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Heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Anne gumowitz. The betsy and jesse fink foundation. The hkh foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. We begin with drama on the high seas. Several days ago, environmental activists from Greenpeace International tried to climb a russian oil platform in the arctic. They were there to protest drilling for fossil fuels in this fragile ecology at the top of the world, but they were confronted by guncarrying members of the russian coast guard, who fired warning shots dangerous
Robert caro has appeared on q a and is also appeared through the National Book festival in september. House of stone, you remembered that Anthony Shadid died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him and that is not a lottery. Katherine boo has been nominated in the nonfiction category, behind a beautiful forevers about a slum in mumbai india and finally Anne Applebaum has been nominated for iron curtain. That book is just out and she is scheduled to appear under q a and show in december, so you will be able to see her as well and robert caro will be interviewing those others as we go and we will be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their pictures taken that right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation and this is david steinberger. David steinberger is the head of the Perseus Book Group. If you would, tell us for those who dont know what is the National Book award . The National Boo
Thinkprogress. Org. On december 1, is night and day from where it was. The site is now stable and operating at its intended capacity at a greatly improved performance. Here is more. We start at the top of page six on Response Times. Response times, this is the measure of how quickly responds go to a user request. You can see on a bar on the lefthand side that in late october, the Response Time was running around eight seconds, which was clearly unacceptable and very frustrating for consumers. We now have much faster Response Times. The line graph shows average Response Time by day in the last three weeks. You can see the average Response Time is well under one second. The chart on the bottom of page six shows system error rate, another key operating metric. Oftens a measure of how the system presents an error message. You can see the progress that has been made. The far left shows where we were in late october with an error rate of approximately six percent. We got that down to two per
The suspects got out and opened fire on the officers. About about 9 00 i heard gunshots. Saw the victim up in the front and in shock after finding out his father that his son had been shot in front of seven learn. Reporter Police Returned Fire and hit wilbanks. One officer was treated and released. The suspects got in the car and fled while continuing to shoot at police. Wilbanks was arrested after crashing on cunningham avenue and trying to hide in a house. The second suspect fled foot and is at large. A 10,000 reward is offered for any help leading to the arrest. This marks the citys 42nd homicide the year. In san jose, elissa harrington, cbs 5. The victim of the latest murder in menlo park was from newark. 42yearold was shot in a car on ivy drive. Police are looking for suspects. They took the womans purse and ran in os directions. In opposite directions. Authorities are going over missing persons reports as they try to identify a body pulled from the water in San Francisco bay. The