Welcome to the CNO's Navy Birthday All Hands Call, broadcasting live from the Defense Media Activity Studios. I'm Petty Officer Andrew Johnson, and I'll be your host as we take questions from across the fleet and around the world. Joining me on stage is CNO, Admiral Jonathan Greener, and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Mike Stevens. Gentlemen, thanks for spending some time with us. We know these shows have a tendency to start slow, so CNO, you mind breaking the ice for us? Well, first of all, I'm glad to be here with my good friend and shipmate, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, and can't believe it's already been a year, and here we are back celebrating our 239th birthday at the Defense Media Activity in Fort Meade, Maryland. Now, we're joined here in the studio audience from 10th Fleet, Nioch, Maryland, Navy District, Washington, the Ceremonial Guard, the U.S. Naval Academy, anybody I missed, VX-1, of course, I almost missed VX-1. But we're joined around the world from folks all around the globe. The Navy writ large and the Navy globally, which reminds me, we are out there, you are all out there, where it matters, when it matters again. So 239 years of legacy, of tradition, and every time the year comes around, we stop and we say, what does it all mean? So many people who went before us and made this all possible for us to serve with the kind of legacy, with the kind of tradition that we have, those that made us able to be the finest Navy in the world as we are today, as you are today making it so. So where are we around the globe today? Can I put up the first graphic, if you might? Okay, as you can see, we have about 290 ships and tonight, today, because we're global, it is night and day everywhere, we're all over the world. As the President indicated, we are continuing operations and will be, for a while, against ISIL, ISIS, as you may, if you may, in the Arabian Gulf, and we have the George Bush operating there with a host of ships out there, but at the same time, in the Mediterranean, we are protecting Eastern Europe and Israel, operating in the North Sea, out in the of Africa and also in the UConn area of responsibility. We're in the Western Pacific, assuring our allies and conducting operations with our allies and making sure that that freedom of navigation that keeps our economy going so strong is open and operating. In the Southern command area of responsibility, we're conducting counter-drug ops and counter-terrorism operations as well, counter-smuggling. Around the world, getting the job done, where it matters, when it matters. And as you can see, the centerpiece of what we do today and what we'll continue to do is sea duty. And we've recognized that recently. We've made some changes accordingly. It's arduous duty for many, and seapay is the center of gravity, and that's why we increase seapay this year. Deployments have increased some, and we should acknowledge that. And we have recently, with hardship duty pay tempo, which we're providing for people who go beyond, again, that seven-month issue, that seven-month period of time. So Mick Pond, why don't you say a few words, and we'll open up and see what people have in their minds. So you know, it's hard to believe that a year, as you just said, that a year went by already. I would just like to say thank you to our sailors, shipmates, family members around the world, whether it's morning, day, or night, for joining us here today for this all-hands call. And I'd also like to thank all the members here in the audience for being here with us, and congratulations to our shipmates that just re-enlisted. Not just to you, but we re-enlist the families as well. So thank you for giving them permission to re-enlist. So you know, these all-hands calls tend to run out on us pretty quick. I know there's lots of questions to be asked, and I look forward to with you to answer some of these questions. So I think I've said about enough, and I'm ready to get started. Before we do the first question, I almost forgot. The theme of our birthday, the theme of our celebration is thanking those who support us, which you absolutely just mentioned. We just spoke to the families, of course, they're the primary. The wind under our wings, as we like to say. But it's our friends, it's organizations, such as the Navy League and others who take care of us.   So all of that this year, we're going to take the moment and say thanks for it. But to your point, let's get some questions. We ready to go? Absolutely, gentlemen. All right. We do have a live studio audience. We're also streaming live on Navy.mil. But we encourage you to join the conversation on social media. And standing by in our social media studio, MC1 Brandy Wills. Hey, Johnson, I am standing by here with these four wonderful individuals. We are waiting to take your questions. We're actually already betting questions, getting some answers out as quickly as we can. But I got some questions in already via email, which you can treat us your questions. Email us at socialmedia at navy.mil, tweet us your questions using the hashtag All Hands Call, or hit us up on Facebook on the US Navy's Facebook page and get your questions out there. But on email, I got a question from A.B.H.1 Dennis Delorama from USS Harry S. Truman. And he wants to know if the Navy is thinking about entertaining a 15-year retirement for those sailors who are willing to separate. Well, we are not entertaining a 15-year retirement as we think of retirement pay. But periodically, if we want to make what we call force shaping, and this would be a voluntary, if you will, process or voluntary authorization, we sometimes enable people to retire at the 15-year point. But that wouldn't be a statutory long-range kind of thing where instead of 20 years it's 15 years and we just fundamentally redo retirements. Nick Pond, any comments on it? I'm interested to see what the military pay compensation and retirement commission presents to the president, to Congress and DOD with respects to future retirement. And who knows what they're going to offer? We'll just have to wait and see. Good point. All right. Well, let's take it back to the fleet. We're going to DDG 57. We've got a phone caller from USS Mitchell. Mitchell, go ahead with your question. Hi, with the recent events in Syria, have there been any thoughts on restoring Hazardous Duty Pay to sailors in the fifth fleet or adjacent AORs? Yeah, I would say Hazardous Duty Pay and the need for it and the requisite, the issues that require it are under review. They'll do this about annually, and they're definitely going to do it as a result of these operations. But as it stands now, it is not determined to be needed. The folks who are steaming today out in the Arabian Gulf and conducting those operations are not viewed to be, and if you will, under the circumstances of Hazardous Duty Pay. But we'll continue to take a look at that year by year. It's really conducted by central command in that regard. All right. And for some pleasant duty, we're going to sunny San Diego via satellite. San Diego, go ahead with your question. Good backdrop. Good morning, gentlemen. I'm Lieutenant-Generate Eccleston from Fibron III in San Diego. I was wondering, with the last year or so, when we've done the SAPRAF and SAPRAL training, and we had to have 100% accountability from all commands across the Navy, have we had a decrease at all in sexual assault cases? And if not, what is the plan to combat this across our Navy? Mick Putt, do you want to go first? Sure. The data that we're receiving right now with regards to sexual assault, sexual assault prevention, shows that we are moving in the right direction. It's certainly not where we want to be, but yes, there has been an indication or the numbers are showing that the numbers of sexual assaults are decreasing. But we should not take that as let's sit on our laurels. We need to continue to work hard, be diligent, and ensure that our sailors are properly educated and the bystander intervention program is working well as we continue CNO to combat this crime of sexual assault. Yeah, this is going to be a long effort. It's going to be a campaign, a year is not enough time. Here's what we do know.  The events, the assault, the alleged assault we're finding has a legacy. In other words, folks, these are happening well before the event, the date, up to 90 days, sometimes two years. So people are coming forward, the proclivity to come forward is increasing. And so we're finding that that's a good step in the right direction. We find that on surveys, et cetera, folks are willing to discuss it. Folks think the training is better and that the commands are taking it seriously. This is feedback we're getting from a whole number of sailors out there. So the arrows are in the right direction, but we got a lot of work to do. Yeah, CNO, if I could add one piece to that, cuz it's such an important topic. I don't underestimate the value of the direct feedback that we get from our people in the fleet and those that are working to combat this, that are wearing the cloth of our civilian sailors. And I asked the question to our experts, I said, data aside, do you believe that the numbers of sexual assaults that are occurring are going down and what I receive from them as they think about it deeply, they share with me, yes, I believe that we are making improvements. Certainly, we've got a lot of work to do, they tell me, but they believe that we're making improvements. And that's not something we see physically in numbers. But we have to take serious, I think, the empirical feedback that we get from our experts. Well, as many of you know, we just completed a Department of Defense wide survey, which is entitled to gender relations in the Department of Defense. And it's really about what's the prevalence, what's the proclivity, are you willing to intercede, and we'll get a lot from that. But we've got to continue, as you said, to get as much empirical and objective data as possible. Absolutely, that was a great question. For our next one, we're gonna be using Skype. We're headed out to old iron sides. Constitution, go ahead with your question. Good afternoon, sir. McPawn, I'm Seaman Wesley Bishop from USS Constitution. And my question is, is any effort being made to redesign boot camp specifically to refocus it on its traditional role of instilling in recruits the ideal of mission, ship, shipmate self, and the subordination of the self to the unit? I would say absolutely, and I want you to talk about E-sailor. Absolutely, I mean, we review the curricula for boot camp all the time. And in fact, the very, very attributes that the sailor just brought in are being turned and put into boot camp. We look at other recruit training. We look at what do we want in the character of the sailor of today? What do we want in the ethical nature of the sailor today? What are we missing in the fleet? And we've got to strive to get that in there today. So it's about unit not self. The good news is, those that join today, that's exactly resonates with what most of our kids that join the military, and especially kids that joined the Navy today. CNO shares, we're never satisfied with where we're at. And we're always looking for opportunities to get better. As a matter of fact, one of the things that we're doing at RTC right now, in December, we will start to issue a portable mobile wireless device to our new recruits. We're going to start with about 200 sailors. They'll get these devices and all the paperwork, if you will, the manuals like the recruit training manual and then bluejackets manual and those sorts of things are going to be downloaded onto this mobile device so that everything they need is ready and available all the time. We're also working to provide them with a level of connectivity so that you'll have an option to either write a letter and put it in an envelope during your letter writing time. Or you'll be able to shoot an email home and receive an email. And we're going to take that feedback. Mind you, this is just a beta test. We'll take that feedback from our sailors and we'll make a decision on how to best go forward with this data that we receive. But if you don't put your toe in the water, it's going to be very difficult to swim in the future. So we've got to start somewhere. Yeah. All right, thank you, gentlemen. Let's start with our first prerecorded question coming to us from the fleet. Hello, sir, I'm Seaman Michael Brian Kelly, stationed on the USS McCampill in Yakuza, Japan. And I'd like to know what the plans are for bringing back more port visits for four deployed ships. Now he's talking our tune, huh? Yeah, see the world, right? Good question, good point. What we want to do, we want to get into more ports in the Western Pacific, where the forward deployed naval forces, especially this kid, was talking about from the McCampill. What we want to do is we want to get into ports in Vietnam. We want to get into ports in Malaysia more, in Indonesia more. And these go in the Philippines. And these governments are in favor of that. We have to do it in a deliberate manner. There's a diplomatic aspect when you visit a port. You have to make sure you have proper legal protection, things called a status of force agreement where it applies. So we want to do more of it. It's a matter of budget, time, location, mission, but reassuring allies, building new allies, building new partners, and having our sailors who are the best ambassadors we got going. Interface and show what real Americans are like, what the face of America is, that always works out well for us, is a mission, a big mission, especially in the Western Pacific, as well as in the Indian Ocean through Africa. Well, if hashtag all hands call wasn't trending already, I think talking port visits might have sped us up a little bit. Let's take our first question from the studio audience. Go ahead. Good afternoon, sir, Master Chief. I'm Seaman Kirk Johnson. And I was wondering, Master Chief, please explain the difference between PTS and the Seaway Point, and if you think it should be based more on a command level than Big Navy with the regulations. Well, we have to understand that both of those programs are designed. We're designed to help ensure that we have the proper balance and that we're managing our communities correctly. CNO made a decision along with Chief of Naval Personnel some time ago to step away from PTS and move into something that was a little bit more personal, that afforded sailors and commands to interact in a greater way. And to give NPC, our Naval Personnel Command, greater flexibility when it came to how we determine who is able to re-enlist and continue service. I was just in Millington, Tennessee, getting a good brief, an overview of the process. Not a general overview, but an in-depth overview of the process. We believe that where we're at right now with it is yielding good results, that our sailors are overwhelmingly happy with it. There are still a few of those rates out there that are slightly overman that we're trying to get to the proper size and manage correctly for the good of our sailors and for our Navy as a whole. So I think that what you're seeing across the fleet, again, is general satisfaction to a large degree and that commands do have the opportunity, especially the sailors, to be a part of the decision-making process. And we'll continue to work on it like we do everything, as we talked about with Boot Camp. We'll continue to work on it and help it to evolve and get better over time. So we're not satisfied exactly with where we're at, but we're pretty happy and we'll continue to make improvements. You're welcome. Chair, absolutely. Great question. We're off to a wonderful start. Let's check back in with MC1WILLS and social media. Thanks a lot, Petty Officer Johnson. I am here with Terina Guetherspoon. She is monitoring the All Hands Magazine Facebook page where questions are also coming in. We got a question from Walter Quiñones. He wants to know, is there a new McPond guidance for the fiscal year 16, CPO 365? Funny that you should ask that question. I actually didn't plan it. But I was talking with Master Chief Garrison, my EA there in the McPond's office. And I said to him, I said, Jeff, I don't want to make any changes this year. I said, we're going to change the date. And we're going to leave it just like it is, because we believe, one, that it's pretty darn effective the way it is now. And, C&O, you've heard me share with the audiences before, is that I want to give it some soap time. Let our sailors get used to the process because it is a new process. But I will say I would like to share with our audience that that doesn't mean that I'm opposed to recommendations. I'm not inclined to make changes, but if someone comes to me with an aha type of recommendation, then we'll certainly entertain that. But other than that, I want to leave it alone, let our cheese first classes continue to move forward with what we consider to be a very successful process, and let them get acclimated and used to it before we make any changes. Makes sense. Excellent. All right. Let's move right along to another prerecorded question. This one coming from USS Gonzalez. CTTSN Kelly Atwell, USS Gonzalez, hometown Iowa Park, Texas. Sir, how will the events in the Middle East affect upcoming deployments? Well, for now and for the near future, I don't think that events in the Middle East, and I think you're referring to operations in Syria and in Iraq, I don't think they will affect our deployments in the near term. As recent as last Friday, we had a discussion, will there be the need for more forces, especially more naval forces, in the central command? The answer was no, not at this time. What we have is just fine. We come sort of self-contained. We say we deploy where it matters, when it matters, ready to do a whole myriad of missions. Some of those missions were called upon a few weeks ago as we started this operation out. We started it out with a cruiser and a destroyer and an air wing right after that we're already on deployment. We're continuing those operations with the ships that are there today, and I see that for the near future, perhaps for the midterm. We will be busy over there, but I think additional forces, extended deployments, I don't see that right now. Absolutely, another great question. Let's move on to a live satellite feed from Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk, go ahead with your question. Good morning, sir, Nick Pond. My name is 82 Huell, onboard the USS Harry S. Truman, and my question for you is this. Throughout the fleet, the relationship between officers and enlisted personnel is regarded as a high priority. Through the, over the past few years, there's been a push to reinforce the leadership qualities of the chief petty officers through the CPO365 program. Sir, I would like to know what programs do we have in place for officers to ensure that they receive the same type of training? Yeah, that's a good question. We've taken the lessons actually that we learned from CPO365. We've put this into our NROTC units, our officer candidate school, and our Naval Academy. And that lesson is right off the bat. You know who your mentor is when you get there? It's your chief. How many, I can't imagine any officer. In fact, I've never come across, certainly a flag officer who hasn't said, you know why I'm here today? You know why I was a successful officer? Because it was chief fill-in-the-blank. For me, it was chief shell hammer. You know, I'll never forget chief Bill Shellhammer, machinist-mate chief, who really embedded in me leadership traits. So it's building a relationship between the CPO mess and the junior officer corps. But it's also making sure that junior officer corps understands just how important they are to your development and also to what you owe to them, the covenant that you have. That's also embedded in as we go to basic training, basic surface warfare officer school, naval aviation, submarine across the communities. We're also looking at modules. I call them modules because as we go from an officer, an 01 to an 04, the expectations for that 04 are different from the 01, just as you have different from an E7 to an E9, very much different. To make sure they understand what kind of character do we expect you to develop, what kind of ethical natures do you have? Do you have to have ethical characteristics, if you will? And what do you now owe? You've learned so much. You've got to roll that back into that CPO quarters. And then eventually, if you're lucky enough to get command, how you nurture and develop with your command master chief, a CPO quarters and a wardroom that operate together as a team to develop the sailors, such as we have in this room and in the sound of my voice. Absolutely wonderful. Keeping with the live trend, let's go to Millington, Tennessee. Millington, go ahead with your question. Good morning, Admiral. Good morning, McPon. I'm IT1 Dimple Bimley, CNRC, Millington. My question is coming from your sailing directions, navigational plan. Once the economy has been restored and the fiscal year has been recovered, will you then increase the number of submarines, which you have stated that you will decrease by 2028? Absolutely. If I have the money, we will build more submarines. But what you can't do is you can't overcome a momentum which is undergoing, which we're undergoing right now, which is we built in the 80s, about 30 years ago, mid 80s, three to four submarines a year. Those three to four submarines that we built a year are now coming up on retirement at the rate of three to four submarines a year. Our industrial base that builds submarines, their sweet spot, is to build between two and two and a half submarines a year. So if we continue to build at two to two and a half submarines a year, and we produce those, we'll eventually catch up. But what we can't stop is a dip, if you will, in the submarine force structure that's gonna take place between about 2024 and about 2034. So you can't overcome that momentum, regardless of how much money you have, because you can only build submarines as fast as the industrial base can do it. But we have to keep at it. We have to build at least two a year to two sweet spots, two and a half, to get to that point where we will recover from this kind of a subtle degrade, if you will, as she mentioned, till we build back up to the force we need, which is 45 to 55 submarines. Absolutely. All right, so back to the West Coast. This time via Skype to Everett, Washington. Everett, go ahead with your question. Good morning, sir. Good morning, McFawn. I am MM2 Lewis, dual-enabled station Everett, Washington. I have heard some information about the female dress blue uniforms being put out soon. My question is, when and how will those be implemented to all hands, as well as how will that affect the pregnancy female dress blue uniform? Sure. So right now with the dress blue uniform for our E6 and below for our women, we're conducting a test. I believe that test is being conducted down in the Hampton Roads area. It's a small test, and when we conclude that test, and we're gonna expand it, we're gonna take what we learned from that, and then we're gonna expand that test. And once we've completed both of those tests, then we'll assess the best way to proceed forward. What we're trying to do is ensure that, we would rather get this right late than wrong early. So we wanna make sure that we don't do something and then have to turn around and do something else because we didn't think through all the challenges. And one of the things that we gotta be mindful of is the maternity uniform. And make sure that we have a uniform that fits those needs and those requirements. So we do not have a date, an exact date of when that uniform's gonna roll out to the fleet. Because again, it's more important for us to get this right than to assign a date to it. Fit, quality, and good wear. And uniform's always a hot topic. All right. Next question, we'll go prerecorded to Guam. Hello, McPon. My name is IT3 Eric McMahon from NTS, N-C-T-S Guam. And I would like to ask you a question. For those of us looking to stay in the Navy for 20 more years, what's your advice? Well, so the question is prerecorded, but let's be clear. I didn't know what he was gonna ask me, right? But I have an answer for you. I would like to share with you what I call the foundation to success. It's about three things. And it's about doing these three things with excellence. Number one, it's working hard.  Number two, stay out of trouble. You can work hard, you can do the right thing for many, many years. You could get in trouble one time and you can compromise all that hard work. So stay out of trouble. Number three, and I believe to be the most important of all the foundation to success pieces that I talk about is be a good and decent person. Be a good and decent person to yourself, to your family, and to your shipmates, and never to forget to always treat one another with dignity and respect. Work hard, stay out of trouble, be a good and decent person, and shipmate your well on your way to a successful 20 years. Thank you for the question. By the way, McConn, that's what I tell the word. It's a pretty good set of principles.  So back to the West Coast, this time let's go live satellite feed from San Diego. San Diego, go ahead with your question. Good morning, Admiral, good morning, Master Chief. My name is QM1 Pokel, I'm a station on board the USS Boxer here in San Diego. First of all, I just want to thank you both for the visit on our last appointment. We definitely appreciated the encouragement during the holiday season last year. My question is for the CNO, sir. With the Navy's changing budget and personnel needs, do you see an increase in programs like State 21 for the Navy to develop that leadership within the enlisted ranks of the Navy? Well, I see an increase in that program commensurate with a change in our personnel. We have been growing, frankly, the amount of people in the Navy, the officer corps as well as enlisted to where we are today at about 325. So that's something that really is set upon the force structure in the Navy. In other words, we man equipment. We buy the number of ships and aircraft and CB battalions, NECC, squadrons, all of that. We buy what we need and then we man that. So we man equipment. So again, it's really commensurate with what is the size of the Navy? And so State 21, ratio-wise, it's about right now. I don't see a big change in that. So follow, if you will, the force structure of the Navy and you follow the changes in that program. All right, thank you, gentlemen. All right, moving on to the fleet, let's go to a prerecorded from Japan. Hello, McPon, hospital corpsman Christopher Rivera, stationed in Neville Hospital, Yucosca, Japan. My question is, will there be any incentives for people to score higher in the PRT? And also, will the PRT results weigh more in the evaluation and the advancement exam in the near future? So good question, shipmaiden. I enjoyed my visit out in your area in the spring and thanks for bringing up this topic because there's some information floating around out in the fleet that's talking a lot about changes to the Navy's PRT program. And what I'd like everybody to know is that, right now, there are no planned changes with our PRT program in any way. Doesn't mean that we're not looking at how to make improvements and that something may come in the future, but what we're not doing is making changes today. We've got some important things that we need to be focused on. This is obviously an important area, but we don't believe that we need to make changes at this particular time. So rest easy, what's in the instruction will remain in the instruction for the foreseeable future. And if we decide that there's changes that need to be made, we'll vet that through the fleet and leadership properly and make sure that you have plenty of advance notice. So you know, there's a lot of angst about this discussion that's going on out there with changes to PRT and we keep talking about it, but they keep asking the question. I know. I think this will go on forever. As long as people are studying. Absolutely, we're just getting started and we've already hit half the good button topics. We'll just see what, I'm sure we got some more for you. Moving next, let's go to a live satellite feed from Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk, go ahead with your question. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, Master Chief. This is E.M.3 Yerger from the USS Harry S. Truman. In light of the end of our recent 2014 deployment, sailors on the USS Harry S. Truman were wondering if there is any chance of the retroactive benefits that the George H.W. Bush is enjoying for their extended deployment, being transferred to the USS Harry S. Truman, if we're being considered for that. Well, trust me, if I could do that, I would do that. We've been working on the ability, as I mentioned in my opening, to be sure that we reward C-duty appropriately and that we accommodate folks who are on longer deployments, greater than seven months as a notional term. But regrettably, until we have to only reward, we're only authorized to award that period from when it goes into effect and forward, which was just a few weeks ago. So, sorry about that, but it's something that we would love to do if we could, if we had the authority. Absolutely, moving right along, let's go check back in with MC1Wills over in our social media studio. Hey, MC2, social media is just absolutely on fire in here. We got questions coming in left and right, and we got one that came in via Twitter.  Yes, yes, cyber, people are our weapons in cyber. Cyber is alive today, I mean, is active today. If we go on over, we got NIOC here, right? Can I hear from NIOC, Marilyn? Ooh!  Today there is a lot of activity. Our networks, let me make it simple, our networks are under, if you will, attack, they are being probed every day, all of our networks, official and unofficial, are being probed every day, attempted to be exploited and to extrapolate information from it's done by hackers, it's done by national, and there are people, cyber warriors, every day out there protecting those networks. These networks are combat systems. They are the means to command and to control. They are the means to deliver information. They are the means to deliver a sensor information to be able to deliver weapons. If they are hacked into, if they are contaminated, if they are exploited, we're in trouble. We will not be able to do our job. As I look into the future, I am positive that he or she that controls information will control, will have the upper hand, if not control, the outcome of future conflict. Cyber warriors are, if not the battleships, because remember, battleships are replaced by carriers, not long after Mahan, but for what it's worth, they are truly a major, major part of our Navy and of our Navy capabilities, offensive and defensive for the future. All right, our next question, we've got a caller from Kuwait at 11th, our Marine Expeditionary Unit. Caller, go ahead with your question. Good afternoon, Admiral McPund. HMC, Timothy L. Whitaker, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit 11, Kuwait. Sir, and my question pertains to the SAFRA program, and I know that we've made great strides over the year to address sexual harassment and sexual assault, but do you have anything in the works to better, to better inform junior and senior officers in LISTI on the rules and regulations and possibly a training team that will help to better assist our sailors and Marines in understanding the rules? Sure, well first let me say that it's important for all of us to be familiar with the policies that are currently in existence, and also I want you to know that CNO and I get an opportunity to sit on meetings and be a part of discussions on a regular basis where we're always looking at how to make improvements. I've never heard anybody say we've reached a point where we believe we've got it right. We're always saying what else can we do and how can we do it better? One example is the new training that's being rolled out where we're doing more peer to peer and small group discussions. I remember CNO, you and I talking about that in one of the meetings about what are sailors interested in and how they want to see this training, and we talked about the small group. You talked with leadership and leadership came back and provided you feedback and now here we are doing the small group training. So everybody's open to suggestions and ideas because hey the fleet knows better than anybody what it is we need to do and how to get this right. So please continue to provide us with your feedback and understand and believe and know that we're gonna continue to work on this as CNO has told me many times, it's the challenge of our time and we can never stop working on this and we will continue that effort. I meet with my four stars once a quarter, virtually we do a video teleconference, vice chief of naval operations, head lawyer, chief of information and fleet forces command, compact fleet, commander naval forces Europe, you get my point. And we talk about, so how are we doing? What do we need to do at headquarters to make the situation better to enable our leaders out there to deal with this challenge better. It's an uncomfortable topic and people are not as free to talk about it as we would like. So we depend a lot on surveys, we depend a lot on feedback from SAP representatives, from training teams that go out into the fleet. And frankly some say, I'm kind of, we're talking way too much about it, you're overwhelming me with all this. I would tell you, I'm happy to dial back any kind of policy changes, any kind of other to and from back and forth whenever things sort of are proceeding along and there's nothing more we can do. There's, as you said before, that the dynamics slow down and now we just get after this thing in a slow, methodical manner. But until that time, we need to be listening, we need to be willing and ready to help enable those who are trying cases, adjudicating cases to enable victims to be able to come forward to feel comfortable and to train folks out there to understand the significance of the challenge. So the quality of the effort, more than the quantity of the effort? Yes, yes sir. Absolutely. Absolutely great question, one that we probably could have done the entire show on. We're gonna head back out to San Diego. San Diego, go ahead with your question. Good morning, Admiral, McPond. My name is Operation Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Mahon. I am on the USS Russell DDG-59 based in San Diego, California and my question was for the Chief of Naval Operations. Sir, we understand that Optempo has double in the past six years and at the same time the Navy has continued to downsize and so we understand that puts a lot of stress on sailors maintaining their mental and physical preparedness as well as their family lives and we know there's a greater need for more ships to be in theater and we're just wondering, sir, with the ever growing dire need to defend the nation here at home and the global front, what exactly is being done to reciprocate those sacrifices made by the sailors who are doing their duties and having to work more hours and doing what is basically more demanded? Okay, I would, I need to understand the facts and figures but Optempo Dublin is not what we're seeing right now but it is higher than it has been. Our Optempo represented, if you will, by deployment life and deployment length, excuse me, and time away from home is actually grown from roughly home tempo, in other words, time home from about 63, 64%. It's down to somewhere like 51, 52% and our red line is 50%. So we wanna get that back up to 63, 64, 67% time at home in a 36 month, that's our measuring, 36 months of operations, that's maintenance, that's training, that's preparation for deployment and deployment. How much time are you in your home should be in your home port for sure and hopefully in your home of residence. So we wanna increase that so we need to stabilize the process. So I mentioned this a little bit as we opened it. Make sure we have enough time for maintenance, make sure we have enough time for training. Make sure the people who are gonna get to the unit, get to the unit not right before deployment but in time to work the team up so that you can cycle through and get your schools done. And then as we get through this period where we had sequestration, where we had really unstable budgets, the world always gets a vote and we are able to accommodate all that and get out into the late 15 and 16 and 17 timeframe to lay those deployments in with this optimized fleet response plan to get a more predictable schedule. We are laying that in, we have the people numbers right, we have to now distribute them and reduce the gaps at sea, that's on track. We have to make sure we got enough maintenance capacity in the shipyards, public and private, nuclear work and private work. We have funded that. We have to now sit down and make sure that our training is not duplicative, we're not doing one inspection on top of another so that you're not doing pre-deployment underway time willy-nilly and needlessly. We're on track to do that. So all of these have to be in place but in the end, as I mentioned at the opening, sea duty has to be the center of gravity and folks have to be compensated for it. They should be promoted for sustained superior performance at sea and you've worked with that with our performance specifications and promotions and in sea pay has recently been increased and then if there's the people on deployment beyond the notional time of seven months they should be accommodated and that's hardship duty pay which we just recently put in fact. He mentions, I think he mentions what we're doing for families as well as sailors with these increased deployments the lengths of deployments in periodicity and you've mentioned C&O on a number of occasions that you're not willing to accept risk in the areas of family readiness those support programs given the budget that we receive you've always pushed to support that to the highest degree possible to make sure that the families are taken care of as well when they're deployed. It's not a lot of money, it's high payback. Those same support programs, you're right. Absolutely, Incentive's another one to help us get trending with that hashtag all hands call. Our next question is coming from Millington, Tennessee. Millington, go ahead with your question. Good morning Admiral, good morning McPawn. IT3 Dennis Ward from Millington, Tennessee and RC. I have a question that goes to the C&O. In recent years our allies in NATO and the European Union have been scaling down their defense spending. Do you think this is a move towards increased reliance on US military might? And if so, do you think that we can convince them to be more self-reliant in future conflicts? Well, I don't know if it's been this reduced budget which is factual with our NATO allies is purposeful to shift the burden over to the United States but it certainly has occurred that way. Recently there was a NATO summit after the Russian incursion into Crimea and into the Ukraine. The NATO nations came together and had a summit. They had it in Wales and the United Kingdom. And coming out of that was a commitment by the NATO nations to arrest the reduction in their defense budget and in many cases to increase. We'll see how that transpires. That's something that our nation, that our president, that our secretary of defense, all of it try to encourage our NATO partners to increase their defense budget, to strengthen them and to show the resolve that is so important to make that alliance, the NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a strong and a good deterrent for future instability in both in Europe and in Africa. All right, our next question is coming to us from USS Arlington. Caller, go ahead with your question. Good afternoon. Is there any plan on the part of the Navy to have an expanded presence in the Middle East to counteract the efforts of ISIS in Iraq? No, there's no plan right now to have an increase in presence. The distribution of forces today is good. We have just over 100 ships deployed. About 30% of those, that is about 30, 32, I think is the number, are in the Middle East. And that's about right. We are where it matters, when it matters. We have the requisite forces but more important capabilities to answer the call for those capabilities that the central commander says is needed for this ISIS campaign that is ongoing. All right, let's take another question from our studio audience. Go ahead with your question. Good morning, sir. Good morning, Master Chief. My name is Seaman Brachi. I'm with the ceremonial guard. Master Chief, this is a question for you. Understand that the female uniforms are changing. Is there any thoughts about the male uniform? We don't have any big changes in store for the uniforms that our male sailors are wearing. I think it's important, as I've mentioned throughout this all hands call, to understand that because there is no change as planned, doesn't mean changes won't come because we have a responsibility to always be looking at how to improve the process. There is some work that's taken place right now with the flame-resistant coveralls. We're trying to determine the best product to roll out with that particular uniform. There's some minor changes that are gonna be occurring with the jumper, the dress blue uniforms. But I take your question more so as a significant uniform change, new types of uniforms. And that's not occurring, but we're certainly looking at ways to make the uniforms you're currently in better to wear, when I say better to wear, I mean comfort and fit, and ensure that it provides you with the safety that you deserve, and frankly that we should be providing you. All right, headed back to Norfolk for another live question. Norfolk, go ahead. Good morning, sir. Good morning, McPond. Ellis Threemore from USS Harry S. Truman. My question for you is, in regards to current world events, what is the possibility of going to a two-carrier presence in the Central Command AOR? Well, I don't think it's likely, in the near term, the number of aircraft that our air wing on A-carrier, one carrier provide, has been adequate to meet all of the air support that the Navy has requested to provide. I would not be in favor of going to two carriers, an Arabian Gulf that's hard on our ability to do sustained presence worldwide. However, we'll see what portends out there, but I don't see it right now. We have a lot of the right forces in theater, a lot of capability, especially with one air wing there. So for now, one carrier strike group. All right, our next question is a caller from USS Macon Island. Macon Island, go ahead with your question. I'm CCT-1 Peter from USS Macon Island. Our ship is very proactive with the women at sea program, and I feel as though the women on board, including myself, have benefited from the program in some way. And I have, however, asked several women if they have seen this program active at other commands, and the answer is usually no. With retention rates low for women in the Navy, this program may be one way for us to boost those numbers by increasing advertisement and awareness and encouraging commands to take a more active role with this program. What are your thoughts on the women at sea program? It's a terrific program. I, frankly, was not aware of it until about six months ago, and it's a terrific way. You have to have sort of what some call the critical mass, enough women to make it worthwhile such that they will come together, they can come together. There are enough of them periodically. Talk about what they want to do, how to interact, deal with unique issues. You have to have a decent rank structure. Experts tell me so that you can do nurturing, you can do mentoring and make it worthwhile. However, the Macon Island is an example of it working correctly. I've seen your logo, I've seen your process, I've seen your results, Macon Island, and congratulations on that. It should be exported and we're working on that, but again, some of these attributes that I speak to to make it effective are not necessarily easily laid on a smaller unit. But if you're talking about probably an LPD kind of size, that kind of size grew better, it's a good idea. But how to develop that to a smaller unit we have to look at. But the characteristics and the endeavors are definitely, they speak for themselves. So you know, I'd like to ask a question with a question or answer a question with a question for a shipmate on the Macon Island in 10 seconds or less, 15 seconds or less, since you're a part of an active program and it's working well for your ship, what is something that you would recommend to our audience during this period of time? We've been definitely meeting regularly. On board Macon Island, we meet regularly as a group. We discuss topics that we think that would benefit women at sea or on shore. I really think just the advertisement of getting women involved is where it starts. And so if you have a productive team that are willing to do that, I really think that's where it starts. So get the team together, start a discussion and see where that takes you. And get command support. Get command support. See, I believe, my understanding is you've got pretty terrific command support, commanding officer on downs. That sound right? Yes, very much so. So let your CMC know that I'd like to give him a call maybe and get some pearls from him. Do that. All right, thank you, shipmates. Love it, great conversation. Let's see how that conversation is transitioning into social media. MC1, how's it going in there? It's awesome, and that was a great question from Macon Island, and I actually have one that can almost relate to it. It came from Mandy Hadley-Ecklin, and she wants to know, why can't we start a program for dual military parents who aren't married for co-location? That's almost hard to understand. Dual? Yeah, dual military, so they're two people together with a child. Not married, not married with a child. Right. Okay.  With a child. With the child. With a child. So a couple with a child unmarried. A program. So we have the co-location, spouse-colo programs to help the detailers better assign them together for duty. Right now, if you're married and you say that, hey, I'm going here, can my spouse or the detailers work that out, but we don't have that for unmarried couples. I don't know. I guess we take that one back next million. Yeah. Got it. Good point. Good point, thank you. All right, it is the playoffs. We started with the softballs. We're throwing some heat now. We're a little different. All right, our next question is coming to us from a naval aviator who's seen the world from a view that most of us have just dreamed about. I'm Navy Commander Reed Wiseman and crew member of Expedition 41 on the International Space Station, orbiting 260 miles above the Earth. My heartfelt greetings to Admiral Greenard and to Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Stevens and of course, to all of my shipmates currently deployed around the world. First and foremost, I want to wish everyone back on Earth a very happy 239th birthday of our Navy. I can assure you that our pride and traditions are living strong here in space where I am conducting research with my crewmates, including fellow fighter pilot and Navy Captain Butch Wilmore. Over the past five months in orbit, I've had time to reflect on my good fortune and I am grateful more than ever for my experience in the Navy and what it has done to prepare me for this most unique opportunity. As US naval aviators, we have continued to reach new heights and have paved the way for generations to come. I am very honored and proud to be part of our unique naval heritage. I will close today with a question. As the naval aviator currently stationed furthest from where you are located, what is your vision for the future of unmanned aviation platforms and how will that impact flight officers? Well, I think the simplest way to describe that is to go to the highest altitude and work our way down for unmanned aerial. So today we are building and testing, we have built and testing an unmanned aerial vehicle called the Triton which has about a 70 foot wing span, flies very high, 50,000 feet and they're about broad, broad aperture out and around, looking predominantly on the ocean front to find various and sundry things. So it's a tune that looks kind of like a global hawk which has been out there for years and years but it has more capability, can fly high, can fly low and it looks broadly out there and has a lot of different sensors. So that's your higher altitude. Then you move down, we have tested off of our, off the theater of Roosevelt and the George Herbert Walker Bush and unmanned aerial vehicle launch and recovery. So it's a carrier launch. So imagine you go anywhere in the world and launch this thing out there. If you don't have a person in there, if it's unmanned, that's a lot of weight saving. You can put fuel, you can put ordnance, you can put sensors in there. So that is out there and we are looking at that follow on.  It's called the fire scout and we have two versions of it. One that goes about 100 miles, one that goes about 200 miles. And those are in production. We have lastly a smaller scale. It's called the surface tactical unmanned aerial system, STUAS. And our Navy SEALs use it, our special forces. I apologize, we're running about out of time. I'm finished. Perfect, perfect timing. If you've got a couple closing marks before we get to the celebration ceremony. Yeah, I wanna say happy birthday. I wanna say thank you for making your Navy the greatest Navy in the world. We will continue to be where it matters, when it matters and what makes it all come together are the families, friends, organizations, communities and our industrial base. Yes sir. All right, well other than re-enlisting everyone, I know you, this is a special ceremony, bringing out the cake and something that we enjoy doing with the Navy. It's personally one of my favorite parts of the Navy birthday celebration. And in order to meet the great guests we have in the live studio audience, this year we're gonna be doing it a little bit different. Cutting the cake will be using a cutlass that belongs to the Naval History and Heritage Command. It's been attributed to Admiral Farragut. This naval officer's sword from the early 1800s has a gold covered metal hilt forming the shape of an eagle's head. The handle is made of ivory bone with carved decorations and the blade displays an anchor and a ship on stormy seas. That was pretty good. All right, well gentlemen, thank you very much. On behalf of the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Andrew Johnson. Thanks for watching. Now which section is mine?


A socialite and businessman Obinna Iyebu aka Obi Kubana has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC. The Anambra born tycoon who arrived at the headquarters of the EFCC at Jabi Abuja at about noon on Monday was still been interrogated by operatives of the commission as at 10.30pm. The allegations against the socialite were sketchy as of press time, a source disclosed that his case borders an alleged money laundering and tax fraud. When contacted, spokesman of the commission Wilson Wuja has said he was yet to be briefed on the development.


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Alright, Taka Carlson. Alright, we're gonna flip topics now. We're gonna go to Taka Carlson tonight I'm gonna show this video. I'll probably stop it in the middle I'll probably stop it in the middle for you guys to for you guys to for me to comment but This is the question Taka Carlson asks Or not asked. This is the answer he gives. This is why America is great So I want you to think for a second if I asked you why is America great? Just think about it for a second. Why is America great? Give me three reasons two reasons one reason What makes America great and now yeah, the trigger warning trigger warning to Taka Carlson fans This is Taka Carlson's answer To what makes America great? I Mean, I have to say that neither one of the two reasons he gives would make my top five Oh, can you guys hear you can't hear that right? All right, here we go. We'll try it again We'll unmute it this time that that will help here. We go Tonight there is a huge amount going on right now as you know really a torrent of news historic amounts To begin tonight. We are going to ignore all of it. We've never done that before This is a news show brought to you on a news channel But in this second Friday after the election, we'd like to take a 20-minute break from developments So many things seem so completely screwed up right now that it can be overwhelming and over time It's also misleading if you pay too much attention to what's happening You can easily conclude that America is a rotten country. All right. I just want to say I Agree completely what Taka Carlson. I've said it on the show stop obsessing about politics about what's going on right now and And and about you know what what what people think about America? So Absolutely, take a break stop all this. Let's focus on long-term and what really makes America a great country a Great country, but that's wrong. It's not America is still the best there is Two things about America make it great to the country and its people. This is so notice two things the country and The people I get the people will see if I agree with the way he phrase, but the country That's what makes America great Truly beautiful place. It is the first thing. It's an amazing if you're absorbed in your phone all day It's easy to forget that but look around. It's stunning Switzerland has the Alps and Bob way has Victoria Falls But multiply that by an entire continent and you've got what we have America From the islands of Puget Sound the islands in Casco Bay to the Rockies and the Badlands the Upper Peninsula and the Appalachian Mountains in between Spend a day hiking through the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming. You might not see another person How can a place so gorgeous be so empty? We've got a lot of those here Wake up in Big Sur, California some morning the smell of redwoods and salt air will change you You'll feel things you inherited from your ancestors coming from places the modern world cannot touch We are blessed to live in a place like this more than we acknowledge All right, I don't even know where to start on this one guys So it's the scenery It's nature Wow, it's not New York City not skyscrapers. It's not Silicon Valley not technology Oh, well, we know what Tucker Carlson's view of Silicon Valley is It's nature and Tom. Yeah, I agree with yours. You're you're three are pretty good although I would put declaration of independence but It's more important than a constitution, but No, it's the scenery. It's the mountains. It's the lakes. It's Going on a hike and not seen anybody. I mean you could do that in the Sahara Desert by the way You can hike for days and not see anybody That's what makes America great the scenery nature Now notice a long long time ago. I said this is a long time ago I said that the one day when the authoritarian comes to power That authoritarian will unite two things He will unite environmentalism and That will get people from the left excited about him and Religion and That'll get people in the right excited about him the authoritarian of the future in this country other countries are different But in this country we'll have to unite a Love of America with nature environment and Religion Christianity That's what comes together. That is a winning strategy to be the dictator of the United States of America Tucker Carlson now has one of those Nature that's what makes this country great. It's beautiful now look this country is beautiful, but lots of countries have beautiful nature Let me say that again lots of countries have beautiful nature Maybe ever beats New Zealand and you can hike in New Zealand for more than one day and not see another human being That's not unique to America Israel tiny little country can't hike and I'll see another human being probably although I've done that but Beautiful nature That's what makes the country unique special great not just special great. No Nature's nice nature's nice. Okay, but there's hope people there's hope there's hope because the second one is the American people Now listen to this No matter what happens next no matter who becomes the president remember the country's beautiful Nothing can diminish the dignity of an eastern white pine towering above the spruce in a new England forest How did trees have dignity? I would think I would think you'd say something like You know Pfizer Moderna discovering you draw. I don't something like that that you know that dignity dignity of a tree Make America great All of it is ours to enjoy. Thank God And we've got a lot of people to enjoy it with an awful lot Americans are still the best people misguided as we sometimes are This isn't an especially religious country anymore, but surveys on church going do not tell the whole story Even now most Americans know they're not really in charge of the universe They know there's something bigger out there bigger than all of us combined And when you understand that when you know in your bones how small you are and how short the ride is likely to be You tend to treat people better Americans do so what makes America great is that it has people who think that they are small Insignificant in the big picture of things and that the right is short life is short This in a sense what he's really saying is people have faith. They're not maybe they're not religious in a traditional sense But they have faith They have faith and that's what makes American people great It's not Their sense and you'll notice it throughout this video freedom is not mentioned once Liberty is not mentioned once Individual rights is not mentioned once the Constitution the Bill of Rights the Declaration of Independence is not mentioned once It's our faith that we are small insignificant beings with a short lifespan and we can't control the universe That's what makes America great. I'm speechless. That's where We'll keep going because Americans are nice people. They're the nicest people in the plant now They are but why Americans nice are they nice because they think they're small puny creatures in this vast universe Or that they are they nice because they're free Isn't it true that free people generally are benevolent people that freedom breeds benevolence that people Who are founded on the principle of individual rights and therefore on the principle that they can take care of themselves Do they have a mind that they are responsible for their own life?  Yeah, don't this is a profoundly nice country the nicest in the world It is a nice Americans are kind to children to pets to strangers pets I mean pets is important. He keep repeating us how wonderful we are to pets. This is what it makes our acre great We're kind to pets.  We give more money to charity than any other place There's another distinguishing factor. Yes, we do because we're free He won't mention that and the fact that we give charity that's it's not that we produce It's not that we create again. It's not Silicon Valley or Pfizer or vaccines or creating or building It's not skyscrapers. It's no nothing creative It's our charity. That's what makes us the greatest country in the world tip our waiters more we tip There's no country on earth. You'd rather be lost in someone will help you. It's true all true in America We don't eat dogs. We rescue them. There we go again. We sleep on the bed. We give them funny names.  I'm not gonna comment sweet country In some ways, it's getting better the music's definitely improving. So is the food the music's improving Music is improving. You just told Tucker Carlson say that one of the things they make a maker great is the music is improving What universe does he live in? Believe it or not, we still make things here and a lot of them are pretty good We actually make more things than we've ever made before one of the lies of the Tucker Carlson and other economic nationalists We just make it with fewer people Because we're super efficient at it. We'll talk about efficiency some other time Now probably won't change Americans love innovation, but they're distrustful of anyone's radical plans for the future Most people here don't want an abrupt reshuffling of everything Remember the American Revolution. I mean, yes, it's true today. Americans don't want a dramatic reshuffling of things because But they certainly did during the revolution. That's what it was. It was called a revolution They prefer incremental improvement. That's why we've had only one revolution.  We want incremental change Puerto Rico by the way has incremental change. So at the gas pump They they they price it all and and the gas is all on leaders But everything else is in the old system like they started to move towards metric and they stopped Which is the worst of all worlds. You get a combination of both It's why we still have Christmas and always will Christmas in America is great. This is what makes America great Christmas. I didn't know that many people don't It's still the happiest time of the year and therefore it's the most American America is a happy country It is or was or should be but why isn't that what's interesting? Isn't the real question why and Maybe that has to do with freedom Maybe that has to do with the founding fathers. Maybe have that has to do with the principles on which this country was founded Not in Tucker Carlson's world despite everything our happiness is fundamental. It's in our founding documents Yeah, it's in our people. Yeah, nothing happening tonight can take that away I Right, I mean, I think that speaks for itself the shallowness the arrogance the stupidity of it and that combination of love of nature environmentalism Religion not explicitly stated in Christian terms is solely But religion I'm afraid of Tucker Carlson. He scares me I've said this before It's a Tucker Carlson view of the world that scares me his transformation from a small L Libertarian type free market type to a nationalist conservative Pro environment environment remember conservatives were always poor environment was Teddy Roosevelt who started in the National Parks and and confiscated land in order to preserve it but And that's a bigger issue. We should talk about National Parks sometime, but Tucker scares me Tucker's views of the world scare me and This combination of left and right which Tucker embodies leftist economics with the rightist nationalism and Religion respect and admiration for religion that combination Religion on top of religion is Truly scary and and the thing to be most worried about in our future. All right What we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect Not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations any man or woman who values his life and who does not get want to give in to today's Cult of despair cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist All right before we go on Reminder, please like the show. 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Hey there Astroplog fans, I love short papers. Like it or not, a lot of our productivity gets measured by the number of papers you write, how many papers are you publishing per year and a bunch of metrics that stem off of that, like how many citations do you get that nobody really thinks are good measurements for scholarly productivity but they're what is often used. I have heard of at least one job application that asked how many pages of scholarly material you've published and that's kind of interesting but also I think very regardless short papers clearly make economical sense for spending your time as a scientist because there's this ever-rising bar where you have to just produce more. There really can be a clarity of thought with short papers too that even a paper that drives home a single point can get filled with lots of extra details, a long winding introduction, multiple versions of the same figure, every single quality assurance plot that you've made. I like to think about what Michelangelo said of sculpting that there was always this thing, the art in the marble and his job was to remove the excess. I think this is true with papers, by the time you're writing your paper up you've done the science, the results are there. Now you need to take all the stuff you've done and remove the excess so that you're just telling the story that you want. As a reader I get overworked too, I have precious few hours in the day that I can sit and read papers and it's really hard to go through something that's 80 pages long. I know there's like a pushback against this that we don't want to just encourage the least publishable unit. If we do that then it cheapens our work that we won't dive deep and find the truths about nature and I accept that as a competing and powerful argument that says you should take your time and dive as deep as you can. But I also hate when good science is lost when it suffers from obscurity through locosity. If your amazing results are in section 15 on page 62 I'm gonna have a really hard time finding those results and citing you. It's hard. I can't read it all. My favorite joke on this comes from The Simpsons, it was pointed out to me by a college roommate. Lisa goes to Washington DC for a reader's digest writing competition and as she walks in there's a sign that says brevity is wit. This is a joke based on Hamlet. The actual line goes therefore which is a bad way of starting a sentence therefore since brevity is the soul of wit and tediousness the arms and flourishes and then goes on to basically say that Hamlet is mad. Polonius who loves the sound of his own voice which resonates with me. The joke in Shakespeare's Time is that Polonius is using all these words to make a big deal about how short of a point he's making. And a minute later the queen has the most snappy comeback and she says more matter less art. Hurry it up. Okay so the joke in our time of course is that reader's digest can condense and distill this down into just brevity is wit and you get the gist. Basically you understand the memorable quote you get the gist of the scene and that that's good enough. But of course it's not you don't get from that the substance of what the material is about or who Polonius is and from there if you go into a whole long discussion about public discourse and understanding of science. But brevity is wit and so the point is that when you're talking to other scientists less really can be more. This incidentally is why so many talks and posters are terrible because they go on and on about things without telling you the point. My favorite example of a brief but on point paper is Andrew Scumagge's 1972 paper about chromospheric activity in just over two pages and one figure lays the entire foundation for our current study of stars how they age how they spin and that there is an entire feedback mechanism here. It's basically a research note but now almost 50 years later it has 1300 citations and is remarkable for effectively connecting the field as Scumagge saw it then with all the available observations and made this insightful point which we're still working on today. Of course there's times when you need to be verbose when you need to say it all a phd thesis is a good example of this like you don't have to spare the pages but for me the takeaway for the everyday scientist is clear if you want to write more write less or as the queen very sharply put it more matter less art.


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with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a ha-ha-ha-yo silver! The Lone Ranger! General Mills, makers of Cheerios, the ready-to-eat oat cereal that gives you go-power, and Wheaties, the breakfast of champions, present by special recording, The Lone Ranger! Because champions are made not for... Yes, sir! Get on your way! Get on your way! Get on your way with Wheaties! The road to success doesn't seem so rocky does it, knowing that champions are made not born. Take the life story of Bob Lemon, ace pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. Bob played infield at Wilson High. That's where he got his batting eye. He worked instead of merely wishing to be a champ with Bob's ambition. So he chose Wheaties for top condition. A pitcher now, Bob's made his mark. He still relies on Wheaties' spark. Bob Lemon, a Wheaties regular now for 19 years. A long time to be strolling up whole wheat power, there's a whole kernel of wheat in every Wheaties' plate. Burn it in, Bob! Keep him swinging! He's on his way! On his way! He's on his way! On his way! Get on your way with Wheaties! Cause champions are made not for... Yes, sir! Get on your way! Get on your way! Get on your way with Wheaties! Breakfast of champions! With his faithful Indian companion, Toto, the daring and resourceful masquerader of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoof beats of the great horse Silver! The lone ranger rides again! Come on, Silver! What's going on? I'm Silver! A big red and gold medicine show wagon stood in the square in the small western town of Greenhill. Printed in large letters on the sides of the wagon were the words, the great Dr. Louis Pickens, magic medicines and household sundries. A curious crowd watched expectantly, as Dr. Pickens, a jolly rotund man, stepped through drawn curtains onto the improvised stage, formed by dropping the wagon tailboard. Ladies and gentlemen, this morning the people of Greenhill are very fortunate indeed. If I do say so myself, my name is known far and wide. You mean the law has hand-bills on you? Maybe his name is easy. Please, gentlemen, this is my show.  Jimmy, hold up a couple of bottles, huh? Yes, folks. The large bottle of this wonderful magic medicine is yours for only one dollar. Think of it, only one dollar. My young nephew Jimmy will go among you with a basket full of these bottles. Hey, if you're going to give me a lift, Uncle Louis, there comes a sheriff through the crowd. Sorry, folks. My young nephew just told me the magic medicine is all sold out for the present. These bottles hold mineral spring water, and I usually give it away with the elixir to get them inside the wagon quick. Hold on there. I want to see your bottle of that stuff. Yes, of course, Sheriff. Jimmy, bring out one of the bottles of spring water for the sheriff. Yes, Uncle Louis. Here it is. Thank you, John. Here, Sheriff, with my compliments. We give this away as a premium to those who buy the magic elixir when we have it. You sure this is one of the bottles you were showing a minute ago? You doubt my integrity, Sheriff? And I'll have you know that the name of Dr. Louis Pickens... Yeah, yeah, I know. But the name of Dr. Louis Pickens will be mud.  Now, you better get going, Pickens, now. Very well, very well. Let's pack up, Jimmy. The sheriff appears to be a mite. It is unfriendly. Dr. Pickens and Jimmy drove the wagon through a valley. Suddenly, a sound dreaded by every traveler in the far west was heard above the noise of the wagon. Uncle Louis, you're coming down a slope. They're heading right for this wagon. Give me the reins, quick, here. A masked man and another Indian coming down the opposite slope. As Jimmy clung to the wagon seat, the doctor urged the team to greater speed and the vehicle bumped and swayed along the rutted trail. Meantime, the small party of Indians turned back into a lone ranger and taught to open fire. The doctor intent on holding the team and wagon to the trail suddenly called out. Jimmy, we'll have to stop. The trail crosses the stream just ahead. The horses can't run through that with the wagon. Pull, pull, there. Here in for it, Jimmy. Uncle Louis, the Indians are gone. They went over the ridge out of sight. The masked man and Indian with them chased them away. Here they come now. I hope they're friendly. Anyway, the Indians were driven away. Good thing you didn't try to drive your team and wagon through that stream at the rate they were going. You're safe now. The Indians have gone. That mask, if you came... We came only to help you. We're not outlawed. Well, thanks for what you did. Thanks a lot, sir. I don't know why you're masked, but you saved us from possible harm.  By the way, I'm Dr. Pickens. This is my nephew, Jimmy. Jimmy's rather young to be traveling around the country with a medical show. I'm 12, mister, and I like to be being with Uncle Louis. I help him a lot. Indeed he does, sir. I'm the only relative Jimmy has to hold a necessity. I take it with me. Oh, I understand. Does your product have any real medicinal value, doctor? Of course. Of course. Well, here, here. Have a bottle of my magic elixir. Try it yourself. Thanks, sir. May try it sometime. Do you sell much of this? Uncle Louis doesn't hardly sell any, mister. We stopped someplace and the sheriff comes wrong. I have to hide the bottles quick. Evidently, you have much faith in your magic medicine, doctor. Of course I do, sir. Then why do you hide it when a sheriff comes around? When we stopped at our first town a month ago, the sheriff came to the wagon during my performance. He confiscated all the magic elixir I had on hand and broke every bottle. Regardless of my claim to the contrary, he said it was only colored water. Other medicine shows that cheated the people in this territory by selling colored water. It's risky to fool them a second time. The liquid you have in that bottle, sir, is a medicinal mixture. I served at an apothecary's apprentice in my youth before I studied to be a doctor and learned a great deal about medicinal roots and herbs and so forth. Oh, what's it good for, doctor? I haven't had the opportunity to observe its effect on an ill person, but I know it's a good tonic and should be effective for the alleviation of fever. That's interesting. How far are we from the next town, you know, sir? A green hill is about three miles south of here, part of an hour right along with you to the edge of town. Fine. Those Indians made me a little nervous. I'll go to my horse. A bottle of magic medicine for you. Um, maybe we see sick cow sometime, all right? Let me put bottles inside the bag. Good. Let's go. Ready, doctor? Yeah, we're ready. Get up there. Get up there. Come on. The Lone Ranger and Toto left Dr. Pickens and Jimmy at the edge of town and returned to the hills. Because of unrest among the braves of an Apache tribe in a nearby valley, the Lone Ranger disguised his features under his mask in case of trouble. Then he and Toto spent several days scouting and watching. One evening they returned to their camp after observing the Indians' activities from a ridge overlooking the valley. Hold the rope. Hold the rope. Easy, Toto. Easy, Toto. What did you make of the ceremonial dance the Apaches were doing, Toto? Them do dance at sundown to great spirit. Ask them, give sign, tell Apache who bring trouble to tribe. Do you think they may go on the warpath? Maybe.  We go back later. Watch. If them do war dance, then we know. Easy, Silver Steady. And give warning, maybe. Yes. Throw your guns away. We don't break for guns. Many braves did circle around you. Apaches. Surround us our camp. Don't draw. We raise hands and sign the peace. The lone ranger and the cover stood with their hands raised, palms awkward, in the sign of friendship and peace, as twelve braves moved in on foot and stood around them menacingly. One of them stepped forward and spoke. Me, Loco, son-in-chief Big Crow. We watch. See you spy on village. We're friends, Loco. We come in peace. No, trouble come to apaches. Two braves die of fever. Cheat path fever. Masked white men who ride white horse. Come and sign that pale face to blame for apache sickness. Take guns. Tie them to horse. What do we do? It's useless to resist. As several husky braves stepped forward, the lone ranger realizing it would mean instant death to resist so many allowed them to disarm him and taught him and tie them. Loco was playing for time, hoping they'd find means of escape later. After the masked man and Indian were tied to their horses, Loco spoke again. We take you to apache village now.  The apaches go on war path. We'll continue our lone ranger adventure in just a moment. Fullback Bobby is a boy of nine. He can really hit that line. He's the star because he knows. He's got go power from Cheerios. Yes, he's got go power. There he goes. He's feeling his Cheerios. Cheerios. Cheerios. Yes, it's a fact. Cheerios does give you real go power. You see, Cheerios is made from oats. And every delicious spoonful of Cheerios and milk is real muscle building food. Each spoonful contains vitamins, minerals and proteins your body needs. Yes, the good things in a Cheerios breakfast do good things for your body. Help you have healthy nerves, good red blood, strong bones and muscles. And Cheerios is so much fun to eat. With its distinctive old shape and its wonderful toasted oat flavor. So tomorrow morning and every morning start the day right with a Cheerios breakfast. Then you'll hear people say... He's feeling his Cheerios. Now to continue. As captives of the Apaches, the lone ranger and total were taken to the village in the valley. They were taken to Big Crow's Wigwam under guard and forced to watch as the Apache medicine man performed ritualistic ceremonies beside the ailing chief. Finally, the medicine man stopped and turned. He glared at the two captives, then spoke ominously to Lucco who stood beside them. Chief, Big Crow, not better. In burden with fever grow weak. We take prisoners, tie them to stakes. Maybe chief go to Great Spirit soon. Wait, Lucco. Maybe Great Spirit sent us to help chief. How you help? We bring magic medicine in bottle.  Can't do harm if it's only water. It might do good. It must be for time. Where are magic medicine? In the saddlebag of my Indian friend's horse. Let me give it to Big Crow. You get bottle, you take magic medicine first then give to chief. All right. Lucco left the Wigwam and soon returned with a bottle of magic elixir Dr. Pickens had given to the lone ranger. Here, bottle, I got it. Me untie hands of mask man. Now you take some medicine then give chief. Very well. With hospitalized watching, the lone ranger put the bottle to his lips and took a gulp of the bitter mixture. Then he stepped forward and as the medicine man lifted the chief's head. He gave some to Big Crow. There. The magic words on the bottle say to give him more in an hour. At this day, we watch.  Every hour for three hours the lone ranger gave the chief some of the mixture. He and Toto had little hope that it would do much good and they watched for a chance to make an escape but they were tied and guarded constantly. Taught dawn the chief opened his eyes and called weekly. Lucco, my son. My father know me. His fever is broken.  Then the medicine man spoke. Chief, much better. Evil fever gone. Magic medicine you brought mask man. Too good. Untie them. Quickly the brave untied the ropes that bound Toto and the lone ranger. Then Lucco stepped forward again. Here, your guns. You have spoken truth. Great spirits sent you in peace to bring magic medicine to chief, my father. That's good. Come pick from town. Many pale faces get an evil fever. Some die. If not good we attack where evil fever sprays. A patchy is not going to walk back. Chief, get well and fever gone from a patchy village. You heard Toto. The fever is broken up in town. We are free to go, Lucco. Ah, you go. You go in peace. Maybe have more magic medicine. Help pale face get well. The lone ranger realized he must find Dr. Pickens at once. Taking some apaches with him to rush some of the medicine back to town. The mask man and Indian hurriedly followed the trail of the big wagon. Meantime, some miles south of Green Hill, Dr. Pickens and Jimmy rode slowly along the trail heading for another small town. Gosh, Uncle Louis, he didn't do very well in those last few places. I know, little Jimmy. Maybe the magic elixir isn't any good after all. Sean, if you're going against me I might as well give up entirely. Oh, I'm tired of traveling, Uncle Louis. I sure wish you were like a real doctor. You know, lived some place and took care of people and all that. Jimmy, I am a real doctor. Once we're staying in one spot, I tried that once, son, but couldn't make a living. I was more interested in finding a new medicine that would bear my name. I tried to come in behind us, more Indians. Oh, we'll have to make a race for it, Jimmy. Get up there! Get up there! Once more, the red and gold wagon bumped and swayed along the trail. As the doctors, certain this time they'd be captured or killed, lashed the horses with a whip.  Get up there! The Mass Plan is with us! The Mass Plan! Pull! Pull there! Pull! Pull! We're here. They're friendly Apaches, Doctor. We came to find you. Briefly, the Lone Ranger told what had happened at the Apaches village and about the epidemic of fever at Green Hill. He finished by saying... Doctor, your medical discovery did the trick. My magic elixir? But how did they... You gave me a bottle, remember? I didn't carry. You turn around and follow us back to Green Hill. And there's no time to lose. It was almost noon when the Lone Ranger entered the Sheriff's office and identified himself. So you're the Lone Ranger, huh? Mr, I know you came to help, but even old Doctor Carey can't do much. And your office with some Apaches who offered to help us bring the medicine. I've seen this particular medicine work sheriff at the Apache village. I suggest you have Doctor Carey as a fever victim. Mr, on your say, so we'll try anything. Let's get that medicine. Doctor Pickens' medicine was taken to the meeting house where the patients were hospitalized. Though both old Doctor Carey and the sheriff were dubious, they administered the medicine to the sufferers and waited for the results. That night, Doctor Carey spoke to the sheriff. Sheriff? The mixture the masked man brought works wonders. It knocks this mountain fever in just within hours. You mean that that magic elixir really does the trick? That's right. But we need more. It's running out. On the way here, you should arrive most any time. How about I'll go meet the wagon. How do they need more medicine? They're coming wagon now. I saw the wagon coming when I looked out the window. I've seen that wagon before. That's the medicine man I ordered out of town a few days ago. Come on, Jimmy. How did the medicine work? Ask Doctor Carey, he'll tell you. Doctor Pickens, I never saw anything like it. You have a wonderful discovery there. Due to your medical mixture, the epidemic has been stopped. Golly, Uncle Louis, the magic elixir is good after all. The doctor needs more. Of course, of course. There's plenty on the wagon. Fact, nearly all I ever made is where I never did sell much, didn't get the chance. Jimmy, show Doctor Carey where it is. Yes, sir. Right this way, Doctor. Yes, sir. You hasty the other day, Doctor Pickens, when I ordered you out of town. You're not the only lawman who told us to move on. If it hadn't been for your... If it hadn't been for our masked friend, Sheriff, nobody would ever know my mixture was of any value. He must have had a lot of faith in me to use it on an Indian chief under such tense circumstances. Thank you, Doctor Pickens. It was because of the rather hopeless situation that I decided to take a chance on your mixture. I gave Doctor Carey some more bottles, Uncle Louis. Gosh. I knew they'd like your magic elixir when they tried it. Well, I... I'm glad you had faith in me, Jimmy. You'll be sited for this in medical circles, Doctor Pickens. Remarkable discovery. Remarkable. Uncle Louis, what does sited mean? Does it mean you'll get some money for the medicine so we'll have lots to eat? And now, Jimmy, we mustn't think of money when we're helping the sick. I'm sure you'll be well compensated for the medicine, Doctor. Very sure will. And, Doctor, if you'd care to stay and work with me here in Green Hill on research, I'd like to have you as an associate. You'll be well-paid. Get on the Uncle Louis, then we'll have a home. Yes. Yes, of course, Jimmy. I accept your offer, Doctor Carey. Good. Good. Now let's go administer to the patient, shall we? All right. But first, I want to thank the mask man for all he did for us. It's because of him that we... He went to the hit rack with the Indians. They're leaving. Adios, everybody. Goodbye, sir. Home. Gosh. He's sure wonderful. I hope I grew up to be like him. I hope you do, son. You couldn't wish for a finer thing than to be like the Lone Ranger. Righted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated is produced by Trenville Campbell Muir Incorporated. 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Good morning everyone. My name is Noksang Luna Jamir. I'm from the English department of the sixth semester representing Tetsuo College. Today the poem I'm going to be presenting today is titled Names. Fun fact about me, I have two bird certificates with two different names so there was kind of an identity crisis going on around that and names have something that holds us to our culture to our family's past so this poem is about that. So I'll just start. What is a name if not generations of culture trying to survive the modern world? This is my name, this is my duty, this is the history left behind. What is a name if not hope born from pain? My name is Noksang Luna. It means to be picture perfect. With this name I carry my family's bloodline and though I have tried to change myself in so many ways one fact is hard to deny. With duty sewn into my bones and grief pressing down my throat I resemble my father to a point that it can't help but make glorified sons choke. I used to be something even a hope to bring change. With this name I held on to the hope that I would be someone great or perhaps simply someone better but in the end I was only chasing nameless shadows that only gave me bitter resentments and regrets. So there I was standing between the devil and the deep sea. I was half my father's sadness the other half my mother's supposed sin. I was my grandfather's greatest joy and evidence of my grandmother's loss. I know that some might think my words are bitter and honestly I don't think I can say anything that might sound sweeter but listen to me when I say this someone on the safe shore won't understand the desperation of a drowning man. You see Sung-Di was my childhood. She was my innocence and naivety. She was every 1111 wish every shooting star and fallen eyelash. She was an effortless ease that hoped for the best and held on to that ideal even when her hands bled. Noxang was the adulthood I was never ready for.  She's the voice that reminds me always have a plan B. She's the dark corner of my room and the very pedestal that I built with my own two hands. She's flawed I admit hunted constantly by questions that keep on asking her why. Why not me? She's flawed I admit but oh if you could just see how she holds Sung-Di in the palms of her hands giving her all the love she has only ever dreamt of. I know that unlike what my name entails pictures they fail to define me. But names have certain power it's an age old truth that one can't deny. Sung-Di was a belief for a good life. Noxang was the embodiment of my grandfather's pride. So I stand here before you today holding this testament in my hand. I will bring change just as Sung-Di wanted and I will find peace just as Noxang hoped for. These are the duties of my names and you know what I'm gonna have it all. Thank you.