commissioner brandon. commissioner brandon: here. commissioner lazarus. commissioner lazarus:. approval of the meetings in june 10, 2010. commissioner fong: approve. >> public comment on executive session. executive session. commissioner fong: all those in favor? commissioner fong: good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i move that we reconvene in open session. >> second. commissioner fong: any discussion? all those in favor? >> i move that we not discuss anything discussed in executive session. >> -- commissioner fong: any discussion? all those in favor? >> aye. >> please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and pagers and it similar electronic sound producing devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that a chairman or the removal from a meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound producing device. please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make appurtenant public comment for each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter time on any ite

commissioner brandon: fortunately or unfortunately i was here in 1998. at that time, i had no idea how successful the park was going to be. i want to commend you on what you and the port staff and everyone else involved have done to make this a destination point. that is wonderful. regarding this grant, what type of activity are we looking for? are we looking for a full-time program? a weekend program? what can you do with $100,000? >> that is a great question. to your first point, thank you for that. that is really kind. we could not have done it without port commission support. you have voted on the budget every year to continue to support the program. that is why it has succeeded. what can you do with $100,000? that is one of the reasons -- one of the advantages of offering it as a grand opportunity rather than a contract is that with a grant we can lay out what we wish for and let the respondents return to us grant proposals that reflect their creativity, their ideas, and their resources. they tell us what they can do for $100,000. to give you an exa

he shoots and scores there is brandon mcdonald.ere is a into the 90th minute, donovan, stealing the show. land onpoint blank next to equalizer. there is a u.s. daib yu. red bulls and immediate impact. redirect. frenchman oh, henri. red bulls win this and everybody loves pepe lepew. all right. there is just going to do it on every lie night. there is lance armstrong supposedly hired a defense attorney. stage 17 dur defrance. hanging on to yellow jersey. and there is 108 miles, he wins the stage. and is still leading by a second. we got a new deal with you tube called you report fchl you see kids doing crazy stuff, please, send it to us. again watch this, is worth seeing one more time. there is a pass. and town goits. >> no one was hurt. >> excellent fill being making there. >> and that is all they'll remember tonight. >> no. no. >> i wish. >> that is great. >> oh, dear. >> that is the end of the road. >> that is the news, night line is coming up next. >> and our next newscast look forward to that if you can, tomorrow morning at 4:30

commissioner brandon: i do not think i could have said that any better. i want to commend the planning department and staff for the numerous hours, time, and meetings that have gone into this study. we really appreciate your efforts and all of the knowledge and expertise you have given us to work from. a lot of work went into this, and a lot of good recommendations came out of it. we really appreciate the plan that you have given us. thank you. president fong: my thoughts are this is a comprehensive and well put together study. i believe there were five different workshops or the public had opportunity, maybe four with the port as well. there have been many opportunities. i know most of all of you by first name from public comment or sitting at a round table in this room hearing about a particular project within the scope of this study. i did have the benefit of going online and watching last thursday's planning commission. i heard all the comments there. i heard the recap of what they are looking at doing. some of the comments were thepearl about pearls

surviving her is her son brandon. i am also introducing an in memoriam for a man that served in the united states navy. for 32 years, he was a member of the san francisco police department. he spent the remainder of his career, more than 20 years in the juvenile division. he is survived by his wife, mary beth. i am submitting an in memoriam for a union carpenter for 50 years, and he is survived by many of his siblings including patti, tommy, johnny, qe, -- huey. i am some morning and -- submitting an in memoriam for bill wilkenson. he lost his battle to parkinson's disease and cancer. for 17 years, he was the president of one of the most noted suppliers for some of the best restaurants, hotels, and other food providers in san francisco. it was known as an outstanding work place. bill was also president of the chamber of commerce in 2005, and was the first openly gay man to serve as president of the san francisco chamber. he had a career in the hotel field where some amazing institutions were founded by him. his partne

they lost brandon inge for six weeks with a broken hand. >>> there's no team hotter than the cards. they spotted the phils three and came swinging back. albert pujols put st. louis on top with a two-run homer in the fifth. a couple of hitters later, allen craig ripped his first career homer. skip schumaker followed with a solo shot of his own. the cards beat the phils 8-4. they've won six straight. >>> finally, it's marlins beat the rockies in dramatic fashion. down one in the ninth. pinch hitter donnie murphy hit one high, hit one deep, and hit one gone. a walkoff homer by an unlikely hero. murphy's first homer in over two years. there's only one way to celebrate a walk-off. the shaving cream pie in the face. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >> yeah, it is. >>> well, the day of reckoning for lindsay lohan. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, hey, he's a busy guy, so if the president can't make it to broadway, broadway can make it to the white house. you're watching "early today." >>> good tuesday morning to you

commissioner brandon: you are definitely going to be missed. you're such a joy to work with. everything you worked on, you did it with integrity and knowledge. all the projects that have happened are wonderful. you have been there every step of the way. thank you so much for your dedication and your energy. president fong: it is tough to wrap everything up, but thank you, congratulations. [applause] >> item 8a, accept contracting activity report and any will contract in report fiscal year 2009-2010. become a request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for contract 2741, which includes pier 35 superstructure repair, pier 33 marginal wharf substructure been repaired, and peer 50 valley structure repair. i concede, request authorization to award a contract 2738 in an amount not to exceed $1,892,604 plus a 10% contingency. item8d, award the following three contract -- baseline environmental consultants, weiss associates, and tetra tech. item 8e, accept grant funding from the united states environmental protection agency for installation of shoreside power at pier 27.

. >> commissioner brandon: i want to echo commissioner lazarus, in that this is a very exciting project, and i look forward to the design recommendation that comes back to the commission. commissioner fong: ok. a couple of commons. i think there are two different options, and it is interesting that princess cruises is trying 2011, and hopefully, they are very successful with that, which gives us more of a reason to make that investment. i know we have some monetary things to figure out as well, so it is clearly not a done deal, or we need to figure out some other things, but it is very exciting. i had the pleasure of being in shanghai, china, and took a tour of their crude ship port of call, and it was absolute state of the art. it is a beautiful building, a landmark building for that city, and it functioned very well for an event space as well as different use. this is a non-action item, but i look forward to the next steps, and remind everyone that there is a workshop on july 21, correct? a public workshop. thank you. >> item 9c, informational presentation on the department of the cit

their soyuz station undock from the apollo command module that had tom stafford deeks leighton and brandon vance those three astronauts were on board the apollo capsule and they said goodbye to each other ending six months of practice six months of training together it was indeed a milestone in fact when they actually got together it was at the seventeenth of july they spent forty four hours in space they shook hands and space and it was a symbolic end to the space race that started when russia launched what make the first satellite into space and started the two countries in a tense race as to who was going to conquer the domain of space this was a symbolic end but more than that it was also a chance for them to do scientific experiments together eat together in space as well as do some experiments on how these two units would dock in fact had to build a special collar docking unit because the two crash were built by different countries they were meant to work together they had to build special equipment to make that happen and it all took place thirty five years ago from this moment in t

the counter thirded flapping and making chicken noises like a bad chicken leaving all of the beef brandon he's promised to be in several languages before most are convinced their russian produced beef will be the finest x. board cool it. well the language barrier is indeed a problem but in organ areas not if you find yourself in the regions capital and to find out want to respond this city is so appealing i'm now joined by local guides you know parchin about thank you very much for joining their lives so what sells best in your city where what shall i say look around the scenery is beautiful and for those people who like rush and me like russian droppings will be like monte fishing or just hiking we can find a lot of places which are white nice for those purposes then there are a lot of holy places in our town that i lot of troikas in our town the town is interesting because it's one of the samples of the classical russian market a lot of museums and one of them is the museum of space exploration named after. i would you thing needs to be done to attract more people to the region both for

me and my friend andre, rowe and conor, we went to real campgrounds and they went to brandon hotels.e they excited that you're in movies and all of that kind of stuff. >> i think that they're used to it. since 9 years old, and i pretty much know everyone since then. i'm a kentucky colonel. >> you're a colonel. >> yes, sir. >> like the colonel sanders. >> yes, like the colonel sanders, yeah. >> how does that work, how can you be a collenel. >> they send you a paper in the mail and thai say you're a colonel. >> i would like to be a collenel. >> get on it. >> it's hanging in my room proudly. >> could you be sent over to iraq? >> we'll see. they haven't called yet but you never know. >> and you're a what? what's the other thing that you said. >> i'm a davies' county executive yuj and i have a judge that says "county executive judge" on it. >> what does that entitled you to. >> i have no idea. >> if you were arrested could you try yourself and let yourself out. >> in davies county perhaps. >> wow, that's pretty great. >> yeah. >> and you're an executive judge. >> yeah. >> that yeah. >> th

. >> good afternoon my name is brandon exata. we go by the acronym aaa +. we are solely dedicated to promoting and enhancing the aids drug assistance program which is a federal and state program to improve access to care for people living with hiv aids. we work with patients, advocates, community, health care, government, pharmaceutical, and other stakeholders to make sure access to care is granted to those living with hiv. i am pleased to join the a's health care foundation today, the largest global aids organization providing cutting edge of medicine and advocacy to over 100,000 people in 22 countries. thank you for letting me come in on your parade and support you and what you are doing. i stand before you today as someone who has been living with hiv for eight years. i am someone who has been on the aids drug assistance program at one time in my life. unfortunately, i address you this afternoon conflicted by a feeling of accomplishment with a sense of defeat. the very moment we should be celebrating the person ever national aids strategy and united stat

rescue crews have found a search and rescue effort, park officials spotted the body. 21 year-old brandonenkamp he was climbing yesterday in one of the 17 climbers that were caught in this storm. a rest of the more risky, yesterday. ♪ >> a live look outside and the golden gate bridge this is really all we are seen as the way of fog along the coastline. and even some sunshine, warmer temperatures this afternoon with the additional sunshine especially, inland. up 10-50 degrees from warsaw yesterday with back into the temperatures in the 60s, the 70's are going to warm even more. reason is that fog is born to be slow to move and this evening. by tomorrow, we will see tens of fog along the coast. it will scale back very quickly. with more sunshine and warmer for tomorrow afternoon. to take a look of the fog tracker, it is not going far inland as expected. and by 6:00 a.m., the inland valley will be clear, and patchy fog, the south bay will be clear. and it is pressing back on one of coastline by nine a m. we will see a press further backshore by 11 a m in the san mateo coast. it also looks li

given up for brandon, david, and mark, the killers. these guys for the fourth of july performance for military families -- for forms for military families. they did not look like killers. one of them is tall, but they do not look like you would be scared of them, but they are wonderful people, and we are grateful to them, and how all about sarah mclaughlin. [applause] and met her backstage. just delightful, and a couple of beautiful daughters, and i am always partial two daughters. despite the entertainment, despite seeing all these old friends, the main reason i am here is because there is a guy from searchlight nevada -- [applause] >> who has been fighting on behalf of nevada for most of his life and is now fighting for working families all across america, and that is your senate majority leader, harry reid peering ahead -- harry reid. [applause] i have known harry since i arrived in the senate five years ago, and we have become dear friends. he is a man of principle. he is a straight shooter. he is a man of his word. he comes across

it invites us to look past brandon news headlines and isolated events. -- it invites us to look pastriannrandom news headlines and isolated events. this is the subject of my most recent book. here is the full list of 10 trends that i teachtouch upon in the book. obvious conclusion is that if you want the skinny on the rest, you will simply have to buy the book. bear in mind, graduations are right around the corner. before you know which, we will be into the holiday season. i promise you this is a gift that keeps on giving. it is an ideal stocking stuffer for the catholic in your life. this is an attempt to identify 10 forces. these certainly are 10 forces that are full of the implications for where the tide and treasurer of the catholic church will be invested in the years and decades to come. and this list is an exercise in a description. we are working on the level of is rather than ought. it would be interesting to have a conversation about what 10 courses we wish were shaping the picture. that is not the exercise i am trying to perform tonight. my argument is instead, these reall

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given up for brandon, david, and mark, the killers.se guys for the fourth of july performance for military families -- for forms for military families. they did n ready. . bbc world news bbc world news bbc world news and met her backstage. just delightful, and a couple of beautiful daughters, and i am always partial two daughters. despite the entertainment, despite seeing all these old friends, the main reason i am here is because there is a guy from searchlight nevada -- [applause] >> who has been fighting on behalf of nevada for most of his life and is now fighting for working families all acrs america, and that is your senate majority leader, harry reid peering ahead -- harry reid. [applause] i have known harry since i arrived in the senate five years ago, and we have become dear friends. he is a man of principle. he is a straight shooter. he is a man of his word. he comes across as soft-spoken. even when he is in front of a crowd, he is like, well -- we are trying here. we are trying hard. that is just how harry is, but anybody who

brandon, republican. job creation and economic stimulus.aller: this stimulus package is stimulating by dick. host: detroit, richard, independent line. caller: i just read in the detroit news this morning how they gave $1 million for a south korean company to make a battery plant in michigan. host: you live in michigan, you know what the economic situation is. "the washington post," they have an article on that very issue. do you think it is a good idea for the government? caller: is a good idea to create jobs, but why can we not have our own company from the u.s.? rather than a foreign company. . . host: any thoughts on his thoughts? guest: i do, but bad news. even if i thought that government spending was capable of creating long term, spendable jobs that the american people can count on, the stimulus report here at the center shows that unemployment is actually not a factor that leads to the decision of spending money no matter how you look at unemployment rates, it is not a factor to how we spend money. you would think that it would, but

host: let's go to one of our e- mails from brandon in baltimore. new hampshire is up next, dan, democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. i think everybody has given the tea party too much credit for being a new movement. this was the -- this is the base of the republican party and became an enduring clinton. it disappears frduring a republican running and reappears when republicans are not in power anymore. host: another e-mail, this one from paul who writes the -- you can e-mail us your comments. you can also find us on twitter. next up, a member of the tea party, jason in athens. caller: i wanted to agree with some of your previous caller to support the tea party movement. primarily those who upset eighth centers on the constitutional concept of the government ought to be limited. i also want to say that most to party members tend not to be racist. obviously, you will find some racist elements within the group, but i think you will find that in just got any organization. the only thing i want to read that maybe someone new to the organ

when brandon passed away, the loss was not only for the neenan family but for the entire country. america lost a true hero, someone dedicated to standing up for the values we hold dear. he was an outstanding young american. when i spoke to hugh after his son's passing, brendan's character shone through despite the fact that mr. neenan was distraught from using -- losing a son. brendan was doing his duty, following a proud family tradition. delivering these speeches is one of the toughest duties any member of congress has to do in his or her tenure here. what with doe here -- do here pales in comparison to what our soldiers are doing overseas. they deserve unending gratitude for their sacrifices. he was laid to rest in arlington national cemetery are alongside 300,000 other american patriots. his tomb there will be an eternal reminder of the loss to our country. the loss was a blow to his father, his stepmother, his brother sim, his sister katy, as well as the entire area in southeast alabama. enterprise and the area surround that part of alabama have seen more than its fair share

as brandon said and as michael said, you can't have a strategy where your first two prongs are to preventinfections and provide access to care when there is a waiting list to provide this care. the failure to address the issue today is going to severely am per the administration administering their plan going forward. that's what is so critical about fixing the crisis today so they have the ability to go forward. that's all i have. thank you very much. >> we will take questions. >> with the shortage of resources due to the economy and so forth, will they acknowledge that they don't have the resources at the moment -- [unintelligible] >> well, the proposal was that they would take money away from the low prevalent states and give it to the high prevalent states. i think that's a prescription for disaster. when we were trying to end smallpox, we went to the remoteest village to find the last case. if you are trying to contain a forest fire you put out the hot spots but you have a ring of containment around the entire thing. do i believe that there could be eefficiencies. yes. ornled, congre