my name is yvonne lee. i wanted to thank commissioner riley for offering me this opportunity to share with you what is the office of advocacy who we are and what we do. we were established in 1976 by congress to represent the interests of small business. we have 10 appointed regional advocates. i am responsible for region nine. besides we as a regional advocate serve as the eyes and the ears of the small business and represent their voice in washington. in our washington headquarters we have a team of attorneys. their job is to monitor and work on regulations. and work with agency regulators on regulatory concerns. we also have a team of researchers. they regularly produce data and research and report to inform the public of the contribution and the status of small business. one of the reports is a yearly report to the president. this is the 2010 report on the small business economy. we also produce an annual state small business profile. i am sure that many reviewed this. this has all of the 50 states. in

of the first of may they changed their tune yvonne we want to surrender they shot. on april thirtieth hitler committed suicide in the reich chancellery but some s.s. units continued resistance. in the evening soviet troops captured to the right stocks top floors for the first time the red flag was hoisted over the bow of. the. german and seen a draft. that threat flag was in it as it didn't go on for sure that's gone was no tellus by a man of my battalion. on new york bill. on the morning of may second to general helms veiling commander of the berlin defense area arrived at the soviet headquarters to sign a cease fire order. was the first to read and type out that order. frankly i thought it was a very old order there is an almost exact quote from the initial lines. of has committed suicide not living else of the mercy of fate or boy therefore we are no longer committed to the oath we have taken considering the situation of the civilian population in berlin yan considering the situation of our wounded by order a cease fire and surrender with the consent of the servi

i just want to highlight that yvonne johnson miller and william simmons came to visit and offered their opinions as well. they said it was a good contract. they were quite pleased. some of the processes, they just had some bumps. but those will be moved for the next contract. i think they did appreciate that

grosser monsoon see results from jill's rations of fresh sanctions yvonne and downs and demonstrators don't stall become those reports so much of troops and time storming of probably aren't to government protests. as a victory day parade per usual skirt to ask russia he is out to my things and feeds up the nonsense of its annual show the strength thousands of soldiers march through the heart of the russian capital for some of the countries in the treatment of rail . and gun is getting fired up over openly carrying out weapons trade and off line of defense and home soil this guy claims that it encourages violence and says don't say they have a right to protect themselves from an increasingly dangerous assignment. and there's the headlines you don't miss here next with all the ages. i for joining us this is sports today i mean these are some of the stories we're covering over the next ten minutes or so. top of the pile new voice through bon rise to the russian premier league summit following a two one win over f.c. target. as you where world champion sebastian vettel themes his fourth f

. >> yvonne thornton, the author of the "the ditchdigger's daughters" which recalls her parents effort upper riding their sick stuff with african to become successful women presents her fall of may memoir that focuses on her professional life as a double board-certified specialist in gynecology, obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine. dr. thornton reports that at the time she began her studies back in 1970, 5% of the specialist in her field where women. today, 70% are women. >> thank you for a lovely introduction. victor hugo once said there's nothing like a dream to create the future. now, as i stand here today i am the daughter of a ditch digger. my father was born in new jersey, and basically he was one of 10 kids. now, before i go into what my father did as being a ditch digger is that many in the audience may not know what obstetrics is or what maternal-fetal medicine is on what gynecology is. obstetrics is a field in medicine in which you deliver babies. and i delivered 5542 babies to date, and i've overseen about 12,000 delivers. thank you very much. [applause] >> now, what i do

in and i thank you so much thank you that was stephen can sell out a senior fellow at the lid with yvonne mrs institute and that's our show tune in tomorrow for a special friday show with jake negative neo-con at nancy deliberate oh please check out and verses the man not to go on guessing toddlers and finally on facebook and twitter as always you can e-mail me at am versus the man dot com and catch this broadcast live there is that argue for usa and i. will always say. i made it through an entire episode about piracy without saying.

. >> reporter: yvonne and her husband are looking to sell their home in western new york. >> it's beent last year we had it on for almost a whole year and we didn't sell it. >> is there anything you did in between to get the house into shape so that it would be ready for the new real estate market that you're -- >> oh, yes. when we redid the kitchen -- and we fenced in the whole back yard. >> reporter: but they priced it too high and have now lowered their asking price to $329,000. it's a buyer's market. that means number one, it has to be priced right. number two, it has to look good. enter steven, home and style designer and author "no place like home." >> my first thought was, i wish this was a mirror. i wish this was here to bounce light into the room a little bit more. >> reporter: we asked him how to help this house sell in a sea of homes for sale. >> you don't have a dining room. so that's one thing in this house that you have to sort of make people feel like they have a space to gather in. when i see the table, i almost think because you have this great light fixture is to cent