Actress Jill Clayburgh Dies

Two-time Oscar nominee Jill Clayburgh died Friday of complications from chronic leukemia, The New York Times reports. The 66-year-old struggled with the disease for more than two decades.
Clayburgh played family matriarch Letitia Darling on the ABC series 'Dirty Sexy Money,' which ran for two seasons and ended last year. She also recurred on the Fox hit 'Ally McBeal' as Ally's mother, Jeannie, and appeared in episodes of 'Frasier,' 'The Practice' and 'Nip/Tuck,' though was mostly known for her film and stage career.
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Election Day 2010: The Great Refudiation of Obama

Refute:  To prove wrong by argument or evidence, to show to be false or erroneous.
Repudiate:  To refuse to have anything to do with, to disown, to refuse to accept, to reject as unauthorized, untrue, unjust, or having no binding force.
Refudiate:  A new term coined by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, which combines the above two words. And what will be done by voters to President Obama on Election Day, so as to demonstrate their anger at his, Speaker Pelosi’s, and Harry Reid’s having forced down America’s throat destructive and wrong liberal policies that have wrecked the economy and threaten our future well-being as a nation.
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Take the Pledge to Vote

 The polls open in less than 24 hours in an election that will either keep the nation on a path of economic recovery or turn it back to the same Republicans who drove the economy into the deep ditch that we are starting to climb out of.The election comes down to the untold tens of millions of dollars in secret corporate campaign contributions versus our boots on the ground and our butts at the ballot box.
We all have good intentions to vote, but we all know what good intentions pave. That’s why we are asking you to sign today this pledge to vote tomorrow.  Even if you are certain you’re going to vote, go ahead and sign up as a re-enforcement, a reminder for when you’re stuck in traffic and think to yourself, “Aw, what the heck, it’s just one vote.”
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Thanksgiving Wallpaper

Thanksgiving Wallpaper, Shares of the following companies are having unusual movements in U.S. trade. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are from 10 am in New York.
Alere Inc. (ALR U.S.) fell 7.6 percent to 27.30 and after sinking as much as 19 percent, the intraday since 8 June. The company, which offers patient diagnosis, monitoring and management of health services, reduced its full-year profit forecast to 2.50 per share, and 2.60 per share. The average estimate of*n*lysts surveyed by Bloomberg was and 2.56.
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Wilmington Trust and M and T Bank to Merge

Wilmington Trust and the M&T Bank Corporation said on Monday that they would merge, creating a major lender in the eastern United States and a global provider of wealth management.The deal is a stock-for-stock transaction in which Wilmington shareholders will get 0.051372 shares of M&T for every share of Wilmington. The deal is worth $351 million and is expected to close in the middle of next year.
M&T is based in Buffalo and holds $68.2 billion in assets, while Wilmington has $10.4 billion in assets, and is based in Wilmington, Del.
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