the public. we ll focus on preparing small businesses to effectively use social capital. we are going to have we are going to focus on helping your business grow through exporting. and finally a workshop focused on high growth innovative companies. and for people who can t come to washington, you can also participate virtually because all these events will be live streamed over the website, nationalsmallbusinessweek.com. education is so important. ken, we have you on the show all the time and talk about this all the time, but we often get questions from people saying where can i get support, where can i find mentors? marie, you have it this week, but i want to give you a second, ken, to tell us what score does. it has been a while since we have given you that opportunity. sure. you are very kind, j.j. score is a volunteer organization. businessmen and women, mostly retired who help small business owners and those who want to start. we launched a little over a week ago a new web p
around oil spill r&d. do you have any thoughts about how we could encourage those companies who are doing the drilling as senator murkowski said to spend the same amount of money researching how to clean up, as they are researching effective drilling practices? i think ultimately, the two driver of behaviors for the oil companies. the first one are the response plans and the requirement to identify resources and the response plans. we may have an opportunity when we go back and look at plan review which is something that we need to do and have the coast guard involved in plan review. how you create the requirements for the response plans and what you tell them they have to have available can drive them to create the resources. if you want to create an incentive, look at how to structure the requirement and response plans would have create incentive for them to do oil spill that would to the oil response. i think that would be one way to do it. okay. one that s a helpful
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any one of four people in that agency who i had the chance would have recommended to be the director. four good chances. there are good people there who can do it. if you have a dni who was running the top cover, you can have your director being an officer. that is what they do. i would say that is part of it. as i said, as i look back over the history of directors, there have some brilliant work done by outside officers, if you have to handicap the odds, those who are remembered as having done the best are at a higher percentage rate are those who have the background. that is the advantage. going deeper than you did in your opening statement about why separate the cia into an analytic section or agency and a clandestine agency. starting off with trying to clean the slate and let s look at those two different functions, they are different approaches. an analyst as skeptical, questioning, uses the academic skills. a case officer or officers involved in covert operations ha
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