Nick some. Good afternoon everybody. Can everybody hear me. Im very short. Good afternoon. Welcome to politics and prose, i am travis cohen a bookseller here and also in charge of the on cyprus Traditions Club at the store. This to quick housekeeping and they will jump right in. Between politics and prose there is three location at the wharf, union market, we host around 1000 authors a year. So if you need help tracking that as we do if you want the full last we have flyers at the info desk in an updated calendar on our website which we highly encourage people to check out. Please remind everyone to silence your cell phones, thats always not fun, as we open the floor to questions and we have two standing microphones here just that one. And we are both recording audio and video today. So thats good incentives to one silence your cell phone and also asked sissy into question so we can get to as many people as possible. And also a good reminder after were done here if you want to pick up
[inaudible conversations] good evening. Im at the library publicaffairs and i want to welcome you and thank you for being with us tonight and thanks to rainy day books our favorite collaborator and of course one of the nation great independent bookstores. We pride ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and relevance of our signature programming, whether we are holding forums on local issues over addressing national topics. We certainly didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week, taking reporters calls, wrote a couple of pieces for the New York Times and four cnn business after the death of david. Chris spent eight years immersed in oakland. The state of the place and the title of his new book. On the extraordinary Business Empire and putins Political Network that was put together from their base some three hours in which debate over wichita. Anybody have the chance to read th
Tonight and thanks to rainy day books our favorite collaborator and of course one of the nation great independent bookstores. We pride ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and relevance of our signature programming, whether we are holding forums on local issues over addressing national topics. We certainly didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week, taking reporters calls, wrote a couple of pieces for the New York Times and four cnn business after the death of david. Chris spent eight years immersed in oakland. The state of the place and the title of his new book. On the extraordinary Business Empire and putins Political Network that was put together from their base some three hours in which debate over wichita. Anybody have the chance to read the book yet . You wont understand that you will know immediately when you get into it what i am talking about. Its daunting when yo
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Effective they think the system really is. Just before 9 30 this morning, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4. 1 hit about 2. 5 miles southwest of the city of isleton, triggering an Emergency Alert notification from the usgs shake system. But it was felt by many neighbors in antioch, like melanie. My kitchen light started shaking. Then, the counter started shaking, and i just kind of braced myself a little bit. Reporter the mother of two says a second later, her phone went off. My phone alerted, the national alert, which was a surprise, because we had never got earthquake alerts before. Reporter she says thankfully there was not any damage inside or outside of her home. But she feels like the alert made her panic. I have mixed feelings about it, because i feel like it kind of brought on some extra panic that was not really necessary. Because of that, i was waiting, expecting something bigger. When you feel the shaking, where are you supposed to go . Reporter are for her fouryearold son