Good morning. Oh, i know you can do better than that. Lets start again. Good morning all right. Now i know it is a good morning. Thank you so much. He said retired . What is that . As my mother said, no, you breathe your last breath, then you retire. Our theme for the program is dare to act. The theme for today is dare to lead. But we have all of these dares and i just want to take a second to speak about them because i want you to own them, at least own one. So its dare to act for the conference, dare to lead for this morning, dare to impact, dare to include, dare to engage, dare to innovate. Now heres one i love dare to transform. Got it . Dare to transform. Dare to improve. Dare to empower. And then, my work dare to educate and dare to create. So how many of these dares have you had as a part of your life . Think about it. I can run through the list and think about the hundred years that ive been alive and ive been daring all my life. What about you . I certainly hope that you will
Fall under the agencys jurisdiction. So often times requesters are making rather broad requests. Agencies are then faced with trying to figure out what it is and what in the world is it that the person actually wants. One way to deal with this we have talked about this for ages. It was ultimately codified in the foia amendments in 1996 was for the agency to come back to the requester and say, i dont understand what your request is asking for or this is really too complex and its too time consuming and if you are willing to narrow the request and here are some suggestions, we can handle the request more expeditiously for you. Thats basically the tradeoff for the agency is that the request gets narrow and more manageable and the bone thats being thrown to the requester is that they will respond to it more expeditiously. That often times still is not it doesnt happen in practice. But thats kind of where the statute is supposed to be. I have a friend who is a litigator in the National Secu
We long anticipated was a gas guest and waiting for a match to it. In a sense if this outbreak is in the past, no its not. Is it the same virus in a different setting . It could be. But i will share more with you and what i think of that. We are making this up as we go but that isnt new to Public Health. Weve done that in the past. Its not a bad thing we just have to be mindful we are making it up as we go. And giving that we have doing that we have to become more uncomfortable huggable with uncertainty. I reject the idea that you cant tell people you dont know because you are afraid youll scare them. There is a complete literature on miscommunication that says people are never frightened by if you tell them you dont know this is what im going to learn or this is something and it might be scary. So the literature shows over and over again there are two things that will turn them to be very concerned if not scared. One is if you tell them with certainty a and candidate with uncertainty
Other parts of africa. Therefore, the key ingredient to progress there is speed. The quicker we surge in a response, the quicker we blunt the number of cases and the risk ,o other parts of the world including the u. S. , decreases. Angress has provided agreement to use money from the department of defense. Received 30e million for the first 11 weeks of this fiscal year, which we appreciate. Has an unprecedented number of people in the field right now in west africa and texas. How many people do you have doing airport screenings . I would have to get back to you with the exact numbers. We are overseeing screenings to make sure they are done correctly and to screen individuals here make sure you get that ifber, and also find out those resources are best used there or elsewhere with your limited number of people. Is there progress in developing test to determine if somebody has ebola . A more rapid test would be helpful. We are currently testing one in africa that is simpler and quicker a
Otto James Shipla, Ph.D., of Terre Haute, IN, died Friday, Feb. 28, 2003. He was an Emeritus Professor of Education at Indiana State University. He was born