law caucus and other asian lawyers and asian law students protesting the admissions criteria, the elimination from the admissions criteria. and there was janana here r invitingly and other attorneys to go on her show to talk about that. i remember that very first interview. the microphone was stuck in my face. "as a first-year law school student, what do you think of this?" and i went, "community." that was all i could say. but i remember jan, and i have watched you for so many years progress over so many different topics. both david and janana in my opinion are the media heroes i grew of with, and they continue even today to the marvelous job of continuing to inspire everybody, bring the news, the stories, the culture forward, so it is my privilege tonight, in light of their accomplishments, to announce that for the very first time, in these awards that we are announcing tonight, that we will be announcing both of them as our winners for the lifetime achievement award finalists. [applause] congratulations. and please come on up here. [applause] [applause]

more than one-third of the population is asian-american and pacific islander. you rock. next speaker is no stranger to this event, but within the last few years, he represented mayor newsome at this very celebration. in january of this year, a new chapter was written when the board of supervisors unanimously voted in city administrator edwin lee to be the mayor of san francisco. he was noted as the best candidate for leading the city for work because of his more than 25 years of experience as a leader in city government. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the hon. edwin m. lee, the mayor of san francisco. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. thank you for that wonderful introduction and thank you for being here. it is the seventh annual celebration. sydney already explained our history, what president carter did for us, and what we are doing for ourselves, joining the whole city and region in celebrating asian-pacific portage month. i am so grateful to the board of supervisors for this whole four months of leaving this great city. i will say once again as i have said throu

that is on the minds of many asian families. i went to lunch with some sixth graders from alice fong. i said, do you want to be in the city? yes, i want to be in the city. they were asking me about twitter. they play some of the zynga games. they did not know that their headquarters were here, but they need to know that, growing up. we want the chinese companies to also use san francisco as their headquarters and to continue to be the gateway. people love that about the city. asian families, the matter their income -- they could be a hotel workers, garment workers, for ceo's, they all want -- or ceo's, they all want a quality city. my job is to make sure they trust government, so that when we say something, we do it. what i do not like it, and past relationships with the government, they could not do what they said. that is where the mistrust comes out. that is why i am going around talking to every community possible. if i can take care of it, i will tell them. if i cannot, i will tell them honestly. i think honesty in governme

that is on the minds of many asian families. i went to lunch with some sixth graders from alice fong. i said, do you want to be in the city? yes, i want to be in the city. they were asking me about twitter. they play some of the zynga games. they did not know that their headquarters were here, but they need to know that, growing up. we want the chinese companies to also use san francisco as their headquarters and to continue to be the gateway. people love that about the city. asian families, the matter their income -- they could be a hotel workers, garment workers, for ceo's, they all

but if you pool books on asian men -- kugel books on asian man, very few books.hink it was a story that i could tell and was a story that i could tell with personal insight and i could -- my story serves as, sort of, the skeletal outline for the story i am trying to tell. so if there is a memoir element to it. the memoir is only a portal and sued the issues that i'm going to try to address. it helps to have a face attached to the general idea is that of the talking about. >> just from what is in the proposal of what you're saying, you're visiting places and they take you to places that are residence from asian history, but it is not necessarily interviewing lots of asians in the communities in that united states. it is not a methodology. >> that's correct. the book has a memoir tone to it. i'm calling it a sociological more i am trying to do what isabela already did, which is to tell a specific story and then to enter weave within the specific stories the context, the larger context, the history. for example, my first chapter -- my first chapter is about a trip t

i think asian community wants a successful city that is balanced. it but not always have to be the pocketbook, but they want a quality city. that is why they came here. it is about the richness of the city in general. do i want to keep living here? do i want to make my life here? that is on the minds of many asian families. i went to lunch with some sixth graders from alice

the second recommendation is for $75,000 to go to -- actually, the asian neighborhood design through an amendment with the contract that exists already with the office of economic and workforce development. any questions? supervisor chu: i think that there will be some questions, but why don't we go to the budget analyst report first? >> madame chair and members of the committee, we have a table, table 1, which shows that the amount in this fund or the revenues that have been received to date since the inception -- $9,191,000 -- $1,991,923. expenditures at it from the fund from the inception to date is $4,067,518, so there is a balance in the fund of approximately $5.1 million. if you approve the $325,000, that would leave a remaining balance of nearly $4,800,000. we point out that the requested $75,000 for the asian neighborhood design is in addition to case management services already being provided by asian neighborhood design, under a separate $50,000 community development block grant managed through the office of economic and workforce development. that contract is on a citywide

we don't have it yet, it "big little man", the asian meltdown of the asian century.lex tizon takes readers on a deep exploration of what it is meant to be an innovation dissent in the western world from the earliest days of the asian migration. beginning with an account of his family's arrival in the united states as philippine immigrants in 1964, tizon is creating that promises to be an elegantly constructed and deeply personal work of sociological observations that explores the historical come as psychological and economic underpinnings of his stereotype so deeply embedded in western culture that asian men believed it themselves. alex tizon. i back [applause] >> and we have two finalists here. first, joe tizon for the fiddler on time to go run, published by simon & schuster. while many authors have given up eliminating works on race in america, joe says mozingo is headed towards his own achievements on the fiddler and can take a run. mozingo, the author informs us is one of the few of all the african surnames to survive slavery in america. most americans i now wait

requested $75,000 for the asian neighborhood design is in addition to case management services already being provided by asian neighborhood design, under a separate $50,000 community development block grant managed through the office of economic and workforce development. that contract is on a citywide basis. although the requested $75,000, which specifically targets the area, the $75,000 request for services only in the area is $25,000 more than the existing $50,000 from the community development block grant funds where in asian neighborhood design is providing such services city-wide. we also note that asian neighborhood design has been selected for this proposed $75,000 allocation without using a separate competitive process, but the department points out that a separate rfp was not utilize for the proposed $75,000 because asian neighborhood design previously went through a process to obtain community development block grant funds, and is currently providing, as i indicated, similar services citywide. our recommendations on page 6 are, one, to approve the portion of resolution to pr

green is the largest share of asians. thank you. what is below the horizontal line, this is the net loss for a particular district. the color red is african- americans, with a loss of about 12,000 people in the last decade. concentrated in districts 5 and districts stand, where we have the asians growth. and district 6 and 10 and 11. latinos, the consensus -- you can indicate if you are of any race. this shows if people indicated that they were latino. district 6 have the largest growth. the strychnine had a loss of their population, compensated -- district 9 had a loss of their population. they pretty much speak for themselves all the labels may not be readable. this was 48%, with the african- americans in the southeast. and also in the western addition, the number sides are dropping. asians in the western part, and chinatown, and also increasingly in district 10. what is next? the latinos in these neighborhoods, i think the highest is in district 9 with 36%. >> good evening, commissioners. i will be talking about household educati

i do remember the asian law caucus, by the way. 39 years, the celebration was friday. you were there. is truly an honor, and thank you for coming to celebrate this month. all of you and your presence means so much to those of us on stage and those of us especially being recognized with an award. it takes a community after all to move our voices forward, to move our issues forward, and you are all part of that community. whether you are the part of the community at the forefront making laws, whether you are the part of the community in the corporate forefront, and thank you to target and everyone in the corporate community. we certainly need you. and whether you are in a public service community. we certainly need you. those of us in the broadcast community -- i think david and i have truly said so many years that we need to have a voice, and we would encourage anyone to have that voice. and it has been an honor for me to be part of the voice to move the issue that we think is so important forward in terms of television. and those of us inside the broadcasting world hav

i can go off and preach about the fact they think so many of us asian american authors and asian authors in general tend to go back and write about our ancestors and write about things in our past not our specific past but may be of of ancestors and mothers and grand mothers. we have been telling their story. i think the generation to come, will be telling stories of living here. it will be different stories. but the oppression of our voices have been for so many, many years, if you think back the first writer who was read in terms of asian american was maxine kingston. i read her in high school and was greatly affected by reading about the woman warrior. before her there were few. there were some but didn't make that economic splash. they were never read in a large way. maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. she was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. so much of it is timing. it meant all the history and the voices before then had been silent. my generation of writers came in and we heard stories of women and men and the family of a

-born asians and latinos. i'm not here at the point the rosy picture that tomas has said we are guilty of. my work has come to the idea of exceptionalism. that distance is not bridged as closely between african- americans and whites. >> let me speak about the politics of this and the discourse surrounding it. you're all painting a picture of more unity than division, for the trend toward more unity on the ground, whether racial identity, politics, but the politics and the discourse seems to belie all of that. whether we are afraid that sharia law will become the law of the united states, or white people have more racial discrimination than blacks, the discourse seems to belie all of this and suggest that we are in fact been torn apart by these things. the first panel pointed out how or politics are becoming increasingly fragmented. can you speak about the the coupling between what we see going on on the ground and the way that we talk about this? jennifer, let's start with you. >> oh, gosh. one of the things i

eastern, brenda, only hours before the asian markets only. what do you expect? >> the real fear here is that there may be a sell off. i would not say anything close to a crash but the truth is, the deal is, that all of this activity, that has been going on terms of the debt deal and breaking down and all of that, happened after the markets closed on friday. so, this is going to be our very first chance to see what wall street -- asian traders feel, now when the markets opened in tokyo at 8:00 p.m., there are u.s. stocks that trade there. and, that could have an impact. the main fear is not so much the debt ceiling, but the whole concept of our debt being downgraded from aaa ratings, to something less. and, s&p says there is about a 50% chance of that happening. and, what does that mean? that means, basically, when your credit rating goes down, you

we do have an asian art museum and many cultural institutions in chinatown. let's think about some of these larger areas and how we can work with these organizations to provide what is we're looking for. >> thank you. supervisor chu: the arts commission did not have any recommendation with regard to cuts, so why don't we move forward to the fine arts museum? >> good morning, supervisors. i'm the director of the fine arts museum in san francisco and want to begin by thanking the city and county of san francisco for its support of the fine arts museum which includes the museum in golden gate park and the palace of honor in lincoln park. i think the supervisors' budget analysts and mayor's budget analysts and other departments which have participated in the construction of our budget and would say over the past few days we have worked with those analysts to come to an understanding and acceptance of a reduction in our budget of $41,950. we do accept that, supervisors. >> madam chair, the number is $41,931 of general fund reductions for your consideration. superv

visitation valley is home to 60% asians. i could not very well do the work that should be done by the police officers. that is the reason why i suggested that an officer go to talk to the seniors, to take this agreement to the senior group and make sure they are here because they do have a lot of concerns they addressed to me. all in all, i want to thank everybody for being here, but we have much more work to do to make sure that communication is not only done through e-mail. we have to find other ways to help the community. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, members of the commission, and our new chief. i am the principle of this edition valley middle school, and i welcome you -- i am the principal of visitation valley middle school, and i welcome you to our beautiful school. i want to put the word out for the work that the men and women of ingleside station do everyday. i have been here 12 years. i have seen many changes in 12 years. they are all for the better. a lot has to do with the close cooperati

do you worry about asian communities may not approve it -- thinking together -- two things? >> i have not had a chance to review the school bond proposal. there are several government structures, so they can place things on the bonds without our authority. i will say, with a lot of bands, the asian community has always been concerned about the quality of schools. you talk to any asian family in general, they hope that schools improve because it is their kids getting into it -- education. if they believe the school board will increase the opportunity for their kids to have a better education, there is no doubt they will vote in favor of it.

markets and asian markets and uncertainties with the debt ceiling in the u.s. and ongoing concerns about euro zone debt continue to dampen market sentiment. we did see the dow closing lower and key asian indexes lower on monday, as well. the nikkei playing catch up here as markets were closed yesterday for a public holiday. and having broken above 10,000, just a couple of weeks ago, it is consistently pushed below that level for the last four trading sessions in a row so we're going 0 see how the nikkei fares today. the currency markets have reflected euro zone issues and u.s. debt concerns with the dollar and the euro weaker against the yen. having a look at the currency levels right now, the dollar-yen trading around the 79 yen levels and actually traded around the 78 yen levels in stock trading hours yesterday. and around the 111 level for the euro to the yen. european banks stress test results on friday i should say also add a little bit of concern to the banking sector and their ability to handle any future debt defaults and weighed somewhat on the euro. a

on the asian children's book the five chinese brothers, a play called four chinks and a dike. there's also the dream of kitsumura which was inspired by a dream you had about your father. this play, way back, before it became this play was an adaptation of the 1954 play rashamon. how did you get from rashamon to this. >> the original idea was that i was going to do an adapt daition of rashamon. cary pearloff said you want to do a play for us, how about adapting rashamon. i said, sure. as is the case when i do this, sometimes i go in a straight line and sometimes i end up somewhere totally different. i've grown to accept it, that i'm going to follow the horse wherever it goes and hope that the theater is comfortable with it. so it started off as rashamon and i couldn't find an entree into it. for me, when i do an adaptation, i try to frame it in present day life context or contextualize it in another moment and bring that skeletal story line structure into it. and i couldn't make any headway. then a story that had been kind of floating around in my head kind of came to the fore,