Its credibility . Lawrence its a question of starting to clean it up. I think whats happened is that the dynamic of the web is very the sort of quick accountability and Quick Response and dissemination through twitter and other means of, you know questions about something that popped up tends to kind of clean things up on its own a little bit. If somebody comes out with something thats not right or thats clearly proveably wrong or from a source thats questionable, the accountability of that happens much quicker. And i think that over time thats, my sense is, its built up that, you know, if something comes from say, you know, the abc news or the journal d or the New York Times, you know its got a strong bedrock of credibility than if it comes from some place that no ones ever heard of because people through experience have learned that a lot of these reports are, you know, built on very flimsy evidence. Jack id like to open it up to all of you. We have a credible opportunity to figure o
Deciding how to react. We want to get your thoughts about iran, the white house, and congress. What is next . What would you like to see happen . Here are the numbers to call. If not by phone, way in by social media. On facebook or send us an email. Chockfull of iranrelated headlines as the talks resume in switzerland. The Washington Post sets it up this way. A down to the wire negotiation to restrict Irans Nuclear program, ready to kick off under the pressure of a selfimposed deadline. Secretary of state kerry arrived in lausanne sunday and is to meet today with the Iranian Foreign minister. Other members of the team arrived earlier and were seen wondering the grounds of the hotel where the discussions will take place in the lakeside city. After more than a decade of talks there is a last chance feel to the latest round. The discussions have been stalled over the pace of sanctions relief, inspections and a size of Irans Nuclear capacity. There is the setup. The talks ongoing. Late mor
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 its 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, theres 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 thats 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 sold on their menus.
But this kind of that is one of the things that is also very interesting. The fact that the maroons, one thing that many of them dead was to. We see maroons trading for example the that they gather. Some made baskets and they. That to free blacks as well as white people. One of the things that they. , that they. For word guns and ammunition. We are going to turn soon to open the floor to questions from the audience but i wanted to allow sylviane to do a little reading for the book so what he do that . One of the things that i think needs to be mentioned is is you know a maroon was not for everyone. It was difficult. It was a hard life. People had have to be very creative and selfconfident. They had to have extraordinary qualities to be able to survive in the wild and in some lived very well and some of them became folk heroes. You read the interviews and you see people who say they didnt have to work. They 1800better than we did. There were a lot of successes that they had. There are w
Effectively and with integrity. What does your background have to be . Well, the statute that created inspectors general stetz that iegs need to have generated expertise in a number of professions, any one of them, auditing, investigations, Law Enforcement, public management, and above all, be people of the integrity. How long have you been the Inspector General for the Agriculture Department. Since december of 2002. How would you drip this specific job at agriculture . At agriculture, my job is to oversee the operations of all of usd as programs to make sure that they are being delivered as effectively as possible. And so what that means on a daytoday basis is that we in the iags office conduct audits to make sure that programs are running effectively, that improper payments are not going out the door. And we also conduct investigations. When ever there are allegations of wrongdoing in a program, either by a Department Employee or by a person whos receiving benefits, its our jurts dic