i went to to bed and i saw a lot of statues and i started to really feel the spiritual life of people in tibet. it really inspires me and i went back to shanghai and i started the creation of this. >> we see that one of the heads of the bullet it is your face. can you talk about the significance of that? -- we see that one of the heads of the buddha is your face. >> i started doing public art almost 10 years ago. what i want to express this as an extension of my our practice. this is an accumulation of my own experience as a performance artist. >> we see that the scale is very important. we have seen other works where a limb of this culture is on the floor but everything is very big and large scale. what are you trying to accomplish with expanding the scale of these images to such a great size. >> i wanted to make large scale art and see how this plays a role in contemporary society. i think that is the mission of contemporary art, to serve as a social critique. >> when the mayor knew some -- when mayor newsom join you in dedicating this, they wanted to find a work that was big and bo

i started to get 30 e mails. they discovered through the website an e mail which would come directly tow me. i started to figure it out when all the questions were the same. they -- it was the questions which they had to write their essay on. one young woman wrote me and said, i don't know if i have time to read the book can you tell me who the samurai is and where the garredin is? [laughter]. i thought these kids are going to be okay. you know this is our generation coming up. i wrote her and said, you know, read the book. i think for me, because i think every book is a learning process for me. in terms of my culture because i am the first, i don't know about all that needs to be known of both being chinese and of course being japanese. 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

my parents are from india but i was born in america and i started this dance when i was 18. i was not a baby e. both charlotte and an drea did as well. charlotte at 15 years and joe airna and i 15 years. that's how we got in this program. we practiced very hard. very, very hard we practiced everyday and we have been been in india practicing 8 times where our teacher is from. yes. >> yes. >> well there are similarities all of southeast asia. we performed in bali with a group. it's a story from the [inaudible] and so the indian epiics actually the indian epiics for very common in cambodia and bali and thailand and there is a different aesthetic. all southeast asia and asia there are a lot of similarities. >> he is a male entity. he is not -- are you referring to the story? >> it's interesting you should say that. a unique indian concept is one of half male, half female. and that is -- unlike some dances the solo dancer portrays all of the parts in the story. you can portray a feminine aspect and then masculine aspect with the bow and arrow. the male has to portray feminine and

i have started three businesses. e myself to panama and back. s risks ad do the right thing, even if it is an unpopular decision. we need that kind of informed, independent leader. please vote for me as soon as possible. >> thank you. this is the last each year after year for tonight, and i want to thank you for sticking it out with us. thank you to the community we live in that we call home, the community i have been working in for all of my life. i was born and reared here in san francisco, and i have a background in public policy. i have been working both in washington, d.c., as well as in san francisco, and their three things need to think about me -- that is commitment to keeping district 10 residents healthy, keeping them working, and keeping them safe. those are my #13 priorities, and i would love to have your support. -- those are my number one three priorities. we need to have a consensus builder because issues come and go, but a person's values -- are they trustworthy, can you believe them, will they be ther

the philosophy behind that, my philosophy, has not changed since i started 49 years ago. i take care of you and you take care of me. it has been that way ever since. >> ruth represents the estate of the world renowned sculptor peter focused. in 1971, he created and the love the untitled public work cited at seventh and bryant. like many other public works of art, this is in need of repair. ruth began conversations with the director of cultural affairs, a andart care was born. >> we look at all of the local pieces and decided which one needed the most repair, to bring it back to where it was before. that is what i am after. if you drive by right now, you cannot see it coming down seventh street. you can only see it as you come up to it. >> one's culture outside of the hall of justice was one of the first pieces commissioned after the 1969 ordinance. it is significant that we are planning to treat it as part of the art care program. the program intends to take care of the bronze sculpture located in very park, a monument to the korean community of san francisco. it has been

i went back and put it in first person and realized it started to work. what i did was put it in the journal entries and it became what i should have known from the beginning because a began my colleges career as a film major wanting to make films not knowing i wanted to tell stories on the page and not on the screen. what i did was a stepped back and this is something one of my group members always tells me. where's at camera? what's happening? see from the camera's ankle. i realized he was too far away from everything. this book was different than the first book because in the first book i had so many voices and this book everything had to be seen from steven's point of view. when i narrowed it down the story told itself much the process of a writer is elizabeth said, you cannot be afraid to make mistakes. that's the writing process. we are making a lot of mistakes i am constantly rewriting and looking at something and saying, i could say it with less words. i could look at something and say, she would kill me if i did this and i would change it. there a

i started with my children, what will they think of this, knowing their dad. for the most part, i think that's read in full context, they understand that i describe these relationships in present tense. i am 7 years old describing the powerful figure my father friess. -- my father is. i am 5 foot 11 inches, he is 5 foot 7 inches, just to set the record straight. i talk to my dad, and he said, andre, the think i care what anybody thinks? i raised four kids, put myself through two jobs, and i got my kids to the fastest way to the american dream. if i had to do it all over again, i would do a -- i would only change one thing, it would be their baseball or golf because it could play longer and make more money. my wife was very supportive. she knew my motivations as relates to my dreams and hopes and ability to connect with people. tennis gave me an opportunity to impact somebody for two hours, and this gives me a chance to impact people hopefully generationally. i believe my next stage of life has a canvas that can do more. tavis: are you clear about that next phas

animal control for about six years, i spent a year in the kennel and then the office came up and i startedoing it and it really fit. it's really the job for me. and animals i have to handle and i know what i am doing, i rarely get scared. [whistle]. we do a lot of investigations and most are not as bad as people report but everyone once in a while they are. and i had one and people had moved out and the dog was in the inside and it makes me teary and when the dog is in the backyard, and i can pull an animal out of a horrible environment and feel good. >> where does this animal go after this? >> they go for the shots and then the kennel. >> and if they just found this, and once we enter everything in the computer and they can track to find out if the dog went back home. we hold them for five days. >> this is a stray dog and it came in today and we immobilize it and then put it in a room with food and water. >> and then evaluate for medical behavior and see if anyone is interested in adopting then. >> we want to be sure that their behavior is good for the average adopter and not aggression p

i started fed uri 18th. i went -- i started february 18. i went on vacation for a week. you have to get a lawyer up, form and llc. i sought-circled some clients. if i would hypothetically do this, would you follow me? i made clients a lot of money. people were willing to believe in me. we were cash flow positive in the second week. >> what were the kind of class you had? >> many were from mutual funds to hedge funds, people who go along securities, macro funds. at the time, we had some corporate clients. we started out in temporary offices. it was in an internal hallway. i could hear somebody opening a candy bar. it was close corners. it was a fallout shelter. in was absolutely and glamorous -- absolutely unglamorous. the people working for me were so wide-eyed. is elvis presley going to walk- in next? it was incredible. on june 1, we move into our current offices, which is 4500 square feet. we converted the old new york jets headquarters, beautiful offices, edgy, young, new. it is very cool. going back to how many people we have, i started this firm with four people. we

about 40 years ago and i started to see my client to come to me. my husband has been here 10 years and all of a sudden, his employer is asking for a work permit. we have two children. we just bought a home. what are we going to do? i could not provide a work permit, so i said, just hope that your boss looks to the other side. 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

to know me so when i did travel around and meet different groups i started to find that my reputation got there long before i'd. got the tattoo on my lip for the first time when i was seventeen and i had it read john to darken it that was almost like my racists class wearing a swastika and i said yes and the tricycle won. angela first came to our attention through her involvement in the domestic a group. got involved in a crime in which a jewish businessman was pistol whipped. and we came upon and it's all video store that was just a couple miles. from where i live. we all sat in the car except for one of the guys and he went in and actually rob the store. he made the guy put his head in the cabinet and he hits the clerk with the gun and pistol whipped him and told him to stay there. or sarge with conspiracy to arm robbery and i was also given a firearm charge because there was a firearm involved i testified in those proceedings and had a pretty low opinion of angela king and her associates. quite frankly i was glad to see that they received the punishment t

i know when you started this, you talked to me. you had all the assumptions about when you would launch, what would happen, how you were going to go. is everything holding true to the assumptions? >> well, i would say fair to say like almost every start-up that's not the case. and that was, you know, that was a tripping up point for us. i think when you start really moving fast, you want things to be true that are not true. you don't pay attention to the details. and the details cost you a lot of time down the road. we had technology tripup that's held us up for two months that came out of assumptions. it's our own fault. if we really played close attention, we would have seen the signs earlier. but that's all right. we got through it. >> and gordon, talking about assumptions and things that are going to happen and product changes. i know some of the feedback you got about the vitamin that you distribute is that it looked like there is a lot of sugar on it. how do you deal with that? here's the product you've been working on. you ta

so once i have a deadline, then i have to start thinking about it. and it came to me, you know. i gave them two ideas, or i told them the titles of two shows. they liked one over the other, and i thought, "okay, that's what i'll do." and--but it is a process, you know. when i started the work-- i started about three months ago-- i could see now, midway through the work, that it's gonna change and get even better, you know. but it is a process, you know, from the first image until the last. you know, a lot of things, a lot of thought goes into it. and it's a matter of doing it and learning as you do. when you have a series of photographs, do you begin the series by taking images and then building on those? or do you sit down initially and say, "here's the scope of what i would like to explore? no, i do the former, you know. i start out small and then go on to the bigger picture. and--and with this show, it's like that, you know. it started out with just a few ideas, and now they're becoming a few personal ideas that are taking on more universal tones. i know you don't want to talk

before i start, i've had the great honor to - i love to talk at schools. k through graduate school and one question i ask children in america is i ask them how many of you have talked great detail to your grandparents or elders or fore father's about world war ii or the depression or vietnam or civil rights movement, or perhaps if your parents or grandparents came from another country and settled here what it's like. only five to ten percent of the ands come up. if i asked that same question in afghanistan or pakistan or africa 90% of ands come up and i think the as great tragedy we've lost that oral tradition and a rich tradition about folklore and heritage and faith and heritage. to honor that today i'd like to share with you a little story. it's a hard cover book that came out in march of 2006. anybody have a hard cover. wave it up here. you might not want it after i say this. i got to pick the title. three cups of tea but viking told me they would pick the subtitle and they picked one man mission to fight terrorism one school at a time. i objected beca

i started off two years ago working in the farmers -- person managing the park. i started off working in the farmers' market, and they exemplify the type of business we run. all of them include vendors in the area, and i have fully refer people to goods we do not sell. -- happily refer people to the goods we do not sell. there are many vendors. i would like working for a company with that integrity and earnestness. i am happy working there. they treat us right. >> thank you. >> my name is alex, and i do not work for the coffee shop. i am a longtime customer but also a longtime resident. i lived there since 1979. i have a close connection with the neighborhood. when i first read about efforts to bring food vendors into the park, i watched the park evolves, and the thought of having fiber vendors there give vitality to the residence -- having the vendors there give vitality to the residents. >> thank you. >> i am one of the employees who has been given a job recently. i recently went to our ferry building, and every business was just a roll call. >> thank you. >> i

well, i had many false starts. and unfortunately, things began to happen to me that got me into trouble. and finally, one of the things that got me into big trouble was that i had a wife who got sick of being threatened, then, of being killed every time i got drunk. and so she called the police and they took me to a mental hospital. and that was a big step along the way. and my wife also said i don't want anything to do with this guy anymore because she had been tortured by this tremendous unpredictability when i was intoxicated. i think as part of as i listen to paul talk about his journey, i'm reminded of my dad's journey as a recovering alcoholic, who when we say many pathways to recovery dr. kirk, he never went through treatment, and similar experiences for him that he found himself in a ditch, and that said he said his first prayer in his life since a child that said if you just let me get home to my children, i will never take another drink. and 40, 50 years later, never took another drink. so i think there ar