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Carol Burnett: The Mark Twain Prize The comedic icon and performing legend is the guest of honor for the 16th Kennedy Center's Twain Prize for American Humor. The all-star cast includes Julie Andrews, Lucie Arnaz, Tony Bennett, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence. The program features an assortment of comedic highlights from Burnett's half century in show business.G
3:00 am
Outdoor Idaho "The Foothills" The backdrop for Idaho's Statehouse and the city of Boise is also the instant getaway for people in the Treasure Valley with more than 10,000 acres set aside through a voter-approved levy and more than 135 miles of trails. Runners, walkers, mountain bikers, wildflower hunters, wildlife watchers and more make year around use of the Foothills, which merge into the Boise Ridge, topped by Bogus Basin Ski Resort.G
3:30 am
Dialogue "Brinkley On Cronkite" Host Marcia Franklin talks with historian Douglas Brinkley about his biography of iconic CBS newsman Walter Cronkite.G
4:00 am
Sesame Street "Count Tribute" The Count is running late to accept his Noble Prize for Counting. His friends on Sesame Street try to stall the judges by pretending to be him and solving a counting problem. Educational Objectives: Mathematics. D
5:00 am
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Thank You, Grandpere Tiger!/Neighborhood Thank You Day" Thank You, Grandpere Tiger! - Grandpere Tiger comes to visit, but is only in town for a short while. Daniel is sad that Grandpere can't come to the special Thank You Day celebration later that day. Daniel learns to be thankful for the time they DO have together, and is then surprised when Grandpere appears at the celebration after all! Neighborhood Thank You Day - The neighborhood celebrates Thank You Day by putting notes in the Thank You Tree. D
5:30 am
Martha Speaks "Martha's Thanksgiving, Part One & Two" Martha's Thanksgiving, Part One - When Martha learns that Helen's extended family will be coming for Thanksgiving, she decides to search for her own long-lost canine siblings. Tails begin to wag as the family reunites, but where is Martha's mother? Vocabulary: (E) reunion, prepare, organize, trace, quest. Martha's Thanksgiving, Part Two - Still in search of her mother, Martha digs into her past to uncover the reason they were separated. D
6:00 am
Nature "The Private Life of Deer" They wander along our highways, reminders of the wilderness we have paved our way through. From coast to coast some 30 million white-tailed deer make their home in the United States.G
7:00 am
Rick Steves' Europe "Naples and Pompeii" Rick finds Naples is Italy in the extreme. He prowls backstreet fish markets, dodges fast-moving Vespas, and dines on pizza where it was invented. He climbs to the top of nearby Mount Vesuvius, then wanders through the ruins of Pompeii.G
7:30 am
Smart Travels - Europe with Rudy Maxa "Renaissance Europe" Rudy follows Western Europe's transition from medieval to modern times in Florence, Milan and Venice.G
8:00 am
In The Americas with David Yetman "The Cry for Mexican Independence" Yetman tells the story of Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico, where the call for independence (Grito) from Spain was issued by unconventional priest Miguel Hidalgo in 1810 and is celebrated nationally every year on September 16.G
8:30 am
Baking Made Easy "Christmas Breads for the Holidays" Whether in Italy or New York, baking is always better with family around. This Christmas, Lauren bakes Panetone, and Quick and Easy Yeasted Coffee Cake. D
9:00 am
Taste of History "King of Prussia" Berlin has had its fair share of war and peace. Berlin also has a connection to Colonial America through the King of Prussia. Chef Staib prepares authentic German favorites, Konigsberger Klopse Meatballs in Caper Sauce, Eisbein Pork Shanks, and Apple Strudel for dessert for a genuine Taste of History. D
9:30 am
Simply Ming "Kristen Kish & Soup" How do you pack maximum flavor into your soup. On the premiere episode of Simply Ming, join Chef Ming Tsai and his guest Chef Kristin Kish, who snared success with her soup on Top Chef. Kristin shares her soupy secrets as we cook on the fly, on Simply Ming. D
10:00 am
The Jazzy Vegetarian "Breakfast Favorites" Host Laura Theodore prepares breakfast recipes, beginning with a quick and refreshing "Raspberry-Banana Green Dream Smoothie." If baked treats are more like your style, then "Apple Muffins with Pumpkin Seeds" are sure to please. Want to change your morning fare up a bit? Try delectable "Rocky Mountain Toast. D
10:30 am
Chef's Life "A Peanut Pastime" Vivian visits neighbor Marty Harper's peanut farm just before and during harvest. Vivian's dad introduces Ben and Vivian to the old school break snack, a pack of salted peanuts dumped into a Pepsi in a glass bottle. At the restaurant, Vivian translates the snack into Pepsi glazed pork belly with country ham braised peanuts. D
11:00 am
ACL Presents: Americana 17th Annual Honors This AUSTIN CITY LIMITS special features the best in American roots music, without the awards presentations. Taped at the Americana Music Awards in Nashville, featured performers include Lucinda Williams, Gregg Allman, Robert Plant, the Civil Wars, Jessica Lea Mayfield and Justin Townes Earle.G
12:00 pm
Sesame Street "Bears Try to Hibernate" There is a porridge shortage on Sesame Street! Telly runs to tell Baby Bear, but when he finds him, he is getting ready to hibernate until springtime when there is porridge again. What is Telly supposed to do for five months without a best friend? Telly and Baby bear set up a play date for the spring when Baby Bear wakes up. Telly says goodbye and the bears try to go to sleep, but they are not tired! First, they try counting, but that does not work. D
1:00 pm
Dinosaur Train "The Theropod Club/Surprise Party" The Theropod Club - Buddy's Theropod Club meets with other dinosaurs that walk on two legs, eat meat, and have three toed feet. But Tiny feels left out until the Club invites her to join too! Surprise Party - Shiny, Tiny and Don throw a surprise party for Buddy on the Dinosaur Train and invite a whole caboose full of his friends!. D
1:30 pm
Peg + Cat "The Three Bears Problem/The Giant Problem" The Three Bears Problem - Fairytale Land. Peg and Cat bring the Three Bears, the Three Little Pigs, and the Three Billy Goats Gruff together to form a super group: "The Electric Eleven." Primary Content: Adding 1; Secondary Content: Counting to 11. D
2:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "When I Grow Up/Doing It Differently" When I Grow Up - Sally and Nick are trying to guess what they'll be when they grow up when the Cat drops in for a visit. Cat is sure Nick and Sally will never guess what his friend Puggle will be when she grows up. When they see her, they start guessing right away! A frog? A duck? No, a beaver! They discover that, while Puggle may have some similarities to other creatures, she will grow up to be a duck billed platypus! Doing It Differently - Nick and Sally can't seem to find Harvey the guinea pig. D
2:30 pm
WordGirl "Plain Old Mischief Makers/House Arrest" PLAIN OLD MISCHIEF MAKERS - When best friends Big Left Hand Guy and InvisiBill risk losing their super villain status, they decide to pull off their biggest heist to date. Can WordGirl stop this determined duo who always manage to escape her at the last minute? Vocabulary Words: Diminish, Declare. HOUSE ARREST - While Chuck's jail cell is being painted, he's put under house arrest at the Botsford's. D
3:00 pm
Sara's Weeknight Meals "Two for One" To truly save time in the kitchen, Sara's got a simple solution: cook once, eat two completely different meals. Her Grilled Lamb Chop with Steak Butter is fantastic on its own, but it makes a second meal special when the lamb is ground into Herbed Lamb and Feta Burgers. Peruvian Baked Chicken Thighs are going to be a hit with your family. D
3:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "London: Mod and Trad" Rick finds London quintessentially English, yet cosmopolitan. He checks out the new - the Millenium Bridge and the British Museum's Great Court - and admires the old - well-wrapped mummies and a rare Leonardo.G
4:00 pm
Song of the Mountains Wolfe Brothers; Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome. D
5:00 pm
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6:00 pm
My Hero "Old Man Riverdance" George's father, Seamus, visits from Flordia where he lives in a home for retired superheroes.G
6:30 pm
Last of the Summer Wine "Leaving Home Forever, Or Until Tea" Compo pines for Nora Batty. Howard learns lipstick on his collar is a sure route to homelessness.G
7:00 pm
As Time Goes By "Why?" Lionel and Jean seek a suitable outfit for Lionel's book launch while he tries to figure out why the publisher is promoting such a "dull read."G
7:30 pm
The Cafe "Connection Failure" The circus is in town. The Internet is down. Phil is due momentarily to start photographing The Cafe. Kieran feels the clowns are stealing his thunder. Sarah is still coming to terms with Richard and Ava's wedding. Clara is in a flap and Stan cannot find the right moment to talk to her alone.G
8:00 pm
The Red Green Show "One Man's Garbage" Members decide to clean up the lodge and end up in the landfill business. Red builds a compactor and Bill demonstrates frisbee.G
8:30 pm
Keeping Up Appearances - The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket "Daddy's Accident" Hyacinth will go to manic lengths to ensure that even the most routine of daily events is just so, much to the chagrin of husband Richard and neighbor Liz.G
9:00 pm
May to December "I Remember It Well" Zoe invites Alec to meet her parents. The wealthy solicitor and Zoe's parents, who are green grocers find they have common ground.G
9:30 pm
My Family "It's Training Men" Ben insults a patient, who storms out. Roger tells Ben their employer is using an undercover patient to evaluate customer service skills and he must attend a weekend of retraining where clips of the incident are used in class.G
10:00 pm
My Hero "Old Man Riverdance" George's father, Seamus, visits from Flordia where he lives in a home for retired superheroes.G
10:30 pm
Last of the Summer Wine "Leaving Home Forever, Or Until Tea" Compo pines for Nora Batty. Howard learns lipstick on his collar is a sure route to homelessness.G
11:00 pm
As Time Goes By "Why?" Lionel and Jean seek a suitable outfit for Lionel's book launch while he tries to figure out why the publisher is promoting such a "dull read."G
11:30 pm
The Cafe "Connection Failure" The circus is in town. The Internet is down. Phil is due momentarily to start photographing The Cafe. Kieran feels the clowns are stealing his thunder. Sarah is still coming to terms with Richard and Ava's wedding. Clara is in a flap and Stan cannot find the right moment to talk to her alone.G


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There has been so much response to my Sunday column on the Archdiocese of Baltimore's decision to close 13 schools, including Cardinal Gibbons School, I thought I would share some of the more interesting and thoughtful comments with all my other readers today.
From Don Gainor: "You have no idea what you are talking about."
From Ed Bradley: "Interesting that in an entire commentary on closing parochial grade schools you never even mentioned the reason this has to happen -- the Catholic School System is a huge global education system that was operated with almost free labor (primarily nuns). How do you write this article and not use words like crisis of vocation? (Do you know what that means?) Found plenty of space to roll out the gratuitous bashing though. But that doesn't require a whole lot of depth of thinking, now does it? Yours was a very sophomoric effort. Do work more worthy of your education going forward ... Was it a Catholic education?"
No, Ed. I was a public school kid, and doing just fine, but thanks for asking.
From John Dyer: "Nice hit job on the Catholic Church."
Dear John: I guess anyone raising questions about the actions of the Roman Catholic Church is doing a "hit job," eh?
From Sean Keller: "Your article besmirching the character of Cardinal Keeler demonstrated your lack of understanding of the situation and total disrespect of the many Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. My siblings and I attended Holy Family School, one of the schools to be closed. While there are sentimental feelings, we all agree that if the school can no longer sustain itself, it is time to close it. Your comments did nothing but demonstrate how ignorant you are of the facts. Your sloppy journalism and disrespectful comments are what we've come to expect from your profession. No wonder the Baltimore Sun has become the rag newspaper it is -- there's no real work behind the articles."
Dear Sean: You might say I've been working on columns about the Catholic church all my life. Now, take a chill pill and enjoy the lovely weather we're having.
From Hunt Valley, Mark Serio wrote: "What was really telling was your seething hatred of the church. Really, that was some wild stuff! BTW ... your calling the church homophobic while criticizing pedophile priest [sic] shows some intellectual dishonesty on your part. Don't your [sic] realize that these pedophile priest [sic] ARE homosexual. But bigotry rarely relies on logical thinking does it? Also, how about picking on someone else's church and believe [sic] system once and awhile? Come on ... lets hear you rail against Jews, or Hindus, or Muslims for a change. Not [sic] guts I guess. No wonder the Baltimore Sun is losing readership ... when I grew up there everybody got the Sun Paper ... now no one does. No wonder."
Same prescription: Chill pill. By the way, Mark, did it ever occur to you that maybe the church would not have had such a problem with child abuse if it had had more priests? If the numbers had not been in steady decline for decades, if the Vatican did not cling to the celibacy rule, maybe there would have been more married priests in the rectories over the years and maybe church leaders would not have had to recycle the same misfits and pedophiles from parish to parish. Had women been allowed to be ordained, the pool of priests would have been even broader.
From Kathie Tromble: "You implied that the restoration of the Basilica [of the Assumption] and the creating of the papal prayer garden were responsible in part for the need to close the schools. You must know that no Archdiocese money was used for either project. The Basilica Historic Trust was funded with private money. You owe it to your readers to correct the impression that [$34 million] of Archdiocese money was used for the Basilica projects."
Dear Kathie: Others make the same point, but it's lost on me. Raising millions for the basilica became a priority of Cardinal William Keeler -- it's part of his legacy -- and the effort occurred at a time when the archdiocese was closing schools. In fact, in 2001 the Archdiocese closed a school near the basilica because of lack of funds for a renovation that involved asbestos removal. I think the basilica project, of dubious necessity and scope, was indicative of the church having its priorities out of line, and, like almost everything in this column, that's my view of it. One point of fact: It isn't true that "no Archdiocese money" was used on the basilica. At least $2.5 million went to it from the archdiocese's "Heritage of Hope" capital campaign in the late 1990s, according to a Sun report at the time.
From Lynn Fischer: "You seem very supportive of the Archdiocese's actions regarding Catholic schools. I want to know what happened to reporters verifying basic facts before just endorsing press releases. Why don't you ask some of the meaningful questions? Have you bothered to talk to any of the schools and verified what the Archdiocese has claimed, before assuming that their plan is motivated by sincerity and good intentions?'
Dear Lynn: Are you sure that was my column you read?
On Thursday: What parents of students in the affected schools have to say.
Dan Rodricks' column appears Thursdays and Sundays in print and online, and Tuesdays online-only. He is host of the Midday talk show on WYPR-FM.
Criticism of archdiocese strikes nerve with readers
There has been so much response to my Sunday column on the Archdiocese of Baltimore's decision to close 13 schools, including Cardinal Gibbons School, I thought I would share some of the more interesting and thoughtful comments with all my other readers today.

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Merry Christmas, my Beloveds!
Yes, I went there! So, what's the big deal? Well, for some...it's a HUGE deal! It's politically incorrect to wish some people a Merry Christmas. Many people don't celebrate Christmas, so the term, "Happy Holidays" was adopted. But is that correct, really? Aren't we just presuming that everyone who we wish this greeting upon is happy? I know many people who don't find the holiday happy at all. It's filled with painful memories and/or grief. And yet, it's appropriate at this time of year to bestow this greeting upon them, despite how they might feel about it.
This is true of the Pagan community as well. At this time of year, we have the usual, albeit good-hearted and amusing, disagreement of the origins of Christmas. Who's holiday was it first? Well, some historians tell us that it was originally the Roman Pagan holiday of Saturnalia which was, admittedly, about 8 days of complete and utter debauchery. I'm certain that's a lot funnier now, than it was then. At some point however, the holiday was Christianized to include the Pagan holiday, and the birth of Christ was celebrated on December 25th as Christmas. The rest is and should be history, but it's not.
I am not a scholar on the origins of Christmas. Yes, I know it's origins were Pagan, but more than that, I have not a rat's ass to give. Pagans celebrate Yule at the Winter Solstice on the 21st of December. We have a Christmas tree and a visit from Santa at our Yule celebration. Our Clan children, who are being raised by Pagan parents, are excitedly awaiting a visit from Santa on Christmas morning, just as are most Christian children. On Christmas morning, many of us wish our friends, Pagan, Christian, Jewish, etc., a "Merry Christmas". Is it "politically incorrect?' In my opinion, it's the intention and sentiment that matters, not by what words you choose to deliver the well wishes.
Despite popular belief, Pagans are not "anti-Christ" or anti-Christmas". Many of us incorporate the Christmas holiday into our Pagan lives out of respect for our Christian family members, respect for Deity or just because it's the Season O' Joy! Dammit!
Let's face it, no matter when, where or for whom the holiday is celebrated, one can not deny the magic of the Season. It's the Return of the Light, both literally and spiritually. It's the time when family and friends draw closer, people treat each other a little kinder and are more thankful for what they have and for those in our lives.
So, who's holiday is it? It belongs to the heart whom it touches.
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It was a family affair for a family trio — and a self-proclaimed family of songwriters — as The Band Perry expressed thanks and admiration for the writers of its latest No. 1 single, "Better Dig Two."
Packing their extended families and friends into the second floor lounge of Nashville's Hard Rock Café on Tuesday (March 5), songwriters Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally and Trevor Rosen stood onstage with obvious excitement. For two of the three, "Better Dig Two" was their very first No. 1 song.
ASCAP creative manager Robert Filhart began the ceremony by relating the story which brought each of the honored songwriters to this point in their careers.
Clark, who came to Nashville as a student at Belmont University, eventually began doing administrative work for a small music publishing company. After discovering Clark's hidden talent, the publisher offered her a contract to write songs for the same company where she had been answering phones. "Better Dig Two" is her first No. 1.
Rosen came to town from Michigan in 2003 with a degree in psychology. With the support of his wife, he uprooted the family and set off on what he described as an "adventure." A gifted instrumentalist, it was Rosen's distinctive guit-jo intro that began the song's creation. It is also his first No. 1.
As the relative veteran of the bunch, McAnally was no stranger to the hubbub and applause that comes with writing a chart-topping single. In fact, he currently has six songs on the country chart, including Kacey Musgraves ' "Merry Go Round" and Miranda Lambert 's "Mama's Broken Heart." His first No. 1 was for Kenny Chesney 's "Somewhere With You," and he's earned a nomination for songwriter of the year at the upcoming ACM Awards.
Big Machine Label Group, whose Republic Nashville imprint releases The Band Perry's music, sent over its top two executives Scott Borchetta and Jimmy Harnen to offer their congratulations.
Harnen offered plaques of appreciation to everyone involved, including the label's radio promotion team which gained the airplay required for the song to generate a hit.
Borchetta praised the songwriters while admitting that his team, and many other teams around Nashville, had been excited about the project from the start. He then thanked the Perry siblings for immediately recognizing the song's potential and turning in such a striking performance.
"There comes a moment for an artist after they achieve some initial success," said Borchetta. "And The Band Perry really took on their moment to make a new record. And that's hard to do."
That new record will be called Pioneer, and "Better Dig Two" is their first single from the album.
Producer Dann Huff was on hand for the celebration and revealed what he thinks of the new material: "The record is extremely special."
Kimberly Perry was next to stand at the podium, and although her raspy voice hinted at the presence of a cold, she warmly remarked about the "sacred relationship between songwriters and artists in this town."
"We understand that songs are your babies," she said while motioning toward the three writers. "Thank you for letting us be the vessel for this song that we loved instantly. We know a lot of people wanted it."
The songwriters themselves then got a chance to say a few words, and Clark was the first step to the microphone to huge applause from her family and friends in the audience.
Fighting to keep her composure, she first thanked The Band Perry, noting that the trio write great songs on their own without needing to enlist outside help. She then thanked her fellow writers for the inspiration they provide, calling them a family of their own, and thanked the greater songwriting community in Nashville.
Rosen followed to more applause and wore a huge smile as his daughter filmed his speech on a smartphone. He thanked an old friend who inspired him to move to Nashville and then thanked his children for requiring food, which he said was his strongest motivation. With so much of his family in attendance, he also thanked his parents for buying a piano when he was a child, ensuring that music was always present in the house.
"Music is now my primary language," he remarked.
McAnally also thanked the band, saying they took the song and made it sound like they wrote it. He joked that the feat had made him "a little bit scared of Kimberly."
He then summed up the overall theme of the night, saying that he, Clark and Rosen and are truly family and, beyond that, best friends.
"Everybody says that in songwriting," he admitted. "But we are truly in each other's lives in a big way."
After sharing hugs with the attentive Perry siblings, it was time for all the families to come together for a round of group photos.View photos from the No. 1 party.


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Last night on Falling Skies, someone utters these words: "We're all just a heartbeat away from death. We always have been, we always will be. That's not a reason to lose hope." And sadly, that's pretty representative of the kind of writing we were treated to last night.
There was also a scene where Hal and Maggie are having a moment of unpleasantness, and Maggie said, "It's getting warmer outside" — cleverly stating her hope that things were thawing out between the two of them, using the weather as a metaphor. Hal looks out the window and says, "It still feels pretty chilly to me," thus expressing his own view that things are remaining frosty between them, while continuing this subtle use of the weather as a metaphor.
Sadly, Falling Skies really wants to be a show that features lots of character development, and strong emotional moments. And episodes like last night's show why even though we might respect the show's ambition, its execution falls way, way short. This show aims for sharp characterization and hits on cliches instead. Spoilers ahead...
So in many ways "Death March" was sort of an interstitial episode before the big (and possibly more expensive) Charleston episodes — the whole thing was shot inside the trucks, and large chunks of it were probably done in the studio. (Or maybe they really did film the whole thing on location — I couldn't tell, off-hand.) The Second Mass are basically driving all through the night, on their way to Charleston, and they're processing their feelings along the way.
To counter all the negativity above, there is one pretty great scene in last night's episode. It comes towards the end of the episode, when the Second Mass has found Charleston, and it's apparently a bombed-out wreck. And the show basically does the "BSG middle of fourth season" storyline in like five minutes, with everybody standing around looking bummed and going, "OMG we found
Earth Charleston and it was already destroyed."
And Captain Weaver is standing behind a tree looking severely bummed, and Tector, his new buddy, comes and finds him. Weaver's like, "Not now, Tector." And Tector says that everybody needs Weaver now, more than ever. Weaver asks what he should tell them. To which Tector responds, "I respectfully suggest that you make something up, sir." This being the first time Tector has called Weaver "Sir" after a whole complicated discussion on the topic. Anyway, that was a nice moment, and an actual example of successful characterization.
And now for the rest of the episode.
Actually, there was nothing wrong with most of "Death March". It was just sort of... lumpy mashed potatoes. There were a billion subplots, none of which were that engaging in themselves.
So first of all, Matt Mason has made out his will. And sadly, we don't get to have a whole episode about that. Who is he leaving all his stuff to? Is Matt secretly rich? I bet he left everything to Pope, and that's why Tom is upset. I want to have a whole "courtroom drama" episode where people are contesting Matt's will and there are witnesses and claims that Matt was not of sound mind and body, and possibly some extended discussions of the mind-altering properties of those canned peaches that Matt keeps eating.
Where were we? Oh yeah. So Matt is feeling fatalistic and keeps saying things like, "I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it." and "If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat."
Until they almost run over a little harnessed girl. And even though everybody points out the obvious — that they just fell for the "harnessed girl" trap a couple weeks ago — Tom insists that they can't just leave her. So Matt bonds with the harnessed girl, who tells him she loves her "Guardian," aka her Skitter. There is burping, and a lot of Spielbergian forced cuteness. And Matt blabs to the girl all about Charleston and the fact that there's a secret human settlement there. Good job, Matt!
Oh, and somewhere during all this, Anne and Tom discuss one of the more interesting questions on the show — even if they do succeed in kicking the aliens off their planet, there are probably millions of harness children all over the place. In fact, it seems likely the vast majority of the human race is harnessed at this point, since most of the adults are dead. What do they do with those kids? (Even assuming those kids won't all die instantly, the moment the aliens are no longer giving them the drugs we were told they were all hooked on, back in season one.)
Anyway, eventually the harnessed girl sees her "brother," who appears to be a Skitter, and runs away with him, her harness glowing again. I think that's the "A" plot of the episode.
Here are the other plots:
Hal and Maggie drive ahead as scouts, with Pope in the back of the truck dropping beer cans as a trail for the Second Mass to follow. (How much beer can Pope drink in an hour? Where are they getting that much beer? Questions best left unpondered.) Their vehicle breaks down, and Hal has to go off to get water for the radiator — leaving Pope alone with Maggie, to needle her about the secrets of her past that she's been keeping from Hal. So when Hal comes back, she finally spills.
A big point of the Hal-Maggie relationship this season has been Maggie's conviction that she's not good enough for Hal. And now, at last, we find out why. It's not, as they'd seemed to be hinting, that her relationship with Pope was deeper or more complicated than we'd been told before. Rather, it's that after Maggie's cancer was cured, she felt messed up and at odds with all the fake plastic smiling people out there. So she became a Troubled Youth and started doing drugs and stealing, and eventually she went to a correctional facility, where it turned out she was pregnant — and she actually had the baby, who is presumably off being harnessed somewhere now. Hal basically responds to this by being kind of a jerkwad, with the aforementioned "It's chilly" act.
Maggie is one of the cooler characters on the show, but this whole revelation feels a bit underwhelming somehow. Maybe because we already knew she had been a tough kid, and the show has always gone out of its way to remind us that Maggie has been a bad apple in the past — even early in last night's episode, when she's telling Hal he doesn't know how to be really dark. Maybe it's also just because her backstory feels like a mish-mash of cliches that have been tacked on in different episodes, including "teen cancer survivor" and "pregnant junkie," and it feels like the show is trying to milk some drama out of all this that's not quite there. I mean, there's been a freaking alien invasion. Almost everybody on Earth is dead. I'm not sure that "cancer-surviving pregnant teen junkie" even registers compared to that.
Anyway, the episode's "C" plot is the aforementioned thing where Weaver is trying to figure out why Tector won't call him "sir," and Weaver deduces that Tector is ex-military. Weaver wants Tector to step up and take more of a leadership role, and there's some actual good stuff between the two men — although it kind of spirals down into cliche, when we find out just why Tector is so reticent about stepping up and flaunting his awesome military experience when he's surrounded by play-acting civilians like Tom. It turns out that Tector walked his men into an ambush in Afghanistan, and he feels responsible — until Weaver decides to use reverse psychology, telling Tector it really was all his fault, so Tector can insist it really wasn't his fault and have a breakthrough.
I don't know. I like that this show is trying to develop so many of its characters — and I'm hoping that Tector is being set up to be killed off, so Anthony or Dai doesn't have to be the next gratuitous death. (Although where's the episode where we delve into Anthony's psyche? Anthony probably has a lot of emotional damage that we'd find interesting, too. Right?)
And the episode's "D" plot is about Lourdes feeling bummed that her boyfriend Jamil is dead. Lourdes is tending a wounded guy who's suffering from dehydration, and it sort of looks as though Lourdes isn't really giving it her best effort, since she keeps walking away from her patient and looking sulky when she's supposed to be hydrating him. And then he dies, and she yells at Anne, saying that Anne should stop saying that people are dead, because it's a tired line. Later, she apologizes.
All in all, pretty much none of the character development in last night's episode felt fresh or emotionally real to me — although I'm not entirely sure why. It just wasn't clicking, somehow. The characters feel a bit like one-dimensional archetypes that have been blown up to full magnification, rather than three-dimensional characters.
In any case, just when everybody is giving up, we discover that Charleston really is there — it's just hidden, because the humans aren't quite dumb enough to have a settlement of thousands of people that can be seen from the air. Porter shows up and gives Dan some strawberries, and tells Tom that he's becoming a legend. (Based on what? I guess we'll find out.) And then we're off to Charleston! Where, hopefully, the show will return to telling stories about people making tough decisions in the face of an alien invasion, instead of just somewhat shopworn revelations about the terrible things people did or saw before the invasion happened. We can hope, anyway.


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This logo will need to be designed with the fact that it will be displayed on a sign with a black background. However, It would also be nice to have another version of it that would work on a white background if needed. Our marketing colors are black, hot pink, and white. The sign will be hanging on a hot pink yard arm sign post. It may or may not need to include hot pink in the actual logo. We are open to ideas.
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You are the man on your college campus. ESPN commentators gush about your ability and potential as a basketball player. You have all the big name agents trying to sign you, along with the shoe companies chasing after you. You finally get fitted for a free custom suit, and then you shake David Stern's hand as you are selected in the NBA draft lottery. The next morning you arrive in your NBA city. The GM meets you and your family at the airport and shows you around the team's state-of-the-art practice facility, which will be your new office for years to come.
You are awesome. People want to be you. You are that dude. Then the season starts, and you arrive at your locker to find a Justin Bieber backpack along with an oversized stuffed teddy bear, which you are required to have with you at all times throughout your rookie season. Wait, what? You didn't think you were special, did you?
This is the NBA, which stands for No Boys Allowed. Since the beginning of the league, rookies have been broken in by their more experienced teammates. You may call it hazing, but it's really more of a friendly reminder that regardless of how you enter the league, you have to earn the respect of your teammates. Some rookies have it hard, while others seem to skate by. It really depends on who your team's veterans are and how much enthusiasm they have for this tradition. Usually the vets who are really into it are the ones who had it bad themselves as rookies—the NBA version of Ben Affleck's O'Bannion in Dazed and Confused, if you will.
I was actually one of those guys who kind of skated by. Three days into training camp during my rookie year with the Seattle Supersonics, I dislocated my left shoulder and needed surgery. I then needed the same surgery on my right shoulder in February to correct a chronic subluxation, which if unfid would eventually lead to a dislocation of that shoulder. Since I barely traveled with the team and rehabbed with a separate physical therapist most of the time, it almost felt like I was only halfway on the team. I was in a sling, and I think our vets (guys like Ray Allen, Brent Barry and Danny Fortson) felt sorry for me. And so I was spared most of the usual rookie stuff. Still, I did have to sing at a dinner once. I chose "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot, since he's a Seattle guy and because I had memorized it via my Walkman when I was 12. I also had to carry bags on the few road trips.
I'm pretty easy on rookies, and I think it's because I had it easy myself. There is one thing, however, that I do enjoy doing: Once or twice a year after shoot-around on the road we will empty the entire ball rack by either throwing or punting each ball into the stands, then make the rookies climb the steps all around the arena to get each ball. I'm not sure why, but I really like doing that.
My teammate Royal Ivey, however, still wants revenge. He was one of four rookies in Atlanta who were called the "Toys R Us Clan" by the older guys. He was responsible for bringing donuts and the local newspaper every single day. Before and after every flight, the rookies had to load and unload all the bags on and off the plane. They had to get up an hour earlier on the road to deliver the practice gear to each room. On road trips, Kevin Willis would call Royal's room at 2 A.M. and say "Rook, I need you to go get me a carton of cigarettes." Now, Kevin Willis didn't smoke, but Royal still would have to get out of bed and find a convenience store to get him his cigarettes, then knock on his door and deliver them. All that Royal would get for his troubles was a "Thanks Rook," as he watched the grinning veteran throw the cigarettes in the trash.
I asked Royal what he thought about all this. "I understood it," he said. "It's a rite of passage. Some guys look at it as a punishment and retaliate, which makes it worse. It's all in fun. I look at it like a chore. I had three other guys with me so it wasn't as bad, because I shared the duties. I haven't forgotten it, though, and that's why I don't let rookies slide by."
Today, the cycle continues. We make sure our rookies this season—Reggie Jackson and Ryan Reid—wear their pink Justin Bieber and "My Little Pony" backpacks and carry their oversized teddy bears on all road trips. Last year, Royal had Cole Aldrich's car filled to the roof with packing peanuts. He says he went easy on him—it could have been buttered popcorn. Kendrick Perkins says in Boston they made a rookie go out in a foot of snow and do 100 pushups in only his spandex shorts.
Every player has his own rookie experience both on and off the court. It is a rough transition and I guess this is our way of showing a little "tough love." It's all done in good fun and meant to humble the newcomers a bit, to let them know that no matter who they are, they aren't bigger than the team. And the guys who make the newcomers do this stuff are usually the ones who also take care of them.
Part of being on a team is taking an overwhelmed rookie under your wing and helping him get through the tough times. We do those things, too. It's just more fun to tell stories about the humiliating stuff.
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Lindenwood University will host its second annual Go Red for Women night during the women's and men's basketball games against Avila University at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 14, at the Hyland Performance Arena. The games are co-sponsored by the American Heart Association and are part of the campaign to raise awareness about heart disease in women.
"The games are the culmination of a full week of events, including a special luncheon and a dorm decorating challenge, that will take place at Lindenwood to raise awareness about the dangers of heart disease," said Athletic Development Director Jane Baum. "It's the leading cause of death in the United States, so it's important that we do our part to help keep the issue in the forefront of people's minds."
Tickets to both Go Red for Women games cost $5 for adults, $2 for students, and admission is free for children under age five. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the American Heart Association.
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DENVER—A proposal to grant Colorado driver's licenses to people in the country illegally got initial approval in a Senate committee Wednesday, marking a shift in a state that seven years ago passed strict enforcement laws.
The bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 3-2 party-line vote, with Democrats in favor. The proposal still needs to be approved by the full Senate.
Democratic Sen. Jessie Ulibarri, the sponsor of the bill, argues that immigrants living in the country are already on Colorado roads, and that it would benefit everyone if they were licensed, carried insurance, and knew the rules of the road.
Mesa County Republican Sen. Steve King, a former police officer, said before the hearing that he believed the legislation could improve public safety and that he was leaning toward voting yes. However, he said he was still deeply conflicted about it.
"I was telling Sen. Ulibarri yesterday when he was in my office that in my last six or seven years here in the Legislature, few pieces of legislation had me as conflicted as this one," King said.
Under the measure, immigrants would have to pass a driver's license test and prove they're paying state and federal taxes. They also must show an identification card from their country of origin. Ulibarri said the reason of the qualifying documents is for immigrants to show they are making themselves known to state government.
The licenses would show that the people are not U.S. citizens, so they could not register to vote, or use the identification to board a plane or get work.
Colorado's county sheriffs and police chiefs support the bill.
New Mexico, Illinois and Washington currently allow driver's licenses for those illegally in the country. Utah grants immigrants a driving permit that can't be used for identification.
Colorado Republicans argue the bill goes too far and that state lawmakers should wait for action by the federal government. Berthoud Republican Sen. Kevin Lundberg said he's concern that the measure would send the message that it's OK to break federal law.
"My concern is that this policy will encourage more people to come to Colorado illegally," he said.
King said Ulibarri had gone a long way toward addressing concerns of the bill's opponents but that he understood his colleagues' issues with the bill.
Supporters of the driver's license bill said public opinion on illegal immigration in Colorado is changing.
In 2006, Democrats joined Republicans in passing a strict package of immigration laws, including barring non-emergency benefits to those in the country illegally. Lawmakers also passed a requirement for law enforcement to report to federal immigration officials people they arrest who are suspected of being in the country illegally. A bill to repeal that law this year has gone to the governor's desk.
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Brent Crude Oil (September '13):
- Short Term Trend is bullish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 08/01/2013 @ 107.90. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 06/27/2013 @ 102.82. Upside Targets = 111.27 – 112.65.
- New highs made on the current move Thursday @ 109.64.
- September Brent Crude saw the expected increase in volatility I have been calling for come to fruition over the past few trading sessions with the combined ranges extending greater than the previous 17 trading sessions put together.
- With a daily close above the short term resistance Bollinger Band, Brent should likely see only modest advancement into the weekend before taking aim at the short-term price targets listed above.
- Projected Daily Range: 1.79
- Projected Weekly Range: 4.31
- Projected Monthly Range: 9.49
WTI Crude Oil (September '13): (NYMEX:CLU13)
- Short Term Trend is bullish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 08/01/2013 @ 105.44. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 08/01/2013 @ 107.89. Upside Targets = 110.03 – 111.87
- September WTI Crude Oil traded through my projected weekly upside objective on Thursday as the "risk-on" trade was in full swing leading to the highest daily settlement price on this contract during the 2013 year.
- Expect for an extension of these gains to continue into the weekend as the market looks to break through the daily resistance Bollinger Band and set up a move toward $110 early next week.
- Projected Daily Range: 2.13
- Projected Weekly Range: 4.77
- Projected Monthly Range: 9.13
Natural Gas (September '13): (NYMEX:NGU13)
- Short Term Trend is bearish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 07/26/2013 @ 3.611. Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 07/26/2013 @ 3.563. Downside Targets = 3.433 – 3.383
- New lows made on the current move Thursday @ 3.341.
- September Natural Gas dropped sharply lower in the initial aftermath of the storage report after being at the top end of analyst expectations but did rebound back above the pre-report levels in the second half of trading after filling the close gap left in the market from late February.
- Expect for natural gas to try and make a run higher into the weekend on a short covering rally before new sellers come back into the market and pressure it lower toward the intermediate term objectives near $3.20.
- Projected Daily Range: .096
- Projected Weekly Range: .242
- Projected Monthly Range: .548


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The lies of John O'Neill: An MMFA analysis; Swift Boat Vets' founder has told repeated untruths about himself, Swift Boat Vets, Unfit for Command
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For the past several weeks, John E. O'Neill has lied repeatedly about himself, his organization, and his book. He's lied about being a Republican from Texas, lied about his political involvement, lied about his ties to the Nixon White House, lied about his campaign contributions, lied about his co-author, and lied about the makeup of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), the anti-Kerry group he founded.
O'Neill lied when he said Swift Boat Vets "have no partisan ties"; member in new ad was Bush-Cheney campaign official
O'Neill said on CNN on August 11, "[T]he people in our organization have no partisan ties, we didn't campaign in the last four elections for Democrats, by and large we didn't campaign for anybody."
That's a lie. The new Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertisement, unveiled August 20, features Ken Cordier criticizing Kerry. Cordier is identified in the ad as "P.O.W., Dec. 1966 - Mar. 1973."
But Cordier isn't just a former prisoner of war. He was also a member of the Bush-Cheney '04 National Veterans Steering Committee until controversy over his dual role with the campaign and the SBVT led to his resignation. The Bush-Cheney '04 campaign website suddenly -- mysteriously -- omits Cordier's name from the list of Steering Committee members, presumably in an effort to hide ties between the campaign and this 527 advertising. But images from a cached copy of the page, as well as a list of committee members, prove his membership.
Cordier was also named to a Bush administration POW Advisory Committee.
Cordier's involvement with the Bush campaign is not a new development. In September 2000, Dick Cheney personally announced Cordier's selection as Vice-Chair of the Veterans for Bush-Cheney '00.
O'Neill lied about being a "Republican from Texas"
During an August 12 appearance on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, O'Neill claimed, "I'm not a Republican from Texas. That's just not true."
O'Neill is, in fact, from Texas. And he has given more than $14,000 in federal contributions to Republican candidates and causes since 1990, including $1,000 to George H. W. Bush in 1992. And he hasn't made any federal contributions to Democratic candidates or causes during that time. And he voted in the 1998 Republican state primary.
O'Neill lied about his political involvement
On the August 12 edition of CNN's Crossfire, O'Neill claimed he has had "no serious involvement in politics of any kind in over 32 years."
In fact, O'Neill has made more than $14,000 in federal contributions to Republican candidates and causes since 1990; most people would consider giving $14,000 a "serious" involvement.
O'Neill denied making thousands of dollars in contributions to GOP; FEC records contradict him
When FOX News Channel managing editor and chief Washington correspondent Brit Hume asked O'Neill to respond to "allegations" that he has made more than $14,000 in federal contributions to Republican candidates and causes since 1990, O'Neill responded by saying "that is not true. ... Actually, about half of them were mine." When Hume asked about "the other $7,000," O'Neill claimed: "Those are actually funds, as nearly as I can tell, that were given my -- by some -- my law partner who has almost the same name, Edward J. O'Neill. I simply didn't give them. I would have been happy to give them. I just didn't."
O'Neill's claim that "Edward J. O'Neill," not he, made the contributions, is contradicted by Federal Election Commission records, which clearly list the contributor as John O'Neill, not Edward O'Neill. Edward O'Neill made his own contributions, which are listed under his name.
It's worth remembering that if Edward O'Neill actually made the contributions in his law partner's name, it would be a violation of federal election law.
O'Neill lied about ties to Nixon White House
After Chris Matthews said to O'Neill, "You go back to the Nixon era, when [former President Richard] Nixon was looking for someone. [Chuck] Colson and those guys were looking for somebody to debunk the Kerry record, because all the records show they were scared to death of this guy. And you played that role," O'Neill replied, "That's just not true."
O'Neill was lying.
Former Nixon special counsel Chuck Colson has said that Kerry was an "articulate" and "credible leader" of those veterans calling for an end to the Vietnam War and therefore "an immediate target of the Nixon administration." As such, the Nixon administration found it necessary to "create a counterfoil" to Kerry. Colson recounted, "We found a vet named John O'Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O'Neill meet the President, and we did everything we could do to boost his group." Articles from the April 21 edition of the Houston Chronicle and the June 17, 2003, edition of The Boston Globe confirm close ties between O'Neill and the Nixon administration.
Details: http://mediamatters.org/items/200405040004 and http://mediamatters.org/items/200408130010
Photo, from left to right: John O'Neill, Richard Nixon, and Charles Colson:
O'Neill lied about how many vets who served "with" Kerry contributed to Unfit for Command
On Crossfire, O'Neill claimed that there "are more than 60 people that served with John Kerry that contributed to this book."
In fact, only one man who served on John Kerry's boat, Stephen Gardner, is involved with Swift Boat Vets or Unfit for Command. While the group's members are veterans of the Vietnam War and may have served at the same time as Kerry or even on boats near Kerry's, only one man who served on John Kerry's boat, Stephen Gardner, is involved with Swift Boat Vets or Unfit for Command. And Gardner was not present for the events that led to any of Kerry's medals or any of Kerry's three Purple Hearts.
Details: http://mediamatters.org/items/200408130007
O'Neill lied about Jerome Corsi's role in Unfit for Command
O'Neill claimed on MSNBC's Scarborough Country that Jerome Corsi was "simply an editor and not really any sort of co-author."
But Corsi is listed on the book jacket as an author. His photo and profile appear in the book. A dedication from Corsi appears in the book, and the book's acknowledgments section is written in the plural form, making clear that the book was very much a joint O'Neill-Corsi effort. The book's preface notes that Corsi and O'Neill's friendship dates back 30 years and says, "After reconnecting, they decided to work together to write this book." Promotional materials for the book note that "John O'Neill and his coauthor Dr. Jerome Corsi (an expert on the anti-Vietnam War movement) have interviewed dozens of veterans who served with Kerry and have meticulously documented a shameful record of betrayal and deception on the part of John Kerry."
Perhaps O'Neill was simply embarrassed that his co-author and friend of 30 years is a raving bigot who has written that "ragheads" are "boy buggers"; called Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) a "Fat Hog"; referred to "Chubby Chelsie [sic]" Clinton; called Katie Couric "Little Katie Communist"; suggested Kerry was "practicing Judaism"; and suggested that the "senile" Pope John Paul II thinks "boy buggering" is "okay."
Details: http://mediamatters.org/items/200405040004 and http://mediamatters.org/items/200408130010
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Music Studies AS: Articulated with SOU
The Associate of Science degree (Music) has been developed with the cooperation and support of Southern Oregon University (SOU). The degree is fully articulated with SOU's Music program and allows students to transfer directly as juniors and to become admitted into the Music program at SOU with no loss of credits to pursue a baccalaureate degree.
The program offers an excellent balance of music and general education courses that support advanced study in the field of music. Students should contact the SOU Music Department early in the first year of their AS program to be advised about additional requirements and procedures for admission to the school or program.
Students should be aware that if they transfer before completing this degree, their courses will be evaluated individually toward the general education requirements in effect at SOU.
All students must pass a New Student Hearing before being accepted as a Music Major at SOU. The student's applied level of study (MUP courses) will be set based on the audition.
Students must complete a minimum of 96 term credits of lower division collegiate courses with a minimum grade point of 2.0 and a grade of C or better.
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Hospital referal for Mouth Ulcers13 messages in this subject.
|On friday i am going to the hospial to see if we can get the bottom of my dreadful mouth ulcers . I am 29 and have suffered all my life . I tried cutting out Milk products which helped slighty but still getting at least once a week . I am fed of feeling ill with them . Hope we can sort it out has any one else seen a consultant about ulcers ? I really hope it helps
|Helen 1 September 09
|Hi, i did see a consultant about my ulcers, with no results, i am 37 and ad this all my live, My 9 yr old daughter is the same, we try almost everything in the boots, also b12. nothing seems to work, but good luck, and let us know the results.
|linda 4 September 09
|Dear Helen & Linda,
Have you tried Squigle Toothpaste?
They sell it on this website.
Hope you get relief.
Dr. Edward Cutler,
Inventor of SQUIGLE's Toothpastes
|Dr. Edward Cutler 5 September 09
|Well my visit to the hospital was a total waste of time . Was told by the dentist that they would run bloods but they did'nt . He looked in my mouth and i had a nasty ulcer , he confirmed that yes it was an ulcer !!! Thanks for that i wondered what it was lol. He then told me nobody know why people get ulcers and we would never get the bottom of it . He gave me some Betnesol Tablets - steriods to use as a mouth wash and told me to come back in 3 months . I was in and out in 5 minutes . I left the hospital in tears my mouth is so sore and i feel so ill i just want to get to the bottom of it . Will see if the striods do anything but i feel very disappointed .
|Helen 6 September 09
|I am so sorry for you, they are so horrible I have had them since my very early teens they make it hard to communicate with people and make you feel sad and look sad. I also get snappy as I often have to repeat myself as I can't round my words off properly as I am in pain, and talking is so painful.
Over the years I have tried everything, the number of dentists, docs who have said have you tried B12 erh Yeah!
I even once had a biopsy taken of an ulcer, I also had to go in to hospital once a week for a blood test with a diary to see if anything was different this lasted a year. All this lead to me and the doc being none the wiser !
The only thing that works for me is small steroids which you can only use once or twice a year, and adocortyle paste which I have to keep on all night and its so sore the first morning taking it off but by day three I am getting better.
Its tough feeling romantic when you have your mouth filled with what feels like wall paper paste. Nice !!
Sadly my youngest son also suffers in the same way as myself, so I guess the idea of it being linked to my hormone cycle is out the window.
Chin up I am sure they will come up with something eventually.
|Julie 6 September 09
|Vist to the doctors today and i am on anti biotics , my current ulcer has got so big and sore its infected ! My lip is very swollen and very sore ! My doctor also does not know why people get them so think i am fighting a losing battle and have to accept i am going to always suffer with them
|Helen 7 September 09
|omg u poor thing. I have a bad throat ulcer right now, i have a temperature, headache and feel fluey with it (i also have a few in my mouth). But this throat one is really far down my throat and it is making feel unwell. I also got yellow flem with it. (sorry i know its gross!)
I was tempted to go see my doctor this monring, just to say to them, see i get them and they DO make me feel sick. As my doctor does not seem to take it seriously....... well my thermometer doesnt lie does it.
I have started noticing a pattern i think wheat or gluten might make them worse, if i eat a lot of bread like more than 1 or 2 bits a day i get a bad bout. I ate 8 bits of bread before this bad bout at the moment and i was also eating mints which seem to cause them also.
Have u tried cutting out wheat or gluten? And the tooth paste mentioned or ones without sodiumlauralsulfate seem to help. Also Lysine but take it in large doses such as 4000mg or more a day, i have found that helps a lot!But i need large doses otherwise it doesnt help. Also b12 the type they sell on this site seems to help me more than the other type usually get from teh health stores (there are a few types of b12 qnd one is easier used by the body)
I am going to start using a food diary.
It does stink doesnt it but hopefully something good will come along and help you
|sick n tired 10 September 09
|Well my week got even worse as the anit biotic did not work ! I got worse and worse feeling really ill . So it was back to the doctors i went and i could of cried i really had everything crossed that they could do something , i was on the verge of wanting to cut my lip off lol !
The doctor was good and could see my distress , she gave me some Corlan pellets to but on the ucler to disolve . I have to say i was unsure about them but horray they have worked and have taken the swolleness down and the redness . Its still painful to eat but i can talk without dribbling now !!! I am definaltly going to ask for more ready for the next outbreak .
I think iam going to keep a food diary i would avoid anything so i did not get another one like this its been 3 weeks of hell !
Good luck to everyone else suffering and thanks for the support its nice to know its not just me suffering !!!
|Helen 11 September 09
|Me and my brother have always gotten them... constantly for years and years. Recently, we stopped drinking milk, ice cream and milkshakes. When we feel a small one coming, we double take a daily vitamin (one w/o milk as ingredient) and daily use a liquid vitamin B supplment. it seems to be helping. I am in week 3 w/o bad ones and the small ones that form seem to dissappear when i double the vitamin. Hopefully, it will keep helping. Good luck.
|Alana 23 September 09
|You need to see a rheumatologist ! You have Sjogren's or Behcet's.
|Christy 28 September 09
|My Father is 56 now and he been suffering form stomach ulcer and now Severe Mouth ulcer over 2 years. We refered to the doctors every time he gets worst , and they precribed some vitamins and some antibiotics whenever we visit them, but we didnt get any concrete long lasting cure from this practice. Doctors always say this is lack of Vitamin, he canot eat any food, he got fever, headache, and even he says his skin becames senseless when it is severe. I am always trying to give him milk and other vitamins rich soft foods. But iam worried i read few comments above, stopping milk products. Does it really makes worst from consuming more milk? I am finding the long lasting treatment for my father. Best of luck to all the people.
|Bhutan 24 July 12
|I don't know you guys aware about Homeopathic or not. But it works.
It takes time to show result but the result is long lasting. I am an example of this.
Find a good experienced homeopathic doctor and take his advise.
|Rishi 29 October 12
|I went to dentist on Tuesday & saw mouth Vera I have had for a while said saud will reffer me to hospital hospital phoned on thursday with an appointment for next week , she I be concerned ??
|Carmel 3 February 18
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Pérez Art Museum Miami Launches Mobile App
With multimedia content and exclusive digital tours of special exhibitions, the free PAMM app offers visitors a new way to engage with art
MIAMI – May 5, 2017 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) today launched a mobile app, powered by Cuseum, to enhance the museum-going experience for its visitors. The PAMM app gives users an opportunity to experience, learn and engage with the art on view at PAMM by providing contextual multi-media content, including audio tours and videos of the interior and exterior galleries, an interactive map, and a calendar of museum events and programs. The app also offers unique content related to PAMM's special exhibitions. For PAMM's current exhibition, Toba Khedoori, the app offers exclusive audio interviews with PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans, the exhibition's curator, that address the artist's silent, slow and exacting process of working by hand.
"Art and technology have always been intertwined," said Sirmans. "With technology always rapidly changing, we are looking to evolve the museum-going experience with our visitors' wants and needs. This app is next step in our evolving relationship to technology and its application to the museum experience."
The PAMM app is part of a six-month pilot with Cuseum, a leader in the mobile app space for art museums and cultural organizations.
"We're excited to be partnering with Pérez Art Museum Miami, one of the most innovative contemporary art museums in the country," said Brendan Ciecko, CEO & founder of Cuseum. "PAMM's commitment to engaging and connecting with their audience through new digital channels is inspiring – we're honored to support these initiatives with the new PAMM mobile app."
The mobile app also supports PAMM's wide range of interpretation needs and is a key tool for video storytelling, putting rich and unique content into the palm of visitors' hands. With artist interviews and videos produced by the museum's on-staff digital journalist – a newly established position at PAMM that seeks to leverage video content to amplify PAMM's art, mission and programs – the app is the first in a series of upcoming tech initiatives launching at the museum. Later this month, PAMM will announce a new pilot program funded by the museum's close partners at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, focused on in the intersection of art and augmented reality.
The launch of PAMM app has been part of a broader conversation with the Knight Foundation on how to incporate technology into the museum to connect people to art, enhance the visitor experience and advance scholarship.
"Art museums have a unique role in telling our stories, reflecting our cultures and helping us understand the world around us. To remain relevant, they have to adapt to the way people live today," said Victoria Rogers, vice president for arts at Knight Foundation. "We hope to help museums accelerate that process and use digital tools to meaningfully engage visitors in high-quality art."
The PAMM app is available for free from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, or on all devices at pamm.org/app.
About Pérez Art Museum Miami
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 33-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami's Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
I'm Hot to Tot
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Those looked really really good... Now the decision to buy some oil and fry these up myself, or just drool all over my computer.
Chef John Style Tots, and the bare tots looked the best.
- July 15, 2011 at 12:45 AM
Average betty looks pretty delicious herself
- July 15, 2011 at 6:16 AM
- Monica said...
My pineapple chutney loosely based on your peach recipe turned out so good I made curried eggs to accompany it (OK all Tasty Bites prepackaged stuff; when you live in the boonies you plan for Indian urges)
- July 15, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Rita said...
anyone should know better that you really have one heck of a technique when it comes to cooking. alright, chef john! WOOHOO!!
- July 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- averagebetty said...
Chef, Always an honor and privilege to be featured on your site. Sorry I couldn't work any fairy dust in -- next time!
- July 15, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- Darren said...
Foodwishes > Iron Chef
- July 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- Stew said...
My God, that Average Betty is wayyyy more than average...so freaking hot...hotter than those tots right out of the grease!
- July 15, 2011 at 2:33 PM
- Chris K. said...
I'm glad you re-posted the onion ring video. They'll be perfect with the steaks I'm grilling tonight.
- July 15, 2011 at 6:50 PM
- Gina said...
Nice win! I hadn't watched Average Betty before - I thought she was easy to follow and very entertaining!
- July 15, 2011 at 7:58 PM
Wow! Average Betty's tots are a bit more that average! :D
Quite frankly. doubt AB will be gracing Michelle Obama's school lunch food recommendations panel. However, after MO 1500+ lunch this weekend, maybe CJ's tater tots will be discovered by Michelle.
Nice tater tot recipe CJ!
- July 17, 2011 at 3:21 PM
Regarding the onion rings, would potato starch work as a substitution for the instant mashed potatoes?
- July 20, 2011 at 9:49 PM
Average Betty's Sarah, unlike her oil, is smoking! I'd definitely eat the tots out of HER pocket
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Avalanche-Sharks PreviewNHL.com @NHLdotcom
The San Jose Sharks hope to salvage at least one win from their four-game homestand when they face the Colorado Avalanche, one of the worst road teams in the NHL.
The Sharks (11-8-4) opened the homestand with a 2-1 shootout loss to Anaheim on Nov. 17 before losing consecutive games to Los Angeles, including a 3-2 shootout defeat Wednesday. The three-game slide follows a season-high four-game winning streak and has dropped San Jose four points behind first-place Dallas in the Pacific Division.
The Sharks have not lost four consecutive home games since Feb. 6-March 9.
"I want to see some more players upset with what our record is and what their numbers are," Sharks coach Ron Wilson said. "They should be angry about it."
Wilson's club now opens a stretch of six games in 10 days after only playing twice in the last six.
"I think we're really looking forward to (playing more)," said Sharks defenseman Craig Rivet, who scored his first goal of the season Wednesday. "Sometimes being tired is better than being rested. We're built somewhat like machines that way. We're going to be looking forward to getting some of the cobwebs out and really getting on a roll here."
Joe Thornton had a goal and an assist Wednesday to avoid going three straight games without a point for the first time this season. The All-Star center also scored for the first time in five games. The Sharks have lost six of seven games this season when Thornton has not registered a point.
One of those games came in the only meeting this season with the Avalanche, and San Jose lost 6-2 in Colorado on Oct. 7. Thornton, though, has 10 goals and 13 assists in 18 career games against the Avalanche (13-9-1).
Colorado had gone unbeaten in nine straight trips to San Jose before losing three of its last four games there, and enters this matchup with one of the league's worst road records at 3-7-1. The Avalanche had lost four straight road games before winning their most recent one, 3-2 at Edmonton on Nov. 22.
The Avs followed that win by losing 5-2 to Calgary on Saturday before beating Edmonton 4-2 four days later. That victory saw Milan Hejduk register a goal and two assists to help give Colorado a four-goal lead midway through the second period.
"We scored some goals early and pretty much had control of the whole game," said Hejduk, who had two goals and an assist in the last meeting with the Sharks. "We worked harder than in the previous games, and we pressed the puck hard in their zone."
Joe Sakic had two points Wednesday after getting none in the previous four games. The Avalanche captain scored for the second straight game after going 11 straight without a goal.
Sakic had two points in the Oct. 7 meeting with San Jose to give him 18 in the last 10 matchups. He has 28 goals and 72 points in 50 career games against the Sharks.
These teams also meet Monday in Denver.
Colorado has recalled T.J. Hensick from its AHL affiliate and he is expected to make his NHL debut Friday. The 21-year-old center leads Lake Erie in scoring with 13 points in 18 games.
A third-round draft pick in 2005, Hensick scored 69 points in 41 games as a senior at Michigan last season, winning the Central Collegiate Hockey Association scoring title and being named a Hobey Baker Award finalist.


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So found this gem the other night, struck a certain cord with me so I thought I'd share. It shows their house boat a bit, but also the guys are not only really funny, but can play some killer bluegrass!
Some of you have seen this cabin on the water, but its really amazing. They rent this shore for pretty cheap in BC Canada. Its very beautiful county, I'd love to just spend a month with some books and my camera. Here is the description from Trendir.com
Canada's beautiful British Columbia is home to majestic mountains, endless forest and wonderful lakes – a nature-lovers paradise indeed. So the opportunity to incorporate sustainable housing into these surroundings has led to the awesome innovation of the floating house. Gently bobbing atop Powell Lake in Coastal B.C. is the Lutz's own floating cabin, which they've happily made their retirement home. The wonderfully rustic cabin sits on a 40-by-40-ft. cedar float. The cozy 20-by-21-ft. water-top retreat boasts a main floor with two bedrooms, a kitchen, and dining and living areas. Upstairs, a spacious loft houses the master bedroom. In addition to the main float, a series of smaller floats accommodate a boat dock, a floating woodshed, and a floating vegetable garden. In order to help keep these surroundings beautiful, the home's power comes via off-the-grid sources – solar and wind power, and propane for cooking, refrigeration and additional lights.
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Ananda's Bara Brith
In a comment to my "Holiday Bake" blog Andy posted a formula for the Welsh tea bread Bara Brith, which I made today according to his formula with great success.
The formula mentions nothing about the baking profile - I made a 1300 g loaf in a tin, and baked for 50 minutes, starting at 230C and gradually turning the heat down to 170C after 40 minutes.
And I didn't use all of the tea. But the formula gave us a really great tasting fruit bread with a slight aftertaste of black tea.
Looks like it has no chance to age ... (Some sources say this gets even better over time.
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Welcome back to Nine Pines Garden!
I fed my tree addiction last Thursday at a sale of native trees by Meghan K. Blake, Research Assistant at the Ohio State University Department of Horticulture and Crop Science and the grower of what appeared to be several hundreds of lovely little containerized trees.
The sale took place at the site where the trees were being raised, the OSU Waterman Farm at the OSU Container Teaching and Research Nursery, 2490 Carmack Road at the northwest reaches of the campus. Why do all these academic outfits have such long names and titles?
Promotional emails that were sent to the Friends of Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens alerted me to the sale and said proceeds from the 3-day sale are slated to fund nursery research and education at Ohio State. (And, I hope, a few Friday night pizzas for the hard-working Meghan and her buddies.)
Meghan had lots of cool choices available including medium and large trees (when mature) like Yellowwood (Cladrastis lutea), Blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica) and at least a half-dozen varieties of oak. Unfortunately for me, Nine Pines Garden already has a full complement of large trees (including 2 yellowwoods, 1 blackgum and 3 oaks). Most are not large as of yet but everyone knows that good gardeners site plants responsibly assuring adequate space to accommodate their mature size and that trees are not furniture and must not be treated as such. Of course, no one is responsible all of the time-least of all (alas!) me.
Never mind…
Although I didn't plan to buy anything (r-i-g-h-t!), after 15 minutes my flat cart/wagon was fully loaded with plants. Ultimately, by putting one plant back I was able to get them all on the cart without carrying any in my hand—an arbitrary but necessary limit that kept me from feeling like an undisciplined idiot later on.
The plants were a good value—healthy and inexpensive. Sure, they're small, but they look very healthy. I feel hopeful for their successful transition into the Nine Pines landscape.
Here's the tally…
- 1 Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) – I've been looking for a sassafras tree for several years (they're not abundant in local commerce) because of their fabulous fall color. It will occupy a little gap at the west end of the swoosh bed where a seedling kousa dogwood expired last year.
- 4 Sweetbay magnolias (Magnolia virginiana) & 3 Rainbow Pillar® Serviceberries (Amelanchier canadensis 'Glenn Form') – The sweetbays and serviceberries will be alternated in a line along the west side of the house (master bedroom and my office windows located there). I had to remove the beautiful but diseased flowering plum this year. (I will miss those gorgeous blossoms next spring.)
- 2 Carolina silverbells (Halesia carolina) – The silverbells will join the single silverbell already in place in the middle of the swoosh bed to fill out that space and to create a more pleasing grouping.
- 1 American Hornbeam/Musclewood (Carpinus caroliniana) – The hornbeam will be used as a specimen near the street at the southeast corner of the property by the driveway where bulk mulch and compost have been stored for several years waiting to be distributed. My neighbors will be delighted not to have to look at THAT weedy mess anymore.
These were all in 2- or 3-gallon containers so they were small and easy to handle. I have set them out but haven't planted them yet. It's amazing how easy it was to find spots for these little guys.
I managed not to fall for the siren songs of the stunning but temperamental Stewartia pseudocamellia (Japanese Stewartia) or Franklinia altamaha (Franklinia). My two stewartias both keeled over earlier this year and the emotional wounds haven't yet healed. How did they get that gorgeous (Stewartia pseudocamellia) specimen to grow in the Cleveland Botanical Garden?
I think I'll skip the photos of the new trees for now—without leaves, there's not much to see. We'll see what they look like in a few months.
Thanks for reading and please feel free to comment or ask questions.