Introduce you to the former miami dade commissioner cady. Aty sorenson [applause] thank you, dan. It is a pleasure to be with all of you this morning and especially to introduce this distinguished panel. It has been almost three years to the day since the deq visited us in miami dade county, so we nancy hereo have today. Now a recovering county commissioner i recall speaking about how miami cities are in between the biscayne bay and everglades ecosystems, and the land can only be considered high in miami but it is really see level. A more accurate way to describe these arid it is dry because we have pushed down the water level through an elaborate system of canals so that we would have land to build upon. Even though it would be hard to convince our residents even though we get 60 inches of water every year during the summer months, and that water continues to be an issue in south florida. I also spoke about how pushing billions of gallons of fresh water to make this part of florida ha
CommUnity Colleges do, because they offer a lot of other things and other opportunities that a lot of universities are not able to offer everybody. Thank you so much. Host a lot of attention from the Obama Administration. What about the history here . Fareid timidity colleges under previous administrations . A top they were not priority. A lot of the debate has been about how do we help students in college afford it . Obama has emphasized how do we it students who are not in college into college . While he is a big fan into Community Colleges, he has criticized them, said they need to work on the completion rates, that some of their jobTraining Programs are not as good as they should be, that he is a toplove person with Community Colleges, pushing for more money and accountability. Host staff from the department of labor on percentage of students seeking a degree at a twoyear granting institution. These colleges who completed within 104 of the normal time, from the department of educat
Roosevelt sit . Whats been her influence on the job and her influence of American History. Eleanor roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt came to the white house in the middle of the crisis in 1933. They told the friends, we would like our white house to be like uncle theodores and aunt ediths. They were role models for other couples, president ial couples. They were vigorous, active, but they maintained a homey sense and kept their personal lives alive. So i think shes a really important organizational pioneer in some ways. You would say . I think the first lady has a fine line to walk between being the sort of embodiment of the ceremonial aspects of the job and the kind of global stage that the first lady needs to occupy and that the folks are like this is your house as well as mine. She did that very, very well. The changes, the professionalism of the office itself, they were the clear sense that edith had that you were stepping into a new century and the future was going to be terrific.
Off. Reporter with news from europe including drumming up support, the 100,000 people protest against austerity in warsaw. An agreement at last, russia and the United States have reached a deal to rid significant i cant of its arsenal weapons. It took three days of talks in geneva, but secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart foreign minister sevgey lavrov. Russia and United States agree with a plan to put Syrian Chemical Weapons out of use. Secretary john kerry said he wasnt under any illusion, but the job can be done. The world will expect the assad regime to live up to its commitments. As i said outside of these negotiations, there can be no games, no room for avoidance, not anything less but full compliance from the assad regime. Reporter what if he doesnt comply after three days of talks with secretary of state john kerry, foreign minister sevgey lavrov watered down the u. S. Agreement. We understand that the decisions we have reached today is only the beginning o
These can be cured either by the. Rrival of a figure with that, i will conclude. Thanks for that, jeff. Thanks to all of you for coming out today for lunch. Bitgoing to deal a little with the opposition politically where jeff left off in his presentation. Ive been dealing with the Syrian Opposition now for about. 3 years it has changed a lot over time. Disorganized it is. They are unable to plan. All of these things are true. But does not mean they are not worth investigating. Everyone has different theories about why this is. Some people have argued that everyone else funds different groups and they have different clients inside of the country and it is what is coming the division. There might be something to those theories. He goes back between the older thesition and inside of group. There is a certain psychological aspect that is overlooked. An agent is to my segment of this work with it. People whou have emerge from the living under to radical system like the assad regime which is