hh-974e, lower cherry aquaduct emergency rehabilitation with flatiron west, inc., authorize the general manager to terminate and issue final payment. >> okay, mr. cruz. >> madam president, members of the commission, emilio cruz, the item before you is lower cherry aquaduct project. this was an emergency project entered into after the declaration of general drought emergency and it was to allow us flexibility to allow us to move water from cherry creek down through the aquaduct which was an antiquated aquaduct in disrepair and additionally was damaged during the rim fire. we started that contract in april of 2014 as a cmgc contract in a state of local emergency. all of the work was to deal with the immediate urgency of repairing the aquaduct sufficiently to be able to pass water through the aquaduct to give us operational flexibility. we have reached a point in the contract where we have completed work sufficiently to use the aquaduct, but more work that was anticipated in phase i than what was to actually put a full pipe in the system so that it would be a closed system. from a schedule

moreover, few applicants get into flatiron at the moment. the 6% acceptance rate rival's harv orders, but insist founder flambomb literally anyone can learn to code. >> right now we're look at your web site making sense. you can view the page's source and immediately see the source code that is describing the instructions to the browser for how to make your page look. if i want, i can change this text to say "welcome to flatiron school, paul." >> reporter: i see these are just all instructions. >> yeah, that's what code is just instructions. we call this as a programmer joke, string theory all the worldwide web wikipedia, twitter, your web site are, giant strings of code. >> reporter: his own interest in coding began with a computer game called nibbles in elementary school. >> eventually i got so good at that game i could beat it every time and i opened up the source code to try to make the game harder. >> reporter: he went on to teach himself how to code, although it wasn't easy. >> the way in which i learned how to program was one of the d

been implemented aqueduct is serviceable and we're furthering last commission we authorized the flatiron contract if we are that not making broken this is moving forward and with respect to mountain tunnel the plan is to do an investigation with tunnel similar to the coast range tunnel in order to give us more information as we move forward and the environmental process is moving forward because what we have mapped out to t that's the critical path. >> okay. thank you any other questions or comments i do have a speaker on this topic so if i could excuse you for a moment. >> thank you members of the commission nicole chief financial officer my comment for the coast range tunnel i was pleased when i heard the inspection was implemented and went well, no surprises in the inspection it's a always good news one thing that is helpful our quarterly report obviously had a data of december 31st and the projection hopefully have a much better question do we expect that to go over that budget i hope it will not as part of the inspection thank you very much. >> thank you mr. cruz. >> thank you, comm

so even beyond the crackerjack situation if you are a company like the flatiron company you might get a little token so they use some of those existing molds. it's not long before they realize they have a problem. there are a lot of other monopoly games out there. they use them for the publicity purposes and to the letter extreme is in the book and i will let you describe what you want about the short version is that they don't address the genesis of the game but alone that it had been around for 30 plus year before he had sold it. one of those is the finance game and when you look at this you can see that it looks a lot like monopoly. they pleaded as a fraternity guy and have sold it on his own. so they store to start to buy other similar games on the market and milton bradley hit a game called inflation but they all draw the origins from the game. but by then the story the train left the station. they are pretty much forgotten. in 1936 she gives an interview from the shenzhen evening star. you can see her now living in washington holding up her board and the monopoly board on the ma

this is the flatiron building. if there were no wall and this was a loadbearing building it would fall down. you have to have water. we got water in 1842 when the reservoir open. you have to have a flushing system. here we have the famous flush down wc made by mr. craper. it is also convenient to have electricity. we started getting electricity in the early 1880's. there was a byproduct of electricity, steam. all the buildings north of park avenue are built over railroad tracks. there are no basement and places to put boilers. how do they heat the buildings? from coned steam a byproduct of electricity. back to the crystal palace that tall structure on the left is the observatory. the tower was 315 feet high. people would look at the city. how did they get up there? an elevator. alisha graves otis installed the safety elevator. the first one to house one in the city is the building on broom and broadway. buildings started going taller and taller. this was the equitable life insurance building at 120 broadway. this w

ifill: on tomorrow's "making sense thursday," economics correspondent paul solman reports on the flatiron where, after 12 weeks of intense training in computer coding, 99% of students land well-paying tech jobs. >> i couldn't find anything. i couldn't find even an interview. people would not respond back to the emails and once i finished the program and i changed my job title to a software engineer. just like that same hour, my inbox was full of messages. just like people sending emails and calling you. >> reporter: how did you feel? >> i felt like i was on top of the mountain, like i was powerful. where were you guys a couple of months ago when i was looking for a job? >> woodruff: don't go anywhere we'll be back with the hit song "blurred lines," marvin gaye, and how an l.a. jury just shook up music making. but first, it's pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. >> brown: for northern peru jeffrey brown for the pbs newshour. >> ifill: we turn now to a legal decision that's resonating loudly in the music business. when is a borrowed b

do remember the photograph of the flatiron building? he marveled at the rate at which the building went up. they put up the empire state building at the rate of 4.5 stories a week. this photograph -- taken july 21 -- you can see the steel framing. there is a 10-story lag between the time they get the framing up and you start having the face put on. when you have the facing put on and the windows in place, then you can start putting down the floors, putting up walls, having the painters come, putting the building together. engineers today say that you probably use 30% less still than -- steel than they used in those days because of the improvements in the product. they started putting up this building. the story was that they were putting it up so quickly that the steel was still hot from the furnaces in pittsburgh. this woman, bill moskowitz, who was his right hand in albany started a public relations firm, and she thought it would be marvelous to record the work and give credit to the workers, and she had known a photographer in the ea