on this -- which i think the gold standard, the classical gold standard, for example, stands up very well to the age of central banking, establish in the united states of the last 100 years. on the cost of the gold standard, the cost of the gold standard is but a fraction, a small fraction, of the cost of the management paper currency system. just give you one equation to think about. it appears that the total cost of the monetary system under the classical gold standard was about one-fifth of 1%. that is to say, the cost of mining gold as the source by which the monetary standard was -- >> one-fifth of 1% of what? >> one-fifth of 1% of output. forgive me. whereas today, all you have to do is walk down park avenue and look in the window for bank exchange rates and for a customer or a tourist who purchases foreign currency, the spread can be as much as 15%. there's now a great investigation which is long overdue -- and i won't mention the banks here. >> just give us the tickers. >> well, i think we've been reading about them in the newspaper, but all the banks -- the cartalized bankin

>> yes. >> you fell below that standard? >> yes. >> of the sheriff has stipulated to a plea for a misdemeanor violation. this line of questioning is asking the sheriff to have legal conclusions. >> the procedure i would like to imply with objections is object, state your basis, and if i or other members request argument, we certainly will. i will sustain the objection because i think we have gone over it. >> item d, under misconduct. these of the standards that apply to the department and you. the contract on or off duty would affect adversely on the san francisco sheriff apart it would be considered to be misconduct. >> that is what it says. >> objection on the same grounds. >> no question is pending. >> does this reflect poorly on the sheriff department? >> yes. >> list turn to a little later in the same document, a civic 13. let's turn to section 9.5. >> so, this section is entitled, departmental investigation cooperation. employees are required to actively and courteously cooperate when questioned by a competent authorit

i did not see this as one standard for the sheriff, one standard for the mayor, one standard for the board of supervisors. this is one standard for all public officials. to me, it makes mr. henderson's testimony all the more irrelevant. >> the argument from us would be that each public official is under a duty to perform the duties of office to the best of their ability. they are expected to do that. you have to look at their ability to perform the duties is affected. the standard is the same, we expect all of our officials to be able to perform the duties of office. what does the sheriff have to perform? commissioner studley: cannula explained a limitation that potentially affects -- can you a explain the limitation that potentially affects his duties to carry out his office? >> i will defer to my colleague on that. she came prepared to speak to these sorts of issues. commissioner studley: thank you. >> commissioners, first of all, i would like to back up to the legal points you were just making. about their only been one standard of conduct. these sorts of conduct codes of professi

, not unlike the efforts to agree global communication standards, global standards. but all we know that the dollar can be produced at zero marginal cost, a level to which it seems to be gravitating. but a gold dollar does require real labor and real -- to be produced. the data shows that the purchasing power of gold is steady, even constant, over centuries. whereas the paper dollar adjusted by the cpi has lost 85% of its purchasing power since 1971. just a short time ago when the u.s. repudiated the gold backing of the dollar. now, the united states has the ability to lead in the coming age of monetary reform by uni unilateral of its monetary standard, namely gold. unilateral -- means that the united states dollar will be defined in congress in federal statute as a certain weight unit of gold, just as the dollar was defined from the birth of the republic, that is to say the coinage act of 1792, until 1971. the u.s. treasury and the federal reserve and banking system will be responsible for maintaining the statutory gold value of the united states dollar. now, what w

that is an appropriate standard. moreover, we have the option when we get to the point of developing our recommendations of indicating if they meet a higher standard or level of certainty. if the facts warrant. for all those reasons, this seems appropriate to me. it is a fair question but i think our job is a little bit different. commissioner renne: i agree with you when you say we're only fact finders and if we were not required to make a recommendation, to the board of supervisors, i would be in complete agreement. if our recommendation is going to be predicated on a finding that the sheriff commit some act of official misconduct beyond that to which he pleaded guilty, then that is where i have my concerns. i reserve that as we go along. i just raise it. >> would either party like to address this issue? >> as the commissioners have gleaned from the filings we have submitted, thank you. i am sorry. i could hear myself. i thought i was transmitting. how is this? as the commissioners have gleaned from our findings, w

altering regulatory standards in order, too lou a site to be licensed. which is what happened repeatedly with yucca mountain ensures the nation won't make progress on lasting solutions which takes us to point two. the brc's emphasis on a consent-based approach was a step in the right direction. and i am pleased to hear so many members of the panel amplify that today. the commission studied what worked and what didn't work over the past 20 years and it looked overseas. it came to the conclusion that trying to foist an unending stream of nuclear waste on an unwilling state and an unwilling congressional delegation was a losing proposition. the brc stated, and i quote, it's essential to affirm a meaningful role for states, tribes and local governments that is at once positive n substantially meaningful. frankly, such an observation was long overdue. we concur with that observation but note the brc was too tentative in its recommendation. rather than attempt to build a better version of the same kind of mouse trap, such change can be accomplished by amending

, clean energy standards. the president has proposed a new federal mandate for clean energy. the ces, the chairman has been working on legislation. but i think we recognize that in an effort to comply with these requirements, sometimes those -- the question that the utilities will turn to will be american made. other times it will not be american-made. we have tensions between the goal of environmental improvement on the one hand and then job creation here in this country on the other hand. is this a situation where ultimately we're going to be able to figure this out, we really are able to have our cake and eat it, too, or will we invariably be dealing with the situation where we have to prioritize one other the other? it's either going to be more affordable energy but maybe we compromise on whether it's built here in america with jobs in america or a tradeoff with environmental aspect? do you see us getting to a point where it really is u.s. jobs? it really is a win when it comes to reduced emissions? and tr

chairperson hur: you have a standard -- an expert on the standard of care. you do not think you need either of them? >> respectfully, commissioner, we're prepared to tell you what mr. hennessy's opinion would be. >> it sounds like it would relate to the standard of care. >> it would relate to the share of's department -- sheriff's department. everyone is in agreement. if you have one, the mayor is entitled to have one. whether there are specific objections, we can do with that once we know what the opinions are. i for one think we will need a subject matter standard of care expert. the mayor and you should be entitled to have one. does the mayor have any objection to mr. hennessy? in light of what we just discussed? >> we would ask that all experts opinions be disclosed by declaration the same way as other witnesses so we can fully prepare for each others' cases. just to clarify, it is not that i have no ideai am not coming wf opinions to disclose. i have some idea what they will say, based on a preliminary conversations. on this short time line, we are not

these kids will never reach the standards we are looking for. that is just the social aspect of the physical education class. it will never be reached in independent study class. thank you guys. >> it is an injustice to our teachers that we are outsourcing the p e requirement to people who do not have credentials. and it is about independent study. it is a flawed system. we found a lot of loopholes that did not fit the curriculum or content standards of our students, to provide them with a great physical experience. we are here for the long haul. we are hoping we can hear our voice, and you guys can figure it out and make it important that pe is in schools and independent study is out. thank you. >> good evening. my name is kevin dorsey. i teach physical education, french, and avid at lincoln. it would be nice to teach just physical education, but since there are at least two dozen students taking it as an independent study, i have to teach french. independent study does not work. we are spending 20% of our annual gdp as a country on health-rela

a standard for a person looking -- running a prison or a jail must have exemplary conduct. >> are you referring to the sheriff or anyone working in the jail? >> the sheriff. >> it is ok if some of the jailers, the deputies who are subordinate are actually working in the jail, if they have a criminal record and less than exemplary personal conduct. >> i believe the sheriff has to have the discretion worst people have committed some crimes and are allowed to work because they are under close supervision because we can control the environment they are in when they are in the police department or the sheriff's department or the last chance agreement. >> you render the opinion that because the sheriff has to have maintain effective working relationships with other government agencies,, is your opinion that it would be impossible for sheriff mirkarimi to work with the other agencies if he is not removed? >> i didn't say that it was impossible, i would say that relationship is damage and i can tell you from my experience and from the other chiefs that i work with that this relationship is vi

lock them up at night. >> that is the gold standard. maybe law enforcement officers do not follow that standard, right? >> some don't. >> there are peace officers who may momentarily forgetting where they put a weapon? >> it is possible. i do not know any. but there may be. >> you would agree with me that the human mind, over time, you can forget certain things, right? >> there is a difference between misplacing a weapon and saying that you sold it. >> right. you based your opinion and your testimony on that issue based on what you have seen other people say about whatever the conversation was, right? >> it is the only information i have to base it on, sir. >> ok. you have made your comments that he did not adhere to his own department's ethical standards, right? >> yes, sir. >> because he committed this act with his wife and he was charged and convicted of a crime. let me ask you this. if there was a deputy sheriff within the san francisco departments who fell below the standards, and was not terminated or suspended for a very long tim

would actually work i do think we could go back to some kind of gold standard but i think my concerns that the politicians don't want to give you know this up now this ability to manipulate their currencies to set interest rates to stimulate the economy artificially in my view by printing lots of money injecting bank reserves whenever they want into the banking system well i mean let me put on my barack obama hat for a second and say that it's not about going back to the gold standard it's about going to the future of the gold standard you say therefore it's palpable you know go to the future hope change gold standard well up you've got it figured out ok buddy now you've got the policy now do it now what about britain right here in britain they you know the i.m.f. is calling on the bank of england to cut rates introduced more quantitative easing . in britain what's the effect not good at that from my point of view and this is why i'm so suspicious of like having a global paper currency because my fear is it will be under the control of the i.m.f. and as you just said i mean the recom

and is -- and falls below the law enforcement standard. so just the fact that he's not stopping it fall bees low the standard. the commissioners may or may not find that view persuasive. but it's a view chief lansdowne is qualified to give and to testify to and he can be cross-examined on. i would offer that. as for the notice issues that we were discussing a moment ago, we certainly want the scher toif have notice of all of our arguments and now that you have our declarations, he has notice of all of them. we tried to work flexibly with the other side. try to deal with deadlines cooperatively and witnesses cooperatively. miss lopez just submitted a declaration and she's a sheriff's witness. it's late but we're not going to argue it shouldn't come in. this is an administrative body. we're all moving as quickly as we can. i would say having the declaration cures -- that's our position. what is stated in chief lansdowne's declaration is our position finance sheriff hennessey wants to answer that as their expert, he can answer that and be sub

it was also getting off the gold standard eventually in the early 1930s. what bryan really wanted and those who were on his side in this debate wanted was a more flexible money supply. they wanted, you know, in hard times, interest rates to go down and more money in circulation in prosperous times and they were happy to go up. the kind of thing the fed does today actually. a lot of americans thought it was a great reform. we get in economic trouble like we are now, people look for panaceas, going back to the gold standard, for example. but i think, you know, as a historian, i think that in many ways one of the reasons we've been able to avoid serious economic downturns between the great depression and now is because we have had a flexible money supply and the fed is able to take charge when necessary. i don't know if you have a different point of view. >> i think one of the big issues that brian was trying to confront with the silver issue and gold standard was the great contraction of the american economy. we lived through a similar contraction in the ame

standards prevent 130,000 asthma attacks from occurring each year. these standards. imagine that, we're protecting 130,000 asthma attacks from occurring with our kids every year. so why are republicans proposing to erase limits on mercury pollution? we already know that e.p.a.'s new standards will save and improve lives. e.p.a. estimates that this rule would prevent 130,000 asthma attacks, 4,700 heart attacks and up to 11,000 premature deaths. what kind of a calamity is worse than that? there isn't any. there isn't any. heaven help those families who are tortured by learning that the problem that they have with their children's school accomplishments could have been avoided. and for every dollar we spend to reduce pollution, we get $3 to $9 in health benefits. a child born with pollution in her body is setback from day one and is going to carry that disability for her full life. the polluters just ignore the cost to american families. these companies think that their right to pollute is more important than our kid's right to breathe. and i can't believe that they're

and of gold and then of the gold standard and then you know as we know since nine hundred seventy oneven the benwood system which was the last of link to gold we and one of the reasons was that each government wanted to have their own printing press their own money and of course for the purpose of manipulating it. absolutely right the u.s. government is also a currency manipulator to try to get their currency down and they are furious with the chinese because they picked their currency to the dollar not allowing it to devalue but you see this is why i think we have now among these few currencies sort of an implicit race to the bottom and we see one ev a country you mentioned switzerland kind of a country like switzerland runs a more conservative monetary policy as the swiss have for some time this mess of pressure for that country obviously to see its currency appreciate the internal political pressures from the export industry and so forth and we've seen that last year now that the that the swiss government is taking all these measures on the central bank to weaken their currency or

puc observes the lighting standards established by national street lighting standards. when we do our photometric analysis, our target for the amount of light hitting the street is an industry standard. i would agree with you there is quite a bit of variation in the quality of the light. some is whiter. some is yellower. as we go through our elie the conversion project, we will be converting -- our led conversion project, we will be converting the cobra head-style to be dark sky contras, if you will. it is compliance it

the office of labor standards enforcement plays that role. your work in the community plays that role. workers coming forward helps to play that role. i think the task force will be really important to make sure that we have real recommendations that can strengthen workforce development and against wage theft. in my district i am looking at putting in resources for serving workers, many of them who are immigrants, and worker rights in district 11. i want to thank you for your efforts in making that come forward. the folks that are representing the residents from district 11 for your work. this is a separate issue, but i see it as very related. i will be supported as we move forward. i am sure everyone on the panel wants to speak, so first up is supervisor olague. supervisor olage: i especilaguei especially want to thank the workers are having the courage to come up and speak against this. a movement is nothing without the workers having the courage to come forward. we would not be anywhere if the workers did not have the courage to stand up f

if you are going to set the standard for sequestration, that's under the standards. show me one facility that has the commercially available technology. there is their isn't one. we cannot do it in america today. even in a laboratory setting. yet the epa set that as the standard of where we need to be. they know well this is a war on coal. there is no question about it when we look at them being called a green house glass and climate change and utility and train act. we can go on and on and on. we don't want all of the above energy sources. can you just in the time frame, is there anything more in this study that we need to review that was done by the doctor? >> i think the take away from that report is that the impact on the investment community will be huge. it changes the business model for infrastructure in america. was that the intention of the clean water act? that was not the intention of congress to change the business model for the american economy. that's ultimately what this could mean. >> thank you. apparently i ran overtime. i wanted to ask the senator f

are there any required standards or how are the standards being put in place, what are they? are some companies going far above that with new technologies to protect the information? >> the primary standard that is in place is an expectation from the regulatory agencies and it's within the goba, and the grand leach act, to have a strong risk assessment and management process in place. regulation typically does not specify the exact tools that need to be used and that i think is good, because it recognizes that the environment is evolving fairly rapidly and a tool that worked yesterday may not work tomorrow. so, it is largely up to the financial institutions to determine their best risk management practices. but i would quickly add that through the collaborations that we talked about earlier and frankly most of us, at this table have worked together over the last five to ten years in terms of collaborative efforts, you know, we do go through the process of identifying best practices that we would use and share information on tools that have been effective and try and enhance t

that would be to the fifth and sixth charges, which are standard of decency charges. one is to being a member of the board of supervisors. the other is to being a sheriff. one should not lied to police officers about the location and number of one's weapons. it is certainly more severe for a sheriff. chairperson hur: just to be clear, there is no factual allegation. >> there is. it is in effect on narrative. i can provide those to you. it is paragraph 26. the act of dishonesty is not mentioned there. the issue of him retaining the guns in control of his own department is framed in the charges. chairperson hur: thank you, mr. keith. any other questions for mr. k ieth? >> i am sorry. i should add one other reason this is relevant is it is the behavior of the sheriff engaged in, and relevant to the expert opinion regarding batterers and firearms. chairperson hur: i am sorry to interrupt you. is the sheriff's office in here, or law enforcement? can we bring law enforcement in here, please? sir, if you could please help keep order within the hearing room, we appreciate a l

and that house is no longer within standard? would you leave your house willingly? >> i absolutely thought. if i thought my house was making me sick, i would leave. >> and if i can reclaim my time, the same thing with concrete. in your house you have in your concrete and the epa is adopting standards that would say that's a hazardous material. so i suppose what you're willing to say in a very humble way, you're willing to face bankruptcy for your standards and your principles and i admire you for that. but the bank probably isn't going to like that after they've loaned you the money to build your -- >> can i respond to your question or are you just talking at me? >> no. if i can continue my time. if you may lose your home and the bank will have to foreclose on it because your house doesn't meet the standards of the epa. so that's a real threat as to when we keep moving the goal posts, for people to be able to make a decision. so i particularly -- miss harbert, i like your comments and i wonder whether you had any comments about

we continue work on rules notably enhanced standards for larger institutions. the latter includes multiple agencies which have finished reviewing the 19,000 comment letters and are considering modifications of the proposed rule. the enhanced prudential standards elicited fewer letters but present a number of important issues for consideration before final regulations can be implemented, including how to tailor the application of these standards to firms of different sizes and complexity. as to market discipline one development of note is that the federal reserve and fdic will in the coming months be reviewing the resolution plans to be submitted by large firms in accordance with the joint rule adopted by the two agencies last year. finally with respect to supervision the federal reserve continues to build a more centralized horizontal and data driven approach to supervision of our largest institutions. the process has run the stress test and other horizontal supervisory exercises since its establishment in 2010 and is extending activities to coordinate other su

, strong labor standards for all working families. this includes people in really bad conditions in chinatown getting paid $5 an hour. it also includes for us to be able to ensure there are good jobs for people to be able to get into the union jobs as well. for the majority of the members we work with [tone!] they are able to get union jobs afterwards. this is not about health or union transfer rights. it is about the working families in san francisco all together. i want to emphasize that equal -- even for the local higher numbers, it is low. 40 a year for five years. the unemployed rate in the chinese community is 30%. a lot of people do not understand that. this is not just about workers. it is about housing, health care, and the community as a whole. [tone!] supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is elizabeth alexander. our local represents a health care workers and social workers. our workers are adamant against the project that does not go forward without the benefits agreement. we have seen our workers testified to

i think it's a matter of upholding standards of journalism. i was, funny enough, when i was very young editor of my student university, and we had director at that time one of the greatest journalists, i think, of that period. and i used to debate with him this issue about the responsibility of the press. and i'd rely on him because he influenced my judgment very much on this issue. and he said very clearly that the press had to exercise its judgment about what it published, how it framed its coverage, but also how it conflated fact and opinion or avoided doing so with responsibility. i don't think we do enough to encourage the good. and if i can say what i think the problem is, and it may be that we're dealing in some cases with the problems of yesterday and not the problems of tomorrow. we're now in an internet age. there's a massive flow of information available to everyone. i think it's true that in the 1930s, the bbc used to have its news coverage, and some days they would say there is no news to report today. now, can you imagine a situa

going back on to the gold standard. levels of us thirty you can argue whether they're necessary or not wish the european economies and the united states and the rest of the balls to call them is our current down with them to undertake this is why the idea of the kind of collateralized pools for storage of bones of all those bones away is not really going to be politically feasible from the. world if you. talk about the gold standard another day because rather time thanks so much for being on the kaiser report constantine going yeah thank you. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i want thank my guests constantine garg yeah because i mean email please do so at kaiser reporting r t t v dot ru until next time. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images we're seeing from the streets of canada.

when we talk about the industry, there are standardization. there are standards. there are standards that must be adhered to before you are able to operate. the other issue is that we have come up with standards that are applicable and recognized by law enforcement. law-enforcement has taken a book that the plans and actually approved them. they were advocate for the well- being of our general population. the other issue i wanted to address in terms of children, how many children walk down the streets and past bars? how many of those bars allow a 13-year-old or 5-year-old or a 10-year-old within their walls? to partake in alcohol? those places to not have security measures in place we're talking about what medical cannabis. so i asked you to support this project and allow it to continue. >> i just came here because i want to say i support this project. i think it is going to bring positive things to our community. i hope we're going to make it. >> i am susan. thank you for moving the item two later on in the agenda. it allowed me to come here after a session. both

you can use the regular, the standard amount, what you do is you get a bulb that says standard.ou're not messing around. this is a standard. they could say regular but they choose to say regular. this is the ace hardware, 75-watt bulb. relatively short expec expect e. >> picking this out, they have cool light, or cool white, warm white, and i think it was day light. and so the compact fluorescents i think the industry realized the original light was really ugly. people didn't want to incorporate it into their home because everybody looked blue. now they have a better product. these you don't have to change for about ten years. they're really energy efficient. >> eight times longer life compared with the thousand-hour bulb, this one doesn't say how many hours it is on it, i don't think, does it? no. but the one thing that you often have problems with these, is you cannot use these with dimmers unless they're specifically approved to use with dimmers. okay. less energy, longer life, save the planet, less maintenance. you're not as likely to fall off the ladder. >> yes. >> less tha

emissions standards, aircraft emission standards, fuel additives and reformulated gasoline standards. ands also a matter that you have to consider costs when setting future drinking water standards in the safe drinking water act. and if you go back and harkin back last year, when president obama decided that he was going to withdraw his last ozone rule, one of the comments that he made when he was withdrawing that ozone rule, which we argued would have greatly imperiled our economy, here's a quote from president obama. i have continued to underscore the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues to recover. and so when the president's talking about the clean air act, he recognized the importance of taking a look at our economic uncertainty and the economic uncertainty of his last ozone rule. and so i appreciate our colleague's amendment but certainly have to oppose it this time and urge the rest of our colleagues to oppose the amendment as well and with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman res

premise that gold standard have tied the hands of governments to spend beyond their control the year on their taxation system so is the result of. the entire crisis that we're witnessing today is predicated in part on the same force which is if you need to do that from the gold standard going back onto the gold standard will imply the levels of us there are at it you can argue whether they're necessary or not wish the european economies and the united states and the rest of the bonds the quantum is are currently on willing to undertake this is why the idea of the kind of collateralized pools for storage of boards of all those bonds away is not really going to be politically feasible from the. wealth of your state a lot of talk about the gold standard another day because rather time thanks so much for being on the kaiser report card and team going to have thank you any time and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert our thank my guest constantine gardere because i mean email please do so at kaiser reporting r t t v dot ru until

in any criminal proceeding, can mount a legal defense on his own behalf and continue to meet the standard of conduct to, as you describe it, support and cooperate with the administration? but i think that is one of the challenging dilemmas that we have. >> absolutely. everybody has the right to an attorney and representation, to make decisions in how they want to manage that case as it proceeds through the courts. that is something that is guaranteed to them. if they are not guilty, there is still an internal issue to take place, but it does not refrain them from doing that. there is some requirement, with the guns, to step forward. they are required, or at least asked for, they should respond and give those up. it is evidence they are asking for. >> so, your concern is not with mounting a defense or explaining what your behavior was, or not agreeing to four charges, but pleading to a single charge. it was specific things you understood demanded a response. >> correct. >> you also commented about a criticism or a lack of confidence in the criminal justice system. could you help us reconci