ramison and harris and susan sullivan? >> thank you very much, i'm dennis kelley, in san francisco. and i join you in your flashing your orange and black tonight. i will let you know that i have made a wager with the president of the detroit federation of teacher and the michigan federation and i would urge you to reach out to john telfer the superintendant in detroit, although he had a heart attack at the beginning of this month and we hope that he is all right and can bear the whole idea of this. i have asked you to look at a couple of items on the agenda tonight, the first one is k-14. k-14 has you spending during these times, $8,700 to make a movie. and i would hope that someone would explain why that is a legitimate expense in these kinds of straightened times when we are going to the public and asking them to raise taxes in order to support the schools. look at k18, 20, and 22, and each one of those, the district is getting back money that apparently was not spent in previous years. and so, there is no expenditure obviously, but you are getting money. and the question is i thi

ramison and harris and susan sullivan? >> thank you very much, i'm dennis kelley, in san francisco. and i join you in your flashing your orange and black tonight. i will let you know that i have made a wager with the president of the detroit federation of teacher and the michigan federation and i would urge you to reach out to john telfer the supeen

and susan and everyone at "foreign policy" for joining with the state department's office of policy planning to organize this conference about transformational trends. i want to thank dick sullivan and everyone at policy planning -- jake sullivan and everyone at policy planning. when he first came to work for me, i told my husband about this incredible rising star, a rhodes scholar, yale law school. he said, if he ever learns to play the saxophone, watch out. [laughter] now we travel all over the world and people say how excited they are to meet a potential future president of the united states -- of course, they mean jake. [laughter] i will state the obvious. we do live in a rapidly changing world. many of the constants that shaped american foreign policy for decades are shifting. that poses new challenges, but also new opportunities for our global leadership. let me offer a few examples. first, our alliances in europe and east asia are stronger than ever. after four years of repairing strains and answering questions about america's commitment to diplomacy, are staying power, our global leadership, we are working across the board on so many important issues to all of us. at the