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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/48/btGqQ.St.138.jpeg|416CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 12: Tilden Career Community Academy High School Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) students march in the Chicago Veterans Day parade on November 12, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Veterans Day, held the anniversary of the signing of the armistice which ended the World War I, is celebrated to honor all veterans for their service. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/48/1doeqD.St.138.jpeg|420LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 12: Marcel Granollers of Spain and Marc Lopez of Spain celebrate victory after their men's doubles final match against Rohan Bopanna of India and Mahesh Bhupathi of India during day eight of the ATP World Tour Finals at O2 Arena on November 12, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/48/1cXmok.St.138.jpeg|415HAVANA, CUBA - NOVEMBER 12: A man works at his shoe repair shop in the doorway of his home November 12, 2012 in Havana, Cuba. New business regulations in the communist country have allowed thousands of citizens to make money for themselves for the first time since 1959. (Photo by Greg Kahn/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/48/ZVsl.St.138.jpeg|419LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 12: Roger Federer of Switzerland returns a shot during his men's singles final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia during day eight of the ATP World Tour Finals at O2 Arena on November 12, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/47/mdZWu.St.138.jpeg|413Workers remove debris from the basement of a building in New York's Financial District, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. Cleanup continues in New York and New Jersey, which bore the brunt of the destruction of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/47/lPDhu.St.138.jpeg|415A man sticks a trade union poster calling for a general strike, on upcoming Wednesday Nov. 14, against government austerity measures, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/47/QGXiB.St.138.jpeg|418A FEMA worker photographs a damaged house in Seaside Heights, N.J., Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. Residents of Seaside Heights were allowed back in their homes for a few hours Monday, two weeks after the region was pounded by Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/47/rosub.St.138.jpeg|416Supporters of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa cheer a he arrives by bicycle to the National Election Council headquarters to register his candidacy for reelection in next year's presidential election in Quito, Ecuador, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Martin Jaramillo)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/47/nSFuj.St.138.jpeg|400Members of the 69th Infantry Army National Guard get ready to work at the storm damaged home of Howard Schneider in the Belle Harbor neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York, Monday, Nov.12, 2012, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Worn flags that hang on the house, once flew at the nearby beach and were found in the cleanup. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/46/17Zz8p.St.138.jpeg|416NETIVOT, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 12: Israelis use holes in a fence to look into a factory after it was hit by a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip on November 12, 2012 in Netivot, Israel. Missile fire from Gaza has hit Israel for the fourth straight day. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/46/1pnZqk.St.138.jpeg|415People burn a picture of German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a protest against her visit to Portugal outside Lisbon's Belem Cultural Center where Merkel was participating in a business conference attended by leading German and Portuguese companies, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. Merkel was Monday making another trip to a bailed-out eurozone country where many people blame her government for the harsh austerity measures they are enduring. Merkel was due to pay a brief visit to Portugal, which needed a €78 billion ($99 billion) rescue last year, in what was widely seen as a display of support for the Portuguese government’s efforts to restore the country’s fiscal health in the teeth of broad public and political opposition. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/46/VdRjt.St.138.jpeg|525Santi Bigelow, left, and Andrew Ehret play basketball under sunny skies on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012 in Montpelier, Vt. A record for the day was set with temperatures reaching 67 degrees.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/45/1qqBQW.St.138.jpeg|441Hundreds of French doctors, many wearing white lab coats and blue surgical caps, march in Paris Monday Nov 12 2012 in a protest over work conditions and government proposals that aim to limit how much doctors charge above the state insurance system's reimbursements. Many doctors complain of being overworked and fear a slide toward free-market, American-style health care. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/45/oWSXD.St.138.jpeg|357A tramway passes alongside several yellow ruber ducks displayed on a blue square on Pirna Place in Dresden, south-eastern Germany on November 12, 2012. The event on the traffic island of 340 square meter was initiated in 2011 for the first time to remember that the site was covered with water druing the middle age.ARNO BURGI/AFP/Getty Images
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/45/1bMB9W.St.138.jpeg|378Francisca Diaz of New York bows her head as she honors her mother Petronila Hierro (her name marked with a flower) at the Flight 587 Memorial in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York, Monday, Nov.12, 2012. On Nov. 12, 2001, American Airlines Flight 587, bound for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, crashed in the center of nearby Belle Harbor, killing all 260 passengers and crew on board the plane as well as five people on the ground.(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/45/1lbbjp.St.138.jpeg|416An Israeli police sapper holds the remains of a rocket fired by Palestinian militants after it hit the southern city of Netivot, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/45/1dVLy2.St.138.jpeg|416Students of Hugh Goodwin Elementary school in El Dorado, Ark. walk under an American flag as they make their way along 5th Street during their first ever Veterans Day parade on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. HG students, Barton Junior High School band and cheerleaders, the El Dorado High School Junior ROTC Color Guard and area Veterans participated in the parade to honor Veterans. (AP Photo/El Dorado News Times, Michael Orrell)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/44/iPRC6.St.138.jpeg|414Supporters of the Ukrainian Opposition party take part in a rally outside the Central Elections Commission building in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/44/17iW6m.St.138.jpeg|525A mannequin wearing the colors of the German flag burns outside the German Consulate as demonstrators hold banners protesting the visit to Portugal of German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday, Nov. 12 2012, in Porto, Portugal. Protest marches were planned during Merkel's six-hour stay when she was to hold talks with Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho and President Anibal Cavaco Silva and speak at a business conference attended by leading German and Portuguese companies. Banner reads 'Death the Troika'. (AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/44/N08Qg.St.138.jpeg|415Rozell Hunt wears a headdress as she waits at the finish line for participants in Buddy's Race Against Cancer in Knoxville, Tenn. on Sunday, Nov.11, 2012. The race raises money that goes to fund outreach services for cancer victims. (AP Photo/The Knoxville News Sentinel, Saul Young) (AP Photos/Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/44/1sEYO5.St.138.jpeg|407Indian policemen detain a Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) supporter as he protests outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. TYC supporters shouted anti-Chinese government slogans outside the embassy to show support to Tibetans inside China who have set themselves on fire and protested against the Chinese government. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/43/17QMgE.St.138.jpeg|416An Afghan girl enjoys a swing in an amusement park in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/43/1aLV3v.St.138.jpeg|416A cyclists rides through an arched underpass of one of the buildings of the former academic hospital Wilhelmina Gasthuis in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday Nov. 12, 2012. The hospital is no longer in use and only a few buildings, of which construction started in 1891, are left standing. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/43/kHff0.St.138.jpeg|416A demonstrator holds a banner calling to "Stop Evictions" during a protest in front of the conservative party PP in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. Spanish officials are opening talks aimed at creating new regulations governing the eviction of indebted homeowners, after the suicide of two people about to suffer that fate shocked the nation. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/43/13GOtE.St.138.jpeg|416A flower vendor woman smiles as she waits for the customer during Tihar festival in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Nov 12, 2012. Tihar, the festival of lights is one of the most important of all Hindu festival, where they worship Goddess Laxmi, the Goddess of wealth and decorated their houses with oil lamps. The five day festival starting from the thirteenth day of the waning moon in October also meant for life and prosperity. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/42/1mqH0d.St.138.jpeg|525Georgia Garcia holds a picture of her daughter, Petty Officer 1st Class Estella Marie Garcia, as she looks up at the U.S. flag and recites the pledge of allegiance Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 during a ceremony at Molina Veterans Park in Corpus Christi, Texas. The ceremony was held to commemorate the brick plaza featuring names of veterans from the neighborhood and to honor all who served their country for Veterans Day. (AP Photo/Corpus Chrisit Caller-Times, Michael Zamora)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/42/1tJE2.St.138.jpeg|414Supporters of the Ukrainian Opposition party hold up photos of the imprisoned former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, whilst taking part in a rally outside the Central Elections Commission building in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/42/cVqSF.St.138.jpeg|443Hardline Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir, right, attends the funeral of men killed during clashes between Sunni and Shiite Muslim gunmen on Sunday, in southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. The clashes between followers of Assir and members of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah broke out after Shiite religious banners were raised in the port city of Sidon on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/42/odcaN.St.138.jpeg|439Supporters of hardline Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir carry the body of a man killed during clashes between Sunni and Shiite Muslim gunmen on Sunday in southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. The clashes between followers of Assir and members of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah broke out after Shiite religious banners were raised in the port city of Sidon on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/42/1nGMHM.St.138.jpeg|415WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 12: Kevin Palmer of Goshen, Connecticut, holds Michele Mathews on his shoulders as she makes a rubbing of where Palmer's uncle, Douglas Palmer's name is inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial the day after Veterans Day, November 12, 2012 in Washington, DC. Douglas Palmer died in 1966 while serving in the Navy in Vietnam. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/41/1ddqxg.St.138.jpeg|415KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 12: An Afghan boy keeps warm by a fire in the street in the Old City on November 12, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/41/JJH7w.St.138.jpeg|525WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 12: A photograph of a member of the U.S. military is reflected in the marble face of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the day after Veterans Day, November 12, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. The federal government observed Veterans Day by giving employees Monday off from work. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/41/qSK5W.St.138.jpeg|389Sgt. Maj.Robert Price, a veteran who was stationed at Fort Jackson during the Korean War, salutes during the Veterans Day Parade in Columbia, South Carolina on Monday, November 12, 2012. (Gerry Melendez/The State/MCT)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/41/j2gql.St.138.jpeg|415ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 12: The day after Veterans Day, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Luke Parrott touches the headstone of a fellow soldier and friend in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery November 12, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. A veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Parrott was injured in an IED blast in Baghdad in 2005. Parrott spent time sitting and talking to the graves of the soldiers he knew. "It's as close as we can get to talking anymore," he said. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/41/9cuqn.St.138.jpeg|406CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 12: Chicago Military Academy student Jeffrey Carodine kisses the cheek of fellow student Iyana Quinn before they step off in the Chicago Veterans Day parade on November 12, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Veterans Day, held the anniversary of the signing of the armistice which ended the World War I, is celebrated to honor all veterans for their service. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/11/12/17/41/P9yDZ.St.138.jpeg|419Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. U.S. stocks trimmed gains as technology and financial shares weighed down the market after an earlier rally boosted by takeover activity. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg
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