i mean, i'm interested in those things, so it's pervasive. tavis: yeah. always curious about this with artists, the creative process and how it happens for each and every one of you. how would you best describe the way the creative process from project to project happens for you? >> well, from project to project, i don't know. i mean, there's always you find yourself listening to certain kinds of music or something gets your attention a lot of times, you know, from record to record, i find myself thinking, okay, now i feel like going in a direction that's almost opposite the direction i was just in. you know, writing songs, it's usually a pretty similar process every time i write a song where i start with music, you know, just kind of fooling around with chords and melody and that suggests -- you know, i feel like the music has within in its own sort of emotional tone and, from the tone and mood, i just think like what story or character or vibe does this suggest to me, and then i kind of extrapolate from there. you know, if i feel like it's kind of sad,

cars with that obscures' is -- what that obscures' is both rape and domestic violence are pervasive inunited states, and domestic violence in one of the leading causes of injury to women. exceedingly high numbers of rape, in fact, most ago and reported in the u.s. i think embedded in these kinds of reporting is a certain colonial mindsets. there is a long history of that. these kinds of minet that women are the measure of the progress of a society emerges from colonial practices. these ideas were used to legitimize both colonization and also imperialism. so that is something we have to keep in mind in reading these reports. at the same time, however, i think that while the massive protests that have occurred in india around this particular case are very significant and one can hope it will lead to also significant changes in women's position, however, i think we also have to think about the particulars of this case and how imbedded in these kinds of -- the reporting in this case are also a certain class-based assumptions about the poor. one of the things i have found striking is that h

every day i rail in the show but the ever more pervasive surveillance state sometimes it feels like there's nothing we can do to prevent being watched tracked spied on and data mined but there are some people taking very creative approaches in order to combat big brother's watchful eye like adam harvey is a brooklyn based artist who's taken a you tell terry approach with a clothing line he'll unveil in january seventeenth it's called stealth aware and it's an entire collection of garments that makes the wearer nearly invisible to surveillance with its thermal heat detection originally harvey was a photographer but in a post nine eleven world he realized that cameras were beginning to take on a new meaning they stopped becoming art making tools and instead became enablers of surveillance societies according to him it was at that time that he started to experiment with how to use medians to deflect the surveillance state he first began playing around with household makeup and attempt to block facial recognition technology but in the process he began inspired to take on a whole nother tactic o

would like for you to answer it -- [inaudible] >> i try not to be technical, but i hope i would be pervasive just telling you the debt crisis is basically a crisis connected to the governments of the euro system that has hit some countries for some reasons. somewhat we were hit because of the sins of our past. we have been having -- we have had a relatively a sizable but stable debt for a long time, but the point is it's very manageable. we are reducing it pretty fast, very fast indeed, and also to reassure the investors if you put together the net household wealth of italians as compared to the debt of the government and the companies the ratio is three to one, so it's a matter of redistribution somehow. italians thanks to god are a wealtdy people and the matter is how we can put things into order in our household but definitely italy is a major stable solid economy, and once -- already there are signs of strong improvement. once this crisis is over we will definitely flex the muscles. please. >> [inaudible] are you planning show case any important architects and designers in this year of i

access to lawyers, to competent translators, to get information about their judgment, and is quite pervasive that people really do not get due process or a fair trial in saudi arabia. >> what can organizations like yours and the international community do about the situation in saudi arabia? >> i think it is a matter of continuing to raise these issues, to look towards best practices, to work with those within saudi arabia who would like to see reform. it is important to know that there is diversity within the saudi arabian government. in the case of migrant domestic workers, there is responsibility on all sides. there is also a responsibility on the part of the sri lankan government to make sure that recruitment agencies are not falsifying documents of migrants and allowing children to migrate instead of adults. they should be cracking down on these agencies. the embassy should have extended aid to its nationals much earlier. they did not help per until it was too late, although she had been apprehended in 2005, that did not give her any help until after she had already been sentenced to th

growing numbers of people have been demonstrating to end a pervasive and tolerated violence against women. >> young indians are now outraged and taking a stand by color -- by challenging cultural conditions that allow abuse of women without accountability. >> she is determined to make her voice heard. together with her fellow students, she is calling for an end to rape and discrimination against women. they say they will continue to defend themselves, whatever it takes. young people in india are angry, and not just in the capital of delhi. the rapes have sparked a wave of protests across the country. this is a ph.d. student. she and her friends were among the first to take to the streets. they now hold regular demonstrations. >> we want freedom, freedom from oppressive families, fathers, brothers. [chanting in foreign language] >> they chang "long -- chant "long live the struggle." "down with the hatred of women." the students are protesting against what they say is a failure of the police, politics, and the justice system. >> we want to tell this government that we will can -- that we ca

and went to the task force and got a referral back to us, even though they have a lesser burden of pervasion, i persuasion. >> theoretically it's a little easier for them the second time around, but we'll probably come to the same place. >> maybe it's not worth putting in. i agree it does seem unlikely. i had a couple other questions. in a5, i think this is a little inconsistent with a2, but maybe i'm reading it wrong. but i understand that in chapter 3, we are handling complaints alleged violations of the ordinance by elected officials or department heads, but also those that come directly to us and don't go through the task force. is that right? >> i think this language was included just to make sure it was clear that any referral from the task force or in the off chance by the supervisor of record. this is not something that would come directly to the commission. >> but a referral, where the order of determination is a willful violation of a department head or an elected official would still go under chapter 3; right? >> correct. >> and this is just referring to allegations of non-willful

would like for you to answer it -- [inaudible] >> i try not to be technical, but i hope i would be pervasive just telling you the debt crisis is basically a crisis connected to the governments of the euro system that has hit some countries for some reasons. somewhat we were hit because of the sins of our past. we have been having -- we have had a relatively a sizable but stable debt for a long time, but the

growing numbers of people have been demonstrating to end a pervasive and tolerated violence against women. >> young indians are now outraged and taking a stand by color -- by challenging cultural conditions that allow abuse of women without accountability. >> she is determined to make her voice heard. together with her fellow students, she is calling for an end to rape and discrimination against women. they say they will continue to defend themselves, whatever it takes. young people in india are angry, and not just in the capital of delhi. the rapes have sparked a wave of protests across the country. this is a ph.d. student. she and her friends were among the first to take to the streets. they now hold regular demonstrations. >> we want freedom, freedom from oppressive families, fathers, brothers. [chanting in foreign language] >> they chang "long -- chant "long live the struggle." "down with the hatred of women." the students are protesting against what they say is a failure of the police, politics, and the justice system. >> we want to tell this government that we will can -- that we ca

how pervasive -- you raise a point about these institutional questions.ow pervasive do you think performance enhancing drugs are across the platform of major sports in this country? >> i don't think there is a sport right now at an elite level that does not have a doping problem. >> that is -- that is profound and profoundly disappointing. i got to ask you before we go, selena, experts sports journalist that you are, who wins a tour de france first? sam or star? >> money is on star. >> money is on star. >> she's a smart lady. >> because i'm going to pay sam to ride for me. >> we have to leave it there. >> i'll take it. >> you are a raucus panel. political editor and white house correspondent sam stein, star jones, selena roberts, and harold ford jr. that's all for now. be sure to camp all of our inaugural coverage here on msnbc this monday. until thn you can find us at facebook.com/now with alex. andrea mitchell reports is next. i'm only in my 60's... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expen

it's also worth noting that we're in a pervasive low inrest rate environment right now and i'm concernedoint, and we have been for successive quarters of us having an interest rate spike, if we have an interest rate spike and we've got inflation, all the loans outstanding, 85% by the way which the government holds, students have a heck of a time paying off the loans in a high interest rate environment, are we creating a debt burden on the students and being unfair to them at the end of the day and that's my main concern as far as this issue is concerned. >> susan, an alternative way to think about this, you don't automatically go to college and wait until you know exactly what you want to do or don't go at all. >> yeah, that's right. i mean, i think there's a case to be made if air not absolutely sure, you know, take your time. my wife, who is much smarter than prettier than i am you know, waited until she was 24, and really figured out what she wanted to do. went off to uc berkley graduated from straight a's and proved that, you know, you could benefit enormously. but there is, for a lo

community issued a report to congress, stating that cyber-based economic espionage is increasingly pervasive, and their report confirms that several nations are using cyber capabilities to collect sensitive american technology as well as economic secrets. while state-sponsored cyber espionage is a growing problem, it is but one aspect of the threat. the number and sophistication of computer intrusions have increased dramatically in recent years. american companies are using billions of dollars -- losing billions of dollars worth of intellectual property, research and development, as well as trade secrets. outside attackers of borrow and to company networks, remain undiscovered for months or even years. it is much like having termites in your house. often by the time you discover them, the damage is done. now, activist groups are pioneering their own forms of digital anarchy. in the bay area, you witnessed their work firsthand when individuals have the bark website and released personal data of customers -- and individuals -- when individuals hacked the bart website. the anonymity of the inte

pervasive development disorder. a mild form of autism.hildren with autism are very intelligent. but very quiet. socially awkward. and they don't respond appropriately to interactions with other people. typically, they don't end up becoming beauty queens, either. but wineman says one day she simply decided not to let her condition define her. >> i wanted to accept myself and my autism. and i realized that my autism isn't what defines me. i define what is autism. >> reporter: she entered the ms. montana pageant as a way to prove to herself she could do anything she set her mind to. >> i fell in love with the program. good thing, too, because i won. i wasn't expecting to win. but it's funny how things work out sometimes. >> reporter: that win put her on the national stage in las vegas. >> ms. montana! alexis wineman. >> reporter: wineman made it as far as the top 15 and won the america's choice award for garnering the most online voice votes. she says the whole experience has been an amazing ride. >> i've enjoyed it immensely. there are time

with your comments, environmentalism is the successor to fail socialism as justification for all pervasive role by public experts, all men that it acts in the name of the proletariat but the planet. fascinating. >> since i'm not a plagiarist, let me say, that comes from the president of the czech republic, an economist, and he is stating a truism. when the labor party in britain came into office after the second world war, it nationalize left and right in the name of the working class. today, if you want to control the energy in the united states, cap and trade, you want to shut down the coal industry, you want to suppress the new fracking technique which has produced a bonanza in gas and oil, then you do in the name of the planet, global warming. it allows a political class of experts, central government, to control economic lever is in a way that was done in the past in the name of the working class. >> i hear from people who know about this stuff that say we're headed towards energy independence. >> unless the epa stops us. >> charles, this is not as bad as all that. he wants to replace

i think you're going to have to get used to this pervasive patchwork and lack of certainty. >> jerry, i don't know how good that is. listen to what greg is saying. months by month you're going to listen to these important issues. does that meek that business and consumers are going to be in lockdown mode because we don't know what's ahead? >> what greg has just described is what when i went to graduate school in political science 40 years ago, that's how america makes policy p, it's called incrementalism. look at this deal at the end of last year which absolutely nobody loves and it's the farthest thing from a grand bargain, on the other hand, it takes a few billion dollars out of long-term debt. it's not enough. we'll come up with some other deals and it's nonsense for the president spokesman to say he's not going to compromise. that doesn't mean anything. we're going to see more of this bit and pieces. as you both said, the market and business continue to move along, look for ways to look money, look for opportunities and i think that's going to continue to be the story. don't wait

groups to really paint a picture for san francisco and its leadership about how important and how pervasive family violence is in san francisco and also how much progress we made, so we just finished our 2011 comprehensive report so we would like to share some of that with you this evening. >> i think i'm going first on child abuse. you're going to see some statistics in front of you that really tell you the story. over 6,000 reports come into the abuse hot line, every 18,000 calls into the talk line and living with kids, 411 kids and line that runs 24/7 and in operation for the last 36 years. for any parent or caregiver in distress if they're isolated can reach out for help. excuse me for my voice and i am sick and i get it when i walk into the building. thank you so much. i'm going to talk briefly about three of the recommendations that we made two years ago in the report and we made the recommendations around child abuse and we learned a lot about domestic violence and we wanted child abuse to have the same and when we asked for data the first year of the report everything that came to u

slide would come up, the problem of bullying is changing, morphing, mutating, younger, meaner, more pervasive as kids have more tools. i want to be clear that the approach that our nation has taken to date is out of the ashes of columbine. we refer to it as an outside approach. what most schools did back then was try to secure a school from ingress, guns coming in and sro's and cameras can stop the guns but they can't stop the kids who bring in other weapons, weapons of bias, weapons of grudges from the neighborhood, values from home. we need to have a different approach. the approach we are talking about is a relational approach. it's an inside out approach, an approach really based on empowering young people not to be consumers but to be contributors in their own schools, not to be the problems but to be the solutions because clearly we've learned and know that we cannot legislate compassion and we cannot punish our children into being kind. we've tried. we've spent billions of dollars with policies that are punitive, not restoretive, policies that punish but don't give young people the opp