Will commute this afternoon i am live in alexander i am chair of humanities tennessee board of directors. We are very glad we are here at this festival today. The festival is free but it depends on donations from people like you to keep it that way. If you know enjoying the festival, and you enjoy the session and you have a chance, if you look at our website, our facebook page, the app or go by the tenth in the plaza, we would love to have you help support the festival. After the session, paul will be signing books at the signing tent that is on the plaza and the books are for sale at the parnassus tent and a portion of those to sales go directly to the festival. We are here today, to hear paul talk about his latest book. He has published numerous works of fiction. In 1991, he was awarded the james black memorial prize. This was for his work the Mosquito Coast which was adapted into a movie in 1986. After moving to london in 1972, he said often in epic journey by train from Great Brita
Familiar with the general society and if you dont mind im going to ask. How many of you here this evening is this your first event . A warm welcome and of course a welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the people of the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and educational programs. They include our lecture series which of course is the lecture to the party. The general Society Library which will be celebrating 200 years next year. Our tuition free Mechanics Institute and the john m. Loughlin and collection which you are welcome to visit after our talk this evening and that is upstairs. Youll find more information on the blueandwhite postcard on your seats. Now we have such a wonderful start to this years lecture season. I have the pleasure of welcoming critically acclaimed biographer susan ronald who tonight will discuss her accuracy of conde nast the Public Affairs a
Record highs will be possible today, falls just short for santa rosa. Oakland and san josi are all within one degree of the record high. Strong low in arizona has gone down to baja with a northeasterly breeze. 50s and 60s here, east bay with some 70s. Concord 73, danville 75, so there are very warm readings and still a northerly component in the upper atmosphere. Cooler air is on the way for to today will be mostfew heat and sunshine before the fog comes back. 80 westbound right now, it will take you about 25 minutes to drive through. Its about typical getting through the bay bridge, another 20 to get on to the span. 880 in oakland and san leandro looks good, and the san mateo traffic is all we want to go rasmus getting the latest the alarm fire on mare island. Reporter vallejo fire investigators believe this was started by someone intentionally cutting into two power poles. We have video from vallejo fire and you can see someone sawed into two power poles, sparks this fire on the sout
Replace any removed trees with were going to go for an evergreen species that opens the canopy and allows for more visibility while maintaining the ficus trees and maintaining visibility. Here is a diagram of how we expect to work. I hope its readable. It maps out on hyde and grove street the Maintenance Area for taking care of the existing grove and the several areas that the library is committed to start right away building new planting areas on fulton street and right over the entrance to brooks hall. Then we want to explore together with public works and bars, there are triangles of land that we may be able to cultivate with sheet mulching. We also are showing areas where the trees will be replaced. The sixthfloor patio is a very good candidate for more greening as well. So in terms of demonstrating commitment by setting up the these okay. 30 seconds. 30 seconds. Okay. I further outline the steps in more detail, but basically what were asking tonight is that we modify this permit t
Have not been made. It has gotten hairy and dirty. Why not blow the whole thing up and start all over again . Or, why dont we give you some time to figure it all out, and come back with a suggestion on how to best either blow it up, or move forward with some conditions . That is fine by me. Might not make the permit holder happy. The permit holder made the mistakes. I know. As i said, just reading this today reads bad. I did speak to some of this earlier in the year, i didnt even know there was a stop work order. That would not be unusual. I can certainly go out there and get a grasp of where they at. Dont feel bad, the permit holder exceeded his balance, that is clear. The permit holder should be held accountable for exceeding the boundary while we are talking about accountability, lets get the whole project cleaned up so that the appellant can be happy. Which is the whole point of his ability to appeal in the first place. The one thing that i heard was from the tenant, he filed the a