>> i did the best i could dealing with the circumstances. within those circumstances, i did the best i could at the time. i would not say there was something i would do differently. you know, there were things that shaped my mind to make the kinds of decisions i was making. i was incredibly bright. despiteuse i didn't -- all of the accomplishments and the picture that created and high-school -- active in sports, basically had a b average -- but i was not studying. i could have a b average without studying, and getting high every day, and working, and all of those activities. i had decided -- the straight a student pretty much an elementary school, but i decided, what was all the work for? i could not be happy. i believe if i had a mentor in high school, -- i think i look like the kid who was going to be fine, so no one thought that i needed a mentor of any sort. she is really fine. and they were right, essentially. but i believe if i have had a mentor who could see beneath the surface, i would have gone on -- i absolutely would have finished

then i try to make it black. that did not work. the texture of the paintings, because i was putting paintings on him, did not go with it. so i had to destroy it and start again. blue, red, start again. all the make up was the makeup of my grandmother. you can see an exhibition a teddy bear. i should say that he is a little nice monster, but it is a little monster anyway. you know, i have some affinity with air. i'd love the air. i love to touch the air. >> i hope you like my hair, because of a drag queen's last night were trying to touch it. [laughter] >> for the moment, i am not yet a drag queen. but you can look at that photograph of me. thank you for the inspiration. [laughter] >> well we are joking about the corsets, you say it had a message. it was not showing the women in their undergarments for sexual reasons. it was to show their strong women. certainly madonna personified that. >> definitely. >> was it actually madonna in in 1990, the blond ambition tour, but this was not the first time you had done these bras. there was a

i did it as a younger actor, i worked on a crutch for a summer where you did two or three shakespeares, and you did a different one almost every night, and it is an amazing experience to have that kind of variety from night to night, and this certainly is a challenge, in your 7 now, to find those things that are fresh and interesting -- in year 7 now, to find those things that are fresh and interesting. it makes it challenging. the characters grow. things happen in their lives. this job has a big impact on their personal lives and on their psyches, and that is interesting. tavis: this is season 7. what is your sense about what makes this show work? it can be freaky, as we said earlier, and there are so many of these crimes shows. just because it is the thing to do does not mean that you will make it. they have lost some that did not work out. >> it is the universality, this is a proposition, maybe, but i thought about it. it may just be the universality which are sure addresses every week, which is, what happened in this person's life? this heinous crime. what happened in this person's

i go on tour with the vendor show, -- the banjo show, and i did not want in who to seem like it would be a guy who plays with his back to the audience and then walks off. i wanted to incorporate comedy. i feel like i am onstage entertaining people like i did in the 70's of with the new attitude, and this helps. i am always talking to people who were shy of find refuge in on stage in front of thousands of people. i've never connect with me -- that never connects with me. >> it is not personal when you are on stage. it does not overcome shyness, but it is a way to be a hero, and being a hero makes it easy to walk into a room. did you have a way to meet girls because you have overcome. you have something to talk about, and i am not sure if it really works or not. now i am married, so i am not into that anymore. everybody has their own problems. this is one of mine. tavis: i was saying to a friend of mine the other day that i to go on stage, and i did a tight three minutes, and i will remember for as long as i live for two reasons. one, i will never do it again. i have never gone on stage

think i did come together with that business. the fact that i serve coffee and tea, i should not be denied a permit because of that. because my primary business is the been for my country's, and for my continent. i do have as evidence, if necessary, every single business in my 300 mi. radius -- president garcia: 300 ft. >> 300 ft., thank you. whether or not they had african coffee beans or tee boxes for sale. they said, no. many of them did not have any specific type of coffee that they were pursuing, and many served lipton tea. thank you. do you have any questions? president garcia: i'm sure i do, but i will wait for others to respond. commissioner fung: miss the was, what is the size of your card? >> is about two and a half feet by 5 ft.. commissioner fung: and as i understand it, you are asking for 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m.? >> i was asking for 24 hours, but at the beginning of the process, a dpw representative went to the police department and came back with a modified time, and i agreed with that. that was the time that was publ

i expected my father to have a different reaction than he did. he looked about me and said, are you happy? i said, yes. he said, he looked down and said, then who gives a shit? >> and then he said, maybe solve all is not a good idea. softball is true all gayness for women. >> i started crying and i broke down and started -- and told them. i want you to know that i am gay. there was a very long pause and me crying and all of a sudden, my grandfather, who is, by all means, the typical person that would not accept someone who is gay, he broke the silence and said, stacy, we love you. >> my whole world suddenly opened up. >> telling that first person was a big deal. after the first few people, i just started acting like it was everybody should know this. >> this is who i am. >> i will never forget this. i opened the door, my dad is out there. he looks at me and says, i am so sorry if i ever said fag. >> my life now is great. >> i would have missed the first time being held by someone i love. loving, i would have missed experiencing the joy and jubilat

i said ok and she looked in my backpack. she did not find anything and i felt -- i felt very uncomfortable because i wanted to be treated like a student and not a criminal. [applause] >> i am james carey -- james. you have a label our school i hard to sell school. we need these teachers to return next year. they represent the best and brightest of our faculty. one a former businesswoman, one a former lawyer, won a future doctor, and won an experienced teacher who chose to come to our school to teach our students to be successful learners. the volunteer their mornings, lunchtimes, even after school to work with students. they should not be rewarded for their devotion with not being returned to our school, especially when we are labeled a hard to sell school. please rescind your non- reelection decision and return these teachers to your school and preserve all seniority so you do not remove any more of our staff. if you want to remove or not reelect somebody, focus on the problem at our school. for the last two months, as you have hea

and that's what i did. and as i continued my recovery, walking every day step by step, building off of what i had dope the next day and -- done the next day, and sometimes it'd be two steps forward, one step back. i know my wife, i'm sorry, those one step back were definitely hard days. i was able to move on, attend the blind rehabilitation center in palo alto, california, where i was able to learn how to use a computer, learn a little bit of braille -- it got tough. but again, i still wanted to be who i was before, and it's funny, we all here want to be independent somehow, some way. i'm married and, you know, sometimes i don't like my wife nagging on me, and i know she's not, and i know she doesn't like me nagging on her. but that independence was still, like, just hovering over me. i want to do things on my own. i want to go to the gym on my own. i remember, you know, asking to go to the gym at the blind blind center, and they kind of looked at me like, huh? what that's that? i was like, i want to work ou

i want to see vishnu to pick did in a modern way. dawned on me by reinterpreting the deities in a way that is modern and reverent to the history, i am building a bridge for young and old audiences to make friends with the culture and these icons

i did those monster rules in the dark:30, the last stories. there is typical monsters, i was sure there was a monster that lived in my grandmother's chicken coup. the last thing is, i tell the monster i am not afraid of you anymore because i am the granddaughter, no i am the oldest granddaughter of james leon oldhand. he loves me and i know it and the monster vanished. you know, even to this day, monsters still do come. no they are not the childhood monsters, but just as wicked. you might know them, the irs. [laughter]. i hope there are no irs workers here today. bad reviews, i think you know those. [inaudible] sexism, regionalism, we can go on and on with the isms. i am the oldest granddaughter of james leon, he is a monster fighting and so am i. that comes from southern tales of supernatural. a porch lie is not a mean or vicious lie, it is a story of exaggeration and humor. the one that loretta told you about, cake lawrence. all the people that knew him called him cake, he used to steal the warm cake that his mother put out. he would cut a sl

. >> i did, i did. >> you dropped a condom. >> yeah. >> you know, better to be safe than sorry, right. >> a great method. captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, how are you doing? well company to the report! whooo! whooo! (cheers and applause) stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you so much. welcome to the report. thank you for joining us in here, out there. nation, the race for the gop presidential nomination is in the home stretch. and no matter how much it pains me to say it, mitt romney has got the momentum. or mi particular,-- mittmentum. last night he won the wyoming caucus, wyoming, cradle of cheney. why do you think it's so sparsely populated. they must kill to stay alive. (laughter) circle of life. now with supertuesday coming up next week, i'm not sure which day, we'll check that out, there is not much time left until all conservatives

i had a little slot. each one of us did at work. if we had any work knows, it was always put in that little slot. i got to work and there was that note and my name and the three men -- the four of us had the exact same job, just a different shift, but the same operation. and i was being paid 40% less than either one of them. and the salaries written on that paper was only the base salary. i was being shortchanged in overtime. it suddenly hit me about my retirement, my 401k, my contributory retirement, and my social security -- all was based on that. and i was just sick, devastated. i just could not understand how i would ever make it out on the floor and get through a 12-hour shift. but i continue to try to muster up my feelings and i finally decided that i had to do it. i could not leave. i could not afford to quit. i picked up my clipboard and went to the floor and did my shift. but when i got home, i told my husband the next morning. i said i have to file a charge with equal employment commission an issue of debt. i will tell you

i did a lot of work for him. i got a lot of pep talks and i was called into his office and he would say, you didn't -- do not know how good you are and you are paranoid and scared. i said you are right. he said, there is no reason for you to be. he kept working with me and doing plays and eventually, i a.s assigned to go out to la.. and my career could have changed and not gone into music because i was cast in "one flew over the sckoo's next" and there was writer's strike. milos foreman was looking for me. and we have cups at home, that say i see dumb people. there is a cast of people who know me. forman was looking for me, why did not try him in london? i called him at midnight and i was scared to death, with that accent, i was looking for you. he said i cast the part this afternoon. my career would have changed but i was not meant to do that. i was meant to hook up with jim steinman, he came from joe papp. he had a musical with joe and joe introduced us. i remember going to see -- they hated us. we went into --

and that's what i did. and so i think the biggest reason i didn't get help was because i felt ashamed. i felt like i didn't -- there was another bed for someone more deserving than myself. so that was the main reason, mr. chairman. >> you raised two important issues in your testimony. first you said that although you needed to get help you chose not to get it because, and this was your words, i was able to afford not to. and i think it would be important for you to explain what you meant by that and then also how common do you think that is for individuals not to seek help because they have other avenues in which they can go? and, also, how many out there who need help but don't get it because they can afford not to? i mean, do you think it's a large group? >> i do, mr. chairman. i obviously don't have an exact number but i have plenty of friends that i feel, you know, get their disability check and they're comfortable with it. they get it for, you know, whether it's a mental illness or a physical illness an

so anyway -- that's how i did it. but why did i did it? why come out here every night?or the money? no. the fame? no. the unlimited breadsticks? they're nice. [ laughter ] but i really do it because every night, after i give to all of you, i get something back. i get one skeeball ticket. [ laughter ] you see, doing a cable show is like being at chuck e cheese. after every show, my desk spits one out. i've got 999 of em! tonight will make 1000, and i get to trade 'em in and say goodbye! it's been great, but i've reached my goal. 20 more minutes! [ laughter ] but even on a joyous occasion like tonight, there's a cloud looming: barack obama. [ laughter ] with the economy on the upswing, his approval rating has soared to 53%, and he would trounce both romney and santorum by double-digits. but that's only after 20 debates. america don't know them yet. luckily, there's still something that could put the brakes on. obama's momentum. >> gas prices continue to soar with no relief in sight. >> can't get a break when it comes to gas prices. regular shot up 12 cents nationwide, the

>> thank you for thinking that i did. ebody who watched it. >> okay it's -- it was a really challenge. it was a huge challenge. i'm never going to be able to become that person that person exists. i did a lot of research. i listened to her voice. everything is documented. it's out on youtube. >> jon: how did you get that? logged on to youtube, hung out. >> i went youtube-ing this afternoon found out a few things. >> jon: cats can play piano. >> i ready her book. red books written about her. i just kind of gathered up all this research work with a vocal coach. >> jon: the accent is weird one for me. i've been to lk alaska they don't sound like thank they do not. i watched her reality shows, too. she speaks most like her father. seems based on the idaho accent but she takes it further than he does. it's her own particular way of speaking. >> jon: i like the idea that you can break it down it's the idaho action. i never would have -- >> that's where they came from and she has a particular rhythm. sometimes she add a prepositi

i did the show, and i try not to worry about that. i think by doing the two-hour premiere, i am aware of that we have been away and that i will give you something extra. i think that for whatever reason that the timing went around, and hopefully the most negative feelings about the show and towards me have dissipated at some point. you know what i mean? but i am as nervous as every single season. this will be the sson where we get bad reviews. is this the season where people will be, like, "i will catch it later"? tavis: with the past, everybody is back? >> yes. tavis: you were not far from a banana in the tailpipe. >> i will make the promise that i think people will feel like they got a lot. it is a totally new story. which is always the juice of the show. it is the same people, and it has moved on, obviously. i will not say how much, but you will get into this story immediately. tavis: draper walking past the mannequins. >> what did you get for that? tavis: i do not want to misread it. >> i feel that part of it is like a rorschach t

i did get an outside support group. within that support group, all i saw around me was a great number of people turning their lives around. i cannot validate. >> i wrote down some words. >> selling drugs, partying, how much of that goes down in the inner-city? or not just the inner city. absolutely. how much goes on. a great deal of it goes on depends on the community that you live in. even in the communities we cannot see it happening, this is what i believe is tearing the country apart. what we think is some of our business because it is uncomfortable to deal with until someone in our family is affected. collectively address some of the shadows and the ink, it's no longer hiding the recesses of society. it is in broad daylight. if we do not address this, it is just going to continue to tear the country apart. >> in 2011, you made a speech in los angeles. i want to show you. >> all my goodness. they do not believe anything can be different and their families -- in their families. they believe that is the reality that is

i did not like taking it. i know that is deeply painful and will be seen as a vote against our partners in the schools, our partners in labor. i think that this is a stat. we must take at this time -- i think this is a step that we must take at this time come to realize the efforts we have made in schools that have generally silly bent -- that have generational the benen not havig what they need for their students. we are seeing progress and i am grateful for that. while this is very scary and that an unhappy vote, i am going to support the resolution. president yee: anybody else? go ahead, commissioner mendoza? commissioner mendoza: thank you. this is a board meeting that none of us like to come to. i could have stayed home. i have been excused last three days because i have been sick, and i have been lying in bed reading this resolution over and over and over again. i actually was not sure if i was going to come in, because this is a tough vote, but it is an important vote. i came in today because, like sandy

did you have any -- >> i wasn't bad. i mean, i rebelled, i guess. >> jimmy: how did you rebel? i -- like, one time, when i was like 14 or 13 or something, i took my dad's ford probe to jack in the box. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, my god. you're lucky to be alive. >> i took side streets. it was a car full of girls. >> jimmy: how old were you? >> we were bumping sublime the whole time. >> jimmy: what did you order when you got to the jack in the box? >> we were all vegetarians. and they said that the meat in the tacos were soy. so, we all got like the tacos, thinking that they were soy meat. >> jimmy: i see. >> but who knows? who knows? >> jimmy: yeah. >> as long as we got home before the parents got home. >> jimmy: so, you were a really bad kid then? >> super bad. >> jimmy: yeah. and now, you came up with an idea for these eco-friendly baby products. >> uh-huh. >> jimmy: and i come up with ideas all the time. they're mostly stupid. but how do you then parlay that idea you had into an actual thing? >> really, it was a lot of hard work. first, i had this vision of i want to create.

i did not know you had studied in zoology. how did you transition into the work you do currently? you do amazing work in our district. i was just surprised to see that on your resume. >> i was a very much interested in science, but in college, i decided to do community organizing. supervisor campos: i think that's the first ever question that the commission in terms of a zoology. supervisor kim: at this time, we will open and up to public comment and i know we have many people would like to speak on behalf of these two applicants. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the program coordinator for the code enforcement outreach program. i have the privilege of working with her at the collaborative and she has been a community organizing coordinator and she would be a great asset in joining the task force, bringing her wealth of knowledge, working with tenants in the tenderloin, dealing with have ability and i think having her on the task force, she would be able to cultivate a working relationship with community stakeholders and better understanding of what the needs are of people livin

so i did the collection with my interpretation. i tried to understand the base, the concept, so it is good. you have to read, definitely. >> creativity is so difficult to define by creative people because you just do it instinctively. you were telling me that last night, something inspired you, and you went back andrew your next collection until 4:00 a.m. what inspired you? do you know what set it off? >> i think it is image sometimes. one that you do not expect can be also a surprise. it was not the case here today. yesterday during the night, it was more like an image that i have seen or received little and i did not know how to treat it. something making me think about it yesterday. after it came and i wake up, instinctively it came like yes, i could do it like that, so i wrote that to remember, and after i was into it, it was very exciting. yes, i find it because always, you are looking for something, you did not know what. until it becomes more concrete, it gives you -- i need to have that direction. it is a real pleasure. some

in the 1990's, i did not see people coming to ask, what are we going to do? then i started to think about what immigrants bring to the economy, and it is true. a lot of them were buying homes together. five siblings buying a 5-bedroom home. in those days, 90% of my clients were buying homes because they were putting their money together. immigration started with the raids and then someone gets deported, and then another one. when the subprime problems got us into this bad economy, you also had all this enforcement from the immigration. they would go after good people, arrived in the middle of the night to get someone from their home. i have a case of a young man where immigration came to pick him up at 5:00 a.m. his wife is a citizen. the other siblings were citizens. by 3:00 in the afternoon, he was already in tijuana in his pajamas with no money, no nothing. fortunately, the other people who were arrested gave him $10 so that he could call his family so that they could wear him money and he could go home. -- wire him money and he could go home. these are the

another thing i did was we made a commercial. i was in the commercial and it was basically talking about how bling is not good. i believe the dvd will be coming out soon. i can get it for you. i warn you i am no denzel. [laughter] the things we're doing in the future, i have been talking to various faith-based groups in the southeast sector of the city. we are trying to put together a basketball league right now. we do not know how possible is the this summer because of funding but if we're not able to do with this summer, we want to do it next summer. thank you. [applause] >> of this time i would like to bring up from the special victims unit, jason fox to present juvenile debt -- justice data. >> commissioners, all of these presentations and all of these often not -- officers who have spoken talked about specialized training and the special ways we go out of our way to make sure the interaction is engaging. it gives a snapshot of some of the informal and formal ways we train our officers within the context of criminal enforcemen

i was like, are you saying i am crazy? she did not believe anything that i said. she said, when it comes to the judges, do not bring up anything about your education. that was the second day in a three-day experience. i figured, if i had these degrees -- and it was crazy. after my second story, i started getting offers from goldman sachs, merrill lynch. i said, i wanted to do work that was meaningful to me, so ended up working in the prison system at rikers island. i know all of that was in so many ways possible because of the work that you did. i just want to say that i honor you, respect, love everything that you have done, all the roads that you have paid to allow me to do the best things that i have done. [applause] >> 44 years apart these two stories happens. clearly, life is not the same. so i went to ask you, miss coleman, what has changed since your time? and, bryonn, after that, what has not changed? when you listen to this story 44 years later for what you sat down and fought for, what has changed? >> well, that is a difficult question. i have to say, de

i did turn the telly off, didn't i? ( mumbles ) i thought i did. i thought i did. ( mumbles ) one of us must've. no, i'll check it. it's no good. ( sighs ) ( water trickling ) karen, it's half past 11:00. what are you doing? writing a letter. who to? gordon brown. can i look? all right. well, that's not very nice, what you said about miss braebrook. well, she shouted at me for talking when it wasn't even me that was talking. it was maisie that was talking. so i wrote her a note. was that note at all like this note? with the observations about her... weight? um, yes. but... she ignored it, which is very rude, so i'm writing a letter to gordon brown to tell him to fire her and put her in jail! ( siren wailing ) ( shouting continues ) ben, eavesdropping is wrong. come on, we've spoken about it. come on. but you eavesdrop on i'm a celebrity. yes, that's because it's on the telly, and you're allowed to eavesdrop people when they're being filmed by a camera. he was being filmed by a camera. what? she filmed him with a camera secretly. i heard him shout it