Good evening. My name is arthur hessel. Im Vice President of the haberman institute for jewish studies. I want to welcome those you who are here in person with us. Its israel in rockville, maryland. And to those of you numbering at least 500 who were with on zoom, youve joined us from all over the country. Our normal lectures have about 30 states represented, several canadian provinces and people scattered the rest of the world. I also want to welcome the cspan cameras covering a haberman for the first time. For those of you who are new to haberman, a few things about us. For the past 40 years, weve sponsored programs chosen to provide adults with encounters with jewish thought history and culture before covid changed everything. Our programs were inperson and our parties events all from the washington, d. C. Metropolitan area. Today our reach is much broader through zoom. You can learn more about it on the are looking at website. Easy to remember haberman institute dot org. This is ou
Releases plus this syllabus as well as Industry News and trends through insider interviews. You can find about books on cspan now are free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. I am cynthia schuster, i am the volunteer coordinator for the wisconsin book festival, and we are so happy to have you here tonight to join us for this presentation featuring kenneth miller, author of trim and posted in a partnership with wisconsin science festival. Before we begin willal so want o thank the madison public library, the medicine book Library Foundation and all of the sponsors for making this incredible free celebration possible. Youve been asked this week on such a vital ask you one more time to be sure to sign that your cell phone and while you here celebrate with us today you can still use yourself up to take pictures to post on social media. You can tag the wisconsin book festival, the madison public library, or use the hashtag wi puck fast and we will share it. Excited to share it. To
Im cynthia schuster. I am the volunteer for the wisconsin book festival, and we are so happy to have you here tonight to join us for this presentation featuring ken miller, author of mapping the darkness, hosted in partnership with the wisconsin science festival. Before we begin, we also want to thank the madison public library, the madison public foundation, and all of the sponsors making this incredible free celebrate possible. Youve been asked this many times, im sure, but i ask you one more time to be sure to silence your cell phone and while youre here celebrating with us today, you can still use your cell phone to take pictures to post on social media. You can tag the wisconsin book festival, the madison public library, or use the hashtag y book fest, and we will share it. Excited to share it. Todays presentation is being recorded by cspan. And so were asking that when you have questions during our q a portion. Please come up to the microphone over and speaking to the microphone
Clinton and were on the plane and whatever karen would see boarding the plane shed say oh you again i was hoping it was the other day. And it turned out it was so. Thank you very much, david. Thank. Im cynthia schuster. I am the volunteer for the wisconsin book festival, and we are so happy to have you here tonight to join us for this presentation featuring ken miller, author of mapping the darkness, hosted in partnership with the wisconsin science festival. Before we begin, we also want to thank the madison public library, the madison public foundation, and all of the sponsors making this incredible free celebrate possible. Youve been asked this many times, im sure, but i ask you one more time to be sure to silence your cell phone and while youre here celebrating with us today, you can still use your cell phone to take pictures to post on social media. You can tag the wisconsin book festival, the madison public library, or use the hashtag y book fest, and we will share it. Excited to
End of the agenda if speakers exceed 15 minutes of general Public Comment, members of the public who wish to speak at this time. May line up against the wall for this from the door. If in the chamber if you were calling in, please dial 41565500. And use that meeting number excess code of 2484133. 2721. Pound pound and then press start three. Okay . And it appears we do not have any members of the publican person who wants to speak on in under general Public Comment. Sf gov t v. Do we have any callers and they are indicating we do not have any callers that have expressed interest in speaking on this, so we dont have public general Public Comment. That concludes Public Comment. Please call the next item item two is communications and the directors report. Communications include the Restricted Communications report of contracts out, but for a bit forbid, but have not been awarded yet. And the hmm. The communications also include the commissions advanced calendar and a memo reporting the O