Host and this week on the communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association, matt polka. Mr. Polka, what is the American Cable Association . Guest thanks, peter. Nice to be here again. Nice to be here with you, lynn, as well. The American Cable Association is unique in the fact that we represent many smaller Cable Operators across the country, and everyone always asks me, are there still small Cable Operators left . In fact, there are nearly 900 of them in every corner you can imagine, rural areas, small towns. Many of them are providing Competitive Services even against some of the largest providers today. And whats great about these smaller companies, its a terrific story because theyre providing broadband, highspeed broadband in rural areas that desperately need Broadband Service. So these are the members we represent. Theyre smaller, theyre independent which means that theyre not affiliated with larger content companies or larger providers, and w
And circumstances continue to move and in undesirable direction. I want to tell you it is because the japanese side denied the existence of such an agreement or understanding, which was reached 40 years ago, and certainly this is an acceptable , ashe chinese side, because i said before, this is a historical fact. In spite of this, we are still ready to sit down and have dialogues with the japanese side to find jointly away to control, manage the current situation. But the japanese said to us there is no such dispute the between china and japan, and that has made it impossible for dialogues to happen. China and japan are perpetual neighbors. The two countries have very close business ties. Sit downill ready to and have dialogue with the japanese side, but first the japanese side needs to recognize there is such a dispute. Of the whole world knows there is a dispute here. I believe there will be a day when the japanese come back to this table and dialogue. So, how things will go next is
Electricity generation already and we hope to build on the progress that is currently going on and frankly has been going on for years at the state and local level. States are already participating in their own market based programs to cut pollution. From carbon. I should make sure that everybody says when i mean carbon, it means more than 35 states have clean energy targets. More than 25 have already set Energy Efficiency goals and have cut their energy waste and over 1000 mayors across the country have signed agreements to cut Carbon Pollution. Clearly, states and local communities are doing their jobs as incubators of innovation leading the way to cleaner, more affordable, more sustainable energy. Fighting Climate Change makes Good Business sense. Thats worth repeating. Climate change just makes Good Business sense. As the president has pointed out, more than 500 businesses, including gm and nike, called this and i quote, one of the greatest opportunities of the 21st century. So we
Goals are. I suspect those goals may vary depending on whether you are teaching graduate and so, in engineering, it will be a very fact heavy inquiry. We will have to define Critical Mass, i think, based on into solution institution specific data. Be differently defined than another at another institution. There are arguments in fisher were the court was asking, does Critical Mass differ depending on the location of the school . Example, Critical Mass, you would expect is some significant or should of latino students because of the population. In pennsylvania, maybe not because you do not have as large of a latino population. Unclear exactly what Critical Mass is and how schools are defining that term and interpreting it and applying it. Well have to give some thought as to how we do that going forward. I think we will have to give some thought to race neutral alternatives and why those alternatives do not yield sufficient levels of racial diversity that we need and why we need racial