the data retention policy can be expensive. this is a huge government expense and to get a sense of the possible cost congress appropriated $500 million to implement the communications law enforcement act a few years ago and this did not involve ongoing costs such as data retention well. should the industry be expected to observe the cost we should be clear what the costs are and the benefits will be so i look forward to hearing testimony from the witnesses and hope we can have a productive conversation about the complexity of the data retention policy. thank you, mr. chairman, for holding a hearing. >> thank you mr. space. the chair recognizes the chairman of the committee, the gentleman from texas, mr. smith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. like you i think our witnesses for being here today, and it's nice to be on the same side of the administration or maybe i should say and what they are on our side of the works well regardless. i also want to mention, mr. chairman, i heard mr. scott's remarks right now and i am confident we wil

we are hearing questions about the data you are requesting. we are sitting back there saying, "we have done that. we have it right here. there is all the wellness' data. they come to me with their plan." the have to ask themselves how this proposal answers the needs described and how the alliance to strategic plans. what are the outcome measures? we have things like 80% of the students felt heard and respected by at least one other student in the group. this is well mistake to we have had. i have measures here from athletics, which also reports to me. they will say the lack of equipment for school teams -- the safer environments at athletic events measured by the number of incidents occurring in relation to the total events. i have this going back to 2005. these kind of data things -- there are tons of measurements we have been looking at over the years. program managers back here have submitted these documentations to us, to me and their fiscal managers. one of the first things we ask is how you know it is having an impact. how the universe is

information. >> do you believe based on the data that was on the page that three minutes would be enough time to memorize that data? >> i can't speak for the individual. >> i don't want to ascribe mysterious motives to the company because i am embarrassed at harvest process has happened from the beginning to this moment and i am very exercised about the notion that we will not have a policy in this country that doesn't take into account when we are having a competition that it is a company that is subsidized to a very large extent. if we were subsidizing boeing to this extent there would be press conferences going on around here about how this is a subsidy asian, bailout, government shouldn't be in private companies but somehow it is okay now. i don't get that inconsistency. thank you very much, mr. chairman and thank you all. i understand you are here. my passion about this has very little to do with the fine work you have done and the efforts he made after this unfortunate incident but very important that i explain what is going on. thank you very much. >> mr. chairman,

a note about the data that we used for the homeless numbers numbers, we used data from counts that communities submit to hud. the data are not perfect but we examine them carefully and they are adjusted where we find problems with them. although not without limitations, we think that the data do present a valid picture of what's going on in terms of homelessness in america. the homelessness went up -- this is probably not a surprise to anyone given the recession. we looked at several economic factors that are associated with homelessness to see what happened to them during the period. unemployment, unemployment, of course, is up some 60% more people were unemployed during the period we looked at. incomes, low wage worker incomes were down about 2%. that's twice as much as the rate of workers incomes fell overall in the country. housing, the number of people who were low income and doubled up went up 12% over the period we looked at. people who become homeless were often doubled up before they became homeless. so this has obviously appearance big effect. the number of severely housing cost burd

the data collection method needs to be established by each program to ensure that date that is relevant. that speaks to some program goals. the next one, we actually come across barriers. it is a question of how this is impacting the students. that is setting the stage for evaluation that needs to be in place for what i call research questions to be addressed are examined. lastly, once those are all in place, impact can be assessed. the second page, the page with the arabs -- that is pretty much the building blocks. i like to refer to them as layers in order for impact to actually be measured. the third sheet, with the five different points -- this is an example of a program, athletics, but i just used, because this is sort of the rundown of the five steps. it runs down the details of the five steps. president mendoza: i am sure everybody has questions. commissioner wynns, the you have this material in front of you? do you have questions? commissioner fewer? i am sorry. this is clarifying questions before we have public comment, so just clarifying questions. commissioner fewer: i do not

not that he made a mistake that the action falsified data. the investigator journal says that he's the better part of seven years looking at dr. price data and he says he made it up. >> all the way through the paper we see dr. rizzo chiselling the data falsifying medical histories of children, essentially concocting the picture which is of much of it he was contracted defined by lawyers having to sue if boxing minute or trees and create a vaccine scared. cnn spoke to him, dr. rachel says he did not make up the data, he says this journalist was paid by the pharmaceutical company as a hit man to say bad things about him. what's a parent to do about this? the bottom line is nearly every pediatrician will tell you get your child vaccinated, yes there are risks, not autism but other arrests. but these are tiny and far away by the vintages. they save millions of children's lives and certainly they say you should not worry brought optimism the study was never true to begin with, and factor was a hoax. >> by 50 2:00 a.m. we'll be back with more of a c

we will continue to get the data from the rest of the schools. that will allow us to send direct communication to families about any changes that are going to occur. it will also allow us to capture more information in terms of why families use services and stuff like that. the next part of the agenda is designed to give the board a sense of how stuff is actually going to create the transportation service plan under the new board policy. the handout that i gave you, which talks about transportation will not be the same -- it is the word document. on pages four and five of that, you can see the kinds of questions that we are asking to help us determine the routes. and we know that we are looking at a 57% reduction. this is a slide we have seen before. that is by 2013. we are looking at phasing out stops over a 23 year. so it will not all happen immediately. that would give of families more time to have information and plan. this is to show you how we are using data and questions to guide development for information for schools. one goal in the pol

, the ifara data that was on the page, that three minutes would be enough time to memorize that data? >> i can't speak for the individual. >> i don't want to -- have no far as motive to discover. i am just frustrated because i am embarrassed at how this process has happened from the beginning to this moment. and i am very exercised about the notion that we are not going to have a policy in this country that doesn't take into account when we are having a competiti competition, that it is a company that is subsidized to a very large extent. i mean come if we were subsidizing mr. chairman, in to this extent, they would be press conferences going on around here about how this is a subsidization bailout, government shouldn't be in private company businesses. but somehow it's okay now, and i just don't get that inconsistency and that's what i am as exercised as i am. thank you very much mr. terrific and thank you. i understand you're here, and my passion about this has very little to do with the find work you've done preparing for the string and effort you made after this unfortunate incide

the cac has said for many years that if you want us to make a recommendation we have to see the data on the impact $30 million has on our district goals. i think the board has also said that. i want to say right now that it is hard to approve this without data to back it up, because every year we just repeat what we spend and we do not have any impact at all on whether or not it joins district schools. we have had a program by a waiter for the last four years. i would -- we have had a program evaluate foor for the last four years. i would expect the report. it is hard to say ok on this when we are looking at 2014 having to go back to the taxpayers and say "will you please reauthorize this charter amendment to give us the money again when we do not have hard data to show the impact it has had." i just want to say personally that i expected to have much more data in front of me, because we requested it at the last meeting. the website does me no good right now and i cannot download it right here. if it is volumes of information, in no way am i an expert to analyze that. we rely on staff

the states. that's why we release it by state. that data, the attitudes that we release are those that are needed to form districts and compliance for the voting rights act. there are other things that are not on there. and it's these other products as we roll out that will be assembled in different geographies to -- visited a state oriented the next two months, and that's when all the details will come out. you mentioned specifically the same table that we are doing. we pledged as soon as possible, and were hoping this is in the may time frame, to release counts that reveal relationships between the person number one in the form and other persons that are labeled as spouse but have the same sex. those counts will be available at that time frame. >> thank you. i think we have a question on the phone. operator, can we have a question, please. >> operator: when the question with newsday. your line is open. >> caller: thank you. will the census bureau be releasing a schedule of when the states for redistricting data for the states, so when wil

the generator units. we're looking to consolidate data centers citywide. we have analyzed all of the city-owned facilities through the internal process whereby the members had input into this process, we have decided to consolidate where servers are house around the city. one location would be at the airport. we are just kicking off a new space which could be shared by the city. this is about half of the capacity that we need. the other is where we establish additional space to start to relocate to other servers that are currently underutilized or expensive space around the city and moved them to a consolidated space. in this lease is consistent and in line with expectations from long-term savings and how to consolidate and bring these systems and operations to the locations. but as my final slide. or will welcome any questions. >> thank you. why don't go to the budget analyst and the report there? >> i point out on the report is that the proposed legislation, the department of technology has issued a request for qualifications and that is in the computer s

may be we don't need the data. >> i can think where crn's have helped. they have been able to put aside emotions. you can call me ernie. i don't call him chief. getting back to the gun buy back. i think we are right in line. we are doing the same buy back. we could use more. i think if you were to talk about gun violence. in 2006. we took 238 off the street and already in 2008. we have taken 296. a lot of people are high 5ing. to me. where are those guns coming from. where are these guns coming from. if the numbers are becoming so high, we are quadrupling. we better find out where they are coming from. the gun buy back is good because it cuts down to domestic violence. you can no longer sell the gun. people are selling us guns they can't sell otherwise. i am not saying it's a bad program. we would like to have more gun buy backs. it always comes back to capabilities and your help to get to the community and tell people. if you see a gun. call us. we will make a report. we just took an ak 47. we bought that gun and nothing happened. i would rather do that.

called on to say for legislation that would mandate the internet service providers retain customer data at a hearing in the house judiciary subcommittee on crime terrorism and homeland security they expressed concern that in order to fight crime especially in the cases of child pornography eight iowa species to keep more data on their customers now nobody wants to stifle child pornography investigations but if passed this would affect all of us so what would it mean for privacy when you're discussing with music. and randy associate director of technology studies at the competitive enterprise institute brian thanks for being here but let's first start you know with why law enforcement considers this a problem i mean in the meantime every i.s.p. has their own policy right some keep this content for days some might keep it for months there's no formal rule that's correct right now internet providers vary dramatically in terms of how long they retain this data but by and large the data is retained for a period of several months law enforcement does use it from time to time not all providers

should ask help to do reliability testing. >> reporter: officials say they will continue to fine tune the datand are working with individual doctors to fix mistakes. >> i would like it see this get better. i'd like to see it as a community that overtime we can incorporate outcome data in to this and satisfaction data into this, make the tool better over time. >> so let's hope that it works out. >> and it's a little bit like a yelp for doctors. >>> some familiar faces in the super bowl. >> a variety of the players that are in this game grew up here in the bay area and we talk about aaron rodgers all the time, but you can't forget who he's throwinging passes to. mean whig the commissioner is willing to take a pay cut if certain deadlines are not metz. the $1 salary proposal. plus the dirt has been dumped in to the coliseum and it has nothing to do with the infield. just what's in storehis weekend? it's pretty high flying. kind of like jeff's forecast. >> oh, yes. it is high when it comes to those numbers. take a look in the south bay, the warmest spot of the day, we'll talk about a record settin

that we got the really tremendous bytes of data. >> one of the patterns important to be identified?users turned into active and how active turned into deactivated users. we really try to understand all the different variables. did you put a profile picture up or not? when you join, did you join a dense network of friends or loosely collected? if users come back regularly, we're building a new product. >> was the data you're looking for the thing used for targeted advertising? what people were buying and products they used? >> yeah, what users clicked through and things like that. >> at a presentation to advertisers in 2007, mark zuk zukerberg pitched the benefits. >> on facebook we know the gender and exactly how old they are and interested in. >> facebook's lifeblood and the heart of the revenue model is the accumulation of data its users volunteer, including their interests or likes. advertisers who help boost facebook's revenue to an estimated 1$1.4 billion in 2010 by access to that gold mine of anonymous demographic information. recently it was uncovered that third party develop

he pointed out, and i want to reiterate the importance of using advanced data, getting the right data, doing the right targeting to allow us to manage risk, segment traffic, however you want to label it, the idea is that we are separating the wheat from the shaft. we are moving low risk trade and moving through our borders. it's not a stopping appointment. the points of entry and the border are not a stopping point. along with that, we have to make sure we are conducting effective enforcement, not more enforcement, not less enforcement, but effective enforcement of our problems, and we all recognize whether you're talking about the protection of property rights or the protection of the american public on import safety issues that enforcement has to be a tool in the strategy to be able to do those things well. we are undertaking or we have undertaken a number of initiatives either from cbp or as part of a larger government-wide initiative, or even global initiative in a number of areas that i'd like to give you a few more details about. the first one i'd like to talk about just a littl

eads said they did not look at the data. is that correct? >> no. they did not say that. >> they said they look at it for a brief period of time. >> they look at the screen shot. that made them nervous and they realize they should not look at that. >> it appears to me that they are originally said they look at it for a short period of time. they might have look at it longer than they originally said they had look at it. is that correct, mr. shirley. ? >> what we were able to determine if the file was opened for an extended period of time. the statement by the employee we thought was consistent with what we saw in the digital media. >> can you pin down how long? why do you mentioned the computer was powered logger? >> it goes toward -- when we perform an exam, we look at the media at a number of different levels. one of the things that is associated with the computer being in a power state is that there is a feature called clock time that tells you how long the computer is in operation and what files may be manipulated while it is in operation. it is

the first question i have for you is the data in this poll, the one that came out in february, is it consistent with other data that you've seen, particularly the point that physicians attributed 26% of overall health care costs to the practice of defensive medicine, and then secondly, that 73% of the physicians agreed they had practiced some form of defensive medicine in the past 12 months. so my first question is whether that data in the gallop poll is consistent with data that you have seen elsewhere. >> mr. griffin, i think the data on the cost of defensive medicine vary considerably from low estimates of $56 billion over ten years to this was the largest estimate of $650 billion. you can go back to studies like kesler, mcclellan and others who looked at it and the costs of defensive medicine are astr astronomic. it is not going away. a very well-known study done not by doctors, but lawyers, the harvard group, shows 90% of physicians in the state of pennsylvania practice defensive medicine. when they surveyed residents, doctors in training across all residencies in pennsylvania, t

some physicians say the data is unreliable and ask consumers to look beyond the system. >> look at theata, talk it over with their clinic, but they should ask medika to do testing on the data. >> officials say that they are continuing to refine the data and are working with doctors trying to fix errors. >> this morning verizon is promising a smooth launch of the iphone next month. we found out from the website apple insider.com that the chief operating officer is saying quote we're not going to have flaws on the execution of the iphone. the company says it's learned from at&t's mistakes when the iphone 3g caused massive server meltdown. verizon added capacity with the iphone in mind. the company will begin selling the apple iphone on february 10. >> apple is not going to attend this year's mac world event again. the annual event lets developers showcase their apple accessories. despite the no show from apple itself, the event organizers say the number of exhibitors is up this year compared to last year. yahoo! news says it's possible that accessories for the verizon iphone 4 will be on

we have taken a look at the data. this is a sampling by line. one of the things that we have done since we first spoke to you about this in september is we have made a change in the software so that the destination sign, the voice in the station, the station platform, all have the same destination. that had been an inconsistency in the system. that gives us the ability to let someone know early on if there train is going to be switched back. one of the things i am laying out on action items is to continue to make sure that our sign-ins' it is proper, consistent on announcements, and that we follow the policy that there will only be a turn back if there is a train five minutes behind. finally, in terms of the overview from our perspective, our goal is to provide the most reliable service without the need to switch back. we are taking a number of actions to improve the reliability of the system. we are certainly willing, and are investigating other steps, particularly on the surface to find out how to get more reliable. supervisor chu had asked for

or waiting in traffic with the other data. adding lanes to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different fearing wave lakes and to that effect each plane is flying it. and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of data. google facebook or amazon and you're redefining the world of cloud computing. one hundred data being set up every year around the world. expect. technology. and possibly. innovative. from the. project. over the next decade. it might just be born right here in. these. groups. and. and this has to be done in russia immediately otherwise we would never you know cross the bridge between science and manufacturing would be because between science and avoiding one of our troops there is a huge gap and there is a prototype development and scientist i myself i'm a scientist they very often say don't understand how huge is this get. wealthy british scientists some time to. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global econo

the plant facility. c -- planned facility? chair chu: no, i think it is about a future data center. we talked previously from the comptroller's office above the cost potentially of having to make investments to retrofit a facility. is that part of the capital plan at this time? >> absolutely. supervisor chu, capital planning staff had been involved since the beginning, and actually were part of the leadership in some of the early studies on data centers, the issues, and facilities, and investment, so it absolutely was flagged as part of that capital planning discussion, and i think it is viewed similarly by the capital planning staff from what you have heard today. chair chu: thank you. supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: again, what is the differential? >> it is approximately $1.90 million total. i have a monthly in front of me. i have that off the top of my head. what we are currently paying in one market is closer to $1 million a year annually. however, i will say that we are on a month-to-month agreement in one market, and the rent has fluctuated. if we have played up to

all the historical data will be very useful when it comes time for the next examination, potentially as we move toward having more we tell customers. all this data makes forecasting better and easier. a few final thoughts, as was mentioned before. the redevelopment areas are a very small sliver, maybe 1% to 2% of the budget. because of that and because there are no current customers there, our process has been easy. if you look over our minutes, we have not one word of public comment. there are no existing customers being affected by this. it was a very easy process. we have also noted that the redevelopment areas are at or above cost service. these rates do not relate subsidize the general fund rates or the excess sales of power. there are contracts with modesto and rates for the enterprise from the airport. the green is very commendable. finally, the community choice aggregation is moving down a path. that will be a much more difficult and much more controversial process for you and for the rate fairness board, but we are up to the challenge. we think this is a nice starting point f

waiting in traffic with the data. to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different. speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about. computer. one hundred. the world. in two thousand and six. that's a huge number. expect. future. development . technologies to develop. to competitive firms with cutting edge projects. and possibly the way they build successful innovative business abroad and bring them home. over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan in southeast asia. well the time come to build up this kind of center in russia the resoundingly answer from moscow right now that's see idea at the heart of the skolkovo project an international city of science and technology set to fan out over the next decade in all directions from this spot just outside of moscow so the next time technology update brings you a high tech success story it might just be born and raised right here in till then enjoy the right. i hope that school concept is going to cover these. to

if we had numbers of participation, we have all the data. it is very easy to do statistically. but the key is for the programs to define this outcome measures -- these outcome measures. it has been difficult. commissioner maufas: ok. it should not be difficult at this point in time, deputy superintendent, mr. armitrage. the you have something to say before i ask my next question? i am listening. >> just to respond to your comments regarding the carry over. within that 9.2%, you are right. that is $1.17 million. but it is important to point out for the record that we are, as a district, conservative in how the budget. for example, we place budgets at the highest step. when we calculate benefits, we also are conservative about that, because we are not sure what retirement costs are. it is better to air and have extra than the reverse. that is our district policy. there are usually adjustments made to reflect that. our policy, given the state of the budget crisis and our already dedicated reserve, it was a policy decision to not allow that to be redirected within the program. in te

what did the president do to help minorities create jobs? . . to provide him with data on contracting, on small business lending, and if you look at small business 24 out of the 27 million are people that do less than 10 million a year. so that kind of analysis is really critical to dealing with unemployment, dealing with contracting, lending all of these things are a combination of those. >> this president has in a certain way, post racial, has not been an advocate of race specific solutions. he's been talking lower income or more less advantaged businesses. but what can be done specifically for minority businesses? >> we should talk about things that we are doing as well. i look at our role as actually filling a lending gap. our programs are designed to address where there are gaps in lending. and so with that said, it's very clear that our underserved communities are disproportionately hard hit by this recession we're going through. that's the facts. so to me that is a gap. that a of capital access for the sba as to how can we fill that gap. one way is we recently an

the time was to rent the site for an interim time while the city secured and renovated the city-owned site for a data center. there was some concerns that we had because of the costs associated and the inability for us to finance such a construction project. the office of public financing and the comptroller's office did do an analysis to try to compare the renovation potential to petite paul street site towards the future: site. we estimated that the cost for one market was in excess of $17 million. the policy -- the paul site was estimated at $1 million. the future on side was estimated to be 11.8 million. this took into account the tenant improvements and the mechanical, electrical, computer equipment, insulation moving costs. it was clear to us as we amortized the costs that it was more cost-effective for the city to actually luis the site and in fact consolidate many of the other servers that might be located throughout the city and so with that recommendation, the staff did a study in a survey of all of the equipment in the city and there was a policy decision made that has been confirmed and n

bmj, this journal, says wakefield faked the data on the 12 kids who were the focus of the 1998 study. they show evidence he faked it and he had financial motives for doing so. i spoke with wakefield a short time ago, about two hours ago. we're going to have the complete interview at 10:00 p.m. on "360" as well as rebuttal from sanjay gupta. another reporter that has been investigating this for years. here's just some of my interview with wakefield. sir, according to this new report, not only did you do a study that was scientifically and ethically flawed, it was, quote, an elaborate fraud. an award winning investigative journalist has published evidence that you had sought to exploit the scare among parents for financial gain. how do you respond? >> you know, i had to put up with this man's false allegations for many, many years. i've written a book -- >> this is not just one man. this is published in the british medical journal. >> i have not as yet had a chance to read that but i have read his multiple allegations on many occasions. he's a hit man. he's been brought in to take me do

budget for building communications systems including telecom, security, and a v equipment needs for the data center, conference facilities, and into credit controls for the building system. the network system is critical to operate the building as a smart building. one of the unique sustainability features of the building is that we will have fully integrated building systems. all building systems will be able to talk to each other, maximizing efficiency. window shades, lighting, heating, and cooling wall talk to each other. this will increase the efficiency of the building and comfort of the occupants. there are monitors at this -- monitors outside the building for the movement of the sun. it directs shades to move up and down over the course of the day. as shades move down, lighting inside increases. there are zones within each floor for mechanical and lighting so that it is colder on the north side than the south side it adjusts the system appropriately and minimizes -- and maximizes the efficiency of those systems. we will have integrity controls that will work in unison together instead