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 OBAMA REACHES OUT TO RUSSIA OVER NUCLEAR IRAN: President Obama has told Russia that the United States might not proceed with a missile defense system in eastern Europe if Iran drops plans for producing nuclear weapons, senior administration officials said Tuesday. Obama raised the possibility in a letter to Russia seeking help in trying to end Iran’s nuclear program, a senior administration official said. Contrary to news reports, it was not a secret letter, the official said.
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FED LAUNCHES PROGRAM TO BOOST CONSUMER CREDIT: Central BANK OFFERING $200 BILLION FOR CAR LOANS, CREDIT CARDS, EDUCATION: The Federal Reserve on Tuesday rolled out a much-awaited $200 billion program to spur lending for cars, credit cards, education and small businesses.The Fed said the program has the potential to generate up to $1 trillion of lending for businesses and households starved for credit, which is the lifeblood of the economy.“We should see immediate benefits” from the program, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Tuesday.
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 MADOFF WANTS TO KEEP MANHATTAN PENTHOUSE: ALLEGED SWINDLER WANTS $7 MILLION APARTMENT, ADDITIONAL $62 MILLION: Bernard Madoff is seeking to keep a $7 million Manhattan penthouse and an additional $62 million in assets, saying they are unrelated to the fraud that authorities say cost victims more than $50 billion. In court papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Madoff and his lawyer claim the apartment, $45 million in municipal bonds and $17 million more in a separate account all belong to Madoffs wife, Ruth.
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 SPACE ROCK GIVES EARTH A CLOSE SHAVE: An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday, astronomers said on Tuesday. 2009 DD45, estimated to be between 21 and 47 meters (68 and 152 feet) across, raced by at 1344 GMT on Monday, the Planetary Society and astronomers’ blogs reported. The gap was just 72,000 kilometers (44,750 miles), or a fifth of the distance between Earth and the Moon and only twice the height of satellites in geosynchronous orbit, the website space.com said.
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 THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN SOLDIERS POUR INTO THE COUNTRY’S MOST VIOLENT CITY IN CRACKDOWN ON DRUG GANGS: Armed to the hilt, they came from land and air, determined to restore order to Mexico’s most violent city. Nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers and armed federal police poured into the border town of Ciudad Juarez last weekend. The city - just across from El Paso in Texas - has been ravaged by drug gangs. Just this month 250 people were killed there by hit men fighting for lucrative smuggling routes.
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 HILLARY CLINTON PUTS AMERICA ON COLLISION COURSE WITH ISRAEL AS SHE PLEDGES TO PRESS FOR PALESTINIAN STATE: Hillary Clinton put America on a collision course with Israel today after pledging to press for a Palestinian state. The U.S. Secretary of State’s position brings her into conflict with the Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. Although Netanyahu has spoken of Palestinian self-government, he has shied away from a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Rick Wartzman, the former editor of the LAT’s own West magazine, is a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book prize in the history category for “Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.” ***Berkeley’s Ten Speed Press has been acquired by Random House. ***Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has landed a deal to write a book in which he will focus on ” the discussions, the considerations and the factors involved in picking” a U.S. Senate successor to Barack Obama, according to a press release from Blagojevich’s publicity agency. Blagojevich’s publicity agent, Glenn Selig, said the deal was with an independent publisher, Phoenix Books, and was worth six figures. The news release said Blagojevich will expose the “dark side of politics” that he witnessed as a former congressman and governor.
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 LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: *** The families of two NFL players and a third man lost at sea watched as the search entered its third day Tuesday, with odds stacking against their hope the Coast Guard could still find survivors in a chilly sea. Bruce Cooper, the father of Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, said the Coast Guard told him privately that officials were losing hope because of the timeframe and possibility of hypothermia. But free-agent lineman Corey Smiths sister, Yolanda Newbill, said they were still hearing otherwise.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Virgin Megastores’ five remaining retail stores will close by this summer, individuals inside the company said. ***Architect Frank Gehry, who turned 80, has cut his staff by half and given up plans to build a new house in Venice.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MARC GERMAIN (Radio Talk Show Host): Is the world a better place now than 20 years ago and why? The temporary state of the economy aside, life is better today than twenty years ago in every way measurable. Technology has revolutionized the way we communicate, travel, learn and interact. More of the world is educated, well nourished, safe, free, wealthier and productive. Diseases have been eradicated or are treated and humans live longer today than ever before. Come to think of it, I cannot think of any ways that as a species humans are worse off today than two decades ago. ***To reply directly to Marc Germain email, LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By LEON LOGOTHETIS (TV Host, Producer & Author): Is the world a better place now than 20 years ago and why? In 1989 I was 12 years old, President George. H. W. Bush was leader of the free world, the Berlin wall crumbled and communism saw itself in its final death throes. Around the world it was a time of unbridled optimism. In many ways the optimism felt 20 years ago is similar to today. 1989 was a year of inspired change. 2009 is a year of renewed hope. The election of Barack Obama has elevated the importance of inspiration to the forefront of our daily lives. What people crave most is inspiration to channel their hopes towards. It is for this reason that I think that the world is a better place now than it was 20 years ago. Hope has been restored. Lets hope its not of the false kind ***To reply directly to Leon Logothetis email, LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By SPIKE LEE (Film Director, Writer, Producer and Actor): Theres a great film I saw at Sundance called Black Dynamite. Its a send-up of the black exploitation films of the ’70s. Its an important film in the way it explores a racially exploitive genre, but also a very entertaining oneit has something for everyone: humor, action, great art direction. It got acquired by Sony Pictures and is coming out late August, early September.
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***Back from her lengthy stay on the island of St. Lucia, it seems Amy Winehouse is having a hard time shaking her beach mentality - she was spotted wandering around her London home in only a pair of bikini bottoms earlier today. ***Her various extra-curricular activities take her all over the world. ***Reese Witherspoon was spotted speaking at a news conference in Washington D.C. The Sweet Home Alabama sweetheart fulfilled her role as an Avon Global Ambassador, speaking out against domestic violence at the National Press Club.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***According to Fitness magazine, 39% of women have bought a piece of clothing too small for them, hoping to lose enough weight to wear it; 15% have torn or gotten stuck in such a garment while trying it on in the store; 10% have cried in a dressing room. ***British bed company Silentnight is hedging its butt, having insured the hypersensitive buttocks of Graham Butterfield, its official mattress tester, for $2 million. ***The average person gets only 63 minutes of peace and quiet a day. ***$910 is the amount paid at auction for one bunch of Ruby Roman grapes a new premium varietal that has been in development in Japan since 1994. That works out to about $26 a grape. ***According to a survey by Beta Research Group, men masturbate 4.9 times a week on average, compared with 2.8 times for women.
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LBN-QUOTE: “It’s a recession when your neighbor losses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.”-Harry Truman, quoted in the Pittsburg, Kan., Morning Sun.
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LBN-HISTORY: On March 3, 1991, in a case that sparked a national outcry, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.
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| SUNDAY • FEBRUARY 22, 2009 |
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OBAMA’S FIRST BUDGET SEEKS TO TRIM DEFICIT: President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on businesses and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration officials said. In addition to tackling a deficit swollen by the $787 billion stimulus package and other efforts to ease the nation’s economic crisis, the budget blueprint will press aggressively for progress on the domestic agenda Obama outlined during the presidential campaign. This would include key changes to environmental policies and a major expansion of health coverage that he hopes to enact later this year.
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LBN READERS GET THE NEWS FAST! FAST! FAST!: Every single day, seven (7) days a week, all 300,000 LBN E-Lert readers get some stories BEFORE the major media including The New York Times, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, MSNBC, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The Washington Post, etc.
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SAG BOARD TURNS DOWN ‘FINAL OFFER’ FROM HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS: The board of the Screen Actors Guild rejected the “last, best and final offer” by producers Saturday night, continuing a months-long deadlock over contract talks. The two sides have been trying to hammer out a deal to resolve a labor dispute that threatens to shut down production of many movies and television shows.
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 WARRANT EXPECTED SOON IN CHANDRA LEVY MURDER: NEARLY EIGHT YEARS AFTER HER DEATH, KILLER MAY BE NABBED: A Salvadoran immigrant convicted of attacking two women in the park where Chandra Levy’s remains were found was expected to be arrested in the next few days in the former intern’s slaying, a person close to the investigation said.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By FAREED ZAKARIA (A FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYST FOR CNN): Here’s the basic problem we face: the American consumer is deep in debt and he is not going to spend. That’s 70 percent of the economy that is gone. Then there are the businessmen — they are being very cautious in the face of a worldwide recession. The only entity that can spend is the government. Is it a perfect stimulus? No, but it’s a lot better than nothing.
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 LBN-SEE IT:….A homophobic American cleric who runs a website called God hates fags and was allegedly planning to picket a play showing in the UK has been banned from Britain by UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
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TO CHINA: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton invited China to join the U.S. in an effort to curb greenhouse gases.
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 LBN-SNAP:….Elizabeth Gilbert, author, “Eat.Pray.Love.”
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***It was an awkward moment at Creative Artists Agency head Bryan Lourd’s house party Friday night that kicked off Oscar weekend when Tom Cruise and his ex, Penelope Cruz, bumped into each other. Cruise was standing in the living room of Lourd’s Wallace Neff-designed Beverly Hills home, talking with MGM head Mary Parent and producer John Goldwyn, when Cruz approached. A Page Six spy reports: “Penelope tapped him on the shoulder and timidly asked, ‘Tom?’ Tom turned around, got visibly flustered and awkwardly said, ‘Oh, hey. Hi,’ and gave her a small, distant hug before turning back around to his friends. It was weird.” Also at the party were Elton John, Oprah Winfrey, Judd Apatow, Maria Bello, Tom Ford, Mike Myers, Shirley MacLaine, Tobey Maguire and Jen Meyers, Leonardo DiCaprio, former HBO chairman Chris Albrecht and Paramount chief Brad Grey.The one person not having a good time at Lourd’s seemed to be Meg Ryan. “She was standing by herself in a corner, looking miserable,” our spy said. ***The cast of “Slumdog Millionaire” spent last night at the Four Seasons at a party hosted by “Today” host Meredith Vieira and the morning show’s entertainment editor, Melissa Lonner. ***It was A-list all the way at the sunlit luncheon Barry Diller and wife Diane von Furstenberg threw at their Coldwater Canyon estate yesterday. Oprah Winfrey held court with her best pal Gayle King, who was being cornered by Sean Combs. Robert De Niro came with wife Grace Hightower. Paris Hilton, mostly shunned by the showbiz and society crowd, retreated to the hillside with Stavros Niarchos. Paramount chief Brad Grey and his girlfriend, Cassandra, sat with Viacom chief Philippe Dauman and Israeli businessman Vivi Nevo. Also there were Tom Freston and his wife, Kathy, ICM boss Jeff Berg, producer Brett Ratner and music manager Guy Oseary, who was being inundated with requests to go to his and Madonna’s Oscar-viewing party. ***Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon held court at Soho House on Melrose Avenue before the Oscars. ***Harvey Weinstein entertaining friends at Ago in L.A. ***Keanu Reeves enjoying a poolside lunch at the Tower Bar hotel in L.A. ***Hollywood publicist and author Michael Levine having dinner last night at Joe’s Grille on Main Street in Santa Monica with some friends for some pre-Oscar conversation. ***Hal Linden dining with friends at Rattlesnake restaurant in Palm Desert.
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ENDOWMENT DIRECTOR IS ON HARVARDS HOT SEAT: Harvard may be the nations wealthiest university, but it is short on cash. The school relies on its endowment to generate a third of the money for its operations, and the endowment is on the verge of posting its biggest loss in 40 years. With much of its money tied up for the long term, it is scrambling to meet some obligations.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MANOHLA DARGIS: Jerry Lewis, who will finally receive his Oscar laurel on Sunday, embodies a certain kind of American exuberance bordering on the grotesque.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Jane Fonda is starring in 33 Variations, a play by Moiss Kaufman, almost 50 years after she last appeared on Broadway.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Reading the news that General Motors and Chrysler are now lining up for another $20 billion or so in government aid on top of the billions theyve already received or requested leaves me with the sick feeling that we are subsidizing the losers and for only one reason: because they claim that their funerals would cost more than keeping them on life support. Sorry, friends, but this is not the American way. Bailing out the losers is not how we got rich as a country, and it is not how well get out of this crisis. G.M. has become a giant wealth- destruction machine possibly the biggest in history and it is time that it and Chrysler were put into bankruptcy so they can truly start over under new management with new labor agreements and new visions. When it comes to helping companies, precious public money should focus on start-ups, not bailouts. You want to spend $20 billion of taxpayer money creating jobs? Fine. Call up the top 20 venture capital firms in America, which are short of cash today because their partners university endowments and pension funds are tapped out, and make them this offer: The U.S. Treasury will give you each up to $1 billion to fund the best venture capital ideas that have come your way. If they go bust, we all lose. If any of them turns out to be the next Microsoft or Intel, taxpayers will give you 20 percent of the investors upside and keep 80 percent for themselves. If we are going to be spending billions of taxpayer dollars, it cant only be on office-decorating bankers, over-leveraged home speculators and auto executives who year after year spent more energy resisting changes and lobbying Washington than leading change and beating Toyota.
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WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT? Veteran music publicist Bob Merlis along with approximately 300,000 other “influencers”.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: Barack Obamas grandmother told him to smile more. Bill Clinton tells the new president to strut more. As the country takes a bullet train to bankruptcy, the last Democratic president urged the current one to embody that old American spunk. That spirit of as they sing in Oklahoma We know we belong to the land and the land we belong to is grand! A-YIP-I-O-EE-AY! Its worth reminding the American people that for more than 230 years everyone who bet against America lost money, Clinton told Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America. I just want him to embody that and to share that. Its rich. The Man from Hope whose Missus castigated Candidate Obama for raising false hopes is now criticizing President Obama for not peddling more gauzy hope.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By GEORGE WILL: A simple apology would have sufficed. Instead, Sen. Russ Feingold has decided to follow his McCain-Feingold evisceration of the First Amendment with Feingold-McCain, more vandalism against the Constitution.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DOUG GILES: In his ongoing efforts to portray Muslims as chummy neighbors, Muzzammil Hassan, founder of Bridges TV, cut his wife’s head off last week when Muzzy found out she was going to ditch him.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Hollywood stars are starting to feel the economic pinch. “Salaries are being cut. Unless you’re Will Smith you are not going to get $20 million a movie anymore,” said an insider. ***It was a night for neon pink bow ties and words like “disaster” and “monstrosity.” It was not the night, however, to be Paris Hilton, Mike Myers or Uwe Boll.The 29th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards honored the worst film achievements of the year in a small theater in Hollywood on February 21. The night opened with a parody of the “Mamma Mia” song, “Dancing Queen,” and ended with “Love Guru” being named worst picture.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Obviously Ive been touched and grateful. Beyond that, I dont really plan to go away soon.”
SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY, on the many tributes he has received since his brain cancer diagnosis.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Feb. 22, 1980, in a stunning upset, the United States Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y., 4-to-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)
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 LBN-FACESPACE:
1. Name: Shaun Robinson
2. Occupation: Journalist and Author
3. Best thing about your job: Wearing gorgeous designer gowns and jewels worth tens of thousands of dollars. Even though I have to return them at the stroke of midnight!
4. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Intentionally trying to hurt someone.
5. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be and why? A Stimulus package that would kick our economy into high gear.
6. What is your most marked characteristic? My eyes.
7. Who are your heroes in real life? Mom, Grandma Curry, and Mama Ashie - my grandmothers.
8. Any New Year Resolution’s for 2009? To blog every day. I’ve got a couple months to make up. Ugh.
9. What is your motto? If you want to succeed in this world, you must make your own opportunities as you go along.
10. E-mail and website: www.shaunrobinson.com
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| SATURDAY • FEBRUARY 21, 2009 |
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OBAMA WIDENS MISSILE STRIKES INSIDE PAKISTAN: With two missile strikes over the past week, the Obama administration has expanded the covert war run by the Central Intelligence Agency inside Pakistan, attacking a militant network seeking to topple the Pakistani government. The missile strikes on training camps run by Baitullah Mehsud represent a broadening of the American campaign inside Pakistan, which has been largely carried out by drone aircraft. Under President Bush, the United States frequently attacked militants from Al Qaeda and the Taliban involved in cross-border attacks into Afghanistan, but had stopped short of raids aimed at Mr. Mehsud and his followers, who have played less of a direct role in attacks on American troops.
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 SOROS SEES NO BOTTOM FOR WORLD FINANCIAL “COLLAPSE”: Renowned investor George Soros said on Friday the world financial system has effectively disintegrated, adding that there is yet no prospect of a near-term resolution to the crisis. Soros said the turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise of the Soviet Union.
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 HUMANE: The Pentagon says the Guantanamo Bay prison meets the standard for humane treatment laid out in the Geneva Conventions, according to a report for President Barack Obama, who has ordered the terrorist detention center closed within a year.
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POLICE MAY BE CLOSE TO ARREST IN CHANDRA LEVY CASE: Police are close to making an arrest in the Chandra Levy murder case, one of Washington’s most infamous cold cases, CNN affiliate KGO-TV reported Saturday. Police told Levy’s parents Friday that an arrest was imminent, the San Francisco, California, television station reported. Media reports said police were planning to arrest Ingmar Guandique, an inmate in the District of Columbia prison system.
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LBN MISSION: To comfort the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable.
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 CLINTON: CHINESE ‘HUMAN RIGHTS CAN’T INTERFERE’ WITH OTHER CRISES: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broached the issue of human rights with Chinese leaders Saturday, but emphasized that the world economic and other crises are more pressing and immediate priorities. “Human rights cannot interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises,” Clinton said in talks with China’s foreign minister.
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 GOVERNORS MAY REJECT PORTIONS OF STIMULUS: A handful of Republican governors say they may reject portions of the federal stimulus money, raising objections from lawmakers, mayors and other critics that they are placing political ideology before the interest of constituents who need help and budgets with huge deficits. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana announced Friday that he would reject a portion of expanded unemployment benefits that would eventually require the state to raise taxes on businesses.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Subscription cellphone services are losing favor to pay-as-you-go plans as consumers try to cut their bills.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By JOE SCARBOROUGH (Host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, former member of Congress): I am a proud conservative. And judging from the last eight years, I am one of the few left in Washington. But that doesn’t mean I don’t love listening to and learning from those with whom I disagree.
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 LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Will Ferrells Youre Welcome America. A Final Night With George W Bush has recouped its original investment of $2.09 million, one of the shows producers, Jeffrey Richards, said. Last week Youre Welcome America broke the house record at the Cort Theater, taking in $846,507.05 for the seven days ending Feb. 15. It is one of several plays on Broadway this season that have recouped, including revivals of The Seagull, All My Sons and Speed-the-Plow.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***KCRW will announce later today that veteran Hollywood journalist Kim Masters is taking over as host of the half-hour showbiz show The Business, which airs Mondays at 2:30 p.m. Masters was recently laid off by National Public Radio, where she covered the business of entertainment.
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 LBN-VIDEO LINK: CNBC ANCHOR RANT: ‘You Listening President New Administration?’—- CNBCs Rick Santelli went all Lewis Black on the floor of the Chicago Boarding Trade Thursday, giving us the years best rant to date. Subsidize the losers mortgages….
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Veteran Hollywood agent Scott Harris having lunch yesterday at the R & D Kitchen in Santa Monica.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By T. BOONE PICKENS (www.PickensPlan.com): This weekend the National Governors Association will meet in Washington. With the exception of Congress itself, I can’t think of a more important gathering in our country today.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By LIZ PEEK (a financial columnist and the author of wOws Wall Street Weekly and SHEconomics): Today marks the one-month anniversary of President Obamas inauguration. In his brief time in office, the president has overseen three massive new spending initiatives the $787 billion stimulus bill, the trillion-dollar financial stability initiative and, most recently, the $275 billion mortgage assistance program. Thats a lot of activity, and a ton of money, but so far the reaction to the new administrations programs has been decidedly negative. Investors, among others, have panned the plans; the stock market is off nearly 10% from the day before the inauguration, or more than 800 points on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Yesterday, in fact, we crossed a truly alarming divide. The Dow Jones average closed at its lowest point since October 2002, the bottom of the last bear market. The S&P 500 fell to 779, barely above the intra-day low of 741 of last November. For many market analysts, if the market crashes through that recent benchmark, it will next move significantly lower. Ouch.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By CHARLES M. BLOW: Most whites harbor a hidden racial bias that many are unaware of and dont consciously agree with. And getting them to talk frankly about race is still hard.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***It’s not going to snag 11 Oscars, but The Dark KnightChristian Bale and allis nipping at Titanic’s heels in the court of public opinion. The 2008 blockbuster has surpassed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, Warner Bros. announced late Friday. ***John Travolta and Kelly Preston are continuing to honor the memory of their late son, announcing the establishment of the Jett Travolta Foundation to help children from a variety of disadvantaged backgrounds.
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LBN-QUOTE: “The relationship between the government of Antiguas political leaders and Stanford seemed weirdly intimate.”-JONATHAN WINER, a former deputy assistant secretary of state, on the financier Robert Allen Stanford.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Feb. 21, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address a rally in New York City; he was 39.
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1. Name: Tom Estey
2. Occupation: President and Founder, Tom Estey Publicity & Promotion
3. Best thing about your job: Bringing able to introduce, heighten and/or revive the careers of those who are immensely and uniquely talented.
4. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? An over inflated ego — have no use for it. Moving on 
5. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be and why? Me — I have finally come to like myself.
6. What is your most marked characteristic? Compassion
7. Who are your heroes in real life? My mom, my son and Richard Simmons for all of the amazing work he does to help the obese in this world to have a voice
8. Any New Year Resolution’s for 2009? Stop beating myself up for things, events and personalities that are beyond my control.
9. What is your motto? I have traveled the distance, fueled by persistence, a player desperate for a part...
10. E-mail and website: TJE6464@aol.com - www.myspace.com/tomestey
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| WEDNESDAY • FEBRUARY 11, 2009 |
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 TOP BANKERS FACE GRILLING BY DUBIOUS CONGRESS: CUOMO SAYS MERRILLS TOP EXECS RECEIVED MILLIONS DESPITE POOR EARNINGS: Eight leaders of the nations top banks were facing a grilling from Congress Wednesday, meeting with deep skepticism from lawmakers who quizzed them aggressively about how they have used more than $160 billion in taxpayers money. Speaking at the onset of a House Financial Services Committee hearing Wednesday morning, Rep. Barney Frank challenged the banking industry to work harder to fix a failing system, saying there is a great deal of anger across the country.
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MADOFF’S WIFE WITHDREW $15M BEFORE HIS ARREST: Massachusetts’ top securities regulator said on Wednesday that the wife of accused financial swindler Bernard Madoff took out roughly $15 million from an account managed by Cohmad Securities days before her husband was arrested and charged with securities fraud. Meanwhile, a person familiar with money manager Bernard Madoff’s case said a deadline to indict him on fraud charges has been extended by 30 days.
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FBI investigating 530 corporate fraud cases: 38 of the cases related to the current economic crisis, official says: The FBI is conducting more than 500 investigations of corporate fraud amid the financial meltdown, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Investigators are tackling an even bigger mountain of mortgage fraud cases in which hundreds of millions of dollars may have been swindled from the system, he told lawmakers.
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 OBAMA: CATERPILLAR WILL REHIRE IF STIMULUS PASSES: President Barack Obama says Caterpillar’s chief executive has told him the company will rehire some laid-off workers if the stimulus bill passes. The heavy equipment maker announced more than 22,000 job cuts last month as it scales back production amid the economic slowdown. During a visit to a transportation construction site just outside Washington in Springfield, Va., on Wednesday, Obama urged Congress to pass the bill. The House and Senate are working out differences between competing versions of the legislation.
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RUSSIA MAY ALLOW U.S. WEAPON SHIPMENTS: MOVE WOULD BE CONTINGENT ON BROADER RELATIONS IMPROVING, OFFICIAL SAYS: Russia is open to the possibility of letting the United States and NATO ship weaponry across its territory to Afghanistan if the broader relationship between Moscow and the West improves, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday.
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 INDIA TO LAUNCH COW URINE AS SOFT DRINK (NO, WE’RE NOT TAKING THE P***): Does your Pepsi lack pep? Is your Coke not the real thing? India’s Hindu nationalist movement apparently has the answer: a new soft drink made from cow urine. The bovine brew is in the final stages of development by the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India’s biggest and oldest Hindu nationalist group, according to the man who makes it. Om Prakash, the head of the department, said the drink called “gau jal”, or “cow water” in Sanskrit was undergoing laboratory tests and would be launched “very soon, maybe by the end of this year”.
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 OCTUPLET MOM PATTERNING SELF ON ANGELINA JOLIE: Two pouty brunettes, one an Oscar-winning philanthropist and the other a single mother of 14, have captured Americas attention. Now, they share a magazine cover. Life & Style has heard your worried cries that Nadya Suleman, the Whittier, Calif., woman who recently gave birth to octuplets, is morphing into Angelina Jolie, and has researched the resemblance. The similarities between Nadya and Angelina are uncanny, plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn told Life & Style. Their brows are almost identical, and they both have nice smooth foreheads.
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 HANG-UP FOR SEXTING BOYS: SIX MIDDLE-SCHOOLERS MAY FACE KID PORN RAP: Six middle school students could face child porn charges after a boy took a nude photo of his 13-year-old girlfriend and sexted it to his pals cell phones, cops said.The six boys, ages 12 to 14, will be summoned to Falmouth District Court for a hearing to determine whether they should be charged with possessing, exhibiting or distributing child porn in the form of a text message photo, according to The Cape Cod Times.
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ZOOROTICA PROGRAM AT BINDER PARK ZOO: Chocolate and flowers are nice, but this Valentine’s Day why not take your honey for a walk on the wild side? “We’re going to talk about animal reproduction, the different animals here at Binder Park Zoo and their little quirks, different things that get them going to help them reproduce,” said Jenny Parnett of Binder Park Zoo. It’s a Valentine’s Day date that’s sure to ruffle some feathers.Binder Park Zoo says love birds are flocking to sign up for the Zoorotica program. From frolicking frogs to the love-lives of leopards, this will give you an intimate look at animal mating rituals.
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 IRANIAN TV REQUESTS OBAMA INTERVIEW: The U.N.-based Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the official news organization of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has told CBS News Tuesday that it has officially asked for an interview with President Barack Obama as a direct response to Mr. Obama’s call for opportunities to engage.
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 PETA DRESSES IN KKK GARB OUTSIDE WESTMINSTER DOG SHOW: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals knows how to grab attention. And show off its laundry. The animal rights group, which every year stages a protest at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, had two of its members dress in Ku Klux Klan garb outside Madison Square Garden on Monday. Their goal, according to a post on the PETA website, was to draw a parallel between the KKK and the American Kennel Club. “Obviously it’s an uncomfortable comparison,” PETA spokesman Michael McGraw told the Associated Press. But the AKC is trying to create a “master race” when it comes to pure-bred dogs, he added. “It’s a very apt comparison.”
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LBC COMMENTARY BY MARC FORSTER: 5 Most Important Movies: Dont Look Now, Last Year at Marienbad, Children of Paradise, The Red Desert, and 8 .
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LBN COMMENTARY By STEPHEN S. ROACH: Americans need to save. They dont need another flat-screen TV made in China. Crises are the ultimate in painful learning experiences.
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LA MEDIA INSIDER: Richard Greene, Los Angeles based Air America host since May of 2007, has expanded his show, CLOUT!, to include of the clouty-ist, most politically active and articulate celebrities in Hollywood and been upgraded to the 9-11 pm Monday Friday slot on KTLK 1150 AM in Los Angeles. CLOUT! is also heard live in many markets at 6-8 pm Pacific/9-11 pm Eastern and on www.AirAmerica.com and 9-11pm PST on XM Satellite Radio, Channel 167.
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 WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT? Music publisher Michael Sigman along with 300,000 other influencers.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC, John Thain used the specious, contemptible reasoning that other executives use to rationalize why theyre keeping their bonuses as profits are plunging. If you dont pay your best people, you will destroy your franchise and theyll go elsewhere, he said. Hello? They destroyed the franchise. Lets call their bluff. Lets see what a great job market it is for the geniuses of capitalism who lost $15 billion in three months and helped usher in socialism.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By CLAYTON B. REID: The government is effectively saying, Dont bother to learn English, says Jim Boulet Jr., executive director of the nonprofit lobbying group, English First. We frankly dont care what language is spoken in peoples homes. What matters is what language the government speaks to all of us. If you go to a polling place where there is an American flag and the ballot is in English, that sends one message, Boulet tells Newsmax. If the polling place has 10 flags and looks like a United Nations outpost,that sends another message. Krikorian echoes that sentiment, saying, The elites in our society business and government leaders are less interested in insisting that newcomers assimilate. The elites have lost their cultural self-confidence.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Reuniting? Justin Long and Drew Barrymore getting chummy at new Hollywood hot spot h.wood. ***Lauren Conrad having her eyebrows shaped at Warren-Tricomi in West Hollywood. ***Isla Fisher ordering the half-roll special during lunch with a pal at Bond St. in Beverly Hills. ***Hilary Swank and boyfriend John Campisi eating brunch at The Griddle Restaurant in Hollywood. ***Beyonc and Jay-Z munching on crispy catfish, a seafood crepe and crab cakes before her inaugural performance at Acadiana in Washington, D.C. ***Woody Harrelson drinking beer and chatting with Danny Masterson during the Sundance Film Festival at the LIVEstyle Film Lounge. ***Kim Kardashian getting a color therapy massage at Green Valley in Park City, Utah. ***Ryan Cabrera dancing with a mannequin while picking out gifts for girlfriend Riley Keough at the LRG Villa at the Sundance Film Festival. ***Denise Richards getting her hair blown out at the Living Proof No Frizz salon during Sundance. ***Uma Thurman celebrating her film Motherhood at the club Greenhouse in Park City. ***Pierce Brosnan picking up a guitar for his son Dylan at the Main Event Red Carpet Lounge in Park City.
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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: R.I.P. Retail Stores That Bit the Dust:
1. Ann Taylor
2. Bombay Company
3. Circuit City
4. Eddie Bauer
5. Ethan Allen
6. Foot Locker
7. Kira Plastinina
8. Sharper Image
9. Linens-N-Things
10. Shoe Pavilion
11. Steve & Barrys
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LBN BOOK NEWS: *** “Intelligence and How to Get It” by Richard E. Nisbett. Your baby might not be the next Mozart or Michael Jordan, but there’s no reason why the little one can’t grow up to be the next Einstein. *** “The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008.” This is a contemporary history of a vivid and urgent sort, and Ricks has produced a book that deserves to be read by any American who realizes that something other than today’s economic news also is of vital interest to the nation.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***During and immediately following the 2008 NFL season, several Buccaneers players expressed a desire to leave Tampa Bay. But now that Jon Gruden is no longer the head coach, it’s amazing how many of them are saying they wouldn’t mind sticking around
after all. *** Roberto Alomar’s ex-girlfriend, Ilya Dall, filed a lawsuit in state and federal court alleging that Alomar had unprotected sex with her while knowingly infected with AIDS. As a result of these claims, she is suing the likely Hall of Famer for $15 million. ***Brett Favre sent an e-mail to Ed Werder indicating that hewill soon inform the New York Jets that he is retiring from professional football after 17 years.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Woody Allen is going back to London — where he shot “Match Point'’ and two other movies earlier this century — to make an untitled movie that may or may not be a comedy with Anthony Hopkins and Josh Brolin for the Spanish-based financiers of “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.'’ Brolin was in the ensemble cast in the dimly recalled “Melinda and Melinda.'’ No distributor is on board the new project. This summer, Sony Pictures Classics will release “Whatever it Takes,'’ Woody’s first New York-set picture in five years.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***America once issued a 5-cent bill. ***Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps. ***Cacao, the main ingredient in chocolate, is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle. ***Floridas beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually. ***There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
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LBN-QUOTE: “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” -DALE CARNEGIE.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Feb. 11, 1945, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II.
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1. Website Alert: Stockhouse is half social network for investment pros and plain ol’ investors, and half information resource, letting users keep a finger on the pulse of the financial world. http://www.stockhouse.com/ 2. Join a simulcast with the UK, meet Advice Goddess Amy Alkon and hear the latest Hollywood dirt from The Gossip Mom all tonight at 8PM Pacific on http://TalkRadioOne.com 3. Valentines day romantic hideaway! $70 Free Valentine’s Day gift with your Feb. 14th reservation. Website: myspace.com/cheriwoodsrentals
4. Our next Film Club screening is Woody Allen’s acclaimed new film Vicky Cristina Barcelona It’s taking place on Tuesday 17th February at the Curzon Soho from 6pm. Email filmclub@nonmultiplexcinema.com 5. English-Spanish, and Spanish-Spanish dictionaries on slang, proverbs, idioms, clichs and quotations by Dr. Delfin Carbonell, visit http://www.ed-serbal.es, a treasure-trove on difficult-to-find information
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,490940,00.html10. NBC Analyst Mike Holmgren Crawls Under Desk After Seeing Own Shadow: http://www.theonion.com/11. Tina Turner Burns Down Legs For Insurance Money:
http://www.theonion.com/12. Plan your retirement. Concrete strategies for building an effective retirement plan: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/13. Eating his way to a six-pack with 16 eggs a day:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH14. California’s Pain Is Only Beginning Cuts to Parks, Schools and Roads Hint at What’s to Come Under Any Budget Deal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123431135774170619.htm15. Valentine’s Day at Green Door Hollywood. Chef’s Special menu. Dining, Dancing, DJs, Lounge, Live Entertainment, featuring Big Willie McNeil’s Band. 323.874.0716 or http://www.daskproductions.com/
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| TUESDAY • FEBRUARY 10, 2009 |
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 YIKES–HUGE STUDY BOOSTS DISAPPOINTMENT ON MULTIVITAMINS:
The largest study ever of multivitamin use in older women found the pills did nothing to prevent common cancers or heart disease. The eight-year study in 161,808 postmenopausal women echoes recent disappointing vitamin studies in men. Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars on vitamins to boost their health. Research has focused on cancer and heart disease in particular because of evidence that diets full of vitamin-rich foods may protect against those illnesses. But that evidence doesn’t necessarily mean pills are a good substitute.
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OBAMA PRESSURES LAWMAKERS TO URGENTLY OK STIMULUS: President Barack Obama, pressuring lawmakers to urgently approve a massive economic recovery bill, turned his first prime-time news conference Monday night into a determined defense of his emergency plan and an offensive against Republicans who try to “play the usual political games.” He said the recession has left the nation so weak that only the federal government can “jolt our economy back to life.” And he declared that failure to act swiftly and boldly “could turn a crisis into a catastrophe.”
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 PENTAGON REPORTS U.S. TROOP OBESITY DOUBLES SINCE 2003: The number of troops diagnosed as overweight or obese has more than doubled since the start of the Iraq war, yet another example of stress and strains of continuing combat deployments, according to a recent Pentagon study. The review, contained in the January edition of the Defense Department’s Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, raises concerns about the overall readiness as demands on the military continue to increase, says Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, director of strategic communication for Pentagon health affairs.
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 SEC AND MADOFF REACH AGREEMENT ON FRAUD CASE:The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced an agreement with disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff that could eventually force him to pay a civil fine and return money raised from investors. The partial judgment, which renders permanent a preliminary injunction that froze Madoff’s assets after his arrest in December, must be approved by the judge overseeing the case in federal court in Manhattan.
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BULLION SALES HIT RECORD IN RUSH TO SAFETY: Investors are buying record amounts of gold bars and coins, shunning risky assets for the relative safety of bullion amid renewed fears about the health of the global financial system.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Starbucks, better known for amusingly complicated premium coffee offerings, took a cue from fast-food chains and announced a plan Monday to sell pairings of coffee and breakfast for $3.95, citing the economic downturn. With the $3.95 breakfast offer, customers will be able to get a 12-ounce coffee with a breakfast sandwich or roll or a 12-ounce latte with either oatmeal or a coffee cake. ***General Motors Corp., the largest U.S. automaker, will cut 10,000 salaried jobs globally and reduce pay by as much as 10 percent to slash costs and prove its viability to keep $13.4 billion in government loans. ***Outstanding balances from retail credit cards are outpacing losses in the general market. ***In Celebrating Black History Month, The Malibu Networking Breakfast salutes the continued contribution and achievements of minority women in all areas of the industry by presenting a special guest panel of two dynamic and inspiring black women on Friday February 13 at the Malibu Chart House.
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 LBN-SEE IT: ***Singer-song-writer Carole King turns 67 today and resurfaced at an event in Florida…..
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LBN-COMMENTARY By CONNIE MARTINSON: If you had to choose between being deaf or blind which one would you prefer? Asking someone who produces and hosts a show called Connie Martinson Talks Books whether she would prefer to be deaf or blind?? Deaf. I could read lips, or sign language. Blind? I cant imagine a greater hell. ***To reply directly to Connie Martinson email, LBNElert@TimeWire.net. (Please put Connie Martinson in the subject line).
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By PATRICIA CORNWELL (International Best-selling Author): I recommend American Rust by Philipp Meyer, which is just coming out. Its a brilliant novel as splendidly crafted and original as any written in recent decades, it is both darkly disturbing and richly compelling. His first novel signals the arrival of a new voice in American lettershe ought to win a Pulitzer.
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 A-ROD ADMITS, REGRETS USE OF PEDS: His voice shaking at times, Alex Rodriguez met head-on allegations that he tested positive for steroids six years ago, telling ESPN on Monday that he did take performance-enhancing drugs while playing for the Texas Rangers during a three-year period beginning in 2001. “When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day,” Rodriguez told ESPN’s Peter Gammons in an exclusive interview in Miami Beach, Fla. “Back then, [baseball] was a different culture,” Rodriguez said. “It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid. I was naive. And I wanted to prove to everyone that I was worth being one of the greatest players of all time. “I did take a banned substance. And for that, I am very sorry and deeply regretful.”
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***In the last eight years, Julia Roberts has become a mother, dabbled on Broadway (in “Three Days of Rain”) and provided the voice for both a spider (in “Charlotte’s Web”) and an ant (in “The Ant Bully”). Next month, she turns up in what has become a surprisingly unfamiliar role for an actress who was the biggest female box office star in Hollywood for a decade: leading lady. While many in the movie world have their heads turned toward the Academy Awards, Universal Pictures has been laying groundwork for its March 20 release of “Duplicity.” The film is a romantic romp about a couple of corporate security types working a con on the corporations and on each other. ***Legendary producer Robert Evans featured in a huge Vanity Fair article on the making of The Godfather in this month’s Hollywood issue.
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 LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***CBS’s broadcast of the Grammy Awards Sunday night won some 19.1 million viewers, a gain of 11% from 2008 and enough to win the evening’s prime-time ratings contest. Grammy organizers booked performers such as Lil Wayne and Coldplay in an effort to boost the show’s ratings. ***Newsstand sales of U.S. magazines fell 11% in the second half of 2008, according to newly released figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Celebrity and women’s titles such as Us Weekly and O, The Oprah Magazine took a hit as supermarket shoppers cut their spending. ***Vanity Fair wants to make sure everyone in Tinseltown knows its one-year hiatus from Oscar Week festivities is over. The magazine is holding a series of pre-Academy Awards events in Los Angeles, leading up to its famed post-Oscar party, which returns this year at the Sunset Tower Hotel.
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 LBN-RECOMMENDS By SOLEDAD O’BRIEN (CNN Anchor and Special Correspondent): In New Orleans, Dragos is home to charbroiled oysters… which are drenched in butter and garlic and served with French bread. It was a best-kept New Orleans secret until they opened a spot in a popular downtown hotel. Order them by the dozen.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***With it’s silence, Yankees management distances itself from Alex Rodriguez, the de facto face of the franchise, while teammates offer support.
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AHEAD OF HIS TIME: It is a testament to Charles Darwins extraordinary insight that it took almost a century for biologists to understand the essential correctness of his views.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Reed Exhibitions has announced a number of major changes to the time and setting of future BookExpo America conventions. The annual meeting, set for New York May 29-31, will now also be held at New York’s Javits Center through 2012, a decision that scraps plans to hold BEA in Washington, D.C. in 2010 and in Las Vegas in 2011. And beginning next year, Reed will hold the convention entirely during the week under a compressed schedule. ***HarperCollins announced this morning that it is closing its Collins division and integrating its operations within different businesses in the General Books Group.
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PROSECUTORS: JAIL EX-D.C. MAYOR BARRY OVER TAXES: Prosecutors asked a federal judge Monday to send former Washington mayor Marion Barry to jail for failing to file his tax returns for the eighth time in nine years. In a motion filed in U.S. District Court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Zeno said Barry, who’s also a current District of Columbia Council member did not file his taxes in 2007, violating his probation for previous tax offenses.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By JAY NEUGEBOREN: To get diagnoses and treatment plans right, we need doctors who know us over time, and who have the time to know us.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By PETER BART: So let me see if I have all this straight. Disney closed its new deal with DreamWorks, except its really the same deal that Bob Iger negotiated with David Geffen last summer calling for Disney to distribute DreamWorks pictures. Steven Spielberg vetoed Geffens deal because he felt a loyalty to Universal, but DreamWorks felt it could improve upon the Universal deal and surreptitiously started negotiating with Iger again. Learning about the backchannel negotiations, Universal decided to join Paramount as members of the DreamWorks Alumni Society, which is not an especially friendly group.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Jenna Bush, her new hubby, Henry Hagler, and her twin, Barbara Bush, who was with an unidentified date, brunching at Commerce in the West Village of New York City. ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sighting to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Law enforcement sources have now gotten specific with TMZ… police took pictures of Rihanna’s injuries and they are “horrific.” As reported, the photos show major contusions on both sides of the singer’s face — there is serious swelling and bruising. Her lip is split and her nose bloody. We have now confirmed there are bite marks on one of her arms and on several fingers. And we now know this… Rihanna claims Brown struck her with his fists and that’s what did the damage. There was no object used in the alleged attack. Rihanna refused treatment at the scene, but before she left cops took photos. We’re told the photos alone are “devastating proof of abuse.”
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***According to the National Restaurant Association, running a water faucet for 5 minutes uses nearly as much energy as running a 60-watt bulb for 14 hours. ***Los Angeles, California was originally named El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula. ***Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tested by archaeologists and found edible. ***Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery. ***The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
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LBN-QUOTE: “My breasts, my face, liposuction, a tummy tuck, a leg lift. I’ve had everything you can think of except for my eyes and lips. I wouldn’t touch them” - Sharon Osbourne.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Feb. 10, 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
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1. Website Alert: Relocating or retiring? New site has selected 21 best towns to live in the U.S. www.bestboomertowns.com2. Not good enough? Recreate your life. Remove barriers holding you back. www.recreateyourlifefree.com3. US stocks fell sharply Tuesday in a broad-based decline as the government announced details of its latest bailout plan:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/291196654. Website Alert: Is legroom important to you? Aircraft type? Lost-bag or on-time percentages? InsideTrip has you covered. http://www.insidetrip.com/5. Alex drops A-Bomb: I lied. Slugger admits he took steroids for three years:
http://www.nypost.com6. Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work: http://www.theonion.com/7. How Not To Look Old:
http://news.yahoo.com/8. This site calls itself a community weblog, and the community is the key. MeFi’s text-only throwback front page is where members can post (always with links) on any topic of interest: http://www.metafilter.com/9. Bad economy forcing immigrants to reconsider U.S.:
http://www.cnn.com10. BleacherReport gives fans a chance to become sports journalists via this “open-source sports network. http://bleacherreport.com/ 11. Website Alert: This left-leaning blog takes an activist slant on political reporting, and turns a sharp eye on the 2008 presidential campaign and its coverage by the media.
http://www.americablog.com/ 12. Crazy Blind Date draws on people’s faith in the lucky draw along with the matchmaking skills of parent site OKCupid to help set up singles in Austin, Boston, Chicago, D.C., L.A., N.Y.C., and S.F. http://www.crazyblinddate.com/13. Ever wonder what your cubicle neighbors’ salaries are? Or what they really think of the boss? Find out on Glassdoor.com, which collects anonymous employer reviews and salary info.
http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm 14. Activist Wanted to Fight for Florida’s Environment! $400-$600 per week (South Beach). For more information, or to apply, call Greg 305.604.0081 or visit http://www.jobsthatmatter.org/ 15. Reach 300,000 influencers for free. Send us your 30 word ad to freebulletinboard@timewire.net
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BARAK: GAZA OPERATION WILL INTENSIFY: On the fourth day of Operation Cast Lead, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that military action against Hamas would continue until all the goals are met. Speaking during a tour of Ashkelon on Tuesday afternoon, Barak said that the operation would intensify “as much as needed to meet the goals we set for ourselves; to bring quiet to the South.” The operation also aims “to strike a severe blow to Hamas,” he said, “in order to bring about an end to firing and other operations against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.”
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POLICE: SANTA GUNMAN PLANNED TO KILL MORE THAN 9: The man who killed nine people at his former in-law’s Christmas party while dressed as Santa Claus had plotted the attack several months ago and his hit list was longer than first thought. Police said Monday that Bruce Pardo planned to also kill his mother and his ex-wife’s divorce attorney but committed suicide before he could complete the task.
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READERS SLAM LBN FOR PALIN STORY; “YOU CALL THAT NEWS?”: Late yesterday, the LBN E-Lert sent a “Late-Breaking News” message to it’s 300,000 readers that Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, gave birth on Sunday to a healthy 7 lb., 4 oz., baby boy in Palmer, Alaska. Hundreds of readers reacted critically screaming “How dare you call that news?” One reader from Arlington, Texas wrote: “I read the LBN E-Lert to get real news not the adventures of some slut from Alaska!” ***What do you think? — Send your opinion, e-mail — LBNElert@TimeWire.net (Please put “Palin Story” in the subject line).
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 LITTLE TOWN BESEECHES OBAMAS HEALTH CHIEF: Former Senator Tom Daschle, whom President-elect Barack Obama has called the lead architect of the new administrations efforts to expand health insurance and rein in medical costs, attended a community meeting Monday where he got an earful about expenses that were too high and coverage that was too little. Dolly Sweet, 79, said she beat breast cancer 20 years ago but was now battling lung cancer without the medicine her doctor had prescribed. Ms. Sweet told Mr. Daschle that after covering her radiation treatment, Medicare would not pay for follow-up treatment with the drug, Tarceva, which would have cost $32,000 a year.
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 FORD ANNOUNCES NEW SELF-PARKING TECHNOLOGY: Sit back, relax and let your car parallel park itself — without a single scratch or ding to your bumper. That’s what Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday about its new self-parking technology, which it announced will debut as an option on the 2010 Lincoln MKS sedan and the new seven-passenger Lincoln MKT luxury crossover vehicle.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Chanel, one of the grandest French fashion names, is to lay off 200 Paris staff in an unmistakable sign that even the world’s top luxury brands are feeling the pinch in the global recession. ***Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian has sold his remaining 5 percent stake in Ford Motor Co., according to his investment company, Tracinda Corp.
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THE LBN MISSION: Comfort the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable.
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EX-AIDES: BUSH NEVER RECOVERED FROM KATRINA: Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government’s poor handling of the natural disaster. “Katrina to me was the tipping point,” said Matthew Dowd, Bush’s pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign. “The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn’t matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn’t matter. P.R.? It didn’t matter. Travel? It didn’t matter.” Dan Bartlett, former White House communications director and later counselor to the president, said: “Politically, it was the final nail in the coffin.”
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***The conversation has come to an end for Michael Eisner and CNBC. The former Mouse House chief will wrap up his monthly series “Conversations With Michael Eisner” in March after three years on CNBC. Eisner told the New York Post on Monday that he needed to focus on running the various businesses in his Tornante Co. venture, which includes Vuguru, the Internet production shingle behind the online serial “Prom Queen” and other made-for-Web skeins.
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 WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT? Sports entrepreneur Paula Duffy along with approximately 300,000 other “influencers”.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Experts say that most drugs work for only about half the people who take them.
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STUDY: ‘VIRGINITY PLEDGES’ ARE INEFFECTIVE: Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID MARGOLICK: What better way to restore the Yankees’ traditional repulsiveness than to spend more than all of the other teams combined this off-season?
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By LEON LOGOTHETIS: Destructive habits creep into our lives and can bring with them unnecessary pain. Whether it is an inability to extricate oneself from a harmful relationship or abusing prescription medication habits take over peoples lives and inhibit the free flowing energy of life. I believe that destructive habits are not limited to the sensational addictions that people are so used to hearing about; alcoholism and drug addiction being the most common these days. My personal struggle has been defeating the scourge of procrastination. I have found procrastination to be a vicious habit to break free of. It stunts my growth and keeps me from my reaching my potential.
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RESEARCHERS UNLOCK SECRETS OF 1918 FLU PANDEMIC: Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly — a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. They mixed samples of the 1918 influenza strain with modern seasonal flu viruses to find the three genes and said their study might help in the development of new flu drugs.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By PETER BART: MEMO TO: Will Smith FROM: Peter Bart I have an oddball question to ask you Will: Have you been reading too much Malcolm Gladwell lately? Gladwell, as you know, is the young guy with the big hair whose new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, sits atop best seller lists. His basic precept (which is not exactly original) is that innate talent is not the pivotal contributor to success; rather, effort and sheer determination are the keys. In his book, what we think of as aptitude really boils down to dogged pursuit of a goal. I wish I could agree with Gladwell (Id like to sell that many books) but I think hes goofy. Anyone who goes to films, plays or concerts, Will, knows what its like to be blown away by a mega-talent. And Ive known enough amazing talents to identify those who are anything but dogged theyre downright lazy.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Bill and Hillary Clinton taking in the “Philippe de Montebello Years” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC on Sunday. ***Ron Howard abandoning his courtside seat at the Knicks-Timberwolves game at the Garden in NYC to sit on the hardwood with the photographers, one of whom handed him an extra camera and gave him pointers. ***Frederic Fekkai leaving Dr. Steven Butensky’s dental office on East 52nd Street in NYC on Christmas Day. ***Beverly Hills Spa 415 ower Liza Lewis having lunch yesterday at Cafe Roma in Beverly Hills. ***Veteran comedy writer Mark Miller having dinner last night at Sprazzo in Westwood. ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN COMMENTARY By PETER DEKOM: What fictional character would you like to be and why? Just think of me as a wannabe Charlie Bucket in search of a Willy Wonka chocolate factory with a sustainable business plan in a depression economy! Where’s my golden ticket?! *** To reply directly to Peter Dekom, email LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN COMMENTARY By BURT PRELUTSKY: This is the time of year when every movie is said to be, in its ads at least, “an unforgettable work of art,” “a profound, often disturbing, cinematic experience,” “reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman,” “quixotic and intriguing,” “luminescent,” “heartfelt,” “emotionally overwhelming,” “absolutely electric,” “truly inspired,” “galvanizing” and “a once in a life thunderbolt!” The thesaurus gets more use in one month than it gets during the entire rest of the year.*** To reply directly to Burt Prelutsky, email LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By BOB HERBERT: I dont think George W. Bush should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a loud, collective angry howl and demonstrations over the damage hes done to this country.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Zooey Deschanel is ready to walk down the aisle. The actress and singer, 28, and Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard, 32, who is also in the indie band the Postal Service, got engaged before the holidays, a source confirms. ***Actress Mia Farrow has lost the first of her brood. Lark Previn, the Vietnamese-born adopted daughter of Farrow and musician Andre Previn, died on Christmas Day, the medical examiner said Monday. Lark Previn, 35, a mother of two girls, had been ailing for a decade. A cause of death was not released. ***After two decades together, Woody Harrelson and his girlfriend Laura Louie made it legal on Sunday. The 47-year-old actor and Louie, 43, “were officially married yesterday on the island of Maui,” his rep said.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***A fresh egg will sink in water; a stale one will float. ***During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax. ***Coca-Cola was originally green. ***Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury. ***Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
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LBN-QUOTE: “We used to fight about who gets to keep the house. Now we fight about who gets stuck with the dead cow.”GARY NICKELSON, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, on the effect of the recession on divorce settlements.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Dec. 30, 1972, the United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
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EVERYTHING. ANYTHING. HERE. NOW.
1. www.facebook.com 2. To hire Saro Solis, the best Spanish voice-over in the USA, contact Kimberly Sklanowsky at 310-432-7811 of DPN. For voice-over demos go to 3. End Anxiety, Stress and Worry
4. Do you need help buying or selling your single family home on the Westsideof Los Angeles? Please call me, I can help, Lisa Morrin 310-230-2450
5. In Northern California/SF Bay Area contact www.beyondbeliefministry.com for affordable customized marriage (or other rite of passage) ceremonies.6. Website Alert: www.myspace.com/pacificdivision 7. Win the New Michael C Lewis Smooth Jazz CD Single!
www.michaelclewis.net8. Bring your pit bull and meet the Dog Man every Sunday morning, 9:00 to 12:00 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum near Figueroa and Martin Luther King. Video - 9. Ask me how to travel for free - 310 505 1058
10. LBN Reader Comment, ” Marvin Gaye was a genius” Sherman Oaks, CA
10. A groundbreaking path to healthy weight loss! Start the new year with a cleanse and lose 7lbs in 9 days. 11. Performers: Free Seminar Gear Up Your Career in 2009January 7, 2009 7:30PM-9:30PM Burbank, CA 91505RSVP here: 12. Discovering Gematria: Foundational Exegesis and Primary Dictionary by Jonathan D. Rawn Available at:
www.gematriapublishing.com 13. Tune into your inner resources for happiness and power. Simple, unique system for personal and spiritual enlightenment. Free pdf introdution and sample ideas.”All That Matters”. www.CarloAmi.com 14. LBN Reader Comment: Some people at too nosey” —– James Bolden, Denver, CO
15. Website Alert: www.bloggarazzi.com
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LBN E-Lert Edited by Shannon Donnelly
Contributing Editors: Kathleen Spennrath, Meridith Berk, Rosalyn Isidoro
LBN E-Lert Disclaimer: 1.) The LBN E-Lert accepts no liability for the content of this email, or for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided. The LBN E-Lert is not associated with any commercial or political organization and is transmitted via the web for the sole benefit of its subscribers. 2.) Unfortunately, computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses.
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BARAK: GAZA OPERATION WILL INTENSIFY: On the fourth day of Operation Cast Lead, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that military action against Hamas would continue until all the goals are met. Speaking during a tour of Ashkelon on Tuesday afternoon, Barak said that the operation would intensify “as much as needed to meet the goals we set for ourselves; to bring quiet to the South.” The operation also aims “to strike a severe blow to Hamas,” he said, “in order to bring about an end to firing and other operations against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.”
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POLICE: SANTA GUNMAN PLANNED TO KILL MORE THAN 9: The man who killed nine people at his former in-law’s Christmas party while dressed as Santa Claus had plotted the attack several months ago and his hit list was longer than first thought. Police said Monday that Bruce Pardo planned to also kill his mother and his ex-wife’s divorce attorney but committed suicide before he could complete the task.
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READERS SLAM LBN FOR PALIN STORY; “YOU CALL THAT NEWS?”: Late yesterday, the LBN E-Lert sent a “Late-Breaking News” message to it’s 300,000 readers that Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, gave birth on Sunday to a healthy 7 lb., 4 oz., baby boy in Palmer, Alaska. Hundreds of readers reacted critically screaming “How dare you call that news?” One reader from Arlington, Texas wrote: “I read the LBN E-Lert to get real news not the adventures of some slut from Alaska!” ***What do you think? — Send your opinion, e-mail — LBNElert@TimeWire.net (Please put “Palin Story” in the subject line).
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LITTLE TOWN BESEECHES OBAMAS HEALTH CHIEF: Former Senator Tom Daschle, whom President-elect Barack Obama has called the lead architect of the new administrations efforts to expand health insurance and rein in medical costs, attended a community meeting Monday where he got an earful about expenses that were too high and coverage that was too little. Dolly Sweet, 79, said she beat breast cancer 20 years ago but was now battling lung cancer without the medicine her doctor had prescribed. Ms. Sweet told Mr. Daschle that after covering her radiation treatment, Medicare would not pay for follow-up treatment with the drug, Tarceva, which would have cost $32,000 a year.
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FORD ANNOUNCES NEW SELF-PARKING TECHNOLOGY: Sit back, relax and let your car parallel park itself — without a single scratch or ding to your bumper. That’s what Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday about its new self-parking technology, which it announced will debut as an option on the 2010 Lincoln MKS sedan and the new seven-passenger Lincoln MKT luxury crossover vehicle.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Chanel, one of the grandest French fashion names, is to lay off 200 Paris staff in an unmistakable sign that even the world’s top luxury brands are feeling the pinch in the global recession. ***Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian has sold his remaining 5 percent stake in Ford Motor Co., according to his investment company, Tracinda Corp.
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THE LBN MISSION: Comfort the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable.
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EX-AIDES: BUSH NEVER RECOVERED FROM KATRINA: Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government’s poor handling of the natural disaster. “Katrina to me was the tipping point,” said Matthew Dowd, Bush’s pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign. “The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn’t matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn’t matter. P.R.? It didn’t matter. Travel? It didn’t matter.” Dan Bartlett, former White House communications director and later counselor to the president, said: “Politically, it was the final nail in the coffin.”
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***The conversation has come to an end for Michael Eisner and CNBC. The former Mouse House chief will wrap up his monthly series “Conversations With Michael Eisner” in March after three years on CNBC. Eisner told the New York Post on Monday that he needed to focus on running the various businesses in his Tornante Co. venture, which includes Vuguru, the Internet production shingle behind the online serial “Prom Queen” and other made-for-Web skeins.
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WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT? Sports entrepreneur Paula Duffy along with approximately 300,000 other “influencers”.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Experts say that most drugs work for only about half the people who take them.
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STUDY: ‘VIRGINITY PLEDGES’ ARE INEFFECTIVE: Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID MARGOLICK: What better way to restore the Yankees’ traditional repulsiveness than to spend more than all of the other teams combined this off-season?
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LBN-SNAP:…..Mikal Gilmore…..
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LBN-COMMENTARY By LEON LOGOTHETIS: Destructive habits creep into our lives and can bring with them unnecessary pain. Whether it is an inability to extricate oneself from a harmful relationship or abusing prescription medication habits take over peoples lives and inhibit the free flowing energy of life. I believe that destructive habits are not limited to the sensational addictions that people are so used to hearing about; alcoholism and drug addiction being the most common these days. My personal struggle has been defeating the scourge of procrastination. I have found procrastination to be a vicious habit to break free of. It stunts my growth and keeps me from my reaching my potential.
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RESEARCHERS UNLOCK SECRETS OF 1918 FLU PANDEMIC: Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly — a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. They mixed samples of the 1918 influenza strain with modern seasonal flu viruses to find the three genes and said their study might help in the development of new flu drugs.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By PETER BART: MEMO TO: Will Smith FROM: Peter Bart I have an oddball question to ask you Will: Have you been reading too much Malcolm Gladwell lately? Gladwell, as you know, is the young guy with the big hair whose new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, sits atop best seller lists. His basic precept (which is not exactly original) is that innate talent is not the pivotal contributor to success; rather, effort and sheer determination are the keys. In his book, what we think of as aptitude really boils down to dogged pursuit of a goal. I wish I could agree with Gladwell (Id like to sell that many books) but I think hes goofy. Anyone who goes to films, plays or concerts, Will, knows what its like to be blown away by a mega-talent. And Ive known enough amazing talents to identify those who are anything but dogged theyre downright lazy.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Bill and Hillary Clinton taking in the “Philippe de Montebello Years” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC on Sunday. ***Ron Howard abandoning his courtside seat at the Knicks-Timberwolves game at the Garden in NYC to sit on the hardwood with the photographers, one of whom handed him an extra camera and gave him pointers. ***Frederic Fekkai leaving Dr. Steven Butensky’s dental office on East 52nd Street in NYC on Christmas Day. ***Beverly Hills Spa 415 ower Liza Lewis having lunch yesterday at Cafe Roma in Beverly Hills. ***Veteran comedy writer Mark Miller having dinner last night at Sprazzo in Westwood. ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN COMMENTARY By PETER DEKOM: What fictional character would you like to be and why? Just think of me as a wannabe Charlie Bucket in search of a Willy Wonka chocolate factory with a sustainable business plan in a depression economy! Where’s my golden ticket?! *** To reply directly to Peter Dekom, email LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN COMMENTARY By BURT PRELUTSKY: This is the time of year when every movie is said to be, in its ads at least, “an unforgettable work of art,” “a profound, often disturbing, cinematic experience,” “reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman,” “quixotic and intriguing,” “luminescent,” “heartfelt,” “emotionally overwhelming,” “absolutely electric,” “truly inspired,” “galvanizing” and “a once in a life thunderbolt!” The thesaurus gets more use in one month than it gets during the entire rest of the year.*** To reply directly to Burt Prelutsky, email LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By BOB HERBERT: I dont think George W. Bush should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a loud, collective angry howl and demonstrations over the damage hes done to this country.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Zooey Deschanel is ready to walk down the aisle. The actress and singer, 28, and Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard, 32, who is also in the indie band the Postal Service, got engaged before the holidays, a source confirms. ***Actress Mia Farrow has lost the first of her brood. Lark Previn, the Vietnamese-born adopted daughter of Farrow and musician Andre Previn, died on Christmas Day, the medical examiner said Monday. Lark Previn, 35, a mother of two girls, had been ailing for a decade. A cause of death was not released. ***After two decades together, Woody Harrelson and his girlfriend Laura Louie made it legal on Sunday. The 47-year-old actor and Louie, 43, “were officially married yesterday on the island of Maui,” his rep said.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***A fresh egg will sink in water; a stale one will float. ***During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax. ***Coca-Cola was originally green. ***Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury. ***Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
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LBN-QUOTE: “We used to fight about who gets to keep the house. Now we fight about who gets stuck with the dead cow.”GARY NICKELSON, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, on the effect of the recession on divorce settlements.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Dec. 30, 1972, the United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
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EVERYTHING. ANYTHING. HERE. NOW.
1. www.facebook.com 2. To hire Saro Solis, the best Spanish voice-over in the USA, contact Kimberly Sklanowsky at 310-432-7811 of DPN. For voice-over demos go to 3. End Anxiety, Stress and Worry
4. Do you need help buying or selling your single family home on the Westsideof Los Angeles? Please call me, I can help, Lisa Morrin 310-230-2450
5. In Northern California/SF Bay Area contact www.beyondbeliefministry.com for affordable customized marriage (or other rite of passage) ceremonies.6. Website Alert: www.myspace.com/pacificdivision 7. Win the New Michael C Lewis Smooth Jazz CD Single!
www.michaelclewis.net8. Bring your pit bull and meet the Dog Man every Sunday morning, 9:00 to 12:00 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum near Figueroa and Martin Luther King. Video - 9. Ask me how to travel for free - 310 505 1058
10. LBN Reader Comment, ” Marvin Gaye was a genius” Sherman Oaks, CA
10. A groundbreaking path to healthy weight loss! Start the new year with a cleanse and lose 7lbs in 9 days. 11. Performers: Free Seminar Gear Up Your Career in 2009January 7, 2009 7:30PM-9:30PM Burbank, CA 91505RSVP here: 12. Discovering Gematria: Foundational Exegesis and Primary Dictionary by Jonathan D. Rawn Available at:
www.gematriapublishing.com 13. Tune into your inner resources for happiness and power. Simple, unique system for personal and spiritual enlightenment. Free pdf introdution and sample ideas.”All That Matters”. www.CarloAmi.com 14. LBN Reader Comment: Some people at too nosey” —– James Bolden, Denver, CO
15. Website Alert: www.bloggarazzi.com
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LBN E-Lert Edited by Shannon Donnelly
Contributing Editors: Kathleen Spennrath, Meridith Berk, Rosalyn Isidoro
LBN E-Lert Disclaimer: 1.) The LBN E-Lert accepts no liability for the content of this email, or for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided. The LBN E-Lert is not associated with any commercial or political organization and is transmitted via the web for the sole benefit of its subscribers. 2.) Unfortunately, computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses.
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BARAK: GAZA OPERATION WILL INTENSIFY: On the fourth day of Operation Cast Lead, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that military action against Hamas would continue until all the goals are met. Speaking during a tour of Ashkelon on Tuesday afternoon, Barak said that the operation would intensify “as much as needed to meet the goals we set for ourselves; to bring quiet to the South.” The operation also aims “to strike a severe blow to Hamas,” he said, “in order to bring about an end to firing and other operations against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.”
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POLICE: SANTA GUNMAN PLANNED TO KILL MORE THAN 9: The man who killed nine people at his former in-law’s Christmas party while dressed as Santa Claus had plotted the attack several months ago and his hit list was longer than first thought. Police said Monday that Bruce Pardo planned to also kill his mother and his ex-wife’s divorce attorney but committed suicide before he could complete the task.
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READERS SLAM LBN FOR PALIN STORY; “YOU CALL THAT NEWS?”: Late yesterday, the LBN E-Lert sent a “Late-Breaking News” message to it’s 300,000 readers that Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, gave birth on Sunday to a healthy 7 lb., 4 oz., baby boy in Palmer, Alaska. Hundreds of readers reacted critically screaming “How dare you call that news?” One reader from Arlington, Texas wrote: “I read the LBN E-Lert to get real news not the adventures of some slut from Alaska!” ***What do you think? — Send your opinion, e-mail — LBNElert@TimeWire.net (Please put “Palin Story” in the subject line).
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LITTLE TOWN BESEECHES OBAMAS HEALTH CHIEF: Former Senator Tom Daschle, whom President-elect Barack Obama has called the lead architect of the new administrations efforts to expand health insurance and rein in medical costs, attended a community meeting Monday where he got an earful about expenses that were too high and coverage that was too little. Dolly Sweet, 79, said she beat breast cancer 20 years ago but was now battling lung cancer without the medicine her doctor had prescribed. Ms. Sweet told Mr. Daschle that after covering her radiation treatment, Medicare would not pay for follow-up treatment with the drug, Tarceva, which would have cost $32,000 a year.
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FORD ANNOUNCES NEW SELF-PARKING TECHNOLOGY: Sit back, relax and let your car parallel park itself — without a single scratch or ding to your bumper. That’s what Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday about its new self-parking technology, which it announced will debut as an option on the 2010 Lincoln MKS sedan and the new seven-passenger Lincoln MKT luxury crossover vehicle.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Chanel, one of the grandest French fashion names, is to lay off 200 Paris staff in an unmistakable sign that even the world’s top luxury brands are feeling the pinch in the global recession. ***Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian has sold his remaining 5 percent stake in Ford Motor Co., according to his investment company, Tracinda Corp.
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EX-AIDES: BUSH NEVER RECOVERED FROM KATRINA: Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government’s poor handling of the natural disaster. “Katrina to me was the tipping point,” said Matthew Dowd, Bush’s pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign. “The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn’t matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn’t matter. P.R.? It didn’t matter. Travel? It didn’t matter.” Dan Bartlett, former White House communications director and later counselor to the president, said: “Politically, it was the final nail in the coffin.”
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***The conversation has come to an end for Michael Eisner and CNBC. The former Mouse House chief will wrap up his monthly series “Conversations With Michael Eisner” in March after three years on CNBC. Eisner told the New York Post on Monday that he needed to focus on running the various businesses in his Tornante Co. venture, which includes Vuguru, the Internet production shingle behind the online serial “Prom Queen” and other made-for-Web skeins.
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WHO READS THE LBN E-LERT? Sports entrepreneur Paula Duffy along with approximately 300,000 other “influencers”.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Experts say that most drugs work for only about half the people who take them.
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STUDY: ‘VIRGINITY PLEDGES’ ARE INEFFECTIVE: Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DAVID MARGOLICK: What better way to restore the Yankees’ traditional repulsiveness than to spend more than all of the other teams combined this off-season?
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LBN-COMMENTARY By LEON LOGOTHETIS: Destructive habits creep into our lives and can bring with them unnecessary pain. Whether it is an inability to extricate oneself from a harmful relationship or abusing prescription medication habits take over peoples lives and inhibit the free flowing energy of life. I believe that destructive habits are not limited to the sensational addictions that people are so used to hearing about; alcoholism and drug addiction being the most common these days. My personal struggle has been defeating the scourge of procrastination. I have found procrastination to be a vicious habit to break free of. It stunts my growth and keeps me from my reaching my potential.
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RESEARCHERS UNLOCK SECRETS OF 1918 FLU PANDEMIC: Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly — a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. They mixed samples of the 1918 influenza strain with modern seasonal flu viruses to find the three genes and said their study might help in the development of new flu drugs.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By PETER BART: MEMO TO: Will Smith FROM: Peter Bart I have an oddball question to ask you Will: Have you been reading too much Malcolm Gladwell lately? Gladwell, as you know, is the young guy with the big hair whose new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, sits atop best seller lists. His basic precept (which is not exactly original) is that innate talent is not the pivotal contributor to success; rather, effort and sheer determination are the keys. In his book, what we think of as aptitude really boils down to dogged pursuit of a goal. I wish I could agree with Gladwell (Id like to sell that many books) but I think hes goofy. Anyone who goes to films, plays or concerts, Will, knows what its like to be blown away by a mega-talent. And Ive known enough amazing talents to identify those who are anything but dogged theyre downright lazy.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***Bill and Hillary Clinton taking in the “Philippe de Montebello Years” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC on Sunday. ***Ron Howard abandoning his courtside seat at the Knicks-Timberwolves game at the Garden in NYC to sit on the hardwood with the photographers, one of whom handed him an extra camera and gave him pointers. ***Frederic Fekkai leaving Dr. Steven Butensky’s dental office on East 52nd Street in NYC on Christmas Day. ***Beverly Hills Spa 415 ower Liza Lewis having lunch yesterday at Cafe Roma in Beverly Hills. ***Veteran comedy writer Mark Miller having dinner last night at Sprazzo in Westwood. ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN COMMENTARY By PETER DEKOM: What fictional character would you like to be and why? Just think of me as a wannabe Charlie Bucket in search of a Willy Wonka chocolate factory with a sustainable business plan in a depression economy! Where’s my golden ticket?! *** To reply directly to Peter Dekom, email LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN COMMENTARY By BURT PRELUTSKY: This is the time of year when every movie is said to be, in its ads at least, “an unforgettable work of art,” “a profound, often disturbing, cinematic experience,” “reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman,” “quixotic and intriguing,” “luminescent,” “heartfelt,” “emotionally overwhelming,” “absolutely electric,” “truly inspired,” “galvanizing” and “a once in a life thunderbolt!” The thesaurus gets more use in one month than it gets during the entire rest of the year.*** To reply directly to Burt Prelutsky, email LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By BOB HERBERT: I dont think George W. Bush should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a loud, collective angry howl and demonstrations over the damage hes done to this country.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Zooey Deschanel is ready to walk down the aisle. The actress and singer, 28, and Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard, 32, who is also in the indie band the Postal Service, got engaged before the holidays, a source confirms. ***Actress Mia Farrow has lost the first of her brood. Lark Previn, the Vietnamese-born adopted daughter of Farrow and musician Andre Previn, died on Christmas Day, the medical examiner said Monday. Lark Previn, 35, a mother of two girls, had been ailing for a decade. A cause of death was not released. ***After two decades together, Woody Harrelson and his girlfriend Laura Louie made it legal on Sunday. The 47-year-old actor and Louie, 43, “were officially married yesterday on the island of Maui,” his rep said.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***A fresh egg will sink in water; a stale one will float. ***During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax. ***Coca-Cola was originally green. ***Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury. ***Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
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LBN-QUOTE: “We used to fight about who gets to keep the house. Now we fight about who gets stuck with the dead cow.”GARY NICKELSON, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, on the effect of the recession on divorce settlements.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Dec. 30, 1972, the United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
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| SUNDAY • OCTOBER 12, 2008 |
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AFGHAN OFFICIAL: MORE THAN 100 TALIBAN KILLED MILITANTS LAUNCH SURPRISE ATTACK IN SOUTH, USING ROCKETS AND HEAVY WEAPONS:Taliban militants launched a surprise attack on a key southern Afghan city Sunday sparking a battle that killed some 60 insurgents, an Afghan official said. Other clashes in the region left 40 militants dead.
Taliban fighters used rockets and heavy weapons to attack Afghan forces on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, said Daud Ahmadi, spokesman for Helmand’s governor.
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 AIDS VACCINE FOCUS SHIFTS AFTER DISAPPOINTMENTSGLOBAL CONFERENCE THIS WEEK TAKES ‘REAL SWING BACK’ AFTER SHOT TESTS HALTED: A global AIDS vaccine conference this week will seek fresh strategies against the HIV virus, with experts weighing the value of basic laboratory research against large-scale human clinical trials after a string of disappointments. Approaches focusing on “neutralizing antibodies” that would allow the human immune system to block infection completely, are likely to take precedence over existing models that seek to manage infection after it occurs, experts said. “There’s a real redirection and rethinking,” said Lynn Morris, co-chair of a world AIDS vaccine conference that starts in Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday.
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BRITAIN PLANS FINANCIAL RESCUE OF TOP 4 BANKSGOVERNMENT WILL BE BIGGEST SHAREHOLDER IN HBOS, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND: Britain will launch its biggest retail bank rescue on Monday when the four largest HBOS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and Barclays ask for a combined 35 billion pound ($60.5 billion) lifeline, the Sunday Times reported. The unprecedented move would make the government the biggest shareholder in at least two banks, HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland, the newspaper said on its Web site. It did not give a named source for its information.
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 IMF CHIEF WARNS OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL MELTDOWNBUSH URGES PATIENCE IN CRISIS FIX; RICH NATIONS VOW TO FIGHT CREDIT CRUNCH: The International Monetary Fund warned Saturday that debt-ridden banks were pushing the global financial system to the brink of meltdown and wealthy nations had so far failed to restore confidence. The IMF’s policy setting panel said the economic crisis is so deep and widespread that it will require a willingness to take bold action.
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 CONCERN IN G.O.P. AFTER ROUGH WEEK FOR MCCAIN: After a turbulent week that included disclosures about Gov. Sarah Palin and signs that Senator John McCain was struggling to strike the right tone for his campaign, Republican leaders said Saturday that they were worried Mr. McCain was heading for defeat unless he brought stability to his presidential candidacy and settled on a clear message to counter Senator Barack Obama.
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 MEXICAN MARIJUANA CARTELS SULLY US FORESTS, PARKS: National forests and parks _ long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels _ have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said. The grow sites have taken hold from the West Coast’s Cascade Mountains, as well as on federal lands in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.
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CONGRESSMAN SAYS MCCAIN ‘SOWING SEEDS OF HATRED’: Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement, says the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminds him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Gov. George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s. Republican candidate John McCain on Saturday called Lewis’ remarks “shocking and beyond the pale.”
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 LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is retiring, leaving a hole in Sunday comics pages after nearly 30 years because he wants to save his strips main character, Opus, from being dragged down in the current political climate. The last strip of Opus, the beloved, large-beaked penguin, will run in about 200 newspapers nationwide Nov. 2. ***Alec Baldwin book rails against family court system. A Promise to Ourselves also discusses divorce, phone message to daughter.
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 A NEW DAY FOR DOGS: The Humane Society of the United States has counted Pennsylvania among a handful of states where lucrative, largely unregulated puppy mills are concentrated. Law targets puppy mills. Bill clamps down kennels in Pa. where mills are based, says Humane Society: The issue caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey after a suburban Philadelphia rescue organization put up a billboard in Chicago begging her to do a show on dog breeder abuse. The movement took on new momentum when, in August, operators of two eastern Pennsylvania kennels shot 80 dogs after being ordered to let veterinarians examine some of them. The new law imposes strict standards on commercial kennels, including at least twice-a-year veterinary exams, larger cages and exercise requirements.
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STRONG QUAKE SHAKES VIRGIN ISLANDS, PUERTO RICO: A strong earthquake jolted people awake Saturday in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and nearby Puerto Rico. There were no immediate reports of damages. The magnitude 6.1 quake was the strongest to hit Puerto Rico in 20 years, according to Christa von Hillebrandt, director of the seismic network on the Mayaguez campus of the University of Puerto Rico.
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PENTAGON WANTS $450 BILLION INCREASE OVER NEXT FIVE YEARS: Pentagon officials have prepared a new estimate for defense spending that is $450 billion more over the next five years than previously announced figures. The new estimate, which the Pentagon plans to release shortly before President Bush leaves office, would serve as a marker for the new president and is meant to place pressure on him to either drastically increase the size of the defense budget or defend any reluctance to do so, according to several former senior budget officials who are close to the discussions.Experts note that releasing such documents in the twilight of an administration is a well-worn tactic, and that incoming presidents often disregard such guidance in order to pursue their own priorities.
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THREE KILLED IN U.S. MISSILE ATTACK IN PAKISTANAL-QAIDA HAVEN TARGETED NEAR AFGHAN BORDER; PAKISTAN CONDEMNS STRIKES: A suspected U.S. missile strike killed three people close to the Afghan border, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. The attack took place late Saturday close to the market in Miran Shah in north Waziristan, officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***BFFs Kelly Rowland and Serena Williams hit the beach in Miami a fews days ago. ***Halle Berry was spotted on her way to yoga in Beverly Hills. ***Cindy Crawford was carting her kid to and from soccer practice yesterday. ***Zoe Kravitz was spotted hitting up the Chanel show in Paris last week.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***YouTube, the largest video-sharing Website, has started to run full-length TV shows from CBS Corp’s archive, in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programming/ The site, owned by Google Inc, said on Friday it was talking to other TV networks to sign similar deals to CBS. Many TV networks already run short clips on YouTube, which also offers millions of home videos uploaded by users. ***Britney Spears new video, “Womanizer,” debuted last night in what better place — ABC’s “20/20.”
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 LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Nobody gave Jeff Burton a chance.
And thats exactly how Burton likes it. Burton thrust himself into title contention Saturday night, using savvy pit strategy to win at Lowes Motor Speedway and slice into Johnsons points lead on a night when several contenders lost sight of the title. Nobodys giving us a chance except for us, and all those guys have a tremendous amount to lose, Burton said. Weve got nothing to lose and were just hanging it out there and seeing what happens.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Legendary supermodel Carol Alt will bare it all for the first time in a Playboy cover story, Access Hollywood has confirmed. The 47-year-old brunette beauty, who battled it out in the boardroom on season one of Donald Trumps Celebrity Apprentice earlier this year, will pose nude for the magazines December issue, a rep for the magazine told Access. ***Cloris Leachman has been chosen as grand marshal for next years Rose Parade. The actress, who has an Oscar and eight Emmys, will head the 120th Tournament of Roses on Jan. 1 in Pasadena. The parades theme is Hats Off to Entertainment. ***Senator John McCain may be an American hero but the Foo Fighters still dont want him using My Hero at his campaign rallies. The rock band is the latest act to ask the McCain-Palin campaign to stop using its music. Heart, Van Halen, John Mellencamp and Jackson Browne have also asked for the campaign to turn off their tunes, according to ABC News. ***Jon Bon Jovi is being sued for 400 bil — yes, billion bucks by a Boston musician who says Jovi allegedly borrowed lyrics from his Boston Red Sox anthem entitled, “(Man I Really) Love This Team.” ***Vanessa Hudgens, 19, just sang and danced her way into a $2.75 million home in Studio City, Cal. Zac Efron can now visit Hudgens unchaperoned in her six bedroom, 6.5 bath, 5,200 sq. ft. home — which includes pool, spa and a “barbeque island,” according to the L.A. Times.
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LBN-QUOTE: “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”- Mohandas Gandhi.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
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 WALL STREETS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE CONTINUES: DOW BREAKS THROUGH 8,000 SHORTLY AFTER OPEN BEFORE REBOUNDING: Wall Street extended its devastating losses Friday, but prices swung sharply as investors scooped up some shares decimated by more than a week of intense and panicked selling. The Dow Jones industrials average, down nearly 700 points in the opening minutes of trading, recovered to an advance of more than 100 before turning sharply lower again, and the other major indexes fluctuated widely as well.
Wall Street extended its devastating losses Friday, but prices swung sharply as investors scooped up some shares decimated by more than a week of intense and panicked selling. The Dow Jones industrials average, down nearly 700 points in the opening minutes of trading, recovered to an advance of more than 100 before turning sharply lower again, and the other major indexes fluctuated widely as well. |
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 ASIAN MARKETS FOLLOW HUGE WALL STREET LOSSESJAPANESE NIKKEI AVERAGE PLUMMETS MORE THAN 10 PERCENT: A massive sell-off on Wall Street and an escalating global equity crisis sent Asian stocks plunging Friday, with Japan’s benchmark index in the midst of a gut-wrenching freefall. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average plummeted 974.12 points, or 10.6 percent, to 8,183.37 at the close of the morning session. The index at one point had lost more than 11 percent.” Selling is unstoppable in New York and Tokyo,” said Yutaka Miura, senior strategist at Shinko Securities Co. Ltd. in Tokyo. “Investors were gripped by fear.”
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 TOPLESS ACTIVISTS PROTEST EU BULLFIGHTING: Animal-rights advocates cover themselves in fake blood to press for ban: Animal-rights activists staged a topless protest outside the European Parliament on Thursday, demanding the European Union ban bullfighting and stop aiding the industry in Spain, France and Portugal. Some 20 men and women lay down on the sidewalk outside the EU assembly, covered in fake blood with colorful pica spears sticking out of their backs, to highlight their opposition to bullfighting.
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 HUNGRY ZIMBABWEANS LIVE ON ONE MEAL A DAY: ‘National crisis’ grips country struck by economic collapse, AIDS, drought: Some rural Zimbabweans facing one of the hungriest years they could remember have been forced to live on a meal a day and in some cases only on wild fruits, the U.N. food aid agency said Thursday. The World Food Program appealed for donations to help fight hunger in Zimbabwe, straining as an economic collapse, years of food scarcity, AIDS and poor weather have combined to put it in a category all its own in a region where most nations are poor.
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DALAI LAMA TO UNDERGO SURGERY FOR GALL STONE: Tibetan spiritual leader hospitalized in New Dehli earlier: A spokesman for the Dalai Lama said the Tibetan leader will undergo surgery to remove a gall stone. Chime R. Chhoekyapa, the spokesman, said “a gall stone will be removed.”The Dalai Lama was hospitalized in New Delhi early Friday, just days after a medical checkup cleared the Tibetan spiritual leader to resume foreign travel.
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 ANGER IS CROWD’S OVERARCHING EMOTION AT MCCAIN RALLY: There were shouts of “Nobama” and “Socialist” at the mention of the Democratic presidential nominee. There were boos, middle fingers turned up and thumbs turned down as a media caravan moved through the crowd Thursday for a midday town hall gathering featuring John McCain and Sarah Palin.
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CONN. COURT OVERTURNS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN: Court finds law discriminates by limiting marriage to heterosexual couples: Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making that state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions. The divided court ruled 4-3 that gay and lesbian couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry under the state constitution, and Connecticut’s civil unions law does not provide those couples with the same rights as heterosexual couples.
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 STUDY: GEORGIA VILLAGES ‘TORCHED’ AFTER INVASION: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: SATELLITE IMAGES MAY BE EVIDENCE OF WAR CRIMES: Hundreds of houses in ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia were torched in August, after Russian troops took control of the area, according to an analysis of satellite images released on Thursday. The analysis, conducted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science on behalf of Amnesty International, did not show who was responsible for the damage but Amnesty said it may be evidence of war crimes. Human-rights activists have criticized Russia for ignoring the looting of ethnic Georgian villages by armed South Ossetian militias during and after the war.
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 CALIFORNIA MAY REQUIRE MORE SPACE FOR HENS: RANCHERS WOULD NEED TO MAKE SURE ANIMALS CAN STAND UP, TURN, OR STRETCH: At the J.S. West and Cos. poultry farm, half a million chickens are squeezed six at a time into wire cages where they must share 2 square feet of space. Beneath them, conveyor belts whisk away excrement while 1.2 million eggs travel from hen to carton each day without touching a human hand. California voters will decide next month whether this kind of operation is an example of factory farming at its most efficient or the cruel farming practices of producers concerned only about the bottom line.
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REPORT: U.S. SPIED ON AMERICANS’ INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS ABROAD: Congress is looking into allegations that National Security Agency linguists have been eavesdropping on Americans abroad. Government linguists say the U.S. eavesdropped on Americans, including military officers serving in Iraq. The congressional oversight committees said Thursday that the Americans targeted included military officers in Iraq who called friends and family in the United States. The allegations were made by two former military intercept operators on a television news report Thursday evening.
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 BERLUSCONI SAYS LEADERS MAY CLOSE WORLD’S MARKETS: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said political leaders are discussing the idea of closing the world’s financial markets while they “rewrite the rules of international finance.'’ “The idea of suspending the markets for the time it takes to rewrite the rules is being discussed,'’ Berlusconi said today after a Cabinet meeting in Naples, Italy. A solution to the financial crisis “can’t just be for one country, or even just for Europe, but global.'’
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LBN-HEALTH INSIDER: *** One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday. The figures represent the government’s first substantial study of vaccination rates for the Gardasil vaccine Merck & Co.’s heavily advertised, three-shot series that targets the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus. *** Nearly 10,700 Chinese infants and children were still in hospital after drinking toxic milk and milk formula, China said on Thursday, but urged foreign customers to take a “scientific” approach to the safety of its products. The country is still wrestling with a tainted milk scandal that has killed four babies, made tens of thousands more ill and affected products around the world.
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 LBN-BOOK NEWS: *** The Swedish Academy said Thursday that French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature. The academy called Le Clezio “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.” Besides the 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) check, he will receive a gold medal and be invited to give a lecture at the academy’s headquarters in the Swedish capital’s Old Town. *** Superman’s dad has died again. DC Comics has killed off Clark Kent’s Earth father with a heart attack. In Action Comics #870, out Wednesday, Superman can’t hear his mom’s cries for help in time to save Jonathan Kent. The TV Jonathan played by John Schneider died long ago on CW’s “Smallville.”
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: *** Hollywood’s biggest annual advertisement for itself the Academy Awards broadcast now can carry commercials for movies themselves. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board voted to allow commercials for movies to air on the Oscar telecast for the first time starting with the Feb. 22 ceremony on ABC, academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger said Wednesday. *** The CW is spinning off its hit reality series “America’s Next Top Model.” The network has ordered a pilot for “Operation Fabulous,” starring “Top Model” regulars Jay Manuel and J. Alexander and executive produced by “Top Model” chiefs Tyra Banks and Ken Mok. *** MGM has compiled most of the lead cast for its accelerating remake of the 1980 musical “Fame.” Kristy Flores, Paul Iacono, Paul McGill, Naturi Naughton, Kay Panabaker, Kherington Payne, Collins Pennie, Walter Perez and Anna Maria Perez de Tagle have joined.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By LOUISE R. TRAVIS: Ive always believed that when a loved one dies there should never be a limit on how long to mourn, since we experience loss in different ways. Am I now to understand that if we mourn longer that six months, were candidates for inclusion in DSM-V, the next edition of the standard textbook on mental illness? Perhaps researchers, in scanning the brains nucleus accumbens, should look to the heart as well. My sorrow comes from there.
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LBN COMMENTARY By THOMAS SOWELL: At one time, it was said The truth will make you free. Today, there seem to be those who think that rhetoric and hype will make you free. It might even be called the audacity of hype.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Oct. 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned his office.
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| THURSDAY • OCTOBER 2, 2008 |
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HOUSE GIRDS FOR 2ND TRY ON FINANCIAL RESCUE: House members are getting another chance to vote on a financial bailout bill that has infuriated millions of voters after the Senate added tax cuts and other sweeteners and passed it handily. Senators advanced the much-criticized measure in a 74-25 vote late Wednesday, sending it to the other side of the Capitol for a showdown vote expected Friday. The move was calculated to win over enough dissenting House members to get the bill through and reverse Monday’s stunning defeat in the House. Party leaders there planned to press rank-and-file members Thursday for the dozen converts they believe they need.
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ONCE 3 PAGES, BAILOUT BILL NOW LENGTH OF NOVEL: Two Saturdays ago, it totaled just three pages the White House’s request for $700 billion to rescue tottering financial institutions by buying their devalued mortgage-related assets. After an intense weekend of negotiations, the draft of the bailout legislation before Congress had swelled to 42 pages.
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 ALL EYES TURN TO PALIN V BIDEN VICE-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE : Americans of both political parties waited nervously for Thursday’s hotly-anticipated debate between their picks for vice-president, seen as a crucial test for Republican Sarah Palin and no sure bet for Democrat Joe Biden. Concerns about Palin’s readiness to take the national stage have mounted in recent days following interviews in which the first-time Alaska governor has sometimes been lost for words when faced with tough questioning.
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 FOSSETT PLANE FOUND, SHERIFF SAYS: Authorities have found the plane Steve Fossett was flying when he disappeared last year, but they have not found the millionaire adventurer’s body, the Madera County, California, sheriff said Thursday.” They did locate an aircraft which we have now confirmed is the one Steve Fossett was flying when it disappeared last Labor Day,” Sheriff John Anderson told reporters at a news conference in Mammoth Lakes. The plane apparently crashed head-on into the side of a mountain, and the damage was “so severe I doubt someone would’ve walked away from it,” the sheriff said.
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LBN-PRESIDENTIAL BACK ROOM: ***Hours ahead of the vice presidential debate, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) criticized the selection of PBS’ Gwen Ifill as moderator because she is writing a book called “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.” Frankly, I wish they had picked a moderator that isnt writing a book favorable to Barack Obama let’s face it,” McCain said on “Fox & Friends.” “But I have to have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will handle this as the professional journalist that she is. Life isnt fair, as I mentioned earlier in the program.
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LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***Warren Buffett sought to capitalize on the woes of global business again yesterday as he announced plans to buy $3 billion of preferred shares in General Electric as part of a $15 billion (8.4 billion) capital-raising by Americas largest conglomerate. Mr. Buffett, who agreed last week to invest $5 billion in Goldman Sachs after a sharp fall in its share price, will also secure the shares in GE at a relatively low price as the groups stock has declined by 34 per cent this year. ***There is an increase in beauty marketing that employs science buzzwords whose meaning may be lost on consumers. ***The music business needs a hit collection. The industry closed out its third quarter at 297.9 million albums sold, down 12% from last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That means it will have to log 200 million sales before Jan. 4 to break even with 2007s total of 500.5 million. Last year the industry did nearly 33% of its business in the final quarter; to stay the course, that percentage would have to top 40% this year.
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 LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Miramax has shelled out a cool $9 million to settle a lawsuit filed by producer Marty Richards over the profits of “Chicago”. Don’t gag, but the tawdry life of “Deep Throat” star Linda Lovelace is now a musical. Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go’s and former TV publicist Jeffery Bowman have co-written “Lovelace: A Rock Opera,” which opens Oct. 18 at the Hayworth in Los Angeles. Lovelace - whose oral acrobatics made her the world’s most famous porn star in the 1970s - later claimed she was forced into XXX movies by her abusive husband. Bowman tells avn.com he’d heard that Caffey was a bit of a prude, “and this turned out to be true, but I discovered that she was a prude with a wicked sense of humor.” ***The Screen Actors Guild’s negotiating committee voted Wednesday to support a strike authorization vote, a tactic meant to break stalled contract talks with Hollywood studios. The recommendation, approved 11-2, now goes to the guild’s national board for review, and would ultimately need approval of 75 percent of the some 120,000 voting guild members. ***Rosie O’Donnell, the former magazine publisher and co-host of ABC’s “The View,” will headline an hour-long variety show live in NBC prime time on Thanksgiving. “Rosie’s Variety Hour” is a “backdoor pilot” that could lead the special to becoming a fixture on the network’s schedule. ***Creative Artists Agency is popping the bubbly: The tenpercentery has signed Moet & Chandon as a corporate client. Champagne maker is turning to the agencys marketing department to devise ways to use entertainment to promote the companys products. That could range from sponsoring major events and putting the champagne in celebrity hands to the production of original content.
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LBN-NOTICED: ***L.A. realtor Julie Craig having a glass of milk last night at Joe’s Grille on Main Street in Santa Monica. ***Entertainment attorney Kim Schwartz having lunch yesterday at Barney Greengrass in Beverly Hills.
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KIDS SPREAD CHEATING METHODS ON YOUTUBE: Hi YouTube, its me, Kiki, the teenager said to the camera as she swiveled in her chair to jazzy background music. And today Im going to show you how to cheat on a test - the effective way. She demonstrates her technique, slipping a small piece of paper with the answers in a clear-tubed pen as she rationalizes her reasons for cheating. I know its not a good thing to cheat, she said. Its academic dishonesty, blah, blah, blah. But I think everyone has at least done it once.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***The AIDS virus, previously thought to have been transmitted from chimps to humans in the 1930s, may have leapt the species barrier more than a century ago in west-central Africa, scientists said on Wednesday. Analysis of tissues preserved by doctors in the colonial-era Belgian Congo shows that the most pervasive strain of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) began spreading among humans at some point between 1884 and 1924.
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 WORLD’S FATTEST MAN TO WED AFTER MASSIVE DIET: Mexican Manuel Uribe, the world’s fattest man in the 2007 Guinness Book of Records, said Wednesday that he would wed this month, after losing nearly half his original weight. “It will be a hefty wedding, on a large scale, but with a low-calorie banquet,” the 43-year-old told AFP. Uribe, who lives in his bed, in February said he had dropped 230 kilograms (570 pounds) from 590 kilograms (1,300 pounds). He said he would marry a widow named Claudia, to whom he has been engaged for two years, on October 26 at home in Monterrey, northern Mexico.
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 LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos was driving an SUV when it slammed into two women who later died of their injuries, police said. Local police still were searching for Burgos on Wednesday.
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 LBN-THE “INSIDE” STORY: He attacked her in the press for refusing to waive VAT on the Band Aid single in 1984 she later relented - but Sir Bob Geldof and Baroness Margaret Thatcher appeared to have put their differences behind them as they chatted at a Rudyard Kipling Poetry reading at the British Library. Arch pain-in-the ass poverty campaigner Geldof cosied up to former Prime Minister Thatcher who is said to be battling dementia - at the session in London yesterday. The anti-poverty campaigner and the Iron Lady made an odd couple at the event. Thatcher looked well in a bright pink coat and sipped from a glass of wine while Geldof wore a suit with a loose tie.
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LBN FINANCIAL HELP: Anxious? These sites will help you figure out how to respond to the Wall Street tumult and how safe your money is now.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By ROGER COHEN: The lesson of the last eight years is this: When power is a passport to gamble, people can end up seriously broke or seriously dead. Does America want to roll the dice again?
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LBN-COMMENTARY By ROBERT REDFORD; I first met Paul Newman in 1968, when George Roy Hill, the director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, introduced us in New York City. When the studio didn’t want me for the film it wanted somebody as well known as Paul he stood up for me. I don’t know how many people would have done that; they would have listened to their agents or the studio powers. The friendship that grew out of the experience of making that film and The Sting four years later had its genesis in the fact that although there was an age difference, we both came from a tradition of theater and live TV. We were respectful of craft and focused on digging into the characters we were going to play. Both of us were fundamentally American actors, with the qualities and virtues that characterize American actors: irreverence, playing on the other’s flaws for fun, one-upmanship but always with an underlying affection. Those were also at the core of our relationship off the screen. Paul was very engaged at work. He was there. He liked a lot of rehearsal. But he was fun too. Whenever he’d make a mistake on set, he would enjoy it more than anybody. I’d look at him, and he’d look at me, and I’d say, “You’re not fooling anybody. You’re not staring at me intensely; you’ve lost your line.” And he’d roar with laughter. We shared the belief that if you’re fortunate enough to have success, you should put something back he with his Newman’s Own food and his Hole in the Wall camps for kids who are gravely ill, and me with Sundance and the institute and the festival. Paul and I didn’t see each other all that regularly, but sharing that brought us together. We supported each other financially and by showing up at events. And then we’d give each other a hard time. Whatever success one of us would have, the other would knock it down. If you’re in a position of being viewed iconically, you’d better have a mechanism to take yourself down to keep the balance. I think we did that for each other.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Before he died, William F. Buckley Jr. put his young grandson on the firing line. The intellectual conservative icon - renowned for his erudition and use of uncommon words - excluded his son’s illegitimate child from his massive estate, insisting the kid was dead in his eyes. ***More than half of the viewers for NBC “Saturday Night Live’s” recent skits with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin watched the sketches on the Web, says media expert and author Michael Levine. About 51% of viewers who have seen at least one of the skits are watching on the Internet according to Levine. ***Playboy magazine is launching a search for models to pose for an upcoming photo feature, “Women of Wall Street.” Says photo editor Gary Cole: “When the news gets bad, then maybe that’s a chance to make people smile.” The adult entertainment magazine is soliciting applications online.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine. ***Throughout the South, peanuts were known as “Monkey Nuts,” and “Goober peas,” before the civil war. ***Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell. ***In 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can for preserving food. ***The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia.
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LBN-QUOTE: “I have gone on dates, and one thing I have discovered is that I don’t need no damn Viagra, that’s for damn sure. I’m very, very active” - Carlos Santana.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first black to serve on the high court.
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| TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 |
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BUSH WARNS OF ‘LASTING’ DAMAGE: Trying to sell his financial rescue package for the second morning in a row, President Bush warned on national television Tuesday that the country will experience painful and lasting economic damage if Congress does not pass a bailout measure. The consequences will grow worse each day if we do not act, he said. Bush sounded determined but looked worn in brief remarks as he faced perhaps the final trial of his presidency, and one that pits him against powerful voices in the lifelong party of his family.
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MORE THAN 1,100 ARRESTED IN CAL IMMIGRATION SWEEP: Federal immigration authorities say more than 1,150 people have been arrested in a special three-week sweep in California. The sweep targeted those who ignored deportation orders or returned to the U.S. illegally after being deported.
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 CONSUMER CONFIDENCE UNEXPECTEDLY IMPROVES IN SEPT.: Americans’ confidence in the economy unexpectedly improved in September, but the reading still hovered near a 16-year low and does not fully reflect the financial meltdown that has rocked Wall Street and Main Street in recent days.
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 WORLD LEADERS LOOK TO US FOR SALVATION AS ECONOMIES NEAR ABYSS: World leaders called on the US government to take action to stave off global financial collapse Tuesday after Congress rejected a 700 billion dollar bailout in a move which stunned global markets. Another European bank, Dexia, had to be rescued and shares went through another roller coaster ride after the House of Representatives voted 228-205 against the rescue on Monday.
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MCCAIN SAYS OBAMA POLICIES WILL DEEPEN RECESSION: Lagging in the polls, Republican presidential candidate John McCain unleashed a blistering attack Monday on his Democratic rival, saying the race comes down to a simple question: “Country first or Obama first?” In his first public appearance since Friday night’s debate, McCain said Democrat Barack Obama advocates tax-and-spend policies that “will deepen our recession,” and voted against funding for equipment needed by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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 PROSECUTION RESTS ROBBERY CASE AGAINST OJ SIMPSON: The man who told a jury that O.J. Simpson asked him to bring guns and “look menacing” during a hotel room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers acknowledged Monday he didn’t tell police that last October. “You have a whole conversation with police and you never say ‘O.J. said to bring guns?’” Simpson defense lawyer Gabriel Grasso asked the witness, Michael McClinton, during a lengthy cross-examination. “It may have slipped my mind,” McClinton responded. “But Mr. Simpson knew I had a gun. He read my concealed weapons permit.” McClinton, 50, a Las Vegas resident who worked as a security guard, was the last of four former co-defendants to testify against Simpson in the trial. After he finished two days of testimony, prosecutors rested their case against the former football star and co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***According to data from across 11 networks, the first presidential debate on September 26 between John McCain and Barack Obama drew 52.4 million viewers. The TV audience for the first presidential debate of the 2008 election was roughly 16% smaller than the audience for the first debate between President Bush and John Kerry during the 2004 election, which drew 62.5 million viewers on September 30, 2004. ***YouTube is beating out the likes of Facebook and even parent company Google to be named the coolest online media brand, according to the 2008 CoolBrands survey, an annual initiative to identify the coolest U.K. brands. Brands are ranked on features including style and authenticity. ***Business Week is publishing a list of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web, which includes movers and shakers such as MySpace owner Rupert Murdoch, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, and Google executive triumvirate Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt. ***The New York Sun is publishing its final edition today after failing to raise the capital needed to extend the newspaper’s six-year, money-losing run. The Sun, funded by investors including Bruce Kovner and Michael Steinhardt, needed “tens of millions” of dollars to cover losses.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***SAG’s Alan Rosenberg and Doug Allen sent a letter yesterday to News Corp.’s Peter Chernin, Disney’s Bob Iger and AMPTP president Nick Counter asking them to restart formal talks. The proposal was promptly rejected by Counter in a letter that cited SAG’s refusal to budge on the so-called ‘threshold’ issues along with other significant issues and the current economic crisis. ***After dismissing rumors floated in the media in early August, NBC and the NFL have announced that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will, in fact, headline the Super Bowl XLIII halftime show at Tampa Bay’s Raymond James Stadium on Feb. 1.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By GINA KOLATA: Experts agree that there are three basic principles that underlie the search for medical truth and the use of clinical trials to obtain it. The first, says Dr. Steven Goodman, an epidemiologist and biostatistician at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is that it is important to compare like with like. The groups you are comparing must be the same except for one factor the one you are studying. For example, you should compare beta carotene users with people who are exactly like the beta carotene users except that they dont take the supplement. By contrast, observational studies that ask what happens to people who act a certain way in their everyday lives rather than in an experiment are not as tightly controlled. For example, if people who eat fruits and vegetables or take beta carotene are compared with those who dont, the two groups are quite likely to be different from the start. Fruit and vegetable eaters and vitamin takers tend to be more health-conscious in general, more likely to exercise, less likely to smoke. So scientists try to adjust for these differences with statistical modeling.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By ROB JUPILLE: Im not a fan of government intervention and would normally applaud the House for not spending that much money. The problem is that the outright failure of our banking system is a possibility without some form of intervention. To reply directly to Rob Jupille, email- LBNElert@TimeWire.net. ( Please put Rob Jupille in the subject line).
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LBN-COMMENTARY By MICHAEL SIGMAN: The alternative newspaper chain that publishes the dominant weeklies in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington D.C. and Tampa filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy this morning, sending shock waves through newsrooms around the country. But anyone who’s followed the consolidation of this industry shouldn’t have been surprised in the least. Virtually all the nation’s major-market alternative weeklies are now part of highly-leveraged chains, and must fork over huge interest payments to bankers and venture capital outfits before spending a dime on operations. These bankers, of course, are the very institutions melting down before our eyes, with no bottom in sight. When the dust eventually settles, the entire print industry — battered already by the challenges of the Internet and rising manufacturing costs — will need to refigure its business models. We can only hope they’ll remember that expansion through leveraging can be not just risky but lethal. ***To reply directly to Michael Sigman, e-mail - LBNElert@TimeWire.net. (Please put Michael Sigman in the subject line).
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Most nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards last year, a report said. ***People with pancreatic cancer are more likely than those without the disease to have been infected with the hepatitis B virus, a study has shown for the first time.
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LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Italian partisan organizations are to stage protests tomorrow at the Italian premiere of Spike Lee’s film Miracle at St. Anna, which they say is full of lies, and insults the memory of the Italian Resistance during the Second World War. ***Paul Newman’s cancer-stricken body was cremated, and a private funeral service was held by his family, his friend and business partner A.E. Hotchner said. “It’s all over,” he said. Hotchner said their food business, Newman’s Own, has given away $150 million and will give away $26 million more to “a wide variety of charities” in October. ***Janet Jackson has been hospitalized, a rep said Monday. The singer “got suddenly ill during the sound check” before her concert in Montreal and had to be rushed to the hospital, according to a statement released by W&W Public Relations.
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LBN-QUOTE: “I can only compare it with a brief one-night stand that results in octuplets” - Graydon Carter explaining to the LA Times how Toby Young parlayed an undistinguished 6-month stint at Vanity Fair into a book, a play and a movie.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Sept. 30, 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed at a meeting in Munich that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.
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| WEDNESDAY • SEPTEMBER 17, 2008 |
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RUSSIAN MARKETS HALTED AS EMERGENCY FUNDING FAILS TO HALT ROUT : Russian markets stopped trading for a second day after emergency funding measures by the government failed to halt the biggest stock rout since the country’s debt default and currency devaluation a decade ago.
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 FEDERAL BANK INSURANCE FUND DWINDLING: Banks are not the only ones struggling in the growing financial crisis. The fund established to insure their deposits is also feeling the pinch, and the taxpayer may be the lender of last resort. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., whose insurance fund has slipped below the minimum target level set by Congress, could be forced to tap tax dollars through a Treasury Department loan if Washington Mutual Inc., the nation’s largest thrift, or another struggling rival fails, economists and industry analysts said Tuesday.
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 GALLUP DAILY: PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST REMAINS A DEAD HEAT: The Sept. 13-15 Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain (47%) and Barack Obama (46%) locked in a close contest when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the election were held today.
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CIA CHIEF: AL QAIDA IS TOP NUCLEAR CONCERN: Iran and North Korea both have the capability to produce nuclear weapons but al-Qaida is the CIA’s top nuclear concern because it is most likely to use them, agency director Michael Hayden said Tuesday.” There is no greater national security threat facing the United States than al-Qaida and its associates,” Hayden said, according to a copy of his remarks prepared for the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
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OIL PRICES SINK BELOW $92 ON WALL STREET TUMULT: Oil prices extended their retreat Tuesday, shedding $10 a barrel in a violent, two-day slide as tumult on Wall Street dims hopes for a swift economic recovery and signals another drop in U.S. energy demand. Crude, which shot up near $150 a barrel only two months ago, is now down 8 percent for the year.
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TIMEWARNER CEO PONDERS NBC BUY: TimeWarner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes doesn’t know if NBC is for sale, but if GE ever decides put its television and entertainment division on the block, Bewkes will definitely be kicking the tires! ‘We have kind of an obligation to look at anything that is out there that, if combined with our company, would produce a clear return for our shareholders,” Bewkes tells PORTFOLIO.COM in an exclusive interview. “The problem with those speculations is that no one ever knows the price at which any of these things would be available.” Bewkes, who will soon have at least $9 billion to spend from the spinoff of TIMEWARNERCABLE, adds: “Look, everyone speculates about what will happen to all of these media companies, and there’s a fair amount of speculation as to whether GE will decide that the NBC UNIVERSAL company benefits from being inside GE or not. To the extent it decides it doesn’t, then they have to think of what to do with it.” GE execs “have to decide what’s in their interest,” Bewkes adds. “But if they decided not to sell it, they may decide to spin it off, who knows? Anything that comes up, this is true of all the usual suspects, whether it’s SCRIPPS or NBC or DISCOVERY, names come up in every sector we’re in, and they ask, are we interested in it?”
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 MISERABLE POST-IKE TEXAS WON’T CHANGE ANYTIME SOON: Life after Ike has come to mean misery by degree for many along the Texas coast. Up in Houston, most residents in the nation’s fourth-largest city remained without power into Wednesday morning, making it tough to track the latest information on where to pick up supplies. For most, the electricity wasn’t expected back on for at least another week.
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 LBN-NOTICED: ***Jack Scalia and Joey Hunter reminiscing at Primola in NYC about their days as male models in the ’70s before Hunter ran Ford Men and Scalia moved to LA to be an actor. ***Tommy Hilfiger, in a blue, striped button-down shirt and Converse sneakers, lunching with his young daughter at Serendipity 3 in NYC. ***Serena Williams and Carmelo Anthony at Nobu 57 in NYC near the table of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Usher. ***Attorney Eric George celebrating being named one of the “100 Most Important Attorneys in California” by the L.A. Daily Journal last night at the Beverly Hills Hotel. ***Jessica Alba at Barney Greengrass Restaurant at Barney’s in Beverly Hills yesterday afternoon. ***BE AN LBN CORRESPONDENT - Send your celebrity sightings to LBNElert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN-PRESIDENTIAL BACK ROOM: ***Barack Obama partied with Hollywood celebrities Tuesday night and with the help of Oscar-winning singer and actress Barbra Streisand raised an eye-popping $9 million for his presidential campaign and the Democratic Party. The night was split into two glitzy events, a reception and dinner costing $28,500 each at the Greystone Mansion, followed by entertainment by Streisand at the nearby Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. About 250-300 people were expected at the dinner and about 800 at the entertainment, which cost $2,500 a ticket. ***Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is to appear on US satirical TV show The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Mr. Blair guests on the late-night show, which will be broadcast to a national television audience on Thursday.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Michael Douglas is set to star in Millennium Films’ “Solitary Man” with Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito and Jenna Fischer in talks to co-star. Douglas will play a car magnate with a runaway libido, says Variety. Brian Koppelman and David Levien are directing.
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 FIDEL’S 35,000: Fidel Castro makes Wilt Chamberlain seem lame. While the NBA legend bragged he’d bedded 20,000 women, the Cuban dictator slept with 35,000, according to an upcoming documentary. “He slept with at least two women a day for more than four decades - one for lunch and one for supper. Sometimes he even ordered one for breakfast,” an ex-Castro official named “Ramon” tells filmmaker Ian Halperin. “I don’t think he would have stayed on as long as he did if not for all the incredible women he had access to as president.” Castro’s security would comb Havana beaches each day recruiting the hottest babes.
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LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley apologized Monday for posting an explicit photo of himself on his Web site. Cooley accidentally revealed more of himself than he wanted when he took a picture Sunday morning while preparing for a game against the New Orleans Saints. Cooley wanted to show the readers of his popular blog some of the study materials the players were given by coach Jim Zorn.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By SEAN PENN: The victory for this country begins with a unified refusal to accept, not only the McCain/Palin ticket, but also the static and shallow conscience of the Republican base.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By PAULA DUFFY: Allison Lodish is a woman with a sense of humor, a big football fan, a mother of two daughters and a loving wife. But she has had enough of sending a search party out to find her husband while he plays fantasy sports to excess….in her opinion. She did something about it. She founded Women Against Fantasy Sports a website with a purpose: give all fantasy widows a place to complain, get support from others like them and potentially “out” the fantasy fanatic in their life. ***To reply directly to Paula Duffy, e-mail - LBNElert@TimeWire (put Paula Duffy in the subject line).
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Josh Brolin has a complicated family - and complicated feelings about them. When asked about his father, James Brolin, by W magazine, he said, “My dad is probably one of the handsomest guys ever. I was making a joke and I said, ‘If I was a chick, I’d [bleep] you.’ He was like, ‘You can’t say that! Shut your mouth!’ ” As for his stepmother, Barbra Streisand, Josh claims the best time he ever had with her was while she was drugged. Josh went to see his father and the diva in the hospital after they’d both had colonoscopies. He told W, “It was genius, man. I had this great conversation with them because they were both coming off the morphine or whatever cocktail they were given. It was good to see her without a few filters.”
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67. ***Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War. ***Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining. ***In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar. ***The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds.
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LBN-DID YOU KNOW: ***In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67. ***Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War. ***Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining. ***In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar. ***The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds.
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LBN-QUOTE: “If the Pakistani Army showed the same eagerness to shoot at Islamic militants as it appears to be anticipating shooting American soldiers maybe the problems wouldn’t arise in the first place.”- Michael Levine.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Sept. 17, 1862, Union forces hurled back a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War battle of Antietam. With 23,100 killed, wounded or captured, it remains the bloodiest day in U.S. military history.
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| THURSDAY • SEPTEMBER 4, 2008 |
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STOCKS PLUMMET AFTER RETAIL, UNEMPLOYMENT DATA: Wall Street dived sharply lower Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down over 300 points as retailers and the Labor Department added to the mountain of dismal economic news that has all but dashed investors’ hopes for a late-year recovery. The nation’s major retailers said shoppers curtailed spending last month due to higher gas and food prices. Meanwhile, the Labor Department said new applications for unemployment insurance rose by 15,000 from the previous week. That broadly missed expectations for a fourth-straight week of declines. As investors fled stocks, they turned to the safety of government bonds, sending Treasury prices higher. Wall Street’s sell-off was hardly unexpected. The market has been bracing for more bad news and sees little reason to buy.
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 MAYOR KWAME M. KILPATRICK OF DETROIT PLEADS GUILTY AND RESIGNS: Kwame M. Kilpatrick, the charismatic mayor of Detroit who has been embroiled in legal problems stemming from a sex scandal since the beginning of the year, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and resigned Thursday morning as part of a deal with prosecutors.
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MEDIA SWOON OVER PALIN’S FIERY SPEECH: NBC political director Chuck Todd, weighing in shortly after Sarah Palin’s fiery speech before the Republican faithful, declared: “Conservatives have found their Obama.” Right-wing radio host Laura Ingraham agreed, telling Fox’s Greta Van Susteren that it was the “night conservatives have been waiting for.” Thematically, the three speeches leading up to Palin’s performance each took a page out of the McCain campaign playbook by attacking the media — a time-honored tradition on the right, and an aggressive strategy enacted over the previous 48 hours with strikes on leading newspapers and television networks, like The New York Times and CNN. So it wasn’t surprising that when Palin took the podium, she said she had a “little news flash for those reporters and commentators” — that she was not going to Washington to seek their opinion. But whether she wanted it or not, commentators had opinions.
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CONTROLLED BY CHEATING GENETICS: In the latest tale of mice and men, researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, compared men and voles, a mouse-like varmint. The study found a gene variant present in cheating voles was also present in two of every five men. According to the study’s conclusions, those men with the “cheating” gene were more prone to marital dysfunction and more likely to get divorced. Karolinska Institute scientists studied more than 1,000 heterosexual couples. The researchers only looked at men because the hormone produced by the gene is known to play a larger role in men’s brains than in women’s brains.
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WALL DATING TO SECOND TEMPLE UNEARTHED: The remains of the southern wall of Jerusalem that was built by the Hasmonean kings during the time of the Second Temple have been uncovered on Mount Zion, the Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The 2,100-year-old wall, which was destroyed during the Great Revolt against the Romans that began in 66 CE, is located just outside the present-day walls of the Old City. The wall, believed to have run 6 km. around Jerusalem, was previously exposed by an American archaeologist at the end of the 19th century. The Israeli archaeologist who started the ongoing excavation a year-and-a-half ago also uncovered the remains of a city wall from the Byzantine Period (324-640 CE) that was built on top of the Second Temple wall at a time when ancient Jerusalem reached its largest size after its southward expansion.
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US TO CHALLENGE CHINA OVER STEEL PRICES: US trade officials are close to filing a case against China at the World Trade Organization challenging export restrictions on raw materials used in steel-making and other industries. The US has been working on the case intensely for the past few months, and could move ahead with a request for consultations - the first step in the WTO dispute settlement process - within weeks, according to people close to the discussions.
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 SOLDIER FORCED TO SLEEP IN CAR AFTER BRITISH HOTEL REFUSES HIM A ROOM: A hotel that refused a wounded soldier a room, forcing him to spend the night in his car, was backed into a “grovelling” apology today after receiving a barrage of abusive phone calls. Metro Hotel, in Woking, Surrey, had to call in the police as their lines were flooded with angry, abusive and threatening calls from members of the public. The attack on the switchboards came after it emerged that Corporal Tomos Stringer, 24, had been told by hotel staff that it was company policy not to accept members of the Armed Forces as guests. A soldier since the age of 16 and veteran of multiple tours in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, Cpl Stringer had traveled to Surrey to help with funeral preparations for a friend killed in action. Cpl. Stringer, who was not in uniform, presented his army warrant card when asked by the hotel for proof of identity. After the receptionist refused him a room, he was left with no choice but to bed down in his tiny, two-door car, his wrist, broken during a convoy ambush, encased in plaster.
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 MCCAIN TAKES STAGE AT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION: Republican John McCain takes his turn at center stage of his big St. Paul party on Thursday to lay out why he should be elected U.S. president, after his No. 2, Sarah Palin, excited Republican loyalists. For McCain, 72, it is the pinnacle of his career. The former Vietnam war prisoner, long considered by many a maverick in his party and distrusted by some in the conservative base, will receive the long-sought nomination to be his party’s candidate in the November 4 election.
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REV. JESSE JACKSON HOSPITALIZED FOR STOMACH PAINS: The Reverend Jesse Jackson is being treated at a Chicago hospital after experiencing severe stomach pains. Jackson told The Associated Press that he is feeling much better after being at Northwestern Memorial Hospital overnight. He says that doctors have told him he has viral gastroenteritis but are conducting more tests. Jackson says he was campaigning and doing voter registration in Georgia earlier in the week when he began to feel ill after apparently becoming dehydrated. Back in Illinois, he entered the hospital Wednesday. The 66-year-old civil rights leader says he isn’t sure when he’ll be released.
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PALIN’S NATIONAL GUARD FACES A CRISIS IN PERSONNEL: The Alaska National Guard, which Republicans are pointing to as an important national-security credential for vice presidential choice Sarah Palin, has personnel shortages that make its aviation units the most poorly staffed in the nation. Just six months ago, Air Force Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, the Alaska Guard’s top officer, warned in an internal memo that “missions are at risk.” The lack of qualified airmen, Campbell said, “has reached a crisis level.” The situation has improved since the March 1 memo was written, Campbell said Wednesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press — but not enough to eliminate his concern that shortages will result in the “burnout” of troops the Guard already has. That could result in missions and equipment being moved out of Alaska. Campbell installed a new policy that could stop officers from advancing unless they show success at bringing in new members and retaining existing troops.
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IN MACHO ISRAEL, WOMAN WITHIN REACH OF PREMIERSHIP: For the first time since Golda Meir more than three decades ago, a woman is within reach of becoming the prime minister of Israel, a nation dominated by macho military men and a religious establishment with strict views on the role of women. But unlike Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin, Israel’s Tzipi Livni doesn’t talk about cracking glass ceilings, even as she leads the field in the ruling Kadima Party’s Sept. 17 primary to choose the likely successor to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Yet the tough-minded foreign minister’s gender is popping up. Top male rivals have branded Livni with words like “weak” and “that woman.” And there is talk about ultra-Orthodox Jewish lawmakers who might be kingmakers in the next government being uncomfortable with the idea of a female leader. Livni hasn’t commented about the gender issue, and adviser Gil Messing said the foreign minister would not agree to be interviewed on the subject, but others have complained about the allusions to her gender.
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CHENEY VOWS BACKING FOR GEORGIA, CONDEMNS RUSSIA: Vice President Dick Cheney vowed on Thursday to stand by Georgia in its showdown with Russia, calling Moscow’s war against the ex-Soviet state an illegitimate act that cast doubt on its reliability. Cheney, one of Moscow’s harshest critics, is the highest ranking U.S. official to visit Georgia since Tbilisi tried to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia by force in early August and was overwhelmed by the Russian military. His typically strong comments may rile the Kremlin. Moscow has accused Washington of fueling tensions by egging on Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, a U.S.-educated lawyer with close ties to President George W. Bush’s administration.
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THINKING MAKES US PIG OUT: FOOD FOR THOUGHT: According to a study published in the journal “Psychosomatic Medicine,” intellectual activities make people eat more than when just resting. This finding might also help explain the obesity epidemic of an increasingly sedentary society in which people still have to think now and then. Researchers split 14 university student volunteers into three groups for a 45-minute session of either relaxing in a sitting position, reading and summarizing a text, or completing a series of memory, attention, and vigilance tests on the computer. The scientists had determined beforehand that the thinking sessions consumed only three calories more than resting. After the sessions, the participants were invited to eat as much as they pleased. Though the study involved a very small number of participants, the results were stark. The students who had done the computer tests downed 253 more calories, or 29.4 percent more than the couch potatoes. Those who had summarized a text consumed 203 more calories than the resting group.
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BIDEN, OTHERS HIT THE AIRWAVES TO COUNTER PALIN: Democrats shot back at GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Thursday, saying her convention speech was laden with partisan attacks but devoid of substantive answers about where the Republican ticket would take the nation. Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden complimented Palin on the skillful delivery of a tough speech and repeatedly called her a competent and tough opponent. Speaking from Virginia Beach, Va., on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden added: “Last night, what we heard was a lot of partisan attacks and no real solutions. I didn’t hear a single word about health care. I didn’t hear a single word about education,” he said. In a media conference call, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said, “Gov. Palin, I think, did a good job last night. She mastered the words written by the Bush speechwriters and clearly delivered them well,” Sebelius said. “What we heard last night was a lot of partisan attacks and no real solutions.” McCain and Palin, Biden said on NBC’s “Today” show, “don’t want to own up to the last eight years and don’t have a plan for the next four years.”
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OIL DOWN ON LOWER-THAN-EXPECTED US GAS SUPPLIES: Oil prices fell for a fifth straight session Thursday after a lower-than-expected drop in U.S. gasoline supplies fed beliefs that a cooling economy is curbing fuel demand in the world’s thirstiest consumer. Light, sweet crude for October delivery fell $2.31 cents to $107.04 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange as traders digested the Energy Information Administration report. Earlier, prices fluctuated between positive and negative territory. Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena, Ill., said the inventory numbers may have been skewed by market irregularities caused by Gustav, but said the market appeared to be taking the figures as more evidence of falling demand.
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FDA ORDERS STRONGER WARNINGS FOR 4 ARTHRITIS DRUGS: The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal infections. The drugs — Enbrel, Remicade, Humira and Cimzia — work by suppressing the immune system to keep it from attacking the body. For patients with rheumatoid arthritis, the treatment provides relief from swollen and painful joints, but it’s “a double-edged sword,” said the FDA’s Dr. Jeffrey Siegel. That’s because the drugs also lower the body’s defenses to various kinds of infections. Siegel, who heads the office that oversees arthritis drugs, said the FDA became concerned after discovering information that doctors appeared to be overlooking a particular kind of fungal infection called histoplasmosis. The infection, which mimics the flu, is prevalent in much of the middle part of the country. It can have particularly grave consequences if it isn’t caught early and spreads beyond the respiratory system to other organs of the body.
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LBN-ENTERTAINMENT: ***America, meet Russell Brand. In his native England, he’s a comedy giant — instantly identifiable by his Einstein-like tousle of black hair and form-fitting, chest-baring, glam-rock clothes — a television host and standup comic with his own radio show and weekly column in “The Guardian.” In the U.S., he’s that British guy who was in the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” But that all could change Sunday, when Brand hosts the MTV Video Music Awards. Brand said he has no intention to hijack the awards for his own promotional purposes, but he knows the show will serve as his introduction to a broad American audience. ***Kathy Griffin, who shook up an Emmy ceremony last year with her rowdy acceptance speech, is bringing her act to this year’s prime-time awards show alongside Don Rickles, a comedian who’s legendary for his combative style. The pair will team up as presenters at the Sept. 21 ceremony airing on ABC, the TV academy says. “As we near the telecast, there will be more sets of presenters that will surprise almost everyone,” executive producer Ken Ehrlich said in a statement. ***Hendrix, Beatles, Elvis memorabilia up for auction - A guitar burned onstage by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles’ first contract with Brian Epstein are up for sale Thursday, and auctioneers predict bidding could run to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Elvis Presley’s fingerprints and the audio archive of legendary music producer Joe Meek are also included in the big-bucks London sale, which suggests the market in rock’n'roll memorabilia is booming.
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DID YOU KNOW? STRESS-REDUCTION TECHNIQUES: ***Do something for the kid in you everyday. ***Write down thoughts and inspirations. ***Find some time to be alone each day. ***Laugh! ***Take your work seriously, but yourself not at all.
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