Institute. This is about 20 minutes. [applause] we are in kind of an unusual technical situation because craig venter, who is in san diego, hes supposed to be here is ill will something. So i guess lets see if i can just craig, can you hear me . Hes ill with something akin to muteness. Hes looking pretty good. [laughter] craig, can you hear me at all . You think hes scary looking . Hes not scary looking. [laughter] hes just an ill man. Lets see if we can we have a number of backup systems which i suppose we should employ. [laughter] if worse comes to worse, ill just tell you what i think he would have done if i could control him like a puppet. [laughter] all right. Now maybe hes hearing me. Craig, can you hear me . I can, robert. Nice to hear you. All right. We lost you for a bit. So whats wrong with you . [laughter] or. Lets see, i didnt want to leave la jolla sunshine for washington d. C. No, a number of things going op but, you know, it would have made montezuma proud. [laughter] le
Anyone else want to give us a killer idea, maybe something that has already been mentioned once or twice . Maybe not . I think the improper payment act do not pay hold agencies accountable. When you are measuring that its going to hold them accountable to make it a priority. I also think electronic verification at the state level i think it has proven that those death reports are highly accurate and moving in that direction. I would agree with mr. Brune thats prudent and it would allow them to look at other verification processes that perhaps moves resources to those other areas and i go again to verification of family members and funeral homes. We look at some data of 82 corrections in 2012 and 13 and we pulled a small case sample 46 cases. 35 of those cases, those folks were in fact alive but what . 35 of the 45 pieces we looked at. They were erroneously placed in the file. When you look to the source of those reports it was family members and those are typically regarded as being hi
Held the secretary, held with china in december, this was one of the issues of very much on the agenda, and weve made some progress in moving ahead on the application of antimonopoly law that we think should be applied to deal with issues of competition, not issues of industrial policy. So we are engaged with them as are our competition authorities and the ftc to work to encourage them to apply the law as its intended to be applied. I know these are tough areas. Canadas creation of a heightened standard for patentability, for pharmaceutical patents is a serious problem for our u. S. Innovators. This standard to obtain and enforce patent rights in canada. Also inconsistent with the World Trade Organization and under the nafta. We have raised this concern directly and repeatedly with the canadian authorities. That issue is now being litigated, and i believe the canadian authorities are looking to see how it proceeds in litigation as we continue that dialogue with them. Ambassador, from o
And tuneishen authorities have arrested several suspects after a deadly museum attack and theyre pledging to tighten the nations security. Many people in japan paused on march 20th to reflect on what was a scary and painful time in their history. 20 years ago today members of a religious cult released sarin gas on the tokyo subway system during the morning rush hour. 13 people died and 6300 others were hurt. People held a Memorial Ceremony at one of the subway stations targeted in the attack. They held a moment of silence at 8 00 a. M. Around the time members of Aum Shinri Kyo released the nerve gas. Families of the victims and others laid flowers and offered prayers. Translator ive always thought i could have been one of the victims. That thought brought me here today. Translator as a bereaved Family Member i want to keep on telling the next generation about this tragedy. But theres a limit to what i can do. I want young people to become interested in knowing what happened in the Aum
19, 2014. So commissioners were prepared for a motion for acceptance of the minutes. So moved. Is there a second . Is there further discussion . Seeing none were prepared for the vote. All in favor say aye. All those opposed . The minutes are passed. Next item please. Item three is the director report. Good afternoon commissioners. On friday dr. Chow i attended the new commissioners swearing in. Our new Health Commissioner will be dr. David pating. Dr. David pating i have known for over almost 30 years since working with the federal government in samhsa he was a well known expert in that field and sought after many times for his expertise for that scheduled agency. He works for kaiser, a psychiatrist specializing in addiction psychiatry. Hes also he has a long cv so i will be short and a professor at San Francisco school of medicine. He is past medicine much the california addiction of medicine and a member of the medical society here and currently and probably will not continue in thi