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Deals of the Hour / October 31, 2010, 1:40 pm

With Deadline Approaching, Knicks Still Working on Chandler's Deal

Wilson Chandler's agent is trying to negotiate a contract extension by Monday's deadline, but he acknowledges that circumstances — from the N.B.A.'s uncertain labor situation to the Knicks' salary-cap concerns — may prevent it. "If you look ... (Source: New York Times Blogs 2010-10-31T07:55:35Z)

Fiorina goes Boxer-bashing at Halloween-themed candy store

Standing in a Halloween-decorated Menlo Park candy store Friday amid a mad scientist display, a jar of brains and big fuzzy spiders, Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina portrayed Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer as the real goblin in this race. "No ... (Source: San Jose Mercury News 2010-10-30T01:44:32Z)

Tribune faces new challenges to restructuring plan

Tribune Co., struggling to get out of bankruptcy protection, faces a new round of challenges from creditors unhappy with the media company's latest plan to restructure its business. Three groups of creditors each submitted competing plans late Friday. The ... (Source: Journal Times 2010-10-30T21:39:58Z)

Blues, Big 12, Cardinals return to Dish Network

The Blues and Mizzou are returning to Dish Network. So are the National Geographic Channel and FX outlets, and Dish customers won't lose World Series and NFL games carried by Fox over-the-air stations, as part of a settlement announced Friday. The deal ... (Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2010-10-30T05:04:58Z)

Trail Blazers 100, Knicks 95

NEW YORK (AP) — The elaborate pregame festivities were designed to emphasize that these are the ``new'' New York Knicks. Crunch time was the same ol' story. The unbeaten Portland Trail Blazers spoiled the Knicks' home opener, erasing a nine-point deficit ... (Source: comcast.net 2010-10-31T19:51:25Z)

Fox, Dish Network OK Programming Deal

(MarketWatch) - Fox Networks agreed Friday to a new long-term deal with satellite provider Dish Network that restores FX, National Geographic Channel and 19 regional sports networks to viewers in such cities as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago after they ... (Source: myfoxny.com 2010-10-29T22:16:57Z)

Museum, water and sanitation ink formal mammoth deal

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science announced Friday that it has finalized a written agreement with the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District for the donation of mastodon and mammoth fossils on a construction site just outside of Snowmass Village ... (Source: Aspen Daily News 2010-10-30T11:02:53Z)

Halloween offers opportunity to focus on nutrition for the long term

The days of apples as favorite Halloween treats are long gone. By the end of a night of trick-or-treating, kids are weighed down with huge bags of candy. The ensuing sugar binge gives many parents a fright - but what's really scary is that some kids are ... (Source: Lexington Herald-Leader 2010-10-29T13:34:24Z)

Happy Halloween Day

Halloween, celebrated each year on October 31, is a mix of ancient Celtic practices, Catholic and Roman religious rituals and European folk traditions that blended together over time to create the holiday we know today. Straddling the line between fall and ... (Source: Zimbio 2010-10-29T07:07:51Z)

Denver Museum of Nature & Science Will Begin Excavation of Snowmass Mammoth Site on ...

DENVER, Oct 29, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Several Additional Mammoths and a Mastodon Tooth Have Been Discovered at the Site this Week The Denver Museum of Nature & Science will begin excavation of a significant Columbian mammoth fossil site near ... (Source: Investors Business Daily 2010-10-29T23:50:00Z)

Halloween offers opportunity to focus on nutrition

The days of apples as favorite Halloween treats are long gone. By the end of a night of trick-or-treating, kids are weighed down with huge bags of candy. The ensuing sugar binge gives many parents a fright -- but what`s really scary is that some kids are ... (Source: Daily Camera 2010-10-31T06:58:19Z)

Mean season: Anger colors '10 elections

WASHINGTON - No matter who wins on Tuesday, this will be remembered as the angry election. Voters are mad at Washington and at one another, hence the rise of the grassroots tea party movement and ugliness like the head stomping of a liberal activist in ... (Source: Knoxville News Sentinel 2010-10-31T18:46:59Z)

Spike certain Carmelo will join Knicks

Knicks season-ticket holder Spike Lee, from his seat on celebrity row last night, acknowledged his friendship with fellow Brooklynite Carmelo Anthony and delivered his wish for the coming year. "I have just one sentence for you," Lee told The Post before ... (Source: New York Post 2010-10-31T19:44:15Z)

New Deal Ends Channel Blackout on Dish Network

Dish Network and News Corporation's Fox Networks unit announced a new distribution agreement on Friday, restoring Fox's regional sports networks in Dish households after a four-week blackout. The regional sports networks, along with FX and the National ... (Source: New York Times Blogs 2010-10-29T21:34:00Z)

Halloween events

Halloween at Cityscapes, 3 to 4 p.m., North Dakota State University Bookstore at Cityscapes, 630 1st Ave. N., Fargo. Children's story hour: read "Scaredy-Cat, Splat" and make a scarecrow art project to take home. Free. (701) 231-5739. Harvest Moon ... (Source: INFORUM 2010-10-27T05:01:22Z)

Tribune Co. faces new challenges to restructuring plan

NEW YORK — Tribune Co., struggling to get out of bankruptcy protection, faces a new round of challenges from creditors unhappy with the media company's latest plan to restructure its business. Three groups of creditors each submitted competing plans late ... (Source: Chicago Sun-Times 2010-10-31T08:52:51Z)

CA-AD-70: Melissa Fox is the real deal (so help her out)

Melissa Fox, candidate for 70th A.D. in Orange County, just e-mailed me, other leaders of Jerry Brown's campaign here, and a few others about the day's crisis. A big rally scheduled for tomorrow at UCI with Gavin Newsom, which neither we nor her campaign ... (Source: DAILY KOS 2010-10-31T19:01:18Z)

Snowmass fossils may come from ancient lake

SNOWMASS VILLAGE — The Denver Museum of Nature and Science will next week begin excavation of a fossil site near Snowmass Village where the remains of several prehistoric animals have been discovered, after finalizing the details of an agreement with the ... (Source: Aspen Times 2010-10-31T06:58:19Z)

Jennifer Garner not ready for Halloween

Los Angeles, Oct 18 (PTI) Hollywood beauty Jennifer Garner is having a tough time getting her daughters to pick a Halloween costume. The ''Alias'' actress has daughters Violet, 4 and Seraphina, 21 months with husband Ben Affleck and they keeping changing ... (Source: MSN India 2010-10-18T04:00:28Z)

Fiorina: Feinstein and I are like-minded

MENLO PARK — Republican Carly Fiorina said Friday she would be a like-minded colleague of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein if she unseats Sen. Barbara Boxer next week, drawing sharp responses from both Democratic senators as they appeared together at a ... (Source: San Mateo Daily Journal 2010-10-30T10:55:43Z)

Bulgarian 'Goblins' Anticipate Halloween Night

A masked man walks in the downtown Sofia park known as the "Doctors' Garden" where a Halloween fest is held Sunday. Photo by BGNES Bulgarians are preparing to celebrate Sunday evening All Saints Day or Halloween, a holiday even though not traditional ... (Source: Sofia News Agency 2010-10-31T11:08:51Z)

Candidates making final push before election

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- There are just three days left in campaign 2010 and the polls are close in the battles for U.S. Senate and California Governor. The pace will be hectic on this final weekend of the campaign. Surveys indicate 12 percent of voters are ... (Source: KABC 2010-10-30T07:42:27Z)

Woman pleads guilty in wreck

WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) — A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in a 2008 crash in Richland County that killed a man. Prosecutor Ron McBeth told the Fargo Forum that the deal 39-year-old Melanie Flegel, of Dilworth, Minn., agreed to ... (Source: Jamestown Sun 2010-10-29T12:37:08Z)

Tribune Co. creditors sue banks behind 2007 buyout

A group of Tribune Co. creditors filed a lawsuit Friday alleging the media company's nearly two-year stint in bankruptcy protection might have been averted if not for the greed of big banks who saddled the business with more debt than it could afford to ... (Source: AP - msnbc.com 2010-10-30T04:07:42Z)

Minn. woman pleads guilty in fatal ND crash

WAHPETON, N.D. -- A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in a 2008 crash in Richland County that killed a man. Prosecutor Ron McBeth told the Fargo Forum that the deal 39-year-old Melanie Flegel, of Dilworth, Minn., agreed to calls for ... (Source: msnbc.com 2010-10-29T03:47:25Z)

What Is Halloween?

What Is Halloween?, Halloween is celebrated by different trick or treats for kids and Halloween costume parties for adults but what are we celebrating for? What is Halloween? Where did it originate? According to Historian Nicholas Rogers, the history of ... (Source: Gather.com 2010-10-30T12:21:37Z)

Jennifer Garner starts thinking Halloween

Jennifer Garner says getting her daughters to settle on what costumes they want to wear for Halloween is a tricky business. Variety's 2nd Annual Power of Women Luncheon, Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, California. - Russ Einhorn / Splash News 'It seems ... (Source: Monsters and Critics 2010-10-19T04:49:23Z)

Cyber Saturday: Halloween offers opportunity to focus on nutrition for the long term

The days of apples as favorite Halloween treats are long gone. By the end of a night of trick-or-treating, kids are weighed down with huge bags of candy. The ensuing sugar binge gives many parents a fright — but what's really scary is that some kids ... (Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette 2010-10-30T08:11:05Z)

Editorial: Money can't buy thin black line on the ballot

From Cypress Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue, the talk in politics this year was all about money. In the Redding City Council race, the incumbents pointed to an unusual (by local standards) surge of public-employee union dollars backing the slate of Ken ... (Source: Record Searchlight 2010-10-31T19:08:28Z)

Jennifer Garner Gets Ready For Halloween With Her Girls

What would be the best 'trick or treat' for Jennifer Garner on Halloween night? Help her youngest daughter, Seraphina, 21 months, choose a Halloween costume. "It seems like every time we ash her, it's a different farm animal," Garner said when taking to ... (Source: The Celebrity Cafe.com 2010-10-15T23:59:27Z)

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