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Big Brands Bring Back Layaway Finance Option @PSFK

The layaway program is making a comeback at many retail stores as credit is tightened and budgets are squeezed. Walmart, Toys ?R? Us, Sears, Kmart and Best Buy are just some of the brands offering consumers a way to space out their payments in the current climate of economic insecurity.

Layaway usually requires people to make a down payment of 10-25% of the total item cost plus a service fee, then the remaining interest-free payments are spaced out over a number of weeks. Once the final payment has been made, the product can be picked up from the store.

Big Brands Bring Back Layaway Finance Option

Large retailers are providing a solution for both low-income consumers who lack the money to make big purchases, and also middle-income earners worried about the economy and job security. Walmart, who suspended its layaway program about five years ago due to the range of credit-financing options available to consumers, have brought it back this Christmas. The company?s chief merchandising officer, Duncan MacNaughton, said:

We?re always looking for ways to ease budget strain for our customers, and we know this holiday season in particular brings with it additional financial pressure.

Other retailers such as Kmart and its parent company, Sears, have offered year-round layaway options both in-store and online for a wide variety of items including toys, electronics, appliances, furniture and clothes.

Walmart Christmas Layaway

Photo by Liz Martin

Source: http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/big-brands-bring-back-layaway-finance-option.html

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Police, protesters clash for 2nd day in Egypt (AP)

CAIRO ? Firing tear gas and rubber bullets, Egyptian riot police on Sunday clashed for a second day in downtown Cairo with thousands of rock-throwing protesters demanding that the ruling military quickly announce a date to hand over power to an elected government.

The police battled an estimated 5,000 protesters in and around the capital's Tahrir Square, birthplace of the 18-day uprising that toppled authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak in February. Tear gas filled the air as protesters, many chanting "freedom, freedom," pelted the police with rocks.

Sunday's clashes, which come a day after two people were killed and hundreds wounded in similar unrest in the capital and other major cities, are stoking tensions eight days before the start of the country's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections. The violence reflects the rising public anger over the slow pace of reforms and apparent attempts by Egypt's ruling generals to retain power over a future civilian government.

"We have a single demand: The marshal must step down and be replaced by a civilian council," said protester Ahmed Hani, referring Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Egypt's military ruler and Mubarak's longtime defense minister.

"The violence yesterday showed us that Mubarak is still in power," said Hani, who was wounded in the forehead by a rubber bullet. He spoke over chants of "freedom, freedom" by hundreds of protesters around him.

Rocks, shattered glass and trash covered the pavement in Tahrir and the side streets leading off the square, while a cloud of white smoke from tear gas hung in the air. Several hundred protesters were camping out on the lawn of the square's traffic island, and protesters manning barricades into the square checked the IDs of anyone trying to enter.

The windows of the main campus of the American University in Cairo, which overlooks the square, were shattered and stores were shuttered. "The marshal is Mubarak's dog," read one of a fresh crop of graffiti in the square.

An Interior Ministry official said 55 protesters have been arrested since the violence began on Saturday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Yahya el-Sawi, a 21-year-old university student, said he was enraged by the sight of riot police beating up protesters already hurt in an earlier attack by the security forces. "I did not support the sit-in at the beginning, but when I saw this brutality I had to come back to be with my brothers," he said.

Many of the protesters had red eyes and coughed incessantly. Some wore surgical masks to help combat the tear gas. A few fainted, overwhelmed by the gas.

Hundreds of protesters gathered near the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, to offer the Muslim noon prayers, but came under police attack using tear gas and rubber bullets. Ali Saber, a protester who attended the prayer, said the man who led the prayer was hit in the shoulder by a gas canister.

Doctors staffing two field hospitals in the square said they have treated around 700 protesters so far on Sunday. Alaa Mohammed, a doctor, said most of those treated suffered breathing problems or wounds caused by rubber bullets.

"The police are targeting the head, not the legs as they normally do," said Mohammed.

Protesters were using social networking sites on the Internet to call on Egyptians to join them, and there were reports of several demonstrations headed to the square, including one from Cairo University.

The military, which took over from Mubarak, has repeatedly pledged to hand over power to an elected government but has yet to set a specific date. According to one timetable floated by the army, the handover will happen after presidential elections are held late next year or early in 2013. The protesters say this is too late and accuse the military of dragging its feet. They want a handover to take place immediately after the end of parliamentary elections in March.

Sunday's clashes mark a continuation of the violence a day earlier, when police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and beat protesters with batons, clearing the square at one point and pushing the fighting into surrounding side streets of downtown Cairo.

At least one protester was killed in Cairo, and another in Alexandria, officials said, and 676 injured.

The government has urged protesters to clear the square.

A member of the military council, Maj. Gen. Mohsen el-Fangari, said protesters' calls for change ahead of the election were a threat to the state.

"What is the point of being in Tahrir?" he asked, speaking by phone to a private TV channel. "What is the point of this strike, of the million marches? Aren't there legal channels to pursue demands in a way that won't impact Egypt ... internationally?"

"The aim of what is going on is to shake the backbone of the state, which is the armed forces."

In a warning, he said, "If security is not applied, we will implement the rule of law. Anyone who does wrong will pay for it."

Saturday's confrontation was one of the few since the uprising to involve the police, which have largely stayed in the background while the military took charge of security. There was no military presence in and around the square on Saturday or Sunday. The black-clad police were a hated symbol of Mubarak's regime.

Some of the wounded had blood streaming down their faces and many had to be carried out of the square by fellow protesters to waiting ambulances. Human rights activists accused police of using excessive force.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt

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Two die during Philadelphia Marathon races (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Two runners died on Sunday while competing in the Philadelphia Marathon and Half Marathon, organizers said without giving details.

"We are deeply saddened and our thoughts are with their families and friends," Philadelphia Marathon Race Weekend Executive Director Melanie Johnson said in a statement.

The statement did not identify the runners pending notification of relatives. It gave no details about the deaths.

A total of about 27,000 runners competed in the event's three races, with 15,000 in the 26.2-mile marathon, a spokeswoman said.

The men's race was won by Folisho Tuko of Ethiopia in two hours 19:14. The women's winner was Mariska Kramer of the Netherlands in 2:35:46.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson, editing by Ellen Wulfhorst)

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Kershaw cruises to NL Cy Young

The Baseball Writers? Association of America announced Thursday that Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw has been voted the National League Cy Young Award winner for 2011.

Kershaw, 23, registered a sparkling 2.28 ERA in 33 starts this year, striking out 248 batters and walking only 54 across 233 1/3 innings. He snagged 27 of 32?possible?first-place votes to win it handily.

Phillies right-hander Roy Halladay, who had a 2.35 ERA, 220/35 K/BB ratio in 233 2/3 innings this season, finished second with four first-place votes, 21 second-place votes and seven third-place votes.

Phillies left-hander Cliff Lee, who posted a 2.40 ERA and 238/42 K/BB ratio in 232 2/3 innings, finished third in the?balloting?with five second-place votes, 17 third-place and nine fourth-place votes.

Diamondbacks right-hander Ian Kennedy (2.88 ERA, 198/55 K/BB ratio in 222 innings) finished fourth with one first-place vote, three second-place votes, six third-place votes and 18 fourth-place votes. He was the only candidate other than Kershaw and Hallday to get a first-place nod. Let the outrage begin.

MLB.com put together this snazzy Kershaw?retrospective, featuring a wonderful amount of Vin Scully.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/17/dodgers-clayton-kershaw-captures-nl-cy-young-award/related/

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Chelsea Clinton Steps Into the News Business - NYTimes.com

If ever a development was bound to create jealousy and an urge to ridicule, it was the announcement the other day that Chelsea Clinton started working at NBC News as a special correspondent. She had to be the most untrained and least experienced new hire by a major network since, oh, since NBC in 2009 made Jenna Bush Hager, another presidential daughter with questionable credentials, a correspondent on its ?Today? show.

The Day

Clyde Haberman offers his take on the news.

Sure enough, there was a stream of jaundiced assessments on Twitter, comments to the effect that merit is dead and that it?s nice to be well-born. But sympathetic notes were struck, too, like that from one fellow who said it must be rough ?to have everyone presume every job one gets is a byproduct of privilege.?

You might have thought ? we did, anyway ? that resentment would bubble at the city?s major journalism schools. There, students shell out thousands upon thousands of dollars a year to be trained in a craft that often leads to first jobs paying less than their tuition fees. Surely, people at those schools were fuming that Ms. Clinton could just waltz in and land an on-air role with NBC?s ?Making a Difference? series.

If you thought that, you were wrong. We certainly were.

The prevailing attitude was that you?d have to be awfully na?ve not to know that life isn?t always fair, that the well-connected connect well and that television is smitten with celebrity. But it does not automatically mean that Ms. Clinton, 31, can?t hold her own. ?I?d cut her some slack,? said Stephen B. Shepard, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

Besides, Mr. Shepard said, his graduates have done quite well at landing jobs, including with the networks. Similar points were made by those who guide journalism programs at Columbia University and New York University.

Given the shabby economy, students have ?a lot of anxiety? about their prospects, said Dr. Perri Klass, director of N.Y.U.?s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. ?But they continue to get jobs and produce stories, and they continue to want to do it,? Dr. Klass said.

Ann Cooper, director of the broadcast program at Columbia?s Graduate School of Journalism, offered an impressive list of positions in television that former students have landed. None have gone directly from the classroom to ?a high-profile, on-air job? like Ms. Clinton?s, Ms. Cooper said. All the same, she said, ?our broadcast grads do very well.?

For the dean of the Columbia school, Nicholas Lemann, the issue isn?t how someone with a r?sum? as slender as Ms. Clinton?s could land so plum a spot.

?To my mind, the real story here is big news organizations creating a special subcategory of feel-good news,? Mr. Lemann said. NBC?s ?Making a Difference? is but one example. With such segments, he said, ?a whole different and softer set of journalistic rules applies, including but not limited to whom they hire.?

Well, Ms. Clinton, now that you are a comrade in arms, we have some advice for you. What it takes to be a television talent is beyond our grasp, but there is a paramount rule that applies to any journalistic endeavor: Never do your expense account when you?re in a good mood; it can only work against you. That?s important for even a well-to-do Clinton to remember.

One more thing: If this TV gig doesn?t work out, but you remain keen on journalism, there are other opportunities. Newspapers still have life in them, and local papers are good starting points. Indeed, there is an established weekly covering a couple of neighborhoods on the West Side of Manhattan that you might consider. It?s called Chelsea Clinton News.


For more local news, including the arrest of a fund-raiser for the city comptroller, John C. Liu, the latest developments at Occupy Wall Street protests and the way being paved for a new trial for former State Senator Joseph L. Bruno, see the N.Y./Region section.

Here is what City Room is reading in other newspapers and blogs:

A pilot created a brief terrorism scare when he accidentally locked himself in the restroom of a plane in a holding pattern over La Guardia Airport. [New York Post]

Occupy Wall Street protesters were planning to return to Wall Street in droves, possibly camouflaged in suits. [Daily News] (Also see The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal DNA Info and mcbrooklyn.)

There was a surge in donations to Occupy Wall Street after the group was evicted from Zuccotti Park. [New York Post]

Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said expensive projects like the Second Avenue subway line could be endangered if the Transport Workers Union did not agree to cost-cutting measures. [New York Post]

According to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday, three men stole more than a quarter of a million dollars by skimming A.T.M. codes at Chase locations in Union Square. [Daily News] (Also see The New York Times.)

Credit Suisse is starting a series of job cuts in New York. [Wall Street Journal]

A woman died from injuries related to a bullet wound from an accidental shooting 13 years ago, and her shooter, who served two years for the crime, could face murder charges. [Daily News]

Animal Care workers said that a pit bull named Bones, who is being held after, law enforcement sources say, he was used to murder someone by his owner, is actually a friendly and happy animal. [New York Post]

A parent-run education council Downtown unanimously rejected a city zoning plan that would have placed students from TriBeCa in schools in Chinatown. [DNA Info]

Many SoHo residents are irritated by encroaching food trucks. [DNA Info]

Anti-Semitic graffiti appeared at a Brooklyn subway stop, less than a week after other hate messages were scrawled on three cars that were set on fire. [Daily Intel]

Watch out, Roscoe: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development said it had acquired two bedbug-sniffing beagles. [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]

The World Surfing Tour will hold another event on Long Island in 2012. [New York Post]

Source: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/welcome-to-the-news-business-ms-clinton/

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Instead of having all the ideas in the original OOC, let's put them here and be a bit more organized. By posting your ideas and/or suggestions here, it would be quicker to find and read. Also, here we could discuss more over those ideas and not be confused by other random posts that contributes nothing to the story.

This story is ours and we all have rights to this story. The more we come up with new ideas and suggestions, the more we will become part of this story. We can improve it more this way.

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SLAM ONLINE | ? Former Knick Charles Smith in Legal Battle With ...

It?s not just current NBAers who are dealing with the court system on League matters these days, former ballers are lawyering up as well. The NY Post looks at Charles Smith?s legal battle with the National Basketball Retired Players Association: ?In a letter last week, NBRPA counsel Jack Marin threatened former executive director Charles Smith with litigation. ?It has come to our attention that you have been contacting the officers of our various chapters and numerous other association members in a manner that is disruptive, divisive and detrimental to the association. This is in violation of your duty of loyalty as a member of the association,? began the letter from Marin, a former Bullets forward. ?Furthermore, it appears that you are using the association?s confidential information obtained during your employment here to undertake these actions for your own personal gain. As you are aware, you are bound by your employment agreement and NBRPA employee policies to return our information and not to use it for personal reasons. You have the contact information of these members by virtue of your employment here. We ask that you honor your agreement with this charitable organization and refrain from contacting members for these purposes. Your actions may be violations of New York law as well. The board has empowered the President and CEO to take whatever legal steps necessary to protect the association?s interests. Please be assured that we are prepared to do so.? According to those in the know, CEO Arnie D. Fielkow and president George Tinsley have reason to believe the estranged Smith has been contacting members regarding the possible start-up of a rival retired association. On Nov. 18, 2010, after two years on the job, Smith was furtively fired by Tinsley and a five-man board ? Not only was Smith?s firing proceeding, by a select few, highly disputable, but the membership wasn?t given a voice or a vote. Consequently, Schayes was relieved of his duties and an election reshuffled the board. In mid-September, a comprehensive search resulted in the hiring of Fielkow, a New Orleans city council VP. Oh, yeah, in the meantime, Smith threatened to sue the NBBPA for his wrongful discharge. I don?t believe he followed through.?

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Stern: I'd be a better 'AGT' judge than Hasselhoff

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By Anna Chan

Howard Stern knows he'd be a great judge if he were to join the panel of "America's Got Talent," and there's one former judge he believes he could be better than.

"I love watching the show. I've been watching it from the beginning," Stern told the New York Post's Page Six on Thursday?night. "I think I'd be better than the Hoff, but who knows?"

David Hasselhoff judged the talent contest from the first through the fourth seasons alongside Piers Morgan, who announced earlier this month?he won't be returning to the show. It was just hours after his announcement that the Wall Street Journal reported?shock-jock Stern was in negotiations with NBC to sit on the panel.

The SiriusXM radio host has talked a bit about the possibility, but has repeatedly said that he would not discuss negotiations. In fact, he told Page Six that he's not in talks to join "AGT." "No one's told me anything," Stern told Page Six. "I heard that they want me for the job."

But fans of the shock jock shouldn't give up hope of seeing him on the network talent competition. Just Monday, Stern told his listeners that he doesn't comment on negotiations because they "can go horribly wrong." So for all we know, he's just keeping hush hush.

As for those who still think he's too racy for network TV (despite the fact that he's already explained why he'd be great at it), Stern had some more thoughts to share on that as well.

"Listen, I'm not insane," he told Page Six. "If I were on a network television show, I wouldn't curse. I've been on 'David Letterman.' I don't go on and curse like a raving lunatic. You broadcast for whatever is appropriate."

So rest easy, detractors! Should (and it still looks like a huge "if") he actually join the show, it'll still be family friendly ... but maybe more brutally honest.

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