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 no

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

he attended the marina middle school. he served in the u.s. as lieutenant in the transportation corps and lived in the marina for nearly 30 years. he was an amazing father to six children and husband to his great wife, barbara. he was a self-made man, found that the number of companies in town not to mention the cafe on chestnut street as well as his family running the restaurant at the flower market. among many other things, he was known for his passion and commitment to the university of san francisco. he received a full athletic baseball scholarship to go to school there. he was elected to the board of trustees and serves as the chair for the advisor recounts all. he was the alumnus of the year award recipient at the university of san francisco in 2009. he served on the boys and girls club of san francisco, the olympic club foundation, and the old-time athletes association. he was involved with charity burke -- work. he is survived by his wife barbara who is a wonderful woman and his six children. i remember going to a baseball game late th

marina ottaway. she is an expert on the middle east and the gulf, and has taught at universities in ethiopia, egypt, and south africa. it is good to sit and talk with you once again. in a very broad strokes of the brush, what is happening in the arab world? >> everything is in motion at the same time. i think it has become unpredictable and most countries. egypt is entering the most difficult part of the transition. mumbarak was ousted fairly painlessly, and now they have to deal with the future. there are plenty of civilian parties that look like to make sure that does not happen. tunisia and morocco are doing well. they have had elections. in both cases an islamic party has the majority of the ovote, but i think these are very moderate organizations. i do not think it will be a major crisis. they have to form a coalition government so there will be a compromise. libya is barely starting the process of reconstruction. the country is still dealing with the militia. that is the situation right now. syria is entering the state of civil war. government does not want to surrender, but is quite clear it

was still in government and we had a very close relationship, and our own marina ottaway, senior associate at the carnegie middleogram. 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 been released yet, and