HBT: Freese sets postseason RBI record

David Freese didn?t stop with a huge Game 6. His two-run double in the Friday?s Game 7 victory gave him the all-time record for RBI in a single postseason:

1. David Freese (StL): 21 (2011)
2. Sandy Alomar Jr. (Cle): 19 (1997)
2. Scott Spiezio (Ana): 19 (2002)
2. David Ortiz (Bos): 19 (2004)
5. Alex Rodriguez (NYY): 18 (2009)
6. John Valentin (Bos): 17 (1999)
6. Rich Aurilia (SFG): 17 (2002)
6. Ivan Rodriguez (Fla): 17 (2003)
6. Ryan Howard (Phi): 17 (2009)

Freese, who had 55 RBI in 97 regular-season games, hit .397 with five homers in his first career postseason. The 21 RBI came in 18 games.

If he hadn?t already done so, Freese definitely made a name for himself with his game-tying double in the ninth and game-winning homer in the 11th in Thursday?s Game 6. His hit tonight was also big, as it swung the momentum back the Cardinals? way after Chris Carpenter gave up two runs in the first.

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Perry, Romney contrast in style, substance (AP)

MANCHESTER, N.H. ? Campaigning just five miles and a few minutes apart, Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry showed first-in-the-nation primary state voters just how starkly different they are.

Romney, who leads the state's polls, has spent years campaigning here and has a home on a nearby lake, held an hour-long town hall meeting Friday outside of Manchester. Perry, a much newer presidential candidate on his sixth visit to the state, filed his official paperwork to appear on the state's presidential primary ballot, met briefly with voters at a local restaurant and gave a boisterous speech to social conservatives.

Romney held private meetings in Manchester Friday morning and spent the evening taking questions from voters, covering fiscal policy, the environment, defense, even NASA funding. He largely ignored his Republican rivals and went after President Barack Obama instead.

"The president's philosophy," Romney said, "is extraordinarily misguided. What they have done over the last three years is every time they've seen an area they thought needed addressing, they put more government in, and what it did was it caused the private sector to retreat."

Romney is far ahead in the polls here. His organization is long-running and stable. And he faces challenges from a multitude of rivals who are competing for the same group of conservative voters.

Perry ? his chief rival in money, staff and organization elsewhere in the country ? spent his New Hampshire morning defending his debate performances and campaign trail mistakes ? and attacking rivals Romney and Herman Cain.

"The governor (Romney) has been on opposite sides of a lot of issues. He was for banning handguns; now he's Mister Second Amendment," Perry said during a radio interview at the Barley House restaurant across from the New Hampshire Statehouse. "Governor Romney in his book initially said his health care plan would be good for America. And then he took that sentence out when the book came out in paperback. So the issue is, Who are we really going to trust to stand up every day and be consistent? I have been consistent."

And in a spirited 20-minute speech at the socially conservative Cornerstone Action's banquet here, Perry cracked jokes, talked baseball, quoted from Proverbs and waved his one-page flat tax filing form in the air.

The two men ? one businesslike, calm, usually careful; the other aggressive, spirited and pointed in conviction ? could hardly provide New Hampshire voters with two more different candidates to choose from, in style, focus or substance.

Romney came to his town hall surrounded by a handful of his longest-serving and most influential advisers, business leaders and political operatives. He opened his remarks with an anecdote about his father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, to describe why America's economy is in trouble.

"He said there's nothing as vulnerable as entrenched success," Romney told the crowd of about 100, seated in chairs surrounding him. "His idea was that some groups of people or companies or nations become so used to their success that they become complacent, they become fat, lazy, and other upstarts are able to rush past them."

Romney has been working hard here for months, almost since he lost his last campaign in 2008. He's focused relentlessly on his economic message, a pitch that plays well with independent-minded voters in the state. He avoids the social issues that tripped him up last time, including abortion and gay marriage.

And while he was on message during his appearance on the trail, his campaign was left to deal with yet more accusations that he had flip-flopped on a major issue important to conservatives. It's a reputation left over from the last campaign, and one he's been unable to shake. On Friday, Democrats seized on comments he made in Pittsburgh, where he said he wasn't sure what was causing global warming ? remarks they portrayed as a shift from a previous position, though Romney had said as much before.

Perry, by contrast, is on his sixth visit to the state since he announced his presidential run in mid-August. He's far behind in the polls here, and is instead likely to focus on the caucuses in Iowa and the primaries in South Carolina and Florida. He arrived, as always, accompanied by a few of personal aides and a sizable security contingent.

His central message is his job creation record in Texas.

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Halloween doesn't have to be gorge-fest to be fun (AP)

CHICAGO ? Offer apples to trick-or-treaters and risk having your house get egged ? maybe even by your own kids.

But dentists and dietitians say you can still make Halloween reasonably healthy for little devils and witches without resorting to dracul-onian tactics, like no candy.

"This is such a big adventure for them ? let them have it, obviously with some caveats," said Dr. Rhea Haugseth, a dentist in Marietta, Ga., who's president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry

There are tricks for keeping Halloween fun without risking cavities and extra pounds, like handing out dark chocolate instead of chewy candies or even bribing kids with a toy in exchange for the Halloween loot. Some studies have suggested dark chocolate is good for the heart, and chewy candies stick to the teeth.

Just don't go overboard on restrictions, says Cole Robbins, a Chicago 12-year-old and Halloween veteran.

"Halloween is the one day of the year where we kids just kind of break out and overload on candy," he said.

To help prevent that kind of gorging, try to give children a healthy, filling meal before trick-or-treating, says Bethany Thayer, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association who works at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.

Procrastinators, take heart. Thayer also recommends waiting until Halloween day before buying candy, so no one is tempted to indulge beforehand.

"I know people who have to go back to the store because they've completely gone through their candy" before Halloween, she said.

Haugseth suggests avoiding cavity-promoting treats like caramels that stick to the teeth, or lollipops that bathe teeth in a long sugary bath.

Also, having kids brush their teeth before trick-or-treating helps reduce plaque and bacteria, which interact with sugar to produce tooth-decaying acid, Haugseth said. Kids should also brush right after eating candy, she said.

Ronni Litz Julien, a Miami nutritionist whose patients include overweight and obese kids, says another trick for parents is to ask kids not to dip into their loot bags until they bring it all home. That's for safety, so parents can toss any suspicious-looking candy, but it also can prevent an "eating frenzy."

She suggests parents help sort through the loot, have kids select their 10 favorite pieces, and give the rest away. Offer the choice of eating all 10 pieces at once, or over 10 days. That gives them a sense of control, without feeling shortchanged, she said.

"You can't deprive them. It's Halloween, for God's sake," she said.

President Barack Obama joked this week on "The Tonight Show" that he'd warned his health-promoting wife that the White House would get egged if she gave trick-or-treaters fresh fruit and raisins instead of candy. During festivities on Saturday, the Obamas will hand out White House M&Ms, cookies and dried fruit as they did the past two years.

Dr. Janet Silverstein, a Gainesville, Fla. pediatrician and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' nutrition committee, says she doesn't give out candy, offering fruit or pencils instead; so far her house is unscathed.

When her own children were young, Silverstein would buy their candy for a nickel a piece. She recommends that to her patients' parents, too ? though not necessarily her other solution ? she used to eat her kids' candy.

In some places, kids willing to give up their candy can make more than a nickel. About 1,500 dentists across the country have agreed this year to participate in a Halloween candy buyback organized by Operation Gratitude. The California-based group periodically sends care packages to U.S. troops overseas. Some dentists pay kids $1 per pound of Halloween candy; last year, the program brought in 250,000 pounds of candy, said Carolyn Blashek, founder of the Van Nuys, Calif.-based group.

Blashek said troops overseas appreciate it as a token of gratitude, and Halloween candy brings back lots of fond childhood memories. Some have given their candy to Afghan children, she noted. Entering your ZIP code on the group's website, http://bit.ly/F1iSy will identify participating dentists.

Parents who plan to encourage giving up candy should be sure not to take it right away, says Brian Wansink, a Cornell University food behavior scientist and author of "Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think."

That's because of a psychology principle called "the endowment effect." It refers to kids feeling a sense of ownership and putting a high value on candy they haul in.

If you let them eat several pieces first, that feeling can fade and they won't even feel hungry anymore. That's the time to offer a trade, Wansink said.

He's tried that trick with his own three daughters, aged 2, 4, and 6, and says "it works like a charm." His girls eagerly give up the rest of their Halloween candy in exchange for a new trinket or other toy that won't rot their teeth, he said.

Young kids aren't really aware of how much they brought home, and when "they sort of count their booty, that's probably the age where kids shouldn't be trick or treating anymore," he said.

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American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry: http://www.aapd.org

American Dietetic Association: http://www.eatright.org___

AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/LindseyTanner

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Bachmann Cuts Brakeline on the Crazy Train -- Hezbollah Missiles in Cuba (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | There is good reason to believe the reason campaign manager Ed Rollins stepped aside to a distant supervisory position and his assistant David Polyansky stepped away altogether from the Michele Bachmann presidential campaign was that the grade-A steel brakes they were attempting to apply to Bachmann's jawbones were nowhere near strong enough to slow, never mind stop, the Minnesota congresswoman from making crazy comments and ill-advised assertions.

There is little doubt Rollins and Polyansky advised her to dial back on her domestic energy rhetoric after she alienated voters in Florida by stating she would consider "responsible" drilling for oil and natural gas in the Florida Everglades. She didn't. Rollins then said her vaccine remarks were a "mistake."

But now that the two advisers have distanced themselves, Bachmann has reverted to type, making outlandish statements without substantiation. Case in point: She is now saying America should be wary of Hezbollah, the Middle Eastern pro-Iranian terrorist organization, placing missiles in Cuba.

Esquire has reported Bachmann, while on the campaign trail, took exception to normalizing relations with Cuba. She told an audience, "Why would you normalize trading with a country that sponsors terror? There's reports that have come out that Cuba has been working with another terrorist organization called Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is potentially looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran and, of course, when you're 90 miles offshore from Florida, you don't want to entertain the prospect of hosting bases or sites where Hezbollah could have training camps or perhaps have missile sites or weapons sites in Cuba. This would be foolish."

Has Rep. Bachmann started watching Glenn Beck's again, perhaps going online and subscribing to his new two-hour Internet show? Where in the world would she get such an idea that Hezbollah might be operating camps and/or missile sites in Cuba?

As a matter of fact, she most likely got her information from the website, The Blaze , which reported earlier in the month, citing Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, that Hezbollah members had made their way to Cuba to set up operations. The Blaze also noted reports that a House of Representatives committee mentioned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had had several meetings and that Hezbollah was known to be operating in Latin America.

Still, missiles were not mentioned in the Italian newspaper account.

The Blaze, incidentally, is owned by Glenn Beck.

Does this mean the U.S. and other nations should ignore the reports of the Hezbollah presence? Hardly. But it also does not mean a Minnesota congresswoman should be extrapolating the Second Cuban Missile Crisis (just 11 more months until the 50th anniversary of the first one) from the alleged presence of a group of terrorists on the island.

And it would appear intelligence organizations are tracking the group's movements rather well if a House committee has discussed their presence in Latin America. If not, perhaps reading an Italian newspaper would get them caught up on Hezbollah's daily movements.

But weren't Italian reporters those that broke the story of an informant named "Curveball?" Wasn't he the guy that freely divulged information about there being Weapons of Massive Destruction in Iraq?

Perhaps that is a false correlation, considering that Bachmann simply derived her missiles (read: WMDs) from nothing.

But, then, so did "Curveball." All he needed was an audience.

One day Rollins and Polyansky will admit the actual reasons they stepped away from the Bachmann presidential campaign, and it is likely because they couldn't attach brakes to an unstoppable off-the-rails locomotive.

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Biography sees Jobs as crossroad of humanities, science (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? A genius for mixing the humanities and sciences coupled with a Svengali-like ability to motivate people powered Steve Jobs's mission to change the world, biographer Walter Isaacson concludes in his exhaustive new study of the Apple co-founder.

"Michelangelo knew a lot about how to quarry stone, not just how to be a sculptor," Isaacson quotes Jobs as saying in one of the many interviews the Apple chief executive gave him in the months before Jobs's death on October 5.

Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" quickly became one of the most highly anticipated biographies of the year after the tech icon, the creative force behind products like the MacIntosh PC, iPod, iPhone and iPad, died of pancreatic cancer.

The 571-page volume hit bookstores on October 24 but was released earlier than expected on Apple's iBooks online store and Amazon's Kindle the day before. Amazon later said it expected the book to be its top seller of the year. No doubt, Jobs would have loved that.

"Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science," Jobs tells Isaacson toward the end, when discussing his legacy. "I like that intersection. There's something magical about that place."

The book chronicles Jobs's achievements but presents a rounded and colorful portrait, warts and all.

It begins with a young, tearful Jobs trying to comprehend what it means to be adopted, a fact that some sources told Isaacson helped explain later behavior by Jobs such as his denying paternity of his first child.

"The real underlying problem was the theme of abandonment in Steve's life," Andy Hertzfeld, a former Apple colleague, told Isaacson.

The book portrays Jobs as a cutthroat businessman who championed aesthetic perfection over profit, with his character, aggressive behavior and startling inspirations tied part and parcel to his youthful search for identity.

By the time he graduates high school, Jobs's rebelliousness is ascendant as he dabbles with LSD, weird diets and "the mind-bending effects of sleep deprivation," Isaacson writes.

"All of a sudden the wheat field was playing Bach," Jobs said of one LSD trip. "It was the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point."

Isaacson, whose previous work included well received biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, provides plenty of context at every stage of Jobs's life (1955-2011).

His childhood neighborhood in the 1960s in what would later be part of the Silicon Valley he helped create was filled with engineers living in homes designed for the American "everyman," which nurtured his interest in electronics and influenced his later passion for clean, simple design.

Born in San Francisco, Jobs found the Bay Area the ideal incubator for his rebel ambitions. Isaacson notes that in the 1970s the classified section of the San Jose Mercury -- where Jobs spotted the ad for his job in 1974 at video game maker Atari -- carried "up to sixty pages of technology help wanted ads."

By the early 1980s, Jobs's personality had developed into a creative force. Friends and colleagues referred to his "reality distortion field," a "confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand," Hertzfeld said.

Driven by Jobs's unrelenting refusal to accept anything less than his vision of a product, his employees completed staggering amounts of work within impossible deadlines.

"If reality did not comport with his will, he would ignore it, as he had done with the birth of his daughter and would do years later, when first diagnosed with cancer," Isaacson writes.

The story of Jobs is replete with tales of his rudeness toward family members, competitors, waitresses or anyone else who didn't live up to his exacting standards.

"At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was heavily sedated," Isaacson says of one hospital stay while Jobs was battling cancer.

"Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it .... He ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick a design he liked."

Isaacson says Jobs called Comcast CEO Brian Roberts after signing up for the cable firm's high-definition service while recuperating from cancer treatment.

"I thought he was calling to say something nice about it," Roberts told Isaacson. "Instead, he told me, 'It sucks.'"

But the man who had no qualms about humiliating people in front of their colleagues was just as likely to break down in tears, something which happens often in the book.

"Because of how very sensitive he is, he knows exactly how to efficiently and effectively hurt someone," Apple designer Jony Ive told Isaacson.

(Editing by Peter Bohan)

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FEMA: Flood Insurance is Affordable and Easy to Obtain

Release Date: October 28, 2011
Release Number: 4028-043

??More Information on Massachusetts?Tropical Storm Irene

WESTFIELD, Mass --?Flooding can happen anytime in Massachusetts, especially during hurricane season, from June 1 to December 1. Individuals and business owners in the western part of the Commonwealth can attest to this as they continue to clean up after Tropical Storm Irene that struck in late August.? Hurricanes, tropical storms and winter coastal storms, known as ?Nor'easters?, have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage in the state, much of it from flooding.

Property owners should not be lulled into a false sense of security because they do not live next to a body of water. Some 20 percent of flooding insurance claims are outside of mapped flood hazard areas.? The public should also be aware that only flood insurance provides coverage for water damage due to flooding. A standard homeowner insurance policy does not include flood coverage.

?Whether you live along the coast, by a river or stream, or far inland, a tropical storm or hurricane can lead to serious flooding,? said State Coordinating Officer Kurt Schwartz, Director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA).? ?Many smaller storms also cause floods.?I urge all residents to evaluate their flood risk and purchase flood insurance to protect their investment -- and to do it now, because coverage does not begin until 30 days after you buy your policy.?

In 2010, Massachusetts ranked fourth in the nation with 1,936 flood insurance claims filed. The Commonwealth also ranked seventh nationwide with $25,599,747 paid out for flood insurance claims.

While flooding itself is usually not preventable, the financial and emotional toll can be greatly lessened when there is insurance to cover the damage. For those who do not have flood insurance, the results of flooding can be so severe that this results in the household having to take on a heavy debt load.

?Floods are the number one natural disaster in the United States,? said Federal Coordinating Officer Mark H. Landry with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the NFIP. ?Over the course of a 30-year mortgage, a property owner in a floodplain is four times more likely to have flood losses as a fire loss. Flood insurance provides financial protection at a reasonable cost.?

As with other types of insurance, the policy premium is based on the degree of risk and the amount of coverage. A coastal property or one on the bank of a river has a higher risk of flooding and, therefore, a higher insurance premium than one that is further inland and on higher ground.

Homeowners may buy insurance for their houses and personal property and renters may buy personal property coverage. Businesses may buy coverage for their buildings and contents. Consumers and businesses can find a list of agents in their area who sell the coverage on the www.FloodSmart.gov Web site or by calling 1-800-427-4661.

To find out what the premium would be for various amounts of coverage, the www.FloodSmart.gov Web site, a one-stop resource created by the NFIP to help people buy flood insurance, has a calculator function that automatically provides this information when an address and zip code are entered.

FEMA?s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

Last Modified: Friday, 28-Oct-2011 15:35:38

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Nickelodeon airing "banned" movie on Halloween (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? "Cry Baby Lane," a Nickelodeon movie about conjoined twins who are sawed apart, was deemed so scary after its one airing in October 2000 that it was banned by the network, never to be seen again.

Or so the story goes.

In fact, both the story in the movie and the story about the movie being banned are urban legends. TeenNick will air the movie on Monday, for the first time in more than a decade, as part of its "Stick-or-Treat" Halloween programing.

A Nickelodeon rep tells TheWrap that "Cry Baby Lane" was never formally banned. It was simply forgotten in the Nick vaults. Recent interest in the movie on Reddit.com, as well as the network's recent success with "The '90s Are That," a revival of its 1990s programing, prompted Nick to add "Baby" to its Halloween night line-up.

The movie will air at midnight and again at 2 a.m. on TeenNick.

"Cry Baby Lane" stars Frank Langella as undertaker Mr. Bennett, who tells brothers Andrew and Carl a creepy story about a local farmer who was the father of conjoined twins. The man was ashamed of the twins -- one good, one evil -- so he kept them locked away. When they died, he sawed them apart and buried them separately.

But when Carl and his pals disturb the grave of the evil twin, bad things happen.

The movie features an early-career performance by comedian Jim Gaffigan as a dissatisfied customer of Mr. Bennett's who tries to, ahem, stiff the undertaker on his bill.

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Ex-UN inspector gets prison in Pa. sex case (AP)

STROUDSBURG, Pa. ? A former United Nations weapons inspector who exchanged explicit online messages with a detective posing as a 15-year-old girl and then performed a sex act on himself in front of a webcam was sentenced Wednesday to at least 1 1/2 years in state prison.

Scott Ritter, 50, was taken into custody immediately after Monroe County Judge Jennifer Sibum sentenced him to 18 to 66 months behind bars. It was the second time in eight years that Ritter, of Delmar, N.Y., found himself in legal trouble for trying to lure underage girls into illicit sex.

Ritter, who maintains his behavior was shameful but not criminal, must register as a sex offender under Pennsylvania's version of Megan's Law.

"I had no business being in a chatroom on Feb. 7, 2009," Ritter told the court Wednesday. "I've asked my wife for forgiveness, and I've asked my daughters for forgiveness, and they have given it to me."

Ritter contends that he believed the person he met in a Yahoo chat room in 2009 was an adult acting out her own fantasy.

The judge acknowledged Ritter's service to his country and his support network of friends and family but criticized him for failing to take responsibility for his conduct.

"I think what it would be like if it were my niece, Mr. Ritter's daughters or someone else's daughter in this very courtroom who was on the receiving end of that chat," the judge said. "Children need to be protected."

A jury convicted Ritter on six counts, including unlawful contact with a minor. He plans to appeal the conviction and sentence.

Ritter's attorney asked the judge on Wednesday to grant a new trial, basing the request on an appeals court ruling in New York last week that records from two previous incidents in that state in 2001 should not have been unsealed and given to prosecutors in Pennsylvania to be used at his trial.

Attorney Gary Kohlman argued the New York ruling entitled Ritter to a new trial because prosecutors based much of their strategy on the argument that Ritter had a history of preying on underage girls.

"It became, as I feared, the tail that was wagging the dog at trial," Kohlman said in court.

Assistant District Attorney Michael Rakaczewski argued the New York ruling had no bearing on Ritter's conviction and sentence in Pennsylvania. The judge rejected the defense request for a new trial, saying Kohlman could bring up the New York case on appeal.

Ritter was one of the U.N.'s chief weapons inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He resigned after accusing the United States and the U.N. of failing to get tough with then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Later, he said Iraq had destroyed its weapons of mass destruction, and he became a vocal critic of the U.S. invasion.

In 2001, Ritter twice arranged to meet people who claimed online to be underage girls but who turned out to be undercover police in Colonie, N.Y. The charges were eventually dismissed, and the case was sealed, but Pennsylvania prosecutors obtained the records and used them to try to show Ritter has a predilection for minors.

Ritter told jurors at his April trial that he knew he was chatting with undercover police and set up the meetings so he would be arrested. Kohlman has said Ritter used sexually explicit chats on the Internet as a way to handle his depression over being called unpatriotic for his criticism of American policy on Iraq.

A member of Pennsylvania's Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, Paula Brust, testified Wednesday that based on his history Ritter is at risk to offend again.

"He is not able to manage his offending in the community despite sex offender treatment," she said.

Ritter's therapist, Richard Hamill, acknowledged in court Wednesday that Ritter left treatment after the 2001 incidents. But he said Ritter's problem involves a compulsion to masturbate in front of adult women ? not minors. He said Ritter has been attending weekly group therapy sessions since February of 2009 and presents a low risk of reoffending.

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Feds tighten belt by cutting agriculture reports

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2011, file photo John Prince, left, and Kevin Hafner, right, vice president of operations at Bob Funk's Express Ranches in El Reno, Okla., move cattle into a pen. The U.S. Agriculture Department, which has been issuing cattle inventory reports in January and July, is eliminating the July report. The USDA says it expects to cut about $10 million from its $156 million budget by eliminating or reducing the frequency of reports in 14 industries. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2011, file photo John Prince, left, and Kevin Hafner, right, vice president of operations at Bob Funk's Express Ranches in El Reno, Okla., move cattle into a pen. The U.S. Agriculture Department, which has been issuing cattle inventory reports in January and July, is eliminating the July report. The USDA says it expects to cut about $10 million from its $156 million budget by eliminating or reducing the frequency of reports in 14 industries. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

FILE - In this June 3, 2008, file photo catfish fingerlings are pulled out of the Quiver River Aquaculture Inc. pond near Moorhead, Miss., for transport to another farm, where they will be raised to fillet size. The U.S. Agriculture Department is eliminating its reports on the production of catfish, one of 14 reports to be eliminated or have its frequency of reporting reduced in an effort to cut spending. The reports influence prices of many commodities and help producers, processors and traders decide when to buy and sell. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) ? When farmers need to check honey prices so they can decide whether to sell, there's been a report for that. And when catfish and sheep farmers want to check production in their industries, there've been reports for that, too.

The U.S. Agriculture Department has kept tabs for decades on a wide range of agricultural industries that generate billions of dollars for the U.S. economy. But that's about to change, as the agency eliminates some reports and reduces the frequency of others to save millions of dollars in tight budget times.

The reports influence the price and supply of many products that end up on American dinner plates. Without them, some farmers say they'll be left guessing how much to produce and when to sell. Food processors and traders also will have less information when making decisions about buying and selling.

South Dakota farmer Richard Adee said he used the annual honey and bee report to decide when to sell his honey. If the February report indicated a large supply nationwide, he'd sell before prices dropped. If the supply was short, he'd hold on to the honey and wait for prices to go up.

"It's really going to limit us to information for making future plans," said Adee, one of the nation's largest honey producers. "It's not good. It's not good we're losing that."

Adee Honey Farms, based in Bruce, S.D, provide bees that pollinate crops and produce honey in the Midwest, California and Washington. Adee said he knows something must be done to deal with the federal deficit, but "they're beating up on agriculture."

A spokeswoman for the USDA division that produces the reports said it didn't want to cut them but it had to do something to save money. Eliminating or reducing the frequency of 14 crop and livestock reports will save the National Agricultural Statistics Service about $10 million, Sue duPont said. NASS's $156 million budget was cut in the federal fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 and more reductions are expected this year as Congress and the White House aim to trim federal spending.

The agency based its choices on the reports' impact on markets and use by other programs that provide assistance to farmers, along with the availability of information from other sources, DuPont said.

"It was just tough decisions," she said.

Roger Barlow, executive vice president of Catfish Farmers of America, said the annual report on his industry tells his organization's 800 members how many millions of tons of catfish are being produced in how many acres of water, how much is being held by processors and what prices are being paid. The information determines prices and guides farmers as they decide to expand or cut back production, he said.

"Lots of decisions are made upon this," Barlow said. "This information is used on a daily basis."

Mississippi is the leading catfish producer according to the latest and last report. But the farmers, who are mostly located in the South, hope NASS with reconsider its decision to dump the report.

"I guess we're just scratching a hole in our head trying to figure out how we're going to continue with what we feel is extremely important," Barlow said.

Most of the information in the reports being cut will still be included in the agricultural census, which is conducted once every five years. The one released in 2013 will reflect the state of farming in 2012.

But the lack of annual reports "kind of limits what we have as far as information for making decisions on a year-to-year basis," said Shane Ellis, a livestock economist at Iowa State University.

Farmers in some industries may turn to trade organizations to collect information previously reported by NASS, while those in smaller ones, such as honey and catfish, might be able to get by without the data, he said.

"It's just the nature of the niche marketing in how it tends to be more of a market where everybody knows everybody else. ... They have a good idea of where everything is going," Ellis said.

He speculated on the logic behind NASS's decisions. For example, the agency is cutting its July report on the cattle industry but will keep a similar one in January. Ellis said the agency probably eliminated its sheep and goat report because sheep numbers haven't changed much in recent years.

But Steve Clements, who raises sheep near Philip, S.D., said the report would be particularly valuable right now because there's a short supply of breeding ewes and no one is sure where sheep being shipped from drought-stricken Texas are ending up.

"The ones that don't affect you, you don't think they need to do, I guess," he said.

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Self-moving robot leads automatons in impending robot apocalypse (video)

Just in time for All Hallow's Eve shenanigans, scientists at MIT's DARPA and Boeing funded Chembots program have just introduced an uber creepy self-propelling robot quite capable of leading the robot apocalypse single-handedly. The automaton moves with the help of a pneumatic battery -- a power source that utilizes a hydrogen peroxide catalyst to inflate a soft silicone pod, in turn forcing the bot forward. With electropermanent magnets to regulate built-in valves, all it takes is a small current to activate the bot, which can regulate just how much H202 it will employ for a completely solo and super creepy zombie-like C-walk. Jump past the break to check out the video... if you dare.

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?Wall Street Isn?t Winning, It?s Cheating? (Balloon Juice)

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How 'Made in USA' parts wound up in Iraqi bombs; US indicts Iranian ring

Radio frequency modules made in Minnesota turned up in 16 unexploded roadside bombs in Iraq. According to an indictment unsealed Tuesday in Washington, the culprit was an Iran-based ring.

Federal agents have broken up a Tehran-based ring that smuggled radio frequency modules to Iran that later turned up in 16 unexploded roadside bombs in Iraq targeting US forces.

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The alleged scheme was revealed in an indictment unsealed Tuesday at US District Court in Washington.

It charged four Singapore citizens and the alleged Iran-based ring-leader, Hossein Larijani, with violating US export control laws, including restrictions against shipments to Iran and the unauthorized transfer of military technology to unapproved countries.

The alleged operation involved the purchase and shipment of 6,000 radio modules from a company in Minnesota to Singapore, where the technology was illegally re-shipped to Iran, according to the indictment.

The four Singapore citizens were arrested on Monday. The US requested that they be extradited to Washington to stand trial, and Singapore reportedly has agreed to arrange their extradition.

The Iranian, Mr. Larijani, remains at large. Officials say he runs two companies, Paya Electronics Complex, based in Iran, and Opto Electronics Pte, Ltd., based in Singapore.

Because of an ongoing embargo, trade with Iran is illegal. In addition, certain categories of sensitive technology require export licenses, including verification that the equipment will not be transferred to certain designated countries. Iran is a country designated as ineligible to receive sensitive US technology.

In January 2010, Larijani?s company, Opto Electronics, was placed on a Commerce Department watch list after US officials obtained information potentially linking Larijani to an alleged Iranian procurement agent, Majid Kakavand.

Mr. Kakavand is under indictment in the US for allegedly exporting American equipment to military agencies in Iran associated with that country?s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Larijani has denied any connection to Kakavand. But US officials say they have information that the two were involved in business dealings five times from 2006 to 2009.

The indictment against the Iran-based ring was unveiled two weeks after the United States accused Iranian government officials of being behind a foiled plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US on American soil.

Among the men arrested in Singapore Monday was Wong Yuh Lan, who worked as an agent of Opto Electronics under Larijani?s direction. Also arrested were Lim Yong Nam, Lim Kow Seng, and Hia Soo Gan Benson. The three worked at other companies allegedly involved in the illegal shipments to Iran.

?This case underscores the continuing threat posed by Iranian procurement networks seeking to obtain US technology through fraud, and the importance of safeguarding that technology,? said Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, in a statement.

The radio frequency modules have both commercial and military applications. They can be used in wireless local area networks connecting printers and computers in an office. The shipped modules also contain encryption capabilities and are able to transmit data up to 40 miles when coupled with a high-powered antenna.

Officials said that in 2008 and 2009, coalition forces in Iraq discovered modules made by the Minnesota firm that had been used as part of the remote detonation system for IEDs (improvised explosive devices), the roadside bombs that exacted a heavy toll on US forces over the course of many years. The US military has long pointed to Iran as the source of the know-how to design, and manufacture, the deadliest devices.

According to the indictment, 6,000 modules were purchased between June 2007 and February 2008 for shipment to Singapore. They were later transferred to Iran in five shipments.

Officials at the Minnesota company, which was not named in the indictment and not charged, were told that Singapore was the final destination for the modules.

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US reaches out to Iranians, warns Iran government (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration is setting up an Internet-based embassy to reach out to Iranians hoping to broaden their understanding of the United States, while at the same time studying new sanctions to raise the pressure on Iran's government over its disputed nuclear program and alleged ties to terrorism.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in interviews Wednesday with Persian-language media that the U.S. wanted to affirm its friendship to the Iranian people even at a time of rising tensions with the regime in Tehran. As part of that effort, she said a "virtual embassy in Tehran" will be online by the end of the year, helping Iranians wishing to travel or study in the United States.

"We're trying to reach out to the Iranian people," Clinton said. "We've tried to reach out to the government, just not very successfully."

Clinton stressed that the U.S. was committed to its two-track approach of engagement and sanctions toward the Iranian government. But she said the outreach was being directed to ordinary Iranians who've suffered as a result of their government's "reckless" conduct regarding its uranium enrichment activities, fomenting of unrest in neighboring countries and its role in the alleged terror plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador in Washington.

The U.S. hasn't had an embassy in Iran since breaking off diplomatic relations shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran, likewise, has no embassy in Washington, but Clinton said President Barack Obama has tried to entreat Tehran into negotiations.

Separately Wednesday, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said the U.S. should kick out Iranian officials at the United Nations in New York and in Washington because many of them are spies. King said the move would be an appropriate response to alleged plot against the Saudi ambassador, but the State Department rejected the suggestion.

"First of all, we don't have any Iranian diplomats in Washington because we don't have diplomatic relations with Iran," department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. Concerning Iranian diplomats in New York, she said the U.S. as the host nation for the U.N. was obliged to allow diplomats from all countries that are members of the global body.

Clinton, who celebrated her 64th birthday Wednesday, spoke with the BBC and "Parazit," a Persian-language program run by Voice of America that follows the news satire format popularized in the U.S. by the "Daily Show." Yet she spoke seriously about her fears that Iran was becoming a more entrenched "military dictatorship" threatening countries in its region and beyond.

On Iran's uranium enrichment activities, Clinton said, "Everyone believes that the covert actions, the covert facilities, the misleading information is part of an attempt by the regime to acquire nuclear weapons." Iran says the program is solely for producing energy, but she claimed the evidence suggests otherwise.

The U.S. already has a series of sanctions on the Iranian economy, but Clinton said new measures were being examined to pressure the government into being a better global citizen. Iran's central bank and the economic activities of the hardline Revolutionary Guard Corps and Quds Force are possible targets, she suggested.

Clinton also spoke of Iran's efforts to jam Internet sites and track dissident activity on the Internet, part of a policy that she deemed an "electronic curtain." She said Iran's was the most effective government in the world in disrupting Internet and telephone communication.

"It's the 21st century equivalent of the barbed wire and the fences and the dogs that the old Soviet Union used, because they come at it from the same mentality," Clinton said. "They want totalitarian control over what you learn and what you say and even what you think and how you worship and all the things that go to the heart of human dignity and human freedom."

The U.S. is continuing work on creating new technologies to help dissidents and regime opponents circumvent censorship and monitoring, Clinton said. She called it one of her highest priorities.

Yet she also expressed some regret for the U.S. government's tepid support for the opposition Green Movement after Iran's disputed 2009 presidential election. Unlike in Libya, where the U.S. and other countries intervened to protect people protesting against Moammar Gadhafi's dictatorship, Clinton noted that the Iranian demonstrators insisted that they wanted no U.S. help.

"We were torn," she said. "It was a very tough time for us because we wanted to be full-hearted in favor of what was going on inside Iran and we kept being cautioned that we would put people's lives in danger, we would discredit the movement, we would undermine their aspirations.

"I think if something were to happen again, it would be smart for the Green Movement, or some other movement inside Iran, to say we want the voices of the world, we want the support of the world behind us."

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Graciela Tiscare?o-Sato: Discretionary Income Causing a Values Clash? (Huffington post)

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US stocks rise after earnings reports, takeovers (AP)

NEW YORK ? Stocks are rising at the opening of trading after Caterpillar raised its profit forecast and predicted more growth in the global economy. Cigna and other companies announced big acquisitions.

Investors are still worried about Europe's debt problems. European leaders said they made progress at a weekend summit but won't unveil concrete plans for containing the crisis until Wednesday.

Caterpillar Inc. became the latest big U.S. company to report strong earnings growth in the third quarter. Its income jumped 44 percent.

Oracle, Cigna and Mattel announced nearly $6 billion worth of acquisitions Monday.

The Dow Jones industrial average is up 33, or 0.3 percent, to 11,842. The S&P 500 is up 4, or 0.3 percent, to 1,242. The Nasdaq is up 13, or 0.5 percent, to 2,651.

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Chaz Bono is the latest star to exit 'Dancing' (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Chaz Bono has gotten his walking papers on "Dancing with the Stars."

Tuesday's edition of the hit ABC show marked the last dance for Bono. Despite his cheerful, spirited style, he had struggled from the beginning and came in last in the judges' assessment the night before.

The transgender activist said he came on the program "to show America a different kind of man."

Soccer star Hope Solo, who also was in jeopardy, avoided dismissal and will stay in contention. Six celebrities remain in the contest.

Judges' scores combined with viewer votes determine who is kicked off the show each week.

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The latest episode of "Dancing With the Stars" included insults, an animal comparison and two nearly perfect performances.

A heated exchange between professional dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy and head judge Len Goodman stole the spotlight from first-place finishers Ricki Lake and J.R. Martinez.

Chmerkovskiy and his partner, soccer star Hope Solo, landed near the bottom of the judges' leaderboard Monday. With 20 points out of 30, they finished just ahead of Chaz Bono, in last place with 19 points.

One of the seven remaining celebrities will be dismissed during Tuesday's episode. Judges' scores combined with viewer votes determine who is kicked off the hit ABC show each week.

When Goodman called Solo's rumba "your worst dance of the whole season," Chmerkovskiy suggested the judge get out of the dance business.

Chmerkovskiy told one of the show's hosts that the judges seem to pick on certain contestants, and he kept up the conversation after Monday's live episode.

"The judges have their favorites," he said. "They always have."

Bono's professional partner, Lacey Schwimmer, agreed.

"They always have their favorites, and this season it's completely clear who they are. I won't name names, but we are not one of them," she said. "I'm actually proud of what Maks said. A lot of us don't get the chance to stand up for us and our partners."

Schwimmer cried backstage during Monday's episode and was still upset after the show, when she complained about the judges' "rude" remarks about Bono.

"Every week he gets referred to as an animal," she said. "They always comment on his personality, and last I checked, this was a dancing show."

After the couple danced their tango, judge Bruno Tonioli said Bono was like "a cute little penguin trying to be a big menacing bird of prey." Tonioli has also compared Bono to an Ewok.

Mom Cher tweeted her support before and after Bono's performance.

Bono said after the show that he "came on here to show people a strong proud transgender man, and I'm not going to let the judges get me down."

David Arquette, who finished in third place with his "Grease"-themed routine, said tensions are running high as the competition heats up.

"It's just a high-pressure part of the season," he said after Monday's episode. "Everybody's really passionate about it, so it's not a surprise people get fired up."

He earned 23 points for a quickstep that "had the exuberance and charge of a frisky teenager on spring break," Tonioli said.

Nancy Grace came in second with her best score yet: 24 points for a foxtrot that one judge called "a show-stopper."

Lake and Martinez tied with the top score of 29 points.

Rob Kardashian ? who had sisters Kim and Khloe and their basketball husbands among his cheering section ? finished in fourth place with 22 points for a cha-cha Tonioli described as "adequate, but it didn't have the impact and power it should at this stage."

The seven couples also danced a group routine to a medley of Broadway songs. Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth performed a medley of her own, singing a pair of show tunes.

Chenoweth is set to return on Tuesday's episode, when a sixth celebrity is ousted. Carson Kressley, Chynna Phillips, Kristin Cavallari, Elisabetta Canalis and Ron Artest/Metta World Peace have already been eliminated this season.

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Religion claims its place in Occupy Wall Street (AP)

BOSTON ? Downtown Dewey Square is crammed with tents and tarps of Occupy Boston protesters, but organizers made sure from the start of this weeks-old encampment that there was room for the holy.

No shoes are allowed in the "Sacred Space" tent here, but you can bring just about any faith or spiritual tradition.

A day's schedule finds people balancing their chakras, a "compassion meditation" and a discussion of a biblical passage in Luke. Inside, a Buddha statue sits near a picture of Jesus, while a hand-lettered sign in the corner points toward Mecca.

The tent is one way protesters here and in other cities have taken pains to include a spiritual component in their occupations. Still, Occupy Wall Street is not a religious movement, and signs of spiritually aren't evident at all protest sites.

Clergy emphasize they are participants in the aggressively leaderless movement, not people trying to co-opt it. Plus, in a movement that purports to represent the "99 percent" in society, the prominent religious groups are overwhelmingly liberal.

Religion might not fit into the movement seamlessly, but activist Dan Sieradski, who's helped organize Jewish services and events at Occupy Wall Street, said it must fit somewhere.

"We're a country full of religious people," he said. "Faith communities do need to be present and need to be welcomed in order for this to be an all-encompassing movement that embraces all sectors of society."

Religious imagery and events have been common since the protests began. In New York, clergy carried an Old Testament-style golden calf in the shape of the Wall Street bull to decry the false idol of greed. Sieradski organized a Yom Kippur service. About 70 Muslims kneeled to pray toward Mecca at a prayer service Friday.

A Chicago group, Interfaith Worker Justice, has published an interfaith prayer service guide for occupation protests nationwide.

Clergy who support the protests say they are a natural fit with many faiths, because they share traditional concerns about economic injustice. They also point to history, including the civil rights movement and abolition.

"Every movement for social change that has really made a difference has included the power of God, the power of the spirit and the power of people of conscience," said the Rev. Stephanie Sellers, one of the Episcopalian "protest chaplains" praying with protesters at different sites.

Sieradski said his Jewish faith's commitment to helping the powerless was one reason he was attracted to the movement, but he didn't intend to establish regular Jewish services. He announced his first event, a Sabbath potluck dinner, on online social networks, not knowing what to expect. The strong turnout led him to help organize the Yom Kippur service, activities during Sukkot, and what Sieradski hopes will be regular religious events.

In Boston, Marty Dagoberto said the Sacred Space was also created in an unforced way, after he suggested the idea at Occupy Boston's first general gathering. He said the space helps promote a spirit of calm and unity crucial to bringing change.

"I feel like it's really important for us to stay rooted in love, simply put," Dagoberto said.

Religious elements haven't sprouted up as visibly in other Occupy Wall Street movements nationwide, said Elizabeth Drescher, a lecturer on Christian spirituality at Santa Clara University, who has visited the occupations in Santa Cruz and St. Louis.

She said some protesters are wary because they don't recognize the authority of institutions, including religious ones, and are generally looking for clergy to be "ministering but not proselytizing." She recalled a conversation with an Occupy Santa Cruz protester while a man in a clerical collar picked up trash.

"(The protester) said, `That dude's here with us. He's not handing out pamphlets and trying to save me. He's picking up trash,'" Drescher said.

While protesters are cautious about religious leaders, those leaders have concerns, as well. The Rev. Katharine Henderson, president of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York, has visited Occupy Wall Street and praised the movement for forcing society to re-examine its values. But she said the school is still trying to discern how much to be involved.

"There's so much polarization in our country now, and demonization of one side of the other. ... As religious leaders, we want to be `repairers of the breach,'" she said, paraphrasing a passage in Isaiah. "So the question is how we can come together, Wall Street and Main Street, to come up with solutions that are going to work for all of us?"

Mark Tooley of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, an advocacy group for conservative mainline Protestants, said while Occupy Wall Street has succeeded in getting attention, it's limited because it's only attracting religious support from the left.

A call for government redistribution of wealth and reliance on street activism doesn't appeal to the swath of suburban churchgoers with conservative political and religious leanings, he said.

"It doesn't seem they put a lot of thought into expanding their support base beyond those who identify with 1960s-era protest action," he said.

The movement could still attract center-right religious support from the Roman Catholic Church, said Stephen Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America. But he said it must be clear protesters in the still-fuzzily-defined movement share mainstream Catholic concerns about consumerism and an unfettered free market.

"If it becomes just another version of American progressivism, then I can imagine the church probably wouldn't want to cozy up to it too much," Schneck said.

Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, who helped organize Friday's Muslim prayer service in New York, believes religious groups have already amplified the movement's power. He sees his involvement as a duty, because so many in his congregation are affected by the nation's economic woes.

"If Moses or Jesus or Mohammed were alive in this day and time they'd be out there guiding and inspiring and teaching these young people," he said.

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Associated Press reporter Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.

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L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. Third Quarter Earnings Sneak ...

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S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) component L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:LLL) will unveil its latest earnings on Thursday, October 27, 2011. L-3 Communications is a system contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, serving customers in commercial telecommunications and government.

L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. Earnings Preview Cheat Sheet

Wall St. Earnings Expectations: The average estimate of analysts is for profit of $2.15 per share, a rise of 3.9% from the company?s actual earnings for the same quarter a year ago. During the past three months, the average estimate has moved down from $2.16. Between one and three months ago, the average estimate moved down. It has been unchanged at $2.15 during the last month. Analysts are projecting profit to rise by 4.4% versus last year to $8.71.

Past Earnings Performance: The company has beaten estimates the last four quarters and is coming off a quarter where it topped forecasts by 4 cents, reporting net income of $2.15 per share against a mean estimate of profit of $2.11 per share.

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Wall St. Revenue Expectations: On average, analysts predict $3.85 billion in revenue this quarter, a rise of 0.3% from the year ago quarter. Analysts are forecasting total revenue of $15.49 billion for the year, a decline of 1.2% from last year?s revenue of $15.68 billion.

Analyst Ratings: Analysts seem relatively indifferent about L-3 Communications Holdings with 13 of 16 analysts surveyed maintaining a hold rating.

A Look Back: In the second quarter, profit rose 6.6% to $243 million ($2.26 a share) from $228 million ($1.95 a share) the year earlier, exceeding analyst expectations. Revenue fell 5% to $3.77 billion from $3.97 billion.

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The increase in profit in the second quarter came after net income fell in the previous quarter. In the first quarter, net income fell 7.7%.

Revenue has fallen in the past two quarters. In the first quarter, the figure fell 0.6%.

Competitors to Watch: Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC), FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR), Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB), The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA), Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE:COL), ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT), Herley Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:HRLY), Innovative Solutions & Support Inc (NASDAQ:ISSC), Implant Sciences Corp. (IMSC), and Irvine Sensors Corporation (IRSN).

Stock Price Performance: During September 23, 2011 to October 21, 2011, the stock price had risen $10.22 (17%) from $60.15 to $70.37. The stock price saw one of its best stretches over the last year between April 18, 2011 and April 28, 2011 when shares rose for eight-straight days, rising 7.3% (+$5.38) over that span. It saw one of its worst periods between July 1, 2011 and July 18, 2011 when shares fell for 11-straight days, falling 8.3% (-$7.26) over that span. Shares are up $1.11 (+1.6%) year to date.

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Steve Jobs biography now available via iBooks, Kindle

Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs, is now available from both Amazon’s Kindle Store and Apple’s own iBookstore. Isaacson, who appeared earlier today on CBS’ 60 Minutes, had unprecedented access to Jobs, his family, friends, colleagues, and rivals, and the book strives to show Jobs not only...

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Dozens dead as quake shakes eastern Turkey?

ANKARA, Turkey?? A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and sparking widespread panic as it collapsed dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete.

Tens of thousands of residents fled into the streets running, screaming and trying to reach relatives on cell phones. As the full extent of the damage became clear, desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and the injured.

"My wife and child are inside! My 4-month-old baby is inside!" CNN-Turk television showed one young man sobbing outside a collapsed building in Van, the provincial capital.

The quake hit Turkey's mountainous eastern region at 1:41 p.m. with an epicenter in the village of Tabanli, 10 miles (17 kilometers) from Van, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

State-run TRT television reported that 59 people were killed and 150 injured in the eastern town of Ercis, 25 others died in Van and a child died in the nearby province of Bitlis.

Turkish scientists estimated that up to 1,000 people could already be dead, due to low local housing standards and the size of the quake.

The hardest hit was Ercis, a city of 75,000 close to the Iranian border, which lies on the Ercis Fault in one of Turkey's most earthquake-prone zones. Van, some 55 miles (90 kilometers) to the south, also suffered substantial damage.

As many as 80 buildings collapsed in Ercis, including a dormitory, and 10 buildings collapsed in Van, the Turkish Red Crescent said. Some highways also caved in, CNN-Turk television reported.

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NTV television said hundreds of injured people were treated at the state hospital in Ercis. Survivors in Ercis complained of lack of heavy machinery to remove chunks of cement floors that pancaked onto each other, NTV television reported.

"There are so many dead. Several buildings have collapsed. There is too much destruction," Ercis mayor Zulfikar Arapoglu told NTV television. "We need urgent aid. We need medics."

In Van, terrified residents spilled into the streets screaming. Rescue workers and residents scrambled, using only their hands and basic shovels, to save those who were trapped.

Residents sobbed outside the ruins of one flattened eight-story building, hoping that missing relatives would be rescued.

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Witnesses said eight people were pulled from the rubble, but frequent aftershocks were hampering search efforts, CNN-Turk reported.

U.S. scientists recorded eight aftershocks within three hours of the quake, including two with a magnitude of 5.6.

Serious damage and casualties were also reported in the district of Celebibag, near Ercis.

"There are many people under the rubble," Veysel Keser, mayor of Celebibag, told NTV. "People are in agony, we can hear their screams for help. We need urgent help."

He said many buildings had collapsed, including student dormitories, hotels and gas stations.

Nazmi Gur, a legislator from Van, was at his nephew's funeral when the quake struck. The funeral ceremony was cut short and he rushed back to help with rescues.

"At least six buildings had collapsed. We managed to rescue a few people, but I saw at least five bodies," Gur told The Associated Press by telephone. "There is no coordinated rescue at the moment, everyone is doing what they can."

"It was such a powerful temblor. It lasted for such a long time," Gur said. "(Now) there is no electricity, there is no heating, everyone is outside in the cold."

Many residents fled Van to seek shelter with relatives in nearby villages.

"I am taking my family to our village, our house was fine but there were cracks in our office building," Sahabettin Ozer, 47, said by telephone as he drove to the village of Muradiye.

NTV said Van's airport was damaged and planes were being diverted to neighboring cities.

Authorities had no information yet on remote villages but the governor was touring the region by helicopter and the government sent in tents, field kitchens and blankets. Some in Ercis reported shortages of bread, Turkey's staple food, due to damages to bakeries.

Houses also collapsed in the province of Bitlis, where an 8-year-old girl was killed, authorities said, and the quake toppled the minarets of two mosques in the nearby province of Mus.

There was no immediate information about a recently restored 10th century Armenian church, Akdamar Church, which is perched on a rocky island in the nearby Lake Van.

Turkey lies in one of the world's most active seismic zones and is crossed by numerous fault lines. Lake Van, where Sunday's earthquake hit, is the country's most earthquake-prone region.

The Kandilli observatory, Turkey's main seismography center, said Sunday's quake was capable of killing many people.

"We are estimating a death toll between 500 and 1,000," Mustafa Erdik, head of the Kandilli observatory, told a televised news conference.

The earthquake also shook buildings in neighboring Armenia and Iran.

In the Armenian capital of Yerevan, 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Ercis, people rushed into the streets fearing buildings would collapse but no damage or injuries were immediately reported. Armenia was the site of a devastating earthquake in 1988 that killed 25,000 people.

Sunday's quake caused panic among residents in several Iranian towns close to the Turkish border, and cut phone links and caused cracks in buildings in the city of Chaldoran, Iranian state TV reported. The quake was also felt in the northeastern Iranian towns of Salmas, Maku, Khoi but no damage was immediately reported.

Israel on Sunday offered humanitarian assistance despite a rift in relations following an 2010 Israeli navy raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine Turks dead. In September, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador and suspended military ties because Israel has not apologized. Israel has sent rescue teams to Turkey for past earthquakes in times of closer ties.

Turkey sees frequent earthquakes. In 1999, two earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 7 struck northwestern Turkey, killing about 18,000 people.

More recently, a 6.0-magnitude quake in March 2010 killed 51 people in eastern Turkey, while in 2003, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake killed 177 people in the southeastern city of Bingol.

Turkey's worst earthquake in the last century came in 1939 in the eastern city of Erzincan, causing an estimated 160,000 deaths.

Istanbul, Turkey's largest city with more than 12 million people, lies in northwestern Turkey near a major fault line. Authorities say Istanbul is ill-prepared for a major earthquake and experts have warned that overcrowding and faulty construction could lead to the deaths of over 40,000 people if a major earthquake struck the city.

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