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lecturing at the university of texas. to continue about her experiences in the military and her fight for increased military effectiveness for equality, we are so please to have her here tonight and without further ado, mary jennings hegar. [applause] thank you so much and thank you to bookpeople, you people have been so warm and return your book and buy it from bookpeople. i ve been speaking for seven years and i m so nervous right now because i ve talking to a bunch of people i know and love and respect, many of whom are in our office so i please ask you to not evaluate this speech. so i am just going to amazed by how many people are here and i want to stay on this time because a lot of you haven t seen in a while but my mom wanted me to speak for like an hour and then someone else told me, be brief, be funny. so i m going to try to find somewhere in between those. i m going to read just a short excerpt from the book and then talk for like six or seven minutes and ....
of jordan light. jordan white. she was not necessarily a bad student. she was just really bored. she told me when she was in seventh grade, that her teachers did not get her. i remember thinking what does , that mean? she said they just do not get me. they do not understand what i need. she got a scholarship and also went to georgetown i believe and graduated the top of her class and her study was japanese studies. she went to oberlin. a little african-american kid from washington dc majoring in japanese studies. graduated from oberlin and for , the last two years, she has been a translator for a japanese company in japan. her mother went over to visit for the first time in japan. she called me when she got back and said, i m just amazed at how well my child is doing. those are the kinds of stories we hear over and over again. children who had access to scholarships just took a different journey. parents were happy about with we what they were doing and were more ex ....
no one entity, no one law, no one anything is going to solve the challenge of creating a food environment and landscape that makes it easier, makes it not just easier, makes it easy to eat healthy. so it s going to take the work of everybody and it is taking the work of everybody. but ultimately, we are a part of that, and so i think ultimately the health outcomes and obesity rates, there s a lot of other indicators that we are looking at to see are we on track, are we making progress. and those are things we look at a lot of the consumption patterns, things like fruits, vegetables consumption, water consumption just this last year regain the number one spot for the first time in decades as the most consumed drink, which is a big deal and really indicative of a shift that s under way. of user fruits and vegetable consumption was up in a year given the economy we were not expecting that. we are seeing those kinds of ships, restaurants or sing shifts about what is being s ....
slippage in that. parliament has now come back meeting in mogadishu. it has to enact several key pieces of legislation in this session or else which shall be off track. so we will know quite soon whether this outrageously ambitious project is going to be doable or not. but at this stage there is no reason to say that it can t be done. meanwhile, apart from having this plan of action of achieving these three major big ticket items, there is an outbreak, if you like, across somalia of free market, free market bidding process to become federal member states. so on the ground people are taking the initiative to set up their own federal states without waiting for a federal government led orderly process. so we have currently as many of you will know, between those advocating a three region and those advocating a six region federal-state, which is a difficult issue. we still have the implementation of the juba administration agreement which is taking time to work through, and ....