Recess will end and we will stand in her new again. I moved to senator corcoran. Care. You for the thank you. Secretary sullivan, you know how i feel about you. I appreciate the proactive approach you took. I appreciate your coming for the service as well, the funeral. I was not here earlier. I know the hiring present the reorganization was a topic of discussion and i want to talk to about that a little bit. It is something i feel strongly about. We as a senate and a house and the defense reauthorization act, we ask the local Defense Center to take on more responsibility, specifically with regard to disinformation coming from countries meant to undermine some of our basic values and institutions. Russia and china come to mind. There is an Important Role in pushing back against extremism, is question for you is there an ability to keep some of these important entities like the Global Engagement centers specifically from being weakened by a hiring freeze or by other reorganizations that
Is important. Next from the berkshire conference a panel of historians discuss black education in the 1960s and how these women transformed history for americans. It is about 90 minutes. Thank you all for joining us. Welcome to this exciting roundtable on black women and transformations and education. I am honored to be here. I am a associate professor of womens gender and sexuality studies at ohio state university. I am humbled and honored to be panelderator for this with three of my esteemed colleagues. The format will be each professor will speak for about 10 minutes and focus on their around blacks women and education. Have a discussion among ourselves than we will be able to open that up to the audience so you can all engage as we do not often get to be in a room with one another to discuss this. I will get to the panelists in the order that they are here. Thet up will be jennifer free doctoral fellow in history at the university of illinois at chicago. Northrned her ba from carol
The fundamental driver was that we are the minority partner. Its partly about partnership. Its partly about innovation. You know, back there were a few courses around this country. Now the course at berkeley that has the single most attendance. You have kids in high school and College Setting up their own ngos and traveling around the world. Now days all spend time in developing countries. So and you have huge amounts of innovation. The development breakthroughs are not necessarily coming out of Development Agency or their partners. We did our great challenge of ebola to deal with the fact and its so hot in south africa and enable people to work longer including a baltimore seamstress. A new york city fashion designer. I mean, that is an amazing collection of people and now thats going into production in use for hot climates. So every when you start thinking to implications, also relationship with the private sector hugely transformed when you think of yourself more of as the minority
Mr. Ambassador, in the run up to the recent u. S. China strategic and economic dialogue, there were a lot of press reports of the several issues that would be on the table. One of those included the ongoing solar panel dispute and resulting poly silicone tariffs from china. However in the fact sheets that came out, theres emphasis on steel and some of the other issues. But i saw no mention of the solar issue. I was just wondering if you could give us a status report on where that stands. Thank you. We did discuss it while i was there. Weve continued to discuss the issue. Its a long standing outstanding dispute. Its something we would like to try to find a way of settling and our discussions will continue. And ill see him in shanghai in a couple of weeks. A question over here in the back and then well take the one in the front. Hi. Ken biddler. This week president obama is going for the summit. Canada has not taken a position on the tpp. Its the only of 12 countries to have not stated w
Internally, to execute on that. President omotalde thank you. Commissioner wald commissioner wald thank you both for coming in. Its good to see both of you again. So, this is sort of a follow to commissioner hoyos question. If you achieve your goals, this can be a ripple effect. Youre going to have vast numbers of new writers and those people are going to the park, if thats the technical term, in San Francisco and a lot of them are going to get on other kinds of public transportation. Whether its bike were buses or whatever. So, i would welcome, at least assurance, or it is not a big discussion, that you are not only talking to the departments about its expertise, but that you are at least trying to get sort of a candle on all the parts of the city family in San Francisco that will be impacted by the achievement of your goals. Particularly, in terms of ridership. Both in terms of increasing the number of people who ride and how they get to your vehicles. Its not just in San Francisco.