today, i want to again invite everybody to our new asian. we promised it will be all- inclusive plan and offer you something to be awakened and inspired about. >> thank you. first, it has been a real pleasure and privilege to work with the museum, with such a clear vision, bold vision. it is a dream plan situation for a company like wolff olins to work with the asian art museum. the journey started in january of last year where we did extensive research with the museum. everything from analyzing the visitor journey to understanding macro and museum trends. we did ethnographic research with visitors, lots of insight, but a key foundational inside or that visitors wanted to connect more viscerally with museums and the arts. they are looking for museums to provide a platform for discussion, interaction, for discussion, even as an outlet for creative endeavors. some of the challenges that will faced museums like the asian is the subject matter is just a bit more difficult for people in the u.s., so the nation has to work harder to provide more c

in other words, the asian art museum is for all people. offering a new perspective that is bold and confident but inviting everyone to engage. now it is time to unveil at our new visual identity. may i invite the mayor and our board chair tony to join me in cutting the ribbon. >> wow. it is time. as these folks get in place, i am going to count down. we are all going to say asian altogether. get ready with your scissors. i am going to begin my countdown. 3, 2, 1. asian. wow. [applause] >> now that the mayor and board chair has helped us through this point, may i invite them up for some pictures? >> thank you, mr. mayor. thank you, tony. let me repeat once again the three qualities we want our visual identity to convey. a new perspective, bold and confident, and asian arts museum invites all to engage. as you may know, this inverted market is from a mathematical science known as a universal quantifier. we whaant everyone to know thate are here to engage you. we want to awaken and inspire. let me show you a couple of examples of how you can use this. we ha

the same time to me it speaks of the popular vote there was any religious leaders were going to news asians like move on dot org are using our language that means we're winning that's good is so you know it doesn't really concern me that much about splitting up who gets the credit for coming up with what terms or what organization it won't do i don't see david koch and rupert murdoch fighting about who's co-opting who's side of the movement i don't think we should do the same speaking for public and some compare that to the republican establishment than a fitting and taking over that tea party what do you make of that comparison. well when people talk about philosophy they're not totally out of reality there is a great potential to take a message that's beneficial and numb it down to something that's corporate friendly but the difference was that the tea party was demanding that the republican party be more extreme the more beholden to corporate world whereas on my wall street organizations on the left are doing something that the democratic party kind of doesn't want to do they don't want

the success this season may be tied to their two new asian pitchers. stevenson university receives a rare gift, a first edition of the king james bible. >>> the queen of daytime talk television, oprah winfrey appears on cbs this morning. oprah talks candidly about the joys and pitfalls of starting her own network. >> reporter: after 25 years on daytime tv, the queen of talk opens up about her new life and new network. oprah winfrey said that the own cable network has struggled to lure viewers, but it's still in the building phase. >> if i knew then what i knew now, i might have made some different choices. if i were writing a book, i could call the book 101 mistakes. >> reporter: one of those was launching while she still had her talk show. >> it's like having the wedding when you know you're not ready and you're walking down the aisle and you're saying, i don't know if we should be walking down the aisle. maybe we should have postponed this. >> reporter: she says she received valuable advice from many hollywood insiders, including lorne michaels. >> h

mining industry contends the vast coal field can power new asian energy revolution for decades to comettle, dan springer, fox news. >> bret: sales of new homes fell in march by the largest amount in more than a year. stocks today were mixed. the dow added 74. the s&p 500 gained five. the nasdaq closed nine behind. we'll tell you what has some churches up in arms. president obama breaks a campaign promise again. we'll explain. grapevine is next. this is an rc robotic cw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dlars into american education. that's thousands of ks learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool ♪ >> bret: now fresh pickings from the political grapevine. today marks the media hem balance day remembering the armenians killed at the hands of the ottoman empire a century ago. abc jake tapper points out president obama has

but drawing parity for all the latest business news the. asian markets to the strikers absolutely carry quite dry and it is the banking stocks but a really suffering in the asian markets today and that's after the chinese premier wen jiabao he criticized the state's state owned banks dominance in the finances state so he's saying they've got a monopoly and this needs to be addressed now because of that we've seen the banking stocks taking a tumble because they're really concerned that they're going to be broken and absent as you can see you've got the hang saying over a percentage down there the nikkei is also suffering a rather further percent in negative territory and that's following on from their best first quarter performance since nineteen ninety eight when the boom years so it's a completely different picture for japan in the start of the second quarter of this move on to the u.s. stocks and see how they finished up yesterday because news coming out of the u.s. was really setting the tone yesterday after ben bernanke the federal reserve ch

new. the asian tiger mosquito is, which is why leaders are asking that you alert them if you spot this mosquito. and in order to protect your family, the best thing to do is to eliminate any sources of standing water around your home. that means water that is in any pots or any types of containers, old tires, and also swimming pools that aren't being used. of course if you do spot the asian tiger mosquito, be sure and contact your local control office as soon as possible. reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >>> cash, guns and pot and lots of it. oakland police call it one of their largest drug recoveries ever. police released pictures of the 2,500 marijuana plants, guns, body armor, all of it seized from a warehouse in east oakland overnight. s.w.a.t. team converged on the building on 89th avenue arresting 11 people after an investigation into suspicious activity. they found $40,000 in cash, 50 pounds of dried marijuana. police say the door is fortified with steel. >> we conducted an assessment in terms of the risk of conducting a search warrant at this location and t

new method. he cut branches off of the asian trees to grow new ones. the idea wasn't accepted right away. it required more money and time. but he continued anyway, to preserve the tree's 'japanese origin. the white house heard about jefferson's efforts. nancy reagan, the first lady at the time, recognized the proponents of saving the -- the pornls of saving the original trees. later, the public also became aware. it's been 30 years since jefferson's started the work. others are continuing his mission. thanks to more than 700 trees adorn the mark. >> i know how important those trees are. i thought, by all means with original trees should be maintained and kept. >> jefferson's next step was to spread is cherry blossoms across the u.s. in all over japan, he collected specimens that can grow in any u.s. climate. jefferson gathered 400 kinds of cherry trees and they now are standing in the national arboretum. based on his collection they research hybrids that can grow anywhere in the country. so far, various kinds of cherry seeds and cuttings have been sent to over 50 locations. >> people can

chinese new year as the same period that are pretty much the same, but lunar new year is celebrated by many groups within the asian american community, including korean- americans, vietnamese americans, and many others. we want to celebrate the chinese new year every year, but also the occasion of asia pacific heritage month in grand style, and set an example for the rest of the country. this year, our theme is celebrating heritage, advancing education. we will be presenting three awards to distinguished individuals and organizations in the area us of advancing education. the nomination is open to the public. we will have more information in the weeks to come. this evening, talking about history and culture, a reception for the ceremony. we have a calligrapher and a musician who will entertain us as part of tonight's celebration. [speaking a foreign language] lastly, we have a special presentation. i would like to bring up commissioner and each one -- commissioner amy chuang. also representing -- i did not realize all of this. would you like to introduce the artist? this is a very special year of the dragon presen

while facing toward the enemy from the previous generation there's a new enemy kind of crept up behind us behind you guys behind these asians it's a new fascist regime with these hardcore technocrats and now this a politically is the circle coming around as does the audience your audience see it this way that there is a there's a connection politically what you're talking about twenty years ago and this this techno technocratic regime if you will i think you know what was interesting that we you know we started shortly after the burden was you know and i think i've seen so much in eastern you know socialist germany you know in terms of like civilians the way technology was used to spy on people and i think this is so relevant now to many people because i did the way technology is used abused by those in power is you know i did kind of goes into that direction and i like the if you look at apple or facebook or you know those types of companies it's almost like they want to build their own zoo. which is integrated you know in the internet or what they call a walled garden ok so that's that's a. digital rights management it's

asian-owned businesses in ward 8 and for calling them dirty shops. tom sherwood with the latest on the story first reported here on news 4. >> reporter: marion barry's comment about unwelcome asian shops that are "dirty" came tuesday night. >> we've got to do something about these asians coming in, opening up businesses, these dirty shops. they ought to go. i'm going to say that right now. but we need african-american businesspeople to be able to take their places too. >> reporter: in an interview thursday barry insisted he wants all businesses to clean up in the city's poorest ward, saying more business owners need to hire locally and need to get involved in ward 8 as a community. >> now, i says asians. that wasn't being derogatory because that was just stating a fact of who's there. anybody who comes to ward 8, we're going to try to attract as many businesses as we can, as many restaurants as we can, as many corner stores as we can. they've got to be a part of the community. they can't come in here, take our money, take it to virginia somewhere, don't support little league, don't support nothing, and that's what i'm talking about doing, is making o

his wordsbc 7 news commentsn out of the asiane spoke against but heses here in d.c., not backing downm the that he made that some restaurants are dirty and unsanitary. panpresident of the u.s. asian chamber of commerce said in thes worked with barry past and a surprise about what he said. it those who will not do w are not welcome, whether they're black or asian. >> business owners say they are defending their businesses. they say they fill a need here district. once pushed out, he said he o replace these with african american business people. john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> thank you. the caps came through when it counted. the team is now playoff bound. the panthers also made the cut to thebuffalo foell flyers. stephen strasburg helped the nats to a win. ian desmond drove in the winning the top of the ninth. >> caps win, nats win. >> much more to come. the latest bombshell in the scandal. we have another check on traffic and >> 6:40. seven is on your side with new l phone useout cel brain cancer in children. study posted last july said link.was no a groups said the results were flawed.

to mcclatchy newspapers under a freedom of information act request that they filed but the news heard it is asian did not do anything with this document or file any story it's my opinion that they do not recognize the significance of this in the context of how it pertains to the origins of the bush administration's torture program so this was actually posted on the defense department's foyer reading room web site place i visit frequently and i downloaded it i looked at it and it was stunning to me i knew exactly what it was when i had opened it up this is a document that was actually referenced in the justice department's inspector general report actually it watchdog report back in two thousand and ten if you recall when they investigated the legal boruc that went into the preparation of the torture memo prepared by john yoo and signed by his postulate bybee this document as briefly reference it's called pre laboratory operating instructions dated may seventh two thousand and two and you mention that there are ten techniques there's actually many many techniques in this document this is the docum

news. where do get the people to give you the information? there was a project that the asianamerican journalists association undertook in at new york's chinatown. can you report on something that is happening in my building? that is what people care about. why aren't they collecting my trash today? they do not care about traffic and in other parts of the city. you have people hungry for news that is very directly affecting their daily lives. we are -- you are seeing more entrepreneurialism in the field of blogging. you do not have to buy a multimillion-dollar company. there are lots of opportunities in that space for people to reach out to a market that is thirsty for that information. >> news coverage becomes highly ritualized. niche has its own set of voices. the hispanic community has its own said -- on a point of view. everything gets fragmented. >> that is true. you still have room for the big media, the legacy media, because they are there to be the filter for all of it. we're not going to see things on the other side of the world if you are focusing on the new york's c

. >> ought to be good news for asian markets tomorrow hopefully. we're focusing in asia on january piece exports. expensive few imports have knocked the trade balance back into definite sis. >> you can trace the deficit back to the twin disasters a year ago which was more expensive energy sources. march imports were up more than 10% thanks to fuel shipments. in fact for the fiscal year 2011, imports jumped 50% to a record high $66 billion. and while good ports also staged a surprise gain, figures were less glowing for the fiscal year. china's exports to debt trouble to european countries fell. this year the trade deficit is expected to shrink, but the strong yen remain as challenge for exporters. in other news, bank of japan vice president is hinting that the central bank may move toward additional easing at its coming policy meeting next week. says growth stimulus and financial support is needed to defeat deflation. that's all from the nikkei business report. back to you. >> for more on japan's challenges, we're join theed by martin schultz. marti

hepatitis c does not just affect asian americans, the new guidelines that are about to come out from the c.d.c. indicate every baby boomer in san francisco should be screened for hepatitis c. we will be providing hepatitis b and c screening on that day courtesy of cpmc. cpmc has been supporting the health of san franciscans and san francisco should support to rebuild the cpmc. i urge you all to vote yes today. thank you very much. president fong: thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners and president fong. my name is nick rozzo. i am a patient and a volunteer at california pacific medical center. i received a liver transplant nine years ago, may 13. if it wasn't for the doctors at cpmc and the miracle of science, i wouldn't be here talking to you today. i have been waiting all day to talk to you. i'm exhausted. i haven't eaten. and due to that, my two kids have their dad and my wife has a husband. who is going to take care of my kids? they go out of control. they're crazy. so i'm begging you to vote yes on building cpmc. cpmc is not just a hospital for san franciscans. it's a hospi

a new study of more than 1200 asian women found that among smokers those who took aspirin at least aa 62 percent lower risk of lung cancer and among women who never smoked the risk was 50% lower. the study does not prove as been directly protects against one cancer but the findings to back up a number of previous studies linking regular aspirin use to lower risks of certain cancers including: prostate and esophagus. portable pullsools are a great way for children to cool off in the summer but consumer safety experts have a warning for parents. children can drown in a very small amount of water experts say children should never be unattended no matter how small the pool. it's time to get going. to put more giddy-up in our get-along. it's time to start gellin' with dr. scholl's... ... and mix a little more hop in our hip-hop. with the energizing support and cushioning of dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles ... you'll want to get up and go. we are making our own spices and even a smoothie today and today's chef joel caracci from klay oven kitchen at chicago french market is here to show

asian. live in san jose. abc 7 news. >> lisa, thank you. two investigations will be launched after berkly police officers shot and wounded a man. it was eighth and delaware street. officers are searching for a man who stopped several blocks away. he fired at officers who fired back. the man was hit in the hand and arm and expected to survive. berkeley police officers will look into the shooting. the search for a missing morgan hill teen continues this weekend. more than 400 people showed up to the search center located in the center in morgan hill. volunteers hiked through grassy and muddy terrain and found no sign of the missing cheerleader. the 15 year old was last seen a month ago on the way to catch the bus. >> i know that having the community and team support, keeping the message out there does help. and that's what we are doing to keep the message and keeping everybody's eyes open. >> the search organized by class kid's foundation is continuing tomorrow. if you wish to help show up at the elementary school. >> red cross is helping res

cbs news just confirmed, three more asians are forced to resign, for what happened to prostitutes insideolumbia hotel. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: the secret service's investigation into the prostitution scandal has cost three more agents their job. cbs news has learned the three were forced to resign on friday. they were among the team called back from columbia, with suspended security clearance. three other agents were forced out wednesday, including supervisor greg stokes, who was fired, and supervisor david cheney, who retired. >> reporter: one of cheney's earlier assignments was the security detail for former vice presidential candidate sarah palin. he made light of his work on his facebook page, posting a 2008 photo with palin and writing, quote, i was really checking her out. in response, palin pointed a finger at the white house. >> we really gotta start cracking down and seeing some heads roll. >> reporter: the white house fired back, saying the agency took the appropriate actions. and it's too early to make other judgments until the investigation is complete. >> i

news? >> so doris, do you find people in asian american community are receiving a different head of news storiesrom people in the white community are black community? >> i don't think that's necessarily the case. there's been a tradition of nick news media among asian communities. other studies will show you that asian-americans will be the most plugged in in terms of mobile devices that threshold for use of mobile is a lot lower than buying a laptop or desktop computer. so you'll be reach out of lower income families, people don't have internet at home because you'll be able to get into the them on a device that can take with them and we quickly as a low-cost special thing. but it is still an issue of what you the people to gather the news quakes were to get people to give you the information? there is a project that asian-american journalists association undertook in chinatown and it was really an issue of tenure porting something happening not just on my street, but in my building and that's what people care about. they don't care as much about like traffic and another part of the city becaus

he said those comments did not all asian-american d.c.esses in news channel 8 love more coming up ins. now we have more on the morning commute. >> this is the beltway and it is moving well. delays all the way up from city to the beltway and 395. we have been overturned vehicle -- a broken-down vehicles on the parkway that was lane.ng the right without too much difficulty. >> a lot of sunshine. 42 degrees in the district. upper 30's in most outlying areas. 44 in fredericksburg. highs in the upper 50's. sunday to mark, in the mid 60's -- sunday tomorrow. >> thank you. >>> so, if i saw you undress, you would look like a woman, totally, yes? >> of course. >> that is jenna talackova. say that name three times fast, the beauty queen who made headlines, after being told she could not compete for miss universe because she was born a boy. barbara walters here with that abc news exclusive, coming right up. >>> good morning, everyone. robin is off for one more day. nice to have katie here. >> jenna is very tall. barbara looks -- >> very tall. but all-woman, according to that clip. >>> also, 23-

news? where do you get the people to give you the information? there was a project that the asianmerican journalists association undertook in new york's chinatown and it was really an issue of things happening not just on my street but in my building and that is what people really care about and why aren't they collecting my trash today? they don't care as much about traffic in another part of the city because it doesn't affect them directly. so you have people really hungry for news that is very directly affecting their daily lives, and we are also, you are seeing more entrepreneurialism and the kind of the field of blogging just because it's a low threshold point of entry. you don't have to go buy a multi-million dollar companies to have a voice so i think there is lots of opportunities out there and that space for people to reach out to a niche market for that information. >> so the news coverage then becomes highly racialized if every niche has its own set of voices in terms of the events though there is an asian american community on line commenting on the trayvon martin case

i found languages newspaper from goodie trait news about fed data was asian they literally had 850 solution for those factory jobs $5 per day. conditions in these rate especially at the start of the depression went bad very, very quickly because there the first to boost their job and the city was very intolerant to provide aid or any social help. michigan ended up with the largest client population. not alabama at, mississippi, michigan. surveying for about two years and was recalled from office but the conditions were absolutely horrendous. >> that was the ground for white supremacist. >> the game of it as a black city it is ironic to think of that environment. that had the klan members skyrocket. >> tell us more about the man oakland referred to of yusuf ali bey and how he refers to the religion. >> u.s.-born in texas. cotton town. as a very infamous on a welcome to green build the blackest land and the widest people. people say if this will for cotte 10. and they denied any racial intent. african-americans took the sign differently there was a very tragic and a horrible mentioned. it was

new york city. >> that's right. >> he's known for his asian inspired soul food. okbook called "eat with your hands." which is all my daughter does. >> i've learned from my son. just shove it in. >> what are you cooking for us? >> today we're going to make chili crab, which is a traditional malayian recipe. we have shallots, crab case -- it's got crab and a whole bunch of delicious things. soybean oil. >> that keeps? >> that keeps for -- yeah. comes in a jar. keeps beautifully. this is a little chili sauce i whipped up earlier, shrimp paste, chilies and salt. it makes a delicious, delicious paste. you can see you've got it going right over here. this you muddle. you smash this up until it looks like this. if you move over here, i'll show you this. >> what's up with the crab? what are you using? >> this is dungeness crab. let's pour this in. i'll turn the burner down. it comes from oregon, the coast of oregon. and the stone crab we have here comes from florida. >> which is sweeter? >> the dungeness is sweeter. i used to serve the maryland blue at the restaurant but

asian business leaders. >>> we are following breaking news this afternoon in the trayvon martin shooting.ight now we are standing by for a 6 p.m. news conference where the special prosecutor in florida is expected to announce charges against george zimmerman. zimmerman is the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed the unarmed teenager during a violent confrontation six weeks ago. again, we're going to have live coverage of that news conference at 6:00. >>> one of the area's best known and most successful asian business leaders invited d.c. council member marion barry for a sitdown today. the purpose was to try to smooth over relations after barry's unfortunate comments regarding the asian business leaders in his own ward 8 neighborhood. this is a story you'll only see on news 9. bruce johnson was there. calm, collected, what kind of mood was it? >> tony chang, he owns the famous restaurant in the mid of chinatown. he of hoping to -- middle of twine chinatown. he was hoping to build -- chinatown. he was hoping to build some bridges today. ward 8, there are only 197 food establishme

news in korea. >> still, most members of the asian community are uncomfortable talking about what happened. >> korean is not everybody is quiet but some people are louder but this kind of case, people don't know actually what happened. those things that make people more careful to speak out the case and i think that is the reason >> he also points out the differences in a gun culture between the two countries. it is illegal to carry any kind of firearm their >> you have no gun, you may be angry, but there is time to come down. that is the difference. this kind of case would never happen in korea. why? don't have guns. you can't kill seven people without a gun. that is not easy. >> he says it is a tragic story for everyone but for those who grew up in a country without guns and this level of violence, it is almost impossible to comprehend >> is it really sad, and all people in the community, very sympathetic for the victims >> he says as awful as it is, a lot of koreans are quick to distance themselves. they believe this was an isolated incident >> here is what we know tonight about a shooting rampage

. >> of marion barry taking more heat, this time is surrounding new controversial comments that he made about the asian community. just weeks ago he apologized for making another gaffe. >> another day and another controversy surrounding d.c. councilman marion barry. this time, the comments from yesterday's meeting between council members and officials from the university of d.c. marion barry, while talking budget told university officials he believes if they need to do a better job of recruiting and hiring teachers and nurses that are district residents. >> if you look at the hospital now, you find a number of immigrants who are nurses, particularly from the philippines. grow our own teachers and nurses. >> he's right. we do need more african-american nurses. >> if i was about to die, i would not care where the person was from if they could save my life. >> the comment about filipino nurses comes just a few weeks after marion barry came under fire for comments he made about asian business owners if in the city and some of their restaurants being "dirty." >> i think that he says things to get attention.

new delhi and agreed to take a step by step strategy to resolve strained relations. with more, let's talk to a visiting research professor at the institute of south asian studies. oins us live from new delhi. professor, thanks so much for your time. it's interesting hat announcemeannounc that the announcement happens after a private trip. what is your read of the outcome and where do we go from here? >> outcome is very positive and agreed to visit pakistan, but he has not given any definite date. they would want some country to -- in in terms of countering terrorism or the economic and other matters. >> in the end, do you think that the two leaders can get to the real crux of the issue, maybe even digging up the wounds from the 2008 mumbai bombings? >> the whole question hangs on when pakistan wants to show any con creed move. they would be very difficult for india to move forward. if there was to move very much forward on -- >> and how much progress -- yes, go ahead. >> security measures as far as one can go because you remember they had almost come to a private agreement but it could not be signed. from the end of the year, they would lose all items on on the

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news. we were having a fraud scheme perpetrated were elderly, mainly asian victims were getting beaten, so we wanted to get that out there. and we are pushing 100. i guess we are pushing 50 now, so hopefully we will get to 100 soon. we put five are officers threw it as well, so the fever is catching. i went to the town hall in the northern district of the tenderloin ymca on thursday. there is another one tonight, and there will be more after that. we did an easter egg hunt and a barbecue on saturday. i had to go up yesterday to do a town hall on an engagement and transparency in the media, which was well received. it took forever to get home, and saturday we have a barbecue the benefits park and rec programs for the summer. anybody that would like to go, it is in golden gate park. it is in golden gate park. i believe it is sharon meadows,

a lot of new immigrants come to that area and south of market is full of technology folks that would really support coming to a south asian bar in their work area. i hope you will continue to look at it as a future, part of the future as it -- part of the future of san francisco as opposed to what the past was bringing to it. thank you very much. supervisor elsbernd: as the next speaker approaches come i will read some more names. [reading names] . >> good morning. i have lived in san francisco for 14 years. i have an office on third and market and as a gay southeast asian person, i would support this part because i'm very familiar with the area and -- support this bar because i'm very familiar with the area. i think it invites a new type of clientele which is probably not going to be drug abusing people. my friend has lots of experience in running a bar, and if anybody can do it, it will be them and i'm an absolute support of this establishment. supervisor elsbernd: next speaker, please. >> i am a friend of the applicants applying for the alcohol license. i'm from merced, calif., a very small town with a lot of mathemati

by the ninety six ninety ninety seven russia started entering the who ordered a new corsi a chance to restructure that asian crisis at the same time the currency crisis in the southeast asia has triggered significant pressure on the russian ruble and trigger that also at the same time significant fiscal pressures on the russia as well so as a result of that russia was forced to default it's entirely different situation from ireland in the sense that russia inherited somebody else's that ireland has inherited its own bank and but it also is different in the sense. it was so over and that in russia the russians before the sovereign defaults are the hardest. if you want to dissolve their hardest to overcome because the sovereign default rules the regulation of the sovereign and make such certain that down the road the sovereign caliban finance they could pay liquidity operations on its own budget with russia's response was was exemplary in many ways because what russia did it simultaneously entered this very fast rapid correction phase on the budgetary side so it cut deficits very rapidly it devalued very aggr

asian promoter in san francisco. he held parties in places, such as at&t park. he did city hall. he has a party on halloween and new year's eve in fort mason's that is always attended by approximately 3000 young, asian, college-and vacated professionals. there has never been one party -- college-educated professionals. there has never been a problem with those parties. i would have to stand here and say that, absolutely, duc is the most successful of these people. he started as a promoter. he got a place on broadway. sake lab used to be a problem. there was a top-five hit list and it was up there. when mr. luu took over this, ronnie law has been a manager there. linda has also been the operations manager. there have been essentially no problems in one of the worst streets in town. i would like gus to come up. i would like to comment on a couple of letters. hopefully, you got these. i decided to print them. especially the letter from ana tran at first republicbank. she told me duc's history of coming from hong kong as a two- year-old, living in the tenderloin, what was that like. that was 30 years ago. miss tran --

meet which showed the central bank has little appetite to launch new economic stimulus programs unless the economy takes a real dive. asian and european mark receipts lower today following a disappointing bond auction in spain. we will get data this morning in the states on jobs. the report that track it is private sector, also news on the nation's service sector as well. dow falling 65 points yesterday to 13,199. nasdaq losing six points 3013. meantime the he stone state cemented status of the nation's number two gaming market behind las vegas. pennsylvania, 11 casinos brought in more than 233 million in revenue from slot machines last month. that's an all-time monthly high. the state first opened casinos at -- in 2006. when you combine the games pennsylvania surpassed new jersey and unofficially swapped spots last july but as of january, p.a. now makes $3.6 billion. guys, back over to you. >> thank you very much. >>> rob is bringing all that racksy. colder than you said it would be. >> it is cold. you can't go out in short sleeves this morning. lit find you quickly. you need a winter coat this morning. you can probably