President George W. Bush greets soldiers after speaking to troops at Fort Campbell, Ky, .Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)






Bodies lie near the swimming pool of the Taj Mahal hotel after shootings by unidentified assailants in Mumbai November 26, 2008. Elite Indian commandos fought room-to-room battles with Islamist militants inside two luxury hotels to save scores of people trapped or taken hostage, as the country's prime minister blamed neighbouring countries. Picture taken November 26, 2008. Reuters


 

An Indian soldier takes cover as the Taj Mahal hotel burns during gun battles between Indian military and militants inside the hotel in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at the luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday, ending a 60-hour rampage through India's financial capital by suspected Islamic militants that rocked the nation. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

 

A National Security Guard commando shows victory sign as he looks out from a window of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at the luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday, ending a 60-hour rampage through India's financial capital by suspected Islamic militants that killed people and rocked the nation.(AP Photo/Gautam Singh)


 

An Indian commando signs autographs after a successful operation to retake the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Officials were still tallying the toll at sites that were attacked. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)

 

U.S. soldiers detain an Iraqi man at the scene of a roadside bomb blast which targeted a minibus, in Firdous Square, central Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq since last year, but attacks continue. On Wednesday, hours before the scheduled vote in parliament, a roadside bomb killed two civilians and wounded four others wounded in central Baghdad, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

 

In this image from NASA TV, astronaut Stephen Bowen is seen during a space walk outside the International Space Station, Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. The spacewalk marks the fourth and final spacewalk of space shuttle Endeavour's nearly two-week visit to the orbiting outpost. (AP Photo/NASA TV)

 

A migrant worker carries a sofa in Guiyang, China's southwest Guizhou province, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. China is working on an additional economic stimulus plan to supplement the US$586 billion package announced this month with spending on health care and schools, according to a news report. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)

A man lights a candle during a ceremony prior to the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Guatemala City, Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. More than 600 women were murdered throughout 2008 in Guatemala, according to human rights organizations. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)






Rescue workers attend to a pilot whale stranded on Anthony's Beach near Stanley, Tasmania, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. Rescuers returned 11 pilot whales to sea Sunday, a day after a pod of 64 mothers and calves were found stranded on a beach in southeastern Australia. (AP Photo/Tasmanian Department of Primary Industry and Water via AAPImage, Rachael Alderman, HO)

Ring-tailed lemurs warm themselves in front of an electric heater at the Japan Monkey Center in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture (state), central Japan, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. The monkeys, native of Madagascar, are not good at maintenance of body temperature and usually bask in the sun or huddle together to keep warm but they got used to the new way from last season, the zoo said. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Muneyuki Tomari)

Quarterback Brett Favre #4 of the New York Jets celebrates a touchdown against the Tennessee Titans during the game at LP Field on November 23, 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) The Jets beat the previously unbeaten Titans, 34-13.






Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) dives for the end zone as New Orleans Saints' Roman Harper (41) tries for the stop in the first half of an NFL football game in New Orleans, Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. Rodgers scored on the play, but the Saints won handily, 51-29. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)






Running back Frank Gore #21 of the San Francisco 49ers loses his helmet while tackled by Anthony Spencer #93 of the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium on November 23, 2008 in Irving, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

 

President George W. Bush stands by as Nathan Hill of Circle Hill Farms from Ellsworth, Iowa, who holds 'Pumpkin' the turkey during the Pardoning of the National Thanksgiving Turkey ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

 

Half of 3,300 donated frozen turkeys still covers the floor as they continue to be distributed to needy families the day before Thanksgiving at the Indian Walk-In Center on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008, in Salt Lake City. Bags of potatoes, pear, and apples were also given out. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

Abby Harris, 4, checks the wattle on a turkey greeting passengers at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Despite plummeting gas prices and unusual last-minute holiday deals on airplane tickets, more people were expected to stick close to home this Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)

Army soldiers from 1-506 Infantry Division enjoy a Thanksgiving meal at their forward operating base in Paktika province. (WISN-AM website)

 

The Uncle Sam float during the America's Thanksgiving Parade with the theme Legends and lollipops travels down Woodward Ave. headed towards downtown Detroit Thursday. KIMBERLY P. MITCHELL/Detroit Free Press

 

The Snoopy balloon makes its way through Columbus circle during the The Macy's Thanksgiving day parade in New York November 27, 2008. (Reuters photo)

 

Tennessee Titans fan Terry Pappas wears a turkey hat as he watches the warm-up before the start of the Thanksgiving Day NFL football game against the Detroit Lions in Detroit, Michigan, November 27, 2008. (Reuters photo)


 

 

Mercedes Neddle of Milwaukee (left) and her sister-in-law Rosalie Neddle of Milwaukee catch a little shut-eye while they wait for stores at Southridge Mall to open at 4 a.m.Journal Sentinel photo: Michael Sears

 

People shop in Time's Square Toys 'R' Us store on "Black Friday", in New York November 28, 2008. Shoppers turned up early for holiday sales at stores on Friday, but the annual pilgrimage appeared thinner this year and many consumers vowed to keep spending down due to a shrinking economy. (Reuters photo)




 

Like many workers, Tom Wisniewski uses duct tape and gloves to protect his hands while making wreaths from balsam boughs at the Rose Wreath Company in Phillips, Wis. Wisniewski, who has worked three seasons at the company, says, "The work is a nice little shot in the arm and helps with everyday living expenses like food and fuel." Journal Sentinel photo: Mark Hoffman

 

Visitors look at the Christmas flower exhibition 'Christmas calendar pictures in the Advent' in the Mariendom, Cathedral of Mary arches, in Erfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

A boy mariachi plays violin near a shrine to Saint Cecilia during the annual procession and Mass in honor of the Feast Day of St. Cecilia, patron saint of music, November 25, 2008 in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The procession takes place near Mariachi Plaza where Mexican musicians wait curb-side for customers to hire them. Mariachi, the best-known form of traditional Mexican music, is believed to have started in the nineteenth century in the Mexican state of Jalisco, supposedly in the town of Cocula. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

 

Dawn Crofoot a court runner is followed by high flying Cirque du Soleil performer as she crosses the intersection of Congress Street and Church Ave. in downtown Tucson, Ariz., Monday Nov. 24, 2008. The troupe's Saltimbanco show has been reformatted for smaller venues and opened for the first time ever in Tucson at the Tucson Convention Center Wednesday, Nov. 26. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, Greg Bryan)

South Korean children wearing Santa Claus outfits wait to participate in a ceremony to prepare charity pots for a year-end fund-raising campaign for the underprivileged at the Salvation Army office in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Beachgoers watch as a surfer cuts back against a wave today at Ali'i Beach in Hale'iwa, sending a plume of water out above the wave. BRUCE ASATO | The Honolulu Advertiser

Beyonce, center, performs on the NBC "Today" television program in New York's Rockefeller Center, Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008.  Jennifer insisted I include this picture. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)






A customer leaves one of the toilets at the 20 stall Charmin public restroom in New York's Times Square Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. They'll be open daily through the end of the year except Christmas Day. For the first time, they'll be open on New Year's Day until 2 a.m. for the crowd watching the 2009 ball drop. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)






Saul of the Cubacigar company repairs the largest cigar in the world at the Pipe and Tobacco museum of Sint Niklaas on November 27, 2008 in Brussels, Belgium. The cigar is 6.4 meters long, weighs 460 kilos and is made of approximately 9900 tobacco leaves. (Getty Images)

 

President-elect Barack Obama met with Senator John McCain on Monday at Mr. Obama's transition office in Chicago. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press

 

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy returns to Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. after having brain surgery.Kennedy is pictured with his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and their dogs Sunny and Splash. (AP Photos/Lauren Victoria Burke and Susan Walsh)




 

Election officials and volunteers begin the election recount process in the Senate race between Al Franken and Sen. Norm Coleman at the Ramsey County election office on November 19, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Every ballot, nearly 3 million in total, from all 87 Minnesota counties will be recounted by hand. (Photo by Cory Ryan/Getty Images)

Venecia Lonis, 4, who suffers from malnutrition, is weighed at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Aid workers fear hunger is worsening in rural Haiti after at least 26 children died of conditions exacerbated by a lack of nutrition, raising concerns that a grave food crisis may be brewing following four devastating tropical storms. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)






Palestinian school girls eat sandwiches provided by the United Nations, at a UN elementary school at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. Israel's tightening Gaza blockade, a response to Palestinian militant rocket fire, has led to frequent blackouts throughout Gaza and resulted in shortages of food, supplies and even cash.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Five-year-old Layla Watson stands over a cross (on Monday, Nov. 17 2008), placed in memory of Joshua Wiggins, 11, who died when a tornado struck his home near Elm City early Saturday morning. Layla Watson, with help from her grandmother Rebecca Watson, picked out this bear at the dollar store to leave beside Wiggins' temporary memorial in front of the destroyed home. Rebecca Watson said she did not know Wiggins' family, but felt compelled, as a former Elm City resident, to leave something at the site. "I felt like I had to do something," said Rebecca Watson. Photo by Ted Richardson/The Charlotte News & Observer

 

Florida State safety Myron Rolle reaches over to hug one of the children who won a health and fitness challenge at the Brighton Reservation School during half time of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, in Tallahassee, Fla. He might not be the best football player in the country, but he's certainly among the smartest. Florida State's Myron Rolle interviewed Saturday for a Rhodes Scholarship, just hours before the Seminoles played a key game against Maryland. (AP Photo/Phil Coale)

 

Wisconsin kicker Phillip Welch gets mobbed by teammates after making the game-winning extra point against Cal-Poly. Wisconsin won in overtime, 36-35 Saturday at Camp Randall.
Journal Sentinel photo: Joe Koshollek

Homestead's #32 Mike Peliska hold the trophy for #6 Andy Boll as he gives it kiss after their win over 13-11 Arrowhead in their Division 1 Championship game Friday, November 21,2008, at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison WI.(Journal Sentinel Photo by Joe Koshollek)


 

 

Burlington Catholic Central's Ben Wilde kisses the championship trophy. Burlington Catholic Central won the Division 7 championship, defeating Hilbert 37-14.Journal Sentinel photo: Joe Koshollek.

Jimmie Johnson celebrates winning the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday in Homestead, Fla. (Jason Smith | Getty Images)

 

A lone hunter surrounded by frost-caked brush and wilderness waits for prey in a tree stand on opening day of gun-deer season near Dale, Wis., Saturday morning, Nov. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/ Appleton Post-Crescent, M.P. King)

A girl plays with her dog during the season's first snow at a park in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

 

An immature female Snowy Owl is pictured on Texel, an island in northern Netherlands. The owl was discovered on the island on November 8, and attracted hundreds of birdwatchers to the island. The Snowy Owl, originating from arctic regions, is a rarity in the Netherlands as only two others have been spotted in the country this decade.(RENE POP, AFP/GETTY IMAGES / November 17, 2008) 

A white Beluga whale has a snowman themed Christmas hat placed on his head at Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.(JUNKO KIMURA, GETTY IMAGES / November 17, 2008)





A woman watches Humboldt penguins swim behind glass at Taman Safari in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

 

Rolling Hills Elementary kindergarten, Dominick Messer, 5, walks with Micah, a miniature therapy horse from DOGTORS & Associates in Springfield, Ohio, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/The Springfield News-Sun, Marshall Gorby)

Rigi, a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog sits in the benching area at the National Dog Show in Reading, Pa., Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. The National Dog Show is scheduled to air Thursday, Nov. 27. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Seven Pomeranian dogs wear firefighter costumes during a fashion show of the Dog Olympics at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

 

Tom Zynda snow blows the driveway at his home in South Dayton, N.Y., Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Downwind from Lake Erie in western New York, 20 inches of snow has piled up in South Dayton. (AP Photo/Doug Benz)

 

A couple is seen on a tree-lined boulevard during heavy snow fall, in Moscow, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Dutch ice carver Helena Bangert works on an ice sculpture in Bremen, northern Germany, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. Some 40 artists will carve 28 figures of Grimm's fairy tales. The ice sculpture festival opened its doors for the public on Nov. 22, 2008 and runs until Jan. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach)

 

"Hi, Santa," yells Aaron Weiss, 6 from Milwaukee, as Santa's sleigh passes by during Milwaukee's 82nd Annual Holiday Parade, Saturday. Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood

 

A diver in Santa's costume feeds moray and spotted eagle ray as part of a Christmas event at Sunshine International aquarium in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

 

Participants from various sanitation and hygiene concerns address a press conference while sitting on toilets in front of Berlin's central railway station, on the occasion of World Toilet Day. The UN has established that some 38 percent of the world's population are living without adequate sanitation, and has called on governments to reduce that number by half by 2015.(JOHN MACDOUGALL, AFP/GETTY IMAGES / November 19, 2008) 




 

Alaa Garmal from Egypt plays a game of chess sitting in front of a promotional mural during the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Nearly 1,300 male and female players from 152 countries are taking part in the tournament. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)

A competitor eats his way through pies during the Wookey Hole Big Eat 2008, the annual mince pie eating contest, at the Wookey Hole Show Caves on November 18 2008 in Wookey Hole, near Wells, England. Handpicked competitors, eating professionals and members of the public alike attempt to eat as many mince pies as possible in the space of 10 minutes for a prize of 1000GBP and the chance to compete in one of the biggest speed eating events of the year in the United States. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

 

Tim Smith of Iowa City, Iowa, and Lori Rudy of Burlington, Iowa, back right, and the rest of their team charge into the icy water during the Southeast Iowa Polar Plunge Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, at Lake Geode State Park in Danville, Iowa. Proceeds from the event were raised in support of the Special Olympics Iowa. (AP Photo/The Hawk Eye, Matt Ryerson)

 

President George W. Bush meets with President-elect Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House November 10, in Washington, DC. This is the first visit to the Oval Office for Barack Obama before he is sworn into office as President of the United States. First lady Laura Bush also took soon-to-be first lady Michelle Obama on a tour of the White House as the President and Mr. Obama walked along the colonnade to the Oval Office where they will have a meeting. On January 20th Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. (ERIC DRAPER, THE WHITE HOUSE) 


 

 

Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday Nov. 14, 2008, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.. Space shuttle Endeavour's seven member crew is on a mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)


 

A wildfire is seen as it sweeps through Santa Barbara, Calif., on Friday, Nov 14, 2008. Firefighters were racing early Friday to push back a wind-whipped wildfire that destroyed at least 100 homes and a college dormitory, injured four people and forced thousands to flee the longtime celebrity hideaway of Montecito. (AP Photo/Afton Almaraz)

 

An unidentified woman sobs after confirming her home is among those destroyed at the Oak Ridge Mobile Home Park, at an evacuation center set up at Sylmar High School in Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)


 

Amanda Derse tries to shield herself from the smoke as she sits in the freeway after a brush fire shut down west bound Interstate 91 in Yorba Linda, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)

 

A U.S. Marine listens during a speech by U.S. President George W. Bush at a Veterans Day Ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. Bush paid tribute to America's war veterans, saying it's a ``moral obligation'' to support them and their families. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News

 

Leo Strong, who served with the U.S. Marines in Korea and Vietnam, and whose son also is a Marine on his fourth tour of duty in Iraq, covers his heart as he listens to "Amazing Grace" during a Veterans Day program in MacArthur Square Park Tuesday morning. Photo: Gary Porter, Journal Sentinel

 

Venessa Downey hugs son Adam, 2, as she takes a moment at the grave of her late husband , Cpl. Brendan Anthony Downey, prior to the Remembrance Day services at the Beechwood National Military Cemetery in Ottawa on Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008. Cpl. Downey, a military police officer, was found dead at a Mideast base on July 4, 2008. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Sean Kilpatrick)

A mourner carries an umbrella imprinted with a poppy as he takes part in the Remembrance Day Service marking the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I at the Armed Forces Memorial at The National Arboretum on November 9, 2008 near Lichfield, England. The Armed Forces Memorial is the UK's tribute to all conflicts and men and women who have been killed on duty or as a result of terrorist action since 1948. The Armed Forces Memorial has been designed to allow a shaft of sunlight to fall across the sculpted wreath on the central stone on Armistice Day at precisely 11:00am on the 11th day of the 11th month, the time when fighting formally stopped in World War I. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)


 

 

Long time White House correspondent Helen Thomas returns to the White House Brady Press Briefing Room in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, after a recent illness. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)


 

 

Jody Mock center, wipes her eyes as Janet Peck looks on at left, as a couple embrace, in Superior Court in New Haven Conn. Wednesday Nov. 12, 2008 after gay marriage becomes legal in Connecticut. (AP Photo/New Haven Register, Peter Hvizdak)

Henrietta Davis shows the strain after she drove at 75 mph to pick up her son, Hermond Davis, 14, after he called and said, "Come pick me up, someone just got killed," at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She was one of dozens of parents who rushed to the school to check on the safety of their children on Wednesday Nov. 12, 2008. A 15-year-old student died after a shooting and police were questioning another student believed to be responsible.(AP Photo / Carey Wagner, Sun Sentinel)

Dave Hunter rescues Linda Farmer from her home in Sultan, Wash., as floodwaters from the Skykomish and Sultan rivers push into low-lying residential and downtown areas, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Mark Harrison)

A shepherd leads his herd of sheep near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. Farmers protested falling farm incomes amid the economic slowdown. Farming unions said profits from the supermarkets is not being passed on to the individual farmer. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)


 

 

 

 

 

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers runs to recover his fumble in the end zone during the second quarter of last Sunday's game against Minnesota. Rodgers was charged with an illegal forward pass penalty on the play and the Vikings were awarded a safety. Photos: Mark Hoffman and Benny Sieu, Journal Sentinel

Mason Crosby hangs his head after missing what could have been the winning field goal against Minnesota last Sunday. Vikings 28, Packers 27. Photo: Tom Lynn, Journal Sentinel


 

Wisconsin players celebrate with the Paul Bunyan's Axe after their 35-32 win over Minnesota Saturday.Photo:Joe Koshollek, Journal Sentinel


 

A young boy, center, reacts after Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki, right, of Germany, fell on him during the first half of their NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

 

A murmuration of starlings fly over the Scottish town of Gretna Green, on the border with England, at dusk, Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008. The starlings put on a spectacular performance every night as they come to roost in the area before migrating to Russia.(AP Photo/Owen Humphreys-pa)

Two-month-old twin babies of a Giant Panda Meihin, left, and Eihin are seen at Adventure World in Shirahama, western Japan Thursday, Nov. 13. Their names were unveiled on Thursday. Associated Press photo.


 

Latino Arts Strings students play at the United Community Center. The program is one of 18 youth programs nationwide that will receive 2008 Coming Up Taller awards from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Photo: Benny Sieu, Journal Sentinel

 

Svetlana Pankratova, the woman with the world's longest legs from Russia, shows her legs at a news conference in New York's Times Square, Monday Nov. 10, 2008. Standing 6' 5" tall with legs measuring 51.9 inches, Pankratova's first U.S. appearance kicked off a week long national celebration of record-breaking events for Guiness World Records. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)

Girls dressed in traditional costumes take part in the election of Miss Goose Girl 2008 in the city of Coevorden, northern Netherlands, Monday Nov. 10, 2008. In medieval times the geese were shipped to England for the Christmas dish. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

A Santa Claus on his bike carries two kids through the village of Himmelpfort (Heaven's Gate) about 100 kilometres north of Berlin, Germany. There he opened a famous German Christmas mail office. Last year about 280.000 children wrote their wishes to the address "Santa Claus, Christmas post office, 16798 Himmelpfort, Germany". (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner)


 

An auction house worker poses for pictures in front of a 1976 Lotus Esprit car from the 1977 James Bond film 'The Spy Who Loved Me', starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, during a presentation ahead of an auction in Bonhams auction house in central London, Thursday Nov. 13. The car is expected to fetch some $150,00 - $180,000 when it is sold next month. The vehicle is one of two Lotus cars driven in the film by Roger Moore's James Bond character. It turns into an amphibious car for the movie, driven both on land and underwater. (LEFTERIS PITARAKIS, ASSOCIATED PRESS) 


 

Victoria's Secret supermodels (L-R) Alessandra Ambrosia, Selita Ebanks, Adriana Lima, and Heidi Klum arrive by yacht to the legendary Fontainebleau Miami Beach November 14, 2008 for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The 54-year-old Resort in Miami, once the playground of the Rat Pack, is reopening this weekend for the taping of the Victoria's Secret TV fashion show will be aired December 3, 2008 on CBS. (AFP/Getty Images/TIMOTHY A. CLARY / November 14, 2008)

The 2008 New Year's Eve ball is tested with an American flag pattern in Yonkers, N.Y. on Monday, Nov. 10. This year's ball is 12 feet in diameter - double last year's, weighs 11,875 pounds and is lit by more than 32,000 LEDs shining through 2,668 pieces of crystal. As opposed to the previous ones, this will remain on the top of Times Square providing a year-round attraction. (SETH WENIG, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

 

Barack Obama addresses the crowd at an election night celebration in Chicago's Grant Park. Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff

 

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) speaks during his election night rally with his wife Cindy (R) and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in Phoenix, November 4, 2008. Photo: Reuters

 

People crowd around the front of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to look at the front pages of newspapers from around the world announcing Barack Obama had won the 2008 presidential election. RICK MCKAY / cox newspapers

Nativity scene artisan Genni Di Virgilio puts a crown on his terracotta statuette of American President-elect Barack Obama, next to wife Michelle, in Naples, southern Italy, on Wednesday. SALVATORE LAPORTA / AP

Zilly Rosen of Buffalo, N.Y,, poses with a portrait of Barack Obama she designed and created out of tiny cupcakes, Wednesday Nov. 5, 2008, at the Obama campaign headquarters in Buffalo. Rosen says she watched the returns at home, in pajamas, because she was exhausted after baking over 1,200 1-1/4 inch cupcakes for her Photoshop-designed creation. (AP Photo/ CHARLES LEWIS, Buffalo News)

A boy scout writes a message to President-elect Barack Obama on a 24-foot long message board in front of the Lincoln Memorial November 6, 2008 in Washington, DC. The organization Avaaz.org has set up a global message board at the memorial with display of congratulatory messages from all around the world for people to write their notes to Obama. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

A U.S. Secret Service Counter Assault Team member has his assault weapon at the ready while sitting in the rear of a motorcade SUV as they escort President-elect Barack Obama, not pictured, to a private meeting at the FBI building in Chicago, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

 

President Bush, accompanied by first lady Laura Bush, gives an emotional wave to White House staffers after he made remarks on the transition of authority, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

 

Bullock County Sheriff Raymond "Buck" Rodgers talks with Annie O. Calloway as he prepares to cast his ballot in the general election in *** Eye, Ala., on Tuesday. Voters in this small Alabama town cast their ballot in a metal storage shed. (DAVE MARTIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A voter casts his ballot at his polling place at Slater's Auto Repair in Philadelphia. (AP/ Matt Rourke)

 

Jack Nygren, 65, casts his ballot overlooking the ocean at the Spencer Beach Park open air pavilion, near Kawaihae Harbor, Hawaii. "I could vote absentee, but I love voting here, " he explained. (AP Photo/Chris Stewart)




 

Curtis Irwin holds a .50 caliber rifle to show at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. The Cheaper Than Dirt gun store recorded a record day of gun sales the day after the election of President-elect Barack Obama and is having trouble keeping up with the demand for assault riffles. (AP Photo/LM Otero)






Debbie Portman-Chamberlain (R) and her wife Amy Chamberlain hold their kids Alexandra and Joshua during a Proposition 8 opposition rally at the San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center November 5, 2008 in San Diego, California. Proposition 8, which bans same sex marriage, passed in Tuesday's Calfironia election. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)







In this photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L' Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, at left, greets Mustafa Ceric, right, head of the Bosnia Islamic Community, during a a three-day Catholic-Muslim forum hosted by the Vatican, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. The Pontiff has told Muslim clergy and scholars that Christians and Muslims must overcome their misunderstandings. He is also urging freedom of worship for non-Muslims in the Islamic world. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO)

 

U.S. Army soldiers hold their certificates and folded U.S. flags, during a ceremony in the al-Faw palace, Baghdad, Iraq,Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. More than 200 service members received, Tuesday, their U.S. citizenship. U.S. President Bush signed an Executive Order allowing all active-duty immigrants in the Armed Forces to apply for U.S. citizenship without waiting the standard three years. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

 

U.S. Army Sgt. Kyle Whalen, 22, from Plover, Wis., playfully taps his helmet with an Iraqi boy's donated toy football helmet during a visit to the boy's school in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008. Iraqi Army troops donated school supplies to children who attend the school. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Ella McDuffie sings a song for the veterans at the Northeast Louisiana War Veterans Home in Monroe, La., on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. Students at St. Paul?s Day School observed Veterans Day a little early with the concert of children's songs for the home's residents. The preschoolers gave the veterans little American flags at the end of the concert. (AP Photo/The News-Star, Margaret Croft)

 

A woman places a poppy cross in the Field of Remembrance in front of Westminster Abbey, London on November 5th, 2008. The Remembrance crosses are placed by ex-servicemen and women as well as the general public to pay tribute to fallen soldiers. The Duke of Edinburgh placed a wreath to officially open the Field of Remembrance on the morning of November 6th, 2008. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Under the guidance of Kahu Kamaki Kanahele, far left, and Kahu Kalena Hew Len, right, dignitaries break ground for a new Pearl Harbor Museum and Visitor Center during ceremonies on the lawn of the current USS Arizona Memorial visitor center in Honolulu, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008(AP Photo/Honolulu Advertiser,RICHARD AMBO)

Edward Webb of Oregon, Wis. (left) and Denny Behr of Madison watch the docking of the USS Freedom in Veterans Park on Sunday. The LCS-1 is the first of its class and was built in Marinette. The ship will be commissioned on Saturday. Both men served in the Navy and are members of the Madison Navy League. Journal Sentinel Photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff

Tourists look at a sand sculpture profiling U.S. presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama, right,and Republican John McCain at the Puri beach, off the Bay of Bengal, 67 kilometers ( 42 miles) away from Bhubaneswar, India, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008. Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik created the sculpture ahead of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)







Gas goes under $2 in Omaha. Photo: Omaha World-Herald






A model builder looks at a representation of the Frankfurt main train station, built with toy stones during a photo call of the International Fair for Model Railways in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. 185 companies from 12 countries are presenting their new products. New at the fair is a special show for buildings made using the toy stones. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)

A Chinese man displays acupuncture needles featuring planes in his forehead at the 7th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, on November 4, 2008 in Zhuhai of Guangdong Province, China. The event, also known as 'Airshow China', is scheduled to run from November 4 to 9, 2008 in Zhuhai, attracting nearly 600 exhibitors from over 30 countries and regions. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

 

The Mitchell Park Domes reopened Wednesday night with a spectacular light show after being closed since June for repair and renovation. Hundreds attended the reopening. Journal Sentinel Photo: Michael Sears

 

Zero the polar bear at the Milwaukee County Zoo is still in his holding pen after he was removed from the moat that he had fallen into. Zero was finally sedated and taken out of the moat by crane. He is under observation and may remain there for a couple more weeks. Journal Sentinel photo: Tom Lynn

Janice Tillman admires the color of a sugar maple as she walks her dog along Maryland Ave. at East Boulevard in Charlotte Thursday afternoon in the beautiful weather. DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com

 

Pancho Sullivan skipped a big contest in Brazil so he could surf big waves at his home-break, Sunset Beach in Hawaii. The 35-year-old was in near-perfect form Thursday on the way to winning the Xcel Pro men's surfing championship. BERNIE BAKER | Special to The Honolulu Advertiser 





 

Timber Moreland and her Husky, Logan, take a stroll with her mountain bike on a snow covered street in Crested Butte, Colo. Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008, where the National Weather Service predicted up to ten inches of snow in the Colorado Rockies in a winter storm warning. Clear skies and cold temperatures were expected in the days to come. (Nathan Bilow/Crested Butte Mountain Resort via AP)







Preston Arity, 10, of Rapid City, S.D., plays in a huge snowdrift in the family driveway while his mother Jane shovels the drive on Thursday. Winter arrived in western South Dakota with a blast Thursday, with heavy snow and wind gusts as strong as 60 mph. Photo: Steve McEnroe, AP

This undated photo obtained from a MySpace webpage shows Daniel Cowart, 20 of Bells, Tenn. holding a weapon. Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday Oct. 27, 2008. In court records unsealed Monday, federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads. The men, Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman 18, of West Helena, Ark., are being held without bond. (AP Photo)

A Pakistani girl eats her meal next to her tent after an earthquake in Ziarat, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. Soldiers handed out blankets, tents, jackets and sleeping bags to earthquake survivors in the frigid mountains of southwestern Thursday as the death toll rose to 215. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

 

Frank Cheatham kisses his daughter Madison, 13, goodbye outside the James A. Gardner Armory in Dyersburg, Tenn., Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, as he prepares to deploy to Iraq with the Tennessee Army National Guard's 168th Military Police Battalion. Cheatham also turned 35 Monday. (AP Photo/The Memphis Commercial Appeal, Mike Brown)

Stacey Riddick comforts her daughter Faith Riddick, 7, left front, and son Dylan Riddick, 5, center front, while their father Thomas Riddick, far right rear, is deployed with 177 other members of the 772nd Military Police Company of the Massachusetts National Guard, were deployed to Iraq Wednesday, Oct. 29 in Taunton, Mass(PETER PEREIRA, ASSOCIATED PRESS)






Customers line up to get gas for $1.99 a gallon at a Mobil gas station in Fairfield, Ohio. Oil prices fell to their lowest level in more than a year Monday before rebounding to just above $63 a barrel as growing evidence of a global economic slowdown had investors betting on a further drop in energy demand. (AP Photo/Al Behrman / October 27, 2008) 


 

Bishops gather in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican during a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of the conclusion of the XII bishops' synod, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008.(AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

A group led by community activist Andrew Holmes right, pray at a makeshift memorial outside the home belonging to the family of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Hudson's mother Darnell Donerson and brother Jason Hudson were found dead. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

 

Tyler Stackhouse, wearing a cheese steak hat, watches batting practice before the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays resume Game 5 of the baseball World Series in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Oct. 29. (MLB.com)

 

Brad Lidge celebrates after recording the final out of the World Series. (Jerry Lodriguss / Philadelphia Inquirer Photo)

 

Former Milwaukee Brewer, Philadelphia Phillies Geoff Jenkins lights a cigar after his team defeated the Tampa Bay Rays to win Major League Baseball's World Series in Philadelphia, October 29, 2008.REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES)

 

Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin helps new manager Ken Macha with his new Brewers uniform during a news conference Thursday at Miller Park. The former Oakland Athletics manager received a two-year contract.Journal Sentinel photo:Gary Porter

 

Oct 30, 2008; Mobile, AL, USA; Major league baseball homerun legend and Mobile native Hank Aaron signs and old baseball magazine for a fan while inspecting his childhood home that arrived at Gas Light Park outside Hank Aaron Stadium in Mobile, AL. The historic home will be turned into a museum and learning center offering glimpses into Mobile's baseball history. Hank Aaron Stadium is the home of the Mobile BayBears AA affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Photo: John David Mercer-US PRESSWIRE

 

Michigan State kicker Brett Swenson watches his game winning 44-yard field goal against Wisconsin. Photo/Joe Koshollek, Journal Sentinel

 

MSU players celebrate their 25-24 win over Wisconsin Saturday. (Associated Press)

 

This undated handout photo provided by NASA, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The Hubble Space Telescope is working again, taking stunning cosmic photos after a one-month breakdown. The Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore said the $10 billion telescope is as good as it was before a shutdown in late September. That glitch scotched plans for spacewalking astronauts to upgrade the telescope this month. (AP Photo/NASA)

 

"It’s a sigh of relief to come out here,” says Tom Diehl, president of the Tommy Bartlett Show and a Lake Delton village trustee, as he surveys the repair work at Lake Delton. The work to repair the emptied lake is on budget and on schedule thanks to 20-hour workdays six days a week, which means Lake Delton will soon begin to get wet and look like itself again.Journal Sentinel photo: Joe Koshollek

 

A stroller walks through the fresh snow along the Heidsee Lake in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, Wednesday Oct. 29, 2008. Snow was falling down to 600 meters above sea level in certain regions of Switzerland Wednesday. (AP Photo/Keystone/Photopress/Arno Balzarini)

 

Robert Cervantez re-ties an over-sized Christmas tree ball to the bed of his pickup, Monday, Oct. 27 after it came loose while Cervantez was heading to his Waco, Texas, shop for the decoration to be repainted. The jumbo plastic ornaments are part of a display for a mall in Austin. (JERRY LARSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS)


 

A window dresser makes the final adjustments to a display in the window of Selfridges as the store unveils its new Christmas display on October 29, 2008 in London, England. Featuring Santa Claus in the windows for the first time in over 40 years, the iconic department store's annual festive display has been a part of London Christmas retailing for nearly 100 years. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)






In this photo provided by Starpix, The Radio City Rockettes welcome a camel who will be part of the the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Amanda Schwab, Starpix)

Sgt. Michael Elliott, Color Guard from the 1st BN 23rd, participates in the Rowenta "Iron-A-Thon," competing against his fellow marines at the Houston Quilt Festival, Thursday, October 30th, 2008. Over 200 participants donated $5 to be eligible to prove his/her ironing skills during the two-minute competition, which benefits the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF.) The company is also selling a specially designed Pink Iron for BCRF. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to BCRF. (PRNewsFoto/Rowenta)

 

 

Libertyville High School students, Valerie Paykina, 16, second left, walks to English class with her friend senior Annie Jennings, 17, the newly named Homecoming Queen, October 16, 2008. Annie has Down's syndrome, yet the kids at Libertyville High School voted for her as Homecoming Queen, and started a Facebook group "Annie Jennings for Homecoming Queen." (David Trotman-Wilkins/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

 

20-year-old panda Qi Hao, a survivor of the May Sichuan earthquake gets a thorough physical examination in Fuzhou, southeastern China's Fujian province Thursday Oct. 30, 2008. Qi Hao was transferred to the southern province four months ago after its home the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve Center in Sichuan was devastated by the earthquake. (AP Photo)

 

A donkey with Israeli license plates attacked to his back and front is tied a tree in the West Bank town of Dahariya, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. No reason was given for why the license plates were on the donkey. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ricky Ponting and Matthew Hayden of Australia lie on the ground along with the Indian players and umpire Billy Bowden as a swarm of bees pass over the ground during day three of the Third Test match between India and Australia at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on October 31, in New Delhi, India.
(MICHAEL STEELE, GETTY IMAGES) 


 

Men and women, costumed as the late Jacqueline Kennedy, walk in the Fantasy Fest Masquerade March Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, in Key West, Fla. This year's 10-day Fantasy Fest costuming and masking festival is themed as "Pirates, Pundits and Political Party Animals" and ends Sunday, Oct. 26. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman)

 

Don Rause of Fond du Lac, who's eaten more Big Mac's than anyone, getting ready to eat his last Big Mac in this Mc Donalds, while construction of the new restaurant can be seen outside. Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Photo for The Fond du Lac Reporter by Doug Raflik.

 

Correspondent Jill Rappaport and host Al Roker appear on NBC's "Today" annual Halloween show at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. (Getty Images)

 

Harry and Marita Weil, of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, N.M., plan to vote for opposing presidential candidates for the first time in their 25-year marriage, and they've posted "his" and "hers" campaign signs in their front yard announcing their choices Tuesday, Oct. 28.(DEAN HANSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS)


 

Valerie, a 26-year-old female African elephant picks Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. picture over Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 29. The elephant is the symbol of the Republican party.(PAUL SAKUMA, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Sister, a 33-year-old female Mediterranean donkey selects the picture of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. rather than Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 29. The donkey is the symbol of the Democratic party. (PAUL SAKUMA, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell (ret.) speaks during a taping of "Meet the Press" at NBC October 19, 2008 in Washington, DC. Secretary Powell spoke about his endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images for Meet The Press)

 

Supporters wear masks of Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) as U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) speaks during a rally in Concord, North Carolina October 18, 2008. Photo:Reuters

 

Parachutists Scott Smith, dressed as Democratic presidential candidate Bracak Obama, left, and Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, dressed as Republican presidential candidate John McCain jump from a plane over Perris Valley, Calif., to promote the U.S. Parachute Association. (CRAIG O'BRIEN, U.S. PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION/ASSOCIATED PRESS)  

 

Madame Tussauds' studio artists Les Punter (R) and Jim Kempton work on clay head molds of presidential candidates Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (2nd L) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at Madame Tussauds Studios in London. The clay molds are a crucial step in the up to 6-month-long figure creation process. The full wax figures will be unveiled in all three U.S. Madame Tussauds attractions in New York, Washington, DC, and Las Vegas on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009. With the race still too close to call, Madame Tussauds' studio artists must continue work on both figures to be ready for the January unveiling of the winner's figures. Photo: Reuters.

Republican vice-presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin stands next to producer Lorne Michaels during an episode of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in New York October 18, 2008. Photo: Reuters

 

Seen at a street fair at Hayes and Octavia in San Francisco. Photo: National Review Online




 

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at a rally in Florida. Photo: The Drudge Report
I guess everything’s just hunky dory now. Can you say………phony?


 

 

A Coast Guard vessel patrols Keehi Lagoon near Honolulu International Airport before the arrival of US Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) who will be visited his ailing grandmother in Honolulu, Hawaii October 23, 2008. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry  


 

 

Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, right, speaks to audience at ZuZu at the Middle East, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 in Cambridge, Mass. Supporter James Williamson sits at left. Nader is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for most campaign speeches in a day. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)

Artillerymen fire a 155mm Howlitzer at a Taliban position Wednesday, October 22 from Camp Blessing in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan. Their unit, Charlie Battery, 3rd Battalion of the 321 Field Artillery, has fired more than 5,900 shells since they deployed to Afghanistan less than a year ago, making it the busiest artillery unit in the U.S. Army, according to to military officers. They most often fire in support of Army infantry units fighting Taliban insurgents in the nearby Korengal Valley, the site of some of the heaviest fighting in Afghanistan.(JOHN MOORE, GETTY IMAGES)