Really get it out of your blood. Is an important topic at the right time thank you so much to be here into our partners have sponsors and to the talented team to put this together our transportation infrastructure expert. The chamber is a founding sponsor which i meant to ask the team we are the founding sponsor of iweek and i am proud to see how this has grown and reached with programmatic activity every year. You know, about infrastructure that will ever learn so ill have to tell you what a problem is for the country as a nationwide challenge with a nationwide conversation over the next five days we will gather to focus on the for structure at 100 defense nationwide chicago, boston chicago, boston, a salt lake , and right here in the Nations Capital. We will send a strong and unified message ladies and gentleman the time is now. We have a once in a Generation Opportunity to make major progress and we must seize that with urgency. We have all read the grim statistics and because of th
We have a great group of members who are here and i know everybodys got a lot of different commitments this morning. We are also eager to hear from our witnesses and talk about a critical issue facing our country. Its really a crisis in our communities and its getting worse, not better and the crisis is this Opioid Epidemic. The country is being gripped by it. My state is in many states are. Its in every corner of my state. Earlier this month in ohio, there was a near fatal but now overdose following a routine traffic stop. He p he noticed there was white powder spread around the car. He did the right thing. He put on his mask and gloves, arrested some individuals,s, went back to the Police Station and noticed it on his shirt there was some powder so he reached up like this and brush the powder off his shirt. This guy is 6foot three, 225 pounds. A big man. He fell to the floorimmedi unconscious in overdose. They administered narcan immediately but it wasnt enough. Wapi they had to rush
Special science conversation and humanities seminar. I also welcome you this morning heartily from my cohost, brian boone and charles zimmerman. My name is vanessa summers, coordinator of the humanities, special Research Division set up to stimulate Critical Thinking at the intersection of science and the humanities and what better subject to bring science and humanity together. To discuss science and society to study the deeper relationship that people always had with trees through the ages, as meeting points, object of the light, places of peace and wellbeing. Everyone here, i am sure, will have their own favorite tree. Think about your favorite tree. What better place to speak of urban forests, famous as this place is for its unique 68 acres of forest, the oldgrowth forest that the last remnants of the 17thcentury woodlands that once blanketed this whole area, this region on the east. The same words where the indians hunted, some of the very trees standing. This is also the reason t
Good morning and welcome to the new York Botanical gardens. This is our special friday morning science conservation and humanity seminars. I also welcome you this morning very heartily from my cohost, brian and charles. My name is vanessa sellers. Im the coordinator of the humanities institute, a special Research Division in the library set up to stimulate Critical Thinking at the intersection of science and the humanities. And what better subject than urban forests to bring science and humanities together . To discuss science and society, to study the deeper relationship that people have always had with trees through the ages, as meeting points, as object of the light, as places of peace and wellbeing. And everyone here i am sure will have their own favorite tree. Think about your favorite tree for a minute. What better place than the new York Botanical garden to speak of urban forests, famous as this place is, for its unique 50 acres time forest, the old growth forest, the last remna
People of turkey made me president by 52 of the votes. Mr. Irdyk thank you. We need to go to the audience for a couple of questions, if you are ok with that. I would ask you to wait for the microphone, to identify yourself, and please to ask a question, not to make a statement. Tohave an opportunity here ask questions of the president , but we are not interested in having a political statement in the process. I also want to make clear that this is not a press conference. This is a discussion, with policy people in washington. So i hope the media will understand, but call on all of to turned it into a press conference, i want to avoid that. I am the Deputy Director of brookings Foreign Policy programs. Thank you very much for coming here and engaging in a discussion at brookings. In your speech he talked about a number of different issues around the region, but that was one country that received almost pleading mentioned, and that was iran. Turkey has played an Important Role and diplom