the data has been collected. it is not that the city has been trying to figure out, on its own, with the numbers are, but it is data that came directly from the restaurant's come directly from the businesses that are covered. one thing is clear, we have two examples. we have the health reimbursement account example, which is the liberal we're trying to close. then we have the example of what is happening with health the san francisco, in terms of the same specific accounts that apply to the same population. in terms of mra's. the same account, the same population. you see the difference in terms of usage. in help the san francisco, the usages 55%. with respect to the reimbursement accounts, the median is 50%. you know, just on the data we have available that when you have none of the restrictions that the business community is opposing on these accounts, the people are more than three times more likely to use the account. i do not understand why there is a need to wait when the evidence is clear that the problem i

the data centers move to where power gets generated. what is the next hardest thing to move? big data. did it is still really hard to move, even though we have lots of wavelets. that says that the application moves to the data is. if you think about facebook and google and all those folks, they build data center's right were the power is generated. typically near hydro plants and so on. what you find is that more and more applications will move to where the data is. moving those big chunks of data is very difficult. in terms of enterprises in the cloud, there is certainly no reason to suspect that the systems used by cloud vendors like amazon are not capable of geographic replication and redundancy. it is absolutely the case that someone like netflix, for example, could survive an outage of two simultaneous amazon did a centers through geographic redundancy and so on. this stuff exists, and the technology exists within the cloud providers to make sure that once your data gets there, it is not going away. it is just not a cloud provider solution. most enterprises will have thin

we are in the process of implementing a new data system to make us better. i can tell you how many right now are successful in terms of the determinations that we have. that was my last budget presentation. numbers show that we are improving successful terminations, 26%. all of it going in the right direction. when we started we had 600 probationers. with numbers going in the right direction, some going up, the other is going down, what we do not have and have not had is a system that allows us to mine the data the board has supported, and in a previous budget we did create a system, not only for risk assessment, but also to collect data. we are actively in the process of working on system design. so, we know, by virtue of the contract, that we will have, from the time that we agree on specification requirements, within 12 months we will have a fully formed a data system. parts of it have been implemented now. it gives the enabling of information for court sentences. this plan, to the public defender and the alternative sentences, to answer your question, we

when questions are posed on the data, it is very challenging. that is where the coordinated case management system is in dire need of support. actually able to attract clients through systems. that does not include the criminal-justice system. the chief, and her wonderful work, we have several partnerships under way. given that the realignment of the population that we often end up serving in some capacity, through these coordinated case management systems, it provides a base line for how you begin to expand what we have in the general hospital and health department to other systems. we do have some partnerships with the criminal justice system that are very well developed and we can build on our clinical case management system. we have better access to that. these clients are very involved and in order to better serve them, we have to have client information as well as health information. we are hoping to build on the partnership with the chief. supervisor mirkarimi: i would really encourage that. encourage the department of public health on tha

so i abrogated all of the data. anybody want to guess? out of 40 of the largest companies in the world, how many of the were using one or more of these -- there was about seven different applications, all delivered out of clout, -- cloud. that's over. best guess, not over. 38 out of 40. of the largest companies in the world. using one or more of these. when we debate the question of will corporations use the cloud, i would say they already have. we clearly are still in the early adoption days. i rattle off some very interesting stories right now of companies you know right now who are using lots of interesting computing and storage cloud services as well. i just wanted to get people to start to think. companies are moving this way. there is a bay area company -- i will not name names, but the cfo walk into the cio's office and said, "no more capital expenditure." the reason why i talk about this as a business model is -- and, by the way, i would be happy to send any of you guys a copy of this book. or if you want epub versions, we can do t

this last year, they said the third highest item. we did hold a data conference with each and every school district. >> i wanted to know whether this third one that came out was on the survey or was that added. this is something you have not been asked before. this seems to reflect the practice we were using. >> we did not change a single item. last is the data conference results from our schools and when we look at [unintelligible] as well as parents representing us, -- they shared with us their success story. there did as success stories. i would encourage all of you to go to schools and ask them about their data success stories. i am going to recap. i would love to list every single one of my schools. i knew i had a limitation of time. that is the reason i am listing only some schools. there are many more for each bullet we have. what did schools say contributed to their success? what did they say led to their success or were part of their success story? using formative assessments to inform instruction. when they said formative assessment it was br

so i think the data is going to be a real plus for us. i was wondering that hopefully the step will keep us informed. it starts in october. within a couple of months of the new year, we will start being able to look at that data. >> i would also like to commend both acting director sweeney and the staff that basically made this happen. it has been far too long that it took, but at the same time we are here now. the category of the metrics this provides is on the staff and technology that brings us up to speed. it will help with the work flow. it is good for the public and staff. that, the challenge will be the acceptance of staff and the public on certain sectors. but i think let us give it the due process and do time to see if it does work. also, hoping to navigate the coordination of multiple departments is point to be huge. also, the metric of tracking it all the way through is going to be good. but we need some tweaking that will happen along the way. one of those i see it right off the bat is the multiple permits, especially on the ca

since the advent of data centers. many companies enter into the market. it is not a trivial market to enter. the cost of building these things, by the way, is $1,000 per square foot, which is expensive even by

how the data outside these findings are presented. let's go back to our fire experiment on the plains of africa at 3.5 million years ago. of russell in the grass. is a dangerous predator or just the wind? what is the difference between the wind and a dangerous predator? the wind is an inanimate force. dangerous predator is an intentional agent. there is a big difference there. our brain tends to excuse the patterns we find with an intentional agency. we think there is something hidden there, a force. not just an inanimate force but a force with some essence for being to it. a dangerous predator in tends to eat me and that can't be good. we also had a value judgment. i call this agenticity. the basis of the belief in animism and spiritualism and ghosts, poltergeist and demons and angels and aliens and conspiracies and the afterlife. it is all part of this fact that we're national nafta-natural born duelist. we think there is pour correll and incorporeal. body and soul. brain and mind. as if they are two different things. i argue in "the

if we test them right, if we use our knowledge and experience the data here, we are going to have the best performing automobiles developed by the companies that have a great interest in saving us from oil and making sure that our country moves in the right direction. this is our new economy, one that i am proud to say we are doing across major cities across the country. but we in san francisco want to lead the way. we want to be the experimenters, the ones that push out this idea that we can do it in the bay area. if we do it here, it sends a trend across the country that they can do it elsewhere. get ourselves off of oil, into a more pollution-free society. i just thank all the people working together on this. it takes everybody working together to line up not only our educational institution with us, car manufacturers with the stimulus package fund from the government, and with our own local leaders to make sure we are doing the right thing. again, thank you very much for using your many years of leadership in the auto industry to bring forth new technology, new ways of doing thing

our role is to provide the data, to get a clean enough. commissioner borden: this is more an operational issue. one day, i have an issue where the f lines were packed. the van ness station was not operational. they had shut it down. i do not understand what happened on the inside. more than once, the station has been shut down, and not because of a protest, because of trains being stuck in a tunnel. do we have antiquated systems in the tunnel? for me, one of the reasons you have an impact is unpredictability about when the train is gone to come. are they stuck in the tunnel? water we doing about that? for me, the system works really well when it works. what about the issues in that area. >> we have one of the most porous transit systems. it is not fully separated from traffic. art is rarely late or has on- time performance issues. a lot of our muni rail system is on street level. they can get stuck in traffic, which causes public transit -- public congestion. with the tunnel itself, we are basically at capacity. we are upgrading a lot of sy

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.

the data is not going to be great. it's not an economy that's going to grow gangbusters, but we don't see the economy as falling off a cliff. >> reporter: and neither do business leaders at two bellwether firms. the head of general electric, jeffrey immelt, and u.p.s. chief scott davis have both said a double dip is unlikely. but just in case, some strategists recommend investors position their portfolios defensively. >> we think the best bet for your typical investor is to focus on high quality dividend- paying stocks in the utilities and consumer staples sectors while simultaneously avoiding financials. >> reporter: so although utilities and consumer staples may not be terribly exciting investments, safety may be more appealing to many investors these days. erika miller, "nightly business report," new york. >> tom: still ahead, from i.d. theft to being safe during a semester abroad, why insurance is important to life on a college campus. president obama has visited ohio and north carolina this week, hoping to put pre

eventually, you will have all the data you're looking for at your fingertips. whether you need to get to a meeting or a friend's house or moving around the city, whether transit, bicycle, texas, or a car make sense, you can see what is available there. we are the cradle of all of these high-tech businesses. we should contact them to ask for support in this. on parking, demand management, parking is something where we have one of the best tools for demand management, tied with conduction pricing -- with congestion pricing. the program has been launched over the city where the data from the ground feed into a database and let's customers see whether parking is available. this is what it looks like in real time. you get to see what is available in terms of availability, whether it is heavily utilized or freely available. as you make the trip, as you get closer, the spots pop up. we are not anti car. we want people who need to drive to get to their destination quickly, so they are not forming congestion. almost a third of our congestion in the city is double parking

the epa model data says in two cases they may not be. >> the model data show that the transport from the plants in texas are affecting and causing, will cause noncompliance downwind. air blows across the country from west to east, and the emissions in texas, the second highest source of so2 in the country, effects places other than texas. >> most of the time in texas the prevailing winds are from the north to the south, madam administrator. >> not the south to the north. >> okay, my home area of new orleans. yes, but it does blow. the wind blows pollution across and around the country. >> my time has expired. >> thank the gentleman. gentle lady from illinois, ms. schakowsky is recognized for five minutes. >> i want to, first, to correct what i think is, was implicit, mr. chairman, in what you were saying that somehow ferc opposed the rules that are affecting power plants. and i just want to quote some of the testimony at a september 14th hearing of our energy and commerce committee. the experts did set the record straight. the federal, the federal energy regulatory commission chairma

and the data we saw had non-san francisco enrollment as high as 16%, and so the committee has asked for additional information, including a discussion with the administration about the enrollment policy. secondly, we discussed the board of education policy revisions, we're trying to put online all of the breast cancer -- board of education policies and the committee will be taking a careful look at recommendations of what to put on the web in alignment with recommendations of the school board association and finally update on advocacy request for proposal. our next meeting will be on october 17 where we'll take up the enrollment policy issue and the board of education policy revisions again. president mendoza: thank you. any other reports? commissioner wynns? vice president yee riley? commissioner wynns: i wanted to make an addition to the rules committee report because all the members of the board have gotten or are supposed to get the 9,000 series, the one that's in detail proposed because we wanted everybody to give us input before the october 17th meeting. tell us what you think of

the state keeps the data. what i can tell you is for fiscal year 2009-2010, we paid out over $3 million in benefits to victims, their families and providers. that was for a total of 1120 cases filed in san francisco. that's not the number of victims we see, that is closer to 4000, but the number of applications was 1720. -- supervisor campos: what is the rate at which applications are approved or denied? what is the percentage in terms of applications that are approved? >> i don't know the answer to that and it depends on the benefit. in this last fiscal year, the numbers are lower for approval because of state guidelines. supervisor campos: what i am trying to get to is to have an understanding of how what we are doing relates to the need that is out there and i think that requires having a better sense of how many people are applying, how many people are seeking help, who actually ends up getting the help, and to the extent applications are denied, what the basis for that and i'll is -- the bases for that an

the more you that it involved and give the data that is asked of you, the more accurate it will be. i will leave it there. the other thing i was hoping to do today, just a power play instead of the actual web site. many remember when, about one year ago, we had some violence going on. the mayor shook a finger in city hall and talk about fixing the night life and policing yourself. it was passed by david shu, regarding promoters. it started a few years ago ended did not go anywhere. basically it wound up being a listing of promoters. so, we are pretty close to launching this website. it will look like that. not bad. it is super simple and it is one of those things that you sign up for this free. it does not create a good promoter list or a bad promoter list. it's simply is a list. san francisco has never had a listing or registry at all about who is in that business of promoting. the definition is pretty much anyone that does events at night time in san francisco. the biggest part of it for us, then use permitted by the entertainment commission -- venues permitted by the entertainmen

it depends on the type of data being captured. in a situation like this where you would want to know how many of the complaints or problems with the boy rather than something else, it does not track that. i would have to go into each of these cases and look at a notation that tells me that. we are asking for that type of data to be tracked in the new system, but it is not like that right now. i have to look of the notice of violation, and then be able to tell you that. having looked at 295 cases for the last calendar year, i will tell you a very small percentage of he completat complaints had o wideal with the boiler. the majority of complaints had to deal with this time clock not being sent properly or the thermostat being defective. if it was a single-source heating device from a gas or electrical compliance in a dwelling unit, it was usually something having to do with the heat-sensing device or maintenance. that was after going through each one of the cases individually, which we have been doing since last week. >> are they tra

in addition to that, this is what the current non-serious, non-violent parole population looks like. this data comes from the compass instrument, were they assessed every one of these cases. as you can see, what they estimate, the state prison, that the needs are, and this is based upon actual assessment, 72.3% need substance-abuse services. 67.5% vocational education. residential services. homelessness, 54.6%. financial, 62.9%. employment, 51%. social, 77.2%. again, a very needy and complex population. supervisor chu: thank you for your presentation. the budget analyst is going to go into the report. i know there is going to be a place where the department is not in agreement. perhaps i can ask you to address that after the budget analyst has made the presentation. >> thank you. >> madam chair, supervisor mirkarimi, as has been stated, and we note this on the bottom of page 11 of our report, the total fiscal year 2011-2012 in county funding available for this public safety realignment plan is $10.5 million, and that includes the dollar sign4.7 million that the board of supervisors previously