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State Department Daily Press Briefing [UKRAINE/RUSSIA/MALAYSIA]
Daily Press Briefing Index
Briefer: Jen Psaki, Spokesperson
UKRAINE/RUSSIA/MALAYSIA
— Malaysia Airlines Passengers / Passports
— U.S. Calls for De-escalation of Tensions
— U.S. Government Officials to Assist in Crash Investigation
— Ambassador Powers' Remarks at UN
— U.S. Support for International Participation in Investigation / OSCE Role / FBI Role
— Readout of Secretary's Calls
— Ukrainian Military Equipment
— U.S. Engagement with Russia
— FAA Advisory Issued
— Technical Complexity of SA-11's
QUESTION: Let's start with the plane.
MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.
QUESTION: The President said there was at least one American. Was this person traveling with a U.S. passport? Is it – and I believe there's still three unidentified. Is it possible that any of those three are American citizens?
MS. PSAKI: Yes. Let me give you an overview that I think will answer some of – all of those questions and maybe a few more. On Thursday, Malaysia Airlines notified us that no passengers boarded Malaysia Airlines flight 17 using a U.S. passport. Knowing this information, we immediately then took additional steps to verify whether any of the passengers were also U.S. citizens. And the process that we underwent was to individually check each name against our passport records, and there isn't – there wasn't, in this case, biographical data available either, so obviously that takes some time to check. And we, of course, need to ensure that we can be confident in our results before we notify family members.
So the President spoke to one individual, who is a dual national. There are also – I believe the number, unless there's been a change, are – there are four individuals that Malaysia Airlines has not identified the nationalities for. So certainly, we also don't know the nationalities of those individuals. We're also – while we've gone through the manifest, because there isn't biographical data available we're continuing to do our due diligence to match any available data up to ensure there aren't additional dual nationals in the manifest.
QUESTION: Well, so you've gone through all of the names.
MS. PSAKI: Yes.
QUESTION: And the only one that popped up as holding a U.S. passport or being a U.S. citizen is —
MS. PSAKI: There were no individuals holding U.S. passports who boarded the plane.
QUESTION: Okay. So this one guy —
QUESTION: — this one victim who the President named was a dual citizen but did not have a U.S. passport?
MS. PSAKI: Correct.
QUESTION: Did not possess one?
MS. PSAKI: Well, not – didn't – I'm not sure if they possessed one, but they did not have one that they boarded the plane with. I suppose they did not possess one.
QUESTION: Well, wouldn't – all right. Then I'm confused. If you check all the names against your passport data —
QUESTION: — wouldn't it show up if he had one, whether or not he had used it to get on the plane or not?
MS. PSAKI: Well, Matt, I would remind you obviously there are also a dual – sometimes there are names that are common names that we need to check.
QUESTION: Well, but let's just talk about this one guy.
MS. PSAKI: Okay, mm-hmm.
QUESTION: He did or did not possess – whether or not he used it or not to get on the plane, did or did not possess a U.S. passport?
MS. PSAKI: Well, he is a dual citizen. What passports he possessed, I would have to check if that's how we determined.
QUESTION: So the State Department doesn't know if this guy had a – possessed a U.S. passport?
MS. PSAKI: Clearly, we know that he was a U.S. – a dual citizen. I don't have any other additional information. I assume that's how we knew.
QUESTION: Does that mean that if you typed in "Jennifer Psaki" into the passport records, it would not pop up that you have a passport?
MS. PSAKI: I am a U.S. citizen.
QUESTION: You have a passport.
MS. PSAKI: I would board a plane with a U.S. passport.
QUESTION: But not all U.S. citizens have U.S. – anyways, we're probably getting bogged down.
MS. PSAKI: That is correct.
QUESTION: Anyway, so none of the other – including the four, or three, or whatever it is that are not yet identified by nationality by Malaysian Airlines, you – none of those people are U.S. citizens; is that what you're saying?
MS. PSAKI: At this point in time, we're still doing a review given there isn't biographical data available for a number of individuals, so we're doing due diligence to ensure before we make that confirmation.
QUESTION: But you can't say for sure that none of the 200 – none of the total number of people on the plane actually held a U.S. passport?
MS. PSAKI: None of them boarded the plane —
QUESTION: I know that.
MS. PSAKI: — with a U.S. passport.
QUESTION: Maybe I'm getting bogged down into something that's really – I just don't understand why you can't tell – you can't go in and look at a name and see if that person has a passport.
MS. PSAKI: I'm happy to double-check that for you, Matt.
QUESTION: All right. Anyway —
MS. PSAKI: I'm providing the information we have available, which is the one individual and the process we're undergoing.
QUESTION: Are you aware of any discussions between – from this building and Russia or Ukraine over the course of the last 20 – 18 hours or so between Secretary Kerry or other senior officials?
MS. PSAKI: Secretary Kerry has not made calls —
QUESTION: Assistant Secretary Nuland?
MS. PSAKI: — to Russian or Ukrainian authorities. I would remind you that we have a large – or a number of senior officials who have been in touch with Ukrainian and Russian authorities, certainly both on the ground, but also you've seen the calls read out by the White House.
QUESTION: I'm hoping this isn't something going on and —
QUESTION: This reflects dissembling (inaudible).
QUESTION: Exactly.
QUESTION: Very sensitive issue.
QUESTION: I think it reflects the state of chaos —
QUESTION: (Off-mike.)
QUESTION: — state of chaos in the world.
MS. PSAKI: I'm sure we can turn that off if that's possible. Is that possible? Okay. Great. Does that help decrease the distraction?
QUESTION: There we go. Look at that. All the world's problems are fixed.
MS. PSAKI: All right. (Laughter.) All right. Have a good weekend. (Laughter.) Good to see all of you. Just kidding.
QUESTION: So there have been contacts, but just not at the Secretary's level or a senior level?
QUESTION: Okay. Are there any plans for there to be such contacts or any plans for the Secretary to potentially travel to deal with this situation? The reason I ask is that Ambassador Power at the UN this morning made some pretty powerful, strong —
QUESTION: — accusations, allegations against the Russians.
QUESTION: And I'm just wondering if anyone thinks – if the Administration believes that it would be worthwhile to pursue these with Russian officials or whether you've decided that it's more appropriate to wait until an investigation is finished.
MS. PSAKI: Well, our focus right now is on seeing through a full, credible, thorough investigation. I can give you an update on the resources that the United States has sent – made available for that. In terms of travel, there's no current plans for the Secretary to travel to the region. As you know, he always has a bag packed, and if that is a decision made that that would be productive, I'm sure he'd be happy to do that. You're right. Ambassador Power – and then again, the President – repeated a number of items of evidence and data that is available about what is happening on the ground. They both reaffirmed the fact that we're not going to prejudge the investigation. We want to see that move forward, and that is where we are at this point in time.
With that being said – let me just finish, and then we'll go. With that being said, we certainly understand that – and our focus is, as the President said and as the White House statement said last night, is of course continuing to call for a reduction in tensions and a de-escalation. And aside from the investigation, if there's a need to play a role in that, the Secretary or anyone in the Administration is certainly ready and willing to do just that.
Can I just give you an update on the staff that are – the individuals who are going? So we have offered – the Government of Ukraine, as many of you may have seen, has issued invitations to assist with an investigation to ICAO, NTSB, Boeing, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and the European Civil Aviation Conference. We have offered assistance to the Ukrainian Government, including personnel and resources from the NTSB and the FBI, which the Ukrainians have accepted. The NTSB will be sending at least one investigator to the Ukraine. The timing of this is still being determined, and our response will, of course, be guided by events as they unfold, and our understanding is at this point the FBI is preparing to deploy at least one FBI individual personnel member to Ukraine. It's also not clear on the timing of that. Of course, it remains a fluid situation, and we, of course, will be responsive to their needs moving forward.
QUESTION: And then last one from me, at least I hope it is. You referred to Ambassador Power's comments to the Security Council. You said that she presented items, evidence and data. What – maybe I was watching a different Security Council meeting. I mean, she certainly made some strong accusations, but I don't think she presented any evidence to back them up or any data to – that would back up the claim, her claims. Is – one, is there such items, evidence and data that you have? And two, are you willing to make it public? Because clearly there are people on the Russian side who don't buy this.
MS. PSAKI: Well, Matt, what I was referring to – and I'm sorry you disagree with my terms I used to describe it, but – was the information that's available, the context of what has been happening on the ground, which is what she outlined. Obviously, she stated – as the President stated – we're going to see the investigation through. We want that to be a credible international investigation, and there isn't a separate process that we're undergoing from the United States.
QUESTION: So – but – so you're saying that you are not willing to make the evidence and data that you have public – you'll give that to the investigators, but you won't make it public to —
MS. PSAKI: What I'm referring to is exactly what she stated publicly, which is the presence of certain systems along the border, which is the fact that – and many of them are public reports. She was outlining information about what has been happening on the ground, which I think is important for context. But we'll see the investigation see itself through.
QUESTION: Well, but she was pretty – she said that "we assess that" – and that's clearly a finding by the intelligence community, because they're the ones who use that language —
QUESTION: — "we assess that is was fired" – this missile was fired —
MS. PSAKI: Sorry, your thing – yes.
QUESTION: — an SA-11 was fired – where is the data? Where is the evidence that backs that up?
MS. PSAKI: There isn't additional data that we are providing publicly at this point. I'm – it is likely we will use – we will provide that through the investigation process.
QUESTION: So – all right. But do you understand how there are people who are skeptical of what she said, especially given previous UN Security Council presentations by Americans? I mean, I just – if you're pretty convinced about it, would – could you – I would appeal to you to ask to make some of this information public. I'm not necessarily doubting any of it, but —
MS. PSAKI: Sure.
QUESTION: — when you say that she presented evidence and data, she really didn't. She presented —
MS. PSAKI: What —
QUESTION: — the overall assessment from —
MS. PSAKI: The overall assessment and facts of what we've been seeing on the ground.
QUESTION: Okay.
MS. PSAKI: That may be the more accurate way of describing it.
QUESTION: Okay. Thank you.
MS. PSAKI: James.
QUESTION: Thank you, Jen. I have a number of areas related to this that I'd like to pursue —
QUESTION: — and with the indulgence of my colleagues. First, there's been a lot of discussion of a credible international investigation that the United States, through various spokespeople, has said that it would like to see pursued here. Under what auspices does the United States wish to see an international investigation pursued?
MS. PSAKI: Well, Ukraine – this happened in the territory of Ukraine, so they clearly would have the lead on this process. As I mentioned, there are a range of countries they've asked for assistance from that have agreed to provide and participate in any investigation. We've also seen on the ground a number of international organizations already engage. And these reports just came out, so I'm not sure if you saw them, but the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission went to the site of the crash today. They're obviously playing a role here as well. They had only limited access and left after 75 minutes. Of course, calling the need for unfettered access is incredibly important in our view.
QUESTION: So in calling for there to be an international investigation, is the United States also calling for the final report or product of this investigation also to be international in character?
MS. PSAKI: Well, the engagement of a range of countries and organizations, I think, in our view makes it an international process. But of course, Ukraine would have the lead in the investigation.
QUESTION: And the final say in the outcome of the investigation as – in terms of ascriptions of culpability and so forth.
MS. PSAKI: Well, again, there'll be participation and expertise provided by a range of countries and organizations. You've seen a broad level of interest, and the Ukrainians themselves have requested the assistance from a range of international organizations and countries as well.
QUESTION: I guess I'm making a distinction between the investigation and potential prosecutions that might flow therefrom.
QUESTION: And I'm – I guess I'm asking if your desire to see an international investigation is mirrored by a desire to see the prosecution – any potential prosecutions also retain some kind of international flavor or character.
MS. PSAKI: Well, James, it's a good question. I think we're not quite there yet in the process.
MS. PSAKI: One of the reason – let me just finish – that we sent a – we're sending an FBI – an individual from the FBI, if not more over time, is because of the special expertise they have in criminal investigations. So we'll see where we get to in the process.
QUESTION: When the announcement went out last night that Secretary Kerry had canceled his appearance at the Sixth and I Synagogue here in Washington, the press release stated that he was doing so so that he could engage in internal discussions with staff and discussions with his counterparts around the world. You've just told us that those counterparts did not include anyone from Russia or Ukraine, and so I'm wondering if you can give us a readout of his calls to date —
QUESTION: — on this subject. And I guess perhaps later when we do Gaza, you could reserve that for that segment of the briefing or —
MS. PSAKI: Well, if you don't mind, let me just – because I think it gives a flavor of what he was working on last night. There were, of course, a range of discussions that he and senior members of the Administration were in last night through the interagency. So that was part of what his time was spent on.
QUESTION: What are you talking about there exactly? Is – was there an NS principals meeting or an NSC? What were —
MS. PSAKI: No. But again there are a range of ways to engage, and certainly on the phone and discussions about how to address – as you know, there were a number of statements put out pretty late in the evening last night, so there was an effort to work on those as well through the process.
Last night – or yesterday, I should say, and today – he has spoken with Quartet rep Tony Blair, with the Malaysian foreign minister, Dutch foreign minister, Qatari foreign minister, the Arab League secretary general. He spoke last night with the Egyptian foreign minister twice – sorry, once last night, once yesterday – with French Foreign Minister Fabius, with Prime Minister Netanyahu. We – you saw the – I'm sorry – readout we put out last night with Foreign Minister Davutoglu and with the UAE foreign minister.
So he was engaged and there were times when he was back and forth and spoke with some of them multiple times last evening.
QUESTION: Okay. To proceed to some of the specific points of contention today —
QUESTION: First, the Ukrainian security services released what they claimed were transcripts of the intercepts involving Russian military intelligence officials —
QUESTION: — purportedly directly discussing this attack. Does the United States Government have any assessment as to the authenticity of those recordings?
MS. PSAKI: I don't have any assessment to offer at this time. There's obviously an investigation. We'll let it see itself through.
QUESTION: You don't – do you have cause to doubt the authenticity?
MS. PSAKI: I really don't have any analysis of it to provide.
QUESTION: Secondly, the Russian defense ministry disclosed that it has intercepted the activity of a Ukrainian radar system on the very day when this attack occurred, and the defense ministry stated, and I quote, the launch of rockets could have also occurred from any of the batteries deployed in the populated area of Avdiivka, which is eight kilometers north of Donetsk, or from Gruzsko-Zoryanskoe, which is 25 kilometers east of Donestsk. Does the United States have any assessment of this disclosure by the Russian defense ministry of radar intercepts and suggestions of alternative scenarios to what Ambassador Power suggested?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I think one of the points Ambassador Power made was that while the Ukrainians do have SA-11 systems in their inventory, we're not aware of Ukrainian – any Ukrainian SAM systems in the area of the shoot-down. Obviously, that's a contextual example and that's why we need to see the investigation see itself through, but obviously relevant information.
QUESTION: Is that assessment, which Ambassador Power included in her remarks, take into account what the Russian defense ministry is saying here about these other installations that could have been the origin point for this missile?
MS. PSAKI: I think she was stating what we're aware of at this time. And obviously these events are only – just over 24 hours old, so that's why we're going to focus on seeing the investigation through.
QUESTION: Last question, you've all been very patient with me —
MS. PSAKI: Go ahead.
QUESTION: — and I appreciate it.
So the President kept using a phrase in his remarks today: "We have confidence in saying." And as you know, that's kind of a term of art. This confidence that the United States has that the origin point for this missile was rebel-held Ukrainian territory – is that high confidence?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I'm going to leave it where the President of the United States stated it, James, no surprise. And again, there is a range of information, as you noted in your question, we have available that we don't always speak about publicly, and I believe that was what he was referring to.
QUESTION: He later called it "increasing confidence." So he qualified it at one point.
And just to follow up on what Matt said, when we have the President saying we feel confident in saying something, and then we have the UN ambassador saying "we assess" – doesn't that strike you as there being some kind of important semantic difference there?
MS. PSAKI: I don't think it was meant to be a difference. Those statements were very coordinated and were similar in the language that was used.
QUESTION: Because the last thing she said: "We assess Malaysian airlines Flight 17 carrying these 298 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was likely downed by a surface-to-air missile, an SA-11, operated from a separatist-held location in eastern Ukraine." Is – the word "likely" appears in there. Is the word "likely" which occurs right before "downed by a surface-to-air missile," is she saying that it's the missile that was likely or she's saying that it's the rebel-held territory that's the likely part of this?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I think we have some information available about what happened. Obviously, we know – we're confident in what and where. The questions we really have are who and why, and I think that's what the investigation will really be exploring.
QUESTION: So we know the "where," is what you're telling us?
MS. PSAKI: Well, we have – you heard the UN ambassador. You heard the President also speak to that. And I think —
QUESTION: Because the President said we don't have a definite judgment on that, but you seem to be rather definitive on it, saying we know the where.
MS. PSAKI: Well, we have a good sense, as the ambassador to the UN said. So again, we're going to see the investigation through. As we have more information, we'll provide that information.
QUESTION: So it's not a slam dunk?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I'm not sure what that means, but go ahead.
QUESTION: A couple of questions. Jen, is there any doubt about who those four individuals who have not been identified yet might have been doing on the plane, or is that sort of – there's no suspicion about who they were, or it's just that they haven't been identified?
MS. PSAKI: Not that I'm aware of at all, Kim. I think it's just that information about their identities.
QUESTION: And then going back to the point of the international – about the international investigation, it's an interesting point. Under whose auspices – apart from the fact that it was – that it happened on Ukrainian territory, surely the Russians might be in a position to contest the results of any investigation if they feel they're not part of it or if it's not UN-led. I mean, how are you going to make sure the results of this investigation aren't contested by the Russians, for example?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I don't know that we can ensure that, of course, but again, I think it's only natural that because this took place in Ukrainian territory that they would have the lead on the investigation. And that's a pretty standard procedure. But they have welcomed and invited in a range of countries, a range of international outlets with expertise, and clearly, that's an indication of their openness to an international investigation.
QUESTION: Would you want the Russians involved?
MS. PSAKI: I'm not in a position to make a decision on that. Of course, we don't have the – we're not in the lead on the investigation.
QUESTION: Jen.
QUESTION: Can I just follow up on the list of calls that you listed —
QUESTION: — that the Secretary made today? There wasn't a call, unless I missed something, with Foreign Minister Lavrov.
QUESTION: I realize the presidents spoke yesterday —
QUESTION: — but is there a reason why he's not trying to reach out to his Russian foreign counterpart? Isn't this something that – obviously, that the two diplomats of the two countries should be talking about?
MS. PSAKI: Well, it's nothing other than there's a great deal of focus at a very senior level in the Administration on this issue right now. The President of the United States spoke with President Putin just yesterday. He spoke with the president of Ukraine just yesterday. And I'm certain, if there's a need, that Secretary Kerry would be more than happy to speak with Foreign Minister Lavrov, and we'll see what happens over the coming days.
QUESTION: Because Ambassador Power's statement basically laid it squarely at the door of Russia, as did the President in saying that the equipment had come from the Russians. I mean, it would seem that at this point, you need to be having some kind of discussions with your Russian counterparts.
MS. PSAKI: Well, we are in discussions with Russia, and we have a large embassy there. We have a great deal of engagement with Russians. The question of whether the Secretary will make a call – that certainly is possible in the coming days. I'm just not going to predict given I don't have those plans yet in front of me.
QUESTION: Were you able to get an answer to the question that I asked yesterday about these missiles? Let's say the SA-11, which is what the – what Ambassador Power said was likely used to shoot this plane down, is that among the materiel that the Russians sent into Ukraine according to your information?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I believe that the reports that have been out there have referred to Buk missiles. Those are – while we've expressed concern about surface-to-air missiles in general, we have not specified those in that level of detail. We just don't have information we can share on that particular missile system.
QUESTION: Well, but when you, Marie, and other officials were talking about missiles along with tanks going from Russia into Ukraine to supply the separatists, did they – did those missiles include SA-11s?
MS. PSAKI: I don't think we have specified to that level of detail, Matt.
QUESTION: So you don't know as —
MS. PSAKI: I'm not saying we don't know.
MS. PSAKI: I'm saying I don't have any more information to share.
QUESTION: Well, but do you – you don't – so you don't have any information to share with us about whether you even know for sure that SA-11s were in —
MS. PSAKI: I don't have any more information to share —
QUESTION: — in the (inaudible)?
MS. PSAKI: — on the types of surface-to-air missiles that we have seen in the hands of Russian separatists.
QUESTION: Well, okay. Could I appeal to you to – I mean, if – because if this isn't among the arsenal that you say was moved —
MS. PSAKI: Well, I would remind you too, Matt, that aside from that, one of the points that Ambassador Power made this morning was that there was an SA-11 system reported by a Western reporter, and separatists were spotted hours before the incident with an SA-11 system.
QUESTION: Yeah, I understand that. But I'm just wanting to know if you believe that SA-11s were among the things that were sent in over the course of the past month or two months into —
MS. PSAKI: I've – if there's more information to share publicly about specific weapon systems, we can make that available; I'm not sure that there is.
Go ahead.
QUESTION: So I mean, I know you're still trying to determine exactly what happened, but it sounds like, just to put a fine point on it, regardless of whether it came from the Russian side of the border or it came from one of the separatists, that you feel that Russia has a responsibility here, whether they gave them the weapon, they had operatives that helped them do it, or they just gave them the weapon and an instruction manual and said go ahead.
MS. PSAKI: That's not at all what we said or what the President said or what the UN ambassador said, Elise. They laid out specific details of the events we've seen happening on the ground. All of that is important context. But we're not going to prejudge the outcome of the investigation.
Certainly, aside from this specific tragic event, we have concerns about a range of the steps that they outlined, including providing access to weapons systems, providing materials to the separatists, but we're going to see the investigation through before we make a judgment.
QUESTION: Do you think that this will in any way will change President Putin's calculus in terms of his support for the separatists or for his kind of bid to destabilize Ukraine?
MS. PSAKI: Well, it certainly should. This, as the President said this morning, was a wakeup call to the world, to many European countries, and certainly should be to Russia as well that given all of these events, this is of great concern and it's something that we think, certainly, that President Putin and the Russians should take a close look at.
QUESTION: And do you think that this will harden European kind of resolve in terms of the severity of the measures that you've been considering?
MS. PSAKI: Well, we can't make a full prediction of that for obvious reasons, but certainly seeing the horrific events that happened yesterday, seeing the families who are mourning their loved ones, all of the information that's available should be a wakeup call to everybody.
QUESTION: Are you going to push the Europeans to be – to take a tougher line on Russia now?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I think, again, we're going to see this investigation through. But we've been engaged in discussions with the Europeans about sanctions for months now, as you all know. We'll see how this proceeds, but those will continue regardless.
QUESTION: Jen, after the President – after Ambassador Power's comments and after the President's comments, but in particular Ambassador Power's comments, how can you say that we're not going to prejudge the outcome of this investigation? I mean —
MS. PSAKI: Well, Matt —
QUESTION: — she outlined what you assess, your – the conclusions of your looking into this so far, and basically – not basically, did blame the Russians for it; said it came from a – not a specific area, but a rebel-held area; that it was a specific kind of missile that was used. It seems to me that that's prejudging, or you've done your own investigation and those are the results of it.
MS. PSAKI: We have —
QUESTION: But you seem to want to have it both ways.
MS. PSAKI: — not done our own investigation.
QUESTION: You make your – you make these allegations.
MS. PSAKI: We're participating in the international investigation.
QUESTION: I understand.
MS. PSAKI: Let me finish. There's a range of information, most of which is publicly available, that Ambassador Power laid out in her remarks this morning. That's all relevant context.
QUESTION: Sure.
MS. PSAKI: But again, there's an official process that will be seen through.
QUESTION: Well, it's not public information that an SA-11 – that the U.S. assesses that an —
MS. PSAKI: I said a vast majority.
QUESTION: — right – SA-11 was responsible, and that it was fired from rebel-held territory. That's not – that's something that —
MS. PSAKI: I said the vast majority of information.
QUESTION: I understand that, but in coming – but in presenting those conclusions or those assessments, that seems to me, unless you've done your own investigation already, that you – that there has been a pre-judgment of what happened here.
MS. PSAKI: That was not the intention —
QUESTION: All right.
MS. PSAKI: — and I'd point you to where she stated in her remarks – I don't have it exactly in front of me – a reference to the fact that there will be an investigation.
QUESTION: All right. But then she closed out her remarks – near the end she said, "This war must end. Russia can end this war. Russia must end this war." How is that not a prejudgment of the situation?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I think there's a concern here outside of this —
QUESTION: Or is she talking about more broadly?
MS. PSAKI: Correct. There is an ongoing concern about the escalation, and certainly outside of this investigation, we have remaining concerns about the steps of Russia and their – the materials they've provided to separatists.
QUESTION: But wait a minute. But you're —
QUESTION: And then – just let – I actually have one – this is extremely brief. You don't regard what she said and what the President – what Ambassador Power said and what the President said as prejudging the outcome of the investigation?
MS. PSAKI: Correct, we do not.
QUESTION: But why, then, are you tying this incident, then, to everything of the – if you don't know and you aren't kind of prejudging that – I know you're not prejudging the exact details, but it seems as if you are prejudging that these events are a direct result of the conflict in Ukraine, of which you've said that Russia is the main instigator here.
MS. PSAKI: Well, I don't actually think that's what they said at all. I think outside of this, there's no way, given this event happened in Ukraine, given there's accusations being tied back and forth – I can assure you CNN and every other outlet has been tying this to the events happening on the ground, and of course we look at that context. And we look at the concern about rising escalation; we look at – that's why we called for a return to a discussion about a ceasefire. So certainly, the context of what's happened over the last several months, given the accusations back and forth, is incredibly relevant here.
QUESTION: No, I understand. But if you say that you don't believe that the Ukrainians have this type of missile and you say it came from eastern Ukraine, which would indicate that – and you say that you believe that the separatists were responsible, and you're blaming Russia for its support for the separatists, wouldn't that logically point to Russia as having some type of culpability here?
MS. PSAKI: Again, when there's a conclusion of the investigation we'll have more to say about what culpability is and what it means and what the implications will be.
QUESTION: Can we go to Gaza?
QUESTION: I was told that the Russian ambassador to the UN said today that Ukraine should have closed its airspace. Do you have some comment on that?
MS. PSAKI: I have not seen those particular comments. You may have seen – I mentioned yesterday a step the FAA took a couple of months ago. And you may have all seen this, but the FAA, after considering the recent event, has determined that an increase in the area covered by our prohibition is necessary. So therefore, the FAA has issued a notice to airmen to prohibit all U.S. flight operations within two flight information regions in eastern Ukraine. That was, obviously, a recent step that's been taken since the events of yesterday.
QUESTION: But I mean, it sort of suggested that the fault lies with Ukraine.
MS. PSAKI: Well certainly, this area, aside from Crimea, which there was a – there was an aviation regulation in place since April on, this has been open flight area. So I think we would disagree with that notion.
QUESTION: Sorry, did you say that happened since yesterday?
MS. PSAKI: Correct —
QUESTION: The FAA has —
MS. PSAKI: — given the events, mm-hmm.
QUESTION: So in addition to what was – Ambassador Churkin also said that – raised the question of why Ukraine air traffic controllers would've routed this jet over an area that was a conflict zone. Do you have any response or reaction to that kind of question being raised?
MS. PSAKI: I think it's important to remind everyone that this action was taken in an area – the area was – the conflict there was caused by the intervention and the engagement of Russian separatists supported by Russians. And otherwise, there are certain regulations that the FAA and other flight organizations put into place, but there wasn't one over this particular area of eastern Ukraine.
QUESTION: So you think that it's irrelevant? That question that he posed is pretty much irrelevant.
MS. PSAKI: Well, I think it's not – it doesn't speak – there are – now, it's important to note that a number of operators over time have chosen to voluntarily alter their routes beyond just the restriction in the Crimean Peninsula. But it's not – it wasn't a requirement or a regulation in place.
QUESTION: No. But I mean, his question – his raising the question, why did the Ukrainian air traffic control route the plane over this area, you don't think that that's particularly relevant to the investigation?
MS. PSAKI: No. It was open airspace.
MS. PSAKI: So it was – there were planes flying over it.
QUESTION: All right. And then President Putin in his comments last night, and again Ambassador Churkin at the UN – and I also believe Foreign Minister Lavrov – all say that this would not have happened if it hadn't been for the Ukrainian Government resuming its military operation in the east. Is that – what's your reaction to that?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I think it's important, again, to remember that the entire conflict in eastern Ukraine is due to the illegal intervention of Russian-backed separatists, the support of Russia with military equipment and other materials. That's where the conflict came from. They went into a sovereign country, and that's why we're here. There's no other reason.
QUESTION: Okay. So that just – you do not accept that?
MS. PSAKI: Correct, yes.
QUESTION: Just to follow up?
MS. PSAKI: Go ahead, Goyal.
QUESTION: Thank you. A wake-up call to the world; this terrible incident, Madam, has shaken up the entire aviation industry. And also within half an hour of this incident, Air India, carrying 126 passengers, went through luckily and landed safely in Delhi. And prime minister of India, coming from Brazil to Germany to Delhi, also about to come within one hour, but he – they would change their route.
What I'm asking you is that as far as these kind of weapons are concerned, you think other terrorists also may have – including in Afghanistan and Pakistan? And then what is the future and how can you stop them not to carry all these weapons? Because this is a first-of-its-kind incident.
MS. PSAKI: Well, I'm trying to follow what exactly your question is, but let me try. So there's an investigation that's ongoing with international support about this specific incident. I would caution anybody about broadening that into what it means and to other countries. Obviously, there are steps that the FAA here has taken. Other national or international civil aviation outlets may take similar steps, but we'll leave that to them to determine.
QUESTION: What kind of investigation can be done if – right, they only allowed them to stay for 75 minutes, the first group that went in? I mean, it's over a huge amount of territory.
MS. PSAKI: You're right, and that's why we're very concerned. And those who say they are going to participate in or welcome this investigation need to give unfettered access, and obviously, we didn't see that when these individuals were there for 75 minutes.
QUESTION: A couple last things, I'm sorry.
MS. PSAKI: Sure, go ahead.
QUESTION: Does the United States Government have any information as to the whereabouts of the black box and in whose custody it presently resides?
MS. PSAKI: There have been a range of reports about those being in the hands of Russian-backed separatists. I don't believe we have any independent confirmation of the location.
QUESTION: And is it fair to say, just to follow up on Elise's line of questioning earlier, that when the President tells us we still await definitive judgment on the origin point and likely culpability for this attack, is it fair to say that the United States, given the case that Ambassador Power laid out, has at least reached a preliminary conclusion about those matters?
MS. PSAKI: I think there's a range of information that's publicly available. As is the case with serious incidents like this, we'll let the official conclusion be made. But obviously, Ambassador Power wouldn't have said that if there wasn't a reasonable belief that that was accurate information.
QUESTION: Don't you see a sort of possible conflict of interest that people might see when the eventual report comes out of how this happened? The U.S. Government, given Samantha Power's statements at the UN, is then – the U.S. Government is then sending the FBI to also be a part of this investigation, this report. Couldn't it be difficult for the results of this report to stick if we're already hearing sort of a line from the U.S. Government that they believe it's Russia's fault, then they are – the government is indirectly involved in this investigation?
MS. PSAKI: Well, that's not exactly —
QUESTION: There are a range of other nations that have many —
MS. PSAKI: Let me answer your question. That's not exactly what either the President or Ambassador Power said. They also both made clear that there's an investigation we're going to see through. The FBI participation – the FBI clearly has a range of important expertise in criminal investigations. I think that's expertise that could – we don't know – could come in handy in this case. That's what they will be offering. So there'll be a range of expertise and entities that will participate in this investigation.
QUESTION: So I have one more on something that Ambassador Power said, and that was she said that we cannot rule out the possibility that Russia – there was some kind of Russian technical assistance to the —
QUESTION: Why not? Why can't you rule that out? And is she referring to the tapes that the Ukrainians have presented that James referred to earlier? Is that what makes this a question?
MS. PSAKI: She's referring to the technical complexity of the SA-11 and the unlikelihood that the Russian-backed separatists could effectively operate that kind of assistance without assistance – the kind of – systems, sorry, without assistance from knowledgeable individuals.
QUESTION: But could not those knowledgeable officials be former Soviet soldiers who happen to be Ukrainians who happen to happen to have joined the separatists?
MS. PSAKI: She said "rule out." We can't rule out.
QUESTION: Okay. But I mean, that – so she's not intending to make the accusation that there was – that the U.S. believes there was Russian assistance in operating this SA-11 system. She's saying – she's just throwing it up there —
MS. PSAKI: She was making the point that it's a complicated, technical system that would require expertise in that system.
QUESTION: Kind of like Churkin questioning whether – why Ukrainian air traffic control routed the plane over —
MS. PSAKI: I would hardly compare the two —
QUESTION: No? Okay.
MS. PSAKI: — given it was open airspace.
QUESTION: So – I'm sorry, though.
MS. PSAKI: Go ahead, Elise.
QUESTION: I mean, it's – I understand what you're saying, that you're waiting for the final results, but for a Cabinet member to go out and address the world and say we can't rule it out, that's pointing the finger at someone, even if you're not 100 percent sure. And given the fact that you're careful in all other areas so as not to say anything – I mean, clearly you didn't want to say anything yesterday – you're not saying with 100 percent certainty that Russia was involved, but you are pointing the finger at Russia. To say that you're not is disingenuous, I think.
MS. PSAKI: I think we're laying out a range of contextual facts that we've been concerned about for some time.
QUESTION: You're building a case against Russia. Is that —
MS. PSAKI: No, I wouldn't put it that way. It's – I think it's clear what the SA-11, which is a complicated, technical system, it's hard to see how back – how separatists, pardon me, could do that on their own. She was making a statement of a fact. We – she said we couldn't rule it out. She didn't say an individual was at fault or she didn't say it absolutely is. There are a range of facts in this case that are publicly available information or information that we've assessed. She said in her own statement that there's going to be an investigation.
QUESTION: I just think that if you weren't reasonably sure that you felt that Russia had some capability here, you wouldn't even be laying out a possible Russian involvement.
MS. PSAKI: Well, capability, which was laid out —
QUESTION: Culpability.
MS. PSAKI: — is different – culpability. I thought you said capability. Again, Elise, I would – I think if you look at what she stated and what her remarks outlined, it was information laying out the context of what we've seen happen on the ground.
QUESTION: I have one more follow-up.
MS. PSAKI: Can we just do a few more, and then we can go to you, Said?
MS. PSAKI: Okay, go ahead.
QUESTION: Okay, I have two questions.
MS. PSAKI: Okay.
QUESTION: First, it's about the timing. Since the U.S. has imposed sanctions to Russia, then this happened. And I will add, the recent trip of President Putin to Latin America, if you see any connection.
And the second one, I was wondering if you have any information: How could a passenger plane be mistaken for a military aircraft? Thank you.
MS. PSAKI: Well, these are all excellent questions, and this happened just 24 hours ago. So they're questions we just don't yet have definitive answers on.
QUESTION: Just one more?
QUESTION: As the Secretary makes these calls here, and you all, and the President and everyone else, is part of the message that it's about time Europe stood up to Putin and put in some real sanctions?
MS. PSAKI: As he speaks with his European counterparts?
QUESTION: Yeah.
MS. PSAKI: I think it's important to note that we have been working in lockstep with our European counterparts on announcing sanctions and rolling out additional consequences. And clearly —
QUESTION: But haven't they've been sort of – not done as much as this country would have hoped?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I think, one, they have taken a number of steps that there has been an impact. There's no question that the economic impact, or the economic impact on Europe is different from the impact on the United States. We're also talking about dozens of countries that need to agree and work together. We're one country. But regardless of all of that, we have worked very closely with the Europeans. They announced a new set of sanctions just this week, and obviously, if events continue to escalate, if President Putin continues to choose escalation over de-escalation, the international community will continue to put consequences in place.
QUESTION: Just one more on the plane. Today Turkish prime minister was very definitive, and he said that this Malaysian plane was hit by Russia over Ukraine. Have you reached out to Turkish prime minister, whether he got some intel that you don't?
MS. PSAKI: I'm not aware. There hasn't been a call from here with the Turkish prime minister, so beyond that I don't have any other speculation on that. I think I've outlined where we stand.
QUESTION: I'm sorry. He spoke to the foreign minister.
MS. PSAKI: He did. And they spoke a great deal about the events in Gaza. And of course, they're all coordinating on and discussing the events that happened yesterday in Ukraine as well.
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Ronald Sanders | Wake up and smell the Chow Mein
Published:Saturday | December 4, 2021 | 12:05 AM
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an aerial view of Ganlanba railway station, one of the stations along the China-Laos railway is under construction in September in southwestern China's Yunnan Province. China is taking its rail technology overseas, its launched a new passenger express train to Laos as part of its regional Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to improve connectivity for trade and extend its geopolitical influence.
Sir Ronald Sanders
A television interviewer asked me if I thought Caribbean countries, and other developing territories, would benefit from the 'war for influence' that the European Union (EU) has launched against the People's Republic of China.
He was referring to the announcement by the EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, that the EU will launch 'Global Gateway', a scheme to compete with China's 'Belt and Road Initiative' (BRI) that has been in place since the end of 2013.
The commission president did not try to hide that the EU's Global Gateway is aimed at trying to stop China's spread around the world and its growing influence as the major creditor to more than 60 developing countries on every continent.
"We want to create links and not dependence", she said – an allusion to the claim by the G7 countries (the rich nations of the West) that China is indebting developing countries so as to control them.
What is striking about this new rivalry to lend money to developing countries is that it has arisen not in response to the needs of these countries for economic advancement and social improvement, but from big power rivalry for influence in their own interest.
Nonetheless, should the contest between richer countries result in the availability of more money to fund growth and prosperity in developing nations, it should be welcomed. Not only would it produce a larger global pot of money, but it will allow developing nations to accept loans from the rival providers that offer the best terms.
LATE IN THE RACE
The EU has started late in this race, and the sums that it is suggesting are less than half of the $1.2 trillion that China has already put on the table for 13,000 projects in 63 countries. The EU Commission said it will "seek" to mobilise $340 billion by 2027 (six years from now) and from a combination of public investment and, as yet unsecured, private investment. What the EU appears to be sure of is $40 billion in export guarantees to European private investors, and around $18 billion in grants.
The EU has pointed out that it has been providing "grants" while China has been providing "loans". But, in truth, the repayment terms of the Chinese loans are concessionary and affordable. Further, they are used mostly for infrastructure projects that developing countries need, whereas EU grants are highly conditional and take very long to disburse.
Added to all this, while the EU's Global Gateway was launched with much fanfare, its draft plan does not contain a list of projects it will undertake immediately. Nor does it say to which countries.
Significantly, absent also is any indication if the EU will drop its criterion of low per capita income as a qualifier for access to the Global Gateway. So-called middle-income and high-income countries have long been disqualified for access to grants and concessionary loans from the EU, except in disastrous situations. The development of many Caribbean countries is measured by this flawed criterion.
Perhaps at some point the EU will actually have a serious discussion with regional groups of developing countries about their real needs and how best the EU can help – particularly as several of its members have a sad legacy of underdevelopment across every continent. Among the EU members are France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Germany. The UK is omitted from this list since Global Gateway is an EU project and the UK is no longer an EU member.
COMPETE WITH CHINA
The bottom line is that, if this EU-China rivalry, coupled with the G7's 'Build Back Better World' - also an effort to compete with China and halt what is seen as its global influence – produces more money for developing nations, including the Caribbean, it would signal the start of a new world. That would be especially so if developing countries can choose the options best suited to them and not to the lenders. In this way, they could retain their autonomy from all lenders, spreading their exposure and seeking the best terms possible.
However, right now, especially as the global financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank still reflect the policies of G7 countries, China remains the lender of choice.
The G7 and leading members of the EU who built their economies on the backs of developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean should wake up and smell the chow mein. It is everywhere.
Ronald Sanders is Antigua and Barbuda's ambassador to the US and the OAS. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto. The views expressed are entirely his own. For responses and previous commentaries, log on to www.sirronaldsanders.com
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French-Brazilian Geography: the Influence of French Geography in Brazil by José Borzacchiello da Silva (review)
Federico Ferretti
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French-Brazilian Geography: the Influence of French Geography in Brazil by José Borzacchiello da Silva
José Borzacchiello da Silva French-Brazilian Geography: the Influence of French Geography in Brazil Switzerland: Springer, 2016. xiv & 122 pp. $54.99 paper (ISBN 978-3-319-31022-0), $39.99 electronic (ISBN 978-3-319-31023-7), [1st ed.: França e a escola brasileira de geografia: verso e reverso. Fortaleza: Edições UFC, 2012].
This is the English translation of a very important book on Brazilian geography, originally published in Brazil in 2012. Borzacchiello's work is the first attempt to trace a general historiographic appraisal of the exchanges between French and Brazilian geographers, who traditionally maintained a privileged relation. This translated edition—as part of a new book series, Springer Briefs in Latin American Studies—can be considered part of ongoing efforts to bring the products of Brazilian and South American scholars to the English-speaking publics (L. Melgaço and C. Prouse, Milton Santos: Pioneer in Geography, 2017), and to address transcultural and international circulations of geographical knowledge (H. Jöns, P. Meusburger and M. Heffernan, Mobilities of Knowledge, 2017).
The foreword by Hervé Théry, the great specialist of Brazilian matters in French geography today, highlights the depth of this "journey of love" (p. v) between French and Brazilian geographies, one which was institutionally inaugurated in 1934 with the appointment of French teachers such as Pierre Deffontaines (1894-1978) and later Pierre Monbeig (1907-1987). These scholars were the first Chairs of Geography at the University of São Paulo (USP) from 1934, and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro from 1935, and they contributed to the foundation of the Association of Brazilian Geographers. Close relations between French and Brazilian geographers existed already before the university institutionalization of the discipline, through the political and scholarly networks of Elisée Reclus (1830-1905), Emile Levasseur (1928-1911), and Pierre Denis (1883-1951), all authors of monographs on the South American country and acquainted with local colleagues. [End Page 258]
In this book, Borzacchiello addresses the chronological range 1934-1993, from the establishment of the first Chair of Geography in Brazil held by Deffontaines, to the author's own sojourn in Paris to perform this research. In that year, Borzacchiello realized interviews with four French geographers involved in cooperation with Brazil, Michel Rochefort, Yves Lacoste, Jacques Lévy, and Paul Claval, which constitute the core of the book. The chapters are organized following a periodization which considers the 1956 IGU Congress in Rio de Janeiro and the 1978 Congress of the Association of Brazilian Geographers in Fortaleza as the two big watersheds for investigating French-Brazilian geography between 1934 and 1993. In chapters 1-3, the author addresses the construction of "The Hegemony of French Geography in Brazil" until 1956; in chapter 4, including the interviews with Rochefort and Lacoste, he discusses its consolidation until 1978; in chapter 5, including the interviews with Claval and Lévy, Borzacchiello deals with the raising of "new figures" after the critical turn taken by Brazilian geography in the Fortaleza congress, with the introduction of radical tendencies and new cultural approaches. In chapters 6 and 7, the author tries a first assessment of the work of Brazilian students and scholars in France, providing an overview of the PhD dissertations discussed in France on Brazil, and by Brazilians in France.
The main argument of the book is that the overwhelming influence of French geography in Brazil revealed an initial "asymmetry" (p. vi) in the scholarly relations between the two countries, hindering the formation of a recognizable "Brazilian School" of geography, despite the potential and originality of Brazilian scholarship. The colonialist attitude of French classical geography is pointed out by the author, for instance where he observes that "Third World geography is a mixture of colonial geography with tropical geography" (p. 20), then rejected by Southern scholars in the period of decolonization. Explicitly questioned on this points, the French geographers interviewed generally denied that French scholars in mission in Brazil adopted the same approach as their colleagues working in French colonies in West Africa or Southeast Asia. Yet, the sense of...


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Otto Wangemann (* 9. Januar 1848 in Loitz; † 25. Februar 1914 in Charlottenburg) war ein deutscher Organist, Komponist, Musikwissenschaftler und Musikpädagoge.

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Otto Wangemann, Sohn eines Organisten, war Schüler der Kompositionslehrers Friedrich Kiel. 1871 arbeitete er als Organist und Gesangslehrer am Bugenhagenschen Gymnasium in Treptow. Ab 1878 war er als Kantor in Demmin an der St.-Bartholomaei-Kirche tätig. 1879 übernahm er die Redaktion der Zeitschrift "Der Organist" und im folgenden Jahr die Leitung der Zeitschrift "Die Tonkunst". 1884 wurde er Organist an der St.-Nikolai-Kirche in  Berlin-Spandau und 1886 an der Luisenkirche in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In Berlin war er als Gesangslehrer an mehreren höheren Bildungsanstalten tätig. 1894 erhielt er den Professorentitel. Nach seinem Tod wurde er auf dem Luisenfriedhof II in Charlottenburg beigesetzt.

Wangemann komponierte verschiedene Klavier- und Orgelstücke, Chöre und Lieder. Er wurde vor allem durch seine musikwissenschaftlichen Schriften bekannt.

Schriften
Geschichte der Orgel und der Orgelbaukunst von den ersten Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Demmin 1881 (Nachdruck Sändig Reprint 1999, ISBN 3253030377.)
Geschichte des Oratoriums von den ersten Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. 3. Auflage, A. Frantz, Leipzig 1882 (Nachdruck Sändig Reprint 1973, ISBN 3253026159.)
Die Orgel, ihre Geschichte und ihr Bau. Mit authentischen Abbildungen und Original-Zeichnungen. Leipzig 1891.
 Grundriss der Musik-Geschichte, von den ersten Anfängen bis zur neuesten Zeit.

als Herausgeber
Der Organist. Monatschrift für Orgelspiel. Peiser, Berlin 1880

Literatur
Wangemann, Otto. In: Brockhaus Konversationslexikon. , F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin und Wien, 14. Auflage, 1894–1896, Bd. 16, S. 499.
Wangemann, Otto. In: Grete Grewolls: Wer war wer in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern? Ein Personenlexikon. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9, S. 456.

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Komponist (Deutschland)
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Kirchenmusiker (Berlin)
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Gestorben 1914
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Every year, I've been anticipating Cosmo's Bachelor Bash. It is the time where male species are deeply appreciated and being adorned by women. Cosmo selects new and fresh faces for us women to drool on. Luckily, I was able to go to the bash last year (refer to this post).
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The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2010 writing project was headed by Janette Toral and had been ongoing for four years. They are introducing some new bloggers in the light of promoting each others passion through the blogosphere.
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The Connecticut House of Representatives voted 134-10 to approve legislation that would enable the state to buy up to 2GW of offshore wind power.
The legislation – H.B.7156, An Act Concerning the Procurement of Energy Derived from Offshore Wind – requires the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) to initiate a solicitation process for the wind power procurement within 14 days of the bill's passage. DEEP will also be mandated to set up a future schedule for procurements. DEEP and the Department of Economic and Community Development will be required to coordinate a process to determine which selected wind power proposals will have the most positive impacts on Connecticut's economic development. The bill will now be referred to the state Senate.
Wind power is not part of Connecticut's current power resources. A partnership between Eversource and Ørsted A/S of Denmark are planning to bring 300MW of offshore wind power to Connecticut via the Revolution Wind project based within a federal lease site between Montauk and Martha's Vineyard. Earlier this month, Gov. Ned Lamont announced a partnership with the state, the Connecticut Port Authority, the terminal operator Gateway and Eversource and Ørsted to create an offshore wind port facility at New London's State Pier – that plan is contingent upon receiving all the federal and state permits.
"Our administration is working hard to put Connecticut in a place to become the center hub of the offshore wind industry in New England, and this legislation moves us one step closer to making that a reality," Lamont said.
"Our valuable shoreline has the potential to provide multiple benefits to Connecticut residents; by delivering zero-carbon renewable energy, we can increase the regional grid's fuel security and make significant progress toward meeting our climate goals, all while driving economic growth and creating good jobs. This is an opportunity that we cannot squander, and the growing, unified momentum behind this bill shows just how important this is to Connecticut."
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ENT Health for Anti-Aging – Dr. Aaron Fletcher – 2017 Over 40 & Fabulous! Advisory Board
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Why is ear, nose and throat health important to quality of life and anti-aging?
Dr. Aaron Fletcher of Georgia Center for Ear, Nose & Throat uncovers the potential signs of common ENT issues.
When people arrive at Georgia Center for Ear, Nose & Throat, it is usually because they are ready to put their health first. "A lot of people come in and say, 'I just haven't had the time to focus on my own issues,'" says Aaron Fletcher, M.D.
Once patients get long-standing issues taken care of, the difference can be dramatic. "A lot of what I do is quality of life surgery. I deal with people's breathing, their ability to sleep and also their appearance—if someone is having difficulty breathing through their nose, once I fix that issue, it can be life changing."
For those wondering when to see an ENT specialist, Dr. Fletcher advises paying attention to signs that can be indicative of deeper problems. Weight gain, headaches and voice changes could be tied to the thyroid or lack of sleep could be caused by more than the inability to wind down as in sleep apnea.
With more treatments moving in-office, these common issues can be taken care of conveniently. "I'm excited to be on the cutting edge because a lot of surgery is moving toward being accessible in the office and we are one of the first ones to be on the forefront of that," Fletcher says.
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Its very important to remember that if you get there after 8am there is an $8 parking fee so lets get there no later than 7.45am so we hit the road at 8am sharp.
Here's how to get there. Basically TZ bridge to RT 17 to Seven Lakes Drive. Follow Seven Lakes Drive north about 10.3 miles until the 2nd roundabout or traffic circle and you will see Tiorati Lake on your right and a parking lot on your left..go ¾ ways around the roundabout/traffic circle and head into the parking lot and you will see other riders getting ready.
We have to options for our ride, one of which is to do the ride we did a few weeks ago which covers about 46 miles or the other would be to ride from the park over to Bear Mountain and climb to the top and ride back to the park and do a few miles to finish up..either way it will be fun and the weather is supposed to be great.
Here's one of the many routes in Harriman State Park to ride.
Go N on 7 Lakes Drive to mile 1.3 Turn right up the hill on Lake Welch Pkwy. A steady mild climb (1-6%) grade until mile 4. Then the fun starts. Steady downhills (some parts very steep) to the bottom of the hill at mile 6.3. Take a SHARP left hairpin turn up the hill to Tiorati Brook Rd. Go west up the hills to the lake at mile 9. (This contains three or four decent hills, but there are flat parts between.) If riders can handle Riversville it should not be a major issue - but they'll be glad to reach the lake at the top! Follow Tiorati Brook Rd. North over a fun series of rollers (mostly downhill) to the visitor center/beach at the roundabout (mile 10.2). Head back south on 7 Lakes Dr. to the car park - mile 16.5. That's the basic loop. You can then head back the way you came up to the visitor center/beach. That's 6.5 miles or so or 13 round trip. That would make a total of about 30 miles.
PLEASE email me at santryken@aol.com and let me know that you are coming to the ride. If you have any questions about the ride or need my number just in case you get lost getting there, email me in advance so your not doing so the last minute.
The rides are getting longer so you need to make sure you bring more fluids and nutrition to hold you over. Its really important that you start to bring the fourth element into these rides and train your body to accept your nutrition plan. You don't want to be introducing new products on race day and spoil your race experience so start to get it going in the right direction now.
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A chunk of Chinese satellite almost hit the International Space Station. They dodged it – but the space junk problem is getting worse
By Mark Rigby, Adjunct Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
NASA / Boeing
Earlier this week, the International Space Station (ISS) was forced to maneouvre out of the way of a potential collision with space junk. With a crew of astronauts and cosmonauts on board, this required an urgent change of orbit on November 11.
Over the station's 23-year orbital lifetime, there have been about 30 close encounters with orbital debris requiring evasive action. Three of these near-misses occurred in 2020. In May this year there was a hit: a tiny piece of space junk punched a 5mm hole in the ISS's Canadian-built robot arm.
This week's incident involved a piece of debris from the defunct Fengyun-1C weather satellite, destroyed in 2007 by a Chinese anti-satellite missile test. The satellite exploded into more than 3,500 pieces of debris, most of which are still orbiting. Many have now fallen into the ISS's orbital region.
To avoid the collision, a Russian Progress supply spacecraft docked to the station fired its rockets for just over six minutes. This changed the ISS's speed by 0.7 metres per second and raised its orbit, already more than 400km high, by about 1.2km.
Orbit is getting crowded
Space debris has become a major concern for all satellites orbiting the Earth, not just the football-field-sized ISS. As well as notable satellites such as the smaller Chinese Tiangong space station and the Hubble Space Telescope, there are thousands of others.
As the largest inhabited space station, the ISS is the most vulnerable target. It orbits at 7.66 kilometres a second, fast enough to travel from Perth to Brisbane in under eight minutes.
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A collision at that speed with even a small piece of debris could produce serious damage. What counts is the relative speed of the satellite and the junk, so some collisions could be slower while others could be faster and do even more damage.
As low Earth orbit becomes increasingly crowded, there is more and more to run into. There are already almost 5,000 satellites currently operating, with many more on the way.
SpaceX alone will soon have more than 2,000 Starlink internet satellites in orbit, on its way to an initial goal of 12,000 and perhaps eventually 40,000.
A rising tide of junk
If it was only the satellites themselves in orbit, it might not be so bad. But according to the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office, there are estimated to be about 36,500 orbiting artificial objects larger than 10cm across, such as defunct satellites and rocket stages. There are also around a million between 1cm and 10cm, and 330 million measuring 1mm to 1cm.
The European Space Agency estimates there are around 36,500 objects larger than 10cm in orbit around Earth.
Most of these items are in low Earth orbit. Because of the high speeds involved, even a speck of paint can pit an ISS window and a marble-sized object could penetrate a pressurised module.
The ISS modules are somewhat protected by multi-layer shielding to lessen the probability of a puncture and depressurisation. But there remains a risk that such an event could occur before the ISS reaches the end of its lifetime around the end of the decade.
Of course, no one has the technology to track every piece of debris, and we also don't possess the ability to eliminate all that junk. Nevertheless, possible methods for removing larger pieces from orbit are being investigated.
Meanwhile, nearly 30,000 pieces larger than 10cm are being tracked by organisations around the world such as the US Space Surveillance Network.
It's not how big your laser is, it's how you use it: space law is an important part of the fight against space debris
Here in Australia, space debris tracking is an area of increasing activity. Multiple organisations are involved, including the Australian Space Agency, Electro Optic Systems, the ANU Institute for Space, the Space Surveillance Radar System, the Industrial Sciences Group, and the Australian Institute for Machine Learning with funding from the SmartSat CRC. In addition, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has a SMARTnet facility at the University of Southern Queensland's Mt Kent Observatory dedicated to monitoring geostationary orbit at a height of around 36,000km – the home of many communication satellites, including those used by Australia.
One way or another, we will eventually have to clean up our space neighbourhood if we want to continue to benefit from the nearest regions of the "final frontier".
Mark Rigby is a Fellow of both the International Planetarium Society and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a former Curator of the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium.
Brad Carter works for the University of Southern Queensland, and is the recipient of funding from the Australian Research Council. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Physics, the Astronomical Society of Australia, and the International Astronomical Union.


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| Areas and Research Groups
| Genetics and Genomics
The Genetics and Genomics research area is focused on rare and complex diseases of genetic component, by developing investigation projects to get their physiopathological, cellular, and and molecular characterization, the development and validation of diagnostic techniques and algorithms and epidemiological studies on cohorts of patients . All of them oriented to the design of new useful tools with a clear clinical application and new therapeutic strategies.
Genetic and rare diseases
The main aims are:
• The achievement of new knowledge on the molecular basis underlying rare and complex diseases.
• Translation from biotechnology to diagnosis and prevention of diseases with genetic basis in different medicine specialties, as prenatal diagnosis, reproduction, Paediatrics, Neurology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology and others.
• New therapeutic approaches development based on Pharmacogenetics, and cell and gene therapies.
This area has a transversal character, aiming to provide methodological support and knowledge to other groups and research areas opening new lines for the study of neurological, psychiatric and cardiovascular common diseases, and cancer.
Pharmacogenetics and the identification of genetic factors which contribute to predisposition or evolution to rare and complex diseases are also strategic and transversal, allowing the selection for a more individualized therapy, the so called genomic or personalized medicine.
The Research Group on the "Genetics and Genomics of Rare and Complex Diseases" are focused on genetic, clinical, and epidemiological studies of various hereditary and chromosomal diseases. Validation and implementation of new massive sequencing techniques, arrays, and studies of fetal DNA in liquid biopsy are priority objectives due to their potential for translation to clinical diagnosis, as well as their promise as tools to support experimental the molecular characterization of multiple physiological and pathological processes. These tools allow diagnosis and genetic counseling for genomic malformations and monogenic diseases from preconception through embryonic, fetal, and postnatal stages.
The Research Group on "Genetics and Neoplastic Processes" explores the biology and genetics of these processes, developing methods of early diagnosis and seeking to identify prognostic biomarkers.
The Research Group on Genetic Susceptibility to Disease works to characterize the underlying genetic and epigenetic abnormalities in the origin and development of T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma, searching for genes that may be used in diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric diseases with a strong hereditary component.
This area has strong interdisciplinary ties, disseminating know-how and effective methodology to all other research groups and areas.
Challenges for the future:
Expand knowledge of the epidemiology of rare diseases.
Identify new genes/loci involved in hereditary diseases.
Refine how chromosomal diseases and genomic disorders are characterized, increasing the spectrum of diagnosable pathologies, improving the sensitivity and specificity of diagnosis so that these pathologies may be prevented through effective genetic counseling.
Transfer knowledge of genetic characterization and discover new molecular mechanisms with a view to creating diagnostic algorithms, optimizing patient management and drafting protocols or clinical guidelines for the study of diseases that follow a Mendelian inheritance pattern.
Develop and validate the microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) technique. Apply pre- and postnatal genetic diagnosis and investigate its possible application to preimplantational genetic diagnosis.
Research and evaluate the importance of intra-tumoral heterogeneity, RNA editing processes, and epigenetic alterations that characterize T-lymphoblastic neoplasms by integrating genomic approaches (exome sequencing, RNA sequencing, and methylome) to improve the diagnosis and prognosis of these conditions and select the most appropriate therapeutic strategies in the context of up-to-date and accurate personalized medicine.
Implement next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, validating its analytical and clinical performance and developing new diagnostic algorithms that may be applied to heterogeneous or complex genetic pathologies.
Integrate aspects of basic research (functional genomics and proteomics) with more translatable goals such as developing, validating, and harmonizing diagnostic techniques and searching for therapy targets.
Research in different therapeutic approaches: pharmacogenetics, drug therapies, and new therapeutic strategies such as gene edition (CRISPR / Cas9) and iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cell) reprogramming.
Genetics and Genomics of Rare and Complex Diseases (link)
Genetic Susceptibility to Rare and Complex Diseases (link)
Genetic Susceptibility to Rare and Complex Diseases
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> Yeah, I've got an old ABCD manual printer switch with the "centronics"
> trouble than it was worth, so it resides in a storage cabinet.
> swapping boxes is pretty simple.
> I guess the PLC manufacturer didn't want their software to be copied.
> stupid expensive when you could find one.
maybe even then replace the modified drive with a standard one.
When I first got a Micropolis drive, I found "100tpi" hard to believe.
not 96tpi, and nor a multiple of 48tpi.
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