Lined of the aleutian chain, and then another insert covers the rest of the aleutian chain, and adak was in the second insert. Suffice to say my fiancee at the time was not too pleased. However, afterwards after going tout adak i think it got us off to a great start in terms 0 our marriage, and she is with me 39 years later so it probably was a good experience. I learned a lot about being a sailor in alaska. First of all you have to deal with what i call the tyranny of time and distance, and were still challenged with that today. Going back to my coast guard position, the nearest air station that goes that can fly helicopters for search and rescue in the north slope is 850 miles away in kodiak alaska. That tyranny of time and distance, and when youre sailing ships up there when you have to refuel and the nearest port is 800, 900 miles away you can get to for a fuel it causes you to be cautious and concerned and then the weather you have to deal with up there. I have seen the worst sust
Those engaged in business or on the boards of enterprise or educational institutions and you have helped to lay out how we can combat Climate Change and i thank you for doing that. Now its time to build on the pledges. Let us know how youre doing. Let us know throw the state department, through state. Gov, and how we can help you make progress, and this is the kind of shared resolve that will help ensure that we are successful in paris and beyond. In closing i ask you to consider one basic question. Suppose stretching your imaginations as it will have to be that somehow those 97 of studies i just talked about suppose that somehow they were wrong, about Climate Change in the end. Hard to understand, after 20 years of 97 , but imagine it. Just imagine it. What are the consequences we would face for taking the actions that were talking about . And based on the notion that those might be correct. Ill tell you what the consequences are. Youll create an extraordinary number of jobs. Youll ki
Are buying in order to figure out what each cost and also i would note that on the songwriter side, Songwriters Guild featured Music Coalition that have brought up issues of transparency because arbitration might lead to issues where the artists themselves dont necessarily know what the rate is or how it was decided. I think my time is up mr. Chairman. Thank you. Senator franken. Thank you mr. Chairman for this hearing. Mr. Harris and you talked about this 150,000dollar fine that could be imposed for infringing. Have you ever paid such a fine . No sir. How many times has that fine in your experience your knowledge been imposed . Well in the context of pandora. Just in the whole ego system of this . Oh hundreds if not thousands of Copyright Infringement cases going on right now. Farah williams is involved with a lawsuit over marvin gayes estate of her blurred lines were statutory damages and willful infringement are being sought by the plaintiffs. I go back to the question, how many tim
Those are not easy things. The last thing, theres four parts to the department of defense. There are the four services, the three departments. Army, navy, air force. But theres also the department of defense. Can i take a shot at that, sir . Whoever. Im going to defend my two Service Chiefs here. Their staffs have not grown. Were not growing. The staffs are staying steady. Were doing a 20 reduction in headquarters staff. But, again its what we call the fourth estate. The department of defense agencies. So thats where the growth is coming. Its not in the department. Thank you. Let me go back to my questions. Admiral, we sort of decided on this rebalance to asia before the latest provocations from russia. If sequestration returns in october, what sort of gaps will this create towards rebalance strategy. One of the Top Priorities we have is presence. You wont see a Budget Reduction in our forward presence. Japan, singapore and guam will continue to increase. We are increasing the forces i
One of the Top Priorities we have is presence. You wont see a Budget Reduction in our forward presence. Japan, singapore and guam will continue to increase. We are increasing the forces in the european command as we look at how were going to deploy in the future. Strictly for the reason you stated with the instability in the africom and the ucom region. Its not dramatic, but it is there. So the asia pacific wont take a hit from the sequestration and our european presence will not take a hit from sequestration. Those will take place elsewhere . Those forces forward wont be as dramatic. As you know ive been worrying about afghanistan. General dempsey told our committee theres a terrorist network that stretches from afghanistan to nigeria. He went onto say i think afghanistan is and will remain an anchor point for that pressure. Do you agree with that. I think a plat form for which the United States can protect its swres is absolutely correct. Am i right to worry ant those are based on mo