the principles that the practice, the compassion, the vision, the perseverance, are all those same kind of values and principles that i know are being practiced within the iranian american community today as well. whether you want to see a green iran or whether you want to help participate in the civic process in california or in your own city, this is what is very heartwarming, by us coming together on a night like this. i very much appreciate all the dedication that has been applied in making these nowruz events as special as they are. i also would like to say that we would like to have -- we like to have fun. it is really the best part of introducing what nowruz means. that is why over the last six years, we have had art shows in my office. we would have exhibits down here, supported by the mayor, and introduce it to people exactly how we like to celebrate, through the arts, with great food, civic engagement, and it is wonderful to see, and it really helps us appreciate just what an incredible holiday this is. i want to thank everybody for being here today. it is a great pleasure to

. >> what surprised me even more was the perseverance of the haitians, their strength, their faith. >e took 15 people from her yoga classes to haiti last year. each person carrying 50 pounds of cool to build a dental clinic. >> even though we just brought what we could, it was more than what they had. >> one girl asked can i go home with you and it was hard to say i can't take you home, but we have this moment. >> that's all they want. they want to be loved and that's something you can give that doesn't cost anything. >> lisa had to do more. she met a woman who feeds 275 women every day. >> she has children that show up with nowhere to go. >> they needed a place to live. this is the result, a center where they can live. a seismically strong building. >> we don't want it to turn into some kind of compound, we want their own beds. someplace the children will feel like is going to be their home. >> she's held yoga events called collective hearts for haiti to raise money. the response has been overwhelming. it's with classes like this and so many fund-raising events that lisa is finally r

. >> what surprised me even more was the perseverance of the haitians, their strength, their faith. >took 15 people from her yoga classes to haiti last year. each person carrying 50 pounds of tools to build a dental clinic. >> even though we just brought what we could, it was more than what they had. >> one girl asked can i go home with you? and it was hard to say i can't take you home, but we have this moment. >> that's all they want. they want to be loved and that's something you can give that doesn't cost anything. >> lisa had to do more. she met a woman who feeds 275 children everyday. >> she has children that show up with nowhere to go. >> they needed a place to live. this is the result, a center where they can live. a seismically strong building. >> we don't want it to turn into some kind of compound. we want them to have their own beds. someplace the children will feel like is going to be their home. >> she's held yoga events, called collective hearts for haiti, to raise money. the response has been overwhelming. it's with classes like this and so many fund-raising events that

. >> what surprised me even more though was the perseverance of the haitian. their strength.th. >>reporter: she took 15 people from her yoga class to haiti last year. each person carrying 50 pounds of tools to help build a dental children being. >> even though we just brought what we could it was so much more than they had. >> one also girl asked can i go home with you and it was really hard to say i can't take you home with me but i can, we have this. >>reporter: >> they weren't to be loved. that's something you can give. doesn't cost anything. >>reporter: lisa had to do more. she met a woman who feeds 275 children every day. >> she has children this show up with nowhere to good. >>reporter: they needed a place to live. this is the result. center where they can live. seismic strong building. >> didn't want them in bunk but own beds. don't want it to turn into some kind of compoun compound. and someplace the children would fell like is going to be their home. >>reporter: she's held yoe yoga events collective hearts for haiti to wrist money. response has been overwhelming. wit

themselves in a dead end situation it is here that the myth about the invincibility of the german army was broken. perseverance courage and belief in victory. for years to come. the early hours of june twenty second nineteen forty one german artillery unleashes a massive barrage from the breast garrisoned. german warplanes simultaneously dropped hundreds of bombs on the fortress soon after infantry assault groups launched the initial ground attack. is one of the officers in charge of the fortress defenses. is dr i.e.c. often visits the monument to her father on the outskirts of breasts. shows was he looked like any of the even today i guess nervous when i come here what's failing me i see those events in my mind's eye as if they were yesterday. today children play war in the old case mates but in the first days of the real war the unit under the command of luggin are shot lawsky was holding out in one of them within two days the defenders had exhausted their ammunition. daughter saw the germans trying to capture her father. of the sudden it was a noise it seemed the truth on the head. he had shown time to the

neil will probably have to be content with less playing time on the court however the american say is his perseverance he could prove to be a major plus point of beyond even the end of the i just want to try to do things to help the team win with as revolving scoring the ball or passing the wall or playing d. fair. enough i like on this team i can really help you know in a lot of different ways because there's not so much for. one individual guy each game as a collective group we can file ways to do a lot of little things to help this team. see this come out a club in transition with many of the old gone stepping down however the only minute and quick to replace been some of the best talent from around europe as baylor to regain their place amongst europe's elite after last season's less than satisfactory campaign which a bum boldly fancy moscow. that is how your sport looks this hour i'll see you soon and just under two hours time in fact but now it's the we're. hungry for the full stop we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the party. i'm.

the people... we''e done, we've studied what differentiates our most successful teachers and we've seen that past demonstrated achievement, perseverance face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others, problem-solving ability, things that we would think of as fundamental leadership traits are the biggest differentiators. >> well, frankly outside of education, they're, they're traits you would want in any profession. >> yeah. and so that's what we're looking for. >> right. and, and when they come forward, do they come forward necessarily thinking that they want a career in education or do they view this as like a, like a, a couple of years along the path to whatever they're going to really do? >> well, i think for moss graduating seniors, two years is, is the rest of their life. so they're thinking i want to be part of this..3 you know. i want to be part of an effort to address what i believe is a real injustice in our country. >> yeah. >> and they're thinking this is a way of making a huge impact and, and that many of them aren't quite sure what happens beyond that. >> happens beyond, yeah. >> although some of them ar

the workers was killed. >> give them a break. very good. 4:42. perseverance, courage, strength, people honored in the biggest of ways. a sneak peek. the biggest in the west built right in the east bay. >> you're looking at a live picture of our control room. >> 4:45. a live picture of police activity in oakland. cairo road near empire road. traffic has been shut down. you see people turning around. there is an apparent standoff. christie is monitoring this. we'll have the latest if anything changes. >> a new challenge to apple and google as far as smart phones go. and wall street looks to build on yesterday's gains. for more on that it's nicole lapin. good morning. >> good morning. futures are higher, markets rising on some of the fears over greece. investors snapping up some stocks and bargain hunting, tackling greece again as the prime minister faces a vote later today. asian markets rose and europe is higher. we get some of our own data on existing home sales and the fed kicking off a two-day meeting. the fed is not expected to change interest rates and wi

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the senate. again, we can persevere as you have indicated. but how do you think we can strengthen this bill? >> well, a couple of things, congressman rush. i'd like to see the approach that we're taking here addressing the challenges to the power system broadened to include other areas of critical infrastructure. and 'cause some of them would be in this jurisdiction of the full energy and commerce committee. others may be in the area of the financial services committee. but i think that the approach that you're taking here is a positive one with respect to the power -- to the electric grid. in addition to that, i would like to see this bill address distribution systems, not just transmission, but distribution systems. as i said, it's my understanding that because distribution is not dealt with in the bill, that areas like washington, d.c., and new york would be left out of the intent and hopefully the coverage that this legislation would provide, protection it would provide to our electric grid. so i'd encourage the committee to look further at that issue. >> congressman franks, do you have a

the silk working women. 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

rebroadcast the western powers may be trying to make the syrians think that they're about to and that is a way of bringing pressure on to persevere in regime i spoke to the nato secretary general just a bit earlier and he said that the alliance has absolutely no intention of intervening in syria first of all do you believe that and second of all. what would that mean for for the for syria well i i i think that i don't think it's certain that the west wants to attack syria i'm sure that in and they would do so without any compunction on the other hand i think there are certain practical difficulties particular of course the current war against libya not to mention the military actions in afghanistan pakistan iraq and so on so there are practical limitations i don't think there are any limitations in terms of intentionality on the contrary i think that the western powers particularly united states are determined to overthrow the regime in syria just as they were after iraq was attacked in two thousand and three let's not forget that then the leading neoconservative richard poll said that once saddam had been toppled now it was time

could have consequences well beyond its borders the move is likely to be expensive for taxpayers and with e.u. states like france preserving perseverant rather with atomic power just next door the safety argument isn't convincing either artist or and of course. germany raises a lone voice in the e.u. to usher in a new era of known nuclear power generation as chancellor angela merkel vows to close all its reactors by two thousand and twenty two but it's already created a shortfall in elec tricity in germany which in turn is pushing up prices germany's now importing power from france and the czech republic and it's the crisis hit poorest who will pay higher electricity because. quite understand. you know project into the prices and of course always buy industrial goods you know already paying more for the electricity will be the rumor will be the people there's no doubt about it around thirty percent of the news electricity comes from nuclear generation so ironically the electricity germany ends up buying will be generated power plants the majority of european countries aren't giving up said the clear programs switzerland is phasing it

give them the strength to persevere in the storms of life , in the humility to honor you when victories burst forth like a radiant dawn. i pray in your mighty name. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. the chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the house stands adj the iran nuclear ambitions and to end them. however, as president obama has said, all options have to remain on the table. i want to ask you whether as secretary of defense, you'll consider it to be one of your responsibilities to have credible military plans to strike and destroy the iran nuclear facilities if the president as commander-in-chief decides that it is necessary to use that option. >> in line with the president's state

the muppets commanded from the company and i know it is because we went through that experience means that such a system is not going to get more resilient is not able to persevere in it fast to beat the jets to a specific person and this is bad it is just one facet of the all the whole and very soon i'm going to create a highly point a working group which will prepare to pose and which to decentralize authority between the levels all of the government needs to be in favor of municipalities in the first place is covering the issues perspective adjustment on all of the international tax system and the principles of the e.u. to budgetary fiscal relationships i believe that such decisions would be more conducive to the future that you develop into the russian economy but certainly there is a need to undertake additional steps to improve the quality of the work of our judicial authorities. in this area are quite a few problems at all just saying in the written about them and we know them on me quite a long time i not only would know. a lot of sorting things out with them without any external. and i'm confident that in the first place the should to assure community w

achieve is to connect more closely with the customer, get their loyalty, and in return, to increase our sales. >> reporter: helping him to achieve just that, perseverance. we saw michael renovate. >> in the restaurant business it's all about details. if you don't do that, you're never going to get the big picture right. >> reporter: innovate. >> we will open slowly. we're not going to rush to build this brand. >> reporter: and create. throughout, he had the final say. >> i'd like this to be a bit more strong sesame taste. >> reporter: his biggest challenge, perhaps his biggest learning curve came from the rapid expansion in china. >> as a foreigner coming to china, we pay the price of learning the steps. >> reporter: and that he did. the sheer size of china made delivering his products a nightmare. >> in hong kong we dope have to worry about logistics because everything is so small. but in guangdong everything is spread out, cost is a big concern. >> reporter: he faced a terrible challenge. it was both challenging and costly. >> hiring people is very difficult now. we're having a huge turnover in our staff just because the economy is very active and it

the middle passage. praises be. 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,