Book awards and welcome to our host, nick alterman. [applause] good evening. This is a great honor to welcome all of you to the 69th National Book awards. A picture is worth 1000 words, is a cliche with which we are all familiar. So when i was asked to prepare some remarks for this occasion i thought that instead of subjecting you all to several minutes of my usual prattle, i would prepare something exciting and visual. That is why my wife, megan, and i creating a moving slide montage of assorted tantric grapples for your viewing but when i arrived tonight i was told that we did not have the proper audiovisual apparatus on which to show it. The presumption was young lady had the temerity to say to me that it was an equipment issue, because all i had was a floppy disk. I may not be uptodate on all the latest gutter lingo but i was quite taken aback. She then went on to suggest that she would need me to give it to her on a hard drive, or in a pinch, i could just stick in a some drive. I
Shut down by Public Health officials following two deaths both linked to legionnaires disease. Unfortunately two individuals have died. The third of survived. Contra costa supervisor says the third man tested positive in june but the other two died this week after visiting the spa just days before. County Health Officials are trying to track down others who visited the spot as well. We are trying to sec things like credit card receipts and appointment books to get in touch with people. The bacteria is found in water like lakes and streams but Health Concerns arise when this spreads in human made Water Systems like hot tubs or swimming pools. The way you get this bacteria is because it lives in water droplets, especially in situations where there might be pooling of water. It allows the bacteria to grow and when that water is aerosolized it can be inhaled. That is what happened in here. A closed room with water that was vaporizing. There was a little waterfall that comes out of the hot
jean carroll rape and defamation cape. the judge denied it and carroll is back on the stand. tacopina is trying to cast doubt on carroll s motivation. you received lots of love from this trial, people planning watch parties of your case, he said. yes, she said. you wanted more publicity when you book came out. yes, she said, my book wasn t selling. you went back to bergdorf goodman, at least 23 times after you say donald trump raped you, he said, you weren t concerned to go back? no, she said. i ve made that clear that bergdorfs is not a place that i m afraid to enter. you posted a facebook poll in 2012 asking would you have sex with trump for $17,000 if you could give the money to charity or close your eyes and he s not allowed to speak. you joked about having sex with trump for money, you said. yes, she said. in your advice column, you told me who said they were assaulted to go to the police, he said, you didn t go to the police, he said. i didn t call the police after do
Colin Jost, writer, performer and author best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live,” will perform at the Tahoe Blue Event Center on Saturday, July 13. Jost starting writing for “SNL” in 2005 and.