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academic dean. this was part of a two day symposium hosted by the memorial in kansas city, missouri. after working as a visiting assistant profess sore or at university of california she serves ads the dean at lamar community college. her research focuses on the history of psychological war trauma. st stagner s presentation will highlight how in 1916 the public began to understand the devastating complications of shell shock epidemic. she will address how various attempts were made to replicate the damage it rocked on countless soldiers and others involved in the war. on this anniversary, 1916 stag ner s presentation is a talk that is both timely and ir refutably relevant to our world today. it is my pleasure to introduce annessa stag ner. [ applause ] as we have already heard this morning the first world war marked if more the modern industrial war. as we have heard, total war. with it came construction on a massive scale. mines killed hundreds in single explosions ....
trauma. st stagner s presentation will highlight how in 1916 the public began to understand the devastating complications of shell shock epidemic. she will address how various attempts were made to replicate the damage it rocked on countless soldiers and others involved in the war. on this anniversary, 1916 stag ner s presentation is a talk that is both timely and ir refutably relevant to our world today. it is my pleasure to introduce annessa stag ner. [ applause ] as we have already heard this morning the first world war marked if more the modern industrial war. as we have heard, total war. with it came construction on a massive scale. mines killed hundreds in single explosions. gas seemingly melted lungs and eyes. machine guns signals slaughter for those ordered to charge. 1916 marked a turning point in which nations and militaries were forced to confront the destruction the war was causing on human minds. i would like to explain how they attempted to mitigate the ....
hundreds of photos of artwork created during world war i. next on american artifacts we look at drawings by eight combat artists with archives valentine jan hodges. she has showcased the art and the stories of the artists on the archives blog, the unwritten record. when i first came to the archives i had no idea what the archives was about. so when i came here as a volunteer i was asked if i wanted to work on a conservation project for record group 120, which is the records of the combat units of the american expeditionary forces. since i had no frame of reference i said yes. so that got me into looking at these records that first of all i was astonished to understand that i was handling records that go back to world war i. and so that alone was very interesting and entertaining. but as we went along, one of the things that i found out in looking through the records was that the records start at the division level and work down to brigade level and then regiment lev ....
test. test. test. test. let s look at the americas. we re fragmented. we re splintered. aside from nafta, there s, you name it. the pacific alliance. a lot of different things. but there isn t one americas. the crown jewel we do have is nafta. and i hope we also think about the role that our region plays as we are competing with other regions in the world. hemisphere, go to asia. that is a reality. and it becomes an economic reality and a national security reality. and a massive shift of wealth from the east to the west. if we could get our act together regionally and build energy supply chains. we have the oil. we have the gas. and this is the time when we can be doing that. and the seventh largest economy in the world. the seventh largest economy in the world. our southern neighbor and canada will always be one of the most developed per capita income economies anywhere. the world has changed in 23 years. so the labor chapter, the environmental chapter. ....
the committee will come to order. i d like to welcome everyone to the this morning s hearing. today we consider the nomination of sima vermia to serve as administrator for the centers for medicaid and medicare services. welcome. we re so happy to have you here and your family as well. i appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. and i see that your family joined you here today to lend support, so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and to them as well. cms is the world s largest health insurer. covering over one third of the u.s. population through medicare and medicaid alone. it has a budget of over $1 trillion and it processes over 1.2 billion claims a year for services provided to some of our nation s most vulnerable citizens. having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state and medicaid programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on a daily basis. i suspect you also know ....