maybe for me, i did not go to fashion school. i learned through looking what was about fashion in tv. at that time, it was only coutoure. and ready to wear. it was for france. like industrial things. no, only coutoure because it was aristocracy, the spirit of france. until the end of the 1980's. the designers of the 1980's. anyway, i was seeing that coutoure, made me dream. i realize that there were people that were not from coutoure but as good as coutoure. when i saw when i thought, i love it. it is nice in different. very creative. fabulous, ginzo. but i love coutoure. the way i was looking at magazines. i what -- i must say that my teacher was a journalist, explaining the clothing. now we call them stylists, which in reality was an editor, especially one which is a dead now. it was very inspiring. one from the magazine "elle." f fabulous, fabulous editor. she was mixing the close. she was doing something else than the panoply. matching, like in coutoure. she was taking an overall and putting with high heels and glamorous jewel

for me, it was evident. the male object. i always felt, not consulted because i do not consider myself as a woman, but i felt insulted for the woman to say, you know, there was that expression for the woman. [speaking foreign language] she had a lot to say, a very modern woman. i say, is that completely stupid? maybe she is beautiful. so i say that the men i show will be balanced. i do not say that is the only object, not at all. unless maybe. but i want to show that community and men. and i wanted to show the masculinity in the woman. >> humans and in passing just now farida kelfer, the was the beginning of the showing on the runway, models who were not typical of the models at the time. i am sorry to say that is this still true that we see so little diversity on the runways. it is really shameful. you have always thought their direct there are -- showing that there is a recurrence of the beauty from debra countries and origins. >> i was 11 or 12 in a school that was mixed. there were boys and girls. there was one girl i rem

it is possible for me to play its two or three minutes later. it gives me satisfaction when someone says, i can't believe you played the song i requested. it totally made my year. i have always been interested in different types of music. everything from classical music, rock bands, salsa bands, also in a polka band. i have to play songs the fans like, whether i like it or not. i do it because i want to make the fans happy. >> be very charming man waiting for your tweets. that brings to this show to a close. you can find the dates on our web site. on twitter. -- you can find us on twitter. see you tomorrow. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture new ventures and help provide capital for key strategic decisions. we offer expertise and tailored solutions in a wide range of industri

it was huge for me and huge for him. we learned how to become a team. and we had, my brother had a crisis and wrote me a letter about it, kind of a stunning letter that came like a time bomb, when he was quite young, barely 50 that he had a rare form of non smoker's lung cancer. it was all typed out like the fruit in a control freak way, a lawyers letter that came by fed excompletely mysterious when we had just been together at thanksgiving for 4 or 5 days. i get this manifesto, i am asking you to save my life. my life changed completely when that letter came into my life. then the great task was with how to come together, which we did. again, it was a huge experience. i never thought i would write about it. i didn't think i could bring myself to. >> yet you took notes all the way through? >> of course. i write in a journal almost everyday. i was trying to come up with a new book idea. i wanted to write about this. the first day was to meet with sara to meet about books. we discovered that we both had an older brother thing that she had a brother who was

for me, it was so strong, the impression. it was beautiful. and with a lot of meaning for me. it was meaning for people like a minority can come together strong and impact. at the same time, visually and spiritually. i wanted to show that beauty. after my time there, michael was to show the beauty seinfield. -- my goal was to show the beauty i felt. i should make a parallel. what i felt was, for example, jewish has been like rejected, have been rejected. me, for other reasons. and when you have -- there are some people that to be integrated, they change themselves. they hide it themselves. i decided not to hide myself, like the fact that my sensibility was different than my situation was different. i could express it because i went into fashion, and in fashion, there is a lot of gay, so i did not suffer. a lot suffer. i think every minority is that they are ashamed and they do not say that they are. i felt the it was good. you should not ask to be ashamed and to hide yourself. to me, it is courage. i'm sure for a lot of people. maybe they did not say because it is some taboo li

to me, there was nothing really to me is except for a little sleep. i feel i have learned so much more. it has been empowering. i have had friends and family step up to the plate to help me and give me encouragement, and i have felt so much in love that i never really thought i would. i have just been pleasantly surprised by how rewarding in has been on many different levels outside of getting into incredible shape and making it here at the age of 40. tavis: it may not mess with your legacy, butould it mess with your head? >> i do not think so. tavis: i do not want to find you in a mental institution one year from now because it did not work out. >> no, i am much more stable than that, and i feel that one of the reasons i wanted to do it is because at the end of my career -- so in the 1988 olympics, i did three germans and one metals. in the other olympics, i only swam two records, and i won the silver. a few days later, i won the gold medal. so i left those with a gold and a silver, to make it three gold and one silver, but i hated that. by the time t

it is a lot easier said than done. >> well, it happened for me. children have never embarrass me in the sense that i never had to stop what i was doing because they behave in such a way that it is like, what did you do? they were normal kids. as things develop over time, they will tell me some things that i do not know about. they have been the architects of their own lives. i wanted that. i did not care what they had done -- what they will do in life as much as what kind of people they are. i can tell who they are in this world by the friends that are around them. i have been really -- you know, you talk about, are people going to be jealous of you? if they would, it would be these children, in my mind. >> -- tavis: how did this conservative, baptist family take you telling you you wanted to go to hollywood? how did they take that? >> my mom was worried about it. she said, those people always have so much trouble. richard burton and liz taylor cannot make up their mind if they are in love, out of love, whatever. they were not interested at all in

he turned out to be a guru figure for me. sometimes you don't get to understand everything. >> what turned, finally? i mean he is on some levels, cranky, right up until the last day, so what changed for you and would this have happened if he didn't have a life threatening illness crisis? >> i have often asked that. i don't know what the answer to that is. what changed that is so profound and fundamental and coming over on the plane, i wrote 5 points that i thought was that worked for me in transforming. many people have said to me, how do we make it better with a sibling? what changed for us was the first thing that happened is, this is now my rule 1, take action. i flew out to the orchards, i panicked after 9/11. i would never get this better. what was i going to do? like everyone in new york and america, we were so traumatized with 9/11. i said to my husband, i am going to go out to the orchards. >> this is before you knew he was sick? >> i knew. he was still going full speed and no one would have known he was sick. he wasn

thank you very much for joining me. >> thanks very much for having me. >> that's it for this week. at our "take action" page for the latest on how people are organizing to make a difference. also on the web -- correspondence from the tucson unified school district. they objected to several things said during my recent conversation with luis alberto urrea. >> now the tucson unified school district's take on this is that you weren't banned, you were boxed. >> what do they mean by that? >> they didn't really ban it. they just took it out of brown hands. they banned mexicans basically. they got rid of mexican-american studies. they put all of the books that they took away from the students, they boxed them and put them away. the catch-22 seems to be that anybody who's not from that ethnic studies world could teach it, but that there would be disciplinary action as i understand it if anyone complains about those being taught. so in essence they've been, what i call a soft-banning. they're out of the picture. >> in the interest of a fair and open discussion, we invited urrea to respond t

and i think that really is for me the best place to go to experience love. is sharing. d i got to share a lot of myself and a lot with others and from others in the making of this album. for example, i wrote a couple of these tunes on -- with a gentleman by the name of "michael natter." he's in his 60's and been pling his guitar for 40 years. he plays a martin guitar he bought in the 1960's off the shelf. and through our sharing of ideas and music, we were able to create some songs that vended up on this album -- that have ended up on this album. he's raised six kids and 1 -- and grandchildren in a one bedroom shack in san diego. he becomes a mentor on how i can raise a family and how i can use my gifts to help others. and now through the songwriting, it's going back to contribute to his life. and now in his 60's he's working as a professional songwriter. through our relationships. there's songs about relationship with my family, and some -- i lost my aunt during the process of this album. which made me really want to tribute my grand dad. that was kind of our connection

>> for me -- we were just talking about this. for me it is generally speaking these kind of conferences are amazing because they're big and on one hand you get to connect with people in your field that you don't see except at conferences and you can see them in a group and you can sort of get a sense of what's new in the scholarship, and that's exciting. and part of it also is meeting these people in other fields in totally different time periods and engaging conversation and getting feedback in a way that there is no other way you can get that kind of feedback. and i have been basically sitting in a room by myself writing for a long time. by coming here and actually talking in public about this project and getting feedback is kind of amazing. and the fact the feedback is from a range of scholars both on the panel and in the audience is wonderfully useful because you get all sorts of questions you would never think of yourself and, really, can help you conceptualize a project. >> do you go back into that dark room after being her

brzezinski, it's always a pleasure for me to meet you and you have been at all, the center of global fairs for so many decades. and it has been one of my source of inspiration and honor to get all good advices and councils from you and you have been such a good, strong partner of the united nations and i really count on your continuing such support. and i also am glad to see dr. shawn henry who has been a good friend and supporter of the united nations. i am very happy to see him in good health and i'm looking forward to working very closely with this csis. we have long been partners. we have shared information and ideas. and people, too. ladies and gentlemen, we are here to talk about peace building. the topic could not be more timely or important. peace building and prevention on the agenda i have set out. as i began my second term as secretary general of the united nations. and throughout the world, the united nations is helping fragile countries through delicate across the country transitions. we are there at the crucial period immediately following the end of hostilities, helping

and for me the questions that that brings up that still require urgent answer are, you know, what kind of country the confederacy wanted to build. what was succession for? these versions of the questions of the causes of the civil war. so the history of the war is to use contemporary evidence from the period to talk about the causes, the dynamics, the consequences. so, to me, the historical legacy and the living legacy seem at odds. the civil war was, you know, in many ways the simplest way to understand it, i think, to me at least, it was a profound crisis of legitimacy in american democracy. you know, a war that tried to resolve by military means a political -- to settle something that could not be settled legislatively or electorally about the legitimacy of human bondage and about the power of the government to restrain it in a democratic society. that was the heart of the fight. and the way that was settled was definitive. the confederacy was beaten into total and unconditional surrender. so, to me, the most important historical legacy of the war has to do with the profound and las

it is, for me, a moment of being proud of our department and everybody in it. hard for people to come out and say where they have been. but this police department, with this video, how it is put together, is now joining a worldwide campaign. a campaign that we have been forced to acknowledge. it has to be done because of the numbers of stories that we have heard across the country. in cities like ours. bullying, harassment, discrimination have caused young teenagers to consider the worst of life at their age. that isolation and loneliness that accompanies that, the have not been heard by adults and people and had not seen partners in their areas. the consideration of suicide has been unveiled in this country because of that. the trevor project and the it gets better movement started about 1.5 years ago. it has made it through different point of the country -- different parts of the country, political persons of notoriety, including nancy pelosi all the way up to secretary of state clinton and president obama himself, recently. we felt and i have very much suppor

for you. >> excuse me?> now everyone will know you solved my problem and you must be important. >> what's wrong with you? i defended you. >> you defended yourself. >> fine. the cartoon was disgusting. >> i'd hadnlendled it. if i wanted to go forward, joey would have been off it and out of my hair. >> it's the same result. >> you want to be a big shot. get,tter how pweruowerful we secretaryven i'm a and you're a humorless -- >> have a nice weekend. >> that was funny. good to see you again. i told you, it was good to see you. i thought i wouldn't see you a while. >> yeah. i'm glad it's over. it all worked out. i a mhoping when -- am hoping people will see it and be happy. it won't be discussed again. tavis: i will play a clip. we haven't seen you in a while. this is from david e. kelly. we started with a montage of his work. after this montage, i asked him -- >> that's a lot of work. tavis: a lot of good work. i said, what annoys you about this industry? it has changed so d ramatically. he said -- >> i have d

things were going good for me and then all of a sudden all hell breaks loose. ight. i don't know how long i'm going to be in here. >> in ad seg inmates are housed in their cells 23 hours a day. men here spend their days with limited human contact. >> this is the dead. i mean, to me this is a big cemetery. and right now i don't need that in my life. this happened at a messed up time. to be cut off from society, i mean the population, trying to put everything together. the pieces do not fit together right now. i wish i could get with eric. i miss my partner. i haven't been able to write my music. i've been able to write but i've been stagnant because that's how we collaborate together. when i come out of this cell i'm going to have at least five or ten new songs. some dealing with the emotional stress that i'm under, some positive. i think i have more negative than positive songs due to the heat, me wanting to be free. there's just so much going through my mind right now. i have to put it on paper. i don't have nobody to talk to, listen to me write. i'm going to p

i love that my grandma put it into perspective for me. that was the best legacy for me. let me tell you that the best hero for you in the book is on the last page. because the last page are blain they say your hero's photograph and story here. i promise you, take picture of your mother or grandma or military member of your family. you put the picture in the book, on mother's day or any other day. you write one sentence what they've done for you whether it's a teacher or coworker or whatever. it's the most important hero in the "heros for my daughter." that's the way it should be. that should be the best page. the last page is one of my here rows and i actually have a special guest to introduce that hero to you. now, i want to be clear here. when you go to dan brown's book signing he doesn't bring leonardo dray virchl sei. i brought my daughter with me. i want to introduce you to my daughter lisa meltzer. here she is. >> are you ready? >> yes. >> hold on. yeah. fighter. mother, she's the most important hero in here. my mom. when she was in fourth grade, the category five h

thank you for waiting to the end for me to talk. i will talk about the housing needs for adults with disabilities who are not seniors. as mr. sloan, our first speaker, said, they cannot get into this housing. it has matured -- as mr. richards said, it is very hard for them to apply for the vouchers and it is hard to get the man arts to take them. one big disadvantage for the adults with disabilities in this city is public housing. this woman was not a senior when she came to san francisco and was not a senior when she lived in standard housing. she finally got into public housing when she was a senior, but to others it is closed now. i have been working with adults with disabilities and i have material i can e-mail to you. thank you. >> congratulations, christina. >> thank you. it cracks i have a speech -- >> i have a speech impairment, so it is quite to take me more than two minutes, but i will do my best. i am here with my mobility service document to testify before you how these budget cuts have altered by life. i am a person with

each one of the people that has worked for me, with me, i should say, not for me, have been very specialof, you know, advertising for an apprentice or anything like that. they cross sometimes the oceans to come here. armit, for instance, he came and asked to be with me. and how can you refuse somebody, they ask from such an exotic and faraway place and he's also a four generation silversmith himself. i decided anybody that goes to that extent must be a very special person, and he certainly is. anthony has been with me 38 years. >> his genius was scary. right from the beginning. here i was 25 years old he's got four generations of craft, and i didn't know anything about it. i couldn't keep up with him. i couldn't do it. how the heck am i going to do this?! the hardest thing i had to learn that he taught me was not to be afraid of the metal. not on afraid to melt it, not to be afraid to bend it and do what you had to do to get it done. and i just stuck with it, and eventually it just kind of all came together. >> in alchemy, you would only teach your secrets, mysteries to another. and went

they have been supporting me for a long time. behind this individual all board, there's a team of people that are responsible for making things happen. just for a moment, i want the puc to raise their hand and give a shout. we have a lot of folks who really committed in making the systems wwork. again, we have billions of dollars that we are entrusted with delivering in a timely way, which needs to be within budget. systems like this will really elevate and make it really transparent that we are delivering these programs in a very conscious and deliberate way so we can save the ratepayers' money. with that, i just want to thank you guys for this award. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> if you are a consultant or you work for a company that does work for the puc, raise your hand. that's about half the room. thank you, harlan kelly. >> it does not matter just where you're going to go. it matters how you're going to get there. our team came together in 2008 and we started looking at procuring something to navigate us away from pap