and your becoming a member of your public television station is a way to ensure this kind of vibrancy information available, so go to your phone, go to the website of your public television station and this is such a vital issue, a right-in-our-face kind of an issue. how are we doing as americans with our health? well, sadly, we're doing appalling. and what's happening, we now see that 64 percent of americans are overweight, and half of those are obese. we are seeing the surgeon general telling us that obesity is even a greater threat to americans, poses a greater threat than terrorism. we are seeing that obesity will soon overtake cigarette smoking as a leading cause of preventable death. we're seeing 800,000 new cases of diabetes each and every year. we're seeing children born in the year 2000 becoming tremendously prone to diabetes in their early 20's. it's a disaster. and we're seeing that it's also related to the fact that we have cortisol, which causes inflammation and stress. that's amazing. you know it's -- there are so many things in life that we have so little control over i

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you'll be helping your public television station bring you a years worth of quality programming. yles of people. so now i want to do a song that features a vocalist who i hardly ever work with as a duet partner... me... this next song is one from the ultimate love sos collection; one of my favourites called "without you in my life". <♪> [jim brickman] ♪it would be winter but never christmas♪ ♪summer with no 4th of july♪ ♪a train bound for paris♪ ♪that passes right on by♪ ♪heavy clouds that never rain♪ ♪oh i'd never hear the music when you sing my name♪ ♪looking back on what it would be like♪ ♪without you in my life♪ <♪> ♪chocolate cake without the icing♪ ♪sleep but never dream♪ ♪indigo sky with out the starlight shining♪ ♪when you're lying next to me♪ ♪just a thought on the tip of my tongue♪ ♪i try so hard to remember♪ ♪but the thought just wouldn't come♪ ♪looking back that's what it would be like♪ ♪without you in my life♪ <♪> ♪oh i'd miss the taste♪ ♪the touch ♪the feel of falling into you♪ ♪lost on the horizon sailing on the blue♪ ♪looking back that's what it would be

being on public television because it's a platform for people like me, artists like myself, to get my music, my gift, to you. and so your gift should be to donate to your local public television stationo visit the children there that i sponsor through world vision . so i started the song after i got to know the family that i sponsor. i started to write the song in the back of the smelliest old four-wheeled drive i've ever been in. and my heart was just overflowing with love for these people. ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) ♪ (mombassa) (wild applause) (wild applause) (wild applause) (wild applause) thank you so much. i'd like to play a brand new song for you. and this is a song that i wrote at the airport. and i had my eyes closed. and i was p

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now to show the support for the art of sewing, sewing with nancy, you're supporting your public television station and i thank you for that. i've been on public television, i hate to say it, a long time, 25 years or more. so we hope to stay on just a few more years and bring you a diversity of programming. diversity is what we're doing in this three-part series. you're gonna see 12 different variations of simple bag patterns. you can use your favorite bag patterns or the bag patterns we give in the support of $200 or more. i love to hear those phones ringing, thank you! and we appreciate this greatly. and if you have any ideas, send them to me, but most importantly, now's the time to show your support of the art of sewing and support public television. i appreciate it. >> yes, please show your support for sewing with nancy by making your gift of support right now. it makes such a difference. and it only takes a few moments. there's some terrific volunteers that are standing by, waiting to hear from you, and then we can start putting your dollars to work right away toward this sewing with nancy ser

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to just take a moment and ask you to become a member, or to renew your membership to this public television stationou enjoy yourself! and we're all looking for that! so, maybe the dvd is something you should own. or, if you just love listening to music, then the cd is something you should have in your collection. at the pledge of $60, we're going to send you "celtic tenors: no boundaries," the cd, which is the companion cd, and it has 16 songs. so, now you're confused, you don't know whether you want the dvd or the cd. don't be confused. why don't you think about getting them both. that would be good for you, and very good for us. make a pledge of $130 and let us say thank you with "the celtic tenors" dvd and cd. please ask about putting your contribution on a charge card when you talk to one of the operators. and again, remember, you can make a pledge at whichever level you are comfortable with. ask the phone operator about the station's basic membership rate. the most important thing is that you call and help keep high quality programming on public television. >> john: matthew, quick question, wh

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orloff is a member of her public television station; i'm a member of my public television station. we need you to step up right now. step up and say yes. yes to emotional freedom, yes to this station, yes to this wonderful programming all year round. and that's what we need you to do. so please, watch as a contributor. make that call of support right now. >welcome back. now, we're going to go on and i'm going to describe how to identify your emotional type. and why is this so important? socrates said, "know thyself." and so i'm going to go through four emotional types. although you might relate to a number of qualities in each type, i'd like you to choose one type that is most you, so that you can learn the upside and you can learn the downside, and then learn to balance each. the first type is the intellectual, and this is somebody who, basically, functions from their intellect and their head. they're brilliant problem-solvers, they love to make positive and negative lists, and this is their strong point. but they oftentimes may not be that in touch with their emotions. how many of

we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your support. >> tom: support that makes programs like "nightly business report" possible. >> susie: thanks for joining us and don't forget to support your public television station. i'm susie gharib. have a great weekend everyone. you too, tom >> tom: goodnight, susie. i'm tom hudson. we'll see all of you again next week. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your support. >> tom: support that makes programs like "nightly business report" possible. >> susie: thanks for joining us, and don't forget to support your public television station. i'm susie gharib. good night, everyone. you, too, tom. >> tom: good night, susie. i'm tom hudson. we'll see all of you again tomorrow evening. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> more information about investing is available in "nightly business report's" video "how wall street works". to order this dvd, call 1-800- play-pbs or visit online at shoppbs.org. >> be m

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we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your support. >> tom: support that makes programs like "nightly business report" possible. thanks for joining us.. and don't forget to support your public television station. i'm susie gharib. >> tom: goodnight, susie. i'm tom hudson. we'll see all of you again next week. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> gerald stern was born in pittsburgh, 1925. his parents immigrated from poland and ukraine. gerald stern, who said, "poetry should be passionate and outrageous and political and most of all revolutionary." >> in all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots i have never seen a post-war philco with the automatic eye nor heard ravel's "bolero" the way i did in 1945 in that tiny living room on beechwood boulevard,

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we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your support. >> tom: support that makes programs like "nightly business report" possible. >> susie: thanks for joining us and don't forget to support your public television station. i'm susie gharib. have a great weekend everyone. you too, tom >> tom: goodnight, susie. i'm tom hudson. we'll see all of you again next week. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org uh, sometimes, yes. okay. i'll tell you what we'll do. i'm not a gambler. i was once told to take a bet on the grand national, and i lost, and i thought, "well, this is ridiculous. - there goes £10. i'm not doing this again." - mm-hm. but, i will make an exception. this has just come out of my pocket-- what have we got here? 20, 40, 60, 80... there's about £100 there. i bet you £100 you haven't had these for very long. you would be correct. you owe me 10

we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your support. >> tom: support that makes programs like "nightly business report" possible. thanks for joining us.. and don't forget to support your public television station. i'm susie gharib. >> tom: goodnight, susie. i'm tom hudson. we'll see all of you again next week. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org d i'm not a collector, but i find them irresistible because they are moments of time captured forever. now, are you the postcard collector? no, they're not mine. they were my brother's. and when he died, he passed them on to my daughter. - so she owns them. lucky girl. - she does. what was his interest? he collected postcards for many many years and he just liked to have any subjects within local history and old burnham and highbridge. what started him? i think it was just p

we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your support... >> susie: ...support that makes programs like "nightly business report" possible. >> tom: thanks for joining us, and don't forget to support your public television station. i'm tom hudson. good night, everyone. you., too, susie >> susie: good night, tom. i'm susie gharib. we'll see all of you again tomorrow evening. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> more information about investing is available in: to order this dvd, call 1-800- play-pbs or visit online at shoppbs.org. >> be more. >> be more. pbs.d belonged to your grandmother, right. yes, it was her ashtray, actually. - her ashtray. - her ashtray, yes. it was on her bedside cabinet. goodness me. what an amazing ashtray. - do you think that's what it was made for? - i have no idea. it's got a few stains on the back. looks as if it might

we want to reminds you, this is the time of year your public television station seeks your support. >> susie: it is the support that makes programs like nightly business report possible. >> tom: thanks for joining us tonight. don't forget to support your local public television station have. a great night. >> susie: same to you. i am a susie gharib. hope to see all of you again tomorrow night. >> nightly business report is made possible by this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ptioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org which is very close to lancaster. and it's part of the morecambe and lancaster history. you've got the evidence to prove it 'cause you've brought along a couple of photographs. this one-- now, this clock tower is still there on the front? it's still situated on morecambe promenade. there we see not just one, but we've got a pair of these pots, haven't we? to be frank with you, it probably needed a visa to get here... - right. - ...because this has come from over the b

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all you have to do is support this public television station.ura savini: i'm with moya brennan, who of course is the host of the music of ireland: welcome home and in the group clannad or clannad as you say in ireland. and you play the harp. and we're actually in the long room at trinity college and we're in front of a very important harp. moya brennan: yes, this is known as the brian boru harp. and brian boru was an ancient king of ireland and there was a big battle that he died at. this harp isn't dated at the time of brian boru but it's regarded as, kind of i suppose, in honor of him. it's round about the 1400s. laura savini: and the harp actually became the symbol of ireland. moya brennan: it's the only country in the world that has a musical instrument as its emblem. laura savini: and what you did with the harp and with your family, you took the music of ireland from this sound that the bards had and you really injected a new flavor to it. explain how it came about that you really became the founders of the new irish sound. moya brennan: we

we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your support. >> susie: support that makes programs like "nightly business report" possible. >> tom: thanks for joining us. and don't forget to support your public television station. i'm tom hudson. good night, everyone. you too, susie. >> susie: good night, tom. i'm susie gharib. we'll see all of you again tomorrow evening. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org z?@ isn't that great? where did you get it from? i got it from a charity shop just down the road. very period, isn't it? i would think that's, what? mid 1950s, something like that? it's got the maker's name there, "thorens," who were quite a well-known maker at the time. "riviera" is the style. and you press, presumably, the red button, is it? - yeah. - and there we are. and it goes in the black button to stop. and it's nice that it's got its original

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patrick butler, president and ceo of the associated of public television stations. mike palmer, director for the direct -- for the associated press. we will skip over the podium and the next go to alice and fitzgerald. she is vice chair of our press club's speakers' committee. maryland is the senior business editor for npr. patricia harris and its president and ceo of the corporation for public broadcasting and a guest of our speaker. andrea's down is washington correspondent for aol news. how about a warm round of applause? [applause] lindsey arent usually delivers the news, but in recent months -- and he are usually delivers the news. last october, the decision to cut ties with juan williams infuriated conservatives. npr is in the news again. it would be a blow to local member stations and destabilizing for npr itself, which celebrates its 40th anniversary on the air next month. this battle is not the first crisis that vivian schiller has faced. when she came to npr in to douse the nine, the u.s. economy was unraveling. -- 2009, the u.s. economy was unraveling. sh

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