Its an missouri. Its an hour. What is that . What is that black thing be with the numbers on it . Its a sex tant. What do you use sextants for . Sorry . Thought i heard an answer. Yeah. Naveigation. Its actually for shooting the stars. Maybe the professors here remember, but i doubt if anybody else does. There was a time in this world where you did not just pull this thing up and it pulled you to where you were within 10 meters on the planet. On my first ship i got to be navigator, which is like the coolest job in the navy because you got to tell the captain where to go. Nobody else got to tell the captain where to go. There was no g. , g. P. S. , no satellite naveigation. It really hasnt changed much for huvens years. You shoot the stars, use a lot of landmark, and what you learned pretty quickly as a naive i gator, otherwise you you would end up being a walmart greeter, you look at evidence, you dont lock only or use any one thing 100 , but you look at efrling everything and use the
Spent because he was trying to build the ranch of good intentions. That took a lot of his time. See all of our programs today at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. Tinsleyed admiral david is a retired meteorologist and expert in climatology. The penn state meteorology professor recently talked about the effects of Climate Change on security and public policy. This was hosted by Westminster College in fulton missouri. It is an hour. What is that . What is that black thing with the numbers on it . It is a sextant. Shat do you sextant for . Navigation. It is for shooting the stars. Maybe the professors here remember. I doubt if anybody else does, there was a time in this world where do you did not just pull this thing up and it told you where you were within 10 meters on this planet. Ship,ou went out on this this was my first ship, i got to be navigator, the coolest job in the navy. You got to tell the captain where to go. Nobody else got to tell the captain were to go. There was no p
Jones, your opening testimony was touched upon where china is north koreas last remaining patron. What would happen if china joined us in the sanctions if were just thinking through and really did cut north korea off . How would north korea respond . Well, china has said that they support fully United Nations sanctions and i talked about some of the signs that the chinese are beginning to take unprecedented action in that direction, signalling to north korea they will pay a price if they dont come around in particular on the nuclear issue. This is why when we talk to the chinese we try to talk about how we can work in concert to bring pressure on tnorth korea in a surgical way. Were going to keep at that because we think increasingly the core chinese interests in stability on the Korean Peninsula and our core interest in security that these are converging concerns. And we are seeing signs for the first time in decades that the chinese also recognize this that their stability will be af
And dont you think this is an unforeseen consequence of congress interjecting itself into the markets . Senator, thank you. I would say we are seeing what ducks unlimited and others are calling a crisis in the prairies. We certainly, if you think about the states of north dakota and south dakota, which are really the heart of water fowl production for the United States of america, we have Energy Development in the balken oil fields squeezing from the west and we have Agricultural Development squeezing from the east, and so there is no doubt that we are seeing widespread and unprecedented conversion of habitat that is and if i can interject, because that clock is ticking. Part of that reduction in habitat is putting more of the land into corn to to respond to this Public Policy decision that the federal government has made. That is a fact, is it not . Certainly a part of the demand is related to use for ethanol. But the market is a Global Market for corn and soybean, and the Global Mark
Thats projected to double by the year 2030. At the same time, agoa, the african growth and opportunity act, has allowed more than 6400 african products to reach american customers duty free supporting african jobs and industry, training, ranging from vehicles to vegetables. So 2010 nonoil exports from subsahara and africa to the United States have almost quadrupled. I see no reason why, this is not hyperbole, i see no reason why trade and investment between the United States should not double, triple, quadruple in the decades ahead, but to get there each of us has a whole lot of work to do and no one knows that better than the people, particularly the heads of state, sitting in this audience. To start, American Businesses have to show up. My dad used to say to me as a young man, he said, joey, half of winning is just showing up. American businesses have to show up, and they are showing up. And theyre doing it in greater and greater numbers. To compete alongside indian, chinese, Europea