mark farrell, our supervisor, met with the marina association. he is very personable. i asked him about it and none of this information was given to the board of supervisors. nothing about going into the financial district. the board of supervisors were given a kool-aid and he told me they had no information. there were told it was a great thing. if you go down to the tenderloin, the food truck would be great there. you are afraid to eat in places. to bring it into the financial district is crazy. before you can open in the financial district, they would kill you on the 10th ada grimsson. -- they would kill you on the ada bathrooms. it is just insane. no brick-and-mortar estrada is going to say the food truck can use my bathroom. what bathrooms are they going to use? i would like to know. they are want to give the permit and dpw will not be able to enforce this. they need to or three agents or policemen on each of these trucks to really enforce this 100-page regulation. there is no way in the world they can do it. this is just crazy. the stakeholders are not informed.

mark farrell, our supervisor, met with the marina association. he is very personable. i asked him about it and none of this information was given to the board of supervisors. nothing about going into the financial district. the board of supervisors were given a kool-aid and he told me they had no information. there were told it was a great thing. if you go down to the tenderloin, the food truck would be great there. you are afraid to eat in places. to bring it into the financial district is crazy. before you can open in the financial district, they would kill you on the 10th ada grimsson. -- they would kill you on the ada

. >> i am president of the san francisco marina harbor association. i just want to let you know we are pleased with the progress on the harbor. it is a great project and moving ahead. there is one area i was asked to speak to you about. our last annual meeting was in november. there is an unfunded portion of the harbour east of golden gate yacht club that has attracted a lot of interest, especially among small vote owners. there is an area permitted for 36 slips, and it is supposed to cost just $1 million. it is a very economic project as dredging has been done. very good return on investment here we have had many people would like to put up the money. basically, the harbor trust has over $4 million in surplus. that money is supposed to be spent on the harbor. we have asked rec and park to focus on the idea. we understand there is some kind of deadline coming up mid- january forecasting those additional pieces. if not, the cost rises quite sharply. we understand there might be various proposals for that. we are just asking you to put a lot of attentio

marina ottaway, the senior associate at the carnegie endowment for the international peace. a wonderful organization. she is experienced in all of this part of the world, and let's take a little break and come back on the other side and talk about how the united states has all walked the tightrope and all of this. we will take a little break. this is america. >> "this is america" is made possible by -- the national education association, the nation's art -- largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. thegare singapore tourism board there ishiomorngetve fryon e singapore airlines, a great way to fly. honson corporation, forging a higher global standard. the ctc foundation, afo communications, and the rotendaro family trust. >> the arab league got involved serious sanctions. >> yes. this is a story that has not been well understood in this country. sanctions are not going to work in the end, and then what? that is certainly a value question. the story is the arab league that is a bunch of arab leaders that

discuss how to make their business ties even stronger marina closer reva takes a look at what's making africa more paling than ever before. most people associate africa with an abundance of natural and that were cultural resources like oil gold diamonds minerals cocoa and coffee but investors can't help but overlook a long history of currency fluctuations poorly developed markets and political risk so when analysts say the west has peaked in terms of economic growth and the best emerging markets are in africa it leaves some scratching their head the african landscape itself on the political and economic front has been changing significantly the political environment is becoming far more stable fewer conflicts in terms of the macroeconomic story in africa far better economic management all of that which is contributing to making that as a more interesting investment destination at the moment some of russia's the biggest business heavyweights are active in the continents there's a gas problem in algeria roussel in nigeria and guinea and in go up all of them have spent billions of dollars there are others include metal group you have ross and oil

jordan when i was still in government and we had a very close relationship, and our own marina ottaway, senior associatecarnegie middle east program. we will have a short coffee break after that, and then we will start the second panel where we will look at political change in government in the arab world in general. in arab countries that were also called by the zogby grew. again jim will present the findings. i will comment on these, most unfortunate is canada right now. came from jordan yesterday on a plane that was diverted there instead of to washington because of a sick person on the plane so he unfortunately could not be with us today, but perhaps we can ask skip to also comment on the findings that jim would present. so with that i senate floor over over to jim. >> thank you, martone. thank all of you for coming. i want to acknowledge i trust these polls were done in september of this year. and they were done for the forum which is held annually in the united arab emirates. at that form we released the polls there that dealt with the role of social media in air of spring. these two sets have not