but for asa products ownny mele it has truly been a roller coaster ride. in her first three years of business she made millions of dollars in sales only to see them plummet. now her company is back on top with valuable insight into how to run her business and avoid past pitfalls. asa products the maker of the mobo cruiser wants their customers to have more than fun. they want their customers to be wowed. >> from the package, to open the package, oh, nice. when they arrive, cool. when they call a customer, wow you guys are nice. so it's just like you want to have that wow factor that will have people remember who you are. and that's the brand. >> building the brand is now at the core of the company for founder and president melody hsieh. but it wasn't always that way. today business is sbooming but getting to this point has been anything but a smooth ride. three years after it launched asa products was pulling in more than $3 million a year. and then suddenly, the revenue plummeted. >> so i was like our business went down from $3 million. >> at the time asa

asa products, the maker of the mobo cruiser want their customers to have more than fun. they want their customers to be wowed. >> on the package, as soon as they open the package, oh, very nice. when they ride the experience, wow, very cool. when they call customers, wow, you guys are nice. so it's just like you want to have that wow factor that will have people remember who you are. and that's the brand. >> building the brand is now at the core of the company for founder and president melody shay hornstrap, but today business is booming and getting to this point has been anything but a smooth ride. three years after it launched asa products was pulling in more than $3 million a year and then suddenly the revenue plummeted. >> and i was like, our bust just went down from $3 million. >> at the time asa products were imported from taiwan and sold in the u.s. everything from roller skates to yo-yos and the buyer's appetite was huge. >> sell me the product! sell me the products! so for me it's real easy, is people come to you because the product was hot. >> the reason why th

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general assembly meeting as president obama reiterated his commitment to making the shot asa go and turn qatar one of the states believed to be supplying the syrian rebels with weapons called an arab nations to intervene in syria bypassing the world body art is marina has been following the hot issue being addressed a new york now. every world leader or high figure that took to the podium at the united nations general assembly on tuesday did address the crisis in syria the secretary general ban ki-moon described the war in syria as a regional calamity with global ramifications he urged the international community to act quickly with consensus before he says the crisis spirals out of control some western leaders took a more aggressive approach with their rhetoric french president francois hollande said that the syrian government of bashar assad has no future are among the international community and called on the un to immediately pride protections for the syrian opposition groups that are currently occupying the northern part of the country u.s. president barack obama also released some

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gathering with calls for asa to step down and threats to intervene intensified by harsh rhetoric fails to bring countries any closer to finding a solution to the crisis. and pain in spain perhaps there's a little impeachment for dread as a police try to stop thousands from storming the country's parliament in anger of the harshest era cuts. this is r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina josh to syria first were massive blast rocked the capital damascus on wednesday morning twin explosions that the authorities have already called terror attacks targeted major government buildings and came just a day after two other blasts hit a security compound year is in the region brings us the details. two massive explosions rocked the syrian capital of damascus early on wednesday morning they happened to near the command headquarters of the army and the air force they were just minutes apart they also happened not far from one of the main squares of the capital city now they shattered the glass of windows of nearby buildings with some people reporting hearing those explosions several kilometers

maybe we will get all the people to finally love us as they see us asas name him. >> greg: you will not five" for long. >> dana: you're destined for bigger things. i have a legal question to kimberly. a question that catherine herridge on fox news has been asking over and over is the f.b.i. going there? why haven't they arrived yet? is it because it's unsafe? what is the other reason if you are the administration you want the f.b.i. investigating this? >> kimberly: this is their dog and pony show. instead of handling this through the military division they will handle it as a law enforcement problem. send the f.b.i. there. that means if they get anybody they want to question and integait, they will go, here is a happy meal. we'll bring you back and try you here. the wrong way to approach this situation. >> dana: it has happened before. at fort hood. >> kimberly: it has happened before. we've seen the epeck fail by the administration and holder of department of injustice. they don't know how to manage this. they are lacking. they are not respected in the middle east. now seeing weakened

offensive to those in the muslim world was used to cover this incident, buh iwhat do we know now as far asa similar attacks at other facilities around the world? >> they jacked up security atse all u.s. embassies and consulates, and that means two things: one, immediately they raised the profile outwardly of what people see when they look at the embassy, and secondly, internally, and as far as people within the u.s. government system moving around, what theyh do will be changing as well. >> mitt romney drew criticism today about his statement criticizing the white house. how unusual is it in a political season to be cite sizing a sitting -- criticizing a sittini president?es >> that's a little out of my league, the political part, but everybody that dealt with thist h today recognizes that it's a very serious situation.r and it's one of those situation that probably is going to require some cool heads to deal with at this point. >> jj green, we appreciate youri joining us tonight.to we'll throw it pack to you. >> thanks -- back to you.t >>> let's continue the coverage now. the u.s. ambassad

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so to capture a photograph like this add-on with a 10 asa film, he was not a bad photographer and he loved to shoot portraits. marry his wife and sam, and remember i mentioned him before, sam itaya brother and sister, very striking and handsome photograph of the wife and brother-in-law. and he especially loved shooting photographs of children, as we all do. that is billy, his little son with the cap -- a military cap kind of leaning to one side there. it's hard to tell. they are playing with something. it might be a marble. it might be something else. this is a little group of children, a little bit ragtag looking but adorable standing in front of the tarpaper barracks. that is billy on the right in the blue cap and the galoshes. and the little baseball bat, a little mini-baseball bat looking thing there. that is billy. that is also billy being an ice cream cone. so one of the things that we can see bill manbo doing with his color found and his camera and is doing what most japanese americans were not able to do which was to use the camera to try to create and bring together some kin

i was heartbroken to see this party, the people who john mccain was speaking back to asa barking backt at the end of his campaign when they wurp standing up and saying obama is a terrorist, et cetera, john mccain four years ago had the judgment to say that's wrong. those people have taken over this party and you have mitt romney now chasing behind people who have fallen to this very, very low place. this is a shameful, shameful display of dishonesty on the part of a leading party. >> richard, go ahead. >> i'm just going to say, you know, i'm still astonished that mitt romney could stand up and say he really wanted to president to succeed and america to succeed. he's now head of a party that contributed all of three votes to the simulous. the economy was falling off a cliff, the stock market was plunging down to half the value it has today. it has doubled in value since the start of this presidency. were they hoping for success? did they do anything to help the country? they voted down the stimulus. you could have all sorts of policy differences, but in a time of crisis, did the democr

as this investigation continues i anticipate we will continue to learn more facts about the awful asas assassination and mr of our great ambassador are in libya. you saw the white house say this was a terror attack and nobody wants to get to the bottom of this more than the president and the secretary of state so that we can protect our missions and our consulates throughout the world and remain engaged. >> chris: i specifically last sunday asked ambassador rice about the president of libya who was then saying it was preplanned. i specifically asked her about al-qaeda which said that it was revenge for the killing of a top al-qaeda leader. ms. rice didn't say we don't know, we'll get back to you. she said it was a spontaneous attack that was not preplanned that spun out of control. she had information at that time and the information she gave the american people was wrong. >> again, chris, i think you look back at that answer and she says the answer she has the information in the answer based on what she knew at that point. we have learned more and we are going to continue to learn mor

. >> yo vivia en umic asa en la universidad, y me visitaba mi familia. >> imagínate tú, por eso que dicennas que vivian hace 150 años que llevaban el record de lo que pasaba. >> o cartas de amor, imagínate, cuandos hombres les mandaban las cartas a sus mujeres. >> cuantas mujeres abandonadas. >> y cuandos hombre escribiendo detras de piedras. >> vamos a una pausa. (♪) 41 >> buenos días mi gente, esta mañana a través de nuestras redes sociales pedimos a toda nuestra gente que mandaran sus preguntas para usted. >> nos han mandado muchísimas preguntas porque quieren saber todo de usted. >> así que mire, yo tengo una para usted, de mi tocaya ana patricia, ¿como lo haces para levantarte tan temprano? >> con mucha disciplina y muy organizada, me acuesto a las 8:30 o 9 de la noche y trato de ejercer mis horarios, sino, no puedo, y me tomo mi café en la mañana. >> de rosalinda ¿como lo haces para estar tan flaca y sin estomago con 2 niñas? >> le agradezco a dios que me dio un buen metabolismo, y hago ejercicio 3 veces a la semana, me doy mis gustitos, y hay que comer como pajarito, poquito, a cad

process where people discuss the facts and reason together and come to a conclusion, and then use that asasasis for decision. the truth is in modern politics, it's beginning to change but not quickly enough, in modern politics these 30-second television ads are 75% to 80% of the money in both parties is spent to purchase. these are not the federalist papers and they don't have much logic associated with them. it's all hot-button, poll-tested, neuro-analyzed emotional appeals, and some of them, as we've seen from the romney campaign, are based on total and complete falsehoods, and if you have enough money to dominate the airwaves with those instruments of propaganda, more often than not that determines the outcome of the election. it's an embarrassment to our democracy. >> eliot: i agree with that, but i'll say one thing that agrees with cenk. i felt when the tea party began to manifest itself, a lot of passion, 50% of it could have been brought into the democratic party as a populist party reform. the anger at wall street bailout and the efforts of the part of government to maintain the sta

when the day comes that is saw sad t office one -- asa leaves office, he could be too little too late. >> there is no u.n. security council resolution. it is a different situation for a lot of reasons. then libya, a country tired of afghanistan and iraq. you're talking to the president of the united states. the stakes have been outlined very dramatically. what does he practically do not close. ? what context should he viewed it? >> that is the fundamental question. it to be nice if syria were as compact -- it would be nice if syria were as compact that the answers are obvious. i do not think they are. if assad left tomorrow, you would not have a very different syria. syria and lebanon are the most intermix countries possible in world ethnically, religiously. they are very complicated. guess you have a she insurgents. that goes to the turks attitude, the rockies attitude. they're not all on the same site. it is not obvious to we want to come out ahead. the majority is about 600. they're very different kinds. the palestinian refugees in in syria. a lot to do not want the sunnis to win.

looksike asa t americans. >> the pres policy in iraq has been quite successful. iran? what about ia? at abt israel? you aed the question. let me answer it. implementedth stctest, most comphensset of sanctions with respect to iran. iran on thedec ase oos the increase which it was when -- >> whys the cisis in the relatietween the israeli government and the united states over theast -- >> there is no crisis in the relationship. what president obama has did down a very strict setf standards, red lines. >> d you thi our allies in the regio -- >>old on. unfortunately we gotoe break. we're all out of time. buyou know what, this is the second time the two of you have been here "the situation room." and we're going to invite both of you back to continue this conversation weteally even get i some of the stuff that we wanted to discuss, including this. all right. standby, guys anks very, very much. we'll continhi down the road. >> much more to discuss, viously. >> the libyan ambassadorq to th united states is also here. here's standing by live. we'llk to him about what happ

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