. >> neru. >> aye. >> harper. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> and that is four eyes and item 9 is approved. and next item. >> and item 10 isdirecting the transbay joint powers authority to vote in favor of city and county of san francisco community facilities district no. 2014-1 (transbay transit center) (cfd), and take such other actions as may be necessary or expedient to the formation of the cfd. >> any questions. >> and i appreciate this resolution in favor of rcfd form nation and the action that was taken by board of supervisors two weeks ago and to support that approval and i also want to recognize the mayor's office because i know that the mayor particularly a very strong position and we were able to stick to the original formation and the city will be made whole by the district and so it remains to be seen what will occur in the next couple of months and i want to recognize the leadership for standing strong on making sure that we will be able to receive the funds from our private developers to fund this important work. and are there any other comments or questions? >> seeing none,

we have had difficulties in the past with leaders like neru. who are democratic, but not aligned with us. we prefer they be adenauer's and i think we need to find ways to expect that how are we going to interact with the future neru's that will be emerging, particularly in the middle east in asia and that ultimately we hope across the eurasian space. >> thanks for much, nikolas. >> thank you. i'm going to be very brief and say that on the democracy assistance has not been successful. i think tom or others will probably make a strong case for it. i agree with all of that. i think it has been very successful and that would just leave it at that and focus on some of the challenges. i should say also that i'm coming from the world bank and these are my own views, not of at the bank tried to stop me, so there's a democratization movement going with in the bank, too. i think ideas matter and i think how we frame problems in the world matter. and i think if we look, if you just watch five or 10 minutes of news, you get the sense of security crises out