. >> i intended to only speak on aden's -- items 8, 9, and 10 today, but this issue breaks up some of the things i was going to say. i have two suggestions -- if you are doing more competitive solicitation, which, i think you mentioned, i urge you to reach out to other city departments and have services responsibility for the various children's services. you have education, child care, all kinds of things that have not been touched, i don't think. that need to be. neighborhood organizations that i represent, the largest for of organization in the city -- we do not have departments. we are all volunteers, so everything hit us. and something about children services, we will know about it right away if they know that. we learned about the clubhouse shortly before july 1, and i noticed that you have the rfq for those leases on the agenda for july 1. at the same time, you have the approval for the lease agreements on their. that tells you something is wrong. you should basically approved the design objective before you send out the presentation. then, you deal with the selections afterward

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you can share when al-shabab is -- whether or not al-shabab is becoming more involved in the gulf of aden and inserting themselves into the piracy problem. >> do we know of any crossover? is there any of al-shabab in piracy? >> i have not seen any of that. al-shabab have been quite critical of the piracy. they do not think it is good for somalia and they do not think is good for them either. clearly, piracy is a huge and very well-organized business and goes way beyond the capabilities of al-shabab, or rather unsophisticated. there are very strong element all over somalia that are involved in piracy. al-shabab takes a very puritanical point of view in house somalia should be run and, indeed, has a certain amount of support because of that, because of some of the areas that it controls that are relatively stable. but if it goes anywhere, it will go somewhere because it manages to present itself as a group that can least maintain control of that area of somalia in a relatively and troubling way. -- untroubling way. somalia is a small war. it is not a big war. and before all of the money fro