thousands of pilgrims came through the western portals of this church, and they found themselves in aacred way... a long avenue of arches and aisles which led them to the distant and luminous choir where the body of saint mary magdalene was contained. the dout mediev christian, holy rel had the power to perform miracles. en the tiest fragment of the body of a snt encased in its riqry rapresented the power, the presence of the saint. much of the art of the time was geared to the cult of saints and their relics. medieval artists lavished their skill on these reliquaries. only the most precious jewels and workmanship were considered worthy to hold, for example, a splinter of wood from the cross of the crucifixion... or the scowl of saint john the baptist... or the cloak of the virgin mary or the arm of a bishop or a saint. now, the status of a church and its attraction for pilgrims depended on the number and importance and of the relsion for that it held. churches competed for relics and even stole them from each other. "a vision commanded us to steal it," they would say, or, "the saint

they pick up a kind of pilgrim's passport.ll get it stamped at each stop to prove they walked the whole way and earned their compostela certificate. walking the entire 500-mile-long route takes about five weeks. that's about 15 miles a day, with an occasional day of rest. the route is well-marked with yellow arrows and scallop shells. the scallop shell is the symbol of both st. james and the camino. common on the galician coast, the shells were worn by medieval pilgrims as a badge of honor to prove they made it. the traditional gear has barely changed -- a gourd for drinking water, just the right walking stick, and a scallop shell dangling from each backpack. the slow pace and need for frequent rest breaks provide plenty of opportunity for reflection, religious and otherwise. for some, leaving behind a stone symbolizes unloading a personal burden. the first person to make this journey was st. james himself. after the death and resurrection of christ, the apostles traveled far and wide to spread the christian message. supposedl

they didn't persecute people enough, the so-called pilgrims. i'm amazed they even realize it didn't go directly. they were already exiled and their brother graham utopia and the tradition started in stop and threw them away to pick up a few more migraines. >> host: we've got about a minute before we take a break. i want to ask you the big question. hispanic or latino. he said hispanics throughout the book tipitina has come up house recently. >> guest: it's interesting you should call that a question. i like people to call themselves when they want to call themselves. somebody tells me she wants to be called a latina, i will call her that. i call myself hispanic. i can't see any good reason for abandoning that label. it includes me as someone of spanish origin as well as people of spanish american origin. to me it is more inclusive than latino. you've got to remember all of these labels are imposed. but if people are happy to use them themselves, but i'm happy to reflect that back in my work. >> host: we will take a break and we will be right ba

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pilgrims' motives vary. some worship. others look in to themselves. the drawings in the book are evocative. the words, like poetry. >> pushing up the steep roads to temple 20, she seemed hopeless. >> reporter: the authors are chelsea reedy and alana snyder. they had been teaching english to children in shikoku in summer of 2012 and before going back to the u.s. they took on the ohenro challenge. at first, all they wanted was a good memory. but the impact of their 15-day bicycle trip was strong. while visiting the sacred locations along the way, they decided to write a book. >> ohenro is like life, make you think about life. >> reporter: last fall, they returned from the u.s. to gather material. snyder photographed the enchanting scenery to help with her illustrations. reidy sought inspiration at each location in an effort to find the best words to accompany the drawings. they completed the book last month. in one section, the two shared their experience of spending a rainy night outdoors. the physical challenges they endured sometimes triggered a spir

pilgrims can take any route they wish with each journey cannot be less than one thousand km pilgrims motives family some worship of those looking to themselves the drawings in the book are evocative. the words like poetry. pushing up the steep road to stumble twenty she seemed hopeless. the authors are chelsea reading and elaine in snyder. we've been in teaching english to children and cocoa until summer of two thousand while and before going back to the us. they took on the ocean or challenge. at first all they wanted was a good memory. but the impact of their fifteen day bicycle trip was strong. while visiting the secret locations along the way. they decided to write a book. all i know is dry. i need you think about my. last fall. they returned to see coco from us to gather material. snyder photograph the enchanting scenery to help with her illustrations. greedy sought inspiration a beach location in an effort to find the best words to accompany the drawing. they completed the book last month. in one section to share their experience of spending a rainy night outdoors the physical

old man said a fellow pilgrim you're wasting your strength from building here you never again shall passep and wide why willie would you build this bridge. the bear in mind lifted up his heady said again friend they'll follow after me a needy youth who must come this way it's to that spearheaded youth my may a pitfall be he too must cross in twilight dim good friend i'm building this bridge for him indicative of willie brown junior (clapping.) good morning speaker brown, lieutenant newsom and attorney general harris and the chair woman and holly mitch and the members of the legislative caucus please stand by holly mitchel our chairperson (clapping.) mayor ed lee and distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen if you haven't noticed this day is about a day named willie l brown junior but it's not about willie brown but a boy from texas but this day is not about a boy from the south east texas area it's about a man who broke down barriers of class and race of political lodge to build a city and state that continues to be the envy of the world. (clapping.) so like i said this day is not about

you think anyone wanted to be a pilgrim? no! but they stuck it out for the buckle insurance. (laughter) even then, even then it was a pretty high buckle deductible. -- deductible. (laughter) buckle deductible. (laughter) in other news, folks, it's no secret that america's wealthy are under seechblingt it's like the french revolution these days. but our poor people are too lazy to put on uplifting musicals. but they've got plenty of energy to demonize my friend venture capitalist tom perkins. he is suddenly public enemy number one just because he had the courage to speak truth to poverty. >> there is outrage today over comments made by venture capitalist tom perkins in a letter to the editor of "the wall street journal" he wrote quoting now writing from the ep center of progressive thought, san francisco, i would call attention to the parallels of fascist nazi germany to its war on its 1%, namely its jews to the progressive war on the american 1% namely the rich. >> stephen: well said, toming well said. there is no better way to fight big ol-- bigotry to-- now some say mr. per

he would be so shiite pilgrims visiting at least three of those difficult said. i'm a do you feel free to do with it. since then. it took to the weak teams. braving freezing temperatures have been sitting in the open the coffins day and night and of its use to that the bodies on to the government acts against those responsible for the attack i saw the key to notch a prettily it isn't there. so long. it is the law but then if they didn't do you deal with the beautiful yet and so thoughtful. it was the evil one is the name too but it will fall. give up he added though that buffeted the pumpkin. both the savior of the money in the article you will. i know the winter coats it looks great on the screen sports. must say though that post was caused by susannah momo. his explosive laden vehicle into the bus. i am out. it's demonstrate. on and on wednesday against walking distance to quote the genocide by the sounds she on the twenty cent of the countries of the basin okok we took the two of the day. she gobbled them up that late. do i focused on the dish of the donkey so

it's midnight city tonight here in moscow right about the break here kitty pilgrim say with a weekly roundup of the of business news closely followed by another bulletin from our friends a juice news or yes this is out international very good to have you with us. what is the who is writing it and where was it leaving to be seeking to bearings we seem to turn to the news for the medium is the message and this most by will mean the planet is now the method for defining collective reality each night if it's not on the news it didn't happen right. community board alone more then somewhere around two hundred children for all for them they also found that child abusers convicted child abusers got access to those kids through a day's hallway calling phenomenal and what i'm saying is overall it's an amazingly rosy picture in that adopted kids international as well as domestic are treated better than regular kids growing up and i'm troubled biological families in the united states. i know c.n.n. the most obviously news lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the

a fire at a hotel housing religious pilgrims in western saudi arabia has killed at least a fifteen people and injured one hundred and thirty the blaze started on saturday at a hotel in the eastern part of the islamic hellenistic age of seventeen f no indication that the identities of debate since has been given until about seven hundred people of different nationalities was staying at hotel. but egyptian kells in general and jade us a taste of five egyptians including two children are amongst dogs. he says most of those injured were also egyptians preliminary indications suggested cause of death was suffocation. it's not yet clear how the five begun medina is a major religious core is the destination for muslims. the city is islam's second holiest city. off to makkah. thailand's political unrest has claimed that two more victims an explosion in the path to find colt has wanted to mount. according to john the list of hastings on social media to grade a fight from then on sunday to launch expected to attend anti government protests the site is the latest violence to mock the political showd

think a signal that journalism is good but the internal domestic russian journalism and foreign pilgrims could be a target of opportunity team in the months of two years and while it's perfectly likely we saw what happened with other tv rain tv station which was perhaps the only independent tv out with the country and we can expect that perhaps that what's left of the of the free press in russia will be subjected to the same kind of pressure that i've been subjected to but it's important to try to resist. you do that you've been a critic in the boston fed president thomas and me set policy. how would you want. what is the advice that you would get to the american administration friends how to deal with russia well it's the same advice had been giving the man in which they've ignored for the last five years switches up. treat russia as it is rather thin as we would wish it to be it doesn't mean that we cannot have any contact with russia that we cannot deal with them we can but than a normal society a society which is based on law and to society with democratic institutions needs to be th

many were egyptian pilgrims. >> the fire took more than two hours to put out. >>> iran's supreme leaderefended president hassan rouhani against hard liners critical of talks about the country's nuclear program. he asked ey iranians to remain vigilant ideal was struck between iran and world leaders in november. the talks are set to continue. >> translator: no more than a few months aspased since the government took office, authority should be given the opportunity to fish forward strongly. critics should show tolerance toward the government. >>> flood boughters don't rise in live i can't where heavy rains cause rivers to burst their banks, 38 people killed across the country. nearly 47,000 families have been effected since the start of the rainy season in october. the military has delivered food eight and is moving families from the worst affected regions. >>> vigilantes in mexico have helped federal police arrest more than 200 members of the drug cartel, wearing white shirts the legalized self-defense group rode into the groupings which has been under the gang's control. vigilantes have

have more news for you in about half an hour coming up though here on the artsy international kitty pilgrim sums up the week's financial highlights that's and venture capital to stay with us. i just for state of the city address new york mayor bill de blasio said that he would put forward legislation for the city to issue special municipal identification cards to undocumented immigrants he summed up his feelings by saying to all my fellow new yorkers who are undocumented i say new york city is your home too and we will not force any of our residents to live their lives in the shadows yeah that sounds nice but the reason these illegal immigrants live their lives in the shadows is because they immigrated illegally why should new yorkers bend over backwards for illegal criminal immigrants this is the same logic that if i catch a guy breaking into my house as a gracious host i should offer him a pizza because it's his home too this is not just a slap in the face to rule of law but also to the immigrants who do go through the bureaucracy and headaches to become u.s. citizens the right way the le

will send a delegation in the near future will be of course following that thank you very much kitty pilgrim there. it's emerged that the afghan government has been hold in secret talks with taliban officials to try and tackle the country's volatility the scotians took place three weeks ago and by both reports of the achieve little although afghan officials remain confident they will eventually bear fruit now the u.s. has a voice that supports the spies washington haven't spends billions of dollars and ten years fighting taliban militants there and of course there is the ongoing wrangling over america's role in afghanistan beyond two thousand and fourteen marina portnoy looks at what's been achieved after a decade of war. one of america's longest and most expensive foreign investments is turning into one of its greatest obstacle the u.s. intervention you know afghanistan. has essentially created a new taliban. far more powerful no comparison really with the taliban that existed before nine eleven or before the u.s. intervention in afghanistan matter of fact as the taliban and afghan presiden

every day thousands of shia and sunni pilgrims flock to shrines. major shrines will hold a cultural events and some are the few spaces in which women can socialize in the public sphere. some of the ones we visited just outside of kabul and some of the major cities, some of the ones we visited have appointed days for women and children several hundred women in attendance at these shrines. as such they can be important venues to disseminate positive messages and to counter their exclusionary conceptions of islam. they can also serve as a safe space fo where gullible segmentf that unity can seek support. as a caretaker of the 11th century pilgrim sites in herat, explains for example, that when a male member of their community develop a drug addiction, the committee provided his wife refuge at the shrine for weeks until he was rehabilitated. we have many stories like this. next slide, please. centers for cultural and spiritual development host weekly events, very popular in which featured meditation or poetry resuscitation or the performance of sacred

i'm a kind of pilgrim who goes around and says, look, this has to be stopped.hen you leave here you can forget the slums of italy. you can think you're in new york or milan or in paris. most of the people have televisions, and if i haven't drove on purpose, i think i would be in club immediate in tel aviv. >> does that throw any parallel to you with the building of this wall and they let the jewish population in there? >> let's look for who is more guilty, who did worse things, and i really don't care. i think -- i even don't think that the people who were killed in the holocaust were all good people. they were just victims, not good and not bad. victims. and the palestinians at this moment are victims. they're not better than me. they're just victims. and i don't want them to be victims. but why compare it? >> i don't compare it. my problem with it is i think if you've gone as a generation through such suffering why you don't sympathize with the new victims. >> i do. >> not you personally, but i'm just saying this is to me very troubling. because, you know, yo

they get paid a stipend i guess where you get six hundred dollars a month so they saw some guys who pilgrim they should be paid. i think so yes there's a lawsuit going on you know by former by n.c. double a players saying that the rule is unconstitutional yes sense yeah why can't you be paid for services you write i think you should i mean you have a lot of young guys who come in that are from. disadvantaged areas in you know they can't afford to go out and buy a pair of shoes so if they can keep. hey that would definitely help them out you know it was a little you. it wasn't it wasn't tough because i was more i was really worried about buying things i was more so worried about making it to the n.f.l. so what other guys you know the guys that play with me i was i would say that it was tough for most of them but he played nine years now nine years in the pros yes oh you want to play five more years. you thinking about what you have other things you touch a lot of bases right i try to what do you think about post career post career i think that if you post a response now you have to make plan

did you say saddle up pilgrim? >> and you know, in seriousness you put your life on the line.cur to you that you might do i for american soldiers. and you have to wonder did they like me and trust me, did that cross your mind? >> maybe in the beginning like the first 4 or 5 months, but after that we became family and we have no option. we have to trust each other. >> you trusted them. >> with my life, yeah. >> they trusted you? >> yes. >> jim, tell me about the story that just fascinated you and made i want to put it in a bock. >> to be honest with you. we worked on american sniper with chris kyle and that was in the end of the long day and we just kind of laid back a little bit and started to look at videos that chris had of people he knew in iraq and all of the sudden, the video picture came up of a really tall odd looking fellow and dressed in a different uniform than the rest of the seals and i hadn't recognized him and i said chris, who is that. a big texan, well, i tell you what that is. that is jim, that is the only iraqi i ever trusted with a gun. and after an american

pilgrims gathered on the banks of the river ganges for a festival in northern india that lasts for 45s. in nation, ceos are heading to washington. they are meeting with the present as part of a white house initiative to help the long-term unemployed try to find work. 23 corporate and business leaders will help brainstorm ways to retrain people trying to get working again. one washington employee is leaving his job, ben bernanke. chairman of the federal reserve since 2006 will be handed over -- handing over the reins to janet yellen. he steered the nation through the greatest recession since the great depression. here he is in pictures over the years. ♪ last year, mr. bernanke spoke at -- last year, mr. bernanke spoke at princeton's commencement ceremony. those words were aimed at and on jim's -- at an audience of undergraduates. we found them curiously relevant. >> i wrote to inquire about the status of my leave at this university. the letter i got back was "princeton receives many more , qualified applicants." i will make some suggestions. life is unpredictable, any 22-year-old who t

example of the victimization of society took place a few days ago in the sinai area, south korean pilgrims were attacked in a suicide bombing in the sinai. they were on their way from egypt on a pilgrimage to srael. obviously we would like to express our sympathy for the families of the victims. in addition to that, i think we ve to honor those who try to protect us from around the world, efrom the first responders to others. secondly on the academic level we try to develop over the years specific capabilities, seminars, for example, publications on the olimp exs we had ts, for example, the london olitsch exs. we'll see the actual courses in this particular area dealing with sports and olimp exs. now let me say a few words as context to our discussion. as you can see on the list, a number of events that took place throughout the world in terms of the olympic i think we try to reach certain lessons,, i'm not going into the lessons at this moment but i'd leek to mention two particular olimp exs and then move on on the comp contemporary situation. ne is the 1972 munich olympics which i follow

many of them egyptian pilgrims. it took more than two hours to put out the fire. >> two owners of a bangladesh garment factory surrounded after a factory fire two years ago, in which 112 people died. there were no emergency exits and doors were locked from the outside. the owners are among 30 facing charge in that case. >> anti-government protesters in ukraine holding a rally in the capital. this is the scene there now. thousands of government supporters converged near the barricades. they have been angered by months of opposition demonstrations. standoff underlying tensions, and the protest into a third month. there has been more protests against corruption and high unemployment in bosnia and hertza gough eena. there were little signs of rioting that left buildings burning. this report from sarry ava >> the anger is growing, aimed at politicians who the public blame for the economic crisis. >> i've had enough. for the past 20-25 years we were suffering and we were not doing anything. we life in a bad country. no on

thousands of shia and sunni pilgrims blocked to shrines like this.major shrines will hold cultural evidence, and some are the few spaces in which women can socialize in the public sphere. some of the ones we visited were outside the major cities and some have appointed days for women. you will find several hundred women in attendance at you shrines. as such, they can be important venues to disseminate positive messages and counter narrow exclusionary conceptions on islam. as acan also serve database where segments of the community can receive support. the caretaker of the site explains that when a male member of their community developed a drug addiction, the community provided his wife refuge for weeks until he was rehabilitated. we have many stories like this. centers for cultural and development host weekly events which are very popular which feature meditation or poetry recitations, or the performance of sacred music. to providing social services and welfare assistance to the poor, they often hold de-radicalization and drug intervention within th

why do you like pilgrim's pride?re is another company trading at a really reasonable valuation. p/e around 10. earnings per share exciting about $2 per share. they are looking for operational efficiencies and the magnitude of 200 million this year. net income of strongly this year. again, these are one of those companies they are making a lot of cash, doing well, managing the business correctly and a potential situation where maybe they reinstitute the dividend they stopped or put a share buyback. mostly companies we really like focus on the shareholders. liz: you are third, wendy's, has had a stellar run-up as well taking a look at the chart, 77% year over year. what do people think is going to happen? >> it is a difficult environment because if you look at what they have done, if you look at what they did last year, they did really well, but they pull off those products in favor of putting new things on the menus and sometimes it may be better to just let things go, but the management team is really focused on futu

did you ever say saddle up, pilgrim?ll seriousnes you were out there putting your life on the line. did it ever occur to you you might die if some american soldiers that you had to wonder, do they like me? do they trust me? it had to cross your mind. >> you know, maybe at the beginning, like first five, four months, but after that time, we became family. they are my family, so we have no option. just each other, you know. >> you trusted them, didn't you? >> with my life, yes. >> and they trusted you. >> yes. >> jim, tell me about the story, just fascinated you, and made you want to put it into a book. >> to be honest with you, when i first heard about johnny, i was working on american sniper with chris kyle, and it was the end of a long day. and we just -- we just kind of laid back a little bit, and we started looking at some videos that chris had of people that he knew in iraq. and all of a sudden, this video, this picture came up of a really tall, odd looking fellow. dressed in a different uniform than the rest of the

you know, the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims said to the indians, if you like your land, you can keeping to repeal every single word of obama care. >> joining me right now is "time" magazine's mark halperin and john heilemann. both are nbc political analysts and co-authors of the great book "double down." so gentlemen, starting with john heilemann and then to mark quickly with the same question, will ted cruz be a major player in your next book? will he figure prominently beyond the rick perry level of comedy in the fight for the presidency in 2016? >> rick perry had a pretty big role in "double down," chris, so you set that bar exactly that level. ted cruz decides to run for president, he certainly looks like he is going to, he'll be a part of our book if we decide to write one in 2016 for sure. >> god, that's qualified. let me go to mark on that. ted cruz, will he be bigger than rick perry who couldn't remember the government agencies he was going to get rid of. probably the most famous bartletts quotation for him will be oops. will he get beyond that bar? >> first of all, i'm a lit

some of the biggest recipients of those farm subsidies include tyson's food, pilgrims pride and riced foods. president obama is expected to sign it in to law. the pentagon is feeling the impact of leaks by former national security agency contractor edward snowden. the head of a defense intelligence agency told the house committee today the pentagon will have to make costly changes to programs and personnel. michael flynn says there will be changes of all branches of military because investigators have to assume that all the information that snowden ever accessed is compromised. >>> tension says between the u.s. and afghanistan are certainly mounting. a new report claims afghan president hamid karzai is trying to broker a peace deal with the taliban that cuts the u.s. out of the process. mike viqueira is in washington for us. mike, how is the white house responding? >> reporter: you know, at the white house, cal toll hill, all of washington and the pentagon in there as well. there has been a lot of frustration and it's been going on for quite sometimes with hamid karzai. today i was s

. >> i saw you in like a pilgrim outfit. >> was somebody holding a pitch fork? >> i really hope they found all the coins before they let this be known. then they're going to be like, there's somebody in our backyard. >> they're staying anonymous which is very smart. >> i've always wanted to be that person on the beach. >> coming up next. >> a mystery illness paralyzing children still has doctors puzzled. it's being deemed likely untreatable. but this morning we're getting new details and hearing from one boy who may actually be getting better. >>> is the arizona governor going to veto this controversial bill that allows business owners to discriminate against gays and others? we'll give you both sides. go! [ male announcer ] it's chaos out there. but the m-class sees in your blind spot... ♪ pulls you back into your lane... ♪ even brakes all by itself. it's almost like it couldn't crash... even if it tried. the 2014 m-class. see your authorized dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. this is the first power plant in the country to