Website as jessica and heather are talking, please submit your questions for heather or Jessica Jessica will entertain questions as well. The q a features are at the bottom of your screen. We will get to as many of those as time allows. Heather lende has contributed a ashes the author of the best selling book buying the good take good care of the ab heather will be interviewed by Jessica Hendler, Jessica Hendler is the author of the novel the magnetic girl winner of the 2027 book prize. Also nominee for the townsend prize. Her memoir the invisible sisters was named one of the book s all georgian should read in her craft guide reading afire a guide to writing about grief was praised by vanity fair magazine many others. She teaches creative writing and directs minor writing at a university in atlanta. She lectures International Writing and we are so delighted she is joining us tonight. Heather and jessica, welcome, i will let jessica take it from here. Thank you kate. Heather, im so glad
For a moment when i put on my mask and ongoing unrest on the streets of beirut as the entire governments resignation fails to quell public anger over last tuesdays deadly pull the plugs. Are welcome just come 2 pm here in moscow youre watching International President putin has revealed that russia has registered the worlds 1st corona virus vaccine the countrys Health Minister has added that the medicine has proven to be safe and highly efficient in tests so far so lets get more in this now from our correspondent. Following the story for good afternoon good news what further information do we have on it all 1st of all is the name of the vaccine the developers just. Its a call that sputnik sputnik 5 with the roman numeral v. So the vaccine was registered earlier on that use day and let him her food and now its that himself he also added that his own daughter actually participated and she got inoculated and after a couple of days off slightly warm temperature she is now ok all of that imp
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Good evening, supervisors. I am here standing in solidarity and asking for the defunding of the Sheriffs Department and request it be redirected towards multiple populations and in my work i have had the special opportunity to work for residents and employees who have seen firsthand the negative impact policing has had on our community and life threatening situations. We need to insure that our budget reflects our priorities and embodies the traumainformed approach, increasing policing does not keep the communities safe but additional access, resources and support for our community does. So lets choose prioritizing our community and creating a budget that reflects our values. Thank you so much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Caller hi. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Please begin. Caller my name is jennifer and i live in district six and am a Health Care Work and a medical assistant at sfg General Hospital and urge to remove funding for the Sheriffs Department and inv
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