when the mogels came from persia to north india they saw the story telling and thought it was a beautiful art form. they were not engaged with the story but saw the beauty in the footwork and hand movement. they brought the dancers into their courts. they were a form of entertainment. so, i want you to put your imagination caps on. we will go from the forest into a beautiful mogel palace. there are velvet carpets and peacocks walking around. there are beautiful paintings and everyone all of you, the audience have come to enjoy the court and the king sits on his thrown in the corner twirling his mustache and he called for his dancers and they come to the room. you are here to be entertained by them. this is called taught. taught is a highly stylized tuning of the mind and body together. you will see very fast turns ending in sharp stances and things with our eyes and eye brows and our neck, our hands. and you will also hear a language, which you might have heard. this is the language of our dance. it tells us what to do with our feet and our bodies and there is a lot of mask going on. you

it comes from the guitar family in persia. it's the ancestor of the lute and the guitar family. the oud is actually the most prominent instrument in arabic music, and it's as valuable as the piano for the western composer or performer. as far as i'm concerned, this is one of the greatest instruments in the world. it's very dear to me. ♪ her cheeks were like the lily white ♪ ♪ that bloom in yonder valley, oh. ♪ (narrator) the human voice is perhaps the most flexible of all instruments. [singing traditional japanese music] [choir singing] the great variety of vocal timbres found around the world are reflected both in how singers render individual pitches and how they place their voices. ♪ i know i've been changed. (lausevic) there are so many elements that create a particular type of sound that are much more variable than when you're plucking an instrument or playing an instrument in which you have an expected sound. there is some aspect of the voice that is unique to each person. [singing doleful melody] when you're talking about vocal timbre, you need to think about whether the

who is invading the eastern border she would persuade him to invade the western border of persia towardseece so that they can return back to the native greece and in doing so this launches the persian war. so here's this woman, and i'm actually literally quoting from the history of this is the moment in the history when when the face of persia as it returned from its eastern face to the western face because this illness the four or five lines because this launch as early history of the west the persian war and the turning of the face of persia away from the eastern border towards the western border launches which is very well known the famous greek of the war now we turn back and we call it the persian queen who like the had breast cancer in 500 bc. in her traveling through time appearing and reappearing in one after the next the cancer is gray as she moves to the art of history that tumor has remained the same. the case allows us to recapitulate the cancer therapy and to consider its future. how has the treatment and the prognosis shifted in the last for a thousand years and what happen

, who is invading the eastern border of persia. she will persuade him to invade the western intuits greece so that commodities can return back to his native greece. and in doing so, this launches the persian war. so here's this woman -- and i'm actually coding -- literally quoting from the histories. this is the moment in the history when the face of persia as it were returns from its eastern face to the western face because of this illness that told the house. this launches the early history of the west, the persian wool and the turning of the face of persia away from its eastern border towards its western border, lunch is this very well know the persian wars. so now, 500 pages later, we returned back. the persian queen who likely had breast cancer and 500 b.c. imagine our traveling comic. and reappearing in the hmx. she listed the arc of history with a tumor frozen stage and behavior the same. her case allows us to recapitulate past advances in cancer therapy and consider its future. how has your treatment and prognosis shifted i

the wait is almost over for persia players who fly to new zealand who have spent the last three months training intensively and gaining vital much experience however for the senior team if the place is club rugby league and he's delighted but russia can finally start to do better talking on the rugby pitch it's going hanging over us the you know if the idea of the world cup that's just coming close by a day last month or so it's a really was it's just a bit of a relief when it's finally come however before they leave they spoke to the media by best hopes expectations ahead of what would be the greatest moment so far in this sport in careers russia one of the tournaments minnows of an all times and winner he just glad to have made it couldn't even dream of it when i was over. playing for russia and even playing for russia at the world cup stage so now here are the last three years it has been a dream and a i've traveled literally have a player that's the way to get russia still have a long way to go until they can even think of being able to compete on a level playing field with the lik

she said, you're all over voice of america persia.e people that know where i am and that i've been arrested and they're talking for me. makes such a big difference when you hear that people on the outside are calling for your release. even if it might not lead directly to your release, it helps you tolerate the conditions in prison. >> people around the world were following you and josh and shane and there are other prisoners still sitting in there. appreciate it. >>> hat, t-shirts, even onesies. president obama's re-election campaign getting up in full gear, but is this enough to fire up supporters? >>> also, a satellite the size of a bus now hurtling toward the earth's surface. the odds pieces of this thing hit land or someone not too high, but perhaps a little too high for some. we've got more answer coming up. [ dog barks, growls ] ♪ whoa, watch out, little man. ♪ [ male announcer ] when you take away the worry, it's easy to enjoy the ride. hey, bud. hey, dad. [ male announcer ] introducing cadillac shield. the most comprehensive

[applause] if i could find it, we have a very small token, within government guidelines, are persia asian for -- of our appreciation for governor raskin. i also want to spend 30 seconds giving you all a commercial for our next center for financial policy event, which will be here october 5 and 6, here at the ronald reagan can this other school of business. it will be our conference on systemic risk and the issues. this is one did not want to miss. we're very excited about this lineup. it will include keynote from keynote fromreed as well as robert engel. it has tremendous panels from just about everybody in washington, and some of the leading lights in academic systemic risk issues. this is a session that i should note is sponsored by our policy center here at smith, but also nyu, uc berkeley, and -- i hope you can join us here on october 5 and 6. let's give one last round of applause for governor raskin. thank you, all. appreciate it. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] then they, ed o'keefe, discussion on the c

persia in new year is the beginning of the spring, everything refreshes.arth. we refresh our friendship even with our enemies. we forget our sorrows and we look to the new year with bright eyes and full of hope, full of hope. let me see what i have in this bag. ah-ha! my brothers, he forgot. in the persian new years, we put seven items on the table. we start with the letter "s," which represents the goodness of the earth. everything that comes from the earth. we celebrate, we celebrate these blessings, we love these blessings so we represent them with seven "s's." this is a sign of health, the apple. please, can you put it there on this table? next, we have --, this is sour but it is good for your health. this comes from any other fruit. this is the vinegar. it was very hard to carry out. oh, -- is good for many things. persians knows for what. this represents wealth. i don't know why. let me see what i have. egs-- eggs, i don't know why we put these. it does not start with s. we put this on kabob. we love this. do you love this? yes, you do. c'mon, this i