weekend break here they are indeed just imagine a huge unlimited swamp the just wide spot in the middle ages the lake i mean this in the middle of this spot there's a. considerable fee just huge building of forty meters i think it's amazing to think the the monks and the nuns who lived must have been very very into the solitudes yeah yeah they really believed. that let's go up to the heavens. the ministry may have been abandoned for the best part of a century but finally some restoration work is underway and if you don't mind some rickety scaffolding the newly covered roof let you see for miles around. well try taking a bird's eye view of the surroundings it was time to hop back on our chariot and head to my next destination. i. take you back. the only way to travel. i've been dropped to the edge of the picturesque city of star rusa it's around a hundred kilometers from north and it's supposed to be one of the region's historical highlights i'm standing on the banks of the policed in the peru sierra rivers here and if you have to get a postcard from starry roofs it's quite likely to have thi

to go with your moral equivalency of the middle ages that means you get you. who max for the first half of our christmas eve special i want to end with a comment from r.t.e. dot com forward slash programs for slash kaiser dash report i remember smoking weed at around the age of fourteen i remember laughing looking at a palm tree because it looked like a bart simpson frog your show has the same effect that's obama from forty thousand feet and especially if the wind sets of million put down the bong pipe did it start covering the country that's right ron paul's taken over all right states never thanks much for being on the kaiser report we'll see you right after the break don't go away more stacy herbert on the kaiser report. welcome to the. new year's wishes on technology to the next generation places made from super slow early building materials locally to help pollute the isotopes cleaner planet seems to be a revolutionary way to get rid of our growing landfills and along with the. leaders . i'm actually eyes are a welcome back to the christmas episode of spe

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and i think what we're in right now is a sort of middle ages. i wouldn't call it a golden age. we're all struggling to find our way forward. i think by the middle ages, i mean the empires of big journalism are falling, and rising up are these smaller principalities. and i think they--like the middle ages, there's a time of great confusion and ferment and possibilities and romance. and one thing i'll say is one of the greatest jobs you can have in the world is to be a foreign correspondent. and it's something i got to do for many years for a traditional news organization, and i'm very thankful for that opportunity. we at global post feel like we are about the next generation of foreign reporting. >> ann, when you think about that impact that you can have with your camera--and you know because when you come back, people say they've seen it. and you hear what charles is saying and you do your own--you're on twitter and every place all the time. what about that impact? where is this taking us? >> oh, i think the future is extremely exciting. the dilemma is, how will it look? who's

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in the middle ages, nurnberg was a stop on the key trade routes, and it was the center of the german marvel at the small size of nurnberg's delightful sausages, some no bigger than a finger. these are said to be the invention of an enterprising innkeeper who made the tiny treats small enough to push through a keyhole, so he could sell them to hungry customers after the inn had closed. nurnberg's christmas market today keeps to its early history. a horse-drawn mail coach takes a trip around the square past the traditional red and white stalls. a local band in regional costumes serenades the shoppers as they make their way through the brightly decorated displays, enjoying the sights, sounds, and aromas of nurnberg's legendary christmas market. [brass band playing] one of the most charming and most visited towns in germany is rothenburg ob der tauber. rothenburg is a beautifully preserved medieval gem. located in the franconian region of bavaria, rothenburg was the site of a castle in 1070, and the city was founded in 1170. the city became entirely surrounded by walls with many towers i

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and so, you have, for example, a middle-aged white women, college educated. and so, you have, for example, a middle-aged white women, college educated. and so, you have, for example, a middle-aged white women, college educated and was progressive and really wanted to do something to help the causes of, college educated and was progressive and really wanted to do something to help the causes of minorities and african-americans and was drawn to jim jones church, which at the time was really seen as this progressive force, as they moved me a cisco. so if you have her one and not the spec dram come at the other end you have seen the clayton, this african-american young man from oakland who was brought up in a broken home, angry, so everything in racial terms. and for him, jim jones method without a quality in establishing this utopia where there'd be no racism or isn't worthy to some. i mean, they really so sweetly on his years. and so, he was drawn to jim jones church. so you know, it wasn't just blocks, wasn't just wise. it was this mix of people who really wan

aside from the consolidation of states, the transitions from middle middle ages to modernity saw a growing infrastructure of commerce, institutions such as money and finance and contracts that could be enforced and recognized within the boundaries of these newly consolidated states, and technologies that lubricated trade such as transportation, better roads, better bridles for horses, instruments of timekeeping and other technologies. the result was that zero-sum blunder where the plunderers gained was the victim's loss, was increasingly replaced by positive-sum trade, where does parties through a voluntary exchange can benefit. the third major transition can be illustrated vice some of the methods that the early states used to impose peace on their kingdoms. such as breaking on the field where the victim would be tied to a wagon wheel and the executioner would smash his or her bones, her arms and legs with a sledgehammer at which point the victim would be hoisted up on the wagon wheel and left to die of exposure and shock. burning at the stake, sawing you in half from the up. and clawing

you can see back to t middle ages, seeorward to a permanent exhibition, so you can get into your time machine any time. >> siamese cat. ♪ >> [ inaudible ]. ♪ >> for some reason, santa had a message for somebody very special. but it went into my mailbox. >> oh, hello, beth. i was waiting for you. grownups don't visit me as often as young ones do. i received a note from one of your colleagues. she tells me that she feels so lucky to have you as a colleague. and that she's very grateful. >> you can have santa say whatever you want him to say with a portable north pole machine from portable north pole.tv. >> he talks right to you. >> beth, let's ask my elves to evaluate you. anybody there? >> they're checking to see if beth is on the naughty or nice list with a portable north pole machine. >> 30-something. >> what's it going to say? >> very, very, very naughty. >> yeah! >> i like how the elves were a little nervous for you for a second. they're like -- >> welcome to my console. >> if you have kids you can tell them if it's a boy or girl and tell them whether they've been naughty or nice.

. >> i am an 83-year-old widow dressed as a middle aged man. i am a middle aged man. but i look devilishly handsome for 37. >>> do ugly people smell? we discuss kailey's new book "yes, they do." >> they do. >> but first, i think we are going to do this story. it is l women being topless. it sounds important. >>> is it a guilty apology? the drummer of fallen is caught in a fallacy. michele bachmann was introduced on late night and quest love issued an apology, the drummer saying, quote, it was a tongue and cheek and spur of the moment decision. i don't know the new slang. but a new profile of the moron in "rolling stone" said something else. quest love was interviewed before the incident telling the magazine, quote, i am gunning for bachman. i am looking up walk on songs and i want to do fish bone's song. i just don't know if i will tell jimmy. on the night of the show when the keyboardist asked what song they were singing questy said, you don't want to know. trust me, i'm protecting you. he's a hero. he must now clear every song with three people. you know who else is

they bring down a half dozen middle-aged bulls. sure to keep their flaccid trunks open so they don't suffocate. and then pack them up for an 800-mile journey to a new home. it's all part of a grand plan hatched by greg carr, who made a fortune inventing voicemail. he's pledged $40 million over 20 years to save this lost eden and create a thriving eco-tourism economy. >> if those people don't have enough to eat, of course they're going to come in the park and hunt animals. who wouldn't? and so, we need to help them with their agriculture, with their economic development so we can try to replace the animals or we'll lose them again. >> reporter: but elephant relocation is extremely tricky. because of that long memory, the south african elephants keep wanders off. after scaring a fuel villages, one had to be tranquilized again, and this time, did not survive. >> the park has a lot of problems, you know, that have to be constantly -- poaching is really big, it's encroachment on the outside. you know, it's -- it's getting people to beli

>> how does a middle-age guy hookup with a red corvette. he thinks he will turn his life around and here you have a retail institution that is really more synonymous with the every day american brand like die hard and where in the heck does the kardashian collection fit in? >> so they are the corvette, and the sears is the middle age guy, won't you consider that, like, old uncle grandpa, whatever his name is? >>guest: whether he is 70 or 50 he is looking to turn his life around and he is trying to drive the car and it is not happening. >> so the band did not match up with what sears gets their shopers? >>guest: they have had 18 quarters of below average performance with the stock and it is just not enough. not enough. not enough. >> you are a smart retail person, now you work, say you work for the kardashians why would they want to hookup with sears. >>guest: because this is their 15 minute or one year of fame, whatever it is going to be and they have to milk the brand while they have it. >> but sears, can't they milk at niemanns or the ups

. >>> more than half of all middle aged women suffer from knee pain. 56% of women over 50 report either persistent or intermittent pain. doctors perform hundreds of thousands of total knee replacements each year. >>> there is a new study looking at the long-term consequences of obesity. boys and girls obese at the age of four are more likely to develop asthma and allergies by the time they are eight. but if their weight is average around the four year mark the risk of the health problems is much less. >>> lit's check on the question of the morning. a number of us will gain nearly 8 pounds during the holiday season. taste testing while cooking, stressing out, or drinking more alcohol? >>> and just to make sure, i'm bringing in cheesecake on thursday. we are back with your weather first in about two minutes. welcome back. howard here with your weather first. 4:55, almost 4:56. frosty early. little breezy. temperatures shoot into the mid-40s by lunch time. increasing clouds late in the day. we'll talk about some rain chances going up by tomorrow. right now here's monika with timesaver traf