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
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
Were going to emphasize exercising the Marine Oil Spill preparedness and Response Agreement executed by the eight Arctic Circles countries and then another a number of other projects that will move forward. The second category is improving the economic and Living Conditions of the people of the north. A series of projects that go from renewable energy, all the way too to a review of telecommunication capabilities within the arctic. The third is adapting to Climate Change. Very important. Were not going cure Climate Change if within the Arctic Council, but we need to draw attention to the effects of Climate Change, and also come up with ways to mitigate and adopt to adapt to it, to hopefully protect the environment of the arctic to demonstrate to the rest of the world that what goes on in the rest of the world affects the arctic and what goes on in the arctic affects the rest of the world. Anymore boston, massachusetts and people in washington dc probably dont need to be reminded that s
Couldnt get the full accounting accounting. The 300 billion doesnt include come under budget how much is going into that basic research to find the basis for the major Mental Illness . Roughly 50 spirit what is your total budget . 1. 45. 12 are going to hiv. By the way, my state has ever had per capita incidence of hiv and my Patient Population a disproportionate number of hiv. I am absolutely where of the nature of the issue of hiv but it does seem, if we have too few dollars going to the Brain Initiative and youve got roughly 800 million going to something that basic research or something which is costing us at least 300 billion, probably far more, as important as the it seems like we should be throwing everything we have an understanding that basic sort of science regarding that. The 12 where does that come from . I mean i guess my priority, when i go back and look and we are spending 19,000 per death on hiv, ma ive a sense we probably spending probably 2000 her death on major Menta
Of the sanctions it was a cig nif event for the United States as well. I would be happy to entertain questions on that when we get into it. So, theres been an awful lot of listening thats gone on. And what i would say is its broken down into a couple of themes. The first theme being this theme of balance finding the sweet spot. As ive said ive spoken to an awful lot of groups similar to this diverse groups, brookings tends to have a very balanced view of things more centrist so perhaps this program resonates. Weve tried to make it a balanced program, to try to reflect all the needs that are going on up there. But the second comment that i get most constantly when i brief this to groups, to the press and in particular to the other seven countries is almost the Immediate Response is wow. Thats rather ambitious. And it is. I will lay claim to our United States program probably being the most forward leaning, most Ambitious Program thats ever been proposed during a chairmanship of the Arct