We are joined as well by matt guaranteed you know a professor at st. Lawrence university. We frequently Work Together on forgot issues. It also runs an Excellent Program in nairobi to celebrate its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni along on the trip. They had a great Semester Program in africa. From Freedom House the Relief Program in africa. I also want to thank john for an outstanding article that he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs. On some of the new promising democratic movements and some of africas biggest countries which was largely the inspiration for this email. We modified it a little bit. South africa democratic republic of the congo where i was a peace corps volunteer hundred years ago when it was practically before building congo days and also that nigeria so between these kids six countries we have nearly half of africas rep ovulation represented. A fair amount of helpful notes as well. No one is going to say is goi
Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac so when lewis and clark met the shashonis the horses had spanish brideless, they said where did you get them, they said we got them from the spanish. 12 days ride away. As i understand it smallpox take 14 days for the symptoms to appear. So if you are the shashoni you can be home sleeping with your wife, kissing your babies before the smallpox erupts. It goes pretty much everywhere. Black feet get it from shashonis, goes across the northern plains, goes to the villages which are a central trade network. In the winter 1783, 84, hudson bear Company Traders on the shores of hudson bay who are used to indian people coming in and bringing their pelts, nobody comes. So they go out into indian villages and people are dead. And they talk about going into the lodges and gathering the beaver pelts themselves because their customers and hunters are all dead. Its the same epidemic that broke out in mexico city four years away. Who knows how many people die
The Brookings Institution hosted this 90 minute forum. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Thank you for making some time for discussions on africa issues. Coming to brookings and coming to brookings on this day right smack in the middle when many people are at the beach. We would like to welcome you. By ae joined as well professor at st. Lawrence university, the university of which we frequently Work Together on africa issues, which also runs an Excellent Program and nairobi that just celebrated its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni along on a trip. Finally, joining the panel is john from freedom house. Africas with their program and previously worked in the Obama Administrations policy planning staff. I would like to thank john for an article he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs on some of the promising Democratic Movement in africa. We added kenya and tanzania to the list, along with south africa demo cap africa,
We have a pretty good fog bank out there. Yesterday was not bad, 84 officially in san jose. That is not bad they can get a lot hotter. Santa clara, 85 and East San Jose was 85. Today fog moving up and down the coast. It will burn off sooner with the northwest wind. It is showing signs of winning out over the next few days with a more significant cooling trend. Tomorrow, almost all of the temperatures will go down. 50s and 60s currently they have not moved much. Mid 50s on the peninsula and foster city at 58. Palo alto at 55. The fog will make 60s for the coast and inland 80s to near 90. Then it looks like the inland temperatures are on their way down on thursday. Most of the commute is normal but we have an abnormality when it comes to getting off of the Richmond Bridge into the east bay. There is a problem on the freeway this would be eastbound 580 heading away from the Richmond Bridge toward berkeley. It is a problem with an investigation of a fatality. A pedestrian was on the freewa
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