The transcript from the inevitable David Stern press conference to discuss putrid NBA attendance:DAVID STERN: While we’re certainly concerned with flagging attendance levels, I’d like to remind you that the season is still very early. I know the press likes to make a big story out of this, but if you review our attendance figures from years past, you’ll notice that our attendance levels tend to increase as the year progresses and fan interest improves.REPORTER: ...

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disappearinjon posted a photo: It's noon on the nose and I'm the only customer in the restaurant. Washington Mutual is laying off more than 3000 people in Seattle. Hard times...

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Who would have thought the biggest import car lots in 2008 would be the ports? Import cars stuck at the port with nowhere to go. The screencap from CNN below is like a daylight graveyard. With the current state of the economy, it’s no surprise people aren’t buying new cars. The car you’re already driving can probably make it another year or two. Buying a new car is usually a luxury purchase versus buying a ...

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Why wasn't Andrea Vece's Layne Staley bio, Itch, Love Stories About Heroin, published this August as planned? Because the "author" decided "there couldn't be a greater tribute...than compiling a book of memories...and publishing it on the date of [Staley's] passing [April 5]." Blabbermouth recaps Vece's curious plan: "The first half...will now feature the original journal writings of the author...[the] second half will be titled "Memory Layne" and will contain stories from fans...as well as her ...

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A new report released yesterday named Washington as one of five top states leading the way in reshaping the United States economy and encouraging entrepreneurship. Gee, isn't that something Dino Rossi claimed we were failing at?Five states -- Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey -- are leading the United States' transformation into a global, entrepreneurial and knowledge and innovation-based New Economy, according to "The 2008 State New Economy Index," released today by the Ewing ...

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Afraid you will lose your chump change now that the economy is down? Program the shock safe with a 4 digit code and anyone trying to break in will be greeted with a decent buzz. The bank has flashing LED lights and sound effects to further annoy amuse your family, friends, or co-workers. At a size of 20 x 10 x 10cm, the sadistic safe has a coin slot and collection tray, and runs on ...

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_uacct = "UA-1907164-1"; urchinTracker(); Priorities Tennessee Adopts $9.5 Million University Piracy Measure Despite School Layoffs By David Kravets November 18, 2008 | 6:19:14 PMCategories: Intellectual Property Combating music piracy at Tennessee's public university system is more important than hiring teachers and keeping down tuition costs. Just-signed legislation requires the 222,000-student system ...

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Hot Chip's Al Doyle: 'LCD Soundsystem haven't disbanded'Hot Chip's Al Doyle, who has played as part of James Murphy's band LCD Soundsystem, has made a clarification about an interview he recently gave, suggesting that the collective may have disbanded.In the clarification Doyle confirmed that the band were not winding down, referring to a recent article in which James Murphy confirmed a new LCD Soundsystem album was on the way.Writing on Hot Chip's website, Hotchip.co.uk, Doyle ...

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The Seattle Times reports that JP Morgan will lay off as many as 3,000 WaMu employees in the Seattle area, cutting the local WaMu workforce to just under a third of its former glory. Layoffs begin this week, and by December 1--in the thick of the holiday shopping season--all of the decisions will have been made about who stays and who goes. This doesn't come as a surprise, but the numbers are breath-taking and the ...

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31. Proud to be SeattleJew Today spews: The key idea, missing in this discussion, is that the government MUST switch from the now failed model of free market capitalism to a model more like that lf Europe and Japan where the government itself is a major investor. The essence of 19th century capitalism was the concept that entrepreneurs would do the tight thing by ...

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Rap mogul Snoop Dogg appeared on Martha Stewart Living this week to give her a little vocabulary lesson and show off his cooking skills. Oh, yeah, and he was also promoting the second season of his highly entertaining reality program, Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood. Continue reading Snoop Dogg Brings a Little Shizzle to Martha Stewart Tags: (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T) Read ...

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