came up to her and said, 'Only in America can a refugee meet the secretary of state' " Obama related. "And she replied, 'Only in America can a refugee become the secretary of state.' ")

Or seven-year-old Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minn. -- "you couldn't be a rebel, it was too cold" -- a Jewish boy with a dad stricken by polio, suiting up as a Roman soldier in breastplate and helmet as an extra in the visiting company of the Black Hills Passion Play of South Dakota.

Sixty-four years later, we waited for Dylan to utter a word -- any word -- but he travelled right past all of us, on the dark side of the road. The ceremony ended.

By the time I got home from the White House,experts from the University of La Laguna, 3 from the Government of the Canary Islands, 2 from the Council of Tenerife -- including the Covenant of Mayors coordinator --, 2 from the Izaña Atmospheric Research Centre, 2 from local trade unions, and 1 from the Chamber of Commerce, environmental NGO, Institute of Volcanology and the Council of Gran Canaria). All participants were either experts in CC or stakeholders involved in disaster risk management.

The second session was held in San Cristóbal de La Laguna. It is a municipality that belongs to the metropolitan area of Tenerife. It is the second most populous municipality of the Island, with more than 152,000 inhabitants ([@bib0205]). San Cristóbal de La Laguna also belongs to the group of municipalities that signed the Covenant of