Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe gives key ministries to his own party - in defiance of a power-sharing deal, reports say.

a href="http://www.sfomag.com/homecoverdetail.asp?ID=-432392283MonthNameID=OctoberYearID=2004"There is a litmus test that has predicted the winner and loser of every presidential election over the past 100 years./a iIf the Dow has risen 3.3 percent or more in October, the incumbent party has never lost. If the Dow has dropped 0.5 percent or more, the incumbent party has never won./i That is, a href="http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/29/markets/election_dow/index.htm"until 2004/a. Perhaps a more reliable test is the relative popularity of a href="http://www.nbc10.com/politics/17656081/detail.html"halloween masks/a; track your favorite candidate at a href="http://www.amazon.com/Put-Your-Party-on-Your-Face/meters/A2JPIXA6Y3NESG/"Amazon/a or a href="http://www.buycostumes.com/CategoryPage/presidentialmaskpoll_0.aspx?A=1"BuyCostumes/a. br /

Integrated GPS on a DELL Mini 9 via Engadget. Acabtp writes... So, I wanted to add a GPS receiver to my Mini 9, but I didn't want to have to use a dongle or other external device. I figured that a netbook really ought to just have it built in, so that's what I decided to do...

Interesting, I wonder if this maker's project will end up being standard issue in the next round of netbooks/ultraportables.

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Dancing With the Stars' Cheryl Burke has been getting a little porky lately, so she's doing what any responsible professional dancer would do: She's crying to the media about how everyone should be okay with it. According to People magazine: When bloggers called out Cheryl Burke for putting on a few pounds, the Dancing with the Stars pro fought back. But what upset her most, she says, is the unhealthy body image issues promoted by such stories. “I want kids or women out there to realize you don’t have to be anorexic to be beautiful,” the two-time Dancing champ tells PEOPLE exclusively. “There’s a lot of pressure living this Hollywood life. People expect to see you at a certain weight and when you gain a few pounds then all of a sudden it’s the talk of the week.” Whatever, fatty. If you weren't packing on pounds yourself, you'd be pushing your nose up with your thumb and making "oink, oink" noises at every chick who doesn't blow away in a stiff breeze. You're getting paid to stay in shape, so put down the damn donut and hit the treadmill. Unless you want your next TV gig to be on the evening news. In a breaking report about the woman who had to be airlifted to the hospital to have a turkey drumstick surgically removed from the folds in her gut.

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Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident at age 58.

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe gives key ministries to his own party in defiance of a power-sharing deal, reports say.

Austrian populist far-right leader Joerg Haider was killed in a car accident, two weeks after staging a major comeback in a national election

Earlier this week I took a leisurely stroll through the halls of Tokyo Game Show videoing the goings-on of booths, their babes and the people who love them. Today it wasn't so leisurely. The mass of attendees tore through the hall shaking the will of smiling booth companions who still, despite the hardships, managed to keep those smile from going upside down. I wouldn't suggest watching if you weren't a fan of Cloverfield... or getting immensely motion sick.

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For a game that's been dated Christmas 2008, it's odd that White Knight Chronicles is not playable on the Tokyo Game Show floor. Even odder because the game was playable last year. When asked why the game wasn't in playable form at TGS, a Sony rep declined to comment. Isn't it unusual for a title to be playable one year and unable the year it's getting release?
Developer Level-5 hasn't exactly been open about the game. During the White Knight Chronicles Powerpoint event yesterday, the game's producer, Kentaro Motomura, remained tight lipped on key online modes like whether there will be voice chat or not. The game is supposed to be out in 2 and a half months.

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A Hillside weakened by heavy rain gave way in Portland Oregon causing a house to slide 300 feet down a hillside into two other homes. A frantic neighbor called 911.

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An investigation is under way into the disappearance of a computer hard drive containing the personal details of about 100,000 of the Armed Forces.

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Just as the banking markets are in tatters the whole world seems to be plumetting towards a very real recession, i cant speak for other countries but the very high price of fuel which has come down lately but still exceedingly high coupled with every single thing taxed in every area of life and the rather dangerous costs of Gas and Electric which have seemingly tripled.

Add all these together and the very low if any pay rises and its no wonder that people around the world are struggling and that everywhere a massive downturn in sales is inevitable.

Has the Credit Slump Hit you and Your familys ?, i personally foresee that no one hasnt been affected and if anyones to blame who in your eyes is to blame ?

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How many times have you opened up your monthly bill from Comcast or Time Warner and thought, that’s it, I’m ditching my cable — only to keep on paying? Well the time has come. With countless ways to watch your favorite shows online, ditching cable has never been easier. And with the economic crisis tightening its grip, there’s never been a better time to save some money.

Chances are there’s already a line-up of customers at your cable company’s local office looking to returning their Motorola boxes. The Wall Street Journal this week did, after all, declare that being off the cable grid is now socially acceptable. As much as 20 percent of all TV viewers watch shows online, the paper reported, and half of those people don’t watch TV at all anymore. Still not convinced? No worries, we have five good reasons to finally cancel your cable subscription.

• The fundamentals of our economy are screwed. Seriously, do you want to keep sending hundreds of dollars per year to your cable company while your retirement fund tanks? Four out of five American households pay an average of $70 a month for cable or satellite TV, according to the WSJ. Do you really want to be one of them?
• There are a ton of ads. Sure, we’re willing to sit through a few of them, preferably entertaining ones, to get content for free. But network and cable TV are increasingly oversaturated with them. Hulu & Co., on the other hand, have far fewer ads. A typical half-hour show features eight minutes of ads on TV, but only two minutes online. That’s six minutes you can spend looking at web sites like ours, making our advertisers happy.
• Cable boxes suck. The simple truth is that cable companies are used to competing with pretty much no one, which is why their technology is horribly outdated. The web is full of complaints about Comcast’s DVR, and even newer boxes like Verizon’s FIOS HD DVR don’t stand a chance against TiVo’s interface. On the other hand, there are tons of new and cheap devices that bring online TV into the living room. The soon-to-be-opened-up Roku box is only $99, and it’s easier than ever to download movies through your TiVo, XBox or Apple TV.
• There are so many other options. Hulu, NBC Direct, Amazon, the iTunes Store, Joost and Netflix Streams will all let you watch TV shows and movies free or very cheap. As the WSJ noted, 90 percent of all network shows and 20 percent of all cable shows are available online. Sure, there are some hold-outs, and networks like Showtime generally don’t make shows like Weeds available until after the end of the season. Some of our shadier friends tell us that you can always find everything right away on those torrent sites, but we of course wouldn’t know anything about that.
• Hulu can save your marriage. People tend to argue that online TV is inferior because you can’t watch it on your living room tube. That tends to be true for most people, but it can also be a good thing. Chances are you and your spouse are busy web workers, which means you’ll both be hammering away on your notebooks while The Daily Show is running in the background. You might as well be sitting in different rooms. Remember the times when watching TV used to be a shared experience? You can go back to that. Just cancel cable, turn off the TV and cuddle up in bed watching Hulu. You’ll thank us later.
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