maps were essentially used as a tool for geographical orientation. they helped traders, pilgrims, and travelers find their way. the era of exploration brought with it more precise maps that could also be used by seafarers. gerhard mercator developed the classic map of the world still familiar today. since then, maps of the earth's physical features have become more and more detailed, showing oceans, rivers, mountains, and valleys. >> my maps are based on the idea that other very complex spatial concepts, apart from the actual, physical space we live in, will play an increasingly important role in our world. >> the challenge is to process the exploding volume of data in today's world, information on how people live and how they're changing their environment. in this jungle of information, you have to be an expert to find your way around. and that's what hennig wants to change with his maps. he divides the earth's surface into thousands of grid squares. they're fed with data, on the population for example. the square then grows or shrinks depending on

and these images are spectacular. >> national geographic quality. >> yes.o glad somebody thought to take a drone out on safari with them. >> that's exactly what it is. >> national geographic, ten years ago, you couldn't have imagined getting this out on vacation. >> they captured some beautiful imagery. i'm so glad they shared it with "right this minute." we've been asking people to send us their summer videos. this one is in first place if it were a contest. >> rick and randy know what they're doing with the camera and the drone. i would imagine the safari would be a chance to see animals. >> they are everywhere. everywhere you look there's something running around. >> get those special treatment with man servants. >> guys popping champagne. guys holding an umbrella over you and just taking pictures of you and your friends. >> the hot new service the ladies will be lining up for. and scrape out the rest of the stuff. >> i'm going to try this. >> i am, too. >>> say bachelor party to a group of dudes and they'll probably be pretty excited. say bachelorette p

the hog farms can be big polluters is what national geographic writes. the average pick produces 13 pounds of manure a day and this can be recyclospora -- recycled. >> that is a question we need to con front in our own country. when you see this across the states there is ground water pollution. the there is an issue there. >> host: zackry in california. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i just tuned in so i am not sure if this is covered. i have a book by john brian star who is a lecture at the political science department at jail universities and in his book he makes a claim that once the chinese middle class reaches a point it will be impossible to meet its foods need because there is not enough grain for the cows to feed the emerging chinese class. i would like your opinion. >> guest: it is highly possible. in a larger measure that is what we are trying to draw a circle around here with this story and series. to eat the way we do and continue to do that requires resource and a lot of resources with water, land and energy and grains. it is true

>> national geographic funded the film.t's the cousteau model. >> filming of the thing pays for the doing of the thing. >> we drag scientists along with us. that was the model that cousteau initiated. he said, i'm going out there. i'm going to put it on tv, but i'm going to take scientists. i have tried to follow in his footsteps by always engaging the science community and having them do real research. i tell them, you can come, but you must publish. publish something. we had a couple of papers go out on this, and there will be more. >> i was speaking of this earlier, based on what you said, you have never met jacques cousteau. the one thing i have done you have not done. >> you may have done a few other things. a lot of the kids these days do not know who he is, unless they happen to have an interest in the ocean. >> why 3d? >> well, 3d immerses you in the situation. for big action movies it is great because you feel like you are right there with the characters, but it is especially great for documentaries. as an audience

at that point, there would be no more reason for any of them to t attack this geographical area callede united states than there would be for them to lle attack the geographical area called new zealand or canada.rls >> because we would be just as o powerless andre defenseless as e new zealanders with their sheepa and, therefore, we'd be just as vulnerable? >> no,h i'm an advocate of everd american having weapons so that if the chinese army landed on n the coaste o of california, aft they overcame our first line of defense, which would be the e surfers, the chinese general d would -- >> don't discount the surfers, my friend. toes an the nose, bros. t >> then let the chinese general ask somebody, take me to your leader. i'm sure the guy would take thed home to their wife and the chinese and the invading -- and listen. invade countries s anymore. this isn't the days of the romap empire when you can invade a country and steal the women, . steal the cattle, steal the gold.gical that's not the nature of wealth anymore. >> you think the whole world hav gone through a technological c enlighten

but photography, the geographic secrets were as closely guarded as nuclear secrets are today, so theussians certainly were holding this information close. and in spain and in england, this is what they had to work with. so captain kuchta, james cook when it exported as part of the world on his third voyage, this is a map yet with the minister and figure where he was going. it's almost comically bad. in fact, cook is famous reserve if you read through the journals, this one moment in thousands and thousands of pages, lost his to do. he said this map, whoever made, totally useless. look at this thing. they did know what exactly did alaska look like. they knew there were lots of others but where were they. no one knew for sure. so they were ignorant, but they had these stories, russian for summer in alaska. what did that mean? it threaten spanish possession in the pacific? rumors started flooding into the court, spanish court. a number of these were pinned by count lacey, irish extraction but born and raised in barcelona i believe and became spain's ambassador to russia. said he was sta

we had national geographic and we had rolex.hey built a watch for me to take down. >> the watch you have on? >> it was similar. this is a special commemorative watch they did for the expedition. they built one to withstand the pressure. >> national geographic is the place it is going to be seen. what was their contribution? >> they funded the film. the film funded the expedition. that is the castillo motto. model. cousteau that is what he initiated. he said i'm going to film this and put it on tv. but i'm going to take sciences. i always engage the science community. i tell them, you can come, but you must publish something. we've already had a couple of papers go out on this. >> i was thinking about this. you never met jacques cousteau. the one thing you wanted. but he was for you -- >> an icon. a lot of kids these days don't know who he is. >> why 3-d? >> 3-d immerses you in this situation. for action movies it is great. you feel like you are right there with the characters. it is especially great for documentaries. as an audi

the second is a geographic one which is eastern europe and central asia.we know that the epidemic is expanding, given the little data that we have. i will say that one bright note cochair for the 20 16 conference is south africa's representative from the think tank and is working closely with them, of course that is there a result, russia, china, and south africa. maybe a hope that that forum, which does not include us, the a place where the hiv issues and global health issues and public rack kisses can really be brought to the fore and will be different in a new forum. know that we have discussed that in some detail and are committed to it. that is a stay tuned. >> one quick comment. if you look in the post that report there is a diagram that shows that if we continue to do what we are doing today at the rate that we are doing it today, the number of new infections creep up. what is missing is where you 2030, 80 million people infected with the treatment cap of 31 billion dollars, $31 billion every year. there is this imperative for us to take the tools t

a new national geographic series called "survive the tribe" takes viewers inside remote cultures andlive as the tribe lives for ten days. in the jungle survival skills are imperative. knowing how to find water and emergency calories like these beetle larvae. >> i wouldn't say that insect grubs are my favorite. >> these people have evolved ways to be able to function. it is truly fabulous to see how these people can live in a seemingly inhospitable place. >> reporter: like the indians i visited, those hunters use hunting skills specific to their environment. their preferred target is the monkey, high in protein, which they hunt high in the canopy using poisoned darts. the most experienced hunters can accurately fire a dart over 100 feet. >> they're going for the kill right now. >> i consider them some of the most spectacular forest hunters of anyone in the world. when you start hunting with them, when you're actually in the action with them, you recognize that these people are truly the masters of the forest. >> reporter: despite their isolation and lack of modern technology, it becom

, geographically and politically. the autonomous region is taking advantage of the ongoing conflict to advance the cause of an independent state. a fully independent kurdistan would be a dream come true for the mayor of the town since 2004, when the city's population was 500,000. now it has more than doubled inside. the traders at the bazaar think highly of him. many of the older generation fought for their peoples freedom -- for the people's freedom. the mayor says those days are gone now, at least for the kurds of northern iraq. >> the freedom we have now makes us feel secure. everyone here makes an effort to support and defend this freedom. we have our own military organization, secret service, and police. >> another factor is the spectacular economic development of iraqi kurdistan. new high-rises and shopping centers are popping up all over, most of them built by turkish developers. turkey, the kurds' one-time arch nemesis, has turned into kurdistan's biggest investor. the kurdish leadership is delighted that turk

we meet a young geographer who has literally re-defined how we should be looking at our planet. here's what we have coming up. looks odd but makes perfect sense -- the maps that tell the truth about our world. dangerous superstition --

it has a lot of influence through trade, culture and through the geographic situation that it enjoys. it's very significant on all of those levels, and under recep tayyip erdogan's leadership he made sure that turkey is a lot more prominent than in the past, in terms of the international community. >> and the prime minister is now the prime minister-elect. jamal in ankara, thank you. >>> still ahead on al jazeera - how the spread of the ebola virus is affecting tourism in africa. it's been called a terrible accident. nascar drive kevin ward killed by fellow racer tony stewart. we discuss a legal consequence after the break. >>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here is the top stories - a new ceasefire appears to hold in gaza after an end of violence. the deal was brokered in cairo, where the israeli and palestinian sides agree to a 72 hour truce. egypt is urging both parties to negotiate a longer-termed solution to the conflict. kurdish forces have taken two towns in northern iraq back interest the group calling said the islamic state. fighter jets and drones are targetting the gro

beyond the diversity you have geographic diffusion. as i mentioned initially, not just centered in the region, it is now spanning a wide geographic area going from south asia in afghanistan and the middle east and across north africa, all the way from east egypt to molly -- mali and the east. this presents a real challenge for us from a terrorism perspective. the third feature of the threat is it has proven to be quite adaptive. when we woke her -- when we were concerned about centrally planned and plotting from al qaeda senior leaders, we are now increasingly concerned about the change in tactics. we are there looking to carry out smaller scale, less sophisticated attacks but those that do not require planning, and people to travel or communicate directly with central planners or leaders in these locations. so they have changed the tactics. understanding that is a vulnerability for them. so we have a threat that is increasingly diverse, geographically diffused and adapted. the question is and the thing i wanted to mention is why is th

basically, it looks at the hist referee: the civil right's movement in beal kind of telling the story geographically. i wrote a book history telling it chronologically. and kind of the theme of both books is that alabama had a central role in the civil rights movement starting the montgomery busboy time in 1956 on through the freedom rides, the birmingham movement in 1963 and the settlement in 1965. but there are a lot of smaller stories scattered all around the state including here in mobile. and so i try to tell those as well. a lot of them were people i had never heard of, you know? and in many ways they were as ordinary as, you know, as you or me, except they did these amazing things under such stressful situations that existed at the time. and so it seemed to me that it was a movement of foot soldiers as well as great leaders. i want to track down as many people as i could who were still alive and talk to them about their stories you know, while they still remembered the details of what happened. you can watch the old film footage and see the state troopers charging at demonstrators but having

beyond the diversity you have geographic diffusion. as i mentioned initially, not just centered in the region, it a widespanning geographic area going from south asia in afghanistan and the middle east and across north africa, all the way from east and themolly -- mali east. this resents a real challenge for us from a terrorism perspective. the third feature of the threat is it has proven to be quite adaptive. we werewoke her -- when concerned about centrally planned and plotting from al are nownior leaders, we increasingly concerned about the change in tactics. we are there looking to carry out smaller scale, less sophisticated attacks but those that do not require planning, and people to travel or communicate directly with central planners or leaders in these locations. so they have changed the tactics. understanding that is a vulnerability for them. so we have a threat that is increasingly diverse, geographically diffused and adapted. the question is and the thing i wanted to mention is why is the nsa so important to collect informa

pensacola and key west, they are demographically and geographically very different. and even though we didn't go as far as key west, but counties like palm beach county. effectiveness had to be -- had to address the geography in this state and they are very diverse. florida -- we had to be able to reach out hard-to-reach populations in each of the geographic areas. and you have to have a certain level of trust. you have to build public support for directing people to the health coverage. and the way we did that was to design the outreach initiative being that it broke down the state into regions. we had a very large uninsured population, so our target was pretty significant. and among those that are uninsured, we see a huge deficit in their understanding of what having health insurance means. post-enrollment we are addressing questions like how do i use my insurance? do i go to a hospital to get my care. the most basic of questions are now being answered in follow up to the open enrollment period so we can provide a certain amount of health literacy to the consumers

admiral kirby referred to geographical boundaries there are no geographical boundaries with respect tos. the boundary between syria and iraq has been erased. you cannot fight isis in what is left of one country. what we're doing in iraq is good. it's prevented the genocide of yazidis. i hear on twitter that we might be doing airlifts to protect another minority population there. but as the general said, this is a tactical sort of initiative. it's not going to defeat or even contain isis. when they are blown up or shot at in iraq, they have an easy command center in iraq province of syria to which they can repair. for all the talk we should be partnering with the assad regime, let us not forget until june of this year when isis marched into moses 8, an event that nobody seemed to have foreseen, the bashar al assad regime did not drop bombs in the province. i've seen so many arguments that state a simple and long-standing truth which is assad himself is responsible for the rise of this transnational terrorist army. and the general is also quite right, we do not need his permission to go

. >> what about you, the geographic nature of this?ing higher are than average, but the average includes people who are making 4% or 5% a year. there are not enough of them. there is some geographic variation. have not seen much wage growth. real wage in the u.s. has been flat. in the u.k., they are 8% what they were four years ago. we should actually be thankful real wages have not fallen. around the world we have seen little or no evidence of wage growth across any industries at all. ke, final word, i we going to see a similar report next time around or are things going to get better? >> i think these are getting better. i am expecting a slightly better report when it comes out again. from sanyou very much, francisco, michael housman. more of "taking stock" including looking at the new james brown movie "get on up" right off to this. ♪ ♪ >> this is "taking stock" i am cory johnson in for pimm fox. berkshire hathaway's second-quarter profit rose 41% for a record on investment gains. net income climbed 6.4 billion. 2,630 perearnings, s

the second is a geographic one which is eastern europe and central asia.we know the epidemic is expanding, given what little it is a toughand challenge. i would say that one bright note about optimism there is that my cochair for the 2016 conference is south africa's representative to the think tank on the bric s. that is of course brazil russia india china and south africa. maybe there is some hope that that form, which would not include us in the u.s.. it may be is a place where the hiv issues in the global health issues and public health practices can really be brought to the fore many different and new form that maybe will be something of a way forward. i know we have already discussed that. is a stay tuned. cracks one quick comment, if you look in the cap report again, there's a great diagram that shows if we continue to do what we are doing today, at the rate at which are doing it today, the number of new infections creep up. what is missing in that is where you end up at 2030 is 80 million people infected and a treatment year. $31 billion every ther

because now community is no longer geographically constrained. indeed, a kid in indonesia, let's say a christian kid this indonesia may have more in common with a muslim kid in los angeles because they share the same love of music, love of movies, they share the same interests, they share the same values than either of those kids may have this champion with their own -- in common with their own sort of geographically-defined communities. this is what we mean by postmaterialism. in other words, it's no longer safety or sustenance or shelter that defines a community, it's these postmaterialist values. and religion has been utterly shattered, the very definition has been utterly shattered by these new community formations which is why we're seeing more sort of religious sects popping up online. people don't meet in actual churches, they meet in chat rooms. so that's one future of religion. the other future of religion, however, is one in which science and religion are starting to become closer and closer to each other. now, this drives both religiou

i also mentioned national geographics.this is june 2013 but there is. >> last year. >> rose: we have technology that you can go find it. some sense of what it is that makes explorers explore. thanks to james cameron. thank you for joining me. see you next time. >> somebody has to go. a robot can't tell you how it feels. i did not come all this way ... it's important to physically be here to bear witness to the things that have never been seen. that little kid dreaming of going to the bottom of the ocean, all things seem possible. i w onder what other kids will do, where they'll go, what they'll see. what new worlds await them. i hope there's some kid out there right now who is already dreaming of exploring worlds we can't even imagine. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg. a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. ♪ >>> this is "nightly business report" with tyler

so we would not restrict ourselves by geographic boundaries when it comes to the core mission of u.s. foreign policy which is the protection of our people. >> would not restrict ourselves by geographic boundaries when it comes to protecting our people. that was yesterday morning. then yesterday late afternoon, at the pentagon, a joint briefing by defense secretary chuck hagel and chairman of the joint chiefs, general martin dempsey. chuck hagel spoke about it a bit more obliquely. he basically just said we're keeping our options open when reporters were asking him about whether or not the u.s. is about to start bombing syria. he said we're keeping our options open, we're not ruling anything out. general dempsey for his part, he was more blunt. watch. >> general, do you believe that isis can be defeated or destroyed without addressing the cross-border threat from syria? and is it possible to contain them? >> yes, the answer is they can be contained. not in perpetuity. this is an organization that has an apocalyptic end of days strategic vision which will eventually have to be defeated.

pensacola and key west, they are demographically and geographically very different. and even though we didn't go as far as key west, but counties like palm beach county. effectiveness had to be -- had to address the geography in this state and they are very diverse. florida -- we had to be able to reach out hard-to-reach populations in each of the geographic areas. and you have to have a certain level of trust. you have to build public support for directing people to the health coverage. and the way we did that was to design the outreach initiative being that it broke down the state into regions. we had a very large uninsured population, so our target was pretty significant. and among those that are unsnerd, we see a huge deficit in their understanding of what having health insurance means. post-enrollment we are addressing questions like how do i use my insurance? do i go to a hospital to get my care. the most basic of questions are now being answered in follow up to the open enrollment period so we can provide a certain amount of health literacy to the consumers wh

defined geographically jurisdiction. anything that went on there was under our jurisdiction.we could marry and divorce panamanians, give them traffic tickets, all the things you were hearing about. and it gave it to us in perpetuity as long as we paid $250,000 a year. further, created sort of the two main panamanian cities. they were closer to the canal than five miles, so the result was they got surrounded by a canal zone, and their growth was constrained by that. at was the situation we were dealing with. when we said we were going to have a new treaty relationship that would have a fixed duration, the model we used -- and this was the panama canal treaty, the one that will terminate at the end of the year -- the model we used was the post-world war ii base rights agreements we had done around the world where you have right to use territory. you have rights to do certain things, but those rights are defined functionally, not geographically. you do not just take a piece of territory and say that you have authority over everything there. you say we need this territory to do c

.) >> in time when the plans and assistance local land geographic response the mobilitytion with progress one step at a time. right now the southeast corner is - >> is there any further public comment on item 4 seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk item number 5 >> item 5 allocate $5 million plus in prop k funds with conditions for 6 requests subject to the trichoid schedules with the prop plan this is an action item. >> colleagues any discussion seeing none, is through any public comment on item 5 seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk please call the roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor jane kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes. item 6 >> item 6 appoint ramona smith to the advisory committee. >> seeing no names on the roster we'll go to public comment any public comment on that item on item 6. if there's a medical cannabis please come forward >> sometimes in the western they ponder the chinese map i mean, of cou

. >> surprising new information about poverty in america in the august issue of national geographic magazine. one in six americans is considered hungry. and it is happening the subbushes are also a place where poverty is on the rise. urban house suggest more expensive and today hunger in the suburbs is going faster in the cities having doubled more than 2007. joining us is the author of the best seller "american way of eating". is this a new problem or are we looking closer at it. >> it is more of a problem. we always had people with poverty and hunger in the u.s. and now three- quarters of them are working. it is taking on a new cast. >> what does it mean? >> usda came up with this. sometime in the last year you run out of food entirely. in europe it is one in six. >> and so in one in six have nothing to eat at some point? >> at some point during the ear, yeah. >> we have some of the pictures from the magazine. they are beautiful and poignant and sad at the same time. a father pushing his child in a stroller outside of houston. and houston is a wealthy city or so you think and he's on the w

the spirit of "apollo" transcends geographical barriers and political differences, it can bring the peoplef the world together in peace. >> to protect against any possible lunar contamination the astronauts put on air tight special garments before coming on board the rescue ship. they transferred directly from the helicopter to a mobile quarantine van in which they would be flown back to houston, texas. july 27th, the journey was ended. they were home again. ♪ [ applause ] >> ahead lay three weeks of isolation, medical tests and mission debriefings. then visits to major cities of america and abroad. the details of their unique mission would be relived and re-remembered so others might learn what they had learned and that future travellers in space might build upon their experience. ♪ the rock and soil samples brought back would be examined and analyzed by scientists in many lands. they would reveal new insights in to the origin and age and the composition of the moon. and perhaps new knowledge of the earth as well.

the development program for the shipyard this is the geograph center and it's anchored by building 101 that houses approximately one hundred and 50 artists and two a additional building the general location of those buildings have shown on the map. in order to initiate the artist district the sixth building will be demolished and consolidated two buildings one for the kitchen in building 101. under the d b.a. the shipyard will remain that two buildings depicted are the sixth building and the building 101. the existing artist tenants who are entitled to relocation sites such as compensation for reasonable reimbursement to assist us the ocii hired the experts along with the consultant to make sure that all legal requirement are if you would in the process. here you'll see the close up of the artist site in 101 in the middle. and here's a site plan of the buildings once they're built 101 the new commercial kitchen 101 is in the center and the label is small but you'll recognize that and parcel b sort of at the top of the slides is the occupied studios from an a v in early 2016 this b has

is geographically closer to france than the middle east is. libya is the object of less international attention -- it is at this point a failed state to read none of the institutions are working. the rivalry between the militias is a rivalry between the islamist and non-islamist militias. the fear is that it could become a safe haven for a number of terrorist groups. francois hollande said there are a number of terrorist factions operating in southern libya that are ready to strike. helplled on the u.n. to shore up the libyan state to make sure it does not become a springboard for attacks across europe and the region. >> thank you for those comments. we will go not to gaza, where there has been another encouraging sign of another cease-fire that is now in its second day. humanitarian convoy has rolled and since the first time the blockade started seven years ago. it is bringing in another food to feed a 150,000 people for five days. the truce is an open-ended one. the 50 days of fighting left 2000 people dead. outgoing president karzai may hav

it is geographic-based. the things that las cells is it is not just gambling, it is the whole experience. you do not see anyone else on this whole sin city experience. >> if you were to pick a spot anywhere on the world map to a gaming industry, something more than just gambling on everything we have been talking about. skip, where would the? -- be? >> everyone has talked about china. certainly, japan will be the next center where there will be casino gaming. in the u.s., there are some small niche markets like boston where there will not be a proliferation. there will be one new casino in the area and it will do well. certainly, still places in the united states where there are opportunities, but you look at places like atlantic city, where there was a glut of casino space. they need fewer casinos, not more. >> i like one of the places that skip pointed out, orlando. you have a lot of hotel rooms, a lot of people already going there, and a ton of attractions. >> mostly for kids. i'm sure the parents want so

ultimately, if you look at geographically -- a lot of our customers prefer things that are closer. since the resorts in macau are world-class, comparable to las vegas, it makes sense that you look at the five-hour flight time for macau, there are over one billion people. new york to las vegas is also five hours. >> while lawrence is bringing lots of glitz and glam to macau, sheldon adelson says he invented the concept. in vegas first. now he says he is the one who will conquer macau. >> they predicted i would not even open. i would never get it built. if i got it built, it would not open. and if it did open, i would be in bankruptcy immediately. they didn't want to believe someone else could do it better than they did. they grossly underestimated me. >> when we come back, sheldon adelson tells us why he is the real king of macau. ♪ >> for a man whose business caters to high rollers and big spenders, billionaire shuttle -- sheldon adelson's roots are unglamorous. he was born the son of a cab driver in a poor section of boston. he first began in the convention business in 1979. he ev

for the southerners, they wanted .t or the geographic center for the northerners, they wanted it near the population center, and that would have placed the capital closer to philadelphia and new york. just when things were getting really heated, thomas jefferson invited alexander hamilton and james madison to dinner. alexander hamilton, then secretary of the treasury, he was a new yorker. the northern states wanted the the debt,sumption of meaning during the revolutionary war, the northern states had run up a great deal of debt while the southern states had not. the southern states wanted none of this. they wanted individual states to pay off their debt. the southern states wanted the capital closer to where we are today. in a grand compromise, thomas jefferson, alexander hamilton, and james madison of virginia, decided to package these two decisions into a grand compromise, so the united states government assumes the dead of the states from the revolutionary war, and the capital would be closer to the place that the southern states wanted, and this compromise was a very important poi