Amnesty International is urging the suspension of US military aid to Israel in a report that details the recent use of US weapons in Gaza. (CommonDreams.org)
Mary-Kate OLSEN: Interview By CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN (interviewmagazine.com)
... But a trip through one of the gossip websites that very evening already revealed a picture of Mary-Kate, dressed in a long black coat and sunglasses, descending from her house with bodyguards, the caption reading, "President of Bohemia Surrounded By Secret Service." So much for kinder and less trigger-happy.
"The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For" by Alison Bechdel: A review by Chris A. Bolton
What ultimately makes "The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For" irresistible is its human element. The strip is alternately funny and heartbreaking, angry and sexy, revolutionary and revelatory -- and after reading the book, what stays with me most strongly is the life of the characters and their community. In that regard, it's truly essential.
Will Hollywood wipe the smile off Ricky Gervais's face? (timesonline.co.uk)
He's the British comic who has conquered America with his shameless self-belief and squirm-in-your-seat satire. But will the cult of celebrity and sentimentality sanitise his sense of humour? Bryan Appleyard unmasks Ricky Gervais.
Neal Broverman: Party Before the Storm (advocate.com)
Party sponsor Levi Strauss was also the supplier of all the dungarees worn in the film, and the company' dashing gay president, Robert Hanson, helped introduce Black at Sunday's party, along with Jones, who worked as an intern for Milk and was portrayed in the film by Emile Hirsch. Jones spoke specifically about Black's persistence in getting the story of "Milk" right.
Which state produces 85% of the world's commercially grown horseradish?
A Idaho
B Illinois
C Indiana
D Michigan
E Oregon
Source
Collinsville, Illinois is the self-proclaimed "Horseradish Capital of the World" and hosts an annual International Horseradish Festival each June. Collinsville produces 60% and the surrounding area of Southwestern Illinois 85% of the world's commercially grown horseradish. Other major US growing regions include Wisconsin and Northern California.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
B Illinois
Charlie replied:
Armoracia rusticana is grown throughout most of North America, but is most heavily cultivated in the state of
B Illinois
~ Tony In Philly answered:
B Illinois
Sally wrote:
Last spring when on our way back from Colorado, my friend and I drove through St Louis, MO and on into southern IL to the Cahokia mounds. All along the way we saw signs proclaiming Collinsville, IL to be the "Horseradish Capital." So, I will guess today's reply to be "B."
I debated planting a root or two of the perennial plant, "Armoracia rusticana," this fall, but our local garden center said the roots can take over your garden, and must be dug up every few years, cut back, and replanted - something I don't need at this stage of my life!
PS: How about that Sean Penn! I was really holding my breath - I thought Mickey Rourke might get the sympathy vote - for playing himself... But Penn, he brought Harvey Milk back to life, and really deserved that award!!
PPS: Professor Charlie, I was surprised to read of your own, "Drunky" adventures, a way back when. Hummmmm, you just may be a more fun guy than I have taken you for... (Luv ya though, Prof!)
Marian the Teacher responded:
Illinois
MAM answered:
B Illinois
And, Joe S replied:
B Illinois
I love horseradish. It gives meat the extra kick it needs, it makes oysters edible and clears out your sinuses at the same time. My dad used to make his own horseradish sauce, because the stuff you buy in the store had no flavor. The stuff he made would peel the enamel off a bath tub. Tasty.
Have to go see a man about a horse, so Wednesday's page may be late in appearing. Then, again....
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night on the East Coast with the LIVE'Presidential Address To Congress', followed by some local crap, then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a FRESH'NCIS'.
On the left coast, the night begins early with the LIVE'Presidential Address To Congress', followed by some local crap, then the FRESH'NCIS', followed by the RERUN'2½ Men', then some more local crap.
On a RERUNDave (from 2/2/09) are Ben Roethlisberger and Steve Martin.
On a RERUNCraig (from 2/9/09) are Michael Clarke Duncan, Richard Zoglin, and Adele.
NBC starts the nigh with on the East Coast with the LIVE'Presidential Address To Congress', followed by a FRESH'The Biggest Losesr 7', then a FRESH'The Office', followed by another FRESH'The Office'.
On the left coast, the night starts early with the LIVE'Presidential Address To Congress', followed by some local crap, then the FRESH'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'The Office', than another FRESH'The Office', followed by some local crap.
On a RERUNLeno (from 2/4/09) are Drew Barrymore, Serena Williams, and will.i.am.
On a RERUNConan (from 10/28/08) are Tina Fey, Peter Sarsgaard,and the Black Crowes.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 1/21/09) are Matt Ryan and Ida Maria.
ABC opens the night on the East Coast with the LIVE'Presidential Address To Congress', followed by a FRESH'Homeland Security Theater', then a RERUN'Supernanny', followed by 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
On the left coast, the night opens early with the LIVE'Presidential Address To Congress', followed by some local crap, then a FRESH'Homeland Security Theater', followed by a RERUN'Supernanny', then 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Don Rickles and Ben Sollee.
The CW offers a RERUN'90210', followed by a FRESH'Privileged'.
Faux has the LIVE'Presidential Address To Congress', followed by a RERUN'Bones', and on the left coast, an old 'Simpsons'.
MY an old 'Street Patrol', another old 'Street Patrol', 'Whacked Out Videos', and another 'Whacked Out Videos'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', still another 'The First 48', 'Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force', and another 'Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force'.
AMC offers the movie 'A Fistful Of Dollars', followed by the movie 'Magnum Force', then the movie 'Magnum Force', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 1
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 15
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 2
[4:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 16
[5:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 3
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Momma Cherri's
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 5
[9:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 6
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 5
[12:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 6
[1:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 5
[2:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 6
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 10 Sarah Beeny and Dawn French
[4:00 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[4:30 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 13 Fry
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 14 Davies
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Confess', and 'Real Housewives Of NYC'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', and 'Carlos Mencia; No Strings Attached'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Ricky Gervais.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Cliff Sloan.
FX has the movie 'Big Momma's House 2', followed by the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', then a FRESH'Nip/Tuck'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Decoding The Past', followed by the FRESH'How The Earth Was Made', and 'The Universe'.
IFC -
[6:15 AM] Trans
[7:35 AM] Spring Forward
[9:30 AM] I Heart Huckabees
[11:20 AM] The Fighting Cholitas
[11:45 AM] Trans
[1:05 PM] Spring Forward
[3:05 PM] I Heart Huckabees
[4:55 PM] IFC in Theaters
[5:05 PM] Trans
[6:30 PM] Mad Dog Morgan
[8:15 PM] The Proposition
[10:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[10:15 PM] IFC Music Blast
[10:30 PM] The Henry Rollins Show
[11:00 PM] The IT Crowd
[11:30 PM] IFC Film Blast
[11:45 PM] IFC Web Blast
[12:00 AM] The Business
[12:30 AM] Hell Girl
[1:00 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:15 AM] IFC Music Blast
[1:30 AM] The IT Crowd
[2:00 AM] Witchblade
[2:30 AM] IFC Film Blast
[2:45 AM] IFC Web Blast
[3:00 AM] The Business
[3:30 AM] The Proposition
[5:15 AM] Mad Dog Morgan (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Lost', another 'Lost', and 'Star Trek: Enterprise'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Flying: Confessions...: Part 4
[06:00 AM] Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
[08:00 AM] Bittersweet Place
[09:30 AM] Tanghi Argentini
[10:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Brian Wilson, Martha Wainright and Teddy Thompson
[11:00 AM] TransGeneration: Episode 4
[11:30 AM] Architecture School: Episode 3
[12:00 PM] Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills
[01:00 PM] Flower & Garnet
[03:00 PM] I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK
[05:00 PM] Clean
[07:00 PM] Terminal City: Episode 4
[08:00 PM] It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 1
[08:30 PM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Wear
[09:00 PM] Eco Documentaries - Season 1: Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon
[10:30 PM] Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
[12:20 AM] Lake of Fire
[03:00 AM] It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 1
[03:30 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Wear
[04:00 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 1: Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon
[05:15 AM] TransGeneration: Episode 4
[05:45 AM] Architecture School: Episode 3 (ALL TIMES EST)
Legendary musician Stevie Wonder smiles at the conductor while performing at the Library of Congress, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in Washington. President Barack Obama is scheduled to present Wonder with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during a ceremony at the White House Wednesday.
Photo by Haraz N. Ghanbari
Organizers say Bruce Springsteen will headline Glastonbury, Britain's leading summer music festival.
Glastonbury chief Michael Eavis says the 59-year-old rocker will play the prestigious Saturday night main-stage slot on June 27. Springsteen is due to play an outdoor concert in London's Hyde Park the next day.
Glastonbury was founded in 1971 and is held on Eavis' farm in southwest England. It is famous for its eclectic lineup - and the mud that overwhelms the site in rainy years.
Tickets for this year's festival have sold out even though much of the lineup has yet to be announced. Neil Young and Blur are widely reported to be playing.
Images of nuclear scientists are projected during the opening scene in the dress rehearsal for "Doctor Atomic" at the English National Opera in London February 23, 2009. The opera by John Adams has its U.K. premiere on Wednesday.
Photo by Dylan Martinez
A parka-clad band of environment ministers landed in this remote corner of the icy continent on Monday, in the final days of an intense season of climate research, to learn more about how a melting Antarctica may endanger the planet.
Representatives from more than a dozen nations, including the U.S., China, Britain and Russia, were to rendezvous at a Norwegian research station with American and Norwegian scientists coming in on the last leg of a 1,400-mile (2,300-kilometer), two-month trek over the ice from the South Pole.
The visitors will gain "hands-on experience of the colossal magnitude of the Antarctic continent and its role in global climate change," said the mission's organizer, Norway's Environment Ministry.
They'll also learn about the great uncertainties plaguing research into this southernmost continent and its link to global warming: How much is Antarctica warming? How much ice is melting into the sea? How high might it raise ocean levels worldwide?
Sir Roger Moore is drawing attention to a small, AIDS-devastated southern African country.
Moore, known for playing James Bond and a UNICEF goodwill ambassador since 1991, said in an interview Monday he was donating proceeds from a concert to Israelis training Swazis to perform circumcisions. Circumcision has been shown to cut the risk of contracting the AIDS virus by as much as 60 percent.
"Who better than Jewish and Muslim doctors (from Israel) to carry out this procedure? Because they do it by the thousands," Moore said from Israel, where he was to narrate Camille Saint-Saens's "Carnival of the Animals" Tuesday at the Eilat Chamber Music Festival. Moore expects to raise $5,000.
An estimated 185,000 of Swaziland's 1 million people are HIV positive.
The Indian government is drawing up plans to prevent several of Mahatma Gandhi's personal possessions being sold at auction in New York, an official said Monday.
A special government committee has met twice to work out how to bring the items back to India, and has come up with proposals, a ministry of culture spokesmen told AFP.
The March 4-5 auction has triggered a campaign for the return of the belongings, which include Gandhi's trademark round glasses, sandals, pocket watch and some dishes.
In 2007 the culture ministry successfully negotiated with British auction house Christie's to secure a letter written by Gandhi shortly before his death.
Drum Queen Vivane Araujo of Salgueiro samba school dances during the second night of the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome February 23, 2009.
Photo by Bruno Domingos
A judge says Peter Falk's daughter can meet with her ailing father.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aviva K. Bobb on Monday granted Catherine Falk a 30-minute supervised meeting with her father within 30 days.
Catherine Falk's attorney says she has not seen the former "Columbo" actor in approximately six months. She has filed to establish a conservatorship for her father, who she stated has Alzheimer's disease. Her attorney said Monday he does not know to what degree the illness has progressed.
Bobb barred anyone from discussing the meeting publicly afterward. Attorneys for Falk's wife, Shera, declined to comment.
A few weeks after launching the first wide-scale layoffs in its history, Microsoft Corp. admits it screwed up a key part of the plan.
The company is asking some laid-off employees for a portion of their severance back, saying an administrative glitch caused the software maker to pay them too much.
Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman, would not say how many of the 1,400 workers let go in January were overpaid, or by how much. Microsoft has said severance would be calculated by length of service and position in the company.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker is asking former employees for reimbursement, by check or money order, within two weeks, according to a redacted letter posted by the technology blog TechCrunch. Gellos confirmed the letter's authenticity.
Children run past a sand sculpture depicting eight Oscars won by "Slumdog Millionaire" at the 81st Academy Awards, on a beach in Puri, about 62 km (39 miles) east from the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, February 23, 2009. Rags-to-riches romance "Slumdog Millionaire" swept the Oscars on Sunday, winning eight awards, including the prize for best picture in a Hollywood triumph for a movie that almost failed to get released.
Photo by Sanjib Mukherjee
A French judge Monday refused to halt the sale of disputed Chinese bronze fountainheads heading for Christie's auction block as part of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's estate.
The judge ordered an association that sought to prevent the sale to pay €1,000 ($1,000) in fines each to the auction house and to the firm of Pierre Berge, the longtime partner of the French fashion icon.
The bronze heads of a rabbit and a rat disappeared from the summer Imperial Palace on the outskirts of Beijing when French and British forces sacked it at the close of the second Opium War in 1860.
The dispute had cast a shadow over what some are calling the "sale of the century," the three-day auction of 733 works of art collected over half a century by the Saint Laurent and Berge.
Walt Disney Co's ESPN cable sports network, which has broadcasting deals for events ranging from the National Football League to Nascar, is facing higher costs while renewing some of the contracts amid falling advertising revenue, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday.
Since Disney acquired 80 percent of ESPN in 1995 the most-watched U.S. sports channel has become one of the company's most valuable properties, providing $4.1 billion in operating income in fiscal 2008 ending September 27, the newspaper said.
However, ESPN is feeling the impact of the recession and its advertising revenue is declining even as costs associated with many of its rights deals increase on schedule, the paper said.
ESPN's NFL payments nearly doubled from $600 million during the last round of negotiations, and each of its other major rights fees rose by at least 20 percent, a trend most industry people expect to continue, it said.
A carnival float with papier-mache figures representing representing Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as the Sun King, is pictured during the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in the western German city of Cologne February 23, 2009. The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz and Duesseldorf are the highlight of the German street carnival season.
Photo by Alex Grimm
Outspoken NBA analyst Charles Barkley was sentenced to 10 days in jail Monday after pleading guilty to driving under the influence for his Dec. 31 arrest in Scottsdale, Ariz.
He'll only have to spend five days behind bars, however, if he completes an alcohol-education program. A $2,000 fine was also levied on him for the incident. He's due to start serving his sentence by March 21.
Barkley was arrested at about 1:30 a.m. after running a stop sign. He refused to take a breath test at the scene, but was apparently more than happy to inform his arresting officers that he'd been in such a hurry because he was on his way to get oral sex.
Veterans advocates are venting anger and frustration toward the biggest charity within the U.S. military after revelations that it has been packing more money into reserves than it has spent on aid during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We have so many soldiers, reservists and National Guard who are in dire need, and for the Army to be holding this much money in reserve is despicable," chairman Bob Handy of Veterans United for Truth, of Santa Barbara, Calif., said Monday.
He was reacting to an Associated Press investigation that examined five years of tax returns by Army Emergency Relief and reported on interviews with dozens of soldiers, veterans and officials from other military charities.
From 2003 to 2007, the charity, also known as AER, packed $117 million into its own reserves while spending just $64 million on direct aid, records show. By contrast, smaller Navy and Air Force charities both put far more of their resources into aid than reserves. Also, more than 90 percent of AER's aid was given as no-interest loans, not outright grants.
AER, which operates on 90 Army sites worldwide and grew into a $345 million colossus during the Iraq war, is meant to help active-duty soldiers and Army retirees with their cash emergencies and to provide college scholarships to their families.
Revellers of Unidas da Tijuca samba school dance atop a float during the first night of the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome, early February 23, 2009.
Photo by Sergio Moraes
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