Sunsta News: November 2012

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Slow Cookers: Best of the Best

Walk Through Computer History

Oct. 30, 2012: Ian King, senior vintage systems engineer at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, loads a large disk drive that holds 5mb of data into a working DEC 11/70 minicomputer from 1975.AP

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Clint Eastwood on 'Hannity'

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First came The Daily Meal's 101 Best Restaurants in America, then 101 Best Hotel Restaurants Around the World. Now, The Daily Meal has set its sights on Europe. Each week this fall, The Daily Meal will highlight the best restaurants in various regions in Europe, culminating with the debut of our first list of the 101 Best Restaurants in Europe in December.

Perennially on the quest to find the best places to eat and dine in cities large and small, The Daily Meal continues its European culinary tour in Italy.

The Daily Meal’s list of the 25 Best Restaurants in Italy was carefully curated through a two-month-long nomination process; we consulted the Michelin Guide and other trusted sources and gathered recommendations from The Daily Meal’s editors, who have traveled and dined extensively around the world.

Once we compiled a preliminary list of more than 100 restaurants, we reached out to a panel of knowledgeable judges, comprised of restaurant critics, food and lifestyle writers, and bloggers with wide restaurant-going experience. They added their own favorites, and then voted for the winners. Some of our judges requested anonymity. Among those we can thank publically are Libby Andrews, Kathy Bechtel, Jonell Galloway-White, Elizabeth Minchilli, Agusti Jausas, Roger Morris, Chiara Pannozzo, and Joe Ray.

Panelists voted in two categories: cuisine and style/décor/service. From innovative menu options to plating and presentation to freshness, quality, and taste, panelists evaluated each restaurant’s cuisine and only voted for the restaurants which they believe are extraordinary. For the second category, panelists evaluated the dining experience, from the restaurant’s interior and dining room ambiance to the service, voting for the restaurants which they believe offer an unrivaled experience. Each restaurant had the chance to be voted on twice during the survey. Finally, the percentage scores from each category were averaged to arrive at the final ranking.

With dozens of restaurants to choose from, it was a culinary challenge to whittle the list down to a select 25. Restaurants offering a variety of cuisines, from classic French to fusion were considered. We did not discriminate on location; no village, town, or island was off the table. The list is populated entirely with Italian restaurants. Interestingly, La Pergola at Rome Cavalieri, which appeared on The Daily Meal’s 101 Best Hotel Restaurants Around the World, also made this list, while Loggia Restaurant at Villa San Michele in Florence and Restaurant Terrazza Danieli at Hotel Danieli in Venice

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Tebow Dating Jonas' Ex

March 26, 2012: Tim Tebow holds his first news conference with the New York Jets, in Florham Park, N.J.AP

Jets quarterback Tim Tebow is dating actress Camilla Belle.

Sources tell The Post the couple met at the Met Ball in May and have quietly been seeing each other ever since.

Tebow, who lives in storm-damaged Hoboken, and Belle avoided the wrath of Sandy by spending the weekend and the early part of this week in Jacksonville, Fla., The Post reports, where his parents have a place.

The Jets have some time off because of their NFL bye week.

The two were spotted at Latitude 30 in Jacksonville on Tuesday night, where they bowled

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'46 Dodge Power Wagon Returns

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Now this is a Chrysler product we can actually believe Clint Eastwood would drive.

The Legacy Power Wagon is a customized version of Dodge’s 1946-1968 vintage truck, refurbished and fitted with modern underpinnings. Built by Legacy Classic Trucks, a small outfit in the suitably rugged, yet upscale locale of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the old girl has plenty of new tricks.

Legacy starts with the chassis of an original donor vehicle, puts it through a frame-off restoration, primes and paints it on a rotisserie rig to hit every nook and cranny, then goes to work on the running gear and interior appointments.

The trucks are built to order and can be had with a variety of engines including a fuel-injected 360 cubic-inch Magnum V8 stroked to 426 cu-in or a 4.5-liter 4-cylinder Cummins turbodiesel engine with 500 lb-ft of torque. Manual and automatic transmissions are available and a 4x4 drivetrain comes standard with Dynatrac and Dana axles, locking differentials and an Atlas transfer case.

The tow-rating is a healthy 8,000 pounds, while a long-travel leaf-sprung suspension with Bilstein shocks can be complimented with a set of beadlock wheels for off-road capability that would likely give a Jeep Scrambler a run for its money. Even if you overdo it, a 16,500-pound front-mounted winch should be enough to get you out of trouble.

Inside, the Power Wagon gets an all-new quarter-inch steel plate dashboard with bespoke New Vintage gauges and Carling rocker switches, along with a set of leather upholstered captain’s chairs.

Along with the standard cab model, Legacy can do extended cab and four-door versions or a Carryall-style SUV. Prices are slightly higher than the $1,627 list price of the 1946 original, starting at $119,950 and running up to $249,000 for a Woodie wagon with bodywork constructed from mahogany and ash that takes 2,000 man hours to make.

Nevertheless, business has been brisk by boutique auto shop standards. Company founder Winslow Bent says that in the three years he’s been in business he’s delivered 25 trucks around the world and has five more under construction.

Clint’s Super Bowl commercial may have featured the new Power Wagon, but, as with him, it’s clearly hard to resist the appeal of an original.

Read: ICON's 'new' 1965 Dodge pickup

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Secretly Unhealthy Foods

Make sure your pick meets at least two of Greaves’s requirements: fewer than 15 grams of sugar, less than 2 grams of saturated fat, at least 3 grams of fiber, and at least 5 grams of protein.

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First Stars in Universe Seen

Nov. 1, 2012: Ultraviolet and visible light emitted by all the stars that ever existed is still coursing through the universe. Astronomers refer to this "fog" of starlight as the extragalactic background light (EBL).NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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UN to Regulate Web Next Month

Oct. 17, 2011: Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Hamadoun Toure of Mali gestures during a news conference in Geneva.REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

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Zombies Attack in California

US military prepares for 'zombie apocalypse'

Zombies captured a VIP and a quick reaction team rescued a downed pilot, all while drug criminals launched an attack on a resort island off the coast of California.

Has the apocalypse finally come to the Golden State?

No, but law enforcement sure has.

A Halloween-themed five-day counter-terrorism training event, held by the Halo Corp. and funded in part by DHS, bookends Halloween this year. The event gave more than 1,000 military personnel as well as federal, state and local law enforcement hands-on experience with threats rooted in reality -- all save for those zombies, of course.

"This is a very real exercise; this is not some type of big costume party," Brad Barker, president of Halo Corp., told the Associated Press. "Everything that will be simulated at this event has already happened, it just hasn't happened all at once on the same night. But the training is very real, it just happens to be the bad guys we're having a little fun with."

Zombies! Everywhere!

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pioneered the use of zombies for emergency preparedness, to great success.

This smart strategy was underpinned by the truism that if you are prepared for a zombie apocalypse, then you will be ready to deal with any hurricane, earthquake pandemic or terrorist coming your way.

The mix of first responders in a controlled environment will foster improved command and control across communities in the event of a terrorist incident, Barker told FoxNews.com.

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Letterman TV Gold for Kimmel

In this Oct. 31, 2012 photo released by ABC, host Jimmy Kimmel, right, speaks with guest David Letterman during "Jimmy Kimmel Live," in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York's late-night TV hosts were back in swing, though, with all resuming regular production Wednesday. Kimmel, who usually broadcasts from Los Angeles, is doing a week of shows in Brooklyn.AP/Disney ABC Television Group

Jimmy Kimmel said David Letterman had fulfilled a childhood dream by appearing on his rival talk show Wednesday night, and it looks like the late night tete a tete delivered dream ratings as well.

Letterman’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live brought the show 2.35 million viewers, it's biggest Wednesday audience since its debut in 2003.

The late night lovefest came after both Letterman and Kimmel had played to empty theaters for two nights due to Hurricane Sandy.

Letterman hosting the "Late Show" to an unpeopled Ed Sullivan Theater on Tuesday, as he did on Monday, was the oddest sight of the considerable and continuing cultural fallout of the hurricane that left New York institutions like Broadway, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center no more open for business than the city's damaged subway system.

But the New York entertainment industry was fighting to go on with the show, and none more than several of the city's late-night shows. Though "The Colbert Report" and "The Daily Show" canceled tapings for the second day, the "Late Show," Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night" and a traveling out-of-towner, ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," went ahead with shows Tuesday.

When "Late Show" band leader Paul Schafer asked Letterman how they were supposed to approach such an awkward situation, Letterman quickly replied: "Just like every night: We pretend the audience isn't here."

When Letterman introduced his first guest, Kate Hudson, the actress didn't stride out; instead appeared a middle-aged bald man - presumably an employee of the "Late Show" - who bantered with Letterman as if he were Hudson.

The three shows took varied approaches to inviting audiences to brave the difficult transportation prospects. Kimmel, a Brooklyn native, had planned to begin a week of shows in the borough on Monday. He began them a day late on Tuesday - with audience - at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

"I was born in Bay Ridge. I grew up in Mill Basin, and tonight I have returned to save my people from the storm," said Kimmel, referring to Brooklyn neighborhoods. "Thank you for ignoring the local authorities to be here tonight."

Like Letterman, Fallon had hosted his show Monday without an audience - an experience that guest Seth Meyers compared to watching Charlie Rose "if he had a band and everybody was a little high" - but he happily welcomed audience members back on Tuesday.

"First off, thanks to our great audience for making it out to the show tonight," Fallon began his monologue Tuesday. "I'm so glad you're here, because last night's audience was the worst."

As the city took account of the damage wrought by the storm, the aftermath of Sandy continued to cause the cancellations of film premieres, film and TV production and even that most unshakable performer: Bruce Springsteen.

The Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert scheduled for Tuesday night at the Rochester Blue Cross Arena in upstate New York was postponed until Wednesday because of flight cancellations for the band and ticket holders.

The city revoked film permits for a second day Tuesday. The sets of "Smash," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "30 Rock," "Deception" and "Do No Harm" were closed, NBC said, and "SVU" didn't tape Wednesday. Other series temporarily knocked out of production included "666 Park," "Gossip Girl" and "Person of Interest."

Films forced to stop shooting include Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" and Akiva Goldsman's "Winter's Tale," and the Tuesday premiere of Joe Wright's Tolstoy adaptation "Anna Karenina" was canceled.

ABC's "Good Morning America," NBC's "Today" show and "CBS This Morning" aired live Tuesday with extensive storm coverage, though "GMA" was forced to cancel its planned Wednesday Halloween special.

Daytime shows were less successful, with production called off for "Live! With Kelly and Michael," "Katie," "The View" and "The Chew."

All 40 Broadway theaters were closed, and while most hoped to be open Wednesday, both "The Lion King" and "Mary Poppins" announced that Wednesday's shows would also be canceled.

Two Broadway shows were even offering a special discount - if you could walk to their theaters. Tickets to the Roundabout Theatre Company's productions of both "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" were going for $20 for Wednesday's matinee and evening shows to customers who show their MetroCards, made useless by the storm.

Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center canceled performances and the Metropolitan Opera and Radio City Music Hall were also closed. The 57th Street entrance to Carnegie Hall - which also canceled Wednesday concerts - was blocked by a street closure because of a dangling crane. The Metropolitan Opera said Tuesday that it planned to go ahead with its Wednesday evening performance of Thomas Ades' "The Tempest."

The Apollo Theater was forced to postpone its signature show, the Amateur Night finale, from Wednesday night to Nov. 14. Apollo president and CEO Jonelle Procope said finalists weren't able to travel to the event.

The financial hit for touring musicians will depend in part on how long it takes transit and other infrastructure to return to normal, said Gary Bongiovanni of Pollstar, the trade publication that tracks the concert industry. Atlantic City, where a lot of acts perform, was particularly hard hit. New York concert cancellations included those for Journey at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn and a Beacon Theater benefit concert for marriage equality that was to feature Rufus Wainwright, the National and They Might Be Giants.

The storm also jolted one of the gaming industry's biggest releases of the year. GameStop stores canceled planned midnight launches of the highly anticipated Ubisoft video game "Assassin's Creed III" throughout the Northeast, but Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter doesn't anticipate the storm will derail the interactive medium at the beginning of its busiest sales season.

"That won't impact overall game sales," Pachter said. "The people who stayed home last night will buy it tomorrow."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Is This the Next Han Solo?

Oct. 15, 2011: In this file photo, "Darth Vader" accepts the Ultimate Villain award from "Star Wars" creator George Lucas during the 2011 Scream Awards, in Los Angeles.AP

Fans were thrown into a frenzy this week when news emerged that Disney had purchased George Lucas’s famed Lucasfilm for more than $4 billion, along with the announcement that audiences will not only get a seventh episode of

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College lets transgender man expose himself to young girls in locker room

said David Hacker, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defending Freedom. A group of concerned parents contacted the legal firm for help.

Hacker said a 45-year-old male student, who dresses as a woman and goes by the name Colleen Francis, undressed and exposed his genitals on several occasions inside the woman’s locker room at Evergreen State College.

Students from nearby Olympia High School as well as children at a local swimming club share locker rooms with the college.

According to a police report, the mother of a 17-year-old girl complained after her daughter saw the transgender individual walking naked in the locker room. A female swim coach confronted the man sprawled out in a sauna exposing himself. She ordered him to leave and called police.

The coach later apologized when she discovered the man was transgendered but explained there were girls using the facility as young as six years old who weren’t used to seeing male genitals.

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Obama's assault weapons answer could pose problem

President Obama may have been tossing a bone to his base, but one answer in the second presidential debate could come back to haunt him with a key voter group -- gun owners.

When asked what the administration has done or plans to do to limit assault weapons at the Oct. 16 debate, Obama said part of the solution to gun violence "is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced."

That comment caught fire with gun owners.

"If there are undecided voters who put the Second Amendment as their first issue, then certainly the president's remark about bringing back any type of gun ban is going to chase away those voters," said Joe Eaton, a regional coordinator with the Buckeye Firearms Association in Ohio.

One of those is independent voter Robert Brewer from Cincinnati.

When he heard the president's renewed support for an assault weapons ban, Brewer said, "I was thinking I was born in a country (where) I had a right to keep and bear arms and I don't know what he's talking about. It goes against the Constitution, which gives me the right to keep and bear arms and that right shall not be infringed."

Pro-gun activists never considered President Obama an ally, after he campaigned in favor of such a gun ban in 2008. Once in the White House, however, Obama did not pursue it. After the mass shooting in Colorado, Obama aides said that the president supports the ban that expired in 2004. But the president had not called for reinstating it until the recent debate.

In Colorado, another important battleground state, Rich Wyatt heard the president loud and clear.

"He wants to do something that is complete violation of our Second Amendment rights and that's going to hurt him when it comes to swing states like Colorado," said Wyatt, owner of the Gunsmoke gun store outside of Denver.

While gun owners may not consider Obama their friend on firearms issues, legislatively he hasn't done anything serious to hurt them. His comment, though, could wake a sleeping giant in a few key places.

Nationwide, there are 90 million gun owners in the U.S., but in the eight critical swing states, already this year more than 2.1 million potential voters bought guns.

Some bought for personal protection, others for target shooting. But in those eight states -- Colorado, Iowa, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin -- 2 million hold hunting licenses. That includes 413,710 in Ohio, and 288,086 in Colorado, two states critical to the president's re-election.

"I am definitely concerned," said new mother Stephanie Thomas, as her baby was sleeping in a carrier on a gun display case inside Target World, an Ohio gun shop. "I wanted to come in and make my purchase before the election."

Referring to the president's proposed ban, she said, "It makes me nervous. I have three children and a home to protect."
Thomas bought a shotgun and a full case of ammo.

Passed under a Democrat-controlled Congress in 1994, the assault weapons ban expired in 2004. Filled with loopholes, critics say it did little to reduce gun violence, since most crimes are committed with hand guns, not bulky rifles with long stocks and barrels.

Used mostly for hunting and target shooting, the AK-47 and AR-15, which is a civilian version of the U.S. military issue M16, these so-called assault rifles are used in fewer than 1 percent of all violent crimes in the U.S., according to studies based on Justice Department data. And despite the negative publicity surrounding these weapons, the rate of gun-related murder and manslaughter fell 11 percent from 2008 to 2010, according to federal statistics.

However, with a few exceptions, congressional Democrats support background checks at gun shows, and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines like the ones used in Aurora, Colo. Laxer gun laws, they argue, mean more homicides and suicides. They point to Ohio, where according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the firearm homicide rate now exceeds that of California. The campaign claims Ohio's firearm homicide rate surged after the Buckeye State passed a concealed-carry law allowing many gun owners to obtain a concealed-carry permit.

In the second debate, Obama said: "I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theatres don't belong on our streets." He added, "What I want is a comprehensive strategy, part of it is seeing if we get automatic weapons that kill folks in amazing numbers out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill."

However, the president's critics say assault weapons do not differ materially from non-military style firearms. In both cases, each weapon fires one bullet for each pull of the trigger.

Anti-gun activists, though, point to assault rifles' large magazines and their ability to hold more than 10 bullets.

After the movie theater massacre in Aurora this past July, gun control advocate and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on both Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to address how they would try to curb gun violence. Bloomberg at the time called on the White House to back a new assault weapons ban.

"Somebody's got to do something about this, and this requires particularly in a presidential year, the candidates for president of the United States to stand up and once and for all say ... 'It's time for this country to do something'," Bloomberg told CBS' "Face the Nation" in July.

Despite the president's desire to ban certain firearms, Congress is unlikely to adopt any meaningful gun controls. However, the courts are another matter. Both recent Supreme Court rulings affirming an individuals' right to own a firearm were 5-4 decisions. Additional cases limiting gun rights are making their way through the lower federal courts, and many gun experts say the next battleground for the Second Amendment is back at the Supreme Court.

In response to Obama's debate comments, the National Rifle Association came out with a new ad. It warns, "Obama put two justices on the Supreme Court who threaten our right to self-defense. Defend freedom, defeat Obama."

Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, who typically land on the pro-Second Amendment side of the fence, are 76. If either is replaced by an anti-gun successor, pro-gun activists fear their rights will erode.

"What worries me the most about President Obama getting re-elected is at that point we'll see the real true Barack Obama," Wyatt said.

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Brazilian model dies after botched liposuction

Our intention is to find out if the surgery went ahead with her alive or after she had died to try to hide an unsuccessful attempt to save her," Lemos said.

A spokesman for Green Hill Hospital, one of Sao Paulo's most exclusive plastic surgery clinics, said they had opened an investigation into the tragedy.

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Ex-Penn State president charged in Sandusky case

Former Penn State President Graham B. Spanier was charged Thursday with hushing up child molestation allegations against Jerry Sandusky, making him the third school official to be accused of crimes in the alleged cover-up.

Prosecutors also added counts against the two former underlings, Timothy M. Curley and Gary C. Schultz, who were already charged with lying to the grand jury that investigated the former Penn State assistant football coach.

Spanier was charged with perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children and conspiracy. Curley and Schultz face new charges of endangering the welfare of children, obstruction and conspiracy.

"This was not a mistake by these men, this was not an oversight," said state Attorney General Linda Kelly. "It was not misjudgment on their part. This was a conspiracy of silence by top officials to actively conceal the truth."

Curley and Schultz have repeatedly asserted they are innocent, and at a news conference this summer Spanier's attorneys insisted he was never told there was anything of a sexual nature involving Sandusky and children. Messages left for their respective attorneys Thursday were not immediately returned.

The district judge in suburban Harrisburg where charges were filed said the defendants were expected in his courtroom Friday.

Sandusky, who spent decades on the Penn State staff and was defensive coordinator during two national championship seasons, was convicted in June of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years. He has maintained he is innocent and was transferred to a maximum security prison on Wednesday, where he is serving a 30- to 60-year sentence.

Curley, 58, the athletic director on leave while he serves out the last year of his contract, and Schultz, 63, who has retired as vice president for business and finance, were charged a year ago with lying to the grand jury and with failing to properly report suspect child abuse. Their trial is set for early January in Harrisburg.

Spanier, 64, of State College, had been university president for 16 years when he was forced out as president after Sandusky's November 2011 arrest.

Prosecutors said all three knew of complaints involving Sandusky showering with boys in 1998 and 2001.

"They essentially turned a blind eye to the serial predatory acts committed by Jerry Sandusky," Kelly said.

The grand jury report said "the actual harm realized by this wanton failure is staggering," and listed abuse that happened after 1998.

"The continued cover-up of this incident and the ongoing failure to report placed every minor child who would come into contact with Sandusky in the future in grave jeopardy of being abused," jurors wrote.

Spanier has said he had no memory of email traffic concerning the 1998 complaint -- by a woman that Sandusky had showered with her son -- and only slight recollections about the 2001 complaint -- by a team assistant who said he stumbled onto Sandusky sexually abusing a boy inside a campus shower.

The grand jury report included with the charges indicate Curley, Schultz and Spanier told the university's lawyer they had no documents that addressed inappropriate conduct with boys by Sandusky.

But Schultz did retain a Sandusky file in his office, the jury concluded. He told his administrative assistant Joan Coble never to look at it, according to the grand jury.

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Woman forced to cover 'Vote the Bible' shirt at polls

targeted because of her religious beliefs.’

He says he's prepared to defend Hill because he believes she was asked to give up her religious freedom in order to vote.

"This is obviously a religious free expression and no one should be put in a position having to choose religious freedom over deciding to vote," he said.

According to Texas law, a person cannot suggest how another person should vote by word, sign or gesture while in a polling place.

Williamson County said its poll volunteers were following state election laws, and besides there's only one word on that shirt that they have a problem with.

"The shirt did say vote so it did have to do with voting," said Williamson County Public Affairs Director Connie Watson.

Watson says the shirt violates state laws regarding elections.

"Electioneering or loitering within 100 feet of the entrance to the polling place or inside the polling place is not allowed. Electioneering would cover wearing a hat, a pen, a T-shirt or a sign that would indicate a position for a political party, candidate or a proposition," said Watson.

Seinz argues that Hill's shirt did none of that.

"Nothing says that you can't have a shirt that says vote the Bible. The last time I checked Republicans and Democrats, it's not a partisan issue on the bible," Seinz said.

An election worker gave Hill a jacket to cover up the T-shirt. In the end, she was able to vote.

Seinz says if Williamson County doesn't apologize to Hill and allow the shirt to be worn to the polls, they will file a formal complaint with the Attorney General.

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EXCLUSIVE: Study financed by US treasury will link tax code to carbon emissions

including the possible levying of new carbon taxes.

That campaign is bound to intensify in the aftermath of Nov. 6’s presidential election, regardless of who wins the race, as the nation faces the challenge of deficit reduction and tax reform that will be required to overhaul the country’s over-strained finances. Environmental advocates and others are likely to raise such innovative mechanisms as carbon taxes and major shifts in tax rates and incentives as part of the process

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Detroit boy disappears on way to trick-or-treating

Tywon Young left his Detroit home around 4:30 p.m. to meet with friends, but he never arrived, police sayMyFoxDetroit.com

Police are searching for a missing nine-year-old boy who they say left his home Wednesday to go trick-or-treating and hasn't been seen since, MyFoxDetroit.com reported.

Police say Tywon Young left his Detroit home around 4:30 p.m. to meet with some friends, but he never arrived.

Police say Young is 4'6" and weighs 80 pounds. Young left the house wearing a blue polo vest, stone washed jeans, a dark and light blue-striped sweater and Timberland boots. Police checked in the area and spoke with friends of the boy who said they hadn't seen him.

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Ex-Major Leaguer murdered in Dominican Republic

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British man pleads guilty to selling missile parts to Iran

April 25, 2012: In this file photo, Christopher Tappin, left, leaves federal court with one of his lawyers, Kent Schaffer, in El Paso, Texas.AP/File

EL PASO, Texas – A British man accused of trying to buy missile parts from undercover American agents and resell them to Iran pleaded guilty Thursday in a deal that would carry nearly three years in prison but could allow him to serve much of that time in his native United Kingdom.

Christopher Tappin, 66, faced charges of conspiracy to illegally export defense articles, aiding and abetting the illegal export of defense articles and conspiracy to conduct illegal financial transactions.

He pleaded guilty to the second count of the indictment Thursday in a hearing in El Paso. The deal calls for 33 months in prison, but as part of the agreement, prosecutors have agreed not to oppose his request to be transferred back to his home country. It also carries a fine of $11,357, the amount of money he would have profited from missile parts deal for which he was indicted.

U.S. District Judge David Briones will decide Tappin's sentence Jan. 9.

The retired British businessman has been living in an upscale Houston neighborhood since his release on a $1 million bond in April.

Tappin's last half year in the U.S. has been "as pleasant as time away from his family can be," his lawyer Dan Cogdell said after the hearing. "He plays golf every day, he's made new friends, but he is away from his family."

Tappin's wife, Elaine, said in a statement Thursday that she hoped her husband's plea deal would mark the "beginning of the end" of her family's ordeal. She added her "overwhelming feeling remains one of anxiety and sadness ... however at last I dare hope that Chris will be back on home soil next year."

The federal indictment filed in 2007 said a cooperating defendant provided computer files showing Tappin intended to send surface-to-air-missile batteries to a Tehran-based company and that he and the cooperating defendant had illegally sold U.S. technology to Iran in the past.

In 2006, Robert Gibson, an associate of Tappin contacted an undercover company in order to procure batteries for Hawk Surface-To-Air Defense Missiles. The negotiations let to Gibson's arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The U.S. government alleged Tappin provided undercover agents with false documents to deceive authorities and circumvent the requirement for the batteries to be licensed by the government before being exported.

Tappin's extradition in February touched a nerve in Britain, where many contend the fast-track extradition arrangements between the U.K. and the U.S. are unfairly weighted in Washington's favor.

Cogdell said he didn't see much room for argument and pleaded guilty "because he was guilty."

"He regrets his conduct, he regrets the time away from his family, he regrets the notoriety," the attorney said.

Tappin remained free on bond pending his sentencing. Cogdell said he expected Tappin to spend several months in a U.S. prison after he enters his request to serve the remainder of his sentence in his home country. The request will have to be approved by the Office of Enfocement Operations of the Department of Justice. The British government will also have to accept Tappin in one of its prisons.

Tappin fought extradition to the United States for two years until being denied a petition to take the case to Britain's Supreme Court. After he was brought to Texas, Tappin was held at the Otero County Jail for about two months, where he initially was put in solitary confinement at his request.

Two men have already been sentenced to prison for charges stemming from the indictment. Gibson, another British national, pleaded guilty in April 2007 and was sentenced to 24 months in prison. Robert Caldwell, from Oregon, was found guilty in July of that year and received a 20-month sentence.

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Military Trucks to Serve as Election Day Polling Places

MOONACHIE, N.J. – New Jersey will deploy military trucks to serve as polling places on Election Day in storm-battered communities, the state secretary of the state announced Thursday during a visit to this flood-ravaged town. The state is also extending the deadline on mail-in ballots.

Department of Defense trucks will be parked at regular polling places that have lost power, as long as the sites are still accessible. Paper ballots will be used.

Republican Secretary of State and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno said voters will find "a DOD truck with a well-situated National Guardsman and a big sign saying, "Vote Here."

Guadagno said it was still unclear how many of the state's 3,000 polling places are without power, but she would know by Friday. Alternate sites are to be identified in cases where polling places are gone, she said.

More than 1.6 million electric customers in New Jersey remained without power Thursday night.

The state also extended the deadline for when county clerks may accept mail-in ballot applications to the close of business Friday. Election officials said they could be handed in as late as Election Day, by the close of the polls.

The secretary of state urged as many people as possible in storm-damaged areas to vote by mail-in ballot because, she said, "obviously in places like Seaside Heights and Sea Bright, there is no polling place, it's gone."

"There's no reason not to vote, there's no reason not to vote today, there's certainly no reason not to vote on Tuesday, five days from today," Guadagno said.

Gov. Chris Christie said that in areas without electricity, voting would again be "old school."

"You walk up, get a paper ballot, fill it out and hand it back in," he said.

With paper ballots to be counted, the governor said some races might be more suspenseful.

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Obama Changing Timetable For Fixing the Economy?

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Despite saying in 2009 that failing to right the economy in three years would mean a "one-term proposition," President Obama on Thursday may have moved the goalposts.

"Now, we knew from the beginning that our work would take more than one year, or even one term -- because let's face it, the middle class was getting hammered long before the financial crisis hit," Obama said in Green Bay, Wis., as he ventured back onto the campaign trail after a three-day hiatus due to super storm Sandy.

The possible adjustment in the president's timetable for turning around the economy comes one day before the Labor Department is set to release the October jobs report. Last month's survey provided a dose of seemingly good news for the economy and for Obama's re-election campaign, showing the jobless rate dipping below 8 percent. Some economists, though, questioned the accuracy of the stat - and the report being released Friday is the last major economic survey to drop before Election Day.

The president has long been making the case that he just needs more time to finish the job he started. At an August 2011 fundraiser, he said: "When I said change we can believe in, I didn't say change we can believe in tomorrow."

The claim, though, that "we knew from the beginning" it would take more than one term is a departure from what Obama told NBC's Matt Lauer in February 2009. At the time, Obama said, "A year from now, I think people are going to see that we're starting to make some progress, but there's still going to be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."

The Romney campaign hasn't forgotten about the 2009 remark.

"Four years ago, President Obama made a series of commitments to the nation and said that he didn't deserve a second term if he failed to keep them," Romney spokesman Ryan Williams told FoxNews.com in an email, following Obama's Green Bay remarks. "Now, faced with a record of broken promises and failed policies, the president is trying to reissue and repackage the same pledges and mislead Americans into believing that the results will somehow be different."

Thursday was the first day since Sandy hit that both candidates were out on the trail in full force, and they bickered over who can claim the mantle of the "change" candidate.

Romney's campaign says the former Massachusetts governor is the only one offering "real change." Obama, though, argued that his opponent is merely offering to return America to the policies of the George W. Bush administration -- policies that he claims unfairly favor the wealthy.

The president was campaigning Thursday in Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado, while Romney made a three-stop swing through Virginia.

All four are important battlegrounds. But Romney's campaign also revealed Thursday that it's pushing into Pennsylvania, reportedly planning a rally for Sunday in the state that has backed Democrats in recent presidential races.

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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/redskelton380552.htmlCongress,Bingo,BillionsLive by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/redskelton389589.htmlForget,May,MatterOur principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/redskelton388364.htmlHappiness,God,ChildrenI left home because I was hungry.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/redskelton298466.htmlHome,Left,HungryHis death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

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As Economy Slows, China Looks For A New Model

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but to keep the market open as a purely electronic exchange.

This decision caused "a revolt," Reuters reports. The revolt came from financial firms that:

did not want their employees to have to report to work in the midst of the worst storm to hit New York City since at least 1938, a storm that was forecast to bring flooding, punishing winds and widespread power outages.

"It was, 'Please don't do this. The market is not ready'," one of the sources said.

So the NYSE, in conjunction with NASDAQ and other all-electronic exchanges, reversed itself and decided to shut down entirely Monday. The market remains closed today, and is likely to re-open Wednesday.

There is a lot of truth to the narrative about computers taking over the market. Most trades do indeed occur on all-electronic exchanges. Computers do indeed make superfast trades with other computers.

But the NYSE still plays a critical role by holding auctions at the beginning and end of the trading day to determine the opening and closing prices of major stocks, the WSJ notes. They are testing out a way to do this electronically, but for now, it's done by those guys on the trading floor you see in the pictures.

U.S. bond trading also stopped early on Monday, and has yet to resume. An industry group that represents trading firms and banks called for the shutdown. Bonds don't get as much coverage as stocks in the popular press, but they play an even bigger role than stocks for financial firms.

All this is a useful reminder that "Wall Street" is not just a metaphor. It's an actual street that sits at the center of a financial district where tens of thousands of people go to work every day. For now, anyway, if those people can't get to work, the financial system can't function.

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Even facing economic headwinds in Europe and South America, GM's quarterly earnings came in well above analysts' estimates, and its stock soared.

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General Motors earned one and a half billion dollars in the third quarter. While that's less than the company made a year ago at this time - it's a whole lot better than some investors expected.

And as Michigan Radio's Tracy Samilton reports, the company's stock soared on the news.

TRACY SAMILTON, BYLINE: While the debate about the wisdom of the auto bailout remains a stubborn fixture on the presidential campaign trail, General Motors has been working hard to maximize its profits and that work seems to be paying off.

Dan Amman is GM's Chief Financial Officer. He says, despite a big competitor like Toyota bouncing back in North America, and a crippling recession in Europe, and a slowing Chinese economy...

DAN AMMAN: We grew revenue, grew profits, grew margins, grew cash flow.

SAMILTON: In fact, GM made money in every except Europe.

AMMAN: This is more than just a North America story, it's really, you know, a global story.

SAMILTON: GM's stock rose nearly 10 percent on the news.

Gary Bradshaw is a portfolio manager with Hodges Capital and says investors figured GM would earn 60 cents per share in the third quarter. The company earned 90 cents and its revenue was nearly $2 billion more than expected.

GARY BRADSHAW: I think investors are encouraged that that momentum will continue.

SAMILTON: While Bradshaw hasn't bought any GM stock in his client's portfolios yet, he's thinking about it. He figures GM's stock could double in the next couple of years.

At that rate, GM's biggest shareholder, the U.S. Treasury, could eventually break even, if there's enough political patience in the White House.

For NPR News, I'm Tracy Samilton in Ann Arbor.

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Japanese TV Maker Sharp Doubles Expected Net Loss

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Japanese TV maker Sharp on Thursday doubled its expected net loss for the year to more than $5 billion. The company also raised concerns about its ability to survive on its own. The news comes a day after another Japanese tech giant, Panasonic, forecast a nearly $10 billion loss for the year.

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The Japanese TV maker Sharp, this morning, announced it is doubling its expected net losses for the year to more than $5 billion. The company also raised concerns about its ability to survive on its own. This news comes a day after another Japanese tech giant, Panasonic, forecast a nearly $10 billion loss for the year.

It announced it will skip out on paying a dividend for the first time since 1950.

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The Complicated Economic Impact Of Sandy

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Sandy's economic cost won't be known for weeks or even months, but there are clear financial losers and some beneficiaries from the devastating storm. While airlines, many hotels and small businesses are clear losers, home improvement chains and construction crews will come out ahead. But overall, natural disasters are not good for the economy, despite the activity that rebuilding generates.

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Sandy is likely to go down as one of the costliest storms in U.S. history. The initial estimates of the losses are anywhere from $20 billion to $50 billion. But as NPR's Jim Zarroli reports, the impact on the economy is more complicated than it may appear. Some companies will even make money.

JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE: Economist Greg Daco has been tallying the potential costs of Hurricane Sandy and he says there's no question it's going to hurt the economy more than it will help it.

GREG DACO: I think overall, large hurricanes and large storm systems tend to have a net drag on the economy.

ZARROLI: The storm hit a huge swath of the country. Daco, of IHS Global Insight, says it will cost $10 billion to $20 billion in damages to infrastructure, such as houses, commercial buildings, highways and transit systems. And it will cost a similar amount in lost business at companies that have been forced to shut down in the storm's wake.

ZARROLI: Unlike Hurricane Irene, which happened over a weekend, Sandy took place on Monday and Tuesday, so a lot more work time was lost. Daco says some of that lost business can be made up later. Airlines, for instance, will lose a lot of money because of canceled flights. But they may add some later to make up for it. Likewise, a manufacturing plant might add extra shifts once things are back to normal. But Daco says some business is lost forever.

DACO: A good example of a permanent loss in terms of business is a restaurant that was closed during the storm. It will not really be able to make up for the loss in terms of sales.

ZARROLI: And that will have a big impact on many businesses and on their employees, who will lose wages during the shutdown. And small businesses are especially vulnerable. They often lack the financing and inventories of bigger companies and so they're more vulnerable to sudden disasters. Iqbal Singh runs a small grocery store in a blacked-out neighborhood of Manhattan. He stayed open this week, even after losing power because his operating costs are so high.

IQBAL SINGH: Once we lose the day, never make up. The rent is too high here. So we have to open. We're working for the landlord.

ZARROLI: So a lot of businesses will lose money, but a lot of others will fare better. A big storm can shave points off the country's growth rate, but some of it is made up later on. That's because there are always companies that profit from the rebuilding that takes place after a big storm like Sandy. Construction firms, clean-up companies, even tow truck drivers.

Jack Kleinhenz is chief economist at the National Retail Federation. He says certain kinds of retailers will profit in the months to come.

JACK KLEINHENZ: Those retailers that are providing materials, furnishings for replacement purposes are going to probably benefit.

ZARROLI: But Kleinhenz notes that the more people spend on rebuilding their homes, the less they will have to spend on other things.

KLEINHENZ: Firms that are in the discretionary world, you know, sellers of clothing, possibly jewelry, probably might be seeing a detriment to their revenues.

ZARROLI: And that's a special problem for retailers right now, because the holidays are approaching. It's the time of year when consumers typically spend a lot of money on discretionary purchases. And to the extent that Sandy cuts into consumers' purchasing power, they're going to shop less. And that's likely to affect the bottom line at a lot of companies.

Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York.

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Help Wanted In Switzerland: Hunting Tax Cheats

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Switzerland, which is almost synonymous with secretive banking, is looking for more staff to handle a flood of new requests from other countries that are looking for tax cheats. Last year the number of inquiries from overseas tax authorities almost doubled, to more than 700.

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And while we're on the subject of tax evasion, our last word in business today is: Help wanted.

Switzerland is looking for more staff to handle a flood of new requests from other countries that are looking for tax cheats.

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Switzerland is almost synonymous with secretive banking. But over the last several years, many countries - including the United States - have pressured the Swiss to give more information on suspected tax evaders. Swiss officials have agreed to beef up tax treaties so they can reveal more.

MONTAGNE: Last year the number of inquiries from overseas tax authorities almost doubled, to more than 700. So now Swiss officials have decided to go ahead and increase the number of people handling all those requests to 14.

And that's the business news on MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.

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Some Mixed Signals From Latest Jobs Numbers

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Consumer Confidence Hits Highest Point In Nearly Five Years

"Black Friday" 2011 in Manhattan. Will consumers come out in force this holiday season? Their confidence was high in October.

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By at least one measure, in October consumers were the most confident they've been since February 2008, the private Conference Board reports.

Its widely watched consumer confidence index rose to 72.2 from 68.4 in September. According to a statement from the board's director of economic indicators, Lynn Franco, "consumers were considerably more positive in their assessment of current conditions, with improvements in the job market as the major driver. Consumers were modestly more upbeat about their financial situation and the short-term economic outlook, and appear to be in better spirits approaching the holiday season."

Since consumers purchase about 70 percent of all goods and services, their mood is a key economic indicator.

This news follows the morning's other major economic indicators, which included word that private payrolls may have increased last month by about 158,000 jobs.

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Manhattan Businesses Struggle Without Power

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Sandy's Damage Under The Sea, Through The Eyes Of Oyster Farmers

"Norman Bloom takes his boat out to meet his son, Jimmy, whose boat is idling over the company's oyster beds, about a mile offshore from Norwalk. They worry that the waves and the turbulence may have suffocated the oysters under silt. They could have been banged around, which would break them. And they may have just cracked open and died, Jimmy fears." /

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Russia Set To Redefine Treason, Sparking Fears

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Day Of The Dead, Decoded: A Joyful Celebration Of Life And Food

"Skeletons: Skeleton imagery pervades this holiday. In pre-Columbian times, the Day of the Dead was celebrated in August. It now takes place on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2, coinciding with the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day." alt

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For Complainers, A Stint In China's 'Black Jails'

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U.S. Offers New Details Of Deadly Libya Attack

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Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/simoneschw402744.htmlSmart,Strong,WomenHere, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/simoneschw393910.htmlReality,Dark,SunOnly the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/simoneschw399556.htmlHeart,Knows,GoesThere is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

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I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang154016.htmlLook,Fat,FoundI get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang165663.htmlRespect,Honest,LuckA girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang128188.htmlToo,Last,DrinkMy psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang163142.htmlCrazy,Too,SaidYeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'

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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang100124.htmlFight,Game,NightI'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167298.htmlFamily,Three,FoundI had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167300.htmlDay,Face,ReadingIt's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167288.htmlWife,Tough,SheI told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang128213.htmlSaid,Everyone,RidiculousI'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167290.htmlComing,Taking,DrinkingI remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167296.htmlFather,Remember,SaidI saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang154015.htmlMyself,Girl,NightMy father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167286.htmlFather,Around,PictureMy wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167275.htmlWife,Dark,LightThis morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167270.htmlMorning,Put,HearI told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167294.htmlTruth,Wife,TwoWith me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167266.htmlSex,Right,WifeI came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang167303.htmlReal,Tough,PutMy wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodneydang154018.htmlDay,Jealousy,WifeI was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

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Random House, Penguin To Merge

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The parent companies of publishers Random House and Penguin have announced they are merging the two publishing companies. The joint venture will create a large and well-resourced company with the goal of remaining profitable as e-books threaten publishers' traditional business model.

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Sandy overshadowed almost everything in yesterday and put the rest of it under water. But even with a massive storm underway the publishing industry could not ignore another big story: the merger of two of the biggest publishing houses in the business. The European conglomerates that own Random House and Penguin reached an agreement to consolidate.

NPR's Lynn Neary reports.

LYNN NEARY, BYLINE: These are two powerhouses in publishing. Random House, the biggest trade publisher in the country, has one of the hottest selling titles ever on its list: the "Fifty Shades of Grey" series. And Penguin, no slouch in the bestseller department either, also has this year's MacArthur Genius Grant winner Junot Diaz in its roster. So together, Penguin Random House, as the new company will be called, will have a hefty share of the publishing market.

Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House, declined to put a value on it.

STUART APPLEBAUM: In terms of the quality of our authors, the book of theirs we treasure, you can't put a dollar figure on something like that.

NEARY: The sheer size of company will make it easier to deal with the challenge of selling lower priced e-books while continuing to bear the costs of printing traditional books.

Questions have already been raised in the media about the possibility that the size of the new company will violate anti-trust laws in this country.

But James McQuivey of Forrester Research, says that is unlikely.

JAMES MCQUIVEY: Now if the anti-trust regulators haven't been expecting this it's only because they're not paying attention. And once they get into it, they'll see that this is like so many other industries that are being changed by the digital - whether we're talking music or even accounting. I mean the mergers among companies of this size has been necessary to compete.

In announcing the agreement, Marjorie Scardino, the CEO of Pearson, which owns Penguin, said together the two companies will be able to share costs and invest more for authors and readers in the world of digital books.

NEARY: Lynn Neary, NPR News Washington.

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Travel At A Near Standstill Along The East Coast

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Travel is at a virtual standstill along the East Coast because of Sandy. Up to 15,000 flights have been canceled, Amtrak service in the Northeast is shut down again today, and crews are just beginning to assess the extensive cleanup work needed to clear roads and tracks.

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The transportation industry is also taking a hard hit. Travel is at a virtual standstill along the East Coast because of Sandy. Up to 15,000 flights have been canceled. Amtrak service in the Northeast is shut down again today. And crews are just beginning to assess the extensive cleanup work needed to clear tracks and roads.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports.

TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE: Travelers across the Northeast have been going nowhere fast. Some who thought they were getting lucky, got half way home before hitting the end of the road.

ERIN LENTZ: I mean it is nice. At least we're still together.

SMITH: It would take a honeymooner like Erin Lentz to find the bright side. She and her new husband spent a blissful honeymoon in Hawaii, before things suddenly turned. Waking up Saturday to a tsunami warning siren, and evacuating their hotel was just the beginning. Then their flight to Philly was cancelled, they re-routed to Chicago and waited five hours for their connection, only to learn - it was cancelled. They were told it would be days before they'd take off.

LENTZ: Now we are going to rent a car and try to drive at least as far as we can and see where we end up.

SMITH: The drive could be 15 hours, if the roads re-open, and it may be a grueling ride, as Eric van Leuven and Kenny Javakula can tell you. They were in New York when their flight home to LA was cancelled, so they rented a car, escaping just half hour before the bridges closed. And set out on a white knuckle 16-hour drive to Chicago.

ERIC VAN LEUVEN: It was pretty much pitch black. We were in a two-lane road. We didn't really have any other cars on the road. It was a pouring rain and there were times where like, you know, the winds were gusting, and you know, tall cars were shaking around, everyone kind of like on edge, you know, hoping we're not going to crash or anything.

KENNY VAN JAVAKULA: Yeah. It's been stressful is all I can say.

(LAUGHTER)

SMITH: Unfortunately, however, there was simply no other way.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Amtrak (unintelligible).

SMITH: At Union Station, in Washington, D.C., the PA system broadcast messages about unattended bags, but unfortunately no boarding calls.

ARTURO PUA: I was hopeful, that at least hopefully there would still be at least some operation going south bound, but yeah, unfortunately, it was cancelled. Yeah.

SMITH: Bad enough that Arturo Pua came Friday from Charleston, South Carolina, to D.C. to renew his passport, only to find the government office closed. But then, trying to catch his train back home yesterday, he found himself stranded.

PUA: I don't have anywhere to go to and it's too pricey staying in hotel, so I'll probably just stick it out here.

SMITH: Pua sat on the train station floor, emailing his boss why he wouldn't be in.

Kelly Glynn and Matt Janesak had even more explaining to do, they got stuck in Chicago returning from a wedding in Texas, with little chance they'll get home to Maine tomorrow, where they're supposed to close on a new house and move in.

KELLY GLYNN: Everybody knows we've been making every logistic phone call, you could - every, the moving company, the title company, our mortgage broker, everybody knows. It is what it is. There's nothing we can do. I mean...

MATT JANESAK: You can't get angry.

(LAUGHTER)

GLYNN: Yeah, you can.

JANESAK: ...you can.

GLYNN: ...once that happens.

JANESAK: And crying in that kind of stuff.

SMITH: Lutheran Pastor Al Vomhof was similarly Zen about the inconvenience, even 700 miles and probably 48 hours away from his home in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

PASTOR AL VOMHOF: I think God is trying to get out attention. You know, as far advanced as we are as people, there are still things we can't control.

SMITH: Vomhof says he'll be making good use of the time - working on his laptop, knowing that when he does get back to Pennsylvania, as he puts it, there'll be a lot of work to do.

Tovia Smith, NPR News.

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Why One Extreme Couponer Gave Up Clipping

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It's said that savvy shoppers should never leave home without coupons. Some "extreme couponers" can load shopping carts with hundreds of dollars in merchandise and owe just a few dollars at checkout. But one reformed couponer says the cost is too high, in time and hard work. Christy Rakoczy speaks with host Michel Martin.

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And now for our conversation about personal finance. Especially in these lean times, savvy shoppers have been told never to leave the house without their coupons. Those who take it to another level call themselves extreme couponers. These big savers can load shopping carts with hundreds of dollars of merchandise and pay just a fraction of that for it. That's because they spend hours online writing companies and even dumpster diving to get as many coupons as they can.

Here's a clip from TLC's reality show "Extreme Couponing".

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "EXTREME COUPONING")

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: All right. So I'm going to step inside the dumpster and see what I can find. OMG. Ack!

Coupons to me are money and you wouldn't believe how much money people throw away in those dumpsters. So this is...

MARTIN: Today, though, we have a different perspective. We are speaking with a former extreme couponer who says she's tossing her scissors in the trash. Christy Rakoczy gave up her venture in extreme couponing after a three-year run. She wrote about that recently for the website moneycrashers.com. That's a personal finance and lifestyle website. And Christy Rakoczy is with us now.

Welcome. Thanks so much for joining us.

CHRISTY RAKOCZY: Thanks for having me.

MARTIN: So let's go back and tell us how you got into extreme couponing to begin with.

RAKOCZY: I actually read about the practice of extreme couponing online, where people were talking about how much money they could save by couponing. And I was a student at the time and hey, you know, saving money, that sounds great. So I sort of read about how to do it and I decided to give it a try for myself based on what I had read of other people doing online.

MARTIN: So when do you think you crossed over from just being coupon savvy to extreme couponing? When did you think you, you know, this has really gone too far?

RAKOCZY: Probably the very first day. I mean I really jumped in with both feet. And from the very first trip, you know, I took out probably $300 worth of stuff for $40.

MARTIN: What were some of the things that you got? What were some of your big scores?

RAKOCZY: Oh, all sorts of useless things. The first trip I think was a lot of Bayer Aspirin, if I remember correctly. When you do the extreme couponing and your goal is to save as much as you can, it's not really so much about getting useful products as it is about getting products that you can get for free.

MARTIN: Well, that leads us to where you decided that it was not worth it. And I think it is important because I think you are answering a question that a lot of people have, which is the first thing you say is that reality shows don't tell you just how time-consuming it is to constantly be on the hunt for coupons and coupon savings. Could you talk a little bit about that?

RAKOCZY: Sure. The thing is not only do you have to spend a lot of time actually clipping the coupons, because you're not going to get these kinds of savings if you just have just one Sunday paper. You have to have six, 10, 12, 20 coupon inserts. You have to clip and organize all of those coupons, which, as you can imagine, is a lot of paper to wade through and deal with. Printing coupons online organizing the coupons, and then, of course, you can't just go to one store, you have to go to five stores to get all the different deals and get all the stuff that is on sale - you know, one store might be sold out, one store might not have what you're looking for. So it's basically a job that you have to do if you really want to save a lot of money. It's not just go into the supermarket and spend 10 minutes a week cutting some coupons.

MARTIN: You also wrote in your piece that you found yourself buying products that you really didn't need or particularly want just because you were getting bargains.

RAKOCZY: That is absolutely true. That's pretty much what you see. Any time someone's really saving a fortune, they're not saving a fortune necessarily on things that they can use. It's, you know, 200 Tic Tacs, 100 jars of tomato sauce that you're probably not going to use. A lot of diabetes monitors. Those are free almost all the time, because they want to get you hooked on using their brand. But, really, what are you going to do with them? It's just stuff that kind of clutters up your house.

MARTIN: Wait a minute. So you were getting diabetes monitors. Do you have diabetes?

RAKOCZY: No, I don't. But any couponer...

MARTIN: So you bought a diabetes monitor but you didn't have diabetes. OK. Well, that's kind of an example, I think, isn't it, Of what you're talking about - buying stuff that you don't need.

RAKOCZY: I bought about 60 diabetes monitors and I don't have diabetes. So I still have a few, actually.

MARTIN: And that leads to another point that you made in your piece, which is that it kind of leads to stockpiling and hoarding, especially of things that you don't particularly need. One example that you give is pasta sauce. You said that you got to constantly rotate it because it'll spoil. Did you find yourself throwing a lot of stuff out?

RAKOCZY: Absolutely. I tried to give away as much as I could but a lot of the stuff, you know, I think at one point I had probably 100 jars of Robitussin cough syrup, and nobody wants the stuff and I certainly wasn't using that much so unfortunately, a lot of stuff that I couldn't give away did end up getting thrown away.

MARTIN: If you're just joining us, you're listening to TELL ME MORE from NPR News. It's our Money Coach conversation. We're talking with former extreme couponer Christy Rakoczy. She wrote about why she gave up the hobby in an article for moneycrashers.com.

So Christy, was there like a eureka moment when you just said to yourself, I mean you describe it in your piece very well, which is and I think a lot of people will say yeah, that just sounds about right to me. But was there particular moment for you when you said to yourself, what am I doing?

RAKOCZY: When I spent about eight hours after a Black Friday after Thanksgiving shopping for free toothpaste and toothbrushes and things that I already had an entire room full of stuff, I said, you know, I'm not going to do this anymore. This is just a waste of time. I could have, you know, spent this time at Walmart getting a DVD player if I was going to be shopping like this.

MARTIN: Did you notice that there were other things you're giving up because you were spending so much time couponing and shopping and organizing your pasta sauce?

RAKOCZY: Well, I was a student so I probably could've been studying, but that's OK. I graduated anyway. Thank goodness. But, yes, it definitely does take more time. I didn't have a lot of free time because I was going to stores whenever I had spare time on my hands to try to get, you know, the next deal. A lot of the stuff, the coupons would expire, so you feel like you have to go before they are going to expire. And if the stuff sold out, well, you got to go back again the next day and see if you can find it.

MARTIN: Can I just ask you this though, and forgive me, I don't mean to be mean. Do you think is it the couponing or is it you? I mean do you think you might have kind of an extreme personality, that if you ever get interested in something you're going to go all in, whether it's that or maybe video games or something? I don't know. What do you think?

RAKOCZY: I mean personality is a part of it but a lot of this extreme couponing is designed to get you to keep going back for more and more. Like I said, once you get started with like CVS or stores like that, you build up this log of they're called extra bucks and they expire within a week, so if you don't do the next deal you're essentially losing. You know, you have hundreds of dollars of these extra bucks on your card, you have to keep doing it or else you'll just lose the money that you've earned and built up. So I think to some extent it's personality but I do think that the culture of extreme couponing does sort of suck you in and once you get started it can be hard to stop.

MARTIN: And finally, how did you wean yourself from the habit? I mean did you have like a group that you checked in with or what did you do to get yourself off of it?

(LAUGHTER)

RAKOCZY: Couponers Anonymous.

MARTIN: Couponers Anonymous. Yeah.

RAKOCZY: No, I just stopped. That was it. That was the end. I didn't go any more. I was done and now I really don't use coupons at all unless it's once in a great while, if I happen to come across something that I would've purchased anyway. But I don't even get the Sunday paper anymore and I'm glad for it.

MARTIN: OK. Christy Rakoczy is an Internet marketing and writing professional and a reformed extreme couponer. And she joined us from her home in Clearwater, Florida.

Christy, thank you.

RAKOCZY: Thanks for having me on.

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New York Stock Exchange To Reopen Wednesday

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Keeping Sandy's Economic Impact In Perspective

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When Superstorm Sandy slammed into the East Coast on Monday, the fragile U.S. economy was just sitting there, stuck in a sluggish-growth mode.

Now, as the massive cleanup begins, business owners, workers and investors are wondering what impact the megastorm ultimately will have on their wallets. Did Sandy weigh down economic activity enough to drown the recovery? Or will the rebuilding efforts boost growth over the longer term?

Economists say Sandy's negative effects will be huge, but the U.S. economy is enormous. On Tuesday, the emerging view held that once all of the costs are counted up, Sandy will have had a big and bad impact, but not one large enough to reverse the slow-moving recovery.

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Halloween Spending On The Rise

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The total amount of spending on Halloween this year is expected to reach $8 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. Some trends include Victorian corsets, group costumes, and fancy dress for pets.

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