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(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANNOUNCER: From New York City, America's financial capital. This is IN THE MONEY. (END VIDEOTAPE) JACK CAFFERTY, HOST: Welcome to the program. I'm Jack Cafferty. Coming up on today's edition of IN THE MONEY: Right hand to mouth: Evangelical Christians lifted the president to a second term. We're talk about what they might be expecting in return. Plus, on alert: But a little less so with the terror threat level is lowered. Are we letting down our guard? We're going to find out about that. And a genre for all generations: Animated films drawing in everyone from babies to boomers and old folks. We'll look at how the film business is changing. Joining me today a couple IN THE MONEY veterans. CNN correspondent, Susan Lisovicz, and "Fortune" magazine editor-at-large, Andy Serwer. So an unplanned event, which was Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl, caused the FCC to grow some fangs and begin slapping heavy fines on folks when they put stuff on the air that they had questions about. There were 18 or 20 ABC affiliate stations around the country that preempted a planned event, which was the showing of the Oscar winning, and I think one of the great movies ever made, "Saving Private Ryan" on Veterans Day, as perhaps a bit of a protest. And there was quite a to-do made over their decision and whether the FCC intimidating folks and what do you guys think? ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE": Yeah, I don't understand why these ABC affiliates feel intimidated, I mean, what were they doing? What kind of statement were they trying to make? And this movie had been on TV two years in a row before that. CAFFERTY: Right. SERWER: So, why can't they do it? I think it's a larger question of -- you know, what movies are being made nowadays. For instance, think about this you guys, could someone make "Saving Private Ryan" today? Would the public have the appetite for it? Would Hollywood do that given the environment we're in? A lot of interesting questions. SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it was aired on Veterans Day and this nation is at war and I've said this before, my uncle Lenny is a survivor of D-Day a recipient of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart and alive and well, thank goodness in Houston, Texas. It should be required viewing, that there are some things that, in context, are acceptable and the FCC said so, in writing, which I saw this week, two years ago. The FCC never says anything in advance of programming. CAFFERTY: Of course not. LISOVICZ: It doesn't censor. It says it reacts to complaints. Well there were some complaints a few years ago. SERWER: Change the channel. CAFFERTY: Yeah. LISOVICZ: Exactly. CAFFERTY: You got that remote, press that little button on there. Yeah. SERWER: If you don't like it, change the channel. The last time I checked there were 500 channels out there. Right? I mean, there is 499 of them that aren't showing "Privte Ryan." OK, change it! LISOVICZ: It would seem to me that this is a special event. It's in commemoration of Veteran's Day. There is -- there is a weekly viewing that would seem to be raising eyebrows, that if you're -- if you're going to mount an attack... CAFFERTY: Of course. LISOVICZ: To the FCC, that maybe there are other shows that should... CAFFERTY: Would have much more gratuitous sex, violence, et cetera, et cetera. As far as I'm concerned, the ought to show "Saving Private Ryan" in the public schools in this county once a year and require every kid that goes to school to watch it. That's how important a story was to where we sit right now, here today. Anyway, on to other things. President Bush calls his longtime political strategist, Karl Rove, the "Architect." And that nickname certainly seems fitting these days. Rove designed the plan to get many of the Evangelical voters who stayed in 2000 out to the polls this year. And don't you know that worked. It put the president back in the White House for another four years. But, Rove helped to build something else, too. A new language for political debate in this country. One with the strongest moral and religious overtones we've seen in some time. With the democrats apparently unable to keep up, we have now what some people are calling the "god gap" between red and blue politicians, but is religion the only way to talk about morales? Joining us is Stephen Prothero, the chairman of the Religion Department at Boston University. Stephen, nice have you with us. STEPHEN PROTHERO, BOSTON UNIVERSITY: Great to be here. CAFFERTY: How is it the republicans have managed to co-op this whole religious idea and carve out an election victory on the impression that the votes for President Bush were from the people in this country who have morales? PROTHERO: Well, they've been talking morals language and piety language for a good 30 or so years and I think that certainly helped, but this strategy, the church bus strategy that Karl Rove used so effectively in the past, in the South, has been used by republicans, has been taken on the road to other parts of the country to Ohio and to Iowa and to Nevada and places like that and really turning out the vote. LISOVICZ: You know, Professor, I think there's been a lot of focus on Evangelicals and how President Bush received an overwhelming amount of support for that. But he also received support from some other areas, which may not have been so expected. For instance, Jews in Florida, Jewish voters did not vote for the democratic nominee, Senator Kerry. Catholics did not vote for Senator Kerry and Senator Kerry is a catholic. So he was getting support from other religions, as well. Why do you think that was the case? PROTHERO: Well, I think this really was a faith-based election and it's misunderstood as purely a victory of the Evangelicals. I mean, one thing that happened here is that Bush spoke very effectively to all sorts of religious groups. He won mainline Protestants, he won Catholics which he failed to do last time around when Gore was running, and he did much better among Jews, he did much better among black Evangelicals, as well. Basically, the only religious group that Bush failed to do well among, this time, was Muslims which isn't surprising. He lost the Muslim vote about nine -- nine out of 10 Muslims went for Kerry. And the other religious group, if you can call them religious, that mattered here, not mattered quite as much though, are the secularists, those people ones that never go to church and they went overwhelmingly for Kerry. But, they're teeny compared to those that go to church every week or go to religious services every week who went big for -- big for Bush this time, about a 22 percent factor in the "god gap," this time around. SERWER: All right, Stephen, let me ask you a question. You live up in Boston, right? PROTHERO: That's right. SERWER: OK, do democrats have moral values? PROTHERO: Well, sure they do. That's one of the problems with democrats is that they have a hard time speaking about morales and faith and piety in public. It's as if -- it's as if these are bad words. And John Kerry and his people really didn't figure it out until the Democratic National Convention that they needed to start saying things like, Barack Obama said, you know, "We worship an awesome god in blue states." And I think there's a lot of -- there's a lot of truth to that. And there are -- there are people all across the country who are religious who will say -- you know, poverty is a religious issue, war is a religious issue, health care is a religious issue and who have ways to link those issues to broader values to things that they care about and even to god. But the democrats have done a poor job in making those links. CAFFERTY: You know, there's an old expression that there's no such thing as a "free lunch" and a lot of people are scratching their heads wondering what form, if any, and I'm not suggesting there has to be one, but what form, if any, some sort of payback or "thank you" to the religious right in this country will take. PROTHERO: Well, that waits to be seen. I mean, I think the most obvious concern that some people have or hope is overturning Roe v. Wade. I'm not sure that that's going to happen on the abortion front, I think perhaps what these voters are going to get is a little more of the same which is a lot of rhetoric and lot of promises about the fact that this is a country where values matter, where faith matters, and that that's coming out of the White House. And some people were voting, I think, merely for that, to have a man of faith in the White House, someone who they know gets down on his knees and prays and that makes them feel comfortable. That make them feel -- feel safe. And it isn't as if they are saying, "Well, we're going to get a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage." I'm not sure that it's the issues that are driving this election result as much as it is the broader values and broader concerns about who is this guy that's sitting in the White House. LISOVICZ: But, do you not think it's realistic that a large percentage of these voters think that they have something coming to them in return, if it's not Roe v. Wade being overturned or a constitutional amendment on gay marriage, what will it be then? PROTHERO: Well see, this is why the issues are overplayed. I think what they want is they want a culture where they're respected. They want a culture where they're not condescended to and they're not sneered at, like they are typically, frankly, where I live in Boston by most of the people who live around here. I think that's lot of what they were voting for. It wasn't this is the issue, we hate stem cell research. I mean, I think that is part of it and they would like to see restrictions on stem cell research, but I think it is a broader matter it's a sense of, they're voting -- what they want for payback is a greater sense that they have a place in the country and that faith is not sneered at and their values are not sneered at. CAFFERTY: One of the many pundits I listened to post-election had an interesting observation. He said that the people who live on the East coast and the West coast and fly back and forth between those two locations, live in a much different worlds than the country beneath those airplanes that they fly over and that perhaps it was a giant miscalculation on the part of the democratic party thinking that the message coming from George W. Bush only had ears in the red states in the South where the religious extremist on the right side of the political spectrum live, that in fact, they're all over this country and that people, as you suggest, in the middle class adhere to a certain spirituality as part of being an American citizen. PROTHERO: That's right, you don't have to be an Evangelical and you don't have to live in the South in order to care about these things. CAFFERTY: Right. It has been a pleasure to have your thoughts on the program. We'll do this again. Stephen Prothero who is the chairman of the Department of Religion at Boston University. Thanks. PROTHERO: Thank you. CAFFERTY: We're going to step out for a minute, when we come back, the following: Gauging the threat: The terror alert has been lowered, but does that mean we're safer from al-Qaeda? Plus, a show for all ages: Animated films scoring big at the box office with kids and adults. Andy Serwer saw one of the real hot films, here in the last few days, he says it's terrific. We'll find out from him what the appeal is. And flying high with "Halo 2": I have no idea what "Halo 2" is. Apparently a new videogame, though, that is likely to put Microsoft in very good graces with investors this holiday season. We'll explain why. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) CAFFERTY: Well, in case you haven't heard or you happen to have gone colorblind this week, the terror threat level has been lowered to yellow for the entire country. That means there is now an elevated risk of an attack which is down from a high risk. So, does it mean we're winning the war on terror? Or that we're any safer (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Well let's find out. Brian Jenkins is a terrorism expert with the Rand Corporation and he joins us on IN THE MONEY. Brian, it's nice to have you with us. BRIAN JENKINS, RAND CORPORATION: Thank you. CAFFERTY: Let me -- let me get your take on this -- this Osama bin Laden tape that surfaced right before the elections. The guy looked like a member of the democratic national committee in that thing except for the beard and the dress. I just wonder how you looked at that tape and what's he doing. Is he doing anything these days besides making handout videos, to your knowledge? JENKINS: Well, bin Laden addresses us in a number of personas. He has the bin Laden dressed in fatigues carrying an AK-47, which is an appeal to the militants; he has bin Laden, sort of, the fierce Mullah berating the Muslim community for its substandard zeal, and he has bin Laden the statesman in which he addresses political issues and this last tape was bin Laden the statesman in which he addresses political -- political issues and this last tape was bin Laden the would-be statesman. SERWER: Let me ask you a question, Brian. To the extent that al-Qaeda is a homogeneous entity, and there's some debate about that, obviously, what does al-Qaeda want? What are their goals? JENKINS: I think it would be incorrect to think of it as a homogeneous entity SERWER: OK. JENKINS: It's really -- it's a global enterprise that is composed of a number of, a galaxy of groups. They share -- they share certain religious beliefs, they share certain political goals beginning with the narrowest, they would like to drive the Americans out of Saudi Arabia, out of Afghanistan, out of the Middle East in general. They believe that Islam is on the defensive, backs to the wall. That they think they are the victims of Western aggression both in an actual sense of American troops being in the Middle East, as well as, being on the receiving end of an awesome, and to them, a hateful American culture. LISOVICZ: And Brian, do you -- first of all, agree with these colors that tell us what kind of alert we should be on in terms of terrorists attacks and isn't it a fact of life that if al Qaeda wanted to do some sort of attack in the U.S., it would it's just that it doesn't do suicide bombings in general, it's much more spectacular. JENKINS: Well, the fact is, keep this mind, the color-coded system is merely a way of communicating threat information, in short- hand fashion, to the 50 states, to the more than 18,000 police jurisdictions we have in this country, and to those in the private sector with security responsibilities. It's basically a way of telling them that, look, based upon the threat information we have now, it makes sense to take it up a -- to take it up a notch or to lower it a notch. It is -- it is not a statement about al-Qaeda's ability, at any moment, before the election or the week after the election, to carry out an attack in this country. CAFFERTY: There are a couple of pieces of conventional wisdom I'd be interested in getting your take on. One is that Osama bin Laden is living in a cave somewhere in the mountains on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, that most of his top lieutenants and commanders have been killed or captured by the coalition forces, and that because of that is unable to take an active role in the day-to- day running of this global terrorist's network. The second one is that by fighting terrorists in Iraq, we are putting off and preventing the necessity of having to deal with them here in the United States and you can take those two in whatever order you want. JENKINS: Well, let me take the second one first. It's an appealing idea that by fighting terrorists in Iraq we won't have to fight them here. But it doesn't hold up to analysis. It really rests upon three assumptions. One, is that there are a fixed -- there's a fixed number of terrorists and therefore if we kill or capture one in another place we won't have to do so here. We know that's not the case, that recruiting takes place on a worldwide basis and that their numbers are refelonished. The second assumption is a geographic one that somehow the terrorists must get through Iraq in order to carry out attacks elsewhere. We know that is not the case. The third assumption is that the terrorists will be so distracted by the conflict in Iraq that they won't have the time or the resources to carry out attacks elsewhere. Again, we have seen, since the invasion of Iraq, 20 months ago, 11 major terrorists operations from Spain to southeast Asia, they're running at the frequency of about one every 50 or 60 days somewhere on the planet and in 2004 that shows no signs of diminishing. SERWER: Brian -- Brian, let me ask you, how best to fight al- Qaeda? How should we make them unappealing to potential recruits? JENKINS: That is a -- that's a much more difficult challenge and that's the area where I think we have not done as well as we have, for example, in doing some of the things that we do best. I mean it was an obvious thing after 9-11 to go after the training camps in Afghanistan, to increase intelligence efforts, to launch a worldwide campaign aimed at destroying their leadership, destroying their capabilities to carry out an attack. But now we are at another stage in this contest where we have to think not simply about arresting another terrorists or shooting another terrorist, but rather breaking a system, a complete system that comprises operations which are meant to be recruiting posters, expanding a universe of beliefs, creating like-minded jihadists who then in turn will join this and become part of future terrorists operations. LISOVICZ: Brian Jenkins is a terrorism expert at the Rand Corporation. Thanks so much for your insight. JENKINS: Thank you. LISOVICZ: Coming up after the break: A tough pill to swallow: News Corp makes plots to ward off a potential takeover. We'll take a look. And stop dreaming about that beachfront condo in Florida. You're worse off than you think when it comes to savings. We'll tell you how to get back on track. And a how-to guide for the romantically challenged: Pickup lines that could give your dating life a lift or drop it to new lows. That's on our "Fun Site of the Week." (COMMERCIAL BREAK) LISOVICZ: Now let's take a look at the week's top stories in our "Money Minute." Alan Greenspan kept the rate tightening trend going by raising interest rates another quarter point. The strong jobs reports removed any doubt that there could be another hike. The fed says it's likely to keep raising rates for the foreseeable future. There's mixed news on the oil front. A recent spike in oil prices seems to have ended as increased production has boosted supplies. World oil production is now a center The U.S. government thinks oil prices will remain higher than expected through next year with an expected average price of $47 a barrel. And Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling wants his trial moved out of Houston. Skilling says he can't get a fair trial in the city where Enron collapsed. In a new poll many Houston residents called Skilling a "pig," a "crook," and an "economic terror." SERWER: All right, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is back in the headlines just as the Fox empire looks to reincorporate in the U.S. The big news this week was the apparent creeping takeover bid by Liberty Media, but Liberty founder, John Malone says his company's move to buy more News Corp shares was a friendly move. Murdoch isn't taking any chances as they look to block a takeover with a number of moves. News Corp is our "Stock of the Week." And you know, these two guys use to be friends, they worked together, John Malone and Rupert Murdoch, a couple biggies. Interesting also that point about News Corp incorporating in the United States was incorporate down in Adelaide down in Oz, Rupert Murdoch, of course, came from Australia. LISOVICZ: Australia. SERWER: Now the company gets 75 percent of its revenues from the United States. LISOVICZ: I think you have to be suspicious about any executive that says we're a large, happy, friendly shareholder. I mean, you immediately start to wonder why when you have two power houses like Rupert Murdoch and John Malone. CAFFERTY: Well, and if there's any question about the friendship, Mr. Murdoch's company was very public about adopting the poison pill defense. SERWER: Yeah. CAFFERTY: Which was, I would think, a clear and present signal to those who might want to acquire anymore stock, whether a friendly man or not. LISOVICZ: Just another example of a large, happy, friendly family. CAFFERTY: Of course. SERWER: Well, I think, you know, this company -- Rupert Murdoch sees it as his own fiefdom. I mean, he's got the poison pill, he has two classes of stock. You can't take this thing over. LISOVICZ: And he's got his children in on it. SERWER: He has sons running about the empire. CAFFERTY: Sure. SERWER: You know, they own Harper/Collins Books, the Fox Network here, and of course, the "New York Post" which we love those headlines, they splash out every morning... LISOVICZ: Headless body atop a car... SERWER: Yeah, and things like that. You know, so this is a big company. And what I think Rupert Murdoch did very successfully is he brought kind of journalism to the United States we never had before. Tabloids, sensationalism, also, let's face it, has a political orientation. And a lot of this brought from Europe and Australia, we've never had -- he was very successful. He's a U.S. citizen now, he's a grandpa, he's a dad. You know, he's kind of a character. A lot of people don't like this stuff. LISOVICZ: And he's here to stay. SERWER: Yeah, I think that's... CAFFERTY: And part about the "New York Post" the headlines not only are clever, but in some cases quite tasteless as in marking the passing of Yasser Arafat with a front page on Friday of Arafat's widow under a big headline "The Arafat Lady Sings." SERWER: Well, is that clever or tasteless? CAFFERTY: Well, both. SERWER: There you go. CAFFERTY: There you go. SERWER: I kind of thought it worked. It worked for me. CAFFERTY: Yeah it was great. SERWER: Yeah. CAFFERTY: Susan. (LAUGHER) LISOVICZ: Thank you -- thank you Jack. Much more to come on IN THE MONEY, the road to rich retirement and why you're not on it. We'll show you where you made a wrong turn. Plus, hot ticket to "Polar Express" the latest animated hit to roll through town. Find out why movie goers young and old are lining up. And Heaven sent: Microsoft is riding the wings of its hot new video release. What "Halo 2" could mean for X-Box sales this holiday season. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR, IN THE MONEY: Hello I'm Fredricka Whitfield at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Now in the news, former Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas down played today's deadly shooting in Gaza as "something that just happened." Gunmen opened fire in a tent crowded with Yassar Arafats mourners. Abbas escaped injury but two security guards were killed. Abbas denies allegations that the gunman's action were politically motivated. Abbas may be a candidate for Palestinian authority president for the election scheduled for early January. Iran puts its pledge to freeze its uranium enrichment program in writing. A diplomatic source tells CNN Iran has inked its intentions in a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The agreement is meant to alleviate fears that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. A sightseeing trip in metro Washington sends ten teenagers to the hospital. Part of the top of their tour bus was crushed after hitting a bridge. None of the injuries was life threatening. More news coming up in 30 minutes. IN THE MONEY continues right now. LISCOVICZ: It's the ultimate career goal. No not the corner office, not the corporate jet, but retirement. An early retirement if you can swing it. Let's get real. You probably can't. And neither can most Americans. Here to tell us why is economist author, actor, all- around renaissance man, Ben Stein, he is the chairman of the National Retirement Planning Week which kicks off Monday. Welcome back to the program Ben. BEN STEIN, CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL RETIREMENT PLANNING WEEK: Honored to be here. LISCOVICZ: Well you know the last time you joined us you told us the U.S. economy is in great shape, everything's coming up roses. But when it comes to retirement savings, a totally different story. STEIN: That is the fault of the tens of millions of baby boomers who just haven't been disciplined enough to save enough. The rate of retirement savings by us baby boomers, and I'm at the very, very extreme old edge of the baby boomers, is pathetic. I mean, 77 million baby boomers, only something like 8 percent of them have more than $100,000 in savings. The total savings, the average savings are between $50 and $100,000 per family. That's pathetic. CAFFERTY: How much money do you need to retire Ben? STEIN: Well it depends on how much you're living on. If you're living on say x, you should have between 15 and 20 times x. And that would include Social Security. Bear in mind, you can only very safely earn between 4 and 5 percent on your money. CAFFERTY: So in other words, if you're making $100,000 a year, you should have between $1.5 million and $2 million set aside? STEIN: Yes. Unless you have a particularly generous pension. But something like 21 percent of Americans have meaningful pensions. The others have defined payment, but not defined benefit plans. This is a real problem. It's a serious problem. Do you know how few people have $1.5 million or $2 million saved? Very, very few. I mean lots of the people you know probably do, lots of the people I know probably do, but overall the number of people who have that much saved is trivial and people are going to need that kind of money. SERWER: Hey Ben I have a serious question. But first of all, I think I saw you in a movie trailer where somebody hits you in the head with something and you say ow. What movie is that coming up? STEIN: That is called "Son of the Mask," it is a sequel to the "Mask." I have a very, very important part in it. CAFFERTY: Is the academy listening? SERWER: It was very funny. I laughed. Hey listen what do you think about privatizing Social Security? STEIN: That's a super good question. The Social Security system is essentially unsound. It cannot last the way it is. We're either going to have to drastically raise taxes or we're going to have to lower the liabilities of the system. One way to lower the liabilities of the system is to privatize it. Say to people, either get some of your money from Social Security, and some of it from your private savings. The president has decided that you're going to have to privatize it. Because with a system will not tolerate and greatly increase Social Security taxes. So what we are going to have is you'll take say, 90 percent of your money, it will stay in Social Security. Then like 10 percent and (INAUDIBLE) growing percentage after that, put it in stocks, bonds, mutual funds. And we will reduce the liabilities of the system. Mr. Gore -- not Gore, Kerry. I can't believe I said that. Mr. Kerry said, you're going to blow a hole in Social Security. And that is true. You will blow a hole for a few years in Social Security receipts. But you'll drastically lower Social Security liabilities. So that will be a good thing. LISCOVICZ: Well yes one of the things perhaps we should take a page from you. That's simply, not retire. Keep working. How likely is it in your view that the retirement age will be increased again? STEIN: I'd say the retirement age under Social Security is absolutely certain to be increased. LISCOVICZ: To what? STEIN: Well, I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if it were 69 or 70. You have to think did to yourself, do you want to retire? Psychologically, I think it's generally better if you don't retire unless you have a repetitive boring job you hate. You keep your mind and body more active if you don't retire. But people are not going to be able to retire. Unless they start right now, this is the crucial thing. They've got to start right now. I don't care how old you are, how little you have. You have to start right now. Saving the stocks, mutual funds, bonds, variable annuities. You've got to start right now. You cannot put it off. You've got to start right now. Can't count on Mr. Bush to do it for you. If it's Hillary Clinton in 2009, you can't count on her to do it for you. You've got to do it yourself. There's no excuse for not doing it yourself. SERWER: All right Ben Stein's fired up. STEIN: Yes! SERWER: Listen thank you for coming on the program and sharing that with us. Ben Stein is the chairman of the National Retirement Planning Coalition, renaissance man as Susan said, and again thanks. LISCOVICZ: A regular visitor to IN THE MONEY. SERWER: Lots more to come here on IN THE MONEY. Animania, moms, dads, children of all ages are flocking to see the season's kid flicks. Find out why you can't always judge a movie by its ratings. Plus is it an airport nearby or is that my heart taking off? From cheesy to just plan lame, pickup lines that may or may not work in our fun site of the week. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) SERWER: Just when you thought you were all grown up, there you find yourself in front of the ticket counter torn between that hot new Indy film and the feature length cartoon. Don't worry you're in good company. Films like Pixar's "The Incredibles" have done huge business at the box office with both kids and adults. Our next guest says that's because animation houses like Pixar have raised the bar. Leonard Maltin is a correspondent for (INAUDIBLE) "Entertainment Tonight," he is also an author and contributor to several publications. Welcome Leonard. LEONARD MALTIN, "ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT:" Heck I also wrote a history of animated cartoons. SERWER: OK, so know of what you speak. Listen I saw "The Incredibles" just a couple of days ago and I have been raving about it. I wonder if Hollywood can get over itself and nominate this picture for an academy award. I think it should even win. MALTIN: Well, that's what everybody said a year ago about "Finding Nemo." SERWER: I think it's better than that. MALTIN: There are many people who said last year, and I wouldn't necessarily disagree, "Finding Nemo" was the best film they saw last year. And certainly at the box office, it seemed to reflect that feeling. The problem is that the academy has now created a special category for animated films. They never had one. Until ten years ago when this same thing happened. "Beauty and the Beast" became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture. When that happened, and it happened in a year that wasn't so hot. The competition was slack. It was the right timing. It was a movie people liked. They nominated it. I think a lot of academy members felt, well, you know, this is not supposed to be mixing up that way. We're making a lot of action films here, they should be a separate category just for animation. Now that they've done that, I think they feel that's where that film belongs. LISCOVICZ: All right so Leonard, we also have the "Polar Express" coming out this weekend based on the favorite children's story. Do you think that this is really a renaissance of animation? Or is it just all this new technology and Hollywood wants to show off all the bells and whistles? MALTIN: In the case of "Polar Express," it's really not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. Trying to capture the look of Chris Vanhousburn (ph) book which so many people love and so many families know and cherish. Bob Zemeckis who has been cutting edge about this, he is the guy who made "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" which was pretty revolutionary in it's technology in its day. And even "Forest Gump" where you know inserted force into those historic film clips. This is a guy who has that background. He went to the technology people and said I want to preserve the look of that book on the big screen. How do we do it? At first they were trying to get the environment and setting and look of the film. Then they realized that well maybe they could get the characters to look that way, too and they took it to an extreme and made this entire hugely expensive film with that technology. CAFFERTY: Leonard, Jack Cafferty what is it about Pixar that the others would like to have? They have done five in a row and you can measure the combined receipts in the billions of dollars. What is it about that company? MALTIN: It isn't just the money Jack it is also just that batting average. Nobody goes 5-5 in Hollywood terms. There's reason for it. There is a reason for it indeed, it is that they are very gifted people. They are passionately dedicated people. They have used the old fashioned Disney model of how to make an animated film which is focus on story and character. Now they married that to this cutting edge technology but they let the technology and they insist that the technology has to serve the story and the characters. That works. It works brilliantly for them. SERWER: Leonard you know back to my campaign to get "The Incredibles" nominated. I think it was a terrible year for movies, I think. One thing I want to get at is a larger question here. Do you think that this has to do with the times in which we live? I mean movies always reflect that but talking about could they even make a "Saving Private Ryan" today, I mean instead we get "Fahrenheit 9/11" which is a different kettle of fish. MALTIN: Even when it came out, "Saving Private Ryan" was a film that was swimming up stream against commercial instincts and such. It was only because somebody a cloud of Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks made that movie that I think got the recognition and the kind of release that it received and that it was a really good film. People responded to it. They said that a decade earlier about "Platoon". No one is going to see a film about Vietnam, a really serious film about Vietnam . I think quality often breaks the rules. That's what happened with these animated films it is quality that is making the difference. LISCOVICZ: Since we brought up Spielberg and "Saving Private Ryan" he's now shooting in the area a film version of the war of the world. It seems and that I think would probably have a pretty good buzz on it. So much of Hollywood is retread, sequels, stuff that has already been done and in some cases like the machoring candidate done very well. MALTIN: Yes done pretty well. Not great. Pretty well. And Alfie with opened last weekend tanked completing that is another remake of course. And I for one now I like "Bridget Jones Diary" I though it was a cute movie. But did I walk out of that theater saying boy I really want a squeal. No. LISCOVICZ: Well your not a woman, that is why. MALTIN: I know, no my wife is quite ready to see Hugh Grant again. But I think that what -- where we're at now is that movies cost so much money. Mainstream movies not the Indies, mainstream movies cost so much money to make and so much more to market. Warner Brothers is reportedly spending $125 million to promote and advertise "The Polar Express" on top of what they spent to make it. Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think rightly or wrongly that the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity. A remake of something you have already seen. A remake of a sequel to something you have already seen. That is their mindset. LISCOVICZ: Well we know that you're a proven quantity that is for sure. Leonard Maltin who is a correspondent with "Entertainment Tonight" and a prolific author among other things. Thank you for joining us. MALTIN: My pleasure. LISCOVICZ: Coming up a couple hot new video games could make this a very Merry Christmas for a lot of companies. We put our producers to the test with your email insights. Drop us a line, the address email@example.com. But first this week's edition of "Money & Family." If you have been a victim of identity theft it can take more than a year to clear up your credit record. Here are some steps to keep your identity theft. Don't leave your wallet, or purse, checkbook or credit receipts in your car. Car searching is prime source for identity theft. Thieves tend to look in bags for receipts. Carefully review your account statements and credit card bills. If you notice that these are purchases that you did not make, report them to the credit card company immediately. Make sure to shred your financial garbage including receipts, preapproved credit offers and checks. This will prevent someone from accessing your account information or starting a new one in your name. Don't give out personal information over the telephone until you initiate the call. Many representatives could be identity thieves. Be protective of your account numbers, passwords and Social Security number. I'm Susan Lisovicz for "Money & Family." (COMMERCIAL BREAK) CAFFERTY: Well if you watch this program with any regularity you probably figured this out. I spend as much time playing video games as I do promoting French tourism. Not everything is like me. That's a good thing. And that is good news also for companies like Microsoft who are banking on some new games to send their Christmas season profits soaring. Allen Wastler joins us with that. And a terrific fun site of the week. How are you doing? ALLEN WASTER, CNNMONEY.COM: Jack you might like "Halo 2." You get to be like the super warrior blowing things away. It's a fun game. The first version "Halo" sold about five million versions of the game and was really out. Lots of fun. Then now "Halo 2" is expected to come and it's doing twice as much already in the first day $125 million worth of sales. That's a huge amount. About 1.5 million companies already presold. And it did over $2 million in sales. Get this all right a bunch of stores did like midnight madness sales. It was going to go, so open up at midnight. Lines going around the block, people pouring in. At one retailer's chain first 11 minutes they sold 8,500 versions of the game. CAFFERTY: This is like a high tech version of the Cabbage Patch dolls this Christmas WASTLER: It is already out there. They expect actually over the life of it for it to produce about $500 million dollars, half a billion in revenue for Microsoft. All ready first day out $125 million, now some movies we have been talking movies, some movies don't do that well in the first day and a lot of times they don't do that well in the whole weekend. CAFFERTY: For the whole release. That's a lot of money. WASTLER: That is true. Now Andy and I you and I were discussing earlier how much over the lifetime because now you getting to a point where video games are sort of an even keel with Hollywood. Big blockbusters they will pull in over $500 million. They will pull in like $600 million, when you do overseas sales and DVD sales. But now games, in just single domestic releases are beginning to push that. You'll see more and more of that, Grand Theft Auto, The War Hammer Series. LISCOVICZ: But still a heavenly balanced or heavily tilted toward men or boys. WASTLER: Well some people are saying that -- SERWER: That is OK. We're consumers. Don't we count for anything? WASTLER: Actually if you look at some of the - the latest demographic info there is more and more women are getting into it. SERWER: You got to get with it. LISCOVICZ: Sad news. CAFFERTY: Next Christmas the Shakespeare in love video game for you. What about the fun site of the week? WASTLER: Well interesting that you bring up women. I have found the ultimate site for pickup lines. A huge data base. Our producer have selected three to share with you. First of all, the one that the Web site claims is the most successful. Here it is. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?" LISCOVICZ: That's the most successful? WASTLER: Your rolling. LISCOVICZ: I say that falls into the cheesy category unless it is delivered by Lawrence Olivia or John Deputy. CAFFERTY: It is all in the messenger. SERWER: That would work for Jack. WASTLER: You say cheesy too. Ok. Here is cheesy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Hello, I'm a thief and I would like to steal your heart." WASTLER: How do you feel about that one? SERWER: She likes that one more. She liked that more. I think we need a new judge. WASTLER: They also have a direct category. I would like to warn the people at home they get really direct there so be careful. "I miss my teddy bear would sleep with me?" LISCOVICZ: that is so wrong on so many levels. CAFFERTY: All right. SERWER: What was the one we heard by Bruce. He just told us one. Are you from Tennessee. LISCOVICZ: And said no why. SERWER: Because you're the only ten I see. LISCOVICZ: Well delivered. CAFFERTY: That's quite enough. All right. Coming up next on IN THE MONEY is time to hear from you as we read some of your emails from last week. You can send us an email if you're so inclined to comment on these cheesy pickup lines. Our address is email@example.com write to us. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) CAFFERTY: Time now to read your answers to our question of the week about how to unite the country now that the election mercifully is over. Lori in Hawaii wrote this, "The U.S. needs to start a great public works project like it did under FDR. We should also spur leading U.S. companies to come up with alternative sources of energy. That will bring our country together & make us a leader in the world." Cheryl in Orangeburg, South Carolina writes this, "I'd have Cheney, Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz go to Fallujah and stay closer to the troops. I'd also like to see more of the sons of the leading hawks in Congress sign up for active duty." And Sue, Marshall, Michigan "With 54 million Americans thinking evil fools are now in charge the only way to unite the country is by investing our way out of economic woes. I suggest we put our money into any company that makes anti-depressants." Now now it is not that bad. Next weeks e-mail question of the week is a follows, What issue would you most like the Supreme Court address in the coming year? Send your answers to email@example.com. And you should also visit our show page of Money.com/inthemoney which is where your find the address for our fun site of the week. Thank you for joining us for this edition of IN The Money. My thanks to CNN correspondent Susan Lisovicz. "Fortune" magazine editor at large Andy Serwer and Money.com managing editor Alan Wastler. Join us next on Saturday at 1:00 Eastern Time or Sunday at 3:00 or you can catch me all week long on "American Morning" which begins at 7:00 Eastern Time. Hope to see you again soon. 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Here is a photo* from Christmas of 1962 of two of Ole and Mari Finnestad's great great grandchildren, Simone and Rick Johnson.
Simone and Rick were the children of Carshon (Richardson) and Norman Johnson. Their grandparents were Carrie Evelyn (Finnestad) and Charles Richardson. Caroline (Quitno) and Ole Finnestad Jr were their great grandparents.
* Photo provided by Ole and Mari Finnestad's great great granddaughter, Jill (McKay) Clinton.
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Millions of people get steroid shots in their backs to relieve pain. Now they are probably wondering if it's safe.
In 23 states, hundreds, possibly thousands, of back-pain patients are being warned to watch for symptoms of meningitis because of a custom-mixed steroid solution that may have been contaminated with fungus. Five people have died and more than 40 others have fallen ill.
Doctors who do these injections say they are extremely safe when done correctly with sterile drugs. And many doctors stick to medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration instead of relying on generally less-regulated "compounding pharmacies" like the Massachusetts company implicated in the outbreak.
"If I was a patient, I would definitely be concerned," said Dr. Michael Schafer, an orthopedic specialist at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
He said Northwestern gets steroids from federally regulated pharmaceutical companies. And in almost 40 years of experience, he has never had a patient develop an infection from these shots.
He and others say patients should ask their doctors if their medications come from compounding pharmacies, which custom-mix and repackage creams, solutions and other drugs.
In fact, some doctors who rely on such places are rethinking that.
Dr. Michael Drass of Allegheny Pain Management, a clinic in Altoona, Pa., said he has pulled all drugs that came from the New England Compounding Center off his shelves — as the government has urged physicians to do — and is re-evaluating whether to rely on compounding pharmacies for the medicines he uses to treat patients.
"I've been doing this for 15 years now, and I've done 50,000 injections over that course of time, and I've never seen or heard anything like this. It's a real eye-opener for us in the medical practitioner community," Drass said.
He said he has relied on the New England pharmacy and others like it because they sometimes have medications he can't get elsewhere, sometimes because of drug shortages.
Cost can also be a factor. Some of these suppliers charge less than big pharmaceutical companies. Some clinics that use compounding pharmacies say they are a good source of preservative-free steroids, which are less likely to cause a nerve-related complication.
The injections are a common treatment for sciatica, which is pain from a slipped or ruptured disk that often radiates down the legs, and for spinal stenosis, an age-related narrowing of the spine sometimes caused by arthritis. It results in pain or weakness, usually in the neck and lower back.
Doctors often recommend injecting steroids into the spinal column for patients who don't get adequate pain relief from aspirin, ibuprofen or other common medicines that reduce inflammation. The injections also are often used when physical therapy doesn't work, or for patients whose pain is too great to even try physical therapy or other remedies.
"The worst complication is it may not work," Schafer said he tells patients.
Patsy Bivins of Sturgis, Ky., is worried about the two steroid injections she got in her lower back in August to treat chronic pain from stenosis and fibromyalgia. She got a call Thursday from the outpatient center where she was treated, warning that she may have been given the tainted drug.
"Before I got the shots I was really suffering," Bivins said. "It did help some. But now I don't know what to do." She added: "When I got the call I thought, `Here's another thing.' I don't need nothing else wrong with me, especially that."
Doctors use a needle about 3 inches long to inject the drug into what is known as the epidural space surrounding the spinal cord.
Patients are typically middle-age or older. Often, three injections are given over a few weeks, in pain clinics, surgery centers or hospitals. Such treatments can cost several hundred dollars and last about 10 minutes, and patients can go home afterward. The effects may last for several months or longer, but patients often return for repeat treatment after a year.
The drug involved in the outbreak, methylprednisolone acetate, is among the steroids commonly used in the procedure. Batches of the drug from other sources have not been implicated so far.
Some patients swear by the treatments, but the scientific evidence is mixed. Some studies have found the injections work no better than dummy medicines, while others have found benefits.
The injections work best for younger patients with fairly recent pain rather than chronic, debilitating pain that has lasted for several years, said Dr. Steven Cohen, an associate professor of anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins medical school.


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The Numbur Cheese Circuit is in Ramechhap District of Nepal.
The Numbur Cheese Circiut offers visitors superb views of major Himalayan peaks including Annapurna South, Langtang, Gaurishankar and Numburchuili and many more. Walk through deep river gorges, glacial lakes, terraced rice fields, subtropical forests and Sherpa villages to the the Lhiku Khola glacier, watched over by the towering peaks of Pathibarra and Numburchuili. Visit one of Nepal's first cheese factories, established in 1957 and the famous Thodung Monastery on the way.
In April and May rhododendrons bloom in profusion, you may also see eagles and musk deer as well as Himalayan tahr, a species of goat antelope. If you are lucky you can catch a glimpse of the elusive snow leopard.
Get in
Shivalaya and Those are the start and finish points of the Numbur Cheese Circuit and are 8-9 hrs drive from Kathmandu. Seasonal Super express bus service goes to/from Kathmandu's Old Bus Park, near the Nepal Tourism Board(7am Daily). Kathmandu to Jiri/Shivalaya takes 6-8 hours (450NRs). The winding road is very well paved with fine mountain views. The route follows the Arniko Highway towards Tibet before turning right over the Sun Koshi at Lamosangu for the climb on the Swiss built Lamosangu-Jiri Road, the "gateway to the Solu Khumbu", through Sindupalchowk, Dolahka Districts to Ramechhap. Buses make a lunch stop after 4 hours at Mude Bazaar, famous for the largest potatoes in Nepal.
Interesting stops along the way are Charikot, where you can stay at the luxurious Charikot Panorama Resort [2], or continue on to Jiri.
There are currently no fees or permits needed for this trek.
Shivalaya is the gateway for the most exciting trek in North Ramechhap. The route to Shivalaya follows the traditional approach march for Everest expeditions, pioneered by Sir Edmund Hilary, along the old trade route from Jiri.
Khahare village comprises of less than 5 houses, inhabited only during winters by their owners who spend their summers on the pastures bordering Tibet tending to their yaks and chauri. The trail runs up and down along the valley side through terraced fields, dips to cross the river and then snakes steeply up the cliff on the other side.
From Khahare the gradual climb to Jatapokhari begins. The trail offers views of the roaring Khimti Khola river below. From here on be prepared for Chauri on the trail - stick to the inside of the trail and get out of their way! Passing through the Tiny Sherpa village of Phokte the trail ascends through the rhododendron forest to the summer pasture of Maanedanda
The trail climbs to jatapokhari along the riverside and as the altitude increases, we move through alpine pastures to scrubby forests of sunpati, a rare mountain herb that fetches up to 6000NRs/Kg. The path climbs beside the river, before a dramatic waterfall heralds our arrival at Jatapokhari.
A holy mountain lake, in the lap of Mt. Numbur is a popular pilgrimage destination in Ramechhap. Over 3000 pilgrims make their way here to celebrate Janiapurnima. It is believed that taking a dip in its holy waters will fulfill one's wishes. An overnight is recommended to allow for aclimatisation. Take a side trip to Baula Pokhari, the "mad lake" but don't disturb the spirits within or your wishes may not come true!
There are five small lakes, known as Panch Pokhari, within this huge glacial cirque. The unmistakeable Annapurna South dominates the western horizon.
"Wilderness" is the only apt term for the wild and rugged basin of the Lhiku Khola valley. The mountain views are sensational, with views extending north into Tibet, as you cross the Thulo Lapcha pass at 4838m, traditionally used by local Sherpas to bring yaks across the mountains to Ngeju. The trek follows the Likhu Khola Valley until you reach the remote yak pastures of Ngeju nestling at the foot of the ice-fall tumbling from the sacred summit of Numbur. The ancient Buddhist Shrine of Kau Gumba lies above the tree-line in the upper Likhu Khola Valley enclosed by a great sweep of high rock and snow peaks. Dudhkunda, the 'Milky Lake' rests in the heart of the basin, surrounded by tumbling glaciers and large moraines.
Lahaksewar 'Sewar' is one of the most beautiful Sherpa villages in the Upper Ramechhap region, with its astonishing landscapes, cultural wealth, and the hospitable Sherpa people. 'Sewar' offers untouched Sherpa culture where people have maintained the traditional way of life.
The trail goes through the river valley, descending through deep forest to Kyama (3190m) with good views along the way of Pathibara and Numberchuili.
With the gleaming Numberchuili as the backdrop, Gumdel is a tiny hamlet gathered around a large Buddhist Stupa. The Gumdel Home Stays offer the best of Sherpa hospitality and cultural traditions amidst luxuriant landscape and spectacular mountain scenery. From here the trail descends through dense forest finally meeting the Everest trail at Bhandar.
Thodung is a small active monastery surrounded by an aroma of pines, natural beauty, and a variety of flora that enhance the serenity of the monastery and its surroundings.
Tamdanda, above the Newar village of Lapchane, is one of the tallest hills in Ramechhap. From here you can see most of the central and eastern Himalayan peaks Dhalguiri, Annapurna, Gauri Shanker, Numbur, Makalu, Kanchenjunga. The peak also offers breathtaking sunrise and sunset views during good weather. The variety of flora and fauna, with 65 species of birds, makes it the place to head off to for nature lovers. Tamdanda at 3000m provides the best east-west panoramic Himalaya views in the area and also hosts the largest variety of bird species in the mid hills of Nepal.
Before the construction of the Jiri Road, Those was the busiest market town on the trade route between Namche and Lamosangu.
Yak Cheese
The villages of Jiri, Shivalaya, Deurali, Bamti-Bhandar and Gumdel are well-served with trekking lodges,toilets and hot (bucket) showers.
In Kharare, Lahaksewar and Kyam accommodation is in an actual home or 'Community-run homestay', so the cross-cultural exchange is more authentic. Although part of the trek is in uninhabited areas, Community-run homestays operate during the trekking season so it's quite suitable for independent trekkers.
The area above Khahare to Sewar is uninhabited so camping is the only option at Panipakha, Phokte, Maanedanda, Jatapokhari, Panch pokhari, Thare, and Ngeju.
Stay safe
If you plan to continue along the Everest trail, the 'Numbur Cheese Circuit' provides excellent options for acclimatization.Meanwhile,at Shivalaya,you may hire Guide/porters,Light foods are available in local market.For relaxation you will find comfortable Lodges. HOTEL COUNTRY INN is one of the best hotel in town which provides you Restaurant services as well.
Get out
"Leave only footprints behind you, take only memories when you leave" - This concept of sustainable tourism is based on the premise that destinations should remain unspoiled for future generations.


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MOVIE REVIEW- Post-<i>DaVinci </i>delight: <i>Angels & Demons</i> done right
Ron Howard faced an interesting dilemma in approaching his follow-up to The Da Vinci Code: If it's broke but people like it, do you still fix it?
Da Vinci was a lousy movie, the worst of Howard's directing career, but it was fabulously successful, thanks largely to the popularity of Dan Brown's source novel. (Pissing off the Pope didn't hurt either.)
To Howard's credit, he's fixed what was broken. The result deserves even more success, even if the title lacks the same cachet.
Angels & Demons is based on an earlier novel by Brown and involves the same protagonist, Harvard symbologist Prof. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks). The movie is established as a sequel by references to previous events that left Langdon unpopular but "formidable" in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church.
The church needs Langdon's help this time. The College of Cardinals is meeting to elect a new pope after the death of the previous pontiff, but someone has kidnapped the four leading contenders (how they managed it, when the Vatican is shown to be a well-guarded fortress, is never explained) and threatens to kill one an hour, after which "Vatican City will be consumed by light."
The latter threat implicates the Illuminati, a defunct and– until now– secret society that was outlawed by the church in the 17th century for its pro-science stand. Apparently it's been resurrected– something the church believes in.
They can carry out their heavy threat about light because they've stolen a canister of antimatter, an "extremely combustible substance," from a Swiss research facility. The battery that's keeping it stable should die around midnight, along with everyone within a wide radius.
In pursuit of the antimatter is research physicist Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer); her expertise offers the perfect excuse to have another hot Eurochick tag along with Langdon.
The killing isn't scheduled to start until 8pm, which gives the Vatican time to fly Langdon over in a private jet. The wealth of the church is indicated, sometimes subtly, throughout the film. Even though they're the good guys this time, the script isn't above a few potshots, including heavy smoking among the cardinals and showing how a previous pope "unmanned" a number of statues, to which fig leaves were added later.
The hunt for a canister echoes the current season of 24, so much so I began to think it's canisters themselves, not their contents, of which we should beware. This "very special episode" condenses four hours into about half that length, with the sun setting abruptly sometime between 8 and 9.
Hanks is no Kiefer Sutherland, for better and worse. Langdon doesn't approach his work with the same intensity as Jack Bauer, and you know he'd never torture anyone because he's so likable.
With extras in every crowd scene looking suspicious, it doesn't take much to make us wonder which of the supporting characters is the inside man on this inside job.
Ewan McGregor plays Fr. Patrick McKenna, the Camerlengo– the dude who runs the Vatican until the new pope is in place. Cardinal Strauss (Armin Mueller-Stahl) stands to be elected if the frontrunners are out of the running. Cmdr. Richter (Stellan Skarsgård) heads the Swiss Guard, one of several security forces that compete or cooperate to protect the Vatican. The others are also represented, and any of them could be working for the other side.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas plays the assassin we see, but he's obviously just a hired hand.
Most of the film consists of Langdon following ancient clues to arrive at the various murder scenes just a little too late. The novelty wears off by the third one, and we find ourselves looking forward to the Big Bang, but it's a crackling good ride to that point, and we know there's more to come.
One of the most remarkable aspects of Angels & Demons is the production design, recreating or imagining Vatican and church locations that were off limits to the filmmakers.
The script is credited to David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman. Since Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) flew solo on The Da Vinci Code, we can assume he did the heavy lifting on adapting the novel while Koepp (Jurassic Park) beefed up the entertainment. Together, they've made it simple enough for idiots like me to understand while also making it sound intelligent with all sorts of religious and scientific gobbledygook.
Quizzed about his personal beliefs, Langdon admits, "Faith is a gift that I have yet to receive." Angels & Demons may not help you nonbelievers find God, but it will make you a believer in the power of cinema.


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Diddy's Son Justin Combs Has People Upset Over $54K UCLA Scholarship!
"Justin Combs worked hard in high school to improve his football game and earn a 3.75 GPA . He recently received a $54,000 merit-based scholarship to UCLA, where he'll play football. In April, Forbes named Justin Combs' dad, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, the wealthiest artist in hip- hop. Some say the family should return Justin's scholarship, arguing that Combs should pay for his son's education and taxpayer money should go to students with greater financial need. Other say Justin Combs earned the scholarship through his grades and athletic ability, and deserves to keep it." - CNN
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"Hey bro, engine hoists are for loser V8s. The Honda Civic's engine is so light, it floats right out of the car if you unbolt it. Seriously. I read it online." - A Moron.
It looks a little staged, but it doesn't matter. This is funny. Also, DO NOT swap an engine without a hoist.
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Note to Readers: This will be my last CHS Aviary post. I'm having a baby and moving on to other pursuits after a few months of maternity leave. I've enjoyed writing about birds and reading your comments over the last couple of years, so thanks for reading! –Melissa Koosmann
Human beings aren't the only creatures on Capitol Hill that sometimes squabble over public spaces. Check out the trees and yards in your neighborhood, and you'll see many species of birds engaged in squabbles over territory. One species that displays particularly interesting social and territorial relationships is the Steller's jay.
The Steller's jay is one of the most distinctive birds on the Hill. It has a tall black crest on its head and a blue body. If you look closely, you may see two bright blue vertical stripes over the eyes.
Like its relative the American crow, the Steller's jay is an intelligent, opportunistic omnivore. It eats insects, seeds, fruit, eggs, and small animals—including little birds like dark-eyed juncos or black-capped chickadees if it can catch them. Here in our urban environment, the Steller's jay also supplements its diet with human garbage.
Male and female Steller's jays mate for life, and mated pairs establish dominance over a small area surrounding their nest. They are not completely territorial; other Steller's jays may enter their space. However, Steller's jays display dominance behaviors toward any other jays that enter their home area. But the farther they travel from their nest space, the more likely they are to show deference to other jays. This causes a complex, shifting pattern of social relationships based more on geography than on age or sex characteristics.
Steller's jays indicate their dominance with harsh, raucous calls and various body movements that include wing-spreading and tail-flicking. A submissive bird—in other words, a bird outside its home environment—may crouch low, press its tail to the ground, and let out a "wah" call.
The Steller's jay is common in parks and gardens around the Hill. If you don't have a yard, you can find these birds in nearly any green space that has lawns and conifers.
Interested in learning more?
- Check out the Steller's jay's page at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
- Learn more about the jay's distribution in the state of Washington here.
- This video shows some of the Steller's jay's behaviors.
Have a Capitol Hill topic you're fascinated by that you think would make a great regular column for CHS? Let us know chs @capitolhillseattle.com.


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SolidSnake wrote:Godard was an excellent signing. He doesn't back down from nobody and notice you don't see too many cheap shots on Geno or Sid so far this season. Offensively he tries his best and isn't too bad. I don't worry when I see him on the ice. He's signed for 3 years and if he keeps doing this it's gonna be one of the more underrated Shero signings.
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
An early morning snow shower didn't keep people from attending the Chestnut Hill Community Association's annual community blood drive today
This morning at 10:30 a.m. a few dozen donors were either being screened to donate, waiting to donate or actually in the process of donating blood inside Springside Chestnut Hill Academy's Vare Field House. The drive was staffed by Miller Keystone.
Carol Graves, volunteer representative for Miller Keystone said that they were expecting to collect at least 60 units of blood at the community drive. She said that Miller Keystone collects approximately 500 units of blood in blood drive efforts around the region every day.
This year's drive was organized by CHCA board members Jay Valinis and Elizabeth Bales. Valinis, Bales and CHCA board member Tom Hemphill were manning the sign in table and helping donors get started in the screening process.


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For the past few weeks my cat has been vomiting every 2-3 days, sometimes more frequently, and it's just full bits of kibble. I was at the vet in September and she said that its from my cat eating too quickly, and i should switch to a tray. I finally did then when my cat started vomiting again, so I put her food on a plate. This has sort of worked—she's only thrown up once since I switched her to a plate about a week ago.
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FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) – Alabama finished the opening round by grabbing a two-stroke lead over Virginia, and Portland Rosen shot a Cavaliers' school-record 6-under 66 in near perfect conditions in the morning to lead the individual standings Tuesday at the NCAA Division I women's golf championship.
The Crimson Tide, ranked second nationally by GolfStat, finished with a 2-under 286 led by a 4 under by senior Brooke Pancake. But Alabama only finished with the lead after Elizabeth Brightwell of Virginia was disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard about three hours after finishing her round. She signed for a 71 instead of a 72, putting down a 4 on the par-4 4th instead of a 5.
"I feel bad for her, I feel bad for them a great group of kids and coaches,'' Alabama coach Mick Potter said.
"As a coach, it just scares me to death whenever they walk out of that tent. So you know in a regular season tournament you can kind of handle it here. Out here, it's just so important and they just have to be careful. We talk to them about it all the time, and hopefully everybody else learns from that mistake and just a little bit more attentive to what they're doing when they walk out of there.''
That turned Virginia's 6-under 282 total with a four-stroke lead at the time over LSU to even par 288 when Brightwell's 72 was dropped for Briana Mao's 77.
The 288 still is a school best for Virginia in the Cavaliers' sixth NCAA championship in the program's nine years. Brightwell was alerted to the possible miscue as the team was preparing to leave the course and found it when re-checking her score.
"I feel bad for Elizabeth,'' Virginia coach Kim Lewellen said through a team spokesman. "I feel bad for our team. But we've just got to go out and play.''
Duke was third after a 1-over 289 followed by North Carolina (290). Defending champ UCLA shot a 4-under 292, and host Vanderbilt struggled on its own course with a 306 that tied the Commodores for 22nd.
Rosen's career-low round gave her the lead by a stroke over Laura Gonzalez of Purdue (67). Catherine O'Donnell of North Carolina and Pancake tied for third after shooting 68s. Lindy Duncan of Duke, the nation's top-ranked golfer, was tied for ninth with a 70.
A year ago, Brittany Altomare of Virginia held the individual lead after the first round. Rosen is Virginia's fifth-seeded golfer, finished 101st at the Central Regional at Ohio State and had shot under par only once in 24 rounds this year coming to the Vanderbilt Legends Club. She gave the Cavaliers a strong start by setting the course record with a 7-under 29 on the front nine on her way to her career-low round.
"I did have a rough regional, but we worked really hard last week and I changed putters, which really helped,'' Rosen said. "I just thought, `Just have some fun Portland. It's your last tournament of the year. You only do this once in your life. You're only in college once in your life.'''
Rosen started on the par-4 No. 1 and holed out a 5-iron from 171 yards for an eagle, putting Virginia on the top of the leaderboard as the first golfer off the No. 1 tee. That had her father, Houston attorney Rocket Rosen, jumping and yelling that the ball found the cup.
"But he always says that, and I didn't believe him,'' Rosen said of her father. "Then I heard another person say it's in. It's a good way to start the day. Very exciting.''
Rosen set the North Course record by making the turn with a 7-under 29, had two bogeys on the back nine before finishing with a birdie on the par-5 No. 18. The sophomore from Sugar Land, Texas, hit her irons well, but the switch in putters proved to be key. Her coach suggested trying an Odyssey belly putter the golfer looked at a month ago.
With the putter nicknamed "Batman'' because of the head's similarity to the comic book hero symbol, Rosen had no trouble with her hands being too fast in rolling putt after putt Tuesday.
"And it worked today like a superhero,'' Lewellen said.
Thanks to Rosen, it looked as if Virginia might stay atop the leaderboard until Alabama closed strong, taking advantage of the easier front nine. The Crimson Tide started on No. 10, and Potter said he knew they would have birdie chances on the final holes if they stayed patient. It helps that Pancake, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., learned to play golf across the pond at Tennessee's youth golf training course and knows the Legends course very well.
With Alabama junior Jennifer Kirby getting a birdie on No. 7, Pancake birdied the 455-yard par-5 No. 9 with the Tide playing in the final five groups. Hannah Collier followed with her own birdie, and Stephanie Meadow capped the run with her own birdie.
"As far as the leaderboard goes, it wouldn't have bothered me either way,'' Potter said. "I think we have to take care of our business and not worry about it.''


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In stark contrast to the previous two Village of Lewiston Board meetings, where trustees were blasted for stumping for a new recreation center, residents Monday overwhelmingly voiced their support for a new indoor sports complex.
"It is needed for the kids," said Riverside Motel owner Bruce Blakelock.
His son, eighth-grader Robert Blakelock, said, "There's not a whole lot of areas in Lewiston to go and play sports."
"If we don't accept this for our children ... we're throwing something away," said Dennis Brochey of Brochey's Automotive.
"There are a lot of people in the village that are very supportive of (a new recreation center)," Peter Nagy said. "It's a shame that this project is kind of dead in the water."
Trustees opted to hold the public forum Monday despite losing the support of Gary Hall. In November 2011, the Waste Technology Services president and CEO offered to finance a multimillion-dollar recreation center, but backed out Thursday due to what board members called a desire to keep the peace. Hall, they said, was taken aback by the negative comments he received at board meetings in December and January, when North Fourth Street-area residents balked at the idea of building a 28,000-square-foot complex in their backyard.
Two of those residents, Kathleen Harold and former Mayor Richard Soluri, explained their opposition to erecting the structure behind the Red Brick Municipal building.
"We saw the (rec center) pictures in the Sentinel, and we kind of got shook up," Harold said at the forum. She said neither Hall nor the board had a definite business plan, and she chided those who said Marilyn Toohey Park was underutilized.
"There is constant use," she said of the green space, which would've been lessened with a new rec center.
"This would detract from our neighborhood - it would no longer be a neighborhood," Soluri said. He also suggested property values would drop if the rec center was built in Toohey Park.
"I like the idea of a recreation center - if we can afford it," he said. "(But) the ideal site is really at the plateau."
Hall commissioned architect David Giusiana of Giusiana Architects & Engineer to come up with a proposal to build the rec center at the plateau. Giusiana presented that plan Monday, showing a 36,000-square-foot rec center in between the dog park and the habitat (on the way to Artpark), and detailing its amenities (including tennis, racquetball and squash courts; a video golf simulator; a climbing area; a juice bar; and two full locker rooms).
Mayor Terry Collesano said he received "daily calls, letters and emails in support" of the Red Brick location. Still, "I personally favor the plateau site," he said.
Collesano told the audience of about 200 that "this will probably be the final time we talk about (a new recreation center)."
Without Hall's support, the village is currently unable to finance a new indoor sports complex.
"We are saddened that the community lost a great opportunity for a recreation center," Collesano said. He added, "Mr. Hall, our door is always open if you ever wish to reconsider."
Residents at the forum thanked Hall for his offer to finance the rec center. Some went so far as to scold those who took issue with Hall's proposal - especially those who wrote negative letters to the editor in the Sentinel.
"I can't believe what's happened," Bruce Blakelock said. "It doesn't matter what idea it is, people don't want it."
"Where are we going to get $2 million to build something like this?" Brochey asked.
Resident Mary Smith said, "I'm tired of people complaining. ... Whether it's a sandwich board in front of a business or a festival - whatever it is - there's a problem with everything in this village."
She described children as more in need of recreation than ever, and said, "I really hope that Mr. Hall will reconsider."
Planning Board member Dave Maslen said Hall "was scared off because he thought he was offending all you people. Well, he's not offending all you people, because a lot of you people here tonight are for (a new recreation center)."
Without a major benefactor, Deputy Mayor Bruce Sutherland said the village could opt to fundraise. He said his preliminary research revealed membership fees could offset maintenance and staff costs, while solar panels could eliminate almost all of the electrical costs.
Sutherland proposed yearly membership fees of $125 for a family and $60 per person ($35 for students and $20 for seniors). Coupled with a $20-per-hour court usage fee, he reasoned the rec center, at just 30 percent usage, could net $102,000 from Sept. 1 through May 31.
When school field trips, tournaments, walk-on days and non-resident rates are added into the equation, "It made it seem to us that it was a doable thing," Sutherland said.
Harold and Maslen suggested residents vote the project up or down in a referendum. Trustees will consider adding that to the June election ballot.
In terms of location, Collesano said the Red Brick location "is a dead issue." He and Trustee Ernie Krell said Kiwanis Park couldn't be used, either. The Kiwanis Club of Lewiston deeded the 14-acre park to the Town of Lewiston with the stipulation it remain a park.
Those in attendance at Monday's public forum were asked to fill out a ballot indicating where they live, their age, whether or not they favor a rec center, and what they'd like to see inside a sports complex. The unofficial vote indicated 150 people are for a new rec center, while six are opposed.


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They are governed by fear and fear only.
..and they don't mind using the N-word.
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