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Monday, October 31, 2011
Football: Fork Union 20, Benedictine 14
FORK UNION 20, BENEDICTINE 14
FORK UNION Jay Gafford had 175 yards of total offense and two touchdowns to lead the Blue Devils past the Cadets. Gafford ran for 121 yards and added 54 yards receiving.
Corey Downey ran for 79 yards and put Benedictine (5-4) ahead with a 2-yard plunge in the first quarter. After Gafford scored his first touchdown, Fork Union (4-5) grabbed the lead for good when Christian Hackenberg hit Tyrone McDade for a 6-yard TD pass. Hackenberg's 8-yard connection with Gafford sealed the win for the Blue Devils.
Hackenberg finished 16 of 29 for 179 yards with two interceptions.
Benedictine | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ? | 14 |
Fork Union | 6 | 6 | 0 | 8 | ? | 20 |
B ? Downey 2 run (Geary kick)
F ? Gafford 24 run (kick failed)
F ? McDade 6 pass from Hackenberg (kick failed)
F ? Gafford 8 pass from Hackenberg (Roach pass from Hackenberg)
B ? Geary 7 run (Geary kick)
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Power restoration in snowy East could take days
A jack-o'-lantern is covered with snow during a storm, Sunday Oct. 30, 2011, in Freeport, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A jack-o'-lantern is covered with snow during a storm, Sunday Oct. 30, 2011, in Freeport, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Lehigh University students wait in an evacuation center, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011, in Bethlehem, Pa. Millions of people from Maine to Maryland are without power after an unseasonably early nor'easter dumped heavy, wet snow over the weekend on a region more used to gaping at leaves in October than shoveling snow. (AP Photo/The Express-Times, Chris Post)
PSE&G underground lineman Bob Wyman makes a temporary repair to restore electricity to a home in Verona, Essex County, New Jersey, on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. A powerful Nor'easter dumped snow and caused widespread power outages in New Jersey. (AP Photo/David Gard)
Snow Ridge Road in Cornwall, NY on October 30, 2011. Millions of people from Maine to Maryland are without power after an unseasonably early nor'easter dumped heavy, wet snow over the weekend on a region more used to gaping at leaves in October than shoveling snow. (AP Photo/Lee Ferris)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? Thousands of schoolchildren around the Northeast woke up to powerless homes and one of the earliest snow days in memory Monday after a storm dumped as much as 30 inches of wet, heavy snow that snapped trees and electricity lines and threatened to disrupt Halloween trick-or-treating.
Communities from Maryland to Maine that suffered through a tough winter last year followed by a series of floods and storms went into now-familiar emergency mode as shelters opened, inaccessible roads closed, regional transit was suspended or delayed, and local leaders urged caution.
The storm's lingering effects likely will outlast the snow. Temperatures are expected to begin rising Monday and the heavy, wet snow will start melting, the National Weather Service said.
The early nor'easter had utility companies struggling to restore electricity to more than 3 million homes and businesses. By early Monday, the number of customers without power was still above 2 million but falling. But officials in some states warned it could be days or even a week before residents have power again, even though crews have been brought in from as far away as Michigan and Canada.
"We are in full restoration mode," said Marcy Reed, president of National Grid Massachusetts.
Trees, branches and power lines still littered roads and rail lines throughout the region, leading to a tough Monday morning commute for many.
In Hartford, Conn., commuters hunted for open gas stations. At a 7-Eleven, two dozen cars waited early Monday in a line that stretched into the street and disrupted traffic.
"I'm sitting here thinking I'm going to run out of gas," said Mitchell Celella, 45, of Canaan, Conn., who was trying to make it to his job as an ice cream maker in West Hartford.
Debra Palmisano said everything was closed in her hometown of Plainville; she spent most of the morning looking for gas around the capital city.
"There's no gas anywhere. It's like we're in a war zone. It's pretty scary, actually," she said.
Some local officials canceled or postponed Halloween activities, fearful that young trick-or-treaters could wander into areas with downed power lines or trees ready to topple over.
"With so many wires down ... the sidewalks will not be safe for pedestrians (Monday) night," Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton told The Hartford Courant.
A weekend that should have brought activity no more strenuous than raking colorful autumn leaves left Northeasterners weather-weary.
"You had this storm, you had Hurricane Irene, you had the flooding last spring and you had the nasty storms last winter," Tom Jacobsen said Sunday while getting coffee at a convenience store in Hamilton Township, N.J. "I'm starting to think we really ticked off Mother Nature somehow because we've been getting spanked by her for about a year now."
In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie declared the damage to utilities worse than that wrought by Irene, a deadly storm that blew through the state in August. Things were similar in Connecticut, where the power loss of 800,000 broke a record set by Irene. By early Monday, around 400,000 people lacked power in New Jersey and more than 750,000 in Connecticut.
The snowstorm smashed record snowfall totals for October and worsened as it moved north. Communities in western Massachusetts were among the hardest hit. Snowfall totals topped 27 inches in Plainfield, and nearby Windsor got 26 inches. The snowstorm was blamed for at least 12 deaths, and states of emergency were declared in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and parts of New York.
"Look at this, look at all the damage," said Jennifer Burckson, 49, after she came outside Sunday morning in South Windsor to find a massive tree branch had smashed her car's back windshield. Trees in the neighborhood snapped in half, with others weighed down so much that the leaves brushed the snow.
Compounding the storm's impact were still-leafy trees, which gave the snow something to hang onto and that put tremendous weight on branches, said National Weather Service spokesman Chris Vaccaro. That led to limbs breaking off and contributed to the widespread power failures.
"This is not going to be a quick fix," said Peter Judge, a Massachusetts emergency management official.
Sharon Martovich of Southbury, Conn., who was grocery shopping Sunday morning in nearby Newtown at one of the few businesses open for miles, said she hoped the power would come back on in time for her husband's Halloween tradition of playing "Young Frankenstein" on a giant screen in front of their house.
"We would be really sad and it would disappoint a lot of people if we can't play 'Young Frankenstein,'" she said. But no matter what, they will make sure the eight or so children who live in the neighborhood don't miss out on trick-or-treating.
"Either way we will get the giant flashlights and we will go," she said.
She was already making the best of the power failure. After the lights went out around 4 p.m. Saturday, she invited neighbors over for an impromptu Halloween party with wine and quesadillas in front of her propane fireplace.
Around Newtown, snow-laden branches were snapping off trees every few minutes, and roads that were plowed became impassible because the trees were falling so fast.
Along the coast and in such cities as Boston, the relatively warm ocean helped keep snowfall totals much lower. Washington received a trace of snow, tying a 1925 record for the date. New York City's Central Park set a record for both the date and for October with 1.3 inches.
But in New Hampshire's capital of Concord, more than 22 inches fell, weeks ahead of the usual first measurable snowfall. West Milford, N.J., about 45 miles northwest of New York City, had 19 inches Sunday.
Rail service was getting back up to speed across the region, though delays were expected. Amtrak had suspended service on several routes, and one train from Chicago to Boston got stuck overnight in Palmer, Mass. The 48 passengers had food and heat, a spokeswoman said, and were taken by bus Sunday to their destinations.
North of New York City, dozens of motorists were rescued by state troopers after spending up to 10 hours stranded on snow-covered highways in Dutchess and Putnam counties.
Deaths blamed on the storm included an 84-year-old Pennsylvania man killed by a tree that fell on his home, a person who died in a traffic accident in Colchester, Conn., and a 20-year-old man who was electrocuted in Springfield, Mass.
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn.; Noreen Gillespie in Newtown, Conn.; Mary Esch in Albany, N.Y.; Ron Todt in Philadelphia; David B. Caruso, Colleen Long and Deepti Hajela in New York; Holly Ramer in Concord, N.H.; and Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, N.J.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Magnitude-6.9 quake shakes Peru's coast (AP)
LIMA, Peru ? A magnitude-6.9 earthquake centered off Peru's central coast sent people running panicked into the streets Friday in cities badly damaged by a killer quake four years earlier. There were no reports of damage though hospital directors reported at least 20 injuries.
People who had lost loved ones and homes in the earlier quake were badly shaken and some broke into tears.
"It felt like the one in 2007 because it was very strong," Felix Sihuas told RPP radio. He said he was buried under rubble for six hours in the Aug. 15, 2007, quake, which killed 596 people and largely destroyed the town of Pisco.
Friday's quake was considerably less violent in Lima, a city of 8.5 million people. The capital shook for about 30 seconds in a series of moderate, swaying movements.
Several aftershocks followed with magnitudes up to 5.5, said the U.S. Geological Survey.
It said Friday's quake was centered 31 miles (51 kilometers) south-southwest of Ica, a provincial capital of about 200,000 people which suffered widespread damage in the 2007 quake. It was at a depth of 21.7 miles (35 kilometers).
The directors of two hospitals in Ica told RPP that 20 people were treated for non life-threatening injuries including two for broken bones.
Peru's government-run Institute of Geophysics put the quake's magnitude at 6.7 and put its depth at 19 miles (30 kilometers). The USGS said the killer 2007 quake was centered 24 miles (39 kilometers) deep.
A seismologist at the institute, Hernan Tavera, told RPP the 2007 quake released 33 times more energy than Friday's temblor but this time " the radius of action was far wider."
"There was panic, a lot of panic," said Ruben Vargas, a police official in Ica, which is flanked by asparagus fields and vineyards that produce wine and the liquor pisco.
Vargas said that many people were still in the streets nearly a half hour after the 1:54 p.m. (18:54 GMT) quake. "Little by little people are calming down but they're still outside their homes," he added.
In Pisco, police officer Julio Lopez said people were spooked though the quake wasn't nearly as bad as the 2007 temblor.
"It wasn't like the last time. It was shorter," said Jorge Luis Yupanqui, 30, from Pisco. "Some people started to cry."
He said there was a big traffic jam in Pisco because he, like many others, went home to make sure his family and home were safe.
About 40,000 homes were destroyed in the 2007 quake and the previous government of President Alan Garcia was widely criticized for the slow pace of reconstruction.
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Associated Press writers Martin Villena and Carla Salazar contributed to this report.
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Michael Giltz: Theater: Woody Allen plus Elaine May plus Ethan Coen = Meh
RELATIVELY SPEAKING * 1/2 out of ****
BROOKS ATKINSON THEATRE
Seeing a show just after it opens can be great fun. Strong reviews make everyone happy -- the audience is thrilled to be there (they feel so smart!) and the cast is confident. Mixed reviews, poor reviews? Well, the cast has something to prove and sometimes the audiences says "critics, who needs 'em; we like it!" (If an audience member sees a bad show before it opens, then they love being a critic and get to tell their friends, "stay away!") The least enjoyable possibility when seeing a show after it opens is that it gets bad reviews and everyone just politely soldiers on as best they can. The pros on stage muster what enthusiasm they can ("Should I pause for another beat here? Maybe that'll get a laugh") and the audience does its best to be encouraging and not look at their watches too often.
Sadly, the latter is the case for Relatively Speaking, three one acts with a cast of 15 and direction by John Turturro. I wouldn't single out any of them for the mess here. That rests squarely with Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen.
TALKING CURE * out of ****
Coen's play is split into two parts. It opens in a fenced off area at a mental hospital, with a doctor (Jason Kravitz) trying to engage a new patient (Danny Hoch) in therapy. "Why do you think you're here?" is a typical opening line, with Hoch's wily patient not giving in on anything, not on the assault he committed at a post office on a customer who hadn't taped her package up properly, not on the idea that he's got problems, not on his mother, not on nothin'. It's a game of ping pong, but not a terribly interesting one. The blackouts between scenes seem to take far longer than necessary and ultimately it just peters out. I assumed that was the end of the piece but in fact it wasn't over.
The set split in two, with each man moving to an opposite side of the stage, bathed in darkness and sitting on a chair while a dining room set (mounted high on a platform, for no discernible reason) moved to the center of the stage. (It's hard to get inspired by poor material, but this particular set by the great Santo Loquasto is a puzzle.) We soon realize it's the patients parents bickering and fighting on the night when he is going to be born. With the doctor and patient as solemn witnesses, the parents kvetch with each other. We're expected to gain some insight into him, but since we barely know the patient or even really what he's done, there's no mystery to solve. The parents (Allen Lewis Rickman and Katherine Borowitz) are given slightly peppier, funnier dialogue, but only slightly. This too just peters to a close. Coen's play barely even constitutes a rough draft for a one act.
GEORGE IS DEAD ** out of ****
Elaine May's one act has the benefit of featuring the night's most fully realized performance, thanks to Marlo Thomas. She totters on stage as Doreen, a self-absorbed rich woman who shows up on the doorstep of the daughter of her childhood nanny, a nanny she hasn't spoken to for decades. (How the shallow and indifferent Doreen would know where to find the married daughter of a nanny she hasn't spoken to in 30 or 40 years is the sort of question one isn't meant to ask.) "George is dead!" announces Doreen. Her husband has died on a ski slope in Aspen and Doreen as at her wit's end, which clearly doesn't take much. The overwhelmed Carla (Lisa Emery) soon finds herself playing nanny as well, scraping salt over Doreen's crackers, finding her a nightie, giving her a couch to sleep on, etc. It's nothing terribly new, but Thomas has fun with this privileged, silly woman.
In bursts Carla's husband (they'd been fighting) and they have it out again as the play turns a tad more serious. Fewer and fewer laughs appear as the husband leaves and the nanny, the beloved aged nanny, arrives in the morning to dress Doreen for the funeral. This one act is the only one to really even attempt a kicker, a closing line meant to nail the humor on the head as the curtain falls. It doesn't work (the anger is misplaced, really, so the joke doesn't land and after so much seriousness it kind of seems serious too). But at least she tried.
HONEYMOON MOTEL ** out of ****
It's a pretty generous two stars out of four, but at least Woody Allen's piece has some rat-a-tat humor. Like the tired joke Allen tosses in about the portions of food back in the old country, the jokes are pretty awful, but there sure are a lot of 'em.
In this light comedy, Steve Guttenberg is head over heels in love with his much-younger bride (Ari Graynor) as they giggle their way into a tacky motel room. When Guttenberg's best pal shows up, the premise is revealed: Guttenberg is the father of the intended groom (his stepson), but right before she said "I do" he shouted out that he loved her and they ran off together. You will not be surprised when the doorbell rings again and again as Guttenberg's wife, the parents of the bride, the groom, the rabbi and even a pizza delivery guy all crowd into the room, each and every one of them armed to the teeth with one-liners that were old when Henny Youngman was a kid.
The rabbi keeps quoting Biblical tales with no relevance, the bride's mother is also a compulsive cheater, and in one of Allen's most tiresome routines, Guttenberg is a writer of arid post-modern works of literature who resents his stepson's bestselling popular fiction.
Thank G-d with the likes of Julie Kavner, Richard Libertini, and Mark Linn-Baker around, the easy lay-ups Allen offers can at least be slammed home with authority. The finale typifies the entire evening, since Allen didn't bother with coming up with one. Sure, the pizza guy (Hoch again) delivers his verdict on who's to blame for this mess, but really everyone just sort of runs out of steam and then files out so Guttenberg and Graynor can get down to business. Needless to say, the curtain drops before the real action begins.
The Theater Season 2011-2012 (on a four star scale)
The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs ** 1/2
All's Well That Ends Well/Shakespeare in the Park **
Broadway By The Year: 1997 ** 1/2
Crane Story **
Cymbeline at Barrow Street Theatre ***
Follies *** 1/2
Hair ***
Hero: The Musical * 1/2
Lake Water **
Man And Boy * 1/2
Master Class w Tyne Daly ** 1/2
Measure For Measure/Shakespeare in the Park ***
The Mountaintop ** 1/2
Newsies **
Olive and The Bitter Herbs ** 1/2
One Arm ***
Relatively Speaking * 1/2
The Select (The Sun Also Rises) ** 1/2
Septimus & Clarissa *** 1/2
Silence! The Musical * 1/2
Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark * 1/2
The Submission **
Sweet and Sad **
Unnatural Acts ***
We Live Here **
Zarkana **
NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2011
Blanche: The Bittersweet Life Of A Wild Prairie Dame *** 1/2
Central Avenue Breakdown ** 1/2
Crazy, Just Like Me ***
Cyclops: A Rock Opera *
Ennio: The Living Paper Cartoon ** 1/2
F---ing Hipsters **
Ghostlight **
Gotta Getta Girl ** 1/2 for staged reading
Greenwood *
Jack Perry Is Alive (And Dating) * 1/2
Kiki Baby ** 1/2
Kissless * 1/2
Madame X **
The Pigeon Boys ***
Time Between Us * 1/2
Tut **
FRINGEFEST NYC 2011
Araby *
The Bardy Bunch **
Books On Tape ** 1/2
Civilian **
Hard Travelin' With Woody ***
Leonard Cohen Koans *** 1/2
The More Loving One **
The Mountain Song *** 1/2
Paper Cuts ***
Parker & Dizzy's Fabulous Journey To The End Of The Rainbow ** 1/2
Pearl's Gone Blue ***
Rachel Calof ** 1/2
Romeo & Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending **
2 Burn * 1/2
Walls and Bridges **
What The Sparrow Said ** 1/2
Yeast Nation ***
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Cher: 'DWTS' Judges' Treatment of Chaz "Pissed" Me Off
Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba might not have thought fellow judge Bruno Tonioli was being rude when he referred to recently-voted-off contestant Chaz Bono as a "penguin," but Bono's mom Cher certainly does. Bono, 42, was on Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show Anderson to chat about DWTS when Cooper called up Chaz's 65-year-old pop star mother to hear her thoughts about her son's treatment.
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IFC Films acquires U.S. rights to "Edwin Boyd" (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to "Edwin Boyd," the bank-robber movie that won Best Canadian First Feature at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Directed by Nathan Morlando, the movie is based on the true story of Edwin Boyd, the notorious Canadian bank robber whose charm and ability to elude police turned him into a pop-culture hero.
Scott Speedman ("Underworld," "Barney's Version") plays Boyd. Kelly Reilly ("Sherlock Holmes," "Me and Orson Wells"), Kevin Durand ("Real Steel," "Legion") and Brian Cox ("The Bourne Identity") also star.
Myriad Pictures is distributing the film worldwide and is screening it at next week's American Film Market.
Allison Black produced.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Mideast envoys make no breakthroughs (AP)
JERUSALEM ? International mediators on Wednesday failed to make any breakthroughs in their quest to bring Israeli and Palestinian officials back to the negotiating table, but in a small sign of progress, they announced that both sides would present "comprehensive proposals" for resolving key aspects of their conflict within three months.
The "Quartet" of Mideast peace makers said Israel and the Palestinians agreed to submit proposals on "territory and security" in the coming months, as part of a larger goal by the international community to forge a full peace agreement by the end of next year. Territorial claims and security concerns are core issues in any final deal.
Peace talks have been stalled for the past three years over Palestinian demands that Israel freeze settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem ? captured areas claimed by the Palestinians. The Palestinians say there is no point in negotiating as long as Israeli settlements gobble up the land on which the Palestinians hope to make a future independent state.
Representatives from the Quartet ? the U.S., EU, United Nations and Russia ? participated in Wednesday's talks, along with the Quartet's Mideast envoy, Tony Blair. The Palestinians turned down a request for face-to-face talks with the Israelis, so negotiations were held separately with each side.
Israeli and Palestinian officials voiced little optimism afterward.
In addition to their calls for a settlement freeze, the Palestinians want their future border with Israel to be based on lines that Israel held before capturing east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war.
"We explained to the Quartet that we are prepared to sit at the negotiating table as soon as the Israeli government freezes all settlement construction and accepts clear terms of reference, specifically the 1967 borders," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said. "Anything short of that will simply put us back on the failed track that we have been on for the last 20 years."
Israel rejects both conditions. It still occupies east Jerusalem and the West Bank. It withdrew soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005, but still controls land crossings, as well as Gaza's coastline and airspace as part of a policy to contain the territory's Hamas rulers. The Islamic militant Hamas, overran Gaza in 2007 after routing forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, leaving the Palestinians split between rival governments.
Israel says it is prepared to sit down with Abbas at any time, but only without conditions. Palestinians are skeptical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's commitment to peacemaking because of hard-line positions he has taken, including his opposition to partitioning Jerusalem.
After Wednesday's meetings, Netanyahu's office issued a brief statement saying that discussions focused on ideas for renewing peace talks, and that more meetings would be held in the near future.
The Quartet's statement gave few details about how it would move forward, saying it would meet regularly with the parties over the coming three months "to review progress." Even if the Israelis and Palestinians present their proposals, the gaps will be immense and difficult to bridge.
The international community has been scrambling to salvage peace talks since the Palestinians asked the United Nations last month to recognize an independent state of Palestine, with or without a peace agreement. The request defied a U.S.-led effort to block the move, which is under review at the U.N. Security Council. The U.S., like Israel, says peace must be reached through negotiations, not a U.N. declaration.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Logitech Revue on sale promising 'new & improved' Google TV with Android 3.1, Market
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Madoff's wife: We tried suicide after Ponzi arrest (AP)
NEW YORK ? The wife of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff says they tried to kill themselves after he admitted stealing billions of dollars in the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
Ruth Madoff will appear on Sunday's episode of CBS' "60 Minutes." It's her first interview since her husband's December 2008 arrest.
She says the time after Bernie Madoff's arrest was "horrendous." She remembers receiving angry phone calls and hate mail.
Ruth Madoff says they took "a bunch of pills" including Ambien on Christmas Eve, but both woke up the next day. She says the decision was "very impulsive" and she's glad they didn't die.
The couple's son Andrew will also talk about his experience. Another son, Mark, killed himself last year.
Bernie Madoff is serving 150 years in prison.
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Online:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Bush Lauren taps Halloween entrepreneurial spirit (AP)
NEW YORK ? The fundraising box that UNICEF distributes to children to collect pennies in on Halloween has gone as high fashion as it can: Lauren Bush Lauren, the model, philanthropist and entrepreneur designed a version of her Feed bag with a jack-o'-lantern face for the cause.
The burlap tote ? big enough for candy and coins ? has glow-in-the-dark orange trim. The proceeds from each $18 purchase will pay for nutrient powder packets for a child for a year, according to Feed.
Bush Lauren remembers carrying the paper box when she was a kid in Houston. "I feel nostalgic for it. I trick-or-treated for candy and UNICEF," she says.
Nowadays, Bush Lauren ? the 27-year-old granddaughter of President George H.W. Bush, niece of President George W. Bush and new daughter-in-law to Ralph Lauren ? is rarely seen without one of the no-frills bags produced by her charitable for-profit company Feed Projects, which she co-founded in 2007. It was her way to respond to the question, "What can I do?"
"I modeled throughout high school and college but I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do with my life," she says during a telephone interview. So she became a student ambassador during her Princeton University days for the United Nations World Food Program.
She visited Africa and then traveled to U.S. college campuses to tell her peers about the poverty and hunger she saw. It seemed as if everyone she met wanted to help, she recalls, but they weren't sure what they could do from their dorm rooms. "It was through that experience that I came up with the idea of the Feed bag, about attaching a tangible donation to a consumer product. It's a bite-size way to give back."
Most of the Feed products ? now boasting more than 60 eco-friendly products, including a teddy bear, clutch handbag and Clarins cosmetics case ? benefit the U.N.'s school-meals program, which gives free lunches in 62 countries. The UNICEF bags, however, specifically raise money to distribute micronutrient supplements to more than 46,000 kids. The company is also experimenting with local designers in the countries helped by the U.N. programs to give artisans much-needed work and to keep their crafts alive, Bush Lauren explains.
She also has a line of silk pareos (a sarong-like coverup) sold through Calypso St. Barth boutiques that are hand-dyed by women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
She says she considers herself more an entrepreneur than a model or a designer, even though she's appeared on the cover of W and Glamour magazines, among others, and does oversee Feed's creative side.
So far, Feed has donated more than $6 million and the ticker at the top of the FeedProjects.com website says more than 65 million meals have been provided from the 560,000-plus bags sold.
There's a companion non-profit, full-fundraising organization called The Feed Foundation also started by Bush Lauren and her business partner Ellen Gustafson. The focus here is about raising awareness about the global food system.
In a tough economic climate, however, Bush Lauren says it sometimes seems easier to collect charitable donations as people are shopping for themselves. "As a donor, you're also a consumer so you don't `feel' the donation. And, hopefully, the bag is something you are proud to carry around."
Bush Lauren carries one almost every day, even on the red carpets and big galas she frequents with husband David Lauren. "I carry it everywhere, whether it's a fancy event or a trip to Africa. It's part of my everyday wardrobe."
So what's inside?
"Always a few pens, paper for to-do lists, lip balm and iPhone ? and it's usually a mess."
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UK scientists grow super broccoli (AP)
LONDON ? Popeye might want to consider switching to broccoli. British scientists unveiled a new breed of the vegetable that experts say packs a big nutritional punch.
The new broccoli was specially grown to contain two to three times the normal amount of glucoraphanin, a nutrient believed to help ward off heart disease.
"Vegetables are a medicine cabinet already," said Richard Mithen, who led the team of scientists at the Institute for Food Research in Norwich, England, that developed the new broccoli. "When you eat this broccoli ... you get a reduction in cholesterol in your blood stream," he told Associated Press Television.
An AP reporter who tasted the new broccoli found it was the same as the regular broccoli. Scientists, however, said it should taste slightly sweeter because it contains less sulphur.
Glucoraphanin works by breaking fat down in the body, preventing it from clogging the arteries. It is only found in broccoli in significant amounts.
To create the vegetable, sold as "super broccoli," Mithen and colleagues cross-bred a traditional British broccoli with a wild, bitter Sicilian variety that has no flowery head, and a big dose of glucoraphanin. After 14 years, the enhanced hybrid was produced, which has been granted a patent by European authorities. No genetic modification was used.
It's been on sale as Beneforte in select stores in California and Texas for the last year, and hit British shelves this month. Later this fall, the broccoli will be rolled out across the U.S.
The super vegetable is part of an increasing tendency among producers to inject extra nutrients into foods, ranging from calcium-enriched orange juice to fortified sugary cereals and milk with added omega 3 fatty acids. In Britain, the new broccoli is sold as part of a line of vegetables that includes mushrooms with extra vitamin D, and tomatoes and potatoes with added selenium.
Not enough data exists to know if anyone could overdose on glucoraphanin, but vitamin D and selenium in very high quantities can be toxic.
Mithen and colleagues are conducting human trials comparing the heart health of people eating the super broccoli to those who eat regular broccoli or no broccoli. They plan to submit the data to the European Food Safety Agency next year so they can claim in advertisements the broccoli has proven health benefits.
"There's a lot of circumstantial evidence that points to (glucoraphanin and related compounds) as the most important preventive agents for (heart attacks) and certain cancers, so it's a reasonable thing to do," said Lars Ove Dragsted, a professor in the department of human nutrition at the University of Copenhagen. He previously sat on panels at the International Agency for Research on Cancer examining the link between vegetables and cancer.
Dragsted said glucoraphanin is a mildly toxic compound used by plants to fight insects. In humans, glucoraphanin may stimulate our bodies' natural chemical defenses, potentially making the body stronger at removing dangerous compounds.
Other experts said eating foods packed with extra nutrients would probably only have a minimal impact compared with other lifestyle choices, like not smoking and exercising.
"Eating this new broccoli is not going to counteract your bad habits," said Glenys Jones, a nutritionist at Britain's Medical Research Council. She doubted whether adding the nutrients in broccoli to more popular foods would work to improve people's overall health.
"If you added this to a burger, people might think it's then a healthy food and eat more burgers, whereas this is not something they should be eating more of," Jones said. She also thought the super broccoli's U.K. price ? it costs about a third more than regular broccoli ? might discourage penny-pinching customers.
But that wasn't enough to deter Suzanne Johnson, a 43-year-old mother of two young children in London.
"I'm very concerned about the food they eat and would happily pay a bit more to buy something that has an added benefit," Johnson said.
But for her children, taste is ultimately more important than any nutritional value. "Broccoli is one of the vegetables they actually like, so I'm glad it's the one (scientists) have been working on," she said. "This wouldn't work if it had been mushrooms or asparagus."
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
UPS sees higher profits in slow-growing economy (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? United Parcel Service reported a higher quarterly profit as increased pricing, cost cutting and technology improvements helped compensate for domestic shipping volume dulled by a sluggish economy, and it affirmed its outlook for record 2011 results.
The company's shares slid more than 2 percent in midday trading, giving back some of a more than 15 percent rally from this month's lows, with the pace of consumer holiday demand still in question.
The U.S. economy appears to have stabilized and is growing slowly, after concern about a possible double-dip recession stifled consumer demand earlier this year, UPS said.
U.S. consumer confidence sank to a 2-1/2-year low in October on worries about jobs and income.
"Their tone was clearly more positive than it was last quarter, but ... there's still some uncertainty," said analyst Kevin Sterling of BB&T Capital Markets in Richmond, Virginia.
"Given the run in the stock price in October, there's probably some profit-taking today," he said. "They didn't come out and say, hey, things are great and we're raising our guidance. They said things are OK, we're UPS and we're weathering the storm."
The company is well-positioned to handle a run-up in volume from customers with lean inventories ahead of the peak holiday season, analysts agree.
The final two weeks before Christmas could have a "meaningful" effect on fourth-quarter results if consumer demand picks up and retailers low on inventory need fast shipment of goods, Chief Executive Officer Scott Davis told analysts on a conference call.
"Over the last month or so, we are starting to see better economic numbers, so there is more optimism out there, and that could turn things around," Davis said. "We are still expecting a slow-growth economy, but I don't think it is as negative as people were thinking two and three months ago."
The company's shares were down 1.7 percent at $69.66 in midday trading on the New York Stock Exchange, while the Dow Jones Transportation average fell 1.8 percent.
(For a graphic on UPS earnings, click http://link.reuters.com/qup64s )
UPS has forecast record earnings per share of $4.15 to $4.40 this year as it cut costs and raised shipping rates in the face of a slowly expanding global economy.
UPS and FedEx Corp are considered economic bellwethers because of the volume of packages they handle.
The value of packages handled by UPS's trucks and planes each year is equivalent to about 6 percent of U.S. gross domestic product and 2 percent of global GDP.
NAIL-BITER
Domestic shipping volume averaged 12.74 million packages a day, little changed from 12.73 million a year ago. Operating margins improved on higher yields, or revenue per package, as well as on more efficient networks, the company said.
Core pricing, excluding fuel surcharge, rose by an average of 3 percent domestically in the quarter, UPS said.
"Domestic margins coming in better than expected, especially given further uncertainty in terms of volumes, underscores the investment opportunity here," said Peter Nesvold, Jefferies & Co. analyst.
If the company can keep raising prices around this pace, "that little bit of pricing goes a long way in terms of earnings over the next several years," he added.
Most transport companies have been reporting freight volume at or slightly above very low expectations, analysts said.
Holiday shipping season is "more of a nail-biter than it used to be," UPS's Chief Financial Officer Kurt Kuehn said in an interview.
Many consumers now wait until the final days to order online, making it harder for the company to gauge aircraft and other transport needs.
E-commerce accounts for more than one-third of UPS's total domestic shipments. FedEx on Monday forecast record holiday shipments, due mainly to online shopping, and said it plans to add 20,000 seasonal workers to help handle the extra volume.
In September, FedEx cut its full-year profit forecast and called for ongoing sluggish economic growth.
Responding to slow exports from Asia to the United States, UPS said it had cut capacity there by 10 percent. But it expects volume to pick up in the fourth quarter, boosted by shipments of new technology product launches.
International shipping volume averaged 2.34 million a day, up from 2.24 million.
"Asia reflected kind of the chaos we felt we were in during August in the U.S.," Kuehn said. "Given the absolute stalemate in D.C., the concerns about perhaps a double dip, it really did slow down demand. Our aircraft reflected that coming out of Asia."
UPS has also been pushing for trade agreements that it says will open the way for more exports.
Davis, who is on U.S. President Barack Obama's Export Council, has said that one UPS job is created for every 22 packages that cross international borders.
On October 21, Obama signed free trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia that are estimated to boost exports by around $13 billion annually.
The world's largest package delivery company said third-quarter net income rose to $1.04 billion, or $1.06 per share, from $991 million, or 99 cents a share, a year earlier.
Analysts on average were expecting $1.05 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue rose 18 percent to $13.17 billion, matching the analysts' average forecast.
(Reporting by Lynn Adler in New York; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Gunna Dickson)
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Researchers identify a genetic mutation associated with high risk of age-related macular degeneration
ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2011) ? Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of severe visual loss among the elderly. Researchers had previously identified several relatively common genetic variants which together predict a person's increased risk for AMD, but a significant number of persons without the disease also have these variants. Now, for the first time, investigators have been able to clearly show a specific rare mutation called CFH R1210C that predicts a very high risk of disease and is extremely uncommon among individuals who do not have the disease. Although it is a rare variant, accounting for about 1% of the total cases, it is highly related to familial disease and earlier age of onset.
The research is published online and in an upcoming print edition of Nature Genetics. The paper is a collaborative effort between investigators from Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
"Our paper shows that there is a genetic variant that confers high risk of the development of AMD; this finding not only clearly links CFH gene dysfunction to disease, but also might help to identify people who need to be screened more closely," said first author, Soumya Raychaudhuri, MD, PhD, a researcher in the Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
Prior to this publication, it was known that genetic variation within the CFH gene influenced risk of AMD in individuals. In this study, researchers conducted sequencing and genotyping of CFH in 2,423 AMD cases and 1,122 controls in the laboratory of senior author Johanna M. Seddon, MD, ScM, Professor of Ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of the Ophthalmic Epidemiology and Genetics Service at Tufts Medical Center. They identified a rare, high-risk mutation resulting in an arginine to cysteine substitution in the CFH protein. This mutation is associated with loss of function of the CFH protein and its discovery suggests that loss of CFH function can drive AMD risk. It was associated with advanced AMD with visual loss and many of the patients also had numerous drusen, which are the early hallmarks of AMD.
"The discovery of this rare but penetrant variant strongly associated with disease also points the way to developing new and effective treatments for high risk individuals," said Seddon.
Collaborators in this research included investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital and Johns Hopkins University.
This research was supported by an anonymous donor; the National Institutes of Health (NIH); the Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund, Inc.; the Macular Vision Research Foundation; a Research to Prevent Blindness Challenge Grant to the New England Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Tufts University School of Medicine; and the Macular Degeneration Research Fund of the Ophthalmic Epidemiology and Genetics Service, New England Eye Center, Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Research finds gallium nitride is non-toxic, biocompatible - holds promise for implants
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Purdue University have shown that the semiconductor material gallium nitride (GaN) is non-toxic and is compatible with human cells opening the door to the material's use in a variety of biomedical implant technologies.
GaN is currently used in a host of technologies, from LED lighting to optic sensors, but it is not in widespread use in biomedical implants. However, the new findings from NC State and Purdue mean that GaN holds promise for an array of implantable technologies from electrodes used in neurostimulation therapies for Alzheimer's to transistors used to monitor blood chemistry.
"The first finding is that GaN, unlike other semiconductor materials that have been considered for biomedical implants, is not toxic. That minimizes risk to both the environment and to patients," says Dr. Albena Ivanisevic, who co-authored a paper describing the research. Ivanisevic is an associate professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and associate professor of the joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Researchers used a mass spectrometry technique to see how much gallium is released from GaN when the material is exposed to various environments that mimic conditions in the human body. This is important because gallium oxides are toxic. But the researchers found that GaN is very stable in these environments releasing such a tiny amount of gallium that it is non-toxic.
The researchers also wanted to determine GaN's potential biocompatibility. To do this they bonded peptides the building blocks that make up proteins to the GaN material. Researchers then placed peptide-coated GaN and uncoated GaN into cell cultures to see how the material and the cells interacted.
Researchers found that the peptide-coated GaN bonded more effectively with the cells. Specifically, more cells bonded to the material and those cells spread over a larger area.
"This matters because we want materials that give us some control over cell behavior," Ivanisevic says. "For example, being able to make cells adhere to a material or to avoid it.
"One problem facing many biomedical implants, such as sensors, is that they can become coated with biological material in the body. We've shown that we can coat GaN with peptides that attract and bond with cells. That suggests that we may also be able to coat GaN with peptides that would help prevent cell growth and keep the implant 'clean.' Our next step will be to explore the use of such 'anti-fouling' peptides with GaN."
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The paper, "Gallium Nitride is Biocompatible and Non-Toxic Before and After Functionalization with Peptides," is forthcoming from Acta Biomaterialia and was co-authored by Ph.D. students Scott A. Jewett and Matthew S. Makowski; undergraduate Benjamin Andrews; and Michael J. Manfra all of Purdue. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Purdue University have shown that the semiconductor material gallium nitride (GaN) is non-toxic and is compatible with human cells opening the door to the material's use in a variety of biomedical implant technologies.
GaN is currently used in a host of technologies, from LED lighting to optic sensors, but it is not in widespread use in biomedical implants. However, the new findings from NC State and Purdue mean that GaN holds promise for an array of implantable technologies from electrodes used in neurostimulation therapies for Alzheimer's to transistors used to monitor blood chemistry.
"The first finding is that GaN, unlike other semiconductor materials that have been considered for biomedical implants, is not toxic. That minimizes risk to both the environment and to patients," says Dr. Albena Ivanisevic, who co-authored a paper describing the research. Ivanisevic is an associate professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and associate professor of the joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Researchers used a mass spectrometry technique to see how much gallium is released from GaN when the material is exposed to various environments that mimic conditions in the human body. This is important because gallium oxides are toxic. But the researchers found that GaN is very stable in these environments releasing such a tiny amount of gallium that it is non-toxic.
The researchers also wanted to determine GaN's potential biocompatibility. To do this they bonded peptides the building blocks that make up proteins to the GaN material. Researchers then placed peptide-coated GaN and uncoated GaN into cell cultures to see how the material and the cells interacted.
Researchers found that the peptide-coated GaN bonded more effectively with the cells. Specifically, more cells bonded to the material and those cells spread over a larger area.
"This matters because we want materials that give us some control over cell behavior," Ivanisevic says. "For example, being able to make cells adhere to a material or to avoid it.
"One problem facing many biomedical implants, such as sensors, is that they can become coated with biological material in the body. We've shown that we can coat GaN with peptides that attract and bond with cells. That suggests that we may also be able to coat GaN with peptides that would help prevent cell growth and keep the implant 'clean.' Our next step will be to explore the use of such 'anti-fouling' peptides with GaN."
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The paper, "Gallium Nitride is Biocompatible and Non-Toxic Before and After Functionalization with Peptides," is forthcoming from Acta Biomaterialia and was co-authored by Ph.D. students Scott A. Jewett and Matthew S. Makowski; undergraduate Benjamin Andrews; and Michael J. Manfra all of Purdue. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Happy 30th Birthday, Tila Tequila!
Tila Tequila has not really made news since campaigning to be Charlie Sheen's next goddess in March.
But the rarely-clothed former reality and sex tape star is in the headlines today because she's celebrating a major birthday: the big 3-0. How will you honor the occasion? With a Tila Tequila Uncorked viewing, perhaps?
Seriously, though, folks Tequila is a troubled soul who could use your birthday wishes. She doesn't exactly have a lot of friends and she can barely afford any articles of clothing. See what we mean in the following photo montage:
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/10/happy-30th-birthday-tila-tequila/
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In South Carolina, group backs Anita Hill for 20th year (Reuters)
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) ? For two decades, women in Columbia, South Carolina have gathered annually for an "I Believe Anita Hill" party, at first out of anger and then to celebrate what they considered a milestone in the fight against sexual harassment.
In October 1991, Hill accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Thomas, who denied her charges, was confirmed despite Hill's testimony before the U.S. Senate, but the crowd of 500 that turned out Thursday night for an "I Believe Anita Hill" soiree marking the hearing's 20th anniversary said her words had made an impact on women.
Before Hill's testimony, "we knew that we had to bite our tongues to keep our jobs. We have joined together and keep alive the memory of what Anita did for us," party organizer Barbara Rackes said.
Hill, for just the second time in the group's history, took part in what members believe is the only event of its kind in the country.
"This isn't about me. It's about you. And it's not over," she told the mostly female, racially diverse crowd that included the state's female Supreme Court chief justice.
Now a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, Hill has been back in the spotlight recently, giving speeches and promoting her new book, "Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home."
She made several appearances in Columbia this week, including giving a lecture at the University of South Carolina law school on the social value of home ownership and racial and gender inequality in lending practices.
"We've come a long way," Hill said in response to audience questions after her lecture. "How did we get there? It wasn't simply my testimony."
"It was your voices, your conversations, the conversations that you had in your home with your loved ones, the conversations that you had in your workplaces with your colleagues, the conversations that some of you had with your lawyers when you filed complaints."
Hill's critics, on the Senate Judiciary Committee and off, have asked, if her harassment allegations were true, why she had followed Thomas to a second agency and then maintained contact after she no longer worked with him.
'WE HAVE CHANGED'
During an interview with Reuters, Hill said public perceptions of women's claims of sexual abuse and harassment continued to evolve in what she described as a positive direction.
After former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, Hill said she was pleased that other hotel workers demonstrated on the accuser's behalf.
The attempted rape charges were dropped in August after doubts arose over the hotel maid's credibility.
"All of that means change. We have changed. Twenty years ago, I don't think the first step would have been taken," Hill said.
Hill said she was impressed by the commitment of the "I Believe Anita Hill" group members. "To me, it's pretty tremendous that they still have that passion and fire," she said.
Twenty women in Columbia formed the group in 1991 out of anger following what they considered harsh treatment of Hill by U.S. senators, including the late Strom Thurmond, a South Carolina Republican, during Thomas' confirmation hearing.
"The majority of the people in 1991 after I testified said 'what?' The majority of people, seven out of 10, thought I had perjured myself," said Hill, who has maintained that her testimony was truthful.
Last year, she said she had no plans to act on a voicemail left by Virginia Thomas, Justice Thomas' wife, who suggested Hill should consider apologizing for her role in the hearing.
The founders of "I Believe Anita Hill" had no doubt the critics of Hill's testimony were wrong.
"Women believed her. Women understood," said attorney Carol Sanders. "Men didn't get it."
"Men believed her, too," said health care consultant Lynn Bailey, an original member. "They just said 'so what?' Every one of us has our sexual harassment moment."
Writer Kevin Gray, among the men at the party, said Hill showed people that black women were not powerless.
"As a black man, I think black progressive female leadership is something the black community, with its history of sexism, should pay attention to," he said.
Elizabeth Nkuo Johnson, who works in community relations, said the "I Believe Anita Hill" campaign was an important one for the entire country.
"We have to seek justice for everybody," she said. "No one should ever feel threatened in the workplace."
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Cynthia Johnston)
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Earthquake hits southeastern Turkey with 50 reported injured (Reuters)
HAKKARI, Turkey (Reuters) ? A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit near Van in southeastern Turkey on Sunday, Turkey's Kandilli Observatory and Research Institute said, and state-run media reported some buildings had collapsed and 50 people had been injured.
The institute said the earthquake struck at 1041 GMT (6:41 a.m. EDT) and was 5 km (3 miles) deep. The U.S. Geological Survey earlier reported that the magnitude was 7.6.
Some buildings collapsed and emergency teams were trying to rescue people believed to be trapped in a building in Van, near the Iranian border, state-run news agency Anatolian said.
It said 50 injured people had been taken to hospital in Van, but did not give details on how serious their injuries were.
Television pictures showed damaged buildings and vehicles, crushed under falling masonry, and panicked residents wandering in the streets.
Turkish media said phone lines and electricity had been cut off. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will head to Van to see the damage, media reported.
Aftershocks continued after the initial quake, whose epicenter was at the village of Tabanli, north of Van city, the agency said.
In Hakkari, a town around 100 km (60 miles) south of the city of Van in southeastern Turkey, a building could be felt swaying for around 10 seconds during the quake.
There was no immediate sign of any casualties or damage in Hakkari, around two and half hours drive through the mountains from Van, around 20 km from the epicenter.
Major geological faultlines cross Turkey and small earthquakes are a near daily occurrence. Two large quakes in 1999 killed more than 20,000 people in northwest Turkey.
Two people were killed and 79 injured in May when an earthquake shook Simav in northwest Turkey.
(Additional reporting by Seda Sezer and Daren Butler; Editing by Alison Williams)
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Season 4 of "Jersey Shore" started out with a bang, ratings-wise, and while the season didn't exactly end with a whimper, it was nothing to?? More??"Jersey Shore" season finale ratings barely up from last week
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
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