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it has people stay in the country at least four years so they do get some wisdom about the place but there is the challenge to manage pilot locations but they also said many people to foreign services for language trading but in afghanistan we have the afghan hands program as an attempt to get out of this relentless career promotions to get people to get out of the country that after language training in multiple tumors -- tour. and held back to the normal resting place. but your career is done thank you very much.
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so places like iraq and the edges of empire they need the expertise but they also have a relationship not in formal institutions like your in the midwest. then we will be there for a long time. >> to talk about it is fair or not but in many ways with a complete lack of security one of the things to emphasize is a half to handed off to somebody because it is the antibody. >> we need to take away. >> you can hear that echoed
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with submarines. why do we have to go do this? why can't we take other agencies in your? so those are the kinds of things when you have no security to call things down the inclination is to hand off the office somebody has to do this in the long term because we have to have helped along. [applause] >> please stick around as they will sign copies of their book that is available at the checkout counter. a shinseki for coming. [inaudible conversations]
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>> my name is john miller i keep honeybees that is what i do his dad and my dad and his dad and his dad that is what we do is a mecca migratory beekeepers keeps 10,000 beehives and it takes them between california and north dakota is a commercial beekeeper i had no idea how
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important the american honeybee was too important to ever betty's die it i just thought they were cute and made honey but i've learned to they pollinate one out of three bites of food that we eat all the pit with fruit, it would doom this without the honey bees to pollinate the crops our diet would be a lot less interesting. the way modern agriculture works and you cannot count on the local peace to pollinate the crops their miles of crops you need a lot of these then the petals fall off and they cannot survive. so with modern agriculture
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works it requires migratory workers to bring them and then get out. i met him in 2004 i think he lost half of his bees that year and friends lost even more. it did not get a lot of attention. are followed him around and that basically like a healthy colony bets it was mysterious and nobody knew what was causing it. but in reality honeybees are
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dying and have been in trouble for a while even in since the early '90s and it is hard to keep the bees healthy without treating the highest. the most have died off because of the might but at a great cost to put in medicine that is not good for the bees. there is the girl when he lost all those seat or that was and then the honeybee started today again 2006. but people tend to confuse each day so this event from
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2006 through 2009 did not do much. they are still dying. the beekeepers are paid more by the theft big -- biggest threat. >> said they're making lots of money and they paid the beekeeper to bring in the bees to pollinate crops. and right now i am not sure
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how they sustain that. others but if they cannot keep the bea's help they to put so much money into it, we did is not happening right now but we need to keep an eye on its. losing sleeve -- losing, about one-third of the population dying each year. but there are a number of colleagues who have not gone down because they are rolling eyes and a house
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there is -- it is with the aicher culture is more trendy and people responded to what has happened with the honey bee losses by getting hives in the yard. and it is a windfall in those employs who use the print of them to have that sacramento feet bled to they love their bees and want to keep them alive. but generally i have eight of virginity whole

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