John and barry, he is a distinguished author of the rising tide in the francis for outstanding book in American History in 1997. His current new york bestseller is the great influenza, he is here to talk to us about that today, he is currently with the World Health Organization on the subject of influenza. When he is done speaking, if you would like to ask questions, there will be two microphones at the back of the room if you can go and get a microphone so your questions can be heard. Come to the back of the room and they will bring you up microphone. Please join me in welcoming john abarry. Thank you very much. As the still not on, you can hear me. It is funny to be sitting here in a Committee Room of louisiana legislatures talking about the subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of 1918 pandemic. So i cannot take of a better place to talk about politics then louisiana legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in newsp
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Engineering as a focus area or something we should spend more time on. Im actually going to go to rob first just from an industry perspective, i mean, thats i will give you the first crack at it and if anybody else wants to weigh in briefly, happy great. I will be quick. Cyber security is a top priority and security across the board for that matter, but cyber is one of the big big issues we are paying a lot of attention to. Its a continuous, you know, challenge because the enemy gets better, weve got to get better, they get better, weve got to get better and we are continuing to try to keep that advantage versus what our adversaries are doing to basically steal our technology. So its at the forefront of what were doing every day. I would also say that theres an element of taking the fight to the enemy, if you will, that offensive cyber. So you dont want to just be playing defense all the time. And there are things that are happening that will keep them playing some defense. I will leav