beach shelle, surrounded by a chain-link fence. washington high school, a big chain link fence and began a play on it. it is important for those of us that we also get a part. is open and available for us to play. i think it is important and you win over this one with staff, to recognize this is a renovation of existing facility. it is a port facility and needs to be renovated to modern, sustainable standards and that is what this project and this eir is addressing. how to turn this athletic field for at least 75 years into a modern athletic field so we can all enjoy it. thank you. president chiu: thank you. >> i am the president of the california soccer association, north. in september we will celebrate 110 years of existence in san francisco serving the soccer committee. we have 12,000 members ages 18 to 65. 2000 of them play in san francisco. you have already heard from our member woman pose a league that has to play outside the city. our -- some of our members, 60% of them are latinos who are underserved because they do not hav

i want my children to participate in the same love of the game safely, on the beach shell appeal. please vote no on the appeal. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i'm jamie, i'm a 33-year-old citizen of the city. i've raised three natives two of who are ardent soccer players. this meeting isn't about turf vs. grass. if turf were unsafe it wouldn't be used by municipalities and schools all over the country. and i trust the opponents would go to crocker amazon and protect the kids who go there. this meeting is about golden gate park and money. it's a terrific park. i side with the earlier parent who said if we were paving over a meadow, i would be against it. but this is 1,000 acres. the contemplated renovation is less than 10 achers. less than 10 achers that has been a soccer field since the 30's and has never been a meadow land or a bird sanctuary. what this is about is also money, of course. to uphold the appeal is to invest my tax dollars in the least productive alternative, is to invest in having fewer hours of play for san francisco residents, children and adults. please shoot dow

i live with and half a mile or 1 mile of where the beach shelle would-be -- city lights would be and i know that any chance i have of seeing any stars at night would be gone. i am opposed to that. the other thing is people have not mentioned up until now is that traffic will be a problem in particular, on the great highway. traffic is already a problem when any sunday afternoon where the sun shines out at the beach, great highway is jammed. if we throw in a major soccer field as well, it will be a nightmare. no one seems to have taken that into account when i read -- wrote that into the draft er, they refuse to answer the question. they said in case of any special events will not schedule them at the same time as soccer tournament. people come out to the beach anytime they want to. so something will have to happen in terms of that. in addition why you were dickering about this there is a bunch of people who are not in special interest groups of soccer players who are not necessarily special athletes, ability, who are trying to use the esplanade or promenade along the beach which is n

i am dottie. >> dottie knows it. >> some of the other pretty shells we find on the beach, and then ohone. >> see what you can dig up. >> dottie conducts shell tours for rookies in the shell game. >> oh, yes. that is a beautiful little shell. >> that is a little cocina. >> every day the beach is different, ever every day the people out there are different. it is a wonderful place and a wonderful thing to do. >> wow. how many shells do you have down here? >> too many. >> you stopped counting? >> that's right. it is sort of an addiction, and there is no 12 step program yet that you can stop it. >> leroy who moved to santa bell for the shelling has nearly as many shells at home as the local shell museum. >> what are all of these? >> these shells i collected in the last ten days. >> ten days? >> ten days. >> yes. and each shell is beautiful in its architecture and design, color, and pretty soon you find yourself liking this shell or that shell. my problem is, i like all of them. >> you said it is a thrill when you see one you haven't gotten yet? >> oh, yes. tell me about the feeling. >> it

the shelling was -- beach chalet was chosen for several reasons. it fills a gap on the northern side of the city, and the master plan calls for the renovation and activation of this site. the goal of the area plan for the western edge is to increase legitimate activities, and transform that part of the park. the master plan outlined a proposal for renovation that is more expansive than the one we are proposing today. the master plan is fundamentally a acknowledging effect that was known well in the late 90's, which is still true today. the fields are in poor condition, given the level of use they sustained. they are riddled with go for holes. the have a number of other issues. our project addresses these deficiencies, and that's needed amenities, including 100 trees. we are removing 16, and we are going to add 100. we are doubling the capacity of the restrooms. feedback from the public, city departments, and the national park service has also helped us reform and improve the project, including modifying the restrooms that will remain a contributor

south korean and american troops storming a beach, by sea, by air. shellsead as amphibious vehicles race toward the beach. no, the world hasn't finally run out of patience with north korea. this was just a drill. but the date of the drill was telling. june 25th. doesn't ring a bell? it is the 62nd anniversary of the start of korean war. to add to the symbolism, smoke bombs dropped in the shape of a "v" for victory. the correct answer to our gps challenge question was -- a. there has been just one verdict handed down by the international criminal court. the sole verdict was guilty one against a former rebel leader in the democratic republic of the congo. he was convicted of abducting children and forcing them to serve as child soldiers. 15 cases have been brought before the court. all of them also from africa. critics say almost $1 billion and ten years should buy more than one verdict. oh -- and remember, the u.s. is currently not a party to the international criminal court. >>> thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you nex

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army staff sg ergeant from shell beach, calif., while stationed in southwestern afghanistan, usta sent a care package that included nets, rackets, balls, and instructions. andy and his fellow soldiers made a court on flattened mud and gravel. i told you, you can do it any place. they said it up and thanked the -- they set it up and they banged the ball around. i hope it relieved some of their stress. i cannot imagine the stress they must go through. it is crazy to just take a racket and smack of all. -- and just smack the ball. you do not heard anybody. -- do not hurt anybody. it is very good therapy. you do not heard anybody. -- hurt anybody. it is fantastic in you feel so -- fantastic and you feel so much better afterward. we want tennis to make a positive difference in the lives of others. the u.s.t.a. continues to reach out to national policy makers in hopes of developing a partnership that will impact more communities and lives. we want to ensure that every child has an opportunity to get the best education possible. we want to partner with communities across the country to create

beach chalet in its current format. i will drop off my older son at practice and to quiet on the field and we will play an over to the park shelle. to do that we have to walk around a huge chain link fence and dodge a few homeless encampments along the way. after hanging out we will go back and pick up our older son and hopefully no one got hurt in practice. on a bad day, we will repeat the same activities i just scribed and get back to practice to find out that somebody has been seriously injured because of the play's surface. on a worst day, the field will be shut down altogether because of rain or seasonal closures that have been discussed earlier. i just got back from vacation recently with my older son and wyatt had a story -- president chiu: thank you. if he wants to speak for two minutes, the time is his. >> me and my mom were walking our dog and he went to the beach chalet field and it was closed and there was nobody there and it was locked. it was saturday. >> in summer? >> yeah. president chiu: thank you. next speakers. >> i play on the sunset stars. grassy fields, lots of kids get hurt. i slipped on a hole and hurt my

increasing energy independence and compromising, if necessary, the beaches of all of these other states to help exxon, mobile, b.p., and shell drill off of our coastline? why don't they want to drill off of miami beach? why don't they want to drill off of jacksonville's beaches? why don't they include florida? hmm, gore vs. bush. florida could decide the presidential race. oh, the republican convention is in florida this year, oh. they don't want a million people coming to protest the drilling off of the beaches of florida? oh. that makes a lot of sense. no, that's good justification for excluding florida, but not massachusetts, not maine, not maryland, not virginia, but florida. they're out. so i happen to know about the blatant political nature of these bills is that they are intended to embarrass president obama just as he has proven he's a historically successful president in increasing oil production in america, he's reduced oil dependence, overseas source from 57% down to 45%, something george bush never did. in fact it spiked to 57% under his watch over eight years. that's a long time to get something done on that fro

shell game most of the time. >> stephanie: yep. angie in virginia beache's talking about how bain was created. oh, my gosh. >> the character was created in 1993. >> caller: i'm like i can't wait until some idiot right-winger decides to repeat that line since they take everything from him verbatim. >> it would take the same amount of time. >> i also make the case if obama is able to manipulate the space-time continuum that's enough reason for him to be president. >> hello, i'm in. >> forward. >> you know his bad side. >> stephanie: forward and the space-time continuum. >> it can go back in time. >> stephanie: 45 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." >> that happened and we all let it happen. >> announcer: it's "the stephanie miller show." at 7, viewpoint with eliot spitzer at 8, the war room with jennifer granholm at 9, the gavin newsom show fridays at 11. and there's only one place you'll find us: weeknights on current tv. we are the idea no one wants to hear until it grabs you and won't let go. we push, we prod until the trut

these beaches in california and maine and massachusetts and new jersey and send it to other countries. this is truly the even more oil republican party. whatever exxonmobil wants, whatever shell wants, whatever b.p. wants, we'll do it. fetch we know millions of people will be protesting, right from the very beginning. and by the way, without passing one of the reforms from the b.p. spill commission to make sure that the drill og curs in a safe fashion. they still, in two years, have yet to bring out one single safety reform that would implement safeguards to protect against the repetition of what happened in the gulf of mexico. so the natural gas that's found can go overseas, it would be done in a risky fashion because they refuse to learn the lessons of b.p. in the gulf of mexico and they included no new safety measures but, you know, that's what exxonmobil wants, that's what b.p. want, it's out here on the house floor to be voted upon, over the vigorous objections of this democrat and democrats all across the country. in this congress, the republican majority has reported 11 drilling bys -- drilling bills out of the natural resources committee. they have been combined and b