For that kind of a system, or you price the cost of it into it. But if everything is at price and you are building an inefficient mechanism, there are two problems. One, that will come back in the price. And two, it is random. Because if you think of people similarly situated and similarly injured in that system, somebody thinks about going to a lawyer, another person doesnt think about going to a lawyer, you dont have social justice. It has kind of an administration, everybody is entitled and it is relatively easy. A lot of people fear the court. They dont want to waste their time. So that system is, in some way, a crapshoot. It is random. And i would say the greatest advantage of the jury system is the interim of fact. Everybody is scared of the jury and that is why you can settled more settle more cases. Having a big fear factor is not you keep messing around, you might have a nuclear holocaust. I think the jury trial, and maybe some of the myths around it, lead to that kind of beha
Albert tan. Good morning and welcome im the president of the chinese Newcomers Center on behalf of the center im here to show our support our city mayor, mayor ed lee and supervisor julie to continue to supports and funding of this program this program is virtually to the newly immigrants to provide a job while their locking to generate more revenue for the city to keep chinatown clean and more tourists doing theyre shopping and diane so we both have an vantage on this we sincere since this proposal is running successfully as the mayor and julie and we have to keep both in the office okay. Thank you very much laughter clapping . Great, thank you al better again, we cannot thank mayor ed lee and supervisor christensen for working together on those programs so we will okay. This is our prototype next week well be giving out the free trash can for the merchant to everybody is on board to keep chinatown clcl. This is a meeting of the rec and park commissioner president buell commissioner V
Minutes. 3 minutes. To comment on each item and on about general Public Comment and when you make Public Comment please comment to the commission in order to allowing allow equal time neither the commission more staff will comment during general Public Comment but the staff may answer questions when did Public Comment is done on item 2 the president s report. Briefly i know well hear more about this from staff i want to congratulate all with outlands a huge success and give me the normal kinds of challenges traffic, etc. He think everybody did an extraordinary job. Monument to make Public Comment under the president s report. Not yet. Okay. You would be the first to comment. I think under general Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed were on item 3 which is the general manager report. Good morning commissioners former vacationed are just about over my kids are back in school what a great summer for rec and park a quick overview in summary we provided for 80 different tha
But in particular with regard to underground Natural Gas Storage, theres a very collaborative atmosphere over the course of two decades already worth of information study and sharing, and now with the recommended practices that have been developed, the question now is how do we best set the minimum Safety Standards that could be national in nature and then recognizing that any state could of course go beyond those minimum Safety Standards and advance whatever additional Safety Measures they would want to undertake that are specific to their particular operating atmosphere. We have two more and then well come back here. We have about five minutes left so maybe if i can take all four quickly but you have to be quick. I want to see, are you issuing like a notice of proposed rule making for these underground gas storage standards or is it something else. If it is a notice, are you trying to finalize it later this year also . Hold on. Raise your hands if you had one just so she can find you
[applause] jessica hello, i am Vice President on the board and the event chair. Welcome to everybody. We are excited and honored to have an illustrious panel of investigative journalists today. This is ethics week at the society of professional journalists, which is the National Version of the Deadline Club, which is the new york chapter. There is a lot going on in freedom of information, it is the 50th anniversary of the freedom of information act. One thing our National Society is proud of and we think is important is our Legal Defense fund just gave a 10,000 grant to a Nonprofit Organization in new orleans which has been consistently not giving over public records on public purchases. That is the kind of battle that is going on. You may know that under the obama administration, while president obama has promised incredible transparency, in fact there have been a Record Number of foia lawsuits under his administration. They have doubled this year from when he first took office. That