. -- went intotate, real estate, to be six months to real estate. at the age of 27 euros old, with my student loans coming due, i was living out of my car, sleeping on friends couches, but i got a third chance. i got told about this new idea called cello for -- cellular telephones. my classmates were saying to me, go get a real job. he is going to one a car phone? they are still practicing law. [laughter] that means having started nextel, i'm the only speaker that you will ever have that says even when i'm speaking, leave your cell phones on. [applause] , you hear theff annoying sound. i hear chaching. been a white guy with the right education, i might not have gotten that third shot. the one thing that we should make sure is possible in america is we can't guarantee you success, but everybody in america ought to be guaranteed a fair shot. that means the ability to fail as well. go out there and strive for that. [applause] lesson number two. beyond that responsibility to yourself, you also have a responsibility to your humanity and your country, and

they started generating huge volumes of waste, and they would or intot on the ground the river, whiche a creek, so it starts to generate a lot of pollution, and it contaminated the water wells. though first were on the property itself, so they knew what they were doing quickly. >> they knew what they were doing quickly, but it often takes a while for these medical repercussions to show themselves. >> that is true. that is one of the great frustrations about environmental health issues. sometimes you have immediate affect. you often have chronic affects the take a while to show themselves. it is tough to tie it to the original cause. that is why we have the study of patterns, but it is hard to draw those connections. my book is about the essential process of connecting the dots. about the your point subtle, difficult way to connect the dots, the kind of work it takes to make this happen, it raises the question about who steps up to fight for these communities, often impoverished, when these kinds of atrocities are being leveled against them. found is it is often the community itself. t

lcs intotting 4 singapore. i am leaving on tuesday to meet the first one that got there. they are deployed there and we are going to have the cruise following on the ships. the ship will stay there for a good while. we have a blue and a gold crew. three cruise for every 2 ships. on ships are already command. one is back home doing training. wem very confident that have the fleet and will have the fleet to do the missions that we need to do. , onesaid during my talk of the things we have to do is to make sure we do have the money and making sure we are not spending $1 billion extra because of some unstable regime. um, it is a with that that we are pursuing this. , i am- as secretary confident in platforms and as anyin the navy secretary has ever been. >> if i could follow-up on john's question. thatlectual rebalancing comes with a rebalanced strategy. rebalancing in east asia where we do not have the capital invested where the operators are officers understand the area, regional knowledge, linguistics. is there more we could be doing in the upcoming the years to rebalance