Was that i was not going to do. Terry, welcome, no better person to have ahead of thanksgiving. We have a lot to cover. David westin is off today, he is flying the friendly skies. I believe he thought as we do ireland, and fact. States three of french president s push to build a coalition against islamic state. After yesterdays meeting with president obama, he talked with angela merkel. Merkel said germany is ready to strengthen its military commitments and global hotspots to relieve the french forces. Nato is urging deescalation after the turkey shot down that russian warplane. They called for further contact between turkey and russia. Meanwhile, he would new york russian and new york that american diplomats met. Russia has rejected turkeys claim that the plane flew into turkish territory. Travelers will need to have patience over the holiday. Long lines will be the theme starting today. Security has been increased in the wake of the terrorist attacks. There are no specific threats. Y
The onestop shop, as they call it. And the government above and beyond that is setting up a fund, a guarantee fund to assist these small and Mediumsized Enterprises of the private sector to get going and to grow strong this guarantee fund, we hope, that will help the young particularly who are entrepreneurs who have something to give, who are interested in doing something to get the necessary loans from lending institutions under the overall guarantee fund that the government is now offering to that end. Let me say a word about our external partners. The borders of republic of congo are wide open, and we have seen how Business Partners have come to us from very far away, as far away as australia, certainly europe, the United States and are active in various sectors of our economy, and we are all in favor of that. Were very pleased to see it because this will spur the development of our smes, but also, certainly, will redound to the benefit of our Larger Companies and the sectors of oil
Okay. Can you tell me what resources, what u. S. Resources were used to ensure that girardo hernandez, accused of killing four u. S. Citizens, could artificially in sem seminate his wife . What resources were used on that. We from the state department from my perspective have always given the visit of life when he was incarcerated. But transferring, i understand he was able to artificially inseminate his wife, and that was by the u. S. Government . Beyond her ability to have these visits, that was decided by the department of justice. I would like to know that. I would think it would be a u. S. Priority to make sure hernandez fathered a child while he was in incarceration. Ill wait for the answer on that. Last question. These secret negotiations went on for over a year and reportedly consisted of seven meetings. So when you went to havana last month for talks, cuba made it very, very clear they would not allow their diplomats to speak to dissidents and normalcy was not possible until t
Institute. This is about 20 minutes. [applause] we are in kind of an unusual technical situation because craig venter, who is in san diego, hes supposed to be here is ill will something. So i guess lets see if i can just craig, can you hear me . Hes ill with something akin to muteness. Hes looking pretty good. [laughter] craig, can you hear me at all . You think hes scary looking . Hes not scary looking. [laughter] hes just an ill man. Lets see if we can we have a number of backup systems which i suppose we should employ. [laughter] if worse comes to worse, ill just tell you what i think he would have done if i could control him like a puppet. [laughter] all right. Now maybe hes hearing me. Craig, can you hear me . I can, robert. Nice to hear you. All right. We lost you for a bit. So whats wrong with you . [laughter] or. Lets see, i didnt want to leave la jolla sunshine for washington d. C. No, a number of things going op but, you know, it would have made montezuma proud. [laughter] le
Anyone else want to give us a killer idea, maybe something that has already been mentioned once or twice . Maybe not . I think the improper payment act do not pay hold agencies accountable. When you are measuring that its going to hold them accountable to make it a priority. I also think electronic verification at the state level i think it has proven that those death reports are highly accurate and moving in that direction. I would agree with mr. Brune thats prudent and it would allow them to look at other verification processes that perhaps moves resources to those other areas and i go again to verification of family members and funeral homes. We look at some data of 82 corrections in 2012 and 13 and we pulled a small case sample 46 cases. 35 of those cases, those folks were in fact alive but what . 35 of the 45 pieces we looked at. They were erroneously placed in the file. When you look to the source of those reports it was family members and those are typically regarded as being hi