Im willing to. That every night i know. The way they can tell that story is what can make a difference. d or rule. For years private armies have provided services to governments around the world they are often secretive that operate in the shadows. Blackwater now known as academy is one of the most well known private army it has provided troops and other services to the u. S. Government in different conflicts including the war in iraq but its not always clear how these private armies are formed where they operate or even what their missions consist of so we travel to south africa to find out more even barlow is chairman of specialized tasks training equipment and Protection International a private army that according to barlow has operated throughout africa and beyond he was also behind another Similar Company that shut down in 1980 called executive outcomes and while many argue private armies are mercenaries doing the jobs government dont want to do barlow insists his operations are l
Will be learning more about in his lecture today. A graduate of the university of minnesota. He has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald and has covered some of the major stories of the last three decades. He is an active member of the western Front Association and currently lives in minnesota where he is working on his facebook of world war i nonfiction. Please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james im going to talk about the polar bears. Start off with a story of a guy who was a lieutenant, commander of the fourth platoon, company a, 330 night infantry regiment. 1919,rning of january 19, he and his men were stationed 250 miles south of archangel guarding an American Allied outpost in the conflict which i will be explaining. He was woken up that morning at 6 00 a. M. By a shell. Got out of bed, joined his men. There were only 45 men. Manning the lines. Meanwhile, these ghostly forms were heading for them. Hundreds of ghostly forms on ski
You told me things were very frothy a lots happened since then. The wework had just come out. We know what happened with the wework blowup theres been this sense that you saw with the wag news. Theres been these companies have raised an extraordinary amount of money and pitching themselves as Tech Companies that really went Tech Companies. Wework was not a Technology Company. Swag not really a Technology Company, and the combination of trying to get the technology valuations on companies that shouldnt be trading that way and companies that are just raising too much money and have no financial discipline. Hopefully some of that is coming to an end but i still think valuations are going to be crazy for a while. I think, if anything, this signals the beginning of the end of these shoot the moon sort of Business Plans what i mean by that is we just they dont work for two reasons. One, companies are raising a tremendous amount of money and they do that primarily to try and have some sort of
Lets take a look at what is been helping foment further gains across the asiapacific. That is the futures contract for the s p up to tens, hang seng three tens of 1 . And the nikkei has buoyed a bit. Also the topix doing rather well. We have a cna a tad week. Looking at that as we do. Also the yen, and the boj. 41 day since the boj came in and bought a sizable chunk of stocks in the japanese market. Someat stealth tapering, people are arguing because the yield on the 10 years unchanged. The yield has been lurching lower eight basis points. Weekhas been put less a and see what is going on in regard to the haven stages. The learn not willing to look at and take on risk right now. This is of course after the Election Results or we saw the landslide victory when it comes to democratic camp. She was talking about how she is ready to listen and stands by previous stances on protest demands. People who felt that our government has not handled, deadly the legislative exercise and its aftermath
Now im going to turn it over to my colleague. My name is darten eto and i lead the Innovation Team at sfmta. So to complement the division one amendments that kate just mentioned, for your consideration today are changes to division two of the transportation code. The first is to define what we mean by the shared Mobility Device Service. So these are not meant to that definition is not meant to cover personally owned devices or devices that are used by an individual. Rather, theyre shared and used in the public space, either stored or operated. Our general definition is that its a mobility device or group of devices that are capable of carrying ten or more people separately or together. We were looking at something that wasnt just the number of devices but potential impact it can have based on the size or the ability to carry people. The second part is the establishment of the proof of concept authorization. So while the division one changes would create the prohibition on operating wi