i have seen his perseverance and his ability to see and to feel into the future about how we could be. clearly, if he had not done what he had done, we would not have as many black businesspeople, i don't think we would have as many black elected officials, and i know for sure we would not have had a black president. i worked for shirley who ran for president before jesse jackson. reverend jackson took the presidential campaign and the delegate selection process, and the engineering of the democratic national committee to such a level that we had ron brown, the first head of the democratic national committee. i think any to be a master class, and we need to come up with a chorus that teaches about

departments for a healthy camp that will persevere. also, a tip of that to the can of this movement that is here. saying that it is not just good to have high friends in places, but friends in high places as well. thank you, brothers and sisters. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is kathy hogan. i am a social worker, here in san francisco. thank you for standing with us and being responsive. what folks do not know is that supervisors have supported us, day and night. but that is not the case with the of the mayor. it brings the question of who the mayor is here to support. the people of san francisco are calling upon him to come visit us,, support us -- visit us, support us. he is not present. instead, he said that occupies an francisco -- occupy san francisco is a public health hazard. he has now seen it with his own eyes. instead, he criticizes the movement by spending $100,000 in funds -- this was just a week ago -- when $100,000 was spent on moving against our movement. $100,000 could do a lot to suppor

the al qaeda terrorist steve america has to tell the american spirit of perseverance.a american i believe if our perseverance is a country is to grow and continue we need to identify what it means to be an american today in the post 9/11 bald and what we can do collectively and individually to pay it forward by selfless good deeds made to the community into the country to continue to make america the greatest country in the world. throughout history individuals have stepped up and have given themselves to become pioneers for the betterment of mankind. often we believe that he is to prevent us from doing the unthinkable to affect change. however as each and every one of us looks within ourselves to offer that can only make a difference. it is our hope that in sharing the personal stories and experience of fighting terrorism people will identify with and themselves what it is they can offer finally to the country but to the communities to change for the betterment of all. so, my question that i would pose to each one of you is can one person make a difference against the

rocksolid integrity, unusual determination and perseverance, perseverance and perseverance. as you might guess, in a great admirer of dr. rice. not quite as much as moammar gadhafi. i don't have a scrapbook. climatic i do have an enormous regard for dr. rice and is very, very pleased to your answer do you do formal introduction and invite ambassador cobb to the stage. >> good morning, everybody. thank you, president shalala and my wife for those nice, nice comments. before you introduce condoleezza rice, i want to share with all of you a favoritism i have come a bias that i have. this bias is that i have a strong affinity for smart, strong, powerful, successful and charismatic women leaders. and this evidence is that -- [applause] and as evidence of that, i have been married to one of those ladies for 52 years. [applause] but a second evidence of that, i had the pleasure to share the search committee for the university of miami and our first choice by far was donna shalala because she had all of those skills in all of those values. [applause] and thirdly, i am on the board o

it takes a lot of faith and perseverance to go through this path of loss and reclamation, and loss and reclamation, and loss and reclamation, and not give up. it seemed like the pieces of my life were completely irreconcilable. there were so many things i wanted to hold on to, and so many pieces of my existence that i wanted to give. there's a piece of art i made called, "training for the surface of the moon," it's a series of collages. i wanted to take every fragment of anything that was beautiful in my life and not forget it. and the act of sewing them together was a very literal way of trying to make things meet that didn't meet; the beauty in them and the pain in them. something about the possibility for wholeness and the reality of destruction, and that these coexist at the same time. and this feeling that there is something more transcendent, something that smacks of grace. and most of my work has a real tension in it between forms and images that remind me of the grace of existence, whether it's seeds that are sprouting or roots that are going into the ground, or light, or circl

so this is a good story for american perseverance. >> do you miss high office, or are you just relievedo be out of it all? because the book details again and again the sacrifice that you have to make, like so many people at a high level of white house administration. you talk about envying your driver because every weekend he would be off doing stuff with his family or having fun and you were off around the world on another trip. so i guess mixed feelings? >> well, of course, it was a wonderful experience, and it was a very high honor, as i said. but i was glad to be done. eight years is plenty. especially eight years under the circumstances under which we served. but i am so happy to be back at stanford. and i'm a university professor again, which is really my vocation and my calling in life. and i don't -- i don't miss it. i like reading the newspaper and saying, oh, isn't that interesting and moving on to the next thing. so it's really quite nice. >> very quickly, if i was to pin you down and say your biggest triumph in the eight years and your biggest regret, what would you say? >>

praises to all of those whose courage, strength, determination, perseverance, blessings, grace, bloodeat, tears, and sacrifices have uplifted us, our community, our people. i want you to take a moment and out loud and with passion and with gratitude, call up the name of those whose shoulders you stand upon. praises be. praises be. praises be. praises be. praises be. praises be. praises be. we call -- praises be. we call upon you all to join us in this commemoration of the past and join us in the celebration of the youth leaders of yesterday and today and those of tomorrow. we ask you to participate as we ourselves become more energized and inspired to follow their example and to take action, to be healers, peacemakers, social justice activists. we call upon you, great ones, to ask that you give us your blessing. bless all of us, and especially, bless our youth. bless their bodies, their spirits, their minds. we call upon you, ancestors, to ask for your guidance for all of us and especially our youth. especially our youth. guide their feet, their heads, their hearts. be to their left,

gave up bin laden, and so -- or led us to bin laden, and so this was a great story of american perseverancer ten years said to foes in particular we don't give up until the job is done. >> who was the first person you told when you heard the news? >> well, i actually had a couple of people with me traveling with me. one of them that worked with me at the state department. we immediately talked about it, and it was a really very -- very gratifying moment because even though i don't believe that al qaeda is done as an organization, in many ways the organization that did 9/11 is a very different organization now. it's been cut down to size. not just through the kill of bin laden, but also the many field generals who were taken off the battlefield, so this is a good story for american perseverance. >> do you miss high office, or are you just relieved to be out of it all, because the book details again and again the sacrifice that you have to make, like so many people at a high level of white house administration. you talk about envying your driver because every weekend he would be off doing stu

unusual determination and perseverance and perseverance. i emigrated mirer of dr. rice. not quite as much as gaddafi. i don't have the scrapbook. [applause] i do have an enormous regard for dr. rice and very pleased she is here and do her formal introduction i would like to invite ambassador, to the stage. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. thank you, my wife for those nice comments. .. who clearly has all the skills, as i will talk a little more in a moment about. [applause] unfortunately we could not give her away from stanford. we could not give her away from writing the script book. and so, we were so successful in encouraging congresswoman jane harman who was the covers woman from california and also a very charismatic driven, powerful, wonderful, smartly. so it is quite obvious to my take off from all of this that i really do have this bias. and for that reason it is really an opportunity and a pleasure for me to introduce the most successful woman, and they're really do believe that. so, you have heard from my wife about the skills, and clearly she has all of

their teacher, captain fitch from sacramento county's sheriff's office, praised their perseverance. > did a great job. joe's an outstanding individual, very giving and very kind. and a lot of that transcends into how he works and performs with the horse, as well. >> reporter: when joe is not working his full-time job selling propane, he is often helping oakdale police patrol events and farmer's markets. joe pays for lobo's care and says it only costs taxpayers a dollar a year. with today's tight budget, the police chief is hard pressed to say nay. >> for someone with a full-time job and family to say, i'll come down and help you and commit my weekend, you know, to your rodeo or to -- we have a chocolate festival here, to commit your weekend to a chocolate festival is incredible. >> reporter: joe and lobo were such a hit that they inspired a second mounted patrol team here at the oakdale police department. the horse and rider have become town celebrities. starbuck's even gave lobo his own gold card. but as ambassadors for the police, there is no horsing around with joe's message. serge

and what's important is perseverance, staying on the ground, staying committed. >> india is already the world's fourth biggest economy, behind only the u.s., china, and japan. it's growing at 8% a year. only china is faster and it's the third-biggest investor in the u.k. its ace card is its young population, more than 600 million under 25, if it can harness their energy and drive. next stop, a place where younger indians are already helping build the foundations. designing houses in delhi for people in dover. the owner grew up in britain, but saw better opportunities here. >> as a studio, we've adopted an outsourcing model. we're outsourcing from india to the u.k., and from the u.k. to india. we're creating jobs in the u.k. by having a studio in india. >> but india still has its own way of doing business. big retailers have found it's not quite sure it wants to let the whole world in. corruption and infrastructure keep other investors away. that's the thing about the indian economy, some investors say. it's a bit like this old ambassador carr. the makers have kept it going for more than

david stevenson is live now at the school with how the boy thought his school about perseverance anddetermination, david. >> reporter: julie even until the end, this young man refused to let his disability keep him from living his life just like a normal kid. children wrote their farewell to yohan castro. we first met yohan in 2009. >> he brought out the best in everybody. >> reporter: he was 9 years old when we met him and far smaller than other children in his fourth grade class. >> fearless, fearless guy. sense of humor, and he was able to laugh at his own condition. >> reporter: despite his blindness, joham became an enthusiasm skateboarders taking tumbles in strides. >> i didn't know how to ride it, so my first time, and i stand on it i didn't fall. >> reporter: i think kids learned compassion, because they always watched out for yohan and they always made sure that he was safe. >> reporter: his idol proskateboarder tony hawk even sent him an autographed picture. but his illness continued to grow and on sunday he died at home in san francisco with his parents at his side. >> we'

and perseverance.s you might guess i emigrated mirer of dr. rice. not quite as much as muammar gadhafi. i don't have his scrapbook. [applause] i do have an enormous regard for dr. rice. i am very pleased that she is here and to do her formal introduction i would like to invite ambassador cobb to the stage. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. thank you, president shalala and my wife for those nice comments. before i introduce condoleezza rice i want to share with all of you a bias that i have. this bias is i have a strong affinity for smart, strong, powerful, successful and charismatic women leaders. as evidence of that -- [applause] as evidence of that i have been married to one of those ladies for 52 years. [applause] but as second evidence of that i had the pleasure to share the committee of the university of miami presidency and our first choice by far was dr. shalala because she had all those skills. [applause] and thirdly i am on the board of the woodrow wilson center and i had the honor to cha

i like to write about groups of people who persevere and make a life on their own aside from what the general culture is doing. i find that i don't consciously sit down and do that but it happens. in this particular book something that has fascinated me is sumo and sumo wrestlers and how they get so big and what it's like in their culture. one of the brothers becomes an sumo and that's why it's a big book! [laughter]. >> do you think that -- being a woman who is in women have been oppressed -- i don't know if they are now or not, dou think that has stimulated you in your writing coming out of that? you specifically and in general, do you feel like a lot of women have been stimulated by being part of an oppressed class? >> good question. >> very much so. i will try to answer a, b, c. for me, i know that the first thing i began to think about when i thought i wanted to write a novel was that i wanted to write about my culture. and because i had grownup in the chinese culture i wanted to write about china. i wanted to find out more about myself because of i was raised in the bay area and

california, the landscape is dotted with farmers that have stories of courage, dedication, and perseverance in the face of adversity. however, none have quite the history of the ikeda family, but to see how far they have come, you first have to see where they've been. in the early part of the 20th century, many of the hills above the arroyo grande area were farmed by japanese families, who planted a variety of crops each spring. together they banded together to form pove, the pismo oceano vegetable exchange, which was highly successful until world events hit this small coastal community in the 1940s. >> before the war, there was probably between 40 and 45 members of pismo oceano vegetable exchange. during the war, all the japanese families got shipped off to iernment camps further inland, mainly to utah and arizona, and during that time, there was an alien exclusion act in which aliens couldn't own land, so you either had to buy land through a child who was a citizen or have some other citizen buy the land you and leased it from them, and so not a lot of people owned land back then. >> the

. >> it's a lesson in perseverance, right?> absolutely. >> or maybe they just picked the wrong sport. maybe. >> it's wonderful. >> congrats to those guys. and in belgium there is a disney wonderland on ice. an annual festival is celebrating the 20th anniversary of disneyland paris. so there's aladdin, captain jack sparrow, as well as buzz lightyear. >> and it has taken five weeks and 29 artists from 11 countries to carve up all those icings using 200 tons of ice. >> that is very cool-looking. look at that. unbelievable. like the craftsmanship and all that is always so -- >> when i see sand castles i'm always amazed, but these ice sculptures are just remarkable. look at that. look at that. >> congrats to those. unbelievable skill there. we'll be back with more "world news now" right after this. chilling out. ♪ you're as colds ic ♪ cold as ice i know ♪ you're as cold as ice

. >> our ideal situation is we just want to stay strong, we're going to persevere.we have excellent lawyers throughout the country that's working on this case. i do know that today we are determined to win. we know that we are up against a company that has multi billions of dollars to fight us but yet we are still determined, is to go forth. we know they have the resources. but we also have the determination. >> do you know women see you as a role model? >> i appreciate those that do see me as a role model but i'm striving for a justice that i feel that i have been denied me. and i'm hoping along the way that every woman, not only at just wal-mart, but every women who works in this country get a fair treatment and promotion as well as pay increase on any job, doesn't matter if it's at corporate level or it's at the hourly level where i work. we should be treated fair in the workplace. >> what would you say to women who shop at wal-mart? >> we all -- the women who shop at wal-mart, they're looking for low prices, which wal-mart offers. but the low prices that wal-mar