makes it easier for them to go out and spend. it's key to businesses hiring people. there's lots of different ways that influences the economy broadly in job creation. they're very important to the job market. >> and what did you re

but whether or not we can accurately define soft power is that this and not that or analytically distinguish it i think what's important is that international actors whether they be nation states or n.g.o.s recognize soft power is important so we need to pay attention to it and i think the clearest example of this is the incredible investment in soft power by china right whether or not soft power works they believe it work what do you think you want to play as you think it works if you think that the world is changing its opinion about china after all of that investment. do you think it's affected well like i said earlier i think soft power is a long term game i don't think that it is evidence in the short term in ways that are obvious i think that the long game of soft power is to change the rules of the game for international relations so that other nations states and actors play by your rules or value what you value or populations that are crucial to your foreign policy will at the very least tolerate what you want to do and so it's not easy to just wave a magic wand you know with soft po

grant and alexander at that end, they define, movingly written, deeply analytical and often more pour separative than almost all modern historians. the union's greatest military hero filled his two-volume memoirs with a number of remarkable pass sanls, few more instructive than his pee into the citizen soldiers who saved the republic and killed the institution of slavery. the armies of europe are machines. the men are brave and the officers capable, but the majority of the soldiers in most of the nations of europe are taken from a class of people who have very little interest in the contest in which they are called upon to take part, wrote grant. our armies were composed of men who were able to read. men who knew what they were fighting for and could not be induced to serve as soldiers except in an emergency when the safety of the nation was involved and so necessarily must have been more than equal to men who fought merely because they were brave and because they were thoroughly drilled and inerred to hardships. without an ap sapgs of the fundamental importance of the idea of the cit

>> actually, i want to speak analytically about this. i think there's quite a bit to be said that the republican party, i'm not sure if it's not understanding the legislative process or isn't very good at it. i have a couple thoughts on this. one is i think the republican party's ability to as a legislative party atrophy during the decades when they were out of power and during that period republicans succeeded in electing presidents starting with eisenhower and the nixon era, and even before that i think you could see the two parties had a slightly different character, somewhat related to their etiology and somewhat to their experience. republicans became a more executive minded party and the democrats became more legislative minded party, they're better at running congress, no question and republicans have yet to prove they're good as governing as a majority. this is sort of looking back a moment that had there been a way to organize or incite the tea party it would have happened earlier so in 2006 when tom d i delay says spending has

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using something like predictive analytics. couldn't you move that model a little further towards the present to be able to say, okay we can take these models and look at the economic long-term across all of these different impacts? and bring that to the table? >> let me try to respond to that, if i may. one of the things that happened in the climate debate is we kept talking about the cost of addressing pollution. but the opposition really constrained us from talking about the benefits. if you look at economics looking at the cost without the benefits doesn't make much sense. one of the things that we want to acknowledge, we are working with the reinsurance industry. our federal flood insurance policies are disastrous. i'm headed to florida this afternoon to talk more about this and how it impacts florida. the state of florida has had such severe flooding and storms in recent years, that they can't just be insurance industry can't afford to play there anymore because of the expense. the state of florida decided in its wisdom,

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that would mean an analytical review we have conducted in prior years. the total of the bold lines sum to only about 10 additional positions. which does not mean there are not opportunities of above and beyond this. it is just that we have not previously reported on them or bomb them, but this represents how we have done compared to all of our past recommendations. >> again, a good example of this would be comstat, which did not exist until chief gascon established it. uniformed police officers went into the administrative job. so now you are not really civilianizing conmstat because it was never civilians in the first place. then, the officers came -- in the judgment of the chief, it was something that had happened, and it was a priority, enough to take folks off the street. i would love to have civilians do all the analysis so i could have those 13 officers back to do police work. >> i guess i could say of course that there is a frame of reference question here that the chief is bringing up. generally, for the reviews we're talking about, we have focus

i think this work is kind of experience in a more analytical way. in other words, we look at an image and there is an alice going on. -- and there is an analysis going on. >> thank you. good morning, everyone. thank you very much. as many of you know, i'm a person that doesn't like a whole lot of drama. but i do want to make sure that we take this opportunity to enjoy. this budget is one that's important to all of us, it certainly is one to me and one that reflects a lot of great work. first of all, let me thank everybody for coming this morning. certainly board president david chiu for helping me co-host this and carmen chu and her work with us already started and will help guide us, along with board president david chiu on all of the hearings that the rest of the board will have. i want to thank each and every member of the board of supervisors as well. you've been weighing in and we've been creating a different dialogue on the front end to make sure that all of our constituents know what we're doing, more transparent, and ultimately where our val

. >> behavior analytics are built into the cameras and that will help us determine what the trends are in the system. if someone is not where they should be or on a track way or in a tunnel it will be able to alert the system and alert the individuals on duty. >> reporter: the software is designed by labs in texas. i spoke to the ceo about the advantage of having a camera view individuals instead of a human. >> they monitor the camera for about a four hour shift before they zone out or lose attention. a computer is able to watch them every second of every day 24/7. >> reporter: so how does a system decide what's suspicious. the cameras will detect unusual behavior. >> reporter: if i get off the train and walk toward the exit, but if i turn around and head the other way toward a tunnel then i may be stopped. >> i don't like it. it's government intrusion. >> the way of the future i guess. i don't like it but, not much i can do about it. >> if it's for preventing a robbery or like other crimes then i just, i'm fine. >> reporter: flow the software maker says the cameras cannot tell a diffe

that are not just rubber-stamp being party positions and that had a brilliant expertise and an analytical ability that helps people -- i get it now. if you were going to put together five of them, martin frost and tom davis would be on the thighs. i can only think of four. they are -- would be on the five. martin was in congress for 12 years. he was the dccc share. both of them have been on the inside, the innermost strategy sessions. they know where all the bodies are buried. sometimes they are tempted, but they never really tell us where exactly those bodies are buried. it is two members i have enormous admiration for. i think we should invite three members up and have one as a control group. say this is somebody else. somebody who is not so good. these two guys are really good and that other one is a clunker. that appeals to my perverse nature. why don't you guys come on up. let's just have a conversation. i would rather do that than here myself pontificate. >> martin is so in charge of leadership -- martin tells me where to sit. >> it is obviously early in the morning because charlie

. >> i think we're down, and i'm glad to hear that we're down to what i think is the analytical nut of difference, in my opinion from professor. he believes that at least the intent and perhaps the letter applies to prong number one in terms of what type of organization it is in its religious structure, and that's it. once you analyze that under title vii and you're in or out. the reason i think it's not an appropriate evaluation is because if you look at section 6, it says this act won't apply to those organizations, religious corporations and so forts that are exempted from the religious discrimination provisions. in order to be exempted from religious discrimination provisions, you must have both prongs, not one. the second prong is the problem prong because it deals with a decision by a religious employer about the religion of the employee. there is a case that i cited in my written testimony. it was relatively recent involving a employee who was homosexual and he was criticized. the claim was a sex stereotyping claim because he didn't declare himself to be homosexual until later.

a there's a company called peak analytics that have done very interesting things.an see president obama has 16 million twitter followers. romney 250,000 and ron paul, not too bad a showing he for someone, $296,000 followers. >> warner: so if you're a follower of these candidates, how many tweets a day would you get? >> it depends on the day. sometimes they come rapid fire as they try to drive a particular message. the president of the united states... it's not surprising he would have more followers but what i found surprising is where these people lived because for the obama campaign nearly half are out of the country, most of those people can't vote in the u.s. election, mitt romney only 10% outside the united states. >> warner: right, but the you do the math it shows obama with six million and romney with under 500,000. so when president bush then... last week he gave a speech in iowa and then he sat down with a laptop and started tweeting answers to questions people tweeted in but he has to keep them to 140 characters. >> it was called a twitter town hall essen

certainly as a land owner, that is something we analyzed in its own rights, and we differ on both an analytical and a policy basis to the board of supervisors on what the ultimate packages that this proved. >> and in making that consideration, if i may, what is the problem margin that you anticipate for the developer in this case? >> so the original profit margin that was proposed or implied in the development feasibility analysis that was done, that was provided to the court was an ir analysis, and a proximate return of about 20%. i think that is a relatively common rate of return, in a think it is lower than the rates of return that are required for the city shares and hunters point project, which i believe is 22% preferred return, so we do not think it was unreasonable for the developer to be aiming at that, and there is also the very real possibility that a project of that level in this economic climate, where the level of feasibility threshold is is a real question of what equity partners are demanding in terms of their return. commissioner: the big difference is what you are talking about

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the eir, which is a complete, accurate and very analytical extension, and so really, that is the only issue we are considering in this particular motion right now, which i will move to certify the environmental impact report. >> second. commissioner wu: i do think that the eir -- it does an adequate job of addressing shadow and hats. it describes that there is an impact. it describes what the shuttle impact is. it does not diminish the importance of sunshine, but i also feel that voting to certify the eir is sort of an implicit statement about shadows. what i want to say is that i really think a shadow ordinance is important, and i do not want take for granted that through one action, you are sort of implying that all these other actions will be easy or that they will follow in that way. i just think that -- i want to make clear that despite -- or acknowledging that acknowledgingeir itself -- acknowledging that the eir itself is adequate, that these are issues to be considered on another calendar and with another commission. commissioner fong: thank you for pointing that out. i agree

not just an individual but with the analytical knowledge and all of the research knowledge that is available through a firm, we think it is actually a much better fit in terms of meeting our needs through this mechanism than through having a staff person, whether it is part time or full time dedicated on the district's team per se, that has been our experience. we have tried it both ways. and we have had very different results. so we're happy to explore more. we're happy to continue to, you know, answer questions that you might have, but i will say that i think to a person all of the members of a team that have been working on this whole arena feel pretty strongly that this is -- this configuration is going to suit the district's interest as well as or better than what we had before. >> so thank you, deputy superintendent garcia. i respectfully push back a little bit on the superintendent because i know everybody is supposed to cut back. i believe that we have somebody working for us full time in the real estate capacity that can more than pay for the money that we may be getting, the revenu

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they have become analytic thinkers. we try to instill in none a sense of skepticism about what is a fact that it's not a fact, what is dished out and it's them it's been a fact and then i think whether or not you're in business eventually, whether or not you're not a sin or whether or not you're an academic definitely not very. so teaching people how to think very clearly, very well with a high level of skip this isn't about what is the fact and what is the truth of something that comes a liberal arts education and particularly with humanities as well, which are necessary for greatness and are overlooked in many universities today. >> host: we are talking with jonathan cole, former provost at columbia university and author of this book, trans five rice to providence, international role and why it must be project day. what level of dependence or support tuesday's 150 or so great universities have on the federal government? >> guest: they have enormous dependence. if a misnomer to call private universities truly private t

chief economist for moody's analytics.e're talking about a global slowdown that is especially bad in europe. how bad is it in the u.s.? >> well, it's tough. the u.s. economy's growth rate has slowed sharply you can see in the recent jobs data. but we're still growing and i think we will continue to grow as long as the eurozone hangs together. >> glor: speaking about that eurozone, the unemployment rate in spain 24%. the possibility of greece leaving the euro. what is the worst-case scenario? >> well, the worst case is greece does leave the eurozone. that spain has trouble with its banking system and that the entire eurozone unravels. if that were the case, then i think it would be very, very difficult for the global economy including our own to avoid going back into recession. >> glor: on the flip side, mark, what is the best-case scenario? >> the best case, i think the most likely is that european policymakers will get it together. that the greeks and the rest of europe will find a common ground. the greeks will stay in t

certainly as a land owner, that is something we analyzed in its own rights, and we differ on both an analytical and a policy basis to the board of supervisors on what the ultimate packages that this proved. >> and in making that consideration, if i may, what is the problem margin that you anticipate for the developer in this case? >> so the original profit margin that was proposed or implied in the development feasibility analysis that was done, that was provided to the court was an ir analysis, and a proximate return of about 20%. i think that is a relatively common rate of return, in a think it is lower than the rates of return that are required for the city shares and hunters point project, which i believe is 22%