Gaithersburg book festival. I am a volunteer here. Gaithersburg is a city that supports the arts and humanities and im pleased to bring this event thanks to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. If you see a sponsor or volunteer please thank them. A few announcements before we get started. Please silence your cell phones, you dont want cell phones going off during the presentation. If you are on social media and hope you are, use the hashtag gbs. Your feedback is important, there are surveys here, if you register you could win a 100 visa gift card. Who does not want to win a 100 gift card. I know i do. Sally will be signing books after the presentation. Copies of the book are available at politics and prose, quick word, this is a free event. It helps to purchase a book. If you buy a book the more books you sell the more publishers will want to send authors here to talk at the festival so consider purchasing a book if you are able to do so. Lets learn about sally. A seari
And over here. My medic started working on it. It is okay. Two guys got hurt with me, they had been hurt, not going to solve this problem with a lot less. I never went to die but a minute and a half. My tourniquet and left leg turner kept, and two guys were fine. And a helicopter blue me out to kandahar hospital. So good at traumatic injury, leave there alive. And traumatic injury. Trying to get back up, i am mad i am lying on this bed. Jumping my chest, one guys just held me down. I can stop being afraid of showing fear. Saving private ryan, the medic yelling for his mom. My last memories, and you are going to be okay. Shut up and do your job. If i die it is not your fault. My little girl am i ever going to see her again, my girl is 6 months old, my left leg came off with it, triple amputee now. 14 hours of surgery, two nurses, 30 blood transfusions, i had to do month of testing, they didnt have time to go through this procedure to keep me alive. Everything got me going, that was apri
All right. Happy new year, rick, to you and everybody at the chicago merc. We have some serious breaking news from dubai in a scary situation. Here again is sue herera. Absolutely, brian. Here is what we know. A fires a engulfed the address hotel located in downtown dubai. These pictures are coming to us from the Associated Press. This fire broke out just a few hours before dubais massive fireworks display was set to go off. It is in the address hotel. It has engulfed at least 20 floors according to the Associated Press. We dont know the cause of that fire. We dont have any word on casualties. We do know that First Responders are on the scene. Once again, it is a massive fire in a tightly populated area of dubai in a very popular area of dubai im told, and, brian, i think you also stayed at that hotel, have you not z . I have been to that hotel, i have not stayed there. I have been to that region. That is the premiere shopping and recreation and dining destination in dudubai. I dont wa
Commissioner makras, here. Commissioner meiberger [inaudible] all are present. Lets rise and say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Could you please call the next item . [inaudible] thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, well go into closed session at this time. We will resume with our agenda at 2 30. Thank you. Before we go into closed session, we will take Public Comment. Im so glad to be redirected. I and others have strongly objected to the board going into closed session to start your meetings forcing active City Employees to wait several hours in the lobby to reconvene in open session. Using benefited vocation time to be here. As far as i know no other board or commission starts their meetings by rudely going into closed session. This board appears to be the only commission doing so. Fortunately i off
Afternoon, we will go aled and get started. Welcome you tathe regular scheduled meeting of inSan Francisco eployment retirement system. I [inaudible] cohen [inaudible] vice president. Are there any announcements . No. Could you call roll, please . Commissioner cohen, aye. Commissioner [inaudible] on the way. Commissioner makras, here. Commissioner meiberger [inaudible] all are present. Lets rise and say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Could you please call the next item . [inaudible] thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, well go into closed session at this time. We will resume with our agenda at 2 30. Thank you. Before we go into closed session, we will take Public Comment. Im so glad to be redirected. I and others have strongly objected to the board going into closed session to start your meetings forc