this was part julius' grand design for a new vatican.owever reluctant he was, however much he complained, between 1508 and 1512, michelangelo created one of the boldest and one of the largest paintings in history. monumental figures act out the biblical drama from the creation to the flood, framed by figures still more monumental. the human body became as much the subject of michelangelo's painting as it was of his sculpture. pope julius had neither armies nor canon enough to influence europe as he might wish, but in the vatican, he could present an image of papal power to impress all comers. the story is told that raphael was mightily impressed when he was smuggled in to see the unfinished sistine ceiling by the architect of the new saint peter's, bramante. certainly, in the decorations of the pope's library, which raphael was painting at the same time, there is a figure answering to michelangelo's description. there's evidence the figure was added later than the others, and its style seems a tribute to his rival's style. the school of

the correct answer to our challenge question was b, we have julius caesar to thank for the extra daybut caesar's version essentially adding a day every four years, was imperfect. it made things off kilter by about three days every 400 years. in 1582 pope gregory 13th devised the calendar which adds a day almost every four years with some exceptions. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. >>> hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield. with a check of your top stories. fresh from a win in washington state, mitt romney picks up a key endorsement in the race for the white house. this one from the leading house republican eric cantor. romney and the other contenders are on the campaign trail with super tuesday less than 48 hours away. tune in at 4:00 eastern time today for our special 2012 contenders hour. >>> president barack obama reiterates diplomacy is the way to go in trying to resolve the deepening nuclear standoff with iran but in his remarks before the largest american jewish lobbying group he said all elements of american power inclu

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so i would read dick and jane all the way up to julius caesar. when i came to a word difficult, he would say work with it little sister. he wouldn't jump in and tell me. he would let me work it out so i did. i learned to jump into words. that built my confidence, grandmother and ggrandfather were from the old school. i can remember borrowing $25 from my grandmother. i was taking out my checkbook to pay her. she said no, darling, don't give me a little piece of paper. what did i give you. i said a 20 and a 5. so bring me that. they went to the light company and paid their light bills. they went to the department store and paid whatever. they went there once or twice a week to take care of business. the process of going through things, my grandmother would take me to the library. all along the way there were places where we couldn't go to the andrew jackson hotel, we couldn't go to morten's cafeteria. there was a paramount theatre, we had to go in the back door, separate water fountains. it was a very negative experience. when i got to the library,

reece, daniel, lori, jennifer, megan, trish, susan, dennis, sonny, cedric, caroline, patrick, janet, julius, betty, tracy, sharon, james, connie, ken, nick, christy, kaden, so you have one minute each. go-ahead. >> hello commissioners and superintendent. thank you to commissioner maufas. we are here to talk about the layoffs and tell you that they are unacceptable. we are not convinced that any layoffs are needed. to do what you did, especially while united educators of san francisco and the school district are in contract negotiations, is extra for free and support. -- extra reprehensible. [applause] it is bad enough there are layoffs at all, but you have made it worse by skipping 14 schools. this is a major slap in the face to 14 teachers, those inside the superintendent zone and those outside. it is a despicable way of trying to pit teacher against teacher, students against student. we care about all of our students in all of our schools. as the current ranking officer of uesf, i'm going to exercise my right to speak until i am done. we care about all of our students. >> [crowd chanting]

. >> her daughter is a student at julius west middle school. >> i would not want him seeing my daughter or other young girls. it is unacceptable. >> scott spear hopes to retain his teaching and coaching positions. >> i have been getting letters and cards and phone calls every day to hang in there. i will never forget that. >> jummy olabanji, abc 7 news, rockville >> . should the coach get his job back? want to hear from you on our facebook page. we will have the results coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00 tonight. new at noon, a virginia mother to pleaded guilty to leaving her child to die in a hot car will not face jail time any more of. karen murphy admitted to build this morning after the charge was reduced to misdemeanors child neglect. she originally faced felony murder charges for the data for two-year-old son. police say she left the toddler in the family minivan's seven hours in june where he died. the judge sentence her to two years of suspended jail time and 400 hours of community service. now a story that you will hear only 17,. see's party responding to allegations that protecti

my name is giannoulias -- julius terman. outside the police commission i am a partner and i practiced labor and employment law. commissioner slaughter: i was appointed to the police commission a couple of years ago by mayor newsome and confirmed by the board of supervisors and like a lot of you said, this is a tremendous opportunity for the use commission and police department and the police commission and members of the public to discuss issues that affect both groups. it is a great opportunity. in my day job, you will see i am an attorney as well. i work for law firm and i do all sorts of different kinds of litigation and thank you for coming. commissioner kingsley: i am carol kingsley, i was appointed a year and half ago by the mayor. it has been a pleasure serving the community and the police department. in this way. my day job is as a mediator. i practiced law for many years but now media business disputes, primarily. i am very excited about this joint meeting. i think that as so many of you so eloquently put it, this i

reece, daniel, lori, jennifer, megan, trish, susan, dennis, sonny, cedric, caroline, patrick, janet, julius, betty, tracy, sharon, james, connie, ken, nick, christy,

julius caesar came up with leap day like 2,000 years ago. julius caesar invented leap day. and salad, i think. [ laughter ] today's a big night for another reason, too. isn't that right, guillermo? we have a big thing. >> yeah. >> jimmy: on january 17th, to motivate himself, i guess, guillermo made a promise on twitter that if he didn't lose ten pounds by the end of february, he would shave his mustache. and i've been holding him to that promise. and he got an extra day this year. [ laughter ] so, what did you weigh in like six weeks ago? what was it? >> 214. >> jimmy: 214 pounds. tonight, guillermo has to be under 204, or his mustache goes adios. do you think you're going to make the weight? >> no way. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well, it will be fun to see you without the mustache. just out of curiosity, when was the last time you didn't have a mustache? it must have been like kindergarten or something, right? >> yeah. long time. >> jimmy: a long time, huh? guillermo was tweeting about his struggle with his weight this morning. and he said, how many pounds can you lose in a da

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in other news, the south african youth leader julius malema has bennett expelled from the african congressa five-year suspension was imposed last year. that brought into repute. the pakistani government says that applies to normalize trade with india by the end of the year. they had restricted the goods that had -- could be imported. this is a shift between the two nuclear arms neighbors. an italian cruise ship which had been drifting in the indian ocean without power will be there for several more hours. they have refused to help the tugboats, which could have sped up the commission. it was crippled by fire in its engine room. james murdoch, the man in charge of news international has quit his job. now based in new york, rupert murdoch's young assange is an executive with the parent company. he will now be concentrating on the television business. there is some flash photography here. >> it is a move full of symbolism. james murdoch's day-to-day involvement with his father's newspapers and did last year. it comes as a relief for him. he does not have his father's passion for newspapers an

even -- it happened that julius ceasar, you know, the king of -- at that time, the emperor, he decidedt he wanted to realize a new year january 1st because he was the all mighty one, he was able to do that. that's why the majority of people -- well, the people that follow that calendar, follow that calendar. we said no. >> in our culture -- if you think about it, march is when things are actually new. the mountains start getting green. everything is a rebert, right? in nature. our calendar is based around nature, and, you know, if you go to -- march 21st around at the same time is when there's a lot of not symbols, but on march 21st, there's no shadow. there's really -- the people that go, you know, people go there to charge for energy. also the pyramid that is there, the way that the sun cast a shadow on the pyramid shows like a snake going down as the sun moves down, and that represents a time to plant. you know, the culture was aligned with nature, and that -- you know, that clock, you can say, is still working today, and millions of people go from around the world and those two pla

the artist is julius. that erotic allure has been caught by brown in his book. >> it certainly has been. >> would you deny if jesus were to have a lover, that lover would have been mary magdalene. >> she does remain the most likely candidate. the difficulty is that we do not have firm evidence one way or another, and therefore i don't believe it is possible to draw an inference that is reasonable. >> we don't have evidence to the contrary. >> that is the case. >> in fact there is some things in his life that lead people to think the fact they were alone when he was casting out the devil which we will get in to in a moment. how old were they when they met? >> i think it is true because they are sometimes alone, because they join in ritual together, particularly rituals of anointing, some people have surmised therefore they must have had a sexual relationship in addition. the difficulty with such arguments is they may tell us more about the way we feel about sexuality than the way in which -- mary magdalene

the artist is julius. that erotic allure has been caught by brown in his book. >> it certainly has been. >> would you deny if jesus were to have a lover, that lover would have been mary magdalene. >> she does remain the most likely candidate. the difficulty is that we do not have firm evidence one way or another, and therefore i don't believe it is possible to draw an inference that is reasonable. >> we don't have evidence to the contrary. >> that is the case. >> in fact there is some things in his life that lead people to think the fact they were alone when he was casting out the devil which we will get in to in a moment. how old were they when they met? >> i think it is true because they are sometimes alone, because they join in ritual together, particularly rituals of anointing, some people have surmised therefore they must have had a sexual relationship in addition. the difficulty with such arguments is they may tell us more about the way we feel about sexuality than the way in which -- mary magdalene

federal communications commission chairman julius genachowski was on capitol hill monday to testify about his agency's budget. last month president obama sent his 2013 budget request to congress allocating just under $347 million for the fcc. the total includes funding for expanding broadband services nationwide. >> in each case these are examples of modernized programs whose collectively yielding hundreds of millions of dollars in annual savings already. in addition to our programmatic changes we also review the agency's rules and processes asking tough questions and make sure the agency is operating efficiently and effectively are going connection with this review we have eliminated more than 200 outdated rules and unnecessary data collections and identified two dozen more data collections. internal reforms like team maintenance and new financial system that saved the agency millions of dollars and we have done everything i've listed them or with the lowest number of full-time employees at the fcc in 10 years. maximizing the ability of 21st century negations technology to deliver value

he knows that he has dated a cell he's basically pushing advertising what's incredible is that of julius own ran a hedge fund and he used all this data to trade with insider information and algorithmic trading he'd be a billionaire today and people would accuse him of training on inside information but he would buy his way out of any legal problems and he would claim like lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs that he's making a market he's adding liquidity and they would say well you just do so if you're a headphone genius we won a stupid or feeling something interesting because you are god but then of course because you choose the information the public. share of the press these vilified because he is telling the truth and sharing information with the public he's an enemy for the worst murdoch who truly is an enemy walks around what is breast flashing them to the sun sunday audience hoping you can score with some transvestite somewhere in some dark alley that if you look like this right yeah if you're anonymous if you choose to remain anonymous. most likely you're the most valuable of the ad

because he knows that he has data to sell he's basically pushing advertising but incredible sort of julius own ran a hedge fund and he used all this data to trade with inside information about a river trading he'd be a billionaire today and people would accuse him of claiming that inside information but he would buy his way out of any legal problems and he would claim like lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs that he's making the market he's any liquidity and they would say well you just do so if you're a genius we won a stupid or fling operational train because you're growing up but then of course because issues information the public like the press he's vilified because he's telling the truth and sharing information with the public he's an enemy for those who truly is an enemy lots around well there's big full on. sunday audience hoping you can score with some transvestite somewhere it's a dark alley that could be if you look like this right here if you're anonymous if you choose to remain anonymous. most likely you're the most valuable of the advertised to audience advertisers want that eig

montgomery county school officials want to talk with scott spear while he pleads for his job around julius west middle school. the jury is still out. >> i want to understand a little bit more about the whole story. i am uncomfortable with the idea of a 47-year-old and a 16-year- old. >> spear coached the alleged victim part-time for the montgomery cross-country team. since he was not her primary teacher, he did not break maryland county law. >> he has done nothing inappropriate for any student at any time. >> he argues prosecutors dropped charges before the defense could discredit the allegations, which were brought not by the alleged victim but third-party. >> the charges were dismissed before any analysis was made of the facts or allegations that were brought. >> after the hearing, he did not want to talk. earlier, he told us he had plenty of support. >> if there is anything positive about this horrible time for me, it is that so many people in the community stood behind me. >> he and his attorney had asked school officials to expedite the case. there is no decision about whether or not

. >> julius cesar was really a sit naturalled on on this date. this president owes that president an apology. >> one move predecessors, rutherford b. hayes reportedly said about the telephone it's a great invention, but who would ever want to use one? [laughter] >> that is why he's not on point rushmore. >> no. never happened. >> sorry. my bad. >> good evening, this is thursday, march 15 account, 237 days until the 2012 presidential election. rick santorum campaign fog the loslatino vote which mitt romney may have already rost for the republicans. big labor's ear on his the campaign trail. while lbgt supporters wondering what about them. mitt romney coming off three fund-raisers wednesday start the morning in another most comfortable venue, fox news. >> i feel it i'm here with you. >> he's still trying to recover from his remarks tuesday of getting rid of planned parent. >> getting rid of plan party getting rid of that. >> now telling the chicago sun times in the second day of walking it back: i want to get rid of the federal funding of the plann

. >> reporter: parents fear spear will get his teaching job back at julius west middle school, where he was full-time. >> but i won't be comfortable with having my daughters, him being a teacher. >> reporter: spears says he wants to get his life and his job back. >> i just want to, you know, get back and do what i've always done. and i hope i get that chance. >> reporter: prosecutors say they will try to get rid of the part-time employee loophole and are talking with lawmakers in annapolis about changing state law. vic? >> spear is appealing to the montgomery county school board to get his job back at the middle school. >>> the defense rests its case in the wrongful death civil lawsuit in the wake of the virginia tech massacre. the families of two victims, claim that virginia tech officials botched their response to the 2007 mass shooting that left 32 people dead. the parents say their daughters could have survived if a warning was issued earlier. >>> a and a ruling from a judge in another high-profile case, involving a well-known university. the judge denies defense requests for mor

. >> julius erving, dr. j. >> he is a second cousin of mine. and of course i don't play basketball as well as he does. >> so you don't really have a relationship with them? >> what i found out about him is that after my father died -- he is a second cousin -- and one of my aunts said, you have a famous cousin. this is how i found out we were related. >> what about your parents? >> they were were separated and divorced in the 1950's. my mother was a mother and father, very commanding, and she was the kind of woman, even though we were poor -- we have champagne taste, and she wanted us to do the best and disappointed her a few times by not doing the best. she would have to come talk about -- talk with it -- talk about me with teachers on numerous occasions. >> when did you think you would be a professor? >> this is nothing that i planned. when i graduated from california state university with a bachelor's degree, i was planning on working for a bank or something like that. my father's third wife was a member of a sorority, and her sorority and se

never one for modesty julius named the seventh month july. eighth tiny tuned the calendar a little more. caesar took a leap for man find 2057 years ago today. he and o'reilly were buddies. and now you know the news for this wednesday, february the 29th, 2012.