dr. research in his study is a perfect example of. the via a. trying to avoid the issue and trying and trying not to have to pay the compensations to veterans. that they deserve he has the proof he has everything they are and they still will not even address his research. there were many people in the apartment of defense that couldn't accept these findings in you can speculate that they couldn't expect the that they couldn't accept these findings because of the potential broad implication the idea that maybe there was a new asian orange. this deployment the government is looking down the road at billions of dollars and health care costs that they will be responsible for and i believe that they're doing everything they can to stave that off. on a. track . and convince of the benefits are causing ls along the soldiers this is a new disease we call this iraq afghanistan war long injury some of the more severe cases entail that all the positive longs so it is a multi factorial exposure to the symptoms or anywhere from from respiratory issues some m

dr. ann mckee was a leading alzheimer's researcher. >> this is what i do. i look at brains, i'm fascinated by it. i can spend hours doing it. in fact, if i want to relax, that's one way i can relax. >> narrator: then one day, she received a phone call from the boston university medical school. >> i called her and said, "are you interested in looking at the brains of former football players?" and she didn't drop a beat, and said, "are you kidding?" i had no idea that she was a super football fan. >> i was born with football. my brothers, my dad. i played football when i was a kid. i mean, you know, it was part of life, it was part of growing up. it's, you know, it's a way of life, so i get it. >> narrator: now dr. mckee was joining a team of researchers to build on the discovery of a brain disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy-- cte. >> she's learned a little bit about the work that had previously been done on this issue and she's eager to find some brains. >> narrator: mckee and colleagues from boston university were determined to examine as many brains

in basic research in genetic technology. does that sound right? dr. doudna: that sounds right my own colleague, we struggle here in the united states, i'm at berkeley, one of the top research universities, but we struggle to put together money to buy equipment like electron microscopes, another field that's gone through a huge explosion over the last few years in advances of the technology and meanwhile we see our colleagues in china buying up, you know 20 at a time. and you know, it's really astounding. walter: and you need that microscope to figure out r.n.a. dr. doudna: absolutely. walter: suppose we had cone this , years ago and stopped eisenhower had not done it and we hadn't invented the transcystor, had not invented the microchip, has not -- had not invented the laser, had noten invented the internet, had not been able to do circumstance, g.p.s. that sort of thing, that's what would have happened if we hadn't done the basic research on semiconducting materials, those things. and someplace like russia or china had actually invented everything fro

dr. james kahn, their lead researcher at the university of california, san francisco, for $7 million to keeppublishing study results showing the vaccine didn't wo dr. angell: an official of the company said something to the effect of "we have put $30 million into that study, we have our rights," or something like that. [laughter] sharyl: angell says as she applied due diligence to the many studies submitted to the "new england journal of medicine," it started to feel like a losing battle. dr. angell: i would call up and say, okay, you've shown that your drug is pretty good. but there's not a single side effect. any drug that does anything is going to have some side effects. and i had people say, "well, the sponsor won't let me." and so, i became to be extremely distrustful of most of the research that was published. we did our very best, we often rejected things because it was clearly biased, but anything we rejected always ended up in another journal. sharyl: angell left the "new england journal of medicine" in 2000, but kept her eye on the journal industry, which she says resisted meaningf

in basic research in genetic technology. yes,that sound dr. doudna: that sounds about right. my colleagues and i, we struggle here in the united states, in berkeley i am in one of the top research universities but we struggle to get enough money to buy equipment like electron microscopes and other things. there's been a huge explosion over the last few years in advances of technology, and meanwhile we are seeing our colleagues in china, buying up 20 at a time. really astounding. what are bang need that microscope to figure out say, the more like euler -- the molecular structure of rna. dr. doudna: exactly. anter: so, there was experiment, if eisenhower had not done it, and we had not in men at the transistor, had not invented the microchip, the laser, not invented the internet, and not been able to and gps, that sort of thing, that is what would've happened if we had not done the basic research on some i conducting materials. and various things. and places like russia or china, if they had actually invented everything, from the microchips to personal computers, you could imagi

any and for so a class war now firmly on britain's political agenda we're joined now by dr lisa mackenzie research fellow at the mountains.

dr. mary ellen miller who is a research engineer in ann arbor. michigan tech, which is actually in the upper peninsula, way up where i was known -- not long ago, getting to know the place. in information technology to solve security, infrastructure, and environmental problems. with the help of nasa, dr. miller has used models and earth observations to predict erosion and run off after wildfires in colorado and california. not all of her work is high-tech. she also spends plenty of time out in the field with more low-tech tools like bucket gauges and a bucket hat. thank you for being with us today, dr. miller. we look forward to hearing your unique scientific insight and water shows are impacted by wildfires. thank you senator stabenow. -- tod the plan aloft lead the panel off, we welcome your comments. committee,of the thank you for the opportunity to discuss and collaborate on reducing wildfire risk. after the events of yesterday, the loss of one of our own, our hearts are heavy and we are sending our condolences to our whole community. it is a

joining me now to discuss some of the latest research is dr. george james. dr. james is a psychologist with the council for relationships. he specializes in couples therapy and family therapy. thanks for being with us, dr. james. george james: thank you, rosemary. rosemary: okay, so it's not arguing, it's not cheating. researchers say the number one reason is actually a lack of commitment. and in fact, researchers have found about half of all divorces come from relatively low-conflict relationships. explain this for us. george: so i mean, commitment is a huge part, right? so, we enter into a marriage, and some people have the thought of like, "this is going to be forever, like till the day i die, i'm going to be with this person." rosemary: till death do us part. george: right, and they actually believe that, and that's part of their commitment. they see it as a long-term thing. while other people, they see it as, okay, until a situation happens, or until there's an incident, or until the kids go away to school. and when we talk about commitment, really it's one

and for so with class war now firmly on britain's political agenda we're joined now by dr lisa mackenzie research fellow at the london school of economics she's the author of getting by estates closs and culture in austerity britain thanks so much of going back home serviceable thank you ralph kamal your reaction to teresa mayes supporters very clearly according to the london british media report saying they don't want the london politicized this this cannot be anything else but political this is not a natural disaster what's happened here it's about carelessness it's about. not caring about working class people in this country housing is our biggest shame and actually has been britain's biggest shame for generations this is not new there is no political points to score here there is only the truth. about they say this is you know this is me my life all of my life i grew up on a council estate i have i have lived in these sort of places where been worried about my child and what happens to was you know this isn't really much more than a political point but it is it is politics villages it is clos

dr. miller. you've been engaged in the research. in addition to developing better uav systems that will allow us greater opportunities, what else is on the horizon? you mentioned the mapping. what is new and innovative that we might be looking to that can be utilized as another jewel in the toolbox. -- another tool in the toolbox. dr. miller: one of my colleagues dr. nancy french recently won an award they'll make sure there's connectivity for the firefighters and bear team. they'll have mobile to create faster ways to get all the new information that's coming in. i am looking forward to using my database with uav's. at the moment, it uses earth observation data from satellites. there's no reason it could not come from mapping from the uavs as well. senator m >> i just think about the alaska example. you mentioned the internet and the connectivity that is a dream for us most of these remote areas where we are dealing with -- with the fires. what more can you do? in the right place and get lucky. you mentioned, ms. christiansen, i th

dr. miller, i appreciate the research and the mapping you're doing there. i think we recognize we have new tools, which is great, but we are dealing across multiple agencies; dealing with tribal lands, dealing with state and private and federal. it is an example where if you are not working together collaboratively, bad things can happen. and sitting in this committee for the past 14-15 years, listening every year to where we are with fire status reports and how we're working across agencies, the discussion is always, oh, yeah, we're working together, it's inner agency and it's collaborative but i think we have made extraordinary gains and doing just that. chris, you mentioned that the cross-boundary fuel efforts, and i will direct this question to you, mr. christiansen or mr. rice, and mr. maisch as well. with regard to how we determine -- the process of the federal agencies utilize to determine where these fuel mitigation projects should occur on federal or across boundary lines, what is the process? do you work -- i'm assuming your offices work with a la

dr. cory shockey is a research fellow at the hoover institution and co-author of "warriors and kids" with defense secretary james mattis. earlier he was asked by politico to make a recommendation on one book to read, she recommended "vanguard of the imam" religion and politics of the guard. assistant professor of the national security affairs at the naval post-graduate school. it is, indeed, a remarkable read. professor, welcome. it's great to have you here. i devoured it. i think it's an amazing book. i will put it up there with the looming tower. it takes us into the irgc, can you briefly described the component parts the siege, can can you describe force. >> the irgc has a paramilitary, an air force, a lands force, has a naval force. it's a very large popular militia known as the besiege popular militia, which is an all volunteer force, mostly non-professional in the sense they're not paid. there is a smaller professional component that's militarized. as a special forces division called the colds force or the jerusalem force, which is in charge of all of the extra territory the foreign

joining us now to talk about her research at stanford university is dr. virginia winn. she is associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, and director of perinatal biology research. [ chuckles ] lots of hats that you're wearing there. >> yes. >> so, dr. winn, the work is transdisciplinary, and we heard that word earlier. what is does that mean? >> mm-hmm. so the march of dimes has done a tremendous job in pioneering, funding, these transdisciplinary research centers. and stanford was the first one, which was established in 2011. "transdisciplinary" means taking specialists and people with different perspectives and bringing them together to tackle a problem, a common problem. and so, the march of dimes has provided the ability to take the brilliant minds at stanford and the technologies that are being developed at stanford, and bringing that to the problem of understanding preterm birth. >> i think when we talked earlier before we started this segment -- you talk about how we just don't know that much, which is really fascinati

joining me now is dr patricia lewis, research director in international security at chatham house.pable underlines the rhetoric really is getting people very nervous? yes indeed, i think pa rt very nervous? yes indeed, i think part of the rhetoric is to present this what is called the madman theory of nuclear deterrent. whereby you make the other side think that you make the other side think that you are mad enough to use nuclear weapons, therefore they won't do anything to antagonise you. it's working but the trouble is they could both say that about each other and ponting still agree? and what could possibly go wrong? that is why almost all leaders who have nuclear weapons have not used this approach. very few have done it, and when they have, they vowed to ratchet back. that is a difficult thing to do. so our worry is things spiralling out of control. at the moment, it looks like no other side is prepared to blink first? it looks like that but this announcement of an attack which would fall short of the island into the sea is rather peculiar, don't you think? to announce in adva

dr. muhlhausen is research fellow in empirical policy analysis at heritage center for data analysis. he testifies frequently before congress on the efficiency and effectiveness of federal programs. his commentary and analyses have also been featured in numerous major publications and he frequently appears on national television as well. his book review scientifically rigorous national studies that almost unanimously fine that federal programs fai failed to e the social problems they were designed to address. dr. muhlhausen serves as an adjunct professor at george mason university where he teaches program evaluation and statistical methods to graduate students. please join me in welcoming david muhlhausen, david. [applause] >> thank you. good morning and welcome to the heritage foundation lehrman auditorium. for those of you online, welcome to today's event, reorganizing the federal government what needs to be done and how to do it. combined today our panelists with in-depth and extensive experience with the workings of the federal government. leading our discussion today is rachel gr

where does the research go? dr.ipov: so, the first question, i guess, it was the regulatory oversight. so, even though we have a guideline set that we can do, at least -- in vitro basic work, but still we needed to go through very extensive review and proof on different levels, in three different committees about why we're doing it, how we are going to do it and whether there are alternatives. so, this is probably the toughest and longest part in the project. regarding what to do next, i think we discussed today there are so many other genes and this crisper technology has to be optimized for each one of them. i bet even the clinical application of even the, if we develop will retest it, still in each case, we would have to use this technology as part of diagnostics where we would biopsy if you cells from the embryo and do all these tests not only that the mutation is now corrected but make sure there are no off target effects. and i think this technology needs to be, you know, develops could actually proceed to cli

dr. mo house and, research analysis chairman. he testifies frequently before congress about federal programs. his commentary and analysis has publications in and he appears on national television as well. scientificallys rigorous national studies and unanimously finds it that are all programs fail to solve the problems they were designed to address. he serves as a professor at george mason university where he teaches program evaluation. please join me in welcoming david. [applause] >> good morning and welcome. online, we areu organizing the federal government that to be done and how to do it. have panelists with extensive experience in the workings of the federal government. is a research fellow in .conomics she is leading the heritage foundation reorganization project, that is the subject of today's events. she was a senior economist from the staff of the joint economic committee. donald is the senior scholar at the fund for americans dollars. the served as ronald reagan's civil-service direct your. during that time, the washing

dr. bryant dams as research associate at the smithsonian institution where he pursues scholarly work about cultural property protection antiquities trade and intentional destruction of culture on religious sites during conflict. he's also the director of research and programs for the cultural heritage center at university of pennsylvania museum. also he is concerned with the preservation of indigenous heritage has worked over 18 years with native american community in the united states on issues related to political sovereignty, cultural repatriation and heritage preservation. dr. daniels holds a phd in anthropology and history from university of pennsylvania, an d ma in history than university of pennsylvania and a ba in anthropology from san francisco state university. mr. raymond villanueva as assistant director for holman security, office of international operations. he's responsible for budget more than $160 million in the operation oversight of over 62 offices in 46 countries, a department of defense liaison offices with over 400 personnel. he has served in numerous key positions at

dr. brian is a research associate at the smithsonian where he pursues work about cultural property anti-bush protection and the intentional the cultural- heritage center at the university of health dustin's opinion -- pennsylvania. worked over 18 years with native american communities on issues related to sovereignty, repatriation, dr. daniels holds a phd in anthropology from the university of pennsylvania and a ba in anthropology from san francisco state university. mr. raymond the other way must -- the on the way the -- villanueva is responsible for a budget of $160 million in the operation and oversight of 62 offices in countries. he has servednnel in numerous key conditions including asset forfeiture removal and buffalo new york section t for the finance proceeds of crime unit in washington dc unit chief of the trade transparency -- transparency. in charge of the san juan office, deputy assistant director for hsi international operations. each of you is going to be recognized for five minutes to get -- give an oral testimony. your written statements will be part of the record. >> sorry.

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research. >> he went to a school in guadalajara. dr. not a neurosurgeon, he's not a neuro-anything. he's a rheumatologist. >> putting a rheumatologist in the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any particular institution in the country at the time was, i think a lot of people felt, surprising. >> narrator: most of pellman's committee was made up of nfl loyalists. nearly half the members were team doctors. >> if you're going to put together a blue ribbon committee to study brain trauma, it should have as its chair somebody who has that as a background: either a neurologist, neurosurgeon, neuropathologist, preferably a clinician. >> narrator: for years, pellman's committee would insist they were studying the problem, that the danger from concussions was overblown. >> the way the nfl handled this was for 15 years to do research that looks awfully like it was designed to say that the league was okay in doing what it was doing, which wasn't much, to protect players from the dangers of c

dr. mcclure has conducted research to the academic career in the u.s. department of housing and urban development and then the journal of education and research the associate editor of housing policy debateitor the master of the institute of technology from the university of of california berkeley.boar and from the national association of homebuilders with that texas based builder his company provides affordable housing and also as to have extensive experience in the leadership with the board of directors sharing that committee is to hold that degree in the texas school of business still kick this off with your opening remarks. >> members of the subcommittee year to date to discuss the low housing program the largest sourcerogr of affordable rental houses completing three reviews of this program and with those allocating agencies and conducting these reviews the with the cooperationrd r it afford to rude conduct when continuing relationships binin c to administering the program allows state and local agencies in then allocating agencies in finding that

dr. mora-torres, who are helping you with this research. i mean, does that panel get any smarter? is there any smarter panel than the one you've established? karl: well, we're building the team, and that's very important. we want to have a team that's ready and functioning so we can do it the right way and, like i said, preserve our history, and let people know that, hey, we are definitely a big part of this valley that's not talked about. damian: no, you're right because i would sit in the chicano studies classes with dr. jose carrasco, and i would think at the end, "why didn't i record these lectures and conversations?" because you're right, the oral history of what happened in this valley and across the united states is just really incredible. we're probably just scratching the surface right now, correct? karl: and it's--our history is really--part of it is a neglected part of the civil rights movement that no one talks about. if you look at california as a whole, the westminster versus board of education in 1947, one of the lawyers for that action was thurgood marshall, who we

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