Duration of the meeting. Thank you. May have a motion to approve the agenda . Thank you, any comments or questions . All in favor . Any opposed. Thank you, the motion carries. Item 3, approval of the december 6, 2017 meeting minutes, motion to approve . Any comments or questions . To the public . Hearing none, all in favor . Any opposed . Thank you. The motion carries. Item 4, reports, the director report, thank you, shireen. Director mcspadden thank you, commissioner, and i want to extend a special welcome to commissioner papas very happy to have you working with us. I was at the National Association on aging board meeting. I mentioned before, but for those of you who havent heard, im one of two representatives from california to this National Association. And its a Great Organization, theyre focused on building the capacity of aaa so we can help older adults. It supports initiatives such as Livable Communities and dementiafriendly america. They advocate for funding for services for a
Risks depends on how the rest of the International Community perceive risks in the wake of an iran deal that actively encourages business with iran. How effective will it be to highlight the role of the ircg after its been removed from the sanctions list . Major International Banks will be slow to move back into the Iranian Market but nonu. S. Companies are likely to trip over one another in a rush to reenter the potential market which is described in europe as eldoor rad dough and potential bonanza. Under iran deal we lose the balance of unilateralal and multilateral sanctions. Under the deal, u. N. And eu sanctions largely disappear and what remains are just u. S. Sanctions. To be sure u. S. Secondary sanctions on illicit conduct remain in place and would impact behavior of european and other foreign banks and businesses but this puts the onus solely on the u. S. The deal is not a bilateral u. S. iran deal. Multilateral, in fact. Our partners should be expected to do their part, Hold
Things out and find your way. Many of those for you here i must focus my attention on things by doctor my health. Each day i had to carefully monitor and manage my blood glucose level, which isnt easy since exercise, diet and many other factors have an impact. Despite the serious challenges i have many reasons to be grateful. Fatefully, i was diagnosed with a t1 d after frederick branning discovered insulin. Thankfully, i was diagnosed with the wendy after insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors were invented. Thankfully, i have learned how to manage my diabetes without allowing it to manage me even though it is not always easy. It is only through a very strict blood Sugar Management routine and advancements in diabetes treatment and devices that i have been able to live my life to the fullest. Thirtyfive, the number of countries i visited and is still counting. 13. 1, the number of miles and a half marathon. I have completed two so far. Ten, the number of things i wish my parent
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor Kenneth Codner, great baptist church, bellefonte, pennsylvania. The chaplain please bow with me in prayer. Heavenly father, i am humbled to be able to stand before you on behalf of this assembly here today. Lord, we are sinners, deserving none of your favor. But, father, i come to you in the merit of the lord and savior, jesus christ, who washed me from my sins in his shed blood. Father, we are aware more than any of the bitterness and bitter divisiveness throughout this room and across this nation of ours. I know that this grieves your heart, father. And i pray that we would repent of our sins, that you might forgive them and heal this land of ours. I pray that youll work in the hearts of the members of congress, that they be willing to put aside their political expedience and partisan politics and personal agendas, that they would strive to do what is best for our nation as a
The 2016 we learned from the New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year that all the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and likely, that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year, 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could mean your 1 million. 183,000 lives have been lost in the us from overdoses between 2015. Thats about 50,000 we lost over the last, 500,000 we lost over the next decade. The roots of this crisis began in 1980 when a letter to the editor in the journal of medicine was misinterpreted as evidence. It was unlikely someone become addicted out of 4000 cases a center was only four connections. Years later the joint Commission Following the american medical associations recommendation assessment established standards for Pain Management interpreted by many doctors as encouraging the prescription of