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Volunteers to get the parade vehicles in order. You can imagine to have 140 carriages rolling, its a real spectacular affair to get everything from the military to the floats to marching bands and these carriages to start rolling in our parade. And so we had many, many volunteers who are in the process of trying to get that done. We got the cattle drive, they actually brought the livestock in. They drove it in yesterday morning sunday. Those animals are now ready to compete over at the frontier days. So theyre being cared for. With the large number of visitors that come every year, the event c...

Extensive efforts to recruit from the provinces of the south. Some of these efforts are successful. As you can imagine if you put yourself as chairman in afghanistan, if you enlist as an afghan, you face Different Levels of [inaudible] the province is quiet. The taliban are not operating. Theres less threat against you and your family. Therefore despite the inferences being made, we still have challenges to recruit a member members of the Security Forces from those provinces. We purposely go and try to recruit students from the south or places [indiscernible] since the School System was not to...

Partners or of leadership on what we are transitioning, too. Taliban . Where do we compromise . We have to reach these agreements as a nation, and with our allies. It goes to the other side of the table, to talk to the paula bond. That is the key for reconciliation. Another issue impacting the ability of the Afghan Security forces is the insider attack. Sometimes, people are disappointed, and say, how could this happen . How could they turn the guns against us, when we trained them . This is an important issue. As the taliban have indicated, that is their most successful tactic to undermine tr...

Groups haved riot seized computers from one of the top opposition parties. Demonstrators say that they fear an attempt to to be crushed by force, removed the day after hundreds of thousands of demonstrators moved into key have, the biggest of three weeks of protests. The rally started when the president backed away from signing a pact with the European Union. Today the European Union Foreign Policy chief will be on hand to hold conciliation talks. The thailand Prime Minister has said that she will not resign ahead of National Elections in february, despite opposition demands that she step down...

Our presentation isnt interrupted today . Ng the second thing is i want to thank our colleagues at cspan who are filming live at hyde park today, so thank you to them for being here and l supporting the Public Library and our programs. The format of the session. As those of you who have been here many times before know, what our speaker will do is speak for about 30 minutes, then well have 10 or 15 minutes for questions and answers, and i would ask that for the questions you would come up and line up and stand at the microphone, and then mr. Persico will call on you for questions. And then aft...