as i've said before, you are a person to emulate for all of us. >> james joyce, is he here? okay. is martgen grayweiler here? mr. pillpeller's here, and then mr. ellis. >> i represent the owner of 351 turk street, which is -- has 600 residents at that location. it's affordable housing. there's 100 children that live there. there are many elderly people and many disabled people. they were not outreached at all for this project. we definitely support the bike lane. we think it's great. between turk and -- on turk street leavenworth and hyde, it dives in. i think it's absolutely the right thing to do, to provide them with curb street access. we're right next door to that, and the residents have should the same accommodation as curry center. there are kids that will across the bike lane to get to their transit modes. there are recycling trucks that go there daily, uber and lyft. all these paraforms of transportation will have to across the bike lane to access these forms of transportation. really appreciate the time of adrian and charles and meeting out there, and i think we just have

when i read about james joyce, having himself pursued by one as a child, i felt strangely comforted. i was a child with many questions. i was educated in a system in which questioning was not necessarily rewarded. in secondary school i always got straight as in my subjects. which would have pleased any parent but each last day of term my stomach would tighten with anxiety because my teachers often wrote comments about what at the termed by lack of respect. these comments always got me in trouble with my parents. i still have not forgiven those teachers. [laughter] lack of respect, was really my curiosity, my asking questions, my taking delight in intellectual argument. my refusal to accept easy answers. my reluctance to perform a certain kind of exaggerated deference. my teachers i felt should not have punished me for this. i suspect that this particular resentment, the sense of self-righteous and fairness, that i felt, has propelled some of my writing. i do see now looking back, that i could very well have been a bit of an annoying child. and yet i wish that those who had authority

he is a recipient of the prestigious james joyce w award. he serves as a professor of creative writing at uc-riverside, and holds a phd in p sociology of religion fromc santa barbara. personally i am a fan of the work he has done but boom gen studios which is a production company focused largely on contentt and of the middle east. one of my favorite documentaries was produced by boom gen studios, you saw it, called the square, the early days of the arab spring. reza aslan is one of the most important and prolific voices on religion in the public sphere in our time today. please join me in welcoming dr. reza aslan. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, everyone. thank you, thank you, thank you. >> so we are so delighted to have you here today. >> what a joy it is to be here. you know i drive by this temple all the time. >> really? >> it is one of the few temples in l.a. that i have never been inside of. nice to be here. >> you and i will talk about 45 minutes. for those of you who are interested in asking dr. aslan a question, you have got card

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