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Succeed. I am in for ali velshi and this is real money. The race to develop a vaccine for ebola is finally shifting in to high gear. We learned today that global drug manufacturers have committed to producing millions of vaccine doses in 2015. Hundreds of thousands should be ready by the first half of the year. We are going to explore how big of a challenge that will be both lodge its lodge us lick atlogistically an. A day after fears in america spiked after a doctor tested positive for the viru...

There was no other model like this, no other example like this. The auto executive is february used oning markets . Average is 500 for 100 residents. He is hard at work creating a car for the future. They are not driverless cars. You are still in the car. You are in command but we are giving you more power on your car. Carlos goen was born in brazil, raised in lebanon, educated in france and now spends his time between east and west. Hes concerned about the rise of extremim in the middle east. S...

Or working with darpa as we are doing and with fda on this toxicity chip. Working on the brain initiative, a new effort which isugoing to be focused between nih and nsf and darpa and a number of private industries and philanthropies trying to make sure these kind of interdisciplinary efforts that jim was talking about are tapped into in every way. We are always looking at that. We are even looking at our peer review system to ask whether while we claim its the best in the world, are we sure abou...

This summary presentation is a distillation of the present. The full report is 150 pages or so, available online. It is lessons learned, as well as a separate technical it guide to help save other cities time and money as they pursue smarter parking management. All of this was designed to help other cities learn from our experience and improve on it. So after that, to jump into the evaluation itself. Demand responsive pricing was at the heart of the project, a natural place to start is how did w...

The presiding officer does any senator wish to vote or change his or her vote . If not, the ayes are 93, the nays are zero. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate on the beecroft nomination. Without objection all time is yielded. The question occurs on the nomination. All in favor say aye. All opposed, nay. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The nomination is confirmed. There will be two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the dy...

And what you see here are the seven pilot areas covering about 25 of the citys metered spaces and 13 of our 19 garages. What you dont see on the map are two control areas the Inner Richmond and union street, where we did the same level of Data Collection, but none of the policy or technology changes. Part of the sfmta rispontto gather an unprecedented amount of data to enable a truly rigorous evaluation of the project, both by our team, as well as an independent federal evaluation team, whose re...

The full report is 150 pages or so, available online. It is lessons learned, as well as a separate technical it guide to help save other cities time and money as they pursue smarter parking management. All of this was designed to help other cities learn from our experience and improve on it. So after that, to jump into the evaluation itself. Demand responsive pricing was at the heart of the project, a natural place to start is how did we effect rates . And many people were concerned at the begin...

Long time, to get them matched up with a parking space and off the roads as quickly as possible. Underlying all of this was an investment in a powerful Data Management system, which didnt just enable a thorough evaluation of the sfpark pilot, but was woven into our daytoday operations with rate changes, contract management, ad hoc analyses, a true instance of smart cities using information to make smarter and smarter decisions and consistent request sfmtas movement in this direction. So that is ...

At the heart of the project, a natural place to start is how did we effect rates . And many people were concerned at the beginning of the project that sfpark would be an excuse for the sfmta to simply raise rates and even in the context of an increasing population and booming economy, we saw that on average we lowered onstreet rates by 4 . And hourly rates at garages by about 12 . And what you see here is an average rate at meters of 2. 58, but that represents an average of sf metered hours, 30 ...

In San Francisco, and one of my favorite culture artists is here tonight. Jason, thank you for being on culturewire. Tell us about some of your posters that we have here today. Most of the posters here are four specific shows or tours. I am hired by the bands or the venue. What is the inspiration behind these posters . No, disease of the related to the bay and, of course. Music it is related to the band, of course the musical content or isnt related to the bed. Album covers can come from anywher...