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Number: 111-6
Date: February 2, 2009
House Passes H.R. 1, the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
On January 28, 2009, the House passed H.R. 1, the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" by a vote of 244-188. The bill includes provisions for stimulus payments to SSA beneficiaries, supplemental appropriations for SSA,
and health information technology and the extension of E-Verify. Following Senate passage of economic recovery legislation, it is expected that House and Senate leaders will convene a conference with the aim of getting a final bill to the President's desk before President's Day.
H.R. 1 contains the following provisions of interest to SSA:
Supplemental Funding for SSA
• Would appropriate an additional $900 million to SSA's Limitation on Administrative Expenses. From this amount:
• $400 million would be for construction and associated costs of a new National Computer Center , and
• $500 million would be for processing disability and retirement workloads. Up to $40 million of this $500 million amount could be used for health information and technology, or for activities to facilitate the adoption of electronic medical records in disability claims.
• Would provide that up to 0.5 percent of each amount appropriated under the legislation could be used for expenses of management and oversight of funded programs, grants, and activities.
• Would make appropriated funds available until September 30, 2010.
• Would provide SSA's Office of Inspector General $2 million for oversight and audit of programs, grants, and projects funded under this Act. This funding would remain available until September 30, 2013.
One-Time Emergency Payment to SSI Recipients
• Would direct the Commissioner, within 120 days of enactment, to make a one-time stimulus payment to SSI recipients who had been eligible for a cash payment in the month of enactment or in either of the two preceding months. Recipients not receiving an SSI cash payment in the month of enactment would be eligible only if nonpayment status was due solely to exceeding the applicable income limit.
• Would allow for payments to be made to individuals who are retroactively found eligible for SSI during the specified months, but no payments would be made beyond calendar year 2009. In addition, no payments would be made to recipients who reside in Medicaid-funded treatment facilities.
• Would provide that individual SSI recipients would receive an amount based upon the average current SSI payment for individuals, while couples would receive the average aggregate amount paid to couples.1
• Would authorize that the one-time payments could be withheld to recover prior SSI overpayments, but they would not be used to reduce any SSI payment due a recipient.
• Would provide that the payment shall not be taken into account as income or taken into account for resources for the month of receipt and the following 6 months, for purposes of determining the eligibility for Federal benefits or federally funded State or local assistance.
• Would provide appropriations as may be necessary to carry out the stimulus payment provisions.
Extension of Basic Pilot Program
• Would extend the Basic Pilot (E-Verify), an employment eligibility confirmation program, for an additional five years, until November 30, 2013.
Reimbursement of Social Security Administration for E-Verify Expenses
• Would provide that agreements entered into by the Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of Homeland Security on or after October 1, 2008, shall provide funds to the Commissioner for the full costs of the Commissioner's responsibilities for the basic pilot program. Such responsibilities would include, but would not be limited to:
• Acquiring, installing and maintaining technological equipment and systems necessary for the fulfillment of such responsibilities (but only that portion that is attributable exclusively to those responsibilities); and,
• The costs of responding to individuals who contest a tentative nonconfirmation provided by the basic pilot.
• Would provide that these funds would be paid quarterly in advance of the applicable quarter based on a methodology agreed to by the Commissioner and Secretary.
• Would require an annual accounting and reconciliation of costs incurred and funds provided under the agreement, with a review by the Inspectors General of the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.
• Would provide that, in any case where an agreement has not been reached by October 1 st of a fiscal year, the latest agreement would remain in force until a new agreement is in effect. However, the Office of Management and Budget would modify the interim agreement to adjust the funds provided to the Commissioner for inflation and the volume of queries.
Verification of Contractors
• Would provide that none of the funds made available under this Act may be used to enter into a contract with an entity that does not participate in the E-verify program .
GAO Study of Basic Pilot Confirmation System
• Would require GAO to study and report on erroneous tentative confirmations to determine their causes, the processes by which they are remedied, and their effects on individuals, employers, and Federal agencies. This report would be submitted, not later than 2 years after the date of enactment, to the Committee of Ways and Means and the Committee of the Judiciary of the House and the Committee of Finance and the Committee of the Judiciary of the Senate.
Health Information Technology (HIT)
• Would establish the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT in the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) and a Chief Privacy Officer in the Office of the National Coordinator.
• Would establish an HIT Policy Committee to make policy recommendations to the National Coordinator.
• Would establish an HIT Standards Committee to make recommendations to the National Coordinator on the standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic exchange of information.
• Would establish requirements for application and use by Federal agencies of the standards and implementation specifications adopted by the National Coordinator. Would require that adopted standards and implementation specifications conform to HIPAA privacy and security law.
• Would establish that the HIT Federal partners listed in the Executive Order issued August 22, 2006, must use adopted standards and implementation specifications when spending on HIT. ( NOTE : SSA is not listed as a Federal partner in this Executive Order.)
• Would establish that the August 22, 2006, Executive Order agencies must require that private entities use Federal standards and implementation specifications when contracting/entering into agreements. ( NOTE : SSA is not listed as a Federal partner in this Executive Order.)
• Would establish that HHS immediately invest in the national HIT infrastructure. Federal agencies and broadly defined projects for investment are listed. ( NOTE: SSA and its specific projects are not mentioned).
• Would authorize HHS to use resources to assist healthcare providers with adopting, implementing, and effectively using electronic health record technology. HHS would establish an HIT Research Center and regional extension centers to assist in doing this.
• Would authorize HHS to award grants to States to promote HIT and for the development of loan programs to facilitate the wide-spread adoption of certified electronic health record technology.
• Would authorize and appropriate such sums as may be necessary to the Secretary of HHS to do all of this for each of the FYs 2009-2013. The funds would be available until expended.
• Would provide an additional amount of $2 billion to the Secretary of HHS to invest in HIT.
1 Approximately $460 and $640, respectively, based on November 2008 payments.


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Let's put it right up front: "The Newsroom" is fiction, drama, designed (mostly) for entertainment purposes. Will McAvoy is a fictional news reporter and anchorman, who gets his script from Aaron Sorkin.
That said, let's get the points he makes here down for the record:
Those points again:
Too much of the above is Christian Reich True-Believer ideology, taken to its logical conclusion. It is the petulant spoiled-brat mentality, insistent on its own way and throwing tantrums until it gets its way. No compromise, no "reaching across the aisle," my way or the highway. What it is is one-party government, Karl Rove's ideal of a "permanent republican majority" ... and a de facto obviation of the principles which this government was founded on.
No, women are not having their noses chopped off or acid splashed in their faces for exercising their rights ... but the point is that there should be NO challenge of their rights based on illegitimate sources, and the bible is in no ways legitimate as an authority on what a woman's rights should be. Yet women's rights to control their bodies IS being challenged. Bullshit is being promoted as fact (witness Todd Akin) and pseudo-science approved for teaching in classrooms in Tennessee and Louisiana. Religiosity remains a bellwether for suitability for public office while atheism remains anathema.
Not one of the points mentioned above deserve to be any form of American policy, yet several of them, in modified or disguised form, are current planks in the GOP platform. I find that disconcerting and frightening, at minimum.
Don't you?
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They rail against Sharia law, but in reality they embrace the idea. They just want the Christian version.
Precisely so, Pat. It's an old and apt observation that people don't like seeing things that too well resemble them, especially in reminding them what they don't like about themselves. The fact is that Sharia law and Mosaic law have entirely too much in common, something that right-wing christians are doubtless aware of at some level or other and too much in denial about.
What "Will McAvoy" does above is blatantly point out the parallels, by calling out the policy points then associating them with a term which SHOULDN'T be associated with American ideals or actions and yet is undeniably a part of them: Taliban.
This is a part of the task of saying, "The emperor has no clothes" is about: calling a spade a spade.
Good visuals can bring home just how scary these beliefs are!
Austin Cline at atheism.about.com put new text on 41 government propaganda posters (mostly from WWI and WWII) to highlight some Christian Right beliefs. The collection was apparently created during the Bush era, but remains salient today.
Christian Right Propaganda Posters: How the Christian Right Might Promote their Agenda, Beliefs
A few thumbnails (linked to the corresponding pages) :
Can't help but notice all the talk in the above posters and associated text about "islamo-fascism." It's amazing that they can't see their own christo-fascism ... but then, they're SO convinced that they're RIGHT. HOW could they EVER be fascists?!? [groan!]
"It's Not Fascism When Christians Do It"!
In an illustration of Poe's Law, many of those posters could have been created by the Christian Right! (I was fooled by the Boy Scouts poster from this series, reproduced at "Hitchens Watch".)
Some, though, are clearly over the top. The full text of #5 (my second example) :
Secret Prisons, "Alternative Interrogations", Warrantless Spying
You're free now, but for how long?
or #40 (second to last example):
Killing Innocent Civilians is WRONG!
...and we'll keep bombing Muslims until they learn this.
Nice collection of posters on the christian right. Now to get a different perspective let's go back to the time Constantine saw that "he would be victorious in the sign of the cross." Maybe he didn't get his idea across the same way it is done today, but look what happened! Out of it all came churches, church fathers, and a book put together to explain it ALL. This is where the teeth of modern christianity came from along with the birth of christian apologetics. Rest assured that Constantine got enough soldiers to protect his kingdom!
And yet Karl Rove is an atheist! If only atheists had some form of excommunication to purge horrible sh*t stains on humanity from our ranks.
Karl Rove is an atheist?!? How does the rest of the TEA party tolerate him? Hell of it is, he's everything the Christian Reich accuses US of being like: unprincipled, without morals, predatory, etc. HE's probably where they get this BS from in the first place!!!
He refers to himself as agnostic.
I refer to him after another fashion ... one you don't repeat in polite company.
As big a sh*t stain as Rove is (and he is), I'll give the guy the credit. He's incredibly adept at organizing the gullible for his own personal, political, and financial gain. It's not the Sarah Palins, or in his case Bush, one needs to guard against. It's their handlers.
Not so much the puppets, but the puppet-masters, eh? That reminds me how much money the Koch brothers have funneled into the TEA party, never mind republican presidential candidates.
Puppet masters, indeed.
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Miley Cyrus TV Role on 'Two and a Half Men' Confirmed
Miley Cyrus has been confirmed as a guest star on the television sitcom "Two and Half Men."
The connection between Miley Cyrus and Charlie Sheen just got a little bit closer. It has now been confirmed that the former "Hannah Montana" star will make a two-time guest appearance on "Two and Half Men."
"Two and Half Men" was first introduced in 2003 and originally starred Charlie Sheen before he was killed off in 2011 following disparaging comments he made about the show's creator and executive producer Chuck Lorre. Cyrus recently complimented the former cast member, stating that he was "the bomb."
Sheen responded by reciprocating the comment and complimenting her new hairdo.
"Idk, w/ that new haircut Miles...You're the [bomb icon]," Sheen tweeted back. "Come watch the show at my place! Xo."
The studio confirmed that Cyrus would guest star in two of the upcoming "Two and Half Men" episodes. She will play the character of Missi, an old friend of Ashton Kutcher that comes to visit for a week. The character is also slated to begin a relationship with Angus T. Jones as he comes back from war.
The tenth season of "Two and a Half Men" will air on Thursday, Sept. 27. Despite setbacks on the show and Charlie Sheen's departure, the sitcom has still met with great success. In 2011, The New York Times called the show the "biggest hit comedy of the last decade." Ratings, however, have dropped from their peak in 2004 with over 16 million viewers, to just over 14 million.
While some fans looked forward to a guest appearance from the former Disney star, others added it to the reasons why they no long watch the show.
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HoMM 3 HD mod(aka HiRez mod, Multi-Resolution patch, HoMM3 High Resolution Project) is an addon pack for Heroes of Might and Magic 3 that changes game resolution to any from 800x600 to 4000x4000, adds new functionality and fixes some original bugs.
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Blit isn't content with just being a graphical user interface with multiple windows and right-click context menus. The windows can also overlap, and the system employs, true to its UNIX base, full multitasking. The video below demonstrates how you could edit code in a text editor, switch to a different windowed terminal and execute
make, and play Asteroid in another overlapping window while the code compiled. Further along the video, it shows an application for integrated circuit design with a debugger running in a separate window.
It ran on a Motorola MC68000 processor in 1982, but would be ported to the Western Electric WE32000 microprocessor so it could be used on commercially available machines like the AT&T 5620 starting in 1984. It was created by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi, and detailed in this paper on the subject. For instance, this is how windows (or layers, as they call them) were implemented:
Interestingly enough, the goal behind creating Blit was to make graphical user interfaces run on less powerful, cheaper hardware than the Alto. "The original idea behind the development of the Blit hardware was to provide a graphics machine with about the power of the Xerox Alto, but using 1981 technology (large address space microprocessors, 64K RAMs and programmed array logic) to keep size, complexity and particularly cost much lower," the paper notes. This may remind you of some other projects developed at around the same timeframe - you know, independent groups coming to the same conclusions because they're working in the same constraints set by available hard and software.
The Blit was connected to a timeshared host through RS-232, but this wasn't a big problem due to its relatively powerful hardware. It was also small and "portable", and could even be used on 1200 baud connections from the engineers' own homes; not as smoothly as on higher-speed connections, of course, but "a Blit at 1200 baud is much nicer than a regular terminal at 1200 baud".
Despite being a relatively early graphical user interface, it already sports some interesting ideas. For instance, inactive windows receive a dotted texture to indicate they are not the currently selected window. Furthermore, Blit doesn't have focus-follows-mouse:
The conventions around mouse operations are also incredibly fascinating. Blit uses a three-button mouse, set to the following conventions:
The mouse cursor is modal; it will change its appearance depending on the actions one can perform. "For example, when the user selects New on the
mpxterm menu, the cursor switches to an outlined rectangle with an arrow, indicating that the user should define the size of the layer to be created by sweeping the screen area out with the mouse," the paper explains, "Similarly, a user who has selected the Exit menu entry is warned by a skull-and-crossbones cursor that confirmation is required before that potentially dangerous operation will be executed."
There's a whole boatload of interesting stuff in the paper about Blit, and it's definitely recommended reading - easy to read, too. There's also a detailed FAQ on the AT&T 5620, the commercially available machine from 1984 which ran Blit.
This is once again more proof that the industry heavily studied, implemented, and experimented on graphical user interfaces in the '70s and early '80s. It also shows that, unlike what some want you to believe, it wasn't just one company that saw the value in bringing the graphical user interface to the masses - even UNIX people at Bell Labs saw its potential and ran with it. You wouldn't believe it from reading about entitled corporations competing in courtrooms, but it almost seems like this is how the technology industry has always worked.
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Only moments after Angelina Jolie's revealing op-ed was published late Monday, the actress' name was trending on Twitter. From celebrities to cancer survivors, tens of thousands voiced their support for Jolie's decision to undergo a preventive double mastectomy.
"I commend Angelina Jolie for her courage and thoughtfulness in sharing her story today regarding her mastectomy. So brave!" wrote Sheryl Crow, a breast cancer survivor herself. "Brave, honest strong," said Oscar winner Marlee Matlin. "Proud of her for using her incredible platform to educate women," added E! host Giuliana Rancic, who underwent a double mastectomy in 2011.
In the emotional essay in the New York Times, Jolie, 37, said that on April 27, she completed three months of medical procedures that she chose to undergo after learning she had an 87% of developing breast cancer. Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died from ovarian cancer in 2007, and Jolie said she carries a gene that increases her risk of getting both breast and ovarian cancer.
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"I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made," the actress wrote. "My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer."
Had Jolie wanted to keep the surgery private, she probably could have: The actress has no promotional obligations until next year. She won't be seen again on the big screen until July 2014, when "Maleficent" hits theaters (she plays the sinister title role). She is also set to reprise the animated character Tigress in "Kung Fu Panda 3," but that film isn't being released until 2015.
Jolie's significant other, Brad Pitt, has some publicity duties this summer, however: His big-budget zombie flick "World War Z" will be released June 21. Pitt is set to attend several premieres, though it's unclear whether Jolie will be flanking him on the red carpet. In her op-ed, Jolie said was fortunate to have a partner "who is so loving and supportive."
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Smoothing Out the "HIV Treatment Cascade" in the U.S.: Research Explores Retention in Care and HIV Treatment Success
July 25, 2012
Despite all the talk about the "HIV treatment cascade" in the last year, there is still much to understand about it. "Cascade" refers to the graphic representation of how many people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. get tested, get linked to care, stay in care, get on antiretroviral treatment, and ultimately get to a suppressed viral load. It provides a critical picture of how close we are -- or are not -- in the U.S. to achieving the "end of AIDS" that some people, including political and government leaders, claim commitment to reaching.
In an oral poster discussion on July 23, presenters focused on various aspects of the cascade. Some addressed the terms used in the cascade, including Sarah Rowan from the University of Colorado, who presented local data from 2005 through 2009 showing that the number of people who are "out of care," as referred to in the cascade, may actually be the result of patient migration to another clinic or another state -- or include people who have died. Jonathon Mermin from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who was facilitating the session, noted that there would be programs in the next two years "to better define" the populations and categories used in the cascade.
Other presenters homed in on factors associated with each point in the cascade, methods to characterize each group, and ways to improve the current (rather dismal) indicators that we are nowhere near where we need to be if the intention to end AIDS is real. Nanette Benbow of the Chicago Department of Public Health, for example, compared four U.S. cities (Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and San Francisco) with respect to four points on the cascade in 2009: "linked to care," "accessed care," "got on treatment" and "attained viral suppression." While the general flow of the cascade in each city tracked the nation, the California cities had higher percentages in each category.
Benbow also found significant differences among cities and populations with respect to the percentages of people in care who are on treatment and virologically suppressed. In Chicago and Philadelphia, women were less likely to be on antiretroviral treatment than men. Blacks in Los Angeles were less likely than whites to be on antiretroviral treatment, and women were less likely to be virologically suppressed than men.
Sarah Willis of George Washington University presented data on the factors associated with achieving viral suppression in people newly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in Washington, D.C., during 2006 and 2007. She found that people who are older than 50 were two times more likely to achieve viral suppression than those who were 13 to 29 years old. Among people who achieved suppression, there were no differences in initial viral load, but people who were diagnosed with AIDS were 1.7 times more likely to achieve an undetectable viral load (measured as less than 400 copies/mL) than people diagnosed with HIV infection but not AIDS.
To the surprise of no one, Willis concluded that engagement in care is directly linked to achieving viral suppression. This was demonstrated by showing that people who had two or more viral load tests in a year were 7.4 times more likely to achieve viral suppression than those who had less than two tests per year.
The most-discussed poster of the session was presented by Chi Chi Udeagu from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Udeagu shared results from her program's attempts, from July 2008 to December 2010, to find people who were out of care for more than nine months and re-engage them in care and treatment. Using surveillance data and a variety of outreach methods, they were able to find 86% of people (689) identified as out of care. Of those, 414 were confirmed to be out of care, but the rest were either currently in care elsewhere (33%), had moved (4%), had died (2%) or were incarcerated (less than 1%). Ultimately, 79% of people (327) who were truly out of care accepted a new HIV medical appointment and 77% of them (252) kept the appointment.
In a shout-out to the need for expanded community treatment education, Udeagu noted that the most common reason cited by people who were out of care (41%) was that they "felt well." In the discussion period, Udeagu said that a variety of reasons for being out of care were cited, among them depression and, alarmingly, disbelief that they had HIV.
By way of emphasizing the importance of finding people who are out of care and re-engaging them, Udeagu noted that, while out of care, 48% of people had a CD4 count less than 200 cells/mL and 57% had a viral load greater than 10,000 copies/mL. A separate aspect of the intervention that offered partner services in the re-engagement effort found that a total of 65 partners were named, of which 22 had an HIV-uninfected or unknown status and three were newly diagnosed with HIV infection.
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Genos wont play styles or mp3s from hdd only flash drive
That is not normal, Mikey.Do you know that the Genos doesn't have a HDD anymore? It's flash memory now and called User memory. Not to be confused with the small User memory on Tyros!Copying MP3s from memory stick to the User memory of the Genos and playing from there works perfectly for me.Maybe you can make a short video showing your problem and post that on YouTube so we can see what's happening?Maarten
OK a simple question (maybe),on the Tyros 5 i find a beat i like maybe even a custom one, i think it sounds like something so i used to click "Add to mf", named it and saved, simple.How do we do the equivalent on the Genos anyone?( I'm asking as this is how i made my mff and i found it simple, quick and easy)Thanks in advance
I find a beat I think resembles a particular song, copy it, paste it to user drive, rename it then just have to search for it.


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There is quite a bit of industry buzz right now about "frac sand," also known as proppant. The product is used in hydraulic fracturing, a process by which frac sand is combined with a viscous gel and forced down oil and gas wells at high pressure to prop open the fractures. Depending on the rock bed that is to be fractured, different pressures are used which form different size fractures. It is in these fractures in the rock bed that frac sand is used.
While the process of hydraulic fracturing is not new, an increased demand for oil and natural gas has driven energy companies to seek production increases by both stimulating older wells and drilling new ones.
The Marcellus Shale deposit, largely sourced in New York and Pennsylvania, is an example of a geologic formation where hydraulic fracturing is used to access natural gas deposits. There has also been quite a bit of environmental concern about the process of hydraulic fracturing, due to the chemical content of the gel that is mixed with the sand.
The sand that is used in the hydraulic fracturing procedure must be produced clean and free of debris, and it has to be a particular size. The manufacture of frac sand requires specialized equipment and production expertise, and more and more companies are looking into it as a way to add a new product line and increase profits. Frac sand sells at a premium price.
There are two specific types of sand used in the hydraulic fracturing process. Ontario sand is white and spherical, deposited after the last ice age by the glaciers. A yellow Texas sand found across the south has a more irregular shape.
Both types of frac sand are sold in bulk by size, according to TranZ, a bulk-transfer company. A common size is called 20/40. This is silica that is larger than 20 microns but smaller than 40 microns. Another size that has more variability is 40/140 frac sand.
Mississippi Sand, Festus, Mo., has constructed a state-of-the-art production facility to meet frac sand demand. Superior Silica Sands LLC, Southlake, Texas, in 2009 built a new processing plant in Kosse, Texas, to take advantage of the need for frac sand. US Silica produces the branded frac sand products Ottawa White and Shale Frac at its plants in South Carolina, Louisiana, Missouri, Illinois and Oklahoma.
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It looks like President Obama is exiting a business he never should have entered -- playing venture capitalist in the green technology sector.
Government investment in new-tech companies is a political pendulum. Should government steer commercialization of technology or let the market decide?
The pendulum appears to be swinging back to a market-oriented approach. The Obama administration is backing off from programs making loans and grants to new-tech companies. Instead, it proposes a trust funded by oil-drilling revenues to back research into nonpetroleum technologies.
You might think that partisan attacks made Obama change course, and that's probably partly true. During the election campaign, Mitt Romney and other Republicans attacked Department of Energy loans to automotive companies such as Fisker Automotive and Tesla Motors (as well as the failed solar energy company Solyndra).
But there's another, fundamental problem: The federal government isn't a venture capital firm.
With programs such as the DOE's Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loans, the feds were funding startup companies using new technology. That's an inherently risky combination.
Venture capitalists accept that risk because they're investing, not lending. They may watch a bunch of investments go bad with relative calm, so long as they hit it big on a few. In other words, early equity in a Google makes up for a lot of Solyndras.
But the feds aren't making equity investment. They're making outright grants or loans. Either way, there's no windfall payback to make up for the inevitable failures.
Between political sniping and the impossibility of a 100 percent success rate, the federal government is temperamentally unsuited to play in the doubly risky arena of new companies and new tech. Funding basic research -- and letting the market figure out what works commercially -- is more sensible.


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They honestly serve no useful purpose.
Why not just remove the awful tag feature?
They honestly serve no useful purpose. Peace.
Why not just remove Matthew777?
For all the put-downs Matthew cops, it's interesting how most of the threads he starts become the longest and most active threads on the board.At least he gets people talking.
Don't believe everything you think.
The more I know, the less I know.
but I do believe that Saddam could have been dealt with much more efficiently and reasonably than this failed Iraq war
Guys, There are a couple of threads in the private Politics forum which deal with this issue. I know because I started one there.Please keep politics out of the public forums.George
Referring to me as "Chamberlain777" is a political attack.
Codswhollop.What on earth is a "political attack"?
When people start calling you names, it ought to be a time to pause and reflect.
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A Greek tragedy in Crawfordsvilleby Wade Coggeshall • July 25, 2006 Share:
Reynaldo Pacheco's love of acting dates back to his youth in La Paz, Bolivia, where he performed in a gypsy street theater troupe. After being accepted to Wabash College, he immersed himself in their theater program, acting in numerous productions and even having a play he wrote performed there.
As he ships off for the University of Southern California's film school (one of only 10 students accepted), Pacheco has one more project to complete. And Crawfordsville plays a prominent role.
Pacheco '06, who double-majored in theater and French, with a minor in political science, is filming and starring in a movie at Crawfordsville called "Inertia." His producer is Andrew Dits '07, who's entering his senior year at Wabash. Together they've already made five films, in such exotic locales as Paris and Ecuador. For "Inertia," Pacheco is using veterans from the Vanity Theater as his cast, along with a host of citizens serving as extras. Much of the feature-length movie is being filmed in Campbell's, where owner Jake Spore and his employees have been very accommodating to the crew. Other sites in the downtown figure in, as well as rural parts of the county. Wabash College loaned Pacheco digital camera equipment.
"Inertia" centers on a man, Amadeo, played by Pacheco, caring for his wife Telma, who's in a vegetative state. Amadeo is slowly losing his mind as he tends to her needs, spending hours applying her makeup and having unrequited conversations.
Telma's family has come to town. Amadeo has hidden her, fearing they will let her die if they take control. And yet for all his love for Telma, Amadeo's also bitter because she's taken his life away.
Pacheco calls his screenplay, originally written for the theater, a "scary story. You get this dark side of humanity, this complex situation where you have somebody you love, but who is very ill. Your life stops; everything changes. We're getting inside the emotions (of this). It's so complex. That's why the project is called 'Inertia.' When you have somebody ill, you become a little ill yourself."
Simultaneously, he considers "Inertia" a tender love story. "It's really different because you have this horrible situation, but at the same time you have this beautiful story, which is this human being taking care of another human being," he says.
"It's something incredibly artistic that I don't think a lot of us are exposed to every day," says Abby Gillan, a Crawfordsville native who's portraying Telma. She'll be a sophomore this fall in the theater department at Boston's Emerson College. "I'm rarely exposed to such an artistic script and idea. It's just incredible how collaborative the process has been. You never get too experienced."
Pacheco was inspired to write "Inertia," in part, by the Terri Schiavo case. He found the whole ordeal - a woman in a persistent vegetative state, her life hanging in the balance as her husband wants to take her off life support and her parents want to keep her alive in hopes of a medical breakthrough - a shocking study in sociology. Worse yet was the apathy displayed by his peers while the drama was unfolding.
"There was a person dying," Pacheco says of the case, which ended with the husband winning a protracted court battle and Schiavo dying on March 31, 2005, from starvation. "It was a huge controversy politically, emotionally and morally. And nobody cared. For me, that's very depressing.
"What we're trying to do with 'Inertia' is bring this huge Greek tragedy to Crawfordsville," he says, which explains the names of the characters.
"I am beyond amazed and impressed with this guy," says Stephanie Pool, a local actress who's playing Vera, Telma's sister. "His knowledge is just amazing. I've learned so much from being in this." She's impressed by Pacheco's attention to detail - whether it be checking camera angles or applying makeup. "He's going to go places."
As important, Pacheco wants to dispel the naysayers who say a community like Crawfordsville doesn't foster or appreciate art with "Inertia."
"Everyone keeps saying I want to get out of Crawfordsville. I want to go to New York to become something," he says. "But you can do big things here. Just look at Lew Wallace. He was one of the most respected writers in the United States. But that's what we kept hearing: You can't do anything here. We're trying to prove that, yes, you can."
Pool recalls one night, about 11-11:30, when they were filming a scene on Main Street. Some skateboarders happened by, and one of them went over to talk to them.
"He said, 'You guys shooting a movie?' "
"He said, 'In this town?!' "
" 'Huh. That's pretty cool. I'll have to check that out.' "
Filming started July 10 and is expected to wrap by the end of the month. Throughout the intense shoot, Pacheco's had technical support from East and West Coast acquaintances, as well as guidance from Northanger Productions out of Arizona. A philharmonic conductor from Bolivia flew in for two weeks to help with scoring. Mostly, though, "Inertia" is a Crawfordsville production. Local police officers have loaned their talents. The cast got part of its wardrobe through an antique store here.
"(Crawfordsville is) the perfect spot," Gillan says. "The arts are embracing Crawfordsville a lot more, and Crawfordsville is embracing a project like this. I just think it's a great learning tool for both parties involved."
Pacheco leaves Aug. 8 for USC. Before he goes he's having an art exhibit Aug. 1 at the Crawfordsville District Public Library, featuring stills from his various movie projects. One last performance before he departs his adopted hometown.
Of "Inertia," a film he plans to screen at Wabash and the Vanity Theater, he says, "It's something that was inspired by (Crawfordsville) and came from here and happens here. That's the important thing."
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Following the retirement of Najeeb Nakhle, who served for 20 years as director, the Office of International Student Services & Programs now has Robert Benjamin, director, and Silmara Ferreira, associate director, serving the growing services and programs this office provides to the University's international student population.
The Office of International Student Services & Programs serves the international students of Andrews by assisting them with the orientation process, providing immigration advice, and acquainting them with available scholarship opportunities. Their expanding role now includes partnering with Enrollment Management to enhance initial communication with international students; providing more opportunities for cross-cultural dialog and engagement; and coordinating the various services to support international students through to their degree completion at Andrews University.
"As we reviewed the pool of applicants, it became abundantly clear that there were two exceptional candidates, Robert Benjamin and Silmara Ferreira," said Franci Faehner, vice president for Student Life and chair of the search committee. "Therefore, in light of emerging strategic plans for the structure, influence and functions of the Office of International Student Services & Programs, the committee asked me to find a way to retain the services of both candidates," says Faehner.
Robert Benjamin, director
Benjamin accepted the invitation to serve as the director of the Office of International Student Services & Programs. He began in mid-January. Benjamin brings a foundational working knowledge of the mission and operations of Andrews University, having served as a senior financial aid advisor for six years in the Office of Student Financial Services. Additionally, he has served as director of the Financial Aid Department for Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, Ind., and most recently as director of Work and Financial Opportunities at Alma College in Alma, Mich.
Robert Benjamin
"In my new role, it is my greatest desire to welcome, accommodate and assist international students to transition smoothly to our campus and to this community," says Benjamin. "It is further my desire to help each student to have an enhanced and pleasant experience in all of their dealings while they are here and to taste our hospitality so when they leave to return to their home country, they would strongly encourage others to come and enjoy this experience as well. Most of all, it is my hope that while they are here, they will find Jesus and will cultivate a closer walk with God so they can live the rest of their life for Him."
Silmara Ferreira, associate director
Silmara Ferreira, who most recently served as training coordinator in the Office of Human Resources, is already a familiar face on campus. Ferreira also worked with the Andrews University Division of Enrollment Management team in the recruitment of international students and managed significant responsibilities regarding communications and connections to the campus for new international students.
Ferreira graduated with a bachelor's degree in language and literature from the Instituto
Silmara Ferreira
"Clearly, we have in both Robert and Silmara, a dynamic leadership team, who have a proven track record of excellence and deep passion for international students," says Faehner.
Retirement of Najeeb Nakhle
After 20 years of service as director of the Office of International Student Services, Najeeb Nakhle was honored at a retirement reception on Jan. 17, 2013. Students and faculty alike gathered to shared their appreciation for the man who has done so much to contribute to the global mission of Andrews University and the Adventist church.
Nakhle was born to a Greek Orthodox Christian family in Tartous, Syria, where he completed his elementary and secondary schooling. After high school, Nakhle studied English at Middle East College. During his studies at Middle East College, he was converted to the Seventh-day Adventist faith and began to study theology. Nakhle went on to earn three degrees at Andrews University: a Master of Arts in pastoral ministry, Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Ministry. From 1978–1991, Nakhle taught theology in Chile and Argentina before accepting the position of director of the Office of International Student Services at Andrews University in 1992.
During his time in this position Nakhle has served the international students of Andrews in multiple ways, from assisting them with the orientation process to providing immigration advice, and so much more. "Sometimes, I get a little emotional because I've loved my job so much, I love my students," says Nakhle. His favorite aspect of his position were the opportunities he had to assist students who were desperate to attend Andrews, but needed help.
Frances Faehner, vice president for Student Life, notes one of the most significant contributions Najeeb made to Andrews was navigating the many changes to regulations that occurred after 9-11. "The University has deep gratitude to Dr. Nahkle for the careful, meticulous way that he regularly ensured he was abreast of the changing guidelines for international students and for keeping the rest of campus informed."
Faehner continued, "The more enduring contribution Najeeb made to Andrews was just his deep passion for the students. When there were successes, he was as proud as any father would be. Likewise, when there were challenges or a student had to leave, it brought him pain. He really worked closely with students and was always very anxious to help them succeed."
Nakhle plans to spend at least the first year of his retirement traveling with his wife, Aneesi Nakhle, to Japan and Arizona to visit their children and grandchildren.


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AMD Athlon II X3 435 & Athlon II X2 240e Processor Review
AMD has been putting out a wide range of Athlon II based processors, with everything from dual core processors to quad core ones, such as the AMD Athlon II X4 620 reviewed recently by us here at OCC. The Athlon II series is designed to bring powerful processing power to those looking to conservatively spend on computer products, but do not want to be left out of the loop. While not as powerful as their Phenom II counterparts, the Athlon II series provides a stable platform for workstations and mid-range computing systems, and not breaking the bank in doing so. The Athlon II series differs from the Phenom II series by a lack of L3 cache, which the Athlon II's do not have. They still carry the majority of the other features however, such as the support for DDR2 memory when paired with an AM2+ motherboard or DDR3 memory when paired with an AM3 based motherboard. The series also uses HyperTransport 3.0 for fast data transfer speeds. Today, we are going to be taking a look at the newest additions to the Athlon II lineup. The first is the newest Triple Core addition, the Athlon II X3 435, which is generously clocked at a whopping 2.9GHz, and the energy efficient Dual Core Athlon II X2 240e, which is clocked at 2.8GHz and has a very low TDP of only 45 watts.
Closer Look:
The Athlon II X3 435 processor is clocked at 2.9GHz and has a total L1 cache of 384KB and L2 cache of 1.5MB (512KB per core). The X3 435 has a maximum TDP of 95 watts and is manufactured using a 45nm process. There are approximately 300 million transistors and the processor uses HyperTransport 3.0 for a total processor to system bandwidth of either 37.3GB/s when paired with DDR3 1333MHz memory or 33.1GB/s when paired with DDR2 1066MHz memory. The processor is a socket AM3 design which makes it usable in both AM3 and AM2+ motherboards, giving you a nice upgrade path with minimal costs.
The Athlon II X2 240e processor is clocked at 2.8GHz and has a total L1 cache of 356KB and L2 cache of 2MB (1MB per core). The X2 240e has a maximum TDP of 45 watts which makes the heat given off ideal for HTPCs and workstations that require energy efficient designs. The Athlon II X2 240e is manufactured using a 45nm process and there are approximately 234 million transistors. The processor uses HyperTransport 3.0 for a total processor to system bandwidth of 33.GB/s when paired with DDR3 1066MHz memory. This processor is also an AM3 CPU which allows the use in both AM2+ and AM3 motherboards for compatibility and easy upgrade paths.
Now that we have taken a look at the two processors, let's plug them in and see what they can do.


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Dividends are the traditional way that stable companies with significant profits and cash share their good fortune with loyal stockholders.
Mutual funds loaded with dividend-paying stocks are more interesting to investors during periods when stock-price appreciation seems less assured. These funds typically neither skyrocket nor crash, with their ongoing income helping to keep overall returns steady.
"Dividend income used to be a snoozer back when everything was growth-oriented," said Tom Roseen, senior research analyst with Lipper Inc. in Denver. "A lot of traditional fixed-income investors have now turned their attention to dividend-paying stocks."
The opportunity to benefit from both price appreciation and income distribution is attractive to many investors, Roseen said, especially retirees or baby boomers closing in on retirement. The government helped considerably in 2003 by reducing the maximum dividend tax rate to 15 percent, which will expire in 2010 unless it is extended.
A significant increase in the number of companies buying back their own shares another way that firms tend to use excess cash has been competing with dividend increases this year. Even so, the average dollar amount of dividend payouts is expected to increase by nearly 12 percent during 2007, according to Standard & Poor's Corp.
"To obtain the most yield, financial stocks represent a good sector, along with telecommunications, utilities and major pharmaceuticals," said Ralph Shive, portfolio manager of the $296 million First Source Monogram Income Equity Fund (FMIEX) for more than a decade.
"My fund's yield would have been greater if I hadn't underweighted financials. I may be adding some financials in the next six months depending on how the (subprime lending) crisis shakes out."
As one of the top-performing dividend-focused funds, First Source Monogram Income Equity has a 12-month return of 22 percent and three-year annualized return of 18 percent. This "no-load" (no sales charge) fund requires a $1,000 minimum initial investment and has an annual expense ratio of 1.15 percent.
Among its largest holdings are AT&T Inc. (T), Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO), Alcoa Inc. (AA), General Electric Co. (GE), Emerson Electric Co. (EMR) and Chevron Corp. (CVX).
"The investor should always look for stocks or funds with steady records," Shive said. "We consider bigger, stable, steady companies that can raise their dividends every year to be the best places for investors to look."
An investor must look carefully at how steady the income distribution has been over the years rather than for just a short period of time, Roseen said. No one wants dividend income that's here today and gone tomorrow. In the case of individual companies, past increases in their dividends should also be tracked.
"Over the long term, dividend-paying companies have done better and are less volatile than those that don't pay dividends," said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst with S&P in New York. "Since 1979 on the S&P 500, the dividend-paying stocks have done 2.19 percent better in annualized return than those that don't pay dividends."
Some noteworthy examples of dividend-oriented stock funds available to average investors:
• The $265 million Amana Trust Income Fund (AMANX), with 12-month return of 24 percent and three-year annualized return of 20 percent. This no-load fund requires a $250 minimum initial investment and has an annual expense ratio of 1.37 percent.
• The $135 million Heritage Growth & Income Fund "A" (HRCVX), with 12-month return of 26 percent and a three-year annualized return of 20 percent. It requires a 4.75 percent load, $1,000 minimum initial investment and has an annual expense ratio of 1.35 percent.
• The $27 billion T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund (PRFDX), with 12-month return of 15 percent and a three-year annualized return of 13 percent. This no-load fund requires a minimum initial investment of $2,500 and has a low annual expense ratio of 0.69 percent.
"Corporate ability to pay dividends is pretty good right now and it is only through dividends that companies return cash to shareholders," Shive said. "I'm disappointed in some of the energy companies that haven't been more aggressive in sharing that with the shareholders."
Two of the current highest-dividend-paying stocks belong to telecommunications companies focused on rural markets, Silverblatt said. Both have a yieldor annual dividend divided by the stock priceof around 7 percent. They don't face the stiff competition they would encounter in urban markets, though future yields will inevitably be affected by changing markets and regulatory decisions.
The first, Citizens Communications Co. (CZN), serves 2.5 million phone lines and 465,000 high-speed Internet access customers in 24 states, mostly in the eastern U.S. It is also actively buying back its own shares.
The second, Windstream Corp. (WIN), serves 3.2 million phone lines, 2 million long-distance customers and 750,000 Internet customers in 16 states primarily in the Southeast and Midwest. It was formed last year combining Alltel's former fixed-line business and Valor Communications.
Some financial firms with yields above 6 percent are First Horizon National Corp. (FHN), Huntington Bancshares Inc. (HBAN), National City Corp. (NCC) and Washington Mutual Inc. (WM), Silverblatt said."A lot of these issues are yielding more than the 10-year Treasury, especially if you adjust for taxes," Silverblatt said. "Treasuries are federally taxed at 35 percent and dividends only 15 percent, which is why more investors are considering dividend-paying stocks."
Andrew Leckey answers questions only through the column. Address inquiries to Andrew Leckey, P.O. Box 874702, Tempe, Ariz. 85287-4702, or by e-mail at [email protected].


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The President's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget: Administration Priorities for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Hearing On "The President's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget: Administration Priorities for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers"
April 2, 2014
Opening Statement
(Remarks as Prepared)
I am a strong supporter of the efforts by Congress to control federal spending. But once again, I feel like this is like the old movie "Groundhog Day" for most of us on the Committee.
Many of the Army Corps of Engineers activities that we are examining today are true investments in America because they provide jobs and stimulate an economic return. For nearly two centuries, the civil works missions of the Corps have contributed to the economic vitality of the Nation and have improved our quality of life.
But, like Groundhog Day, this Administration has again mis-prioritized the projects and programs of the Army Corps of Engineers. I believe the Congress and the Administration must be supportive of programs that have a proven record of providing economic benefits.
The FY 2015 budget request by the Administration for the Corps of Engineers is approximately $4.5 billion. This request is less than what was requested in previous budgets and almost 20 percent less than what was appropriated by Congress for fiscal year 2014.
In 2011, we had some of the worst flooding on record in this country. In 2012, we were struck by several major natural disasters. And in 2015, it is likely an expanded Panama Canal will become operational.
Yet, the President has learned little from the recent experiences of coastal storms since his budget proposes investing no funding for construction of shore protection projects nationwide. In addition, he sends to Congress a budget that has an ecosystem restoration construction budget that is three times larger than its coastal navigation construction budget.
The FY 2014 budget was where we expected to find the funds to match the Administration's rhetoric on initiatives, like the President's Export Initiative, or the President's We Can't Wait Initiative. Since the funds are also absent in the FY 2015, budget, perhaps we should call it the "We're Still Waiting Initiative."
Instead, while the President is proposing just over $915 million out of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for operation and maintenance activities in FY 2015, just last year in FY 2014, it is estimated the Administration collected $1.566 billion in Harbor Maintenance Taxes, paid by businesses for the purpose of maintaining America's ports. This will not keep up with a growing demand on our ports to accommodate more and larger ships, and will leave the Trust Fund with almost $10 billion in IOU's to the nation's ports at the end of the next fiscal year.
This Administration is not the first to shortchange America's water transportation system, but I find it irresponsible for any Administration, or for Congress itself, to not fully spend the tax dollars collected for their intended purpose.
I know we need to find savings, but savings could be found by slowing down work on some environmental restoration projects until the economy turns around.
Instead, the President's budget prioritizes these activities above coastal navigation. The largest coastal navigation expenditure in the Construction General account is less than $35 million (Delaware River). By comparison, the three largest ecosystem project expenditures in the Construction General account are one project for almost $70 million (Columbia River), one project for $65.5 million (Everglades), and one project for almost $50 million (Missouri River).
And two of those multi-million dollar ecosystem restoration activities are at the behest of other federal agencies like the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
I admire the good work the Corps of Engineers does related to environmental restoration, but when our cities and towns are suffering from extraordinary flooding and our farms and our factories are struggling to compete in the global marketplace, I believe we need to focus on missions that protect people and benefit the economy.
While we in Congress understand the Corps of Engineers has to comply with the Endangered Species Act and other laws, every year the agency has to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called environmental compliance activities at the whim of other federal agencies with no end in sight. I think the Corps of Engineers needs to know when to say "enough is enough."
Budgets are about priorities. A priority of any administration should be to put the United States at a competitive advantage in world markets.
According to this budget, the coastal navigation system the nation has today, which is the same coastal navigation system we had when this President took office, will be enough to keep the United States competitive when the Panama Canal expansion is complete.
Many of us in Congress disagree. While the President's "Export Initiative" and the "We Can't Wait Initiative" made some promises to the public, unfortunately, many of us in Congress believe the President's budget does not deliver on these Initiatives. Like Groundhog Day, once again, the President over-promises and under-delivers.
Lastly, the President's proposed budget for the Corps of Engineers strangles the planning budget for new projects. The budget proposes a $45 million cut for studying new projects that are requested by local non-federal project sponsors.
The planning budget provides a tremendous value to the nation by tailoring solutions to local needs and is a direct link to the Army's planning for war fighting and force protection. By eviscerating the planning budget, the President's budget creates uncertainty for both the Army's civil works and military missions.
On top of this budget malpractice, the President last week released a proposed rule that will dramatically extend the reach of the federal government when it comes to regulating ponds, ditches, and other wet areas. This will restrict the rights of landowners, increase compliance costs for those trying to create jobs in this country, stifle investment in those same businesses, and create an imbalance in the state and federal roles in carrying out the goals of the Clean Water Act.
I am extremely concerned that this Administration is once again trying to do an end-run around Congress to expand federal power under the Clean Water Act.


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42 U.S. Code § 300cc–20 - Additional authority with respect to research
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(a) Data collection with respect to national prevalence
(1) The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may, through representative sampling and other appropriate methodologies, provide for the continuous collection of data on the incidence in the United States of cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and of cases of infection with the etiologic agent for such syndrome. The Secretary may carry out the program of data collection directly or through cooperative agreements and contracts with public and nonprofit private entities.
(2) The Secretary shall encourage each State to enter into a cooperative agreement or contract under paragraph (1) with the Secretary in order to facilitate the prompt collection of the most recent accurate data on the incidence of cases described in such paragraph.
(3) The Secretary shall ensure that data collected under paragraph (1) includes data on the demographic characteristics of the population of individuals with cases described in paragraph (1), including data on specific subpopulations at risk of infection with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
(4) In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall, for the purpose of assuring the utility of data collected under this section, request entities with expertise in the methodologies of data collection to provide, as soon as is practicable, assistance to the Secretary and to the States with respect to the development and utilization of uniform methodologies of data collection.
(5) The Secretary shall provide for the dissemination of data collected pursuant to this subsection. In carrying out this paragraph, the Secretary may publish such data as frequently as the Secretary determines to be appropriate with respect to the protection of the public health. The Secretary shall publish such data not less than once each year.
(b) Epidemiological and demographic data
(1) The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall develop an epidemiological data base and shall provide for long-term studies for the purposes of—
(A) collecting information on the demographic characteristics of the population of individuals infected with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the natural history of such infection; and
(2) The Secretary may carry out paragraph (1) directly or through grants to, or cooperative agreeements [1] or contracts with, public and nonprofit private entities, including Federal agencies.
(c) Long-term research
The Secretary may make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for the purpose of assisting grantees in conducting long-term research into treatments for acquired immune deficiency syndrome developed from knowledge of the genetic nature of the etiologic agent for such syndrome.
(d) Social sciences research
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, may make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for the purpose of assisting grantees in conducting scientific research into the psychological and social sciences as such sciences relate to acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
(e) Authorization of appropriations
(1) For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year.
[1] So in original.
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXIII, § 2320, as added Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 201(4),Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3074; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title II, § 2617(d),Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4240; Pub. L. 102–531, title III, § 312(d)(20),Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3505; Pub. L. 103–43, title XVIII, § 1811(5), (6),June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 200.)
1993—Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 103–43, § 1811(5), inserted "and the natural history of such infection" after "syndrome".
Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 103–43, § 1811(6), substituted "fiscal year" for "of the fiscal years 1989 through 1991".
1992—Subsecs. (a)(1), (b)(1). Pub. L. 102–531substituted "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" for "Centers for Disease Control".
1988—Subsec. (a)(5). Pub. L. 100–690substituted "subsection" for "section".
Effective Date of 1988 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–690effective immediately after enactment of Pub. L. 100–607, which was approved Nov. 4, 1988, see section 2600 ofPub. L. 100–690, set out as a note under section 242m of this title.
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