they took out 50 of the kids from the marina middle school. they had the street team from cirque du soleil come and run the obstacle course. lee will install on lighting, it will be on the time morceli will be able to save funding on that. the kids came out, they did a drawing for premier tickets for tonight for five of our students. and they would not put them down, they were doing these obstacle courses and they would not set their tickets down. it was really fantastic. i wanted to invite everybody, especially the alums to the dance on november 5. it will be a really great party and a great fundraiser for the school as well. >> and the jazz band will be performing, i am in that. that is kind of cool. >> our president is very humbled but she was also awarded and recognized at the banquet this saturday night for her contributions to the community. congratulations. [applause] president mendoza: thank you. regular board meeting announcements. our next regular board meeting falls on november 8, all of you should know is a special day. it is elect

on october 27, the district attorney's office collaborated on a town hall at marina middle school. unfortunately it was not well attended but i urge parents to take a look at the common sense and media website. it has a lot of great information for families about cyber bling -- bullying and social media. just a shout out to be imagine bus project. they held a fund-raiser on november 3. they do work with the students, the juvenile justice center, malcolm x, bringing art to those classrooms. we appreciate their efforts in supporting our students. finally, this friday the friends of the mission campus are having a celebration with sylvia mendez. there will be a reception at that campus of city college from 5:30 to 7:30. i did not know this history about mendez being a six year old in an orange county public school who was denied admission before the brown vs. board of education decision. has the sense left a legacy of desegregation throughout the country. there was a resolution that mary hernandez, when she was serving on this board, get together on the anniversary of the court victor

on october 27, the district attorney's office collaborated on a town hall at marina middle school. unfortunately it was not well attended but i urge parents to take

the building is located in the middle of the block on the west side of golf street between francisco in the marina district. the project includes a horizontal edition to the rear. the vertical edition has a partial fourth floor. it would be set back approximately 10 feet from the front facade to align with the fourth floor of the building to the south. i would be set 28 feet from the new rear wall of the building. it would be set tree to four feet from the building to the north. a portion of the fourth floor would be set back approximately five feet from the building of the soft. while a 14 foot wall would be from the southern neighbor's fourth floor. the block is a typical marina block with most of the buildings being three or four stories in height and containing a varty of styles. the subject building is currently the shortest building on the block with a three -- i'm sorry. the adjacent being to the south is four stories in height with a three story in height. the adjacent building to the north is three stories in height. the d.r. request were filed by neighbors in the immediately adjacent bui

middle. difficult to see how to move forward in london lit when young because we don't marina has successfully lobbied for a new wider ranging inquest into her husband's death look of voice says he welcomes the news and has offered to give evidence via video link he also welcomes marina because admission that her husband was working as a consultant for the british secret service is look i've always says he himself was branded a liar for saying the same thing but it's not just the truth it's most of a saying her yet we're going about it she didn't like the position of the british government who were against widening the investigation as he was in egypt he wasn't operating alone he was acting in accordance with some kind of orders and some kind of command structure so the british secret services were some her knew by close to his death so in her mind they should take responsibility and that means paying the lawyers who are expensive to produce to each of the reasons really give them. marina because legal costs could run to one and a half million dollars and international relations have paid a he

and middle east scholars john alterman and marina ottaway. they talk about how the arab monarchies of jordan morocco and bahrain are dealing with pro-democracy movements in their countries. this is an hour and 25 minutes. >> i'm very pleased to be moderating the session today. the session is on arab monarchies and how they confronted her dealt with events in the arab spring or the arab awakening. we have a very distinguished panel with us. this is part of a research project in emerging as a carnegie paper in a few weeks, exactly on the topic of arab monarchies and arab spring. the authors of this paper are dr. marwan muasher and dr. marina ottaway. let me go ahead and introduce them and their commentator for today, jon alterman. he is in charge of carnegie's middle east work here and in beirut. he is known i'm sure to all of the previously, vice president at the world bank and deputy prime minister previously in jordan and foreign minister, very active and heading to reform agenda in jordan and also previously very much involved in the arab p

and middle east scholars jon alterman and marina ottaway talk specifically about how the arab monarchies of bahrain are dealing with pro-democracy movements in their countries. this is an hour and 25 minutes. >> i am very pleased to be moderating the session today. the session is on arab monarchies and how they confronted or dealt with the third spring or awakening. we have a distinguished panel with us. and this is part of a research project that is a merging of the kerr-mcgee paper and a few weeks, exactly on the topic of arab monarchies in the air of spring. the authors of this paper, dr. marwan muasher and that her ottaway. let me introduce them as author commentator for today, dr. jon alterman. marwan muasher is vice president for studies at the carnegie endowment, in charge of carnegie's middle east work here in beirut is known to assure all of you previously as vice president of the world bank and deputy prime minister previously in jordan and prime minister company react to it than having the reform agenda in jordan and also previously very much involved in the arab peace initiat

marina ottaway. and our commentator for today is jon alterman. currently vice president at the carnegie endowment in charge of middle east works here and in beirut. he was vice president at the world bank, deputy prime minister p. beasley in jordan, and prime minister, very active in heading the reform agenda in jordan and previously very much involved in the arab peace initiative and the arab-israeli peace process. senior associate at the carnegie middle east program, has written widely on political reform, political change in the arab world, and the balkans, and elsewhere and has authored many books and many studies. commentator for today is a good friend, jon alterman. his name is not jonathan, he tells me. it is not short for anything. he is well-known to many of you, the director and senior fellow at the middle east program in d.c. he served as a member of the policy-planning staff at the u.s. department of state. he is a member of the chief of illegal operations executive and is an expert on the iraq study groups and writes on middle east affairs. today's topic is on the minds of many of you as events in the arab world are beginning. most o

marina ottaway. let me go ahead and introduce them as well as our commentator for today, or jon alterman. marwan muasher is vice president for studies at the carnegie endowment in charge of carnegie middle east work here and in beirut. he is known to i'm sure all of you previously vice president of the world bank, deputy prime minister previously in jordan and prime minister, very active in heading the reform agenda in jordan and also previously very much involved in the arab peace initiative and the israeli peace process. marina ottaway to his left is a senior associate at the carnegie peace program, has written widely on political reform, political change in the arab world, africa and the balkans and elsewhere, author of many books and studies. our commentator for today is a good friend, jon alterman. correction, his name is not jonathan alterman. it is just jonathan. it's not short for anything. jon is also publicly well-known to many of you. he is the director and senior fellow at the middle east program at csis here in d.c.. he served as a member of the policy staff at the u.s. department of state and he is a member currently at the chiefs of naval operations executive panel and wa