i didn't have the story or the culture unfortunately because i was born in san francisco, half chinesef japanese but raised in the chinese culture. when it was time to write the second book and i knew i wanted to explore my japanese side it was going to be difficult in the way that i didn't know the culture. right away i had to learn a lot. it was something that was not engrained in me besides the story. i sat down and thought about the story my mother told me about her brother being ill. he at one point went from hong kong to japan to recuperate. he was the one that wanted to be an artist and wanted to paint. i thought about that because it must have been hard growing up in hong kong to be far away from everything and have a dream and get sick at this point. i thought u is there a story here? that's the way it begins for writers. people think things jump out and we have it in our head. it's the opposite we have nothing in our head. we turn on the machine and praying for something to come. with women of the silk i researched for 6 amongs and read and read and read. in one book i found

and because i had grownup in the chinese culture i wanted to write about china. i wanted to find out more about myself because of i was raised in the bay area and because i didn't know culturally a lot of things i wanted to know. i knew i wasn't going to write about myself and knew that i was not going to write about my family. but i wanted to write about an aspect about china and women. those were the 2 things i knew when i began the first book. i was fortunate enough to it stumble upon the silk working women which gave me everything i wanted. it gave me the culture. it gave me a sense of what it meant to be a female chinese women in that time and a sense of empowerment on what they had done. regardless of what they understood they were doing at the time. they didn't know it was a culture that was earning money and living independent of husbands and family that was doing everything against what it meant to be in the chinese culture. i hadn't heard about that and it was perfect. it was exactly what i was looking for. i can go off and preach about the fact they th

that, you know, s using ourson i culture as a mockery. >> the flour was riposted on a by 1491.page owned at last check, the post had been shared more than 500 times. the assistant manager would not n camera, but he admitted the bar had been swamped with -- calls and e-mails. >> it was never meant to offend any ethnicity. >> i think it is time for native sayicans to speak up and things bother us. >> it is obviously offensive. you are -- you could lose men. amazing that this was posted 10 hours ago and now the has canceled the event. >> we're following some breaking news. has suffered ditka a minor stroke. the 73-year-old was the head coach of the chicago bears. buts expected to recover, appearing one television this weekend. a local teacher is facing charges tonight after sexuallyused of assaulting students way back in the 1960's. police arrested christopher kloman, charging him with sexual four of hislving students. detectives first learned of the from a former student who years of age. the sex scandal surrounding petraeus took a backseat to another important issue. congressional hearing

culture? . >> well, i didn't necessarily conclude they were a violent culture, i just concluded there was violence in their culture. the evidence is very clear where you find masker sites, where every place you drop a trench there are bodies, unburied bodies missing their heads, in some cases where there will be a head in one room and you can match it up to the body which is in another room 100 yards away and they didn't just end up there; somebody took the head off. and there will be places where it's all femurs, all gathered together. and places where it's obviously some kind of warfare event where people are all huddled into one spot and they have all been burned there. the record is very clear of some intense violence and it comes up at a very certain point in time. it comes up in the 10th century right before large migrations you see this layer of violence. and it doesn't cover everything. sometimes a series of pueblos will all be destroyed over here and then a series of pueblos over here are in perfect condition as far as the walls aren't broken down, there aren't bodies all over the place.

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hopey that you are able to get a larger cultural center is because the population is going and iey that we are able to get you a larger cultural center and get you the resources that you need to run the cultural and art programs and so on behalf of the city l u b n a and jeff this is our arab heritage month celebration proclimation. (applause). and go giants: enjoy everybody.. >> thank you mr. mayor. (applause). . >> yeah, mayorly thank you very much for the letting us use your house here tonight and letting -- we really appreciate it we know that you ran from the game to get here and so we really appreciate your commitment to our community and we are happy that you are here to celebrate this momentous day with us. we have an awesome community here, we are here to celebrate the awesomeness of our community the dedication of our community and, you know we are hebe here to serve all of you so really this award should go to everybody here in our community. thank you very much. (applause). >>> and i just want to echo jeff's words and say thank you for having us here today and thank y

i. culture is that so much about the mayor's money lending his interest in his people that area china has successfully transition to sell through another leadership change the last decade has witnessed this country transformed at tremendous speed. mission and free cretaceous free in-store charges free from a german free. three stooges free. download free blog cancelling videos for your media projects a free media dog r t v dot com. bubble before i walk into notes we have a lot of groups of the causes of sluices also i do's in the writing of gods. my marriage was like man yeah it wasn't. when i was fifteen years old you can't live there when you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun salute to the social change you can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women. i'm going to stop going to across. the patient. population and to construction to stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan.

. >> a lot of folks talked about the culture of a school and improving the culture of a school. when i was doing background research on bullying one thing that came to mind was sort of the differences in different cultures which could be in two different schools in the same city about who the victims of bullying might be and the hot shots in each of the schools, so for example research showed that the social attitudes within a particular setting and the community and the parents can manifest themselves in terms of who folks are picking out to target; right? so for example at maybe a high end school like lowell ore gunn you might have bullying because you're not taking enough ap class. i have heard this and there is so mush pressure and criticized by the peers if they're not smart enough. in other schools it's the opposite and bullied because they are smart when that is not the krult. maybe in texas where it's a different culture that we saw in the movie that perhaps football is everything and if a child isn't good at sports they're an outcast. i would like to ask how or if addressing t

i am also, as an employee of the lgbt center, and a supporter of lgbt culture i want to ensure that disappointment with the in a position to be a champion of that culture. i know that is important to the fabric of that neighborhood, and that area. i want to work to support that. i know that it is more important than ever coming up with the projected growth that is going to be taking place. i know the neighborhood there are issues, affordable housing is no doubt a major issue. i know that the cac along with myself i very much aware of the need to have a good mix of housing. and as well as pedestrian access and safety. every day i walk form -- avenue to octavia to go to the center, to go to work. when i get to work as it in an office that overlooks the market octavia intersection. i have a good sense of how nasty of an intersection that is an allowed the dangers that occur with the automobiles and cyclists and pedestrians converging. i am committed to not only improving the pedestrian experience but making it a safer experience as well. this is an opportunity. i am looking forward to it. you have an

start to become homogenized, if you let that start to become blank, then i think you begin to suffer from this idea of cultural invisibility. who is who and what is what? i don't want to lose that in the music, just as the way the authors who formerly so eloquently spoke. that's what i'm trying to do when i put these songs to the. with that, i would like to give you the second arrangement and last song. i was taught pala singing. we tune because we care. i was taught how to sing by a man named dr. barney horner, who is the great grandson of chief john grass from standing rock reservation in south dakota. one of the songs he gave me before he passed on, on indigenous people's day in 1995, was a song that he called the blue horse special. the blue horse special is the song that i have been fortunate enough to be able to play in a lot of different performance contexts. it's a song that was made by a man named matthew too bold, a very well respected elder whose wife, ellie, just recently passed on. both of them were very well respected for their singing skills. when i thought about doing an arrangement for today,

resistance is not the politics but a culture i. just couldn't pass. on its own. cultures of resistance on our team. and i. don't. marvel at all. this are going to. be the start. you've got to me no. no you don't have to tell me knows how to change so much ok and if i did imagine that in iraq and i try the coming out face something but you know i'm totally fine if i did not address ok thank you you know that you know have an honor for me to think that some research you believe is all your son probably won't be very happy with what you do and you can go and stuff up oh my only is that if you are you understand you can go and stand out in your stand that you feel i need to ask if you can go. i'm going to be truthful i used for the father to find you and i wrote him because for me you can be cared for. him alan is thank you ok now can i have on a memo thank you yes and information which is the other side of the story before making the decision you know one hundred dealership to ask about what's wrong times you know saying so be careful if it's a night or made out of q

and, to think of a culture that when you grow up you have no brothers, no sisters, no uncles, no aunts, no cousins i mean think in our own frame work, in our own culture how important these relationships are to us. and here we have a whole society of single child people. and the crisis in terms of not one set of parents for ten children taking care of them in their old age, but now the pyramid is reversed and you have one child who's taking care of four grand parents. so you have, in a sense, a demographic time bomb in china that's slowly ticking, yet given the expansive population of 1.2 billion people, they had literally no choice but to curb population and in a way that seems draconian to us and indeed draconian to them. but we see people in urban environments are very constricted housing, they understood that to continue without regulation would create a population pressure that would eat up any surplus they would ever create. and they have especially in the country side this is still not very well under control, but in the cities those one child families are emerging more and less like the midd

>> i feel fortunate to work for the school of arts and culture at the mexican heritage plaza. sing to work with this beautiful group of individuals. i work for other institutions and i go to all their schools, and i have to tell you that our kids, our latino kids, are by far the most creative, the most colorful. they are always bursting with ideas and with texture and color that they bring into the artwork. so to me it's a pleasure. and it informs my work as well. >> and it's not just free time where the kids go out and have fun. they're learning a lot in your classroom. >> yes, they are. i teach the drawing and the painting class, and we start with fundamental skills. i have them do a little bit of warm-up. it is very much my thing to start them way five-minute warm-up. this is how we enter the studio. we are now thinking about creating our work. our hands need to behave differently. our eyes, our minds. we need to get in line with everything that is about to happen. it's not like writing, and it's not like running around. it's a focus. and it's a very particular time for us t

i love the culture. i love how efficient public transportation is. >> he's right.ting around prague is easy. from trains to trams to horse-drawn carriages and river boats for sightseers. but most of all, it's a city for walking. there's so much to see and hear. [ small ensemble plays ] and you had better plan on exercise to work off the great food you find around every corner. a particular treat is a tasty pastry called "trdelnik." dough is rolled around a stick, heated, and then dusted with cinnamon. delicious! >> everybody should come to prague to see, like, remnants of communism. and it's great, 'cause it's a bridge between western and eastern europe. so, prague's, like, a really unique place in europe. >> while i was there, the city was mourning the death of its first freely elected president, vaclav havel. in 1989, he helped lead the young country from communism to democracy. since the transition was peaceful, it's known as prague's velvet revolution. one thing you can't do in prague is lose track of time. clocks are everywhere, all shapes and sizes. in fact,

i'm here with the california music and culture association. as i believe you know, cmac is california's only trade association representing that life interest. we are industry representatives, nightclub owner, artists, fans dedicated to enrichment and preservation of music and culture in california. a 6,000 to 17,000 seat venue will certainly fill a critical void. cmac is hoping this will augment the burgeoning night life and restaurant scene with an influx of new visitors. we also look forward to working with the warriors to make sure their venue is self managed and local talent and promoters are able to take advantage of proposed new facility. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> madam chair and members, i'm with the san francisco travel association. we couldn't be more supportive of this effort to bring a world class sports and entertainment arena to san francisco. as you know, tourism is a major industry in san francisco, bringing in 8.5 billion supports 41,700 jobs and contributes 426 million to the city budget. this would create thousands of mo