"the da vinci code" popularity has created a industry. >> thanks to "the da vinci code" tourist capitalisited. much of the book is set here. the action begins at the louvre museum with the murder of its curator. and a painting that hints at, among other things, mary magdalene's more prominent role. >> it's more interesting about mary magdalene is her role as sort of an early leader. >> one of several da vinci code tours conducted here as led by art expert ellen mcbreen. >> history is something that's based on original documentation, something that dan brown played a little fast and loose with in the book. >> in fact, she does find a lot of inconsistencies in the da vinci code novel, as do others. claims in the book the pyramid behind me contains a satinically sinister 666 plates of glass. according to the louvre museum that should read 673. but that's nothing like the unholy uproar at paris church, featuring religious artifacts plus a meridian line, backdrops for more of author dan brown's tail. michel rouge spent much of the day correcting what he calls the falsehoods, including a less

this is a 4-month-old italian greyhound named da vinci. da vinci got a christmas present. >> yay!es the fox say? >> it's a little fox. that's what it is. it's a red fox. >> yes. this should be hours and hours of unbrideled entertainment for da vinci, the italian greyhound. >> what does the fox say! >> our buddy francis a little upset with what he didn't get for christmas this year. >> you know i like video games and i didn't get any video games. >> well, santa did drop off one more present this day. >> he does get video games. >> i've already got wii fit. the board on goes up to 350 pounds. i can't use wii fit. biggest loser? why would you lose your money on this crap? >> he's upset because he got exercise-themed games. he made a resolution he was going to lose some weight. >> i thought you could focus on your resolution this year. >> this is bull [ bleep ]. i don't want this crab. would you rather i just dance for a while? just dance, going to be okay. >> there were some good moves in there, though. >> the double flip dance moves. >> he does get destructive here. >> christmas is

so "the da vinci code's" thesis isn't new. but could it be true?heologians have trouble buying into that one. >> so for her to be standing in the text next to jesus and not be called "mary, wife of jesus," but to be called "mary of magdala" would be unique in all of ancient literature of any kind and as historians, we don't like unique. and in my mind that simply settles the issue right there. >> so what is behind the enduring fascination of a romance between the savior and the siren? >> in a jesus-haunted culture, everybody wants an approachable jesus. and one of the things that underlines things is the humanizing of jesus. remember the song -- ♪ what if god was one of us there is this motif in our culture of wanting to humanize god or make him more like us. bring him down to our level. >> the debates are not likely to end because the underlying issues, authority in the church, the role of women, continue to percolate. and so does the search for the real meaning of the two marys. >> give us mary. give us mary. she doesn't belong to the hierarchy o

it's a class 2 recall, a part of the da vinci thing.ng on here. >> well, actually as i write in my blog on the street.com the bark of this recall is worse than its bite. you have to consider these class 2 recalls for medical device companies are common. the case of intuitive, five pages if you go to the fda's website of these class 2 recalls. this is -- this is the kind of thing that the company would say they're doing because they got to do it. they're always trying to make things better. there was one adverse effect out of 55,000 procedures with this type of a situation and by the way, that's one adverse effect for the robotic surgery continues. the machine didn't work the way it was supposed to. the bigger issue with intuitive something we've been pointing out has to do with electrical currents, this has nothing to do with that. we've seen the company up several quarters of sales and earnings that have been way below expectations. a real slowing of growth. what you are concerned at about here is any reputational risk. >> so let me ge

and in perhaps the most famous image of man by a renaissance artist, leonardo da vinci is illustratinghe roman author vitruvius. man, in his ideal proportions, is the measure of all things. out of their preoccupation with classical harmony and proportion, renaissance artists created these new images of man and woman. [bells ringing] inside the palazzo vecchio, the 5,000 or so florentines who had the right to vote would meet, summoned by the bell in times of crisis. they were the members of the influential guilds and represented craftsmen and the most economically important activities... sculptors and stoneworkers... textiles... metalworkers... masons and builders... lawyers and solicitors. the engine driving the art of florence at the beginning of the 15th century was competition between the guilds and competition between the artists commissioned by them. the armorers guild paid for this powerful, alert image of their patron saint, saint george, by donatello-- roman art transformed into a vision of christian courage. the bankers guild paid for ghiberti's expensive bronze statue of sain

flipped the star upside down the normal american flag star the right side of star they the leonardo da vinci's star flipped that star upside down so there's a satan worshipping star or a set satan star already or three of them on the g.o.p. elephant so how do you guys kind of already won. well that's up for the republicans to say i mean if they truly embrace embrace religious diversity and they won't come our monument than then perhaps we have but so far that's not the message we're getting in also we plan on putting through also in the spirit demonstrating that there is no one uniform religious agenda and that there is a pluralistic voice in america we plan on putting through exemptions and privileges for our own membership in there is one hundred eight that still allow corporal punishment in schools they allow children to be beaten without their parents' permission and we want to draw up waivers in exemptions. based on the fact that we have a kind of at the bar you can buy a little subject one's own will alone and we would like people who subscribe to this religious we even if not see them i

. >> it's a universal dream that goes way back in history, like leonardo da vinci also tried to designname that is brought to life with the help of social media. >> we created facebook page and twitter and created the whole backstory, basically. >> floris group also takes his viewers through every step of his adventure. >> hey, i'm yamo, and i'm on my blog and going to share my personal project. >> we started writing a script and trying to roll out all the different videos. >> this dream i have is about being able to fly in the same way as birds do with flapping wings. >> we basically used the same techniques you would use for film or any form of drama to establish a real character that has, you know, problems and struggles. >> where do you find a place in the big city nowadays with enough space for building 12 meters of wings? >> we didn't have money to buy attention, so we really needed to be patient and to have a kind of confidence that the story was interesting enough. >> the team adds credibility to the story by interviewing an actual professor of neuromechanic who is is not in on

the history of sky diving dates back to 1485 when leonardo da vinci sketched the first blueprints forrachute. these days, hundreds of thousands of people jump from high places and planes every year, deploying parachutes to bring them safely back to earth. according to the united states parachute association, the likelihood of a fatal crash is roughly 1 in 140,000. and the sky diver you're about to see escapes that fate by the skin of his teeth. an experienced sky diver is sailing down to earth at 45 miles per hour. like he's done more than 300 times before. but this time, something goes horribly wrong. >> are you okay? >> i've been in other situations where i've got out of them. this one here where the winds happened to catch me at the wrong time. i had to make some really fast decisions. and obviously, it didn't pan out the way i wanted it to. i was hoping to miss it, but i didn't miss the trailer. >> april 30, 2011. high above colorado's fremont county airport sky diving instructor tommy ferguson is preparing for his third and final jump of the day. >> i had already put out two load

[laughter] anyway, think da vinci. anyway, it does not work. they don't like each other. somebody once said to jimmy carter, one trend on the hill. he'll tell you what going on. i talk to people. i guess he's too big to have the relationship. i'd ask what's going on. you got to have someone on the inside to tell you what's going on. let's figure it out. personalities to play cards with these guys. franklin delano roosevelt felt the need because he wanted to get during the course of the game and after a few drinks company with pay joe doesn't like you. you got to spend time with the kids and grown-ups to hear what they say. nobody's going to stop you and tell you everything they know. after three of four hours of playing cards they will tell you a lot. that's the adult relationships in there. i used to work in the old days before newt gingrich came along and change a lot of this stuff, they were friendly. people like -- thinking of gerry ford and tip were best friends. and rostenkowski. these people would try 14 hours on thursday night to chicago to drive back on monday wi

. >> white gloves to handle a 30 two year limited edition leonardo da vinci.eally uses chance in a class the more notifications i get, the more i appreciate. a strong hunger for that. it is not the mass phenomenon. >> when someone says -- >> many people say this. >> i am holding 200,000 euros worth of goal. this tape weighs five k spirit first, it gets rolled into the right form. then he gets cut out. then stamped. >> with 100 manufacturing 10 the no two pens are ever alike. it costs an extra 1200 euros for the basic service. from thech the dna letter, from the hand, from the movement, and we can adapt. handcrafted for the customers. >> for a fully personalized pen, production phase 2.5 years and up to one million euros. >> the funny thing, beautiful thing for us is, whoever collecting us for 10 or 15 or 20 years, whatever we do, these people behave like kids. press to not worry about misplacing such an expensive item. >> you stop using your pens as soon as you buy the right instrument. not a joke.? holiday pen. as -- it is a writing instrument. >> $32,000 for

extraordinary works, michaelangelos, da vincis and ver meers and ordinary art, too, were stolen and stashedrt edsel's book chronicles their search for nazi plunder. >> most of them have incredibly accomplished careers and they found themselves unintentionally as treasure hunters trying to track down millions of cultural objects that been sold by the nazis. >> reporter: the greatest treasure hunt of all time. >> a staggering achievement. >> time to put a team together and do our best to protect bridges, buildings and art before the nazis destroy everything. >> reporter: "monuments men" the movie, based on edsel's book, will be released next february. george clooney stars in the efforts to track down stolen nazi art. like the neuschwanstein castle in germany. it took them six weeks to unload all the stock in the altossy salt mine, they uncovered michelangelo's bruges madonna, the ghent altarpiece. harry ettlinger, now 87, is one of three surviving monuments men. you're a german jew forced to leave germany who goes back to germany to help with the war effort. >> i went back as an american sold

the regulation dealing with tbi is so complicated that some people call it the i did -- da vinci code look at it sometime and you'll be impressed. some claims can be complex as they are developed by the va. or as evidence from the claimant comes in. ancillary issues arise, different theories of service connection come up, they can become more difficult. and some claims more than a few and more than i like can become complicated because va error. and in those cases, the veterans face a nightmare. not only do they have to get the right evidence before the va, they have to overcome the unfair denial, which is an obstacle that stands in their past. the worst type of vaers are the premature adjudication. some varo incorrectly adjudicated and prematurely deny claims based on an adequate evidence. especially an adequate va exams. these errors reveal for many veterans that the claims process can be adversarial. based on my experience, working for the va for many years, working for n vrk ost. going on quality checks to over 40va regional offices for the american lee gone who should be commende

da vinci said the human foot is a master of engineering and work of art because there is so many movingt break more than it does and important to monitor our feet. lori: this wears around the your ankle. so much wearable technology around the market, especially fitness. fit bit, jawbone. nike has a version, what sets your smart sock apart from those? >> what sets us apart we combine the traditional accelerometer based device, anklet device which is comfortable and adjusted to any ankle size to our own proprietary textile sensors. those are 100% textile washable sensors embedded in the sock itself. lori: you mentioned issue of comfort? is it specially among marathon run officers it looks a little cumbersome, i have to be honest with you. >> the new version is 30 grams. less than two ounces. virtually impossib marathon runtory detect actually. the sock itself is as comfortable as any technical sock. lori: we're watching somebody, an athlete runner attach it to his ankle. there is app that goes to smartphone or some other device that will give you details, the metrics, the distance, help y

the regulation dealing with tbi is so complicated that some people call it the i did -- da vinci code look at it sometime and you'll be impressed. some claims can be complex as they are developed by the va. or as evidence from the claimant comes in. ancillary issues arise, different theories of service connection come up, they can become more difficult. and some claims more than a few and more than i like can become complicated because va error. and in those cases, the veterans face a nightmare. not only do they have to get the right evidence before the va, they have to overcome the unfair denial, which is an obstacle that stands in their past. the worst type of vaers are the premature adjudication. some varo incorrectly adjudicated and prematurely deny claims based on an adequate evidence. especially an adequate va exams. these errors reveal for many veterans that the claims process can be adversarial. based on my experience, working for the va for many years, working for n vrk ost. going on quality checks to over 40va regional offices for the american lee gone who should be commende

cartooning is you've got a bunch of mediocre skills, i'm a poor artist -- >> you're saying that is not a da vincimaybe that one. >> there are no eyeballs. >> my process was to layer together failure mediocre talents but the combination is what made them special. >> be wear of advice -- beware of advice about successful people. >> successful people are always going to tell you their story so they're going to leave out all the warts, bad things they did. if somebody else tells their story, they don't know what the person was thinking, what was their thought process. so i thought i'd say, here's my story. here's all the dumb stuff i did. you know, including the story about going to my first job interview in an accounting firm without wearing a suit. i wore my casual clothes. i was still in college and i thought they know i'm in college, why should i wear a suit. i wrote a book for all the idiots like me who didn't have the benefit -- >> i got the sense people can relate more to idiots like you than those unbelievably successful people because you never looked at failure as failure. it is closer to b

the minister da vinci will have 180 days after those first 90 days to decide that.hat will be ground zero. entitlement and those classes will make commercial discoveries or exploration investment. we will allow them a great between three and five years to do so. in those fields where they are extracting oil or gas they will keep those entitlements for the next round. pemex may propose that means the energy to transfer from entitlements that were achieved in ground search for new construct that took place to secondary installation. that process will have to go through a process i will show not that includes the national hydrocarbons commission. for those of you have seen these models were, like columbia. this is a site i like to show very much in mexico. the 20 most important economies that produce oil. what you can see is that all of them had any legal frameworks either concessions, profit sharing, or licenses to work with the private sector. that was a common practice. but there were two exceptions in that area. in these 20 countries only mexico invite and service

they have ordered a recall of its da vinci line. stock is down 25% year to date.a decline in third quarter earnings on lower sales. they took a dip but they're off their session lows, carl. back to you. >> thanks, dominic chu. >> organic food is a multi-million dollar business this these days. and now steve case is making a bet on it. he's here to talk about his latest investment. he's also the former ceo and co-founder of aol. good to have you back. >> good morning, carl. >> we've been talking about organic and pharma as an overall friend. the fact that it's piqued your interest is interesting. >> i think this space is going to be a rapidly growing category. it's really important. as you know and your investors who watch the show know some many of best investments in the past are starbucks and chip olts. two of hottest ipos were pot belly and noodles and company. it's a great theme around getting people to make healthy choices and we feel there's a big opportunity to build a valuable company here. >> it's called skreet green, thr -- called sweet green. do you thi

it's been a volatile week for isrg shares, earlier it fell after announcing it would recall the da vinci bad news, but coverage upgraded for the stock. back over to you. >> dom, thank you very much. >>> signs congressional negotiators are making progress in their budget talks. coming up, a live report from washington. >>> also ahead, rick santelli who will have an interview you won't want to miss. rick? >> yes, governor pat quinn, the honorable pat quinn, and trying to do what was deemed the impossib impossible, trying to tackle illinois' huge underfunded liabilities. he signed something yesterday. in ten minutes, we'll talk about what he signed, and where it will end up, and how it may be changed. you don't want to miss this. thrusters at 30%! i can't get her to warp. losing thrusters. i need more power. give me more power! [ mainframe ] located. ge deep-sea fuel technology. a 50,000-pound, ingeniously wired machine that optimizes raw data to help safely discover and maximize resources in extreme conditions. our current situation seems rather extreme. why can't we maximize our... ready.

. >> a little da vinci in him. >> the technology is clearly there. hurdles, all of the legal hurdles, the safety hurdle the privacy t. logistic, yeah. i feel this guy can get around those. >> you probably have to deal with the faa at some point. >> he already contacted the faa. the faa has to be involved. when you look, even in the news be we built a drone downstairs. we were flying it around on a camera a few weeks ago. it was easy, it was cheap. in agriculture they are using drones to find dry spots. why not drop your package? santa does it. o, he has magic. >> santa has magic, though. >> that's big. he may be doing this now. your boy bezos may be ripping off santa. a different kind of a story. bags of coal for man bezos. >> this is our must see moment. >> that might make more sense, maybe. our must see moment. folks watching the local news in bismark, north dakota saturday night found themselves doing a double take. >> i'm amber shotts. >> i'm ron burgundy. thanks for joining me tonight. the last time i saw you, you were a lot heavier. you lost li

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