Your books are praised by oprah, president obama and you win the poets with the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . Before we take the pain away, this book is taken off and away unexpected and startling and wonderful and i thank my lucky stars and they sleep a little better and that her mood generally and try to enjoy despite my best efforts. What is up doing a better mood. I been writing for 20 something years doing fiction for 20 something years temperature write a book and people to get and no one typically cares and it disappears so i had the pride and think it i did a good job from the book and the bonus of other people reading it as well. Host your first book was about elevator repairs, people, how do you sell a book like that. Guest exactly. With that book i wrote a description and i said to my agent you dig in the concept of elevators inspectors or you dont. Youre either along for the ride in the description or not indefinitely when i was writing it was my s
Between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. This morning. The chair recognizes the gentleman from indiana, mr. Pence, for five minutes. Mr. Pence thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to recognize four outstanding agriculture students from Eastern Hancock High School for winning the 4h livestock judging contest at the western national roundup. Connor, hunter, reed, and ashton represented the state of indiana with integrity and skill. This team competed against 27 other teams from across the nation and came out victorious. Congratulations to these future farmers on their tremendous accomplishment. You have made the sixth district proud. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to recognize scott county, indiana, on their bicentennial celebration. In these two centuries, scott county has become a cornerstone of my sixth district. With the growing economy,
Commissioner ronen . Ronen absent. Commissioner safai . Safai absent. Commissioner walton . Present. Commissioner yee . Present. Yee present. We have quorum. Thank you, mr. Quintanilla. Could you please call the next item. Clerk item number. Citizens advisory report. Commissioner stefani is amongst us. Mr. Larson. Good morning, chair peskin, vice chair mandelman and commissioners. Im here to report on the november 20th meeting of the c. A. C. Starting with item 5, allocation of 3. 3 million for better Market Street. Critical to the success of the project. Smta noted the project working group, which included business along Market Street and the planned turnaround. As well as coordinating with developers on large projects for midmarket. C. A. C. Members also reacted favorably to the elimination of private vehicle traffic on all of Market Street, in the project area below 10th street. Seeing this as an advantage to reducing congestion and moving transit in this crowded area. The c. A. C.
Might have impacted transit speeds, especially on mission. And we found that there seems to be improvement. However, the frequency that we monitor this is once every two years. And there are a lot of changes happening over those two years, especially with land use and population, in addition to transportation changes. So there are a bunch of factors that go into these changes. But we did find evidence that the lanes are improving transportation speeds of transit speeds on mission. Supervisor yee s that the percentage improvement any different from of different lines that didnt have the red sort of lanes . Most of the lines have just remained steady. Thats what our average speed shows. And improvement is always better than just being steady. Supervisor yee well, i mean, that would be really interesting to know, because were making investments in these lanes. And i assume that it will this study should show that its having some marked improvements in terms of the speed of the buses itsel
Might have impacted transit speeds, especially on mission. And we found that there seems to be improvement. However, the frequency that we monitor this is once every two years. And there are a lot of changes happening over those two years, especially with land use and population, in addition to transportation changes. So there are a bunch of factors that go into these changes. But we did find evidence that the lanes are improving transportation speeds of transit speeds on mission. Supervisor yee s that the percentage improvement any different from of different lines that didnt have the red sort of lanes . Most of the lines have just remained steady. Thats what our average speed shows. And improvement is always better than just being steady. Supervisor yee well, i mean, that would be really interesting to know, because were making investments in these lanes. And i assume that it will this study should show that its having some marked improvements in terms of the speed of the buses itsel