And quite a few names popped up. But there were two that floated to the top. And so if you would let me indulge, i will be honoring two people. One of them will be honoring mrs. Adams was part of it. Im just going to read a quick statement. So colleagues, my first honory today is to remember and celebrate the wonderful lady dorthy adams. I know you have heard this story before but its important for my office to tell this story to a broader audience because of what she did in the community. She passed away in january. Dorothy and her husband are in this they had to break into their own home. There was discretion against black home owners. So you wonder whats the impact here. Ill tell you later. But dorothy was never a timid woman. She had already broken one barrier. She was also a model for macys, she was a dancer, in the San Francisco World Magazine and the San Francisco black Police Officer. Dorothy and her husband found the perfect home for her and her two children. When they found t
Okay. Back to my official duties. Supervisor wiener. Thank you madam president. Colleagues, today, i have the privilege of recognizing the amazing denise brier as my honorry for black History Month. Come on up. [applause] so i think many of us have known for many, many years in the community but maybe dont know the back story on this pretty terrific one. She is the youngest of four children born in sacramento. She attended the university of pacific and stock on the and she came to us in the bay area where shes lived for the last 20 years and has two daughters, age 22 and 26. Bebeis a multi facetted entertainer. Shes been an entertainer for about a decade now. Ive seen her many, many times and it never gets old. She has hosted and promoted over hundreds of night life events really participating in a deep way in the night Life Community, in particular the lg b t night Life Community in San Francisco. I know were all working very hard to make sure the night life survives and tliefs in thi
I believe im the last person. Im going to follow up on a couple of other members queries. First following up on the doctors question to you about theft of intellectual property in china. I know youve been involved and taken interest in this. And youve raised it with the chinese. Obviously strong intellectual property rights, incredibly important to our economy. Its perhaps one of our largest and most productive assets as americans. If you could just take a brief moment and talk about what the administration is doing to address theft of our intellectual property by the chinese. Because i was in china recently. And i can tell you i was singularly unimpressed with their efforts to prevent theft of intellectual property. Congressman, ive raised this issue at the highest levels of the chinese government. I think they understand that they need to take more action in this area. They have certainly indicated that they understand its an issue. You know, the reality is, they for a long time deni
Excited about having this conversation with him and then drawing you into that conversation. One of the delights about his book is his disclosing something of his own spiritual practice, particularly during the holy season of ramadan. He had many when he said that prior to entering the day he would get up, have a small breakfast, and then have a time with [inaudible] one of my favorite poets. And i thought it was really wonderful if we all could have kind of a moment of censuring around eboo reading one of his favorite poems. How does that sound . All right. Thank you for the invitation to thank you all for being here. So, this is a poem that actually first heard where rumi is buried in turkey. Come, come whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of reading but it doesnt matter. House is not a caravan of despair. No, even if you broken your vows, a thousand times. Come yet again, come, come. A couple reasons that this is meaningful to me, its actually in the book trying to an say whe
Ghost tracking. Vampires have long been one of the staples of horror films. Actors have brought the evil blood sucking creatures of the night to life. In 1994 ktvus bob shaw brought us this look at the long history of vampires in movies. The screens first real horror tale was norstratu a german film based so closely on the dracula movie that all the copies were ordered destroyed. The first film vampire was dracula. University studios. Though the author said dracula spoke perfect english, lagossi appeared creepy. I have charged of a ship, take us to england. We will be leaving tomorrow evening. Reporter hard to believe this performance set hearts racing. But lagoci claimed after his film opening, 90 of his fan mail came from women. The charm was still missing. For the first time though in house of dracula a vampire was portrayed as a tragic hero. He tried to find a solution to his plight. For 10 years, vampired virtually disappeared from the screen and no one seemed to care. But in 1958