if he said, look, bryson, i can't. i'm sorry i can't do this anymore inspect is -- had this is crazy. i'm leaving now. i wouldn't have blamed him at all. i couldn't have blamed him. he didn't do that. he stood by me. he stayed there as a loyal friend. i'm really am hugely indebted to him. and then when i wrote the book, you know, i portrayed him as this sort of large difficult, challenging, lumbering baa foon. that's what he is. [laughter] i'm joke. he's not. but he was challenging on the trail. and he would be the first to admit that. i had to use him for comic effect. and sometimes in your life you really, really desperately need to rely on a funny human being's good nature and he's one of those. i mean, he has remained a good friend. he hasn't held it against me. he was happy to be the butt of a lot of jokes and, you know, he was extremely good natured about it. i've done events like in des moines, iowa where he's signed more books than i have. [laughter] so he's just a fantastic human being. and i can't, you know,

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[laughter] and marvel about the fact there were both named bill bryson. the fifth person was his wife who spent the evening with anyone named bill bryson. [laughter] so this is really fantastic for me. i'm very grateful. they sent them without getting up and following the distinguished sending to say something important. i'm one of those people that alerts out the wrong thing. i have a knack for saying exactly the wrong thing. the example i always give if i had to fill out a questionnaire for publications for a british bookstore chain. one of the questions on the questionnaire was what would you like people saying about you an hundred years from now? it was a really tough question. the answer i gave and it made me say, that i'm still active. [laughter] i apologize in advance if i don't say the right thing. [laughter] there's another true story. there is always generally an honor that so many of you come. like everybody, authors crave attention. we tend to be pretty anonymous people. it's not that many authors that you would recognize if they came in the r

bryson again and, that is an excellent question and what i would respond is that there has been some out reach that we did on the scope of work tagged on to the out reach that already the processs that have already been in place for the over all water front transportation and i appeared at one of the cac meet togs discuss this scope of work, but what i would also propose is that i really appreciated all of the feedback that i heard from the public today, is the very first task that we are proposing in a scope of work is to refine the evaluation framework and methodology and i think that is really a great place to you know, nail down what exactly the corridors are and address some of these suggestions that have come up and would be happy to accommodate that, and i think that it is important for us to get something approved just because the time frame here is short to actually do the analysis and be on schedule with the eir process and i think that maybe i can invite peter to talk about the over all out reach that has been done to date for the assessment. >> thank you. chair. >> peter

bryson. i turned around and a young man was advancing toward me holding his hand out to be shake.nd i was thrilled. it had never happened to me before. so i held out the hand and shook his happened and said how did you know me? he said i'm one of your son's roommates. [laughter] we had dinner you two nights ago. [laughter] so when i say thank you for making me important. he has no idea how grateful i am to you. [laughter] i don't know exactly what you expect of me tonight. he said something indicated i would be talking about -- but i thought i would broad tennessee a little bit if it's okay. i thought i would tell you a little bit about who i am, where i come from, and read you a couple of passages from my earlier books. at some point i would like to tell you my bear story. i always tell it. i hope you enjoy. particularly it's where the appalachian trail starts. couldn't be an more apt place to tell than georgia. first a little bit about my myself. as indicated i grew up in des moines, iowa a long time ago. i know, i have a funny voice. people say you don't come from des moines, i

lived in the neighborhood for many years and first of all before i get into my main message, miss bryson's presentation and i do notice that on the stake holder list that the neighborhood is not there and i find that unforgivible, i think that we are number one as far as stake holders go. the main reason that i am here today and i am not going to look at my notes is to tell you that we need now, we need help today and i am not here with the warriors or anything in the future, i am just telling you that right now, where i live at main and harrison, i can look out at the streets almost every single afternoon and evening and see the idling cars on harrison, main and beal and bryant waiting to get on to the bay bridge, i can tell you as i am looking out the window and if i look at my sil there is a black dust as there is throughout my condo because we already know that our neighborhood is the most polluted in the city. i would like to ask for help from the dph to look at that pollution and to understand where we are now. and what is going to be added because i am really worried and i am breath

conference to answer questions about the trip each of the guests received national costumes and bill bryson in the years the torch was handed over to the representatives of the organization committee immediately after opening the cops on any opinion polls point to the point is all that i never thought that the torch is so heavy i took after we landed in space he was very light we did not inflame it is for him to find anything in space. we had only one room to make an experiment but the torch does not fit in there oh no it didn't open this up don't look with all the parking lot but it wasn't. thus the non ballet to pay a visit shanghai as a part of the world toward the artists will give just one concert there which will be held in one of the city's biggest theaters the true faith promises to give the really fantastic show it to our concert includes national dances and most of the great skills of the performers are ballet dancers want to prove the context and as a country which is developing not only economically but also court ruling. get healthy. i'm very impressed by today show they have q

parking, legroom no baggage now each child has $5 apiece for the christmas budget bryson due to the airlinesthe steps the weather is out of your control we will take the cost of the changes but bottom-line people don't want to have all the fees they've got to get value and service when stress is that the all-time high. neil: the storms pass but i hardly think it is a great effort on the part of the airlines to say we will not charge to fees because you are stranded at the airport bow your grateful for very little. what is the long-term effect? >> i'm sure travelers appreciate space give them an award because they did not do a force of less reason this. i did a study over the holiday season on the average 150 passengers on a flight to it is canceled by whether it will take in about 15 flights to accommodate all these people so they do this for their own reasons. so after those fears to charge me fees and sewed don't fault me for not being over thank all. neil: and the price when you got that ticket regardless they don't charge you for the change. but with the same airline issued the faa is wa

. >> john bryson, what was the reaction --john greyson, what was the reaction to your fellow inmates,ust the hunger strike, but having to canadians jailed with them at the same time? >> when we were brought into the present with the welcoming party , all of the other prisoners witnessed the beating of the kind [indiscernible] already a huge amount of solidarity and support for us. the first 36 and the first cell when out of their way to take care of us, always giving us the last piece of food, the last tomato, etc. there was incredible caring and concern for us and a real interest in the work we were trying to do in solidarity with gaza. said, when we discussed hunger strike, the fellow prisoners were split in terms of their advice. they said, watch out, it's very dangerous, the prison will throw you in solitary. there was a lot of strategizing in getting good advice from them about how to proceed. onlyecided to do a liquids- hunger strike and not do it through the official prison channels. it would have maximum impact in terms of outreach to the world and make the statement we wanted

if he said, look, bryson, i can't. i'm sorry i can't do this anymore inspect is -- had this is crazy. i'm leaving now. i wouldn't have blamed him at all. i couldn't have blamed him. he didn't do that. he stood by me. he stayed there as a loyal friend. i'm really am hugely indebted to him. and then when i wrote the book, you know, i portrayed him as this sort of large difficult, challenging, lumbering baa foon. that's what he is. [laughter] i'm joke. he's not. but he was challenging on the trail. and he would be the first to admit that. i had to use him for comic effect. and sometimes in your life you really, really desperately need to rely on a funny human being's good nature and he's one of those. i mean, he has remained a good friend. he hasn't held it against me. he was happy to be the butt of a lot of jokes and, you know, he was extremely good natured about it. i've done events like in des moines, iowa where he's signed more books than i have. [laughter] so he's just a fantastic human being. and i can't, you know,

. >> bill bryson examines numerous events from the summer of 1927 that placed the united states on the world stage. from the first solo, nonstop fright across the atlantic by charles lend burg to president coolidge's decision to not seek a second term in office. this is a little under an hour. .. at the barns and noble. i can't remember where it was in pennsylvania. it was an

to andrea and darren, farnle to megan and grand frn to madison and -- grandfather to madison and bryson. he was elected to the board of commissioners in 2004 and served on the economic county commission, economic development task force, including the north carolina association of county commissioners and board of directors. we're pleased, mr. speaker, to have larry philips as our guest speaker today, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair will entertain 15 requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? the speaker: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. the speaker: madam speaker, i heard from many of my constituents over the last couple of weeks who are struggling mightily under the president's health care law and from hamilton is one of them. he and his wife recently retired but aren't old enough yet for medicare. their health care plan is being canceled. it's being replaced with

evening with anybody named bill bryson. this is really fantastic so i am very grateful to the turnout on a friday night. something about getting up with room for the people, a distinguished setting that makes me feel like want to say something important or significant. high was one of those people who has a knack for saying of the wrong finger. the example i was given some years ago i had to allow an author questionnaire for publication at a british bookstore chain. one of the questions was what would you like people to say about you 100 years from now? really tough question and i thought about what people would say about me 100 years from now? the answer i gave was the amazing thing is he is so sexually active. [laughter] >> i found out in advance that was the right thing tonight. there is another little statement, there has always been the vanity, pleased and honored that you came. and like everybody authors create tension and we tend to be pretty anonymous people. if you think of it there is not that many authors you rec