productive congress. arehe same time, if there pieces of legislation that are consistent with his values, he will not be will sign those. it will be interesting for us to cover that. i want to thank the director for a wonderful conversation, i want to thank the peterson conversation for their continued support of these events. i think all of you for coming out. i want to give a special thanks to the director of my high school, it is that it came out. my mom is here as well. good to see you. you taught my first economics class in high school or middle school. i think i passed it. i don t know if i did particular well. but i got through. thank you for coming out. having one for holiday season. we will see next year. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] we hear from former white house officials tomorrow talkin
we should ve been coming to the conversation the table along time ago. we stood down with police. this is what is happening. this is where we are having the problem. this is where we want it to stop. we also got together and started looking at the lessons of putting these people into office. talking about the situation down there. going to be our last collar on today s washington journal. we will see you right back here tomorrow morning. hope you have a great monday. all this week highlighting books during the authors series. tomorrow cheryl atkinson on her water her book, stonewalled. on wednesday shane harris and out war the rise of the military internet complex. day as friday, clarence page. columnist 1904 to 1918. this year q1 day turns 10 years old. to mark a decade of conversations, we are featuring one interview over the holiday season. today kenneth feinberg, special master of the 9-11 fund and what his life is like. that will be at 7:00 eastern here on c-
the dots of innovation to patients. it s an exciting time because we have the opportunity to make the most advanced clinical decisions available to every cancer patient regardless of where they live and what their socioeconomic background is. and regardless of what practical resources they may have available to them. expectation.n all things are taking place right now. , and i mng, research going to go someplace that s going to be innovative. overall, one of the goals of cancer innovation is to improve the outcome. personalized medicine, advanced diagnostics. cancer.s can we afford innovations? we can t afford not to innovate. the status quo gets more expensive year after year. think we are on the cusp of an information revolution. it is a few months, a year of survival. it has been amazing. we continue with the research to e cancer a disease it is on the edge of revolution. we will feature and target treatment for problems that cause cancer. therapyres the targeted
you re going to get funded. what is the chance the grant is going to get funded? it s about one in six. traditionally it has been one in three. in the cancer institute it is one in 10. it s even lower. you might say we were funding too much stuff before, and we weren t putting a tight enough filter on this. the filter is rigorous peer review by experts in the field. went back and looked. this was in heart disease research, but i imagine it s true across the board. i can 2001 we were funding a third of the grants back in 2000 when we were funding a third of the grants. does a grant in the 10th percentile turnout more productive than a grant funded in the 25th percentile? it is. viewed, so is one better than the other? what happened? peer-reviewed, so is it better than the other? there is not a difference anyone can tell between the 10th percentile and the 25th percentile. they are both great. that shows we are living have to grade science on the table right now. just at this
(The Center Square) – After 18 months of being rebuffed by House Speaker Emmanuel “Chris” Welch, the Organizing Committee of the Illinois Legislative Staff Association says it s taking its demands