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Dr. Sammy Lee, the first Asian-American to win an Olympic gold medal, dead at age 96. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/sammy-lee-first-asian-american-win-olympics-gold-dies-96-n691746?cid=sm_tw

Cute Panda Video: Cheng Shi https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LjAJJErxRbM

Ask & ye shall receive: http://abc.go.com/shows/the-great-american-baking-show/news/recipes/mary-berry-apple-almond-cake-recipe I think this is the only recipe they have up from the episode, but I'm not positive. I just Googled "Mary Berry's Apple Almond Cake" & got lucky--though I figured it might at least be posted somewhere without the connection to the show.

I haven't been able to read the story--it keeps crashing my device--but E! Online has a story up on their website this afternoon saying that Maks & Peta got kicked out of Lamaze class.

Well, like I said in my post, considering he played (with Trisha) an event involving the current Democratic POTUS, Obama, & then said he'd play the inauguration of Trump, a Republican, it's kinda hard to figure out which side, if any, he actually supports. I finally Googled & went back & read articles based on the comment about him playing for Trump. They pointed out that he didn't publicly support either candidate in the most recent election, & that he both played at at least 1 inaugural event for Obama &, back in 2010, made publicly supportive comments about him & how hard the job of US President must be. At some point, he also said, in either The Hill or the Los Angeles Times (the 2 articles I looked at before posting this), something like voting should be more about the issues, because the parties are starting to get in the way of getting things done. And they said that he said, if he were asked--which he hasn't been... yet--he would be open to performing at Trump's inaugural, "in the interest of service" (or something close to that--basically, like I also said before, he'd do it because it was for the President even if that wasn't "his" preferred President). And... I think The Hill's article said that 1 singer who definitely won't be performing at Trump's inauguration is Elton John, who openly supported, & performed for, Hillary during the campaign.

Small point: The publication's name is just Rolling Stone, with no "The" in it.

It was the White House Correspondents' Association's Annual Dinner, & it was the night before Obama managed to get Osama Bin Laden killed by 1 of our SEAL teams. It may or may not have been after Trump started talking about running for POTUS but then didn't follow through or bailed before getting to the Primaries part of the process... Which may be what Obama was mocking him about: being all talk, & no action. The WHCA Annual Dinner is a SUPER BIG, all-weekend, deal in DC, which attracts a Who's Who from pretty much all areas of celebrity from DC & NY, & other places, all the way to Hollywood (the celebs are usually invited by the various TV networks & other media organizations in the WHCA to sit at their dinner tables, & they spend the weekend before the dinner attending other related parties & meals, & they get in some schmoozing there for their pet causes, since a number of politicos attend the preliminary events as well as the WHCA Dinner); it's emceed by a nationally-known comedian (like Jay Leno, Rich Little, Seth Meyers, & a female from SNL whose name I can't remember right now--maybe Kate McKinnon?) or a political-type comedic commentator, like you'd find on Comedy Central (like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, & Larry Willmore, who had a show on Comedy Central that I think was recently cancelled, who was this year's emcee). And it's broadcast annually on C-SPAN (well at least the pre-dinner red carpet, the awards/scholarships presentations, & the part at the end, where the guest comedian/comedienne & POTUS each do a "bit", are aired). After dinner & a number of awards & scholarships are presented the emcee does a short set, trying to be inoffensive, then they introduce POTUS. POTUS then gives a comedic-type speech about his year to date, life in the White House, life in Washington, etc. (that's gonna be really interesting to see Trump do that the next 4 years--but he has hosted SNL at least once before, so maybe he can call on that experience for it). Not all of them, but a good chunk of those 1300 (or whatever it is) jobs still going to Mexico, are in a factory the deal declined to save in a smaller town a county, or a few counties, away from the city where I live. Part of them are still in the factory Trump & Pence are taking credit for "saving". The fact they declined to save the other factory as well is big news in this area, or at least it was after Trump's announcement. I saw something either Thursday or Friday saying Garth Brooks would play at the Inauguration (I don't think/know if he's been asked, & I didn't read the linked article, but the headline, Tweet, or whatever it was said he would). I think it was meant in an "if I'm asked" sense. And I don't think/know if it was because he, &/or his wife, fellow country singer/TV cooking show host/sometime actress Trisha Yearwood, supported Trump in the election (though many country singers have been known to support Republican candidates over Democrats). Particularly since Garth & Trisha (who just released a new joint Christmas CD of duet versions of Christmas/holiday songs, Christmas Together) also just performed at the last Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony of the (Democratic) Obama administration, which was held on the National Mall Thursday night. I think, because he'd just performed for a Democratic POTUS & was talking about performing for the new, Republican, POTUS his comment was meant in an "if I'm asked, because it's for the President (regardless of their political party)" thing.

I'm old enough. And yes, he's been in at least 1 ep every/almost every season of this show. He also looks good for 80. If James MacArthur (the original Danny Williams, as you may know) hadn't died when he did, Al may not have even been in this version of the show; at least maybe not as Mamo. Peter Lenkov was either talking to James about doing a role where, like Mamo, his character was a McGarrett family friend who helped/was somehow involved with a Five-0 case, or else James had agreed to do it but died before he could film it. Next thing you know, Al Harrington, Jr.--who, as you said, played Ben Kokua, Five-0 team member, in the original show--was cast in a role in the new version & the character description sounded similar to that of the character James MacArthur was supposed to play.

I think CBS' original incarnation of the show, with Jeff Foxworthy as host, & Paul Hollywood & Marcela Valladolid (BTW, she's about to give birth to her 3rd child/1st daughter, according to a very recent article on People magazine's website; she has sons by her ex-husband & the guy she hooked up with after Paul ditched her, but I don't know if that guy's her daughter's father too) as judges, filmed their tent scenes in Atlanta (or in the Atlanta area, anyway). I think that was part of how they got Foxworthy to host (he may have also been a producer or exec producer), because they were able to film in the Atlanta area & he lives there.

Nia's sidekick is also her husband, actor Ian Gomez.

Sorry... Inadvertent double post.

Some states, like here in Indiana, have "early voting in person". You vote in the building where your local election board is housed, if not in their office, & you don't have to have a reason to use this option, like "I'll be out of town on Election Day", like when you wanna vote mail-in absentee here; you can vote early in person here simply if you feel like it. Demand for this type of voting was so great in my city this past election that they opened up "satellite" early voting sites at 4 branches of our public library. So you don't always vote at your designated polling place if you don't wanna use the mail-in absentee vote option. And, as was mentioned in the Politics forum, some states don't even have polling places any longer; they vote strictly via mail-in ballot even if you're not voting absentee (I think Colorado is 1 of the states that was mentioned as doing this). Also... The POTUS character's last name is Kirkman, not Kirkland.

Small point... In real life, President Obama has never (that I remember) gone back to Chicago to vote since he's been President (neither have Mrs. Obama nor her mother, who lives in the White House with them). They also haven't been shown on the news voting at a DC precinct (like we saw the Clintons & Trumps in NY, Kaine in VA, & Pence here in IN this election, & other nominees in their home states in other elections). Presumably the Obamas vote Absentee; but I'm not sure they could vote Absentee in Illinois for 8 years or not--I don't know their laws about that. They might have had to change their voter registrations to DC since they've been in the White House, & 'cause they'll still be living there after they leave the WH & the next bunch comes in since Sasha's still got another year or 2 at her DC school & they don't wanna make her change schools in midstream at this point (maybe it was easier--& more necessary, obviously--when he was going into the office & the girls were 8 years/school grades younger, than it is now that his youngest is in High School & he's leaving office).

When the show's about to start, there's a thread somewhere here where you can ask for a forum to be created for it. They like people suggesting new show forums to also suggest thread topics for it too (like the threads here for the episodes, participants, judges, hosts, small talk, etc.), so you might be thinking about that if you plan to suggest a forum for it.

Here's a link to an article from The Hollywood Reporter about the cancellation. I have to admit, I'm rather surprised about it myself. Especially with Craig winning 2 consecutive Daytime Emmys as the host. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/celebrity-name-game-canceled-3-seasons-952177?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=Direct

People magazine has links to 31 different cookie recipes (all posted at 1 time, instead of once daily like the other sites I linked) here & many could be interesting: http://people.com/food/christmas-cookies-holiday-dessert-recipes/red-velvet-crinkle-cookies/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag

Both Pillsbury & Betty Crocker post a new cookie recipe each day between around Thanksgiving (this year it was November 25th) through at least Christmas if not New Year's. The recipes are posted at the links below, & you can also sign up to get them Emailed to you--& they don't send you Emails about anything else the rest of the year (at least Pillsbury doesn't; this is the 2nd year I've gotten theirs & the only time I heard from them between last year's final recipe & this year's first was in an email announcing this year's recipes were about to start). https://www.pillsbury.com/holidays-celebrations/christmas/cookie-countdown http://www.bettycrocker.com/menus-holidays-parties/mhplibrary/seasonal-ideas/24-days-of-cookies

Jim Delligatti, the Pittsburgh McDonald's franchisee who created the Big Mac, dead at age 98. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/11/30/big-mac-creator-jim-delligatti-dies/94664154/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

The entertainment/celebrity media finally seems to have picked up on Hawaii Five-0 recurring actor Keo Woolford's death. This long obit was posted by People magazine yesterday (a shorter version was posted by People's sister publication, Entertainment Weekly, earlier today). http://people.com/tv/keo-woolford-hawaii-five-0-actor-dies-at-49-obituary/ According to the obit, he was only 49 when he passed on Monday after having a severe stroke on Friday. His age wasn't released with the original news on his death.

Yes he was, when she was doing The Mary Tyler Moore Show on CBS. They were married for awhile before that, though; then they broke up (I can't remember how long) after it ended (she's been married for a number of years now to a New York heart surgeon who's much younger than she is).

I appreciated that they mentioned the death of Florence Henderson the other day; as I remember, a number of talk/entertainment news shows did. And they should've since The Brady Bunch made her a pop culture icon. But I think it was stretching things to call her "a friend of the show" when it's 2016 & the last (only?) time Florence Henderson was on the show was when they did the 80th birthday tribute to her, with some of her The Brady Bunch children, in 2014! To me, the "a friend of the show" designation should really only be used with guests who are on much more frequently than, like, once or twice.

If a Mod is reading this, Sharon's last name is misspelled in the thread title. It's Osbourne.

USA Today just Tweeted that Trump's chosen former Labor Secretary (I think under Bush 43) Elaine Chao (who's also married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell [R--KY]) as his Secretary of Transportation. https://mobile.twitter.com/USATODAY/status/803639776033140736?p=v Sorry... I didn't see it mentioned in the post previous to mine.

I heard it speculated on 1 of the "Hot Topics" type daytime shows yesterday (Monday) that Kellyanne's mouthing off about stuff like Giuliani being in line for/getting Secretary of State, when other names are still being announced as possibles for that post, is because she's pissed SHE doesn't have a job in the administration... so far.

And don't forget Halloween Trick-or-Treating at the White House, all those In Performance at the White House concerts & other "cultural" stuff taped for airing on PBS, & stuff like meeting the National Ambassadors for various charitable causes, like the March of Dimes, for photo ops. But Trump can probably get out of that by claiming he's too busy (or if he's lucky, he can pass it off to Melania, or even VP or Second Lady Pence); that's how the late former President Nixon got out of meeting me when I was the March of Dimes National Poster Child (the position is now called "National Ambassador") in 1972--among the things that kept us from meeting were Nixon's trip to China which got the National Zoo their original set of male & female adult pandas, Hsing Hsing & Ling Ling (it's a good thing I love pandas, & have since the National Zoo got Hsing Hsing & Ling Ling). The zoo's current pandas are adults Mei Xiang & Tian Tian, 3-year-old "subadult" female panda Bao Bao, & Bao Bao's 15-month-old brother, Bei Bei. Mei Xiang & Tian Tian's eldest offspring, 11-year-old Tai Shan has been living at a panda research & breeding reserve in China, since he was about 4 1/2, per the agreement that any American (or foreign)-born cubs of adult pandas loaned to US (or foreign) zoos are to be returned to China by the age of 4 (Bao Bao will be sent back to China sometime in this coming winter, 2017). Anyway... I eventually did get my March of Dimes-related meeting with POTUS, actually POTUS & FLOTUS, 9 years later in 1981: Along with the rest (or most of the rest) of the surviving MOD Poster Children, I was part of a White House event promoting what was then called WalkAmerica, & it was the first time all the walkathon fundraisers would be held on the same day, or at least the same weekend, throughout the US. Our group met POTUS & FLOTUS Reagan, & had a group photo op with POTUS, exactly 1 week to the day before John Hinckley's shooting of President Reagan, James Brady, & other members of Reagan's entourage/security detail outside the Washington Hilton. I'll bet photo ops Trump won't take a pass on would be any involving Miss America, Miss America's Miss District of Columbia, Miss District of Columbia USA, & any Miss America or Miss USA Misses from states in the metro DC area, Miss USA, Miss Universe, or any other major deal beauty queens. Just saying. If Barron is on the spectrum, in my opinion, Melania's/they're losing a great opportunity to use their new positions to "shine a light" on the cause of autism/autism research, a possible cure/treatment for it, etc., all because they're rich people who are perhaps embarrassed, somehow, by having an even more imperfect (than we already are, as humans) child. But I agree that, as his parents, they have to do what they think's right for their son. USA Today's reporting--on the front page of today (Tuesday)'s edition--that Wisconsin has denied Dr. Jill Stein's request for a recount. https://mobile.twitter.com/USATODAY/status/803471958486749184?p=v