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Tuesday’s Poem: “Dancing” by Margaret Atwood, from Morning in the Burned House. Tuesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of theologian Martin Luther, born on this day in Eisleben, Germany, in 1483. He was a devout monk who frequently punished himself to atone for his sins, whipping himself or lying in the snow all night long. But he became disillusioned with the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church. He finally decided that the answer was in the Bible itself, which said that salvation came from…

WNYC reporter Lisa Chow recaps the Bear Stearns trial and analyzes its impact.

Tweets from inside Fort Hood were used in news reports about the shooting there last week. But some of the tweets turned out to detail false information. Paul Carr, columnist for TechCrunch and author of Bringing Nothing To The Party, and Jeff Jarvis, professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and author of the blog BuzzMachine.com, discuss the role of 'citizen journalists' and the line between constructive and destructive uses of social media.

T.R. Reid, veteran foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and the author of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care, discusses what's in the current health care bill and puts it in a global perspective.

New York State Senator Eric Schneiderman weighs in on Ian's Law, the new health insurance legislation he introduced last week.

Two issues pertaining to water in New York are coming to a head. Riverkeeper president Alex Matthiessen, discusses natural gas drilling in the watershed and the cleanup of PCB's in the Hudson River. ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten has been covering the drilling issue and his latest report is on radioactivity in the wastewater. Then journalist David Gargill writes about the dredging operation in an article called "The General Electric Superfraud" in the December issue of Harper’s Magazine.

Maclaren USA is recalling a million strollers due to 12 reports of amputation that have occurred when children got their fingers stuck in the strollers. Don Mays, the senior director of Product Safety Planning and Technical Administration at Consumers Union has the details.

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Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 169 Running Time: 1:44:39 The 5th Doctor's (Peter Davison) final story, The Caves of Androzani Reviewed, News (Waters of Mars, Dreamland, Gallifrey 21, Second Life, DVD), Feedback, and more. Hosted by Ken Deep, James Naughton, and Louis Trapani, with Eric Escamilla. Brought to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and is a production of Art Trap Productions. This podcast is made possible in part by Podshock Supporting Subscribers and from donations from listeners like you. This episode is sponsored by Audible.com. Visit www.audiblepodcast.com/podshock for your FREE audio-book download with free trial. Do you want the Enhanced Podcast AAC file format? Get our Enhanced Podcast version of this episode using our feed at http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/podshock/podshock.xml.

The babies and babes I’ll be talking about here are the ones brought by storks, not those picked up in bars. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. The word baby appears first in Middle English, and although it is found in documents before the word babe, it is thought to have grown out of babe as a pet name. Each of these appear in the late 1300s Baby is one of those words that got exported from English rather than as is usual, other way round.  French adopted bebe in 1793. In English 150 years before babe or baby appeared there was baban which appeared first in an early document we have talked about before here on podictionary, the Ancrene Riwle. Although many of the citations for early uses of the word baby and its precursors mention babies crying it is thought that baban evolved as a word from the non-crying sounds that babies make before they learn to talk. The appearance of the next form, babe does involve crying. It appeared first in a fun little story called Confessio Amantis.  This is a poem that deals with how love relates to the seven deadly sins and was written by John Gower, a contemporary of Chaucer. Gower claimed to have been paddling across the Thames River one day when he met the King (this would have been Richard II), who said “you should write a book” so he did. In his book the babe is crying for good reason since its mother has just thrown herself on a sword and the  grandfather finds the babe all covered in blood—I told you it was a fun little story. After baban and babe, baby finally was delivered. The document of record here we have also talked about before; it’s called The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman and was also the first document to record the word spinster and the first to take note of that famous old bandit Robin Hood. This podictionary episode is a revision of one from 2005. That first time round I included a citation from something called the Blegburn Dickshonary and I’ll include that again in a moment. But first I want to tell you that the Blegburn Dickshonary rides again. This is a document from more than 100 years ago that 4 years ago I dug out and digitized. I had help in proofreading the thing from a number of podictionary listeners but then when I upgraded my podcast to include a better blog, the online version got lost. I figured though that since a number of people put considerable effort into the thing I should really get it online again. So now there is a link to it at the website and here in this blog post. I the audio portion of this episode I have Diana Rushton, the Local History Librarian for Blackburn in Lancashire, England reading the Blegburn Dickshonary entry for babby. BABBY (baby) This is a wonderful thing, an’ heaw mich wonderful depends on id number. Iv it’s th’ fost it’s a hangel; yo’ mezzer id an’ weigh id every Setterda’ neet, an book th’ perticklers deawn in a family Bible. An’ when id says “Daddy” an’ ” Mammy “—wey, yo’ wodn’d tek th’ Nash’nal Det for id. But iv it’s th’ duzzenth, it’s a little imp an’ id gets plenty o’ strap; aw Know o abeawt id, becos aw’ve hed ‘em—at leeast th’ wife hes, an’ it’s o th’ same. Translation: Baby This is a wonderful thing, and how wonderful depends on it s number. If it s the first it s an angel; you measure it and weigh it every Saturday night, and write the particulars down in the family Bible. And when it says Daddy and Mommy well, you wouldn t take the National Debt for it. But if it s your twelfth child, it s a little imp and it gets plenty of strap; I know all about it, because I ve had them at least my wife has, and its all the same.

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Episode 92 of PotterFicWeekly has been released! Resuming our discussion of Chapters 8-14 of Harry Potter and the Time of Good Intentions, Poufwa blends together solid fic discussion and analysis with the literary equivilant of off roading in a Ford Escort. In this episode: Mike is charge, can t tell who anybody is, thinks Dethryl is an imposter, pre-interprets prophecy, has a million questions, and reveals to us that he - Mike - the big guy - has a crazy brother PS is a Subaru, Dethryl is a Nissan, and Kismatt is the Vicar of Dibley Harry has emotions, Dumbledore s a pirate, and don t forget those five important words: The-plot-said-so. Following Episode 92 of Poufwa, stay tuned for Episode 35 of PeonCast: Two True Poufwanians, Vernon on Top, and Mike is Harry, where the Peons discuss The F Words 4: Family, by Antosha! Daniel walks on water . Sue takes on the tractor. Making the TEA Kelly interrupts, then changes her mind Hawt Dudley Kayla wonders, who s on top? We love Mike Mel Brooks ..who? Men in uniform. Happy listening! Episode Hosts: Ryan, PS, Mike Episode Guests: Dethryl, Aaron, Tim Peons: Sue, Kayla, Kelly, Dan Poufwa Editor: Ryan PeonCast Editor: Sue Episode Length: 3 00 57

A poem speaking about the Law of the God of Yisrael. It is puzzling to know that the commandments and laws are still operating. Only the ceremonial laws are done away with. There are so many promises for the people who follow the commands of the Creator.

A talk by professor and author David Bosco. From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always provided a space for the five great powers to sit down together. Five to Rule Them All tells the inside story of this remarkable diplomatic creation. Drawing on extensive research, including dozens of interviews with serving and former ambassadors on the Council, the book chronicles political battles and personality clashes as it opens the closed doors of its meeting room. What emerges here is a revealing portrait of the most powerful diplomatic body in the world. From the World Beyond the Headlines lecture series.