Many cities leaving Wall Street protesters alone (AP)

NEW YORK ? While more U.S. cities are resorting to force to break up the Wall Street protests, many others ? Philadelphia, New York, Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., among them ? are content to let the demonstrations go on for now.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, for example, said Friday that the several hundred protesters sleeping in Zuccotti Park, the unofficial headquarters of the movement that began in mid-September, can stay as long as they obey the law.

"I can't talk about other cities," he said. "Our responsibilities are protect your rights and your safety. And I think we're trying to do that. We're trying to act responsibly and safely."

Still, the city made life a lot harder for the demonstrators: Fire inspectors seized a dozen cans of gasoline and six generators that powered lights, cooking equipment and laptops, saying they were safety hazards.

In the span of three days this week, police broke up protest encampments in Oakland, Calif., Atlanta and, early Friday, San Diego and Nashville, Tenn.

State troopers in Nashville cracked down after authorities imposed a curfew on the protest. Twenty-nine people were arrested and later released after a judge said the demonstrators were not given enough time to comply with the brand-new rule. They received citations for trespassing instead.

Fifty-one people were arrested in San Diego, where authorities descended on a three-week-old encampment at the Civic Center Plaza and Children's Park and removed tents, canopies, tables and other furniture.

Officials there cited numerous complaints about human and animal feces, urination, drug use and littering, as well as damage to city property ? problems reported in many other cities as well. Police said the San Diego demonstrators can return without their tents and other belongings after the park is cleaned up.

Earlier this week, in the most serious clashes of the movement so far, more than 100 people were arrested and a 24-year-old Iraq War veteran suffered a skull fracture after Oakland police armed with tear gas and bean bag rounds broke up a 15-day encampment and repulsed an effort by demonstrators to retake the site.

But other cities have rejected aggressive tactics, at least so far, some of them because they want to avoid the violence seen in Oakland or, as some have speculated, because they are expecting the protests to wither anyway with the onset of cold weather.

Officials are watching the encampments for health and safety problems but say that protesters exercising their rights to free speech and assembly will be allowed to stay as long as they are peaceful and law-abiding.

"We're accommodating a free speech event as part of normal business and we're going to continue to enforce city rules," said Aaron Pickus, a spokesman for the mayor of Seattle, where about 40 protesters are camping at City Hall. "They have the right to peacefully assemble. Ultimately what the mayor is doing is strike a balance."

Authorities have similarly taken a largely hands-off approach in Portland, Ore., where about 300 demonstrators are occupying two parks downtown; Memphis, Tenn., where the number of protesters near City Hall has ranged from about a dozen to about 100; and in Salt Lake City, where activists actually held a vigil outside police headquarters this week to thank the department for not using force against them.

In the nation's capital, U.S. Park Police distributed fliers this week at an encampment of more than 100 tents near the White House. And while the fliers listed the park service regulations that protesters were violating, including a ban on camping, a park police spokesman said the notices should not be considered warnings.

In Providence, R.I., Public Safety Commissioner Steven Pare said the protesters will not be forcibly removed even after the Sunday afternoon deadline he set for them. He said he intends to seek their ouster by way of court action, something that could take several weeks.

"When you see police having to quell disturbances with tear gas or other means, it's not what the police want and it's not what we want to see in our society," Pare said.

Similarly, in London, church and local government authorities are going to court to evict protesters camped outside St. Paul's Cathedral ? though officials acknowledged Friday it could take weeks or months to get an order to remove the tent city.

Several hundred protesters against economic inequality and corporate excesses have been camped outside the building since Oct. 15. On Oct. 21 cathedral officials shut the church, saying the campsite represented a health and safety hazard.

It was the first time the 300-year-old church, one of London's best-known buildings, had closed since German planes bombed the city during World War II.

In Minneapolis, where dozens have been sleeping overnight on a government plaza between a county building and City Hall, the three-week-old occupation has been far tamer than those in other cities, with only a few arrests.

Sheriff Rich Stanek has made it a practice to meet with protesters daily to talk about their issues and the day ahead, and he has refused to engage what he called "the 1 percent" who want to cause trouble.

"We decided that's not the tactic we want to take. Doing that sometimes requires biting your tongue," he said. He added: "Some people have said that's `Minnesota nice.' It's a balance."

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Niedowski reported from Providence, R.I.

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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Doug Glass in Minneapolis; Lucas L. Johnson II in Nashville, Tenn.; Samantha Gross in New York; Terry Collins in Oakland, Calif.; Jonathan J. Cooper in Portland, Ore.; Josh Loftin in Salt Lake City; Julie Watson in San Diego; Chris Grygiel in Seattle; Ben Nuckols in Washington; and Laura Crimaldi in Providence, R.I.

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Every day is 'Day of the Dead' in Mexico drug war (AP)

MEXICO CITY ? Nearly two decades after I had left Mexico, I arrived back on Day of the Dead, a colorfully macabre celebration harkening back to the Aztecs but observed on the Catholic All Saints' Day.

El Dia de Los Muertos is when families take picnics to the cemeteries and decorate the graves of departed relatives with marigolds, candles and sugar skulls. The Nov. 2 holiday has always been one of my favorites, I told a friend who met me at the Mexico City airport last year.

"Every day is Day of the Dead now," he said flatly. "We have 40,000 days of the dead."

He was referring to the number of people who have died in drug violence since President Felipe Calderon took office and launched an offensive against trafficking cartels. Navigating through a more modern and prosperous capital than the one I had left in 1993, he spoke of a country that had made many advances, but that also had become a miasma of savagery.

More families were visiting more graves.

The Mexico I left was still governed by the aptly named Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which held onto power for nearly 70 years through a mix of pork barrel politics and vote rigging. Political rhetoric tended toward anti-American. The North American Free Trade Agreement had not been signed yet, so foreign-owned businesses were scarce and imports expensive. With the Internet still in its infancy, most Mexicans got their news from government-subsidized media that focused on presidential activities and public works.

There were cartels back then, moving South American cocaine and Mexican marijuana north to feed a voracious U.S. appetite for illegal drugs. And, to be sure, there was violence in the 1990s. The archbishop of Guadalajara was assassinated by drug lords in what was deemed to be "a mistake," and the head of PRI, Luis Donaldo Colossio, was murdered, a case never quite clarified. Armed Zapatista guerrillas sprang out of the jungles of Chiapas to demand that poor and indigenous Mexicans receive their fair share of Mexico's wealth.

Yet Mexico was not thought to be particularly violent then. There was no running tally of the dead.

Today, I find the country greatly changed, if sometimes seeming to come full circle. Fair elections brought Calderon's National Action Party to power a decade ago, but now Mexicans appear ready to return the PRI to office. Polls give a stunning double-digit lead to the PRI's presumed candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, the former governor of the state of Mexico who has yet to define his presidential agenda, particularly regarding drug violence.

Like the Aztecs and Spaniards, modern Mexicans have built on the ruins of past generations. Old low-rises along the capital's Paseo de la Reforma have been leveled. The Mexican Stock Exchange, which once stood out of the boulevard like a lone saguaro cactus in the desert, now sits in the shadow of international banks-hotels-office towers. Starbucks cafes on nearly every other block serve as billboards for the globalization of Mexico, while the Mexicanization of Starbucks is evident in the barristas' offer of sugar-coated Pan de Muerto ? Bread for the Dead.

Mexican politicians can be openly pro-American at times, and Mexico is truly multinational now, with everything from Costco megastores to Ferrari dealerships. Speckled enamel dishware traditionally used by the poor no longer comes from local factories but from China. Mexico, meanwhile, exports far more manufactured goods than oil, which is the reverse of 20 years ago and a sign of a more developed economy.

Free trade in foodstuffs has driven more farmers off the land and into the cities, where there is a noticeably larger middle class, but also more of the so-called "ninis," or "neither nors." They are the youth who neither study nor find legitimate jobs, and may seek work or be pressed into service by drug cartels.

Newspapers have grown more professional and independent of government advertising. The pro-government (no matter who's in power) Televisa television network still dominates the countryside, but in big cities, bolder, more critical coverage is available on cable. TV still dishes up voluptuous "weather girls" dressed as if they had stopped by the station on the way home from an after-hours party. Then announcers in dark suits rattle off the daily death toll from the provinces as if delivering a national weather report. One newspaper even has a name for the tally: the ejecutometro ? the execution meter.

The violence often seems far away from bustling Mexico City. It is said that cartel honchos like to shop and launder their money here and don't want undue pressure from the government, so they take their differences outside. Friends in other countries ask if it's safe in the capital, and like many politicians and most people here I say that I feel safe because the slayings usually happen elsewhere. We go out for dinner, go to the movies and to the theater. On Sunday, Paseo de la Reforma is closed to car traffic and resplendent with bicyclists ? ever more so in spring when the jacarandas are in bloom.

And yet, the drug violence is present, seeping into art and film, and even the nightly soap opera. Always inventive with vocabulary, Mexicans speak of narco pets (peacocks) and narco polo T-shirts (knock-off Ralph Lauren). The violence makes a ghostly appearance at family gatherings and holiday parties, where a dinner companion's three missing fingers recall his kidnapping ? and the three messages sent to family with ransom demands. At a Christmas cocktail party, the owner of a chain of cinemas tells stories of extortion and of the hit man who followed his prey into a Ciudad Juarez theater, but waited for the end of the movie to make the kill.

The Mexico that I enjoyed so freely before has shrunk by as much as half if measured in territory no longer considered safe: The states of Durango and Tamaulipas, off limits, as is most of Michoacan. The cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara, the resort of Acapulco, and most recently, the port of Veracruz, bad and getting worse. Bodies are hung from bridges or dumped by truckloads in the street. Many victims are beheaded, and heads are put on display like Aztec trophies ? or Day of the Dead candies.

Mexicans try to adapt. The highways in Zacatecas are rife with assaults and kidnappings, reports a front-page story in the newspaper Reforma. Take another route. Instead of planning a wedding in Acapulco, the well-to-do bring the wedding planner to Mexico City. Instead of voting for the party in power, it is suggested Mexicans will vote for the other guys out of nostalgia ? or hope ? for a less violent era.

Mexico has become a country of mass murders. The atrocities occur one at a time or in waves, and after an explosion of outrage and condemnation, not much happens. There is rarely clarity or a conviction. The murders are reduced to recognizable phrases: the 72 migrants killed in Tamaulipas, or the 183 bodies dug from mass graves there. The 52 dead in a Monterrey casino torching, the 35 bodies dumped in Boca del Rio, Veracruz, or the clandestine graves in Durango, whose toll ultimately eclipsed those in Tamaulipas: 224.

The government usually plays down the killings as violence between cartels, but the toll of innocents is growing and many Mexicans are asking whether there is a government connection in some cases.

Twelve months have passed since my return and the marigolds are in bloom again. Sugar skulls and Pan de Muerto are on sale. As in years past, I buy cheerful paper cutouts of skeletons to hang for the holiday. But this year, like my friend who picked me up at the airport, I think of the recent dead and fresh graves: 10,000 more this year, according to newspaper counts.

And while Day of the Dead feels eerily familiar, it doesn't feel quite as festive.

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Marjorie Miller is The Associated Press' regional editor for Latin America.

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Western New England wins first football title with 40-37 victory over Endicott

By MIKE JOHNSON

SPRINGFIELD ? Western New England University won its first New England Football Conference regular-season crown Saturday afternoon with a wild 40-37 victory over visiting Endicott College.

Mike Graham was the player of the day, returning two kickoff returns for touchdowns and nearly breaking free for a third with 8:06 remaining in the game.

The conditions were frigid, with gargantuan snowflakes falling for the better part of three quarters. But that didn?t faze the WNE crowd as it brought the noise all afternoon long.

Bryce Brown, per usual, was a double threat. The Golden Bears senior quarterback completed nine of 17 passes for 144 yards and two touchdowns, and also got it done on the ground, rushing 16 times for 45 yards to balance the attack.

The Endicott offense came as advertised, outgaining the Golden Bears 505 yards to 255. Phil Konopka could not be contained as he went 38 for 53 for 407 yards and three touchdowns.

Mike Murphy led the Gulls with six grabs for 131 yards. Not far behind was Mike Fimiani with 12 catches for 110 yards and a touchdown.

Endicott got it done on the ground as well; senior running back Mike Lane carried the ball 29 times for 128 yards and a touchdown.

Western New England defensive end James Georges came up big in the win with 10 tackles and three sacks. Endicott senior and co-captain Kevin Eagan had 11 tackles and one sack.

Special teams made the difference in this one as Graham demoralized the Gulls with return after return. The senior from Norwalk, Conn., thwarted an Endicott comeback to end both the second and third quarters, capturing the momentum for the Golden Bears.

After each of WNE?s touchdowns, snowballs rocketed into the air.

Endicott trailed 33-23 entering the fourth quarter, but made quick work of getting back on the board with a three-play, 46-yard drive, capped by a Ryan Carino 20-yard touchdown reception.

Once again, WNE refused to have its party spoiled, scoring on the next play from scrimmage as Brown found Andrew Walz wide open in the middle of the field for a 39-yard score. Walz finished the day as the Golden Bears? top receiver, notching three receptions for 82 yards.

Endicott scored another touchdown, Carino?s second of the afternoon, this time from 19 yards out. But neither team notched a score for the remaining 8:16 of the game.

Western New England successfully ran down the clock and secured its first ever regular season conference championship. The Golden Bears will look to carry that momentum into the NEFC playoffs and win their first championship game in school history as well.

Source: http://www.masslive.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/10/western_new_england_wins_first.html

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Mattias Wallander: America Recycles Day: Get Involved

America Recycles Day, founded in 1997, is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to the promotion of recycling in the United States. It serves as a great reminder to all Americans that we are responsible for doing our part for the planet. America is appropriately considered a nation of consumers and every year we use an astonishing amount of resources. Our consumption is significantly disproportionate to our population. It would take more than five Earths to be able to sustain the world population if everyone consumed resources at the same rate as the United States, according to the New Economics Foundation (NEF), an independent research body.

Moreover, according to the Clean Air Council, every year Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks, and spoons to circle the equator 300 times. We use over a billion plastic bags, less than one percent of which are recycled. And according to the EPA, 12.7 million tons of textile waste is generated each year. Only 15% of this is collected for reuse and recycling, the remainder going into landfills.

America Recycles Day is a time to think about how we can recycle and reuse materials of all kinds. I'm thrilled to see young people across the country taking initiative to raise awareness about environmental causes of all kinds, especially recycling. Recently the Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership (STEP) at Yale University held "Greenfest," on the Yale campus, which educated hundreds of students and alumni about various recycling methods through a series of interactive activities.

11-year-old Eco-Erek, whom I've written about in this column before, collects denim and shoes through drives that he holds across the state of Ohio. This year he collected 2,916 pairs of shoes in an effort to raise money for Project Kaisei, a non-profit raising awareness about ocean debris. He has also collected over 3,800 pieces of denim this year which he will donate to Cotton. From Blue To Green.? where they are manufactured into housing insulation that is used in communities that have been struck by natural disasters. This month Eco-Erek will receive the Environmental Achievement Award from the Ohio Environmental Council.

And now, even some major corporations are showing the willingness to participate at a deeper level than mere window dressings that's common (though not completely unimportant). The apparel company Patagonia launched the Common Threads Initiative recently, focusing on reducing, reusing and recycling clothing and footwear. This is a brave step -- and the right one -- for a company that makes its living off selling new clothes. I assume that just like us, they have realized that environmental issues can be used to boost the bottom-line and the "green-line." I urge you to read more about Patagonia's Common Threads Initiative and join me in applauding their sincere and unprecedented approach to do good for the environment.

There are many ways to celebrate and get involved on America Recycles Day. At USAgain we've chosen to engage with kids through a video contest, which invites K-12 schools to submit short videos (2 minutes or less in length) highlighting how their school is making a difference by 'going green.' We'll award cash prizes to winners and promote the best videos through our online and social media platforms.

America Recycles Day is a day to educate and motivate. It's a day to get neighbors, friends and community leaders excited about what can be accomplished when we all work together to raise awareness and make a difference. I encourage everyone, at any age, to get involved with the America Recycles Day through their website. You can find out how they can help you promote your own event. You can also sign their recycling pledge to learn about recycling options in your community and reduce your own personal waste by recycling one new type of material within the month.

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HP to announce ARM-based servers next month, throw Intel a curveball

Sources close to Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal say that HP is primed to help ARM wrestle its way into the server game next month, citing unannounced plans that may challenge Intel's corner on the market. HP is said to be working with Calxeda, an outfit with dreams of outclassing today's servers by selling OEMs an ARM-based system on a chip that can be used to build high performance racks with low energy footprints. ARM, HP and Calxeda all declined to comment, although a spokesperson for Calxeda mentioned that it has a product release event scheduled for November 1st. Intel doesn't seem too concerned, and told the Wall Street Journal that ARM architecture still had a few hurdles to jump before it was ready for the server game. "We believe the best-performing platform will win." Spoken like a true sportsman, Intel. Game on.

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The plight of the honeybee - a documentary on the devastation of colony collapse disorder

Over the next few weeks I?ve invited my colleague David Manly to write some reviews of films he?s screened as part of the ?Planet in Focus? film festival in Toronto, Ontario. ?Planet in Focus is Canada?s largest environmentally-themed film festival, and the exceptionally successful event is currently in its twelfth season. ?This week David tells of his experience in screening The Ailing Queen (La Reine malade) by director Pascal Sanchez.

Honeybees are one of the most important agricultural resources human beings have at their disposal, but many are ignorant of just how vital they are.

By flying from flower to flower to gather nectar, the humble bee ends up spreading pollen and fertilizing plants. This process allows the plants to mature and bear the delicious fruit that humans love to eat. But, the buzz that once used to be so deadening, is now dying.

Over the past number of years, massive amounts of bees have been dying from parasites, viruses and a whole host of other ailments. But, the most impactful has been from an unexplained syndrome known only as colony collapse disorder (or CCD), where the bees simply disappear from their hives and never return.

So how does this impact apiculture (also known as beekeeping)?

This documentary primarily focuses on internationally regarded beekeeper Anicet Derocher, who is well known and respected for his efforts in crafting natural pest control methods to protect his bees and livelihood, located in the Hautes-Laurentides region of Quebec in Canada.

The documentary spends a lot of time at the Derocher farm, a family company with relatives and in-laws helping out in various ways to keep the business aloft. While the farm makes the standard fare of honey and mead (honeyed wine), it also does something a little different.

Derocher rears and sells queen bees to other beekeepers in order to help them revive and restore their own colonies that have suffered potentially deadly losses.

Breaking down the buzz

The film begins in the early summer, with Derocher discussing about how the beekeeping industry is in trouble from the combination of climate change, CCD, parasites and diseases. Every beekeeper is incurring some loss says Derocher, with some approaching a staggering loss of up to 60 per cent of their hives, compared to only 10 ? 15 per cent in the early 2000?s.

Therefore, one of the possible solutions is to repopulate the hive with a new queen, hoping that she will slowly lay more eggs and potentially save the colony and their businesses. All of the beekeepers interviewed in this film, of which there are many, spend a lot of time discussing the different theories of CCD. They range from the development of neurotoxic pesticides that stay in the plants and harm the bees, to the varroa mite that suck the blood of honeybees, making them more susceptible to infection.

However, CCD may not be caused by one disease/pesticide, but by a conglomeration of different effects that are all connected and decimating the bee population.

One of the most striking moments in the entire film is when we are told that bees are responsible for over 65 per cent of all crop pollination on Earth, and that loosing them will cause a significant decrease in the amount of seed-bearing crops (apples, blueberries, watermelons, almonds, etc?) that would be available. However, Derocher and others have a plan to help the honeybees. As part of his environmentally friendly and natural mantra, has been working with beekeepers across the glove to breed a bee that is naturally resistant to disease and parasites.

But will it work or is it already too late?

The documentary ends with Derocher noting an overall hive loss of 25 per cent as winter approaches, which is not as harsh as some other beekeepers have experienced, but still a substantial decrease.

In the 90-minute French film with English subtitles, there are a few issues. Namely, there is no defining structure to the film. The overall narrative focuses on Derocher from early summer until late September, showcasing his battle with CCD and decreasing honey production. However, other beekeepers are showcased for only long enough to demonstrate their issues before moving on. I would have liked to have caught up with them in the early spring, as was done with Derocher, to see how their hives weathered the storm.

As well, it would have been interesting to contrast a family operation like Derocher, with a large-scale industrial business, to see how both are dealing with the decreasing bee populations.

All in all, the documentary successfully introduces the dangers facing the honeybee, and why we should all be worries about what happens to such a small, but vital, part of the ecosystem.

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ZipList?s Grocery List & Recipe Search App Gets Overhauled

Foodies rejoice! ZipList, makers of online and mobile shopping lists and a recipe search service, is out now with a completely revamped iPhone application. The updated app syncs with ZipList.com and its 40 parter sites, including MarthaStewart.com, Women's Day, $5 Dinners and more, to keep your mobile shopping list up-to-date with your latest recipe finds from across the Web.

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Occupy Wall Street arrests increase. Have mayors reached their tipping point?

Encampment sweeps and arrests are increasing as mayors from Oakland to Atlanta reach a turning point in their negotiations with the Occupy Wall Street movement.

A few days after seeming to accept the idea of Occupy Oakland protesters camping outside Oakland City Hall by saying "democracy is messy," Mayor Jean Quan ordered riot police Tuesday to move in and scatter two city protest camps in the pre-dawn hours.

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In Atlanta, after originally giving protesters until Nov. 7 to clear out from a downtown park, Mayor Kasim Reed threatened to revoke that order on Monday. He said the relationship between the city and protesters had changed and campers are "on a clear path to escalation."

While the original Occupy Wall Street protesters have won standoffs with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, other city mayors are quickly losing patience with the protest movement, which drew inspiration from Middle East revolutions and anti-austerity protests in Europe as it spread to dozens of US cities in recent weeks.

The rising tensions are testing how far protesters are willing to go to draw attention to their cause ? and how long local authorities are willing to let their parks and squares remain occupied.

"The Occupy strategy of [encampments] has been essential to its success in changing the national conversation about economic inequality, but it's a very difficult strategy to maintain over a long period of time," says T.V. Reed, an American studies professor and expert on social movements at Washington State University, in Pullman. "If the protests are seen as becoming routine, then they lose their ability to gain the attention of people."

And Reed continues, gaining the attention of people, many times means clashes with authorities.

For the most part Occupy gatherings have remained peaceful and protesters cite free speech rights as they vow to hold steadfast in their camps. But mayors like Mr. Reed in Atlanta say protesters are breaking city rules that would lead to arrests of other citizens, including a no-camping rule in city parks.

Showing his frustration this weekend, Reed personally addressed one of the de-facto leaders of the movement during a meeting in a police trailer after protesters in Atlanta's Woodruff Park held an unlicensed hip-hop concert.

?I believe they placed lives at risk this weekend,? said Reed, who has already pushed the eviction date back twice after meeting with protesters. ?The nature of the relationship has changed.?

Framing the confrontation as police overreach, protesters charged Reed with "malfeasance." One protest supporter, former City Councilor Derrick Boazman, in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, called Atlanta police chief George Turner, who is black, a "Bull Connor" character in reference to the ignominious Birmingham police commissioner who cracked down on civil rights protesters.

?I?m just really appalled to see this massive police presence, so we?re calling on the people of Atlanta to recall Mayor Reed for malfeasance in office because he is abusing the taxpayers? money by having this massive show of force when it?s not needed,? Joe Beasley, the southern coordinator for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition said Tuesday.

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James Murdoch to testify again to UK committee (AP)

LONDON ? British lawmakers said Monday they will grill Rupert Murdoch's son James about newspaper phone hacking for a second time next month, as Murdoch's former right-hand man denied that he knew about the scale of the wrongdoing when he paid 250,000 pounds ($400,000) to a reporter convicted of illegal eavesdropping.

The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee said James Murdoch, his father's heir-apparent, will give evidence on Nov. 10.

Rupert Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old British tabloid News of the World in July after it was accused of illegally hacking into the voice mails of celebrities, politicians and crime victims in search of scoops.

Both Murdochs denied knowing about the scale of the hacking when they appeared before the panel of lawmakers the same month, and a slew of executives from Murdoch's News Corp. media empire has kept to the same line.

Les Hinton, former publisher of the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, told the Commons committee Monday that he had had no idea hacking was rife when he personally approved a quarter of a million pound payment to Clive Goodman, the News of the World reporter jailed in 2007 for eavesdropping on the mobile phone voice mails of royal aides.

Hinton, who was then executive chairman of Murdoch's British newspaper division, acknowledged he had seen a letter from Goodman to the company's human resources department in which the reporter alleged phone hacking was widespread at the paper and common knowledge among editors.

Hinton said he had launched a "pretty thorough" internal investigation into Goodman's claim, but said "there was no basis found for it."

He said he fired Goodman for gross misconduct, but decided to pay him the substantial sum, almost three times the reporter's annual salary, to end an unfair dismissal claim by Goodman.

"I decided at the time that the right thing to do was to settle this and put it behind us," Hinton said, giving evidence by video link from the United States.

Hinton worked for Murdoch for 52 years until the scandal, which has convulsed Britain's media landscape. In July he resigned as publisher of the Journal and CEO of Dow Jones & Co.

Hinton said Monday that he had resigned because "although unaware, I was in charge of this company at the time of the core wrongdoing."

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Wall St. down on Europe fears, corporate outlook (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Stocks fell on Tuesday after discouraging corporate outlooks cast a pall over the economy's outlook, while fresh doubts arose about European efforts to find a solution to the debt crisis.

A meeting by euro zone finance ministers on Wednesday was canceled, but European Union and euro zone leaders still planned to hold a summit on the issue on Wednesday as scheduled.

The euro zone's sovereign debt crisis has pressured equities as investors fear its broader threat to the global economy. The S&P has fallen more than 9 percent since a 2011 closing high reached on April 29.

"Everyone thought that with the meeting and summit we had the European situation more or less wrapped up, but the news of the cancellation creates a lot of negatives with respect to a near-term resolution," said Steven Neimeth, a money manager at SunAmerica Asset Management in Jersey City, New Jersey, which manages $9 billion.

The market's decline followed three straight days of gains by the S&P 500. The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) was down 104.11 points, or 0.87 percent, at 11,809.51. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) was down 13.57 points, or 1.08 percent, at 1,240.62. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) was down 32.89 points, or 1.22 percent, at 2,666.55.

Adding to the pessimistic tone, 3M Co (MMM.N) reported quarterly profits that missed expectations and cut its 2011 forecast. The Dow component said the crisis in Europe was weakening consumer demand and taking a toll on profit, sending shares down 5.9 percent to $77.35. Engine manufacturer Cummins Inc (CMI.N) fell more than 5 percent after cutting its outlook.

United Parcel Service (UPS.N) fell 2 percent to $69.37 after the company's chief executive said he sees the slow-growing economy continuing.

"A majority of companies have been beating earnings and increasing guidance, but when you see bellwether names like these reporting much weaker outlooks than expected, that could cause investors to pause for a while," Neimeth said.

Netflix (NFLX.O) plunging 35 percent a day after the movie rental company said it lost more customers than it anticipated in the third quarter and warned of still more departures. The stock sank to $77.43.

On the upside, Xerox Corp (XRX.N) rose 1.4 percent to $8.11 after its earnings topped expectations.

Data showed U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly dropped in October to its lowest level in 2 1/2 years.

(Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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Jon Chattman: A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Eve to Adam, Anna Rose, and Grace Weber Go It Acoustic

Ever since Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora played "Wanted Dead or Alive" with nothing but their guitars (and mullets), fans and the music industry alike have had a fascination with stripped-down performances. The duo's intimate performance on MTV in the early 1990s paved the way for that channel's popular Unplugged series, VH1's Storytellers, and countless other shows that have featured artists playing their songs without plugging into an outlet. This week "A-Sides" channels the iconic MTV series -- sans the candles and cardigans -- with three very different artists sharing three very different songs acoustically.

Eve to Adam are usually accustomed to audiences rapidly bopping their heads up and down to their guitar-based hard rock music. Not on "A-Sides." The NYC-based group, which features Taki Sassaris (lead vocals/guitar), Alex Sassaris (drums/backing vocals), Gaurav Bali (guitar/backing vocals) and Eric Bergmann (bass), made a pit stop in White Plains, NY (the Music Conservatory of Westchester to be exact) to perform their high octane track "Run Your Mouth" minus the high "octaniness". The band are about to tour with a big name to be named late -- all in support of their new album Banquet for a Starving Dog. Thus far, they've opened up for everyone from POD to Saliva. Watch "Run Your Mouth" below followed by an informal chat.

Anna Rose is the antithesis of Eve to Adam. This singer/songwriter dropped her debut album Nomad over a year ago, and it's safe to say no one banged their head listening to the record. An inspired collection of songs she wrote on her journey into the music business and her life experiences, the album was more poignant than it was hard rocking. That's about to change. Rose said her next album, which will be released in early 2012, will be closer to alt rock than the "singer/songwritery" vibe of Nomad. We're getting a sneak preview of what's to come now.

Earlier this month, the musician released a video for her sultry cover of Arcade Fire's "My Body is a Cage" on NME. Her interpretation of the song has gone viral, earning critical acclaim, and more importantly, has received a thumbs-up from that Canadian wonder band.

Rose performed the cover with her guitarist Adam Stoler at a Conservatory studio earlier this week, and discussed her career path afterwards.

Reality Bites is a pretty underrated movie. Sure, Winona Ryder's a bit whiny in it, but I really dug the script, the performances, and above all else, the soundtrack. One famous scene in that Ben Stiller-directed Generation X flick is the characters dancing to "My Sharona" at a gas station mart. Well, last week, I came as close as I ever will to reenacting that scene. In a New York City deli, singer/songwriter Grace Weber and her guitarist joined me for an impromptu "A-Sides." Following a performance of "Hitchhiker" off her buzzworthy debut album Hope & Heart, Weber chatted about the basis for the song, her music, and more while frat guys behind us made their beer selection.

Before you watch the video, know this about Weber: she's a Milwaukee native currently residing in Brooklyn, and has already performed on "Showtime at the Apollo," played the Kennedy Center, and appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Her jazzy pop styling has also caught the eye of Billboard Magazine who dubbed her an "artist to watch." Speaking of which... watch her now.

About "A-Sides with Jon Chattman"
Jon Chattman's music series features artists (established or not) from all genres performing a track, and discussing what it means to them. This informal series focuses on the artist making art in a low-threatening, extremely informal (sometime humorous) way. No bells, no whistles -- just the music performed in a random, low-key setting followed by an unrehearsed chat. In an industry where everything often gets overblown and over manufactured, I'm hoping this is refreshing.

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Obama heads west to talk jobs

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is heading west Monday morning to pitch his American Jobs Act in Las Vegas and speak at campaign events there and in California.

While in Las Vegas, he will speak at a campaign event and will then meet with homeowners at a private residence to talk about his jobs proposal now before Congress.

Then, the president will travel to Los Angeles, where he will talk at two campaign events at private homes.

He will spend the night in Los Angeles.

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Flick Soccer for Android now available in the Android Market

Full Fat Games is back after having launched the popular Flick Golf. They've taken up a different sport this time around -- Soccer. Flick Soccer has been released for Android and is now available worldwide on the Android Market bringing one of the most feature rich soccer games to the platform.

Features:

• Full Fat Flick Controls mean everyone can play?
• Shoot for insane scores in Quickshot mode, it's you vs the keeper
• Take it to the limit in Endurance mode, set piece action with bonus items?
• Try out Challenge mode for the ultimate skill contest?
• Have you got the accuracy to hit the bar? Find out in Crossbar mode
• Smash It! breaking glass panels against the clock?
• Unbelievably accurate flick controls for stunning top-corner shots?
• The most realistic goalkeeper on the Android Market
• Interactive defenders will jump and react to shots
• Gorgeous visuals and immersive sound

That's quite a bit of gaming action to choose from. If soccer is your gaming sport of choice Flick Soccer may be something to look into. It's reasonably priced and supported on device Android 2.1 and up. Download link is past the break for you all -- leave some comments if you grab it. I'm interested in knowing how well it plays versus that of Flick Golf which I loved.

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Nevada Republicans scheduled to vote on caucus date change amid call to move to February (Star Tribune)

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Bruni gives birth to baby girl: report (Reuters)

PARIS (Reuters) ? French first lady Carla Bruni gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday, French media reported, her first child with husband President Nicolas Sarkozy and the first baby born to a French presidential couple in office.

Europe 1 radio and BFM television said Bruni gave birth at around 8 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the day to the La Muette maternity clinic in central Paris.

Neither the president's office nor La Muette would immediately confirm the reports.

Sarkozy was on his way back to Paris after a brief trip to Frankfurt for talks with his German counterpart Angela Merkel and EU officials on Franco-German efforts to put together a plan to stem the euro zone debt crisis.

He had visited La Muette clinic during the afternoon.

France has been on tenterhooks for weeks over the impending birth, which could give Sarkozy's image a welcome boost just over six months before a presidential election opinion polls show he could lose to Socialist challenger Francois Hollande.

Sarkozy's popularity ratings have been stuck at just above 30 percent for months, despite his leadership on issues like the Libyan crisis, with many French angry at economic gloom and resentful of a leadership style many see as impulsive and brash.

An opinion poll by CSA published on Wednesday, the first since Hollande was picked at the weekend to run for the left in next April's presidential election, found Hollande could beat Sarkozy by 62 percent to 38 percent if the two faced off in a second-round runoff vote.

The poll gave Hollande 35 percent support for the first-round vote in April against 25 percent for Sarkozy.

A separate poll by Harris Interactive found that Sarkozy was still the best-placed candidate to run for the ruling UMP party, backed by 47 percent of respondents for a hypothetical UMP primary versus 19 percent for Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and 12 percent for Prime Minister Francois Fillon.

His daughter's birth coincides with one of the most crucial weeks of Sarkozy's four-year presidency as he battles to hammer out a plan with Germany to stem the euro zone's debt crisis before a self-imposed deadline on Sunday.

Pollsters say that as well as his handling of the euro crisis, the image Sarkozy projects to voters in the months ahead will be crucial for his reelection prospects next April.

Many in France found his high-speed courtship of Bruni, a singer-songwriter and former model, distasteful coming so soon after his divorce from his second wife, Cecilia, but Sarkozy kept carefully quiet about Bruni's pregnancy.

Media coverage has been incessant, however, a novelty in France, where a president's private life is usually kept private.

Sarkozy has three children from his two previous marriages, while Italian-born Bruni has a son from a former relationship.

(Reporting by Morade Azzouz; Writing by Catherine Bremer; Editing by Tim Pearce)

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Social Security to hand out first raises since '09

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2005 file photo, trays of printed social security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia. Social Security recipients will get a raise in January _ their first increase in benefits since 2009. Experts expect the increase will be about 3.5 percent. Some 55 million beneficiaries find out for sure Wednesday when an inflation measure that determines the annual cost-of-living adjustment is released. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2005 file photo, trays of printed social security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia. Social Security recipients will get a raise in January _ their first increase in benefits since 2009. Experts expect the increase will be about 3.5 percent. Some 55 million beneficiaries find out for sure Wednesday when an inflation measure that determines the annual cost-of-living adjustment is released. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Social Security recipients will get a raise in January ? their first increase in benefits since 2009. It's expected to be about 3.5 percent.

Some 55 million beneficiaries will find out for sure Wednesday when a government inflation measure that determines the annual cost-of-living adjustment is released.

Congress adopted the measure in the 1970s, and since then it has resulted in annual benefit increases averaging 4.2 percent. But there was no COLA in 2010 or 2011 because inflation was too low. That was small comfort to the millions of retirees and disabled people who have seen retirement accounts dwindle and home values drop during the period of economic weakness, said David Certner, legislative policy director for the AARP.

"People certainly feel like they are falling behind, and these are modest income folks to begin with, so every dollar counts," Certner said. "I think sometimes people forget what seniors' incomes are."

Some of the increase in January will be lost to higher Medicare premiums, which are deducted from Social Security payments. Medicare Part B premiums for 2012 are expected to be announced next week, and the trustees who oversee the program are projecting an increase.

Monthly Social Security payments average $1,082, or about $13,000 a year. A 3.5 percent increase would amount to an additional $38 a month, or about $455 a year.

Most retirees rely on Social Security for a majority of their income, according to the Social Security Administration. Many rely on it for more than 90 percent of their income.

Federal law requires the program to base annual payment increases on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). Officials compare inflation in the third quarter of each year ? the months of July, August and September ? with the same months in the previous year.

If consumer prices increases from year to year, Social Security recipients automatically get higher payments, starting the next January. If price changes are negative, the payments stay unchanged.

Only twice since 1975 ? the past two years ? has there been no COLA.

Wednesday's COLA announcement will come as a special joint committee of Congress weighs options to reduce the federal government's $1.3 trillion budget deficit. In talks this summer, President Barack Obama floated the idea of adopting a new measure of inflation to calculate the COLA, one that would reduce the annual increases.

Advocates for seniors mounted an aggressive campaign against the proposal, and it was scrapped. But it could resurface in the ongoing talks.

"We're very concerned about that," said Web Phillips of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. "I think that what this illustrates is the dangers of trying to make Social Security policy in the context of deficit reduction."

Social Security payments increased by 5.8 percent in 2009, the largest increase in 27 years, after energy prices spiked in 2008. But energy prices quickly dropped and home prices became soft in markets across the country, contributing to lower inflation the past two years.

For example, average gasoline prices topped $4 a gallon in the summer of 2008. But by January 2009, they had fallen below $2. Today, the national average is about $3.46 a gallon.

"A lot of that increase had to do with energy," Polina Vlasenko, an economist at the American Institute for Economic Research, based in Great Barrington, Mass., said of the 2009 change.

As a result, Social Security recipients got an increase that was far larger than actual overall inflation. However, they weren't to get another increase until consumer prices exceeded the levels measured in 2008.

So far this year, prices have been higher than that, Vlasenko said. Based on consumer prices in July and August, the COLA for 2012 would be about 3.5 percent. Vlasenko estimates the COLA will be from 3.5 percent to 3.7 percent.

Advocates for seniors say it's about time.

"If you've been at the grocery store lately and remember what you used to pay for things, see what you're paying for things today," Phillips said. "The cost-of-living adjustment makes sure that the Social Security benefit that you qualify for when you retire or you become disabled continues to stay current with prices so that the buying power of your benefit does not decline over time."

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Stocks jump on reports of progress in Europe (AP)

NEW YORK ? Stocks are closing sharply higher on reports that Germany and France are moving closer to resolving the European debt crisis.

The Guardian newspaper reported Tuesday that France and Germany have agreed to expand a rescue fund. European officials are expected to take up the expansion along with other measures at a meeting this weekend.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 180 points, or 1.6 percent, to close at 11,577.

The S&P 500 index rose 25 points, or 2 percent, to 1,225. Bank stocks were among the strongest performers.

The Nasdaq composite rose 43 points, or 1.6 percent, to 2,657.

More than five stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Trading volume was higher than average at 4.9 billion shares.

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Cards' Berkman offers mea culpa to all of Texas

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updated 7:47 p.m. ET Oct. 18, 2011

ST. LOUIS - Lance Berkman knew he couldn't run from the cameras. So the Cardinals outfielder looked straight into the first one that zoomed in on his face and offered a mea culpa to the entire state of Texas.

"I'm not afraid to say, 'Hey, I wasn't right,'" Berkman said.

One of the subplots to Game 1 of the World Series, which starts Wednesday night in St. Louis, is that Berkman never thought the Texas Rangers would be playing in it. That's why he chose to sign a one-year deal with the Cardinals in the offseason, even though the Rangers also pursued him.

Berkman told a Houston radio station in January that the Rangers were an "average team" without star pitcher Cliff Lee, and that they caught "lightning in a bottle and they got hot" when they made last year's World Series. He even denounced the rest of Texas' pitching staff, which performed "better than their talent level and, consequently, they had a great year."

The Cardinals, Berkman figured, had the pieces to make a deep postseason run.

Turns out the Rangers did, too.

"Certainly the last thing I want is to have the entire state of Texas to be mad at me," Berkman said before a workout Tuesday at Busch Stadium. "I don't want to disrespect any players the Rangers have, because they have a fine baseball team. I think if you say enough things publicly, eventually you're going to say some things that are probably not great, and that's the case here."

Berkman resurrected his career in St. Louis, hitting .301 with 31 homers and 94 RBIs this season. The six-time All-Star hit a combined .248 last year between Houston and the New York Yankees.

His performance over the first half earned him another All-Star nod, so he took the opportunity to apologize in person to Rangers ace C.J. Wilson for his comments about the Texas pitching staff.

"There was actually a note in my locker from Lance saying, 'Hey, congratulations on your guys' success. I guess I was wrong. Not the first time,'" Wilson said.

"They're in the World Series, I'm in the World Series. I'm happy for him. He's played great," Wilson said. "He's played a lot better than he did last year. So in that regard, he stepped up to his end of the bargain and we stepped to our end of the bargain."

Berkman said his biggest regret isn't what he said, but that he rubbed some people back in Texas the wrong way. He was born and raised in the state and played most of his career for the Astros.

"I'm not afraid of the public scrutiny," he said. "I'm not afraid to say, 'Hey, I wasn't right in my opinions,' and it probably won't be the last time."

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STARTERS ON DECK: Rangers manager Ron Washington announced Tuesday that Colby Lewis will start Game 2 on Thursday night. He'll go against the Cardinals' Jaime Garcia.

The rest of his World Series rotation is still to be determined, but Washington felt comfortable pitching Lewis after Game 1 starter C.J. Wilson because that's the way it's been most of the year.

"He's rested, he's ready to go, he's been throwing the ball extremely well," Washington said. "With him and C.J. back to back, it worked all year, and we finally got back to that one-two punch."

Lewis allowed one run over six innings in a 4-3 win over Tampa Bay in their division series, but gave up four runs and eight hits in 5 2-3 innings in the ALCS last week against Detroit.

Garcia went 13-7 with a 3.56 ERA in the regular season, but has struggled in three postseason starts. The left-hander gave up all three runs in a 3-2 loss to the Phillies, allowed six runs in four innings against Milwaukee in the NLCS opener and scattered seven hits over 4 2-3 innings in Game 5 against the Brewers.

"You have to remember that he's young, and there are times when he has an issue that he's learning how to make the adjustments," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said. "But right now he's plenty good enough, and he's pitched very well, especially in our park."

La Russa said that Kyle Lohse will likely take the mound when the series shifts to Texas for Game 3, and Edwin Jackson will go for the Cardinals in Game 4.

"But that might change when we talk a little more," La Russa said.

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ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Texas is starting the World Series on the road for the second straight year.

Before the winner of the All-Star game started determining which league would host Game 1, home-field advantage for the World Series alternated between the American and National leagues.

Under the old rules, Texas would have hosted at least one opener over a two-year period.

"I've never been a big fan of it, even when the American League was winning all those years in a row," Rangers first baseman-DH Michael Young said. "An exhibition game that happens in July, with about 95 percent of the guys who aren't even in (the World Series), dictates where it's played. I have a tough time wrapping my arms around that."

Coincidentally, Ron Washington of the Rangers was the AL All-Star manager this year, and C.J. Wilson ? who starts Game 1 for Texas on Wednesday night ? was the losing pitcher.

"I said that when we lost, that I would have liked to have had home field advantage. But right now, that's only wishing," Washington said. "You've got to go play baseball, it's not wishing."

Last year, the Rangers lost the first two games of the World Series in San Francisco. They won Game 3 at home before losing two in a row and ending the series.

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HOT TO COLD: After playing 27 home games this season when the temperature was 100 degrees or more at first pitch, the Rangers are going to need long-sleeve shirts and jackets for the World Series.

The weather forecast for Games 1 and 2 in St. Louis calls for windy conditions with temperatures in the upper 40s ? and overnight lows in the 30s.

"I think we will say refreshing, that's it," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "Both teams have to play under the same conditions. We're just going to strap it on."

Washington said he was going to make sure that equipment manager Hoggy Price packed enough warm clothes for the players ? and the manager.

"I will definitely be warm in the dugout," Washington said. "No doubt about it."

The coldest game for the Rangers this season was May 16 at the Chicago White Sox, when it was 43 degrees with breezy conditions at first pitch. Things worked out just fine that chilly night. Texas starter Colby Lewis threw a five-hitter for his first career shutout in a 4-0 victory.

When the series switches to Texas this weekend, the forecast is for temperatures in the upper 70s.

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AP Sports Writer Stephen Hawkins in Dallas contributed to this report.

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Apple Q4 earnings fall short of expectations: $28.27 billion in revenue, $6.62 billion net profit

Apple's earnings for Q4 2011 are out, and the company has fallen short of expectations. It still managed to rake in $28.27 billion during the quarter, which is up from $20.3 billion in Q3 2010, but quite a bit short of the $29.69 billion analysts were counting on -- net profits came in at $6.62 billion. The company also announced that 17.07 million iPhones during the quarter (a 21 percent jump from a year ago), along with 11.12 million iPads (a whopping 166 percent increase year-over-year), 4.89 million Macs, and 6.62 million iPods (once again the one area that continues to decline, now down 27 percent from a year ago).

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Obama gets back on the bus for trip to NC, Va. (AP)

WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama is targeting vital North Carolina and Virginia this week, as he kicks off a three-day bus tour that is as much about campaigning for his jobs bill as it is shoring up support in two southern states he wrested from Republican control when he won the White House.

Obama's 2008 victories in North Carolina and Virginia were due in large part to the states' changing demographics and his campaign's ability to boost voter turnout among young people and African-Americans. But nearly three years after his historic election, the president's approval ratings in both states are sagging, in line with the national trend.

A Quinnipiac University poll out earlier this month put Obama's approval rating in Virginia at 45 percent, with 52 percent disapproving. The same poll showed 83 percent of Virginians were dissatisfied with the direction of the country. In North Carolina, Obama has a 42 percent approval rating, according to an Elon University poll conducted this month. Most national polls put Obama's approval rating in the mid- to low-forties.

The president's bus tour comes as the battle in Washington over his jobs plan enters a new phase. While Obama had demanded lawmakers pass the $447 billion measure in its entirety, Senate Republicans have blocked those efforts, leaving the president and his Democratic allies to fight for the bill's proposals piece by piece.

Since announcing his plan for putting Americans back to work last month, Obama has been traveling the country trying to build public support for his initiatives. The president's itinerary has focused heavily on swing states, underscoring the degree to which what happens with his job bill is linked to his re-election prospects.

Obama starts his bus tour with a speech in Asheville, N.C., Monday morning and he will speak again later that day at a high school in Millers Creek, N.C. He'll also speak Tuesday at a community college in Jamestown, N.C., and make stops in the southern Virginia cites of Emporia and Hampton, before wrapping up the bus tour Wednesday at a firehouse in North Chesterfield, Va.

While Obama won handily in Virginia in 2008, he barely squeaked out a victory in North Carolina, winning the state by less than a percentage point. John Davis, a longtime political analyst in North Carolina, said Obama won there in part because his campaign identified the state as a potential battleground early and established a dominant ground game, while the Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, was focused elsewhere.

But with North Carolina now firmly on the political establishment's radar, Davis said thinks Obama will have a much harder time holding the state next November.

"This time I think Obama loses the advantage of a surprise like he pulled off in 2008," he said.

The president faces significant obstacles in Virginia as well. While Democrats had hoped Obama's victory signaled Virginia's shift to a blue state, momentum has since strongly turned back in favor of Republicans, most notably with Gov. Bob McDonald's win in 2009.

That shift has some Virginia Democrats, especially state legislators running in next month's General Assembly elections, less than thrilled about Obama heading to their state this week. In coal-mining southwestern Virginia, Democratic state Sen. Phil Puckett has flatly renounced the president. With Republicans running television ads and erecting billboards showing Puckett campaigning for Obama in 2008, Puckett said in a television interview he would not support Obama in 2012.

The White House insists the president is focused more on the economy than elections. With the nation's unemployment rate stuck at 9.1 percent, Obama's goal this week will be to convince the public that his jobs plan will put out-of-work teachers, police officers and firefighters back on the job, while also repairing crumbling roads and bridges.

By breaking up elements of the plan into individual bills, the White House wants to force Republicans to voice their opposition one by one ? part of the Obama administration's strategy of hanging blame for any eventual failure of the president's economic policies on GOP obstructionism.

"Each time we're going to ask Republicans to support the bill," Obama said last week. "And if they don't want to support the bill, they've got to answer not just to us, but also the American people as to why they wouldn't."

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama would use his stops this week to challenge Congress to get to work this week passing proposals in the bill, starting with initiatives that the administration says would prevent teacher layoffs. Obama will also call for lawmakers to prioritize his call for $50 billion in infrastructure spending.

Despite the president's call for urgency, it could be November at the earliest before lawmakers take up the proposals in the bill, due to debate scheduled this week on appropriations bills and a planned vacation at the end of this month.

The president will be ditching Air Force One for much of his trip this week, traveling instead on a $1.1 million bus purchased by the Secret Service. The impenetrable-looking bus is painted all black, with dark tinted windows and flashing red and blue lights. Obama first used the custom-made bus during a similar road trip in August, when he traveled through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.

Obama's time on the road will take him through small towns and rural swaths of both Virginia and North Carolina. In addition to his scheduled speeches, the president is sure to make unannounced visits to local restaurants or stop to greet supporters gathered along the road to watch his motorcade pass.

The effect is a campaign-style trip that allows the president to engage in a little retail politics, while also garnering the national media coverage typically afforded only to a sitting president.

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Associated Press writers Ken Thomas in Washington, Bob Lewis in Richmond, Va., and Tom Breen in Raleigh, N.C., contributed to this report.

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