Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming out. I am the executive director of the International Spy museum. Im excited to introduce this program, dawn of the cold war looking back at the berlin blockade and airlift, 70 years after the last american flight. We will commemorate the berlin airlift this evening. First, i want to recognize our cosponsors for this event, deutschlandar, and the allied museum in berlin, where our Vice President , our very own exhibitions and programs Vice President is on the Advisory Board. I would like to thank you for your support and coordination in organizing this event this evening. At the moment, i would like to introduce the director of the allied museum in berlin. He is in charge, currently, of managing the reinvention process for the allied museum, which will move from its Current Location in southwest berlin to a hangar at the former airport building in berlin, temple hawk. Hawk, a huge complex built in the nazi era. His academic career brought hi
Andd, heating fuel, necessary goods. From the International Spy museum, a Program Marking the 70th anniversary of the berlin airlift, the ally operation that used cargo planes to bypass the soviet blockade. Two historians present an illustrated history of the crisis, and they are then joined onstage by a 92yearold berlin , who was a c54 Flight Engineer. Good evening, everyone. I am the executive director of the International Spy museum. Thisxcited to introduce program, dawn of the cold war looking back at the berlin blockade and airlift 70 years after the last american flight. We will commemorate the berlin airlift this evening. First, i want to recognize our cosponsors for this event, and the allied museum in berlin, where our Vice President , our very own exhibitions and programs Vice President is on the advisory board. You forlike to thank your support and coordination in organizing this event this evening. Moment i would like to introduce the director of allied museum in berlin. Ch
Weve got another 15 months to get more than our fill of 2020 president ial campaigning. Here we are going to take a few moments to remember a man who won it in 1988. Thatemed the longer he led lived, the more loved and appreciated became. I was struck like many others i think by this national outpouring of respect in the days leading up to and through the funeral of George Herbert walker bush. At the funeral of his wife barbara, seven months earlier, al gore said he served our nation with extraordinary integrity and grace. [applause] the country seemed anxious to separate those qualities last november and december. A world war ii hero before he began his long political career. By and large, history looks back pretty favorably on his residency. Brookings institution surveyed nearly 200 political scientists earlier this year asking them to rate all 44 president s, the elder bush came in 17. He drew praise for foreign policy. His popularity sank as the economy sank. He did not win reelect
The installation of radar facility. A new hightech facility radar facility on top of Montara Mountain which is a regional effort were taking part in with other water and floodcontrol agencies in the bay area called the advanced quantitative precipitative information system, aqpi is the acronym for short. But the whole concept is to establish a Radar Network that can provide much better accuracy in terms of predictions of prescription in various parts of the bay area. What weve seen historically and recently is more extreme evens s and those are going to be significant for us to deal with as well as other agencies. Weve got a cooperative effort being largely funded from a grant to acquire radar facilities and then operate them in cooperation with National Oceananic and Atmospheric Administration and folks from Colorado State university. There are various agencies involved in the east bay for radar facility there. So these are being located at Strategic Points around the bay area. This i
Negative declaration fmnd , the mitigation monitoring and reporting program mmrp , and the findings as required by the California Environmental quality act ceqa for the Montara Mountain rainfall prediction and radio replacement project; approve Montara Mountain rainfall prediction and radio replacement project to install a weather radar and Communications Tower on Montara Mountain; adopt the required ceqa findings, fmnd and mmrp; and authorize the general manager to implement the project. This this is a sequa action that youre taking today to adopt the final mitigated declaration and Mitigation Monitoring Program as required under ceqa for the Montara Mountain rainfall prediction and radio replacement project. The real key of this project is the installation of radar facility. A new hightech facility radar facility on top of Montara Mountain which is a regional effort were taking part in with other water and floodcontrol agencies in the bay area called the advanced quantitative precipi