Mother of the murdered black teenager, steven lawrence. Lord [inaudible] a former assistant Deputy Police commissioner. Lady jones, a Green Party Politician in london. And lord finkelstein, columnist and a former associate editor of the times. To put all the new peers, in october a former first sea lord had a novel suggestion to make. And i wonder if the royal navy could come to the nations assistance again, ive been asking people to buy the third invincible class carrier, two having been scrapped, and i wonder if the house authorities would like to buy it to accommodate the huge number of new piers being created. [laughter] in fact, it can accommodate up to 700 people and has a bank, laundry and shop. The death of Nelson Mandela was a moment that parliament couldnt ignore. The first black president of south africa and father figure for his nation came to parliament back in 1996 and spoke in Westminster Hall. He was fully aware of the antiapartheid campaigns that ran in britain through
They facilitate what we call social selling. It enables a salesperson or professional to leverage their network and ultimately convert what would have been a cold call into a warm prospect. Tell me a little bit about your process. Inhouse you build something or tools for your company to use. If you liked it well enough, you would push it out to the public. Tell me what youre working on in this area. I think youre referring specifically to how we at linkedin is leveraging it as a platform to generate value for our employees. It is important to draw distinctions between what historically has been public professional network, which is what linkedin is. Most of is publicly available by design. There is a private professional network of which you will increasingly see within the enterprise. There is sensitive, competitive situation. At linkedin, we are Building Tools allow us to collect values from our own platform. We want to have the right kind of engagement and productivity enhancement.
Backlash against republicans. Why does this tend to happen in second terms . Think about when a brandnew president is elected and you are young enough to remember in 2009 , whether you were democrat or republican, liberal, moderate, conservative, there was a real curiosity how this new president is going to do and howxcitement, passion, is this guy going to do . Y people wanted the country to do well after tough times, and that is fairly typical when a new president is elected. But over time, the novelty wears for myd over time decisions are made, tough, governing decisions are made that tend to tick people off, and that the fresh, new ideas and to dissipate some. The team that elected the president lycian really, they generally go off and make money. So they have the cteam on the field. The final thing is chickens come home to roost, things that you said or did in the first term come back to you, and they will thingsou on your ass, like that come back to haunt you in the second term.
History with the possible exception of Eleanor Roosevelt has touched so many of us in such a personal way. Because i lost my mother to breast cancer, betty ford is a heroin to me. Because my family has been victimized by alcoholism and i know what it is to watch good, fine people stare into their personal despair, i will be forever grateful for the betty ford clinic and for the millions of other people whose lives have literally been turned around and often say you may not have gone to that clinic but went somewhere because she showed them it was not wrong. For a good person and a strong person to be imperfect and ask for help. You gave us a gift and we thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] tomorrow night, our first dys encore continues with rosalynn carter. She traveled to latin american as his official envoy. She supported the equal rights amendment and she supported a bill in congress th
Good morning. Welcome to the campaign institute. Im candy nelson, the academic director. This is the 35th year that we have existed. We started as a bipartisan training institute. The first speaker today is charlie cook, editor and writer for the cook political report. Charlie is a political analyst for washington journal. National journal. He has always been very generous of his time and will start us off by talking about the political environment going into 2014. Charles cook. [applause] [applause] thank you, candy. First of all i want to compliment all of you for your decision to participate in cmi because hardly a month goes by that i dont run into somebody somewhere that didnt say, i met you, or i first heard you at the American University Campaign Management institute and ive been doing this for really long time. I remember my favorite story about the cmi was back in the, either very late 80s or probably early 90s. A friend of mine. Leland bill sweeney was helping to run the prog