Happens. I wish i were. But i wont be around when it happens. Do i see any hope . Yes. And i list that. I will just give awe few examples that have give you a few examples that caught the attention of the press. If you live in saudi arabia, you grow up saudi arabia you must have heard of this man kashkari who starts to tweet of his doubts of the prophet. Because of his technology he is able to share not only with saudis but anyone who can read and write and has access to the internet in the islamic word what his doubts are. That is new, revolutionary. The internet is one, the internet is to islam, what the Printing Press was to the christian reformation. Number two, there is an urban elite that has you know, if youre a in tunisia today, and your source of income was because of tourism museums, the beaches, everything, you have a vested interest in immediate and dire to keep up the tourist industry. All across what you see in the middle east is an urban elite that is muslim, may be piou
Guidance that has led us down a path where we now have 5 million folks with security clearances and access to the nations most Sensitive Information and facilities. Would you like to think about it, brian . Go ahead. I do not mean to interrupt. I just wanted to clarify we are very sensitive to what you say about that number. As a 5 million number that you are referring to covers both people with security clearances as well as people eligible for access. And being sensitive to that number as you mentioned 5 million of anything is a lot. Is. Spin and because of that, recently and speak of the devil as you mentioned, on halloween, the dni signed an executive correspondence going out to all of the Government Agencies stating that they need to they are required to go through their clearance list and validate the numbers and come back to the people that are being decreased from the clearances and get back with us with that information. When will they get back to you . They were given 90 days
So thank you. So we are at 1 30, so im going to draw us to a close. I want to thank my panelists here today. Thank all of you for being here and for your contributions today and for, most importantly, for the work that provides the basis for you to comment today. I want to thank don graves for being with us and setting the stage so nicely. Thank the annie e. Casey foundation for their support for this event. I want to note a couple things. One is that the papers and not just the microenterprise ones, but there is a web site, big ideas for jobs. Org, and you can find all of the papers there. We are the second event here at aspen focusing on a couple other papers for the series. Theyre not focused specifically on the opportunities and policies that could support the work that social enterprises do, that anchor institutions like hospitals and educational institutions and others can do to create jobs, again, specifically focused on individuals and communities that have the largest challeng
Incredible run, not only for that one, but facebook has doubled in 2013 this year. That really is one of the stories of the year. Remember, when twitter went public, there were lots of people saying the retail interest, thats how we should have known, the retail interest wasnt that strong. There was a lot of institutional interest, and people thought after price, hitting near 50 on the first day of trade, drifting back to the 30s. Instead, it has marched steadily higher. You can feel people buying in, ramping up into the year end. Going back to november early november. And just an incredible run. There it was at 38 when it was at its low, and now were at 68. Unbelievable. Well get to more of that. Meanwhile, the dow is heading for its fifth Straight Record close after a much betterthanexpected surge in durable goods orders. A lot of the Economic Data have been pretty good. So i think it was a prescient decision by the fed last week. And some fed officials are saying how surprised they
Brings new carpeting. The neighbor comes knocking on my door and say the water coming. We opened all the gates and within seconds you had water this high in the front yard. The daughter was kicking back. Police came into my house, we need to be evacuated. We start panicking because we have a baby. The waters have receded but the concerns have not. A spokesman for the menlo park Fire Protection says a levee along the creek have been damaged by the third highest flow rated since the 1950s. They will look to clear that added to the backup last night. We would like to get people out so we have a hundred year capacity of the water flows to go underneath these bridges. Reporter the answer may be inside for palo alto and east palo alto. Members. Joint Powers Authority who are in charge of the water flow, the project begins this summer will take 18 months, two years and then possibly all the flood problems down here will be history. Carolyn more rain is on the way. Dan which is exactly what we