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if i moved i would draw attention to where i was. so i lay silent and still. hoping whoever or whatever it was would move on. i stared up through the leaves to a blue sky. it appeared sharp and clear it seemed unreal. when i heard the steps closer i closed my eyes and prayed to the gods. when i opened my eyes i heard breathing and feel the warmth of another body it was so close to me. i heard his voice call out. sachy, it's me matzu, let me help you. i thought i died and went to the other wonder. matzu? spilling up from the leaves like a wounded animal. i forgot everything even the shame of allowing him to see me. he began to laugh is that you or the fox cot. it was the first time he joked with me he had been so quiet. it wasn't the time for laughter i was tired and hungry if i had been the god i might have been made food and water appear. it was my good fortunate that matzu found me. i had been looking for you all night. are there others? i could barely get the words out. they think you have gone to a better world how do you find me. he smaled. he opened [inau

i guess would say i earn my living from movies. so i don't really have to do it. i do it when i want to. and it's-- i'm in a small way compelled to do it. so i thought i want to write something. i want to write something, you know, an old standby saying, write what you know. so i know, i feel the art world. i know enough to getgoing. >> that's an interesting point. you have said in something that i read, i know enough about it to write about it interestingly. i probably shouldn't write about show business because i know too much. >> i'm a little bored, i'm on the bored side of show business. but i'm on the excited side of the art world. i want to write something that i am excited about. but i also-- bu that's-- the art world only represents a milieu to me. the important part of this book to me, what i wanted to write is the character. and the character to me brings the book to life. the art world val the background that says oh, she can do this, she can do this, she can do this. >> she's a metaphor for the art world. >> not at all, not at all. she's a character in l

i look. i. i i i i i i. i i. i i are unclear as we speak there are i'm facing six indictments and i've faced the more before there is no more love i'm going to you know i fear i get acquitted or i get convicted i dare say for your i spend some friends are close. i think it's part of the it's part of reality. you want to sit at home you know do anything that's understandable. but if you want to get out and i think. for wanting to live. you have to get out and do something about what you see in the world around you. are very here and now this is what we have. my concern is whether something is moral or. whether something fits with that and i am a more a baron's or whether something is right or wrong. and i think we'll have a very important thing to understand for us. as a people who have done very very bad things don't have horns they look at look like you and i fired every night dozens of grenades and the neighbors of people with i used palestinians as human shields i've you know all the things that i can tell you

i found interesting. i am in a good place. older i get a more comfortable i become your guide -- i become. oes that mean you are in a good place in your life? >> i am in a good place. i went to the bahamas, and i spent a good part of two years down their recording on and off, and i live on a beach with no people. now there are about 400 people in my town. it is just me and my dog and a couple guys i work within the studio, and i spend a lot of time alone, and i woke up one day, and i realize i was alone but i was not lonely. something has shifted, and i was really just communicating with god and listening to myself and doing this music, and i just became comfortable, and there is also something to be said for excepting oneself. >> as the serenity, lyrically in this project? -- goes the serenity come out lyrically in this project? >> yes. it sounds like a theme album. people think of all fema is going to be about black-and- white and race, but that song came about because of where i come from, who my parents were, and where we are today. i was watching a documentary, and it was during the ti

because we are small, i feel like i get lots of attention. i know i am struggling, and when i need help, i can expect my teachers and the advisers to help get me back on track. this is important to me that i can stay focused and make my family proud. thank you. >> i am part of metro. [speaking spanish] >> i am on the true parent. i represent a lot of parents, not only me. we came to a conclusion i would come here because some of them are ashamed to come talk to you because they do not speak english like me. guar>> [speaking spanish] >> what basically brought us together is our language, and we are like a family. and we have our great psychologist who has helped our children. we refer with homework. he calls the kids, and the psychology they get when they do not feel ok. [speaking spanish] >> it is great for our children. we have the security of the teachers are with us. we are like a family. these are different schools from the other ones. i have another child who went to public school, and now he is in city college. >> [speaking spanish] >> as i have

i became a prostitute. i found my salvation? writing. i pushlished a book. i was recently attacked on the streets where i lived. >> the surgery left me deaf. i do not have aids. men are not allowed to be a soldier. i am not asking for your money. please get home safe and keep this pen to share your story too. may be some day, i will get to hear your voice. this next poem is from my first poetry. this is for latinos in the house. can i get a woo. >> i want to break tradition about latino macheese mow. >> forget. i want to break tradition. because blood is supposed to be thicker. but you see, my friends and family, because they love and accept my and don't consider me, foreign language. they do not speak the language. everyone has green contacts. adopting supremist beliefs. when was the last time you saw them playing the maid? i want to break tradition. smashing it against the ground. where our spanish eyes are not blinded. we do not understand hate. foreign language. never. this next poem is called "outside". it's from bullets and butter flies. this is in celeb

i. i cut i know i. was like very good. for. the title but i really want to have somebody gets a very heart of my life and. you know and you have to go for a fighting i live here and i. you know my life pretty much revolves around political activism so obviously the political situation affects my life and my future and i guess. i. can keep working killed here if you tell me to violence it always you can cure it can keep talking if you can be feeling and i. was. i i just need to be going if you just can just take a good she said stamfordham individualists the i meet me x. too deep to mr she is just a crazy i just it was a military upright thing with military tools in addition to people are going to be killed here. because. i. think that if. demonstrations against the wall also turn violent they quickly erupt would stone throwing and gunfire it is mostly the protesters who are seriously injured sometimes protesters get killed. they believe the it's my duty as an israeli what's happening here you can keep the email account and it's

i felt awful to go, so i was dizzy, and i finally had a window of time in 2001. i thought, i am going to go. none of my friends could go with me, so i ended up going alone. i did not understand that was on. i had no idea. i had been too many places. i thought, why not? with a posh company that took me around, and i had this wonderful guy in named elvis. he could not figure me out either. where was my father and where was my husband? i felt i really passionately loved it. i responded to the people, the place, and the sounds, the animals. every time and we would drive, we went through tanzania on market place, and there were tons of people and goats, and i who wouldf them envy seen to be in and aids wasting state. they were walking around. i said to elvis, these people who look really sick, and you think they have aids? he said, no. i thought, they might have aids. he said, no. i thought, i am not going to get very far, because when you are with the safari company, they think you do not want to know what is going on. i say, i am going to have to find a way to come he

i felt that when i turnod the computer and thought, now i have to write book number 2. i had in mind that i wanted to write something very different from women of the silk that was strictly about the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my japanese culter. i didn't have the story or the culture unfortunately because i was born in san francisco, half chinese and half 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 though

i am not a poet. i don't care much for. i don't spend me weekends read anything writing. i like to have cocktails but i do not have a drinking problem regardless of what state i wake up in. i don't need drugs to open up my imagination. i am not a poet. i can tolerate half an hour of spoken word poetry. what my cats are up to. i always carry my business cards. i am not a poet, i only write to masture bait my mind. i am trying to convince myself that poetry it save lives. it's the dust of art. and i am going to close with to poet. americano. i look at myself in the mirror. trying to figure out what makes me an american. i see chickens. practicing religions without a roof. i see my own blood. proud american blue genes labels. i see them sits outside with the eyes of an alley cat. i see myself trying to be more like james dean. i see carlos san tanna. more than sporadic latino explosions. as american as bruce spring teen and elvis presley. i see taco bell. i see purple, red, blue, green, orange. i see cheetah revera on broadway. as american as the lee's, the kennedys. none soun

i think i bring a different perspective and insider knowledge. i currently work at ucsf in global health sciences. i participate in a master's program. i sat on the citizens' advisory board for the central subway and i am in your district. supervisor kim: i know, thank you for being on that board. >> this is my passion. i still work with the people at the lansing street. we u facilitate groups and work with residents when they reached three months prior to leaving clancy street. they start looking jobs -- looking for jobs and housing. i try to help them out. it is important to get yourself situated and feel supported. as an out gay male who did not have a big support system, i think it is important to build that foundation. thank you very much for listening. supervisor kim: thank you. and i also see that you have served in south beach. >> yes, we have a very active leadership council. supervisor kim: thank you. next, we have ronnie muniz. after that, robert kane. >> good afternoon. my name is ronnie muniz, and my qualifications are i have done to terms in four different prisons. what i was incarcera

i watch it, i am with you. tavis: i have been waiting on this for a long time. i want to start with the click of something you have said to interviewer 20 years ago, maybe 1986. you might remember this, maybe not. >> i don't feel i am the greatest anything, i feel like i am developing. as far as i am concerned, i am still proving it to myself all the time. tavis: that was 1986, do you feel that same way? >> exactly the same way. tavis: at 81, you are still getting better? >> even though music is one of these things that which, fortunately, there is no and to music. if your the person that can absorb it, it can do more. i am that type of person. i have been with some great musicians. and i know what to the greatness is. there are great musicians coming up. i don't think i am there yet. i am still practicing every day. i am still composing, and i am innocent. i am not sitting back and playing golf. that is not my style. tavis: i believe in practice, but when you are the master of this, what are you practicing for every day. not just minutes, but hours every day. >>

like to do what i love to do i like to bring what i love to do to the audience and i like to see them enjoy it too and so i make adjustments both ways and i mean if i were here's an example if i were to play for you the music that i personally only me just love i think you'd walk out the room after ten seconds but the. but i i play i take a part of the music that i love and i put it in a way that i think people will be able to understand it because you want to be commercial because you want content because he knows i want to make people feel good and if i don't make people feel good with my music i've lost teach music. not directly you know why because it's impossible to teach something the only way jazz now you know i do most of my. teaching or whatever you want to call that kind of thing by just by example and i have one lesson that i tell everybody so my my my lesson is very short it's one sentence in fact it's three words yet it's something for yourself i think for you. thank you thank you very much for being with us ok and just to remind you that my guest today w

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 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 d

went and i testified and i offered them all the advice i could. and then i basically from that point became what we call an ethical hacker. because now i hack into systems all the time. in fact, a couple days i broke into a server. the only difference is, is now i have authorization that the company now allows me to hack in so i could find their security holes so they could fix them before the real bad guys break in and cause some damage. so that's a little bit about my story. i have some cool demos to show you because when i do speaking engagements around the world, nothing makes the audience happier than doing some hacking demos. are you all interested in taking a look. >> great. >> about six months ago i had an assignment to break physically into -- into my client's building in san diego, california. and have you ever seen a lot of -- at least a lot of access devices that are physical using hid cards? these are hid cards. what -- i didn't build it. i simply bought it but it's available. it's called a proxmart3. if i can get close enough to somebody that's

i don't know. maybe that's why -- i play a lot of music myself. i do that and i to get into any confrontations at all. i guess i got a problem in that respect. don't want to relive it. >>> up next -- another hijacked jet. american airlines flight 77 from washington makes an unauthorized turn south heading right towards footnote 208. secret service agent nelson garabito at the white house. >> as the one nearest us got closer and closer, six minutes out, five minutes out, kept coming. at one point we got under a minute and i said it is about 30 seconds out. starting my progresso soup for lunch plan, huh. nope, just having some tender chicken and some tasty noodles. let's see...south western vegetables...60 calories. ya' know those jeans look nice. they do? yup. so you were checking me out? yup. [ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less. who need imagine... one scooter or power chair that could improve your mobility and your life. one medicare benefit that, with private insurance, may entitle you to pay little to nothing to own it. one company that

don't know if i love a little bit you know i dare i get acquitted or i get convicted i dare stay free or i spend some time in jail. one day. but it's part of. in spite of reality. that. you want to sit at home and i'll do anything that's understandable. but if you want to get out and i think for one to leave. you have to get out and do something about what you see in the world around you. then here and now this is what we have . my concern is whether something is moral or. whether something fits within my my more baron's or whether something is right or wrong. and i think would have a very important thing to understand for us. as a people who have done a very very bad things don't have horns they look like they look like you you know i fired every night dozens of grenades and to neighbors or people with i use palestinians as human shields. you know all the things that i can tell you and then you will you'll be shaft you only it's me and we're sitting now in the same room. you know if you want to put in jail every israeli soldier would be used the palesti

i believe i am good for this job because i can relate to different people on all levels. but excuse me, i am nervous speaking here. supervisor kim: you are doing fine. >> all my life, people have come to me, i am easy to talk to, and very resourceful. if i don't know, i will research. i have no problem with that. it i love helping people. that is just the type of person i am naturally. then, since being incarcerated, i have integrated these other things into my lives. first, dealing with the individual, what their needs are, and then just taking it from there. supervisor kim: thank you. >> so i am the stand you guys may have questions. supervisor kim: any questions? thank you. we got your application light, and we knew you are eligible for seat 1, but could we confirm her eligibility for the of the seats? we could confirm that. thank you. >> on the supplemental application, she indicated she had experience providing service to individuals, and that is it a qualifier for seat 2. supervisor kim: okay, thank you very much. next, we have kathleen culhane. she informed our office should not ma

i learned a lot about myself. the biggest thing i learned is i love to perform. i love music. i love what i do. ging in the studio and writing songs and coming up with video treatments to the point that during that year i do not count the 72 songs i recorded at work because it's what i was born to do. and i learned balance. i learned the importance of taking time for myself. i was moving around so much that i had no idea that i really have 16 grammys. i've heard that, and i got up and accepted my awards. i didn't realize what an amazing accomplishment that was. >> you never had time presumably? it's just this treadmill. the more successful you get, the les time you have to enjoy it, i think. >> exactly. >> you went enough, i'm having a year out and enjoy what i achieved and a bit of real life. what was the most fun you had in the real world? >> well, i did everything, you know. i definitely enjoyed the simple things like, you know, driving and picking my nephew up from school. traveling, but not working and actually visiting museums and seeing ballets and having great conversations with people o

and i said, i did it, didn't i? i checked them in. >> but touhey would realize his role within hours of the crashes. >> i was an idiot. he was the terrorist! >> it was immediate. >> immediately. i mean, come on, two planes? one in a lifetime. two in a day? never. >> it would be only the beginning of touhey's ten-year struggle to forget one face. >> why do i see mohammed ata driving by me looking at me in a car? >> and the day was not over. many more ordinary americans were about to become footnotes of 9/11. >> all i know is that there was trouble and i wanted to warn everybody. [ male announcer ] we asked real people right off the street to help us with an experiment for the febreze set & refresh. they agreed. [ facilitator ] take a deep breath. what do you smell? there's a freshness. actually it takes me outdoors. apples and pears. sort of a crisp, fresh feeling. it's a friendly environment. [ facilitator ] go ahead and take your blindfold off. [ laughs ] no... [ male announcer ] the febreze set & refresh with scente

i. i i. i. i am. i'm. cause. today's news and this week's top stories maybe as new leaders try to bring calm to tripoli after capturing the capital but the massive flood of weapons on the streets means stability could still be a long way off. moscow slams the e.u. is new is sanctions on syria while a lack of accurate media coverage coming out of the country raises questions as to who's to blame for the bloodshed. a burning controversy ukraine threatens to take russia to court insisting on lower gas prices but the kremlin says it's on solid ground in the latest round of an old battle. chief says it wants the discount on the russian gas but most school says it has no legal grounds to old so the contract for the latest details joining us from kiev in just several minutes. and a night of rage in israel hundreds of thousands rally in the nation's biggest protests demanding the authorities turn their attention from security to social justice.

i clicked out of explorer, i checked my mailbox and then i opened ms word. oh, and then i spilled my soup. aaron, i know what our business should be. i was standing in line at this food truck, and i got this awesome idea. food truck. okay, ben, i never actually agreed to loan you the money. come on. i found this used truck for 2,500 bucks. aaron, you got to trust me on this one. there's two things i know about-- macaroni and cheese. and i finally perfected my recipe. come on, plane goes in the hangar. (imitating plane engine) uh-uh. (imitating engine revving) hmm? (muffled) hmm? (muffled) ...unbelievable. is this gouda? uh-uh. mm, mm. riley, what do you want? fitz: i hate the internet. oh. i hate it. hey, you guys remember that chick corinne who i dated two months ago? no. no. yeah, neither did i. but pull up chi-town's 20 most doable bachelors. dot-org. now she has rated everyone she's slept with. and she put me ninth. man, that's like saying jordan is the ninth best basketball player, or franken berry is the ninth best monster cereal. no way. she really harshes on your s

i would keep doing the same thing. i continue to hack. eventually i figured that if iade a mistake and probably wouldn't get caught, but i was not thinking that i'm going to get caught. i thought i would house what the fbi which obviously was a ridiculous notion. many, many years ago. this began as a cat and mouse game. i did not look over my shoulder. i was not afraid of every cop car that past because i had bonafide government issued aideed and legitimate jobs, working in a law firm in denver, hospital in seattle. i set up early warning systems that the law firm. one of my responsibilities was supporting the law firm's telephone system, which was kind of cooled off. i could not have written this job description better myself because now i was able to insert coded to the telephone system so that if anyone called the u.s. attorney's office or the fbi it would immediately send me a page with a four digit code. 6565, which happens to be the last four digits for the telephone for the fbi in los angeles. early warning system so if anyone hit the tripwire i would be allowed

i did. i failed i thought i would just note that ok i must have mixed up with someone else. what organization are you from. checkpoint want so you don't want any more checkpoints. no but less checkpoints stamp of us there not enough and this stage we are against checkpoints and we're here so what about the checkpoints if. you look at who are a checkpoint it costed millions so you want something respectable to let everybody in who are a checkpoint cost fifteen million is out of our pockets and then they closed it this is a group does no matter here we have the entrance to the notary or it should be at the entrance on israel's border. so write a letter and notice checkpoints we have already done that let me have a nice day we need people like you to keep camp with tell him to get in line one by one closer to the wall. how do you line up one by one. stick close to the wall. a little. bit of. i've been coming to kalandia for seven years so when it comes to ramadan it's important for me to know what's going on fall though it's not even my shift time i decided to come and have a go

and the way i use, i'm an animal, i don't care about anything or anyone. i don't care who itep on, who i abandon. it doesn't matter. >> o'reilly says her drug addiction has even caused her to steal from her own mother. >> i actually wrote a check. it was only 90 bucks. i called her account. she said i had overdrafted her account and now it's $150 and the fees keep piling up. my family doesn't have it like that. she gets by paycheck to paycheck and she pays for everything. who am i to take her money? she doesn't know who i am anymore. she wants her daughter back. >> in the meantime her mother is raising o'reilly's 2-year-old son. the good news is her incarceration at the suffolk county jail has kept her off she can relate to. >> our view is of downtown boss town. bean town. and the men. >> we got a good cell. we can see the men, too. >> the neighborhood that i'm from, the armpit massachusetts, it's gangbangers, drug dealers, prostitutes and addicts. i love it. i don't know what it is about that place because it's disgusting, but i [ bleep ] love it. i was 14 when i started sh

i am grateful for that. i think that in some ways, getting to where i have gone, i am a good example to others. i know i am. i have basically dedicated my life, since i got clean, to helping people, and i continue to do that, what i did this position are not. you have a lot of people out there who have done good. so that is it. any other questions? supervisor kim: thank you for being here. i saw that you taught at thurmont. do you speak spanish as well? >> i did not. supervisor kim: it is a dual language immersion program. >> i left there before they went tool immersion. as a great school, the. supervisor kim: it is a good school. thank you for being here. at this time, we will open up for public comment, if there are any. and we will give two minutes. >> my name is melissa, and i'm here to speak on behalf of jamie brewster. i have a letter in support of his nomination from out my employer, the ceo. she asked me to read this because i was not able to make it. "it has been an honor to work with jamie brewster. he understands the employees of re-entering the workforce for the first time. he is a p

. >> i don't really feel as though i write songs, i feel as though i hear them first. and remember them and get them down, but i don't, it's such a mysterious and subconscious process that i couldn't really say that i wrote those songs. they just channeled them sort of or they happened to be first. >> we conclude our conversations about music with the great willie nelson. >> i think the music is probably saved my life many times. on a show at night doing a couple hours, back and forth. it's probably kept me alive. >> charlie: looking at music with patti smith, sting, james taylor and willie nelson when we continue. >> every story needs a hero we can all root for, who beats the odds and comes out on top. this isn't just a hollywood story line, it's happening every day all across america. every time a storefront opens or the midnight oil is burned or someone chases a dream not just a dollar. they are small business owners. if you want to root for a real hero, support small business, shop small. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city,

i get a lot wrong. i cringe when i pronounce a japanese word because i know i'm not say itting correctly. i can get away with it. here i don't know, it's harder to get away with it in the bay area because we are such a melting pot. and so many people who know japanese where i don't. what i discovered i think on the whole, for all cultures both cultures and the writing process itself is the more i write about different cultures the more i realize how much alike we are. and if you take anything away take that. take the fact that all humanity is the same. you know the -- culturesar a background for me it makes you who you are. if you are japanese you bow. if you are chinese you don't. there are certain things that are specific to each culture. but if you are writing characters there are specific things that are everybody. and that's more important to me in that sense. you have the culture's background but if you can understand why a person who lives in that culture feels the way they do or does what they do i think that's the most important thing. does that answer your question? >> yeah. >> t

i play i take a part of the music that i love and i put it in a way that i think people will be able to understand it because you want to be commercial because because you want content because you what he does i want to make people feel good and if i don't make people feel good with my music i've lost do you teach music. not directly you know why because it's impossible to teach somebody not only jazz no no i do most of my. teaching or whatever you want to call that kind of thing by just by example and i have one lesson that i tell everybody so my my my lesson is very short it's one sentence in fact it's three words that it's something for yourself think feel so. thank you thank you very much for being with us ok and just to remind you that my guest today was chicory a jazz legend and grammy held water and that's it for now from all of us here you can always drop us a line and leave or try to divide the people you like to spotlight will be back with multiverse that comment i don't want going on and that outside question time so then ta

i will try to answer a, b, c. for me, i know that the first thing i began to think about when i thought i wanted to write a novel was that i wanted to write about my culture. 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 h