1School

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2Love Buzz

Four months after snatching YouTube away from rival suitors for more than $1.7 billion, Google Inc. has encountered a bigger challenge: finding allies in the television industry. With television executives up in arms about the unauthorized posting of TV shows on the popular online video site, Google is searching for a way to dial down the tension.

3Drain You

The first and only full-length Ecstasy the Flower recording, "Sonic Scene," was released in early 2007, though the band has put out other EPs independently, and members record -- on cassette -- pretty much every day.

4lithium

Already nicknamed the "Foxhole" by some, the studio is squeezed between two floor trading booths, unlike CNBC and other rival networks that operate their studios one story above the trading floor.

5SLTS

With Halloween around the corner, Turner Classic Movies presents a night of truly frightful horror stinkers starting at 6:45 with White Zombie (1932), followed by A Bucket of Blood (1959) at 8; Creature From the Haunted Sea (1961) at 9:15, and The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) with the late great Vincent Price at 10:30 (TCM at 6:45).

6jam

Joan Festa of Uncasville turns the heat up just enough so the pipes don't freeze. Festa, who moved into a three-bedroom house last year that she bought with help from her brother and an inheritance, has put plastic on her windows and shut the doors of all her unused rooms.

7In bloom

Fairport, N.Y. - A memorial fund is being developed to remember the five young women who died in a tragic crash last week.

8caya

The hype around Montreal's music scene may have faded, but the debut from Land of Talk, "Applause, Cheer, Boo, Hiss," shows that the city's well of talent is far from dry. Formed in 2005, the trio... Read more . . .

9Breed

Is Civilization V going to release in 2008? Or a new expansion for Civ IV?

10Blew

IF VETERAN GOLFERS strive to shoot their age, do elderly running backs try to rush for their age? Of course not. If they did, Chiefs running back Priest Holmes is looking at 34 yards Sunday (which is probably the right number to expect anyhow).

11aneurysm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Willie Nelson received BMI's icon award Tuesday during the organization's 55th annual Country Awards and several of his friends showed up to help him celebrate.

12Sliver

Broome County Sheriff's Deputy Benjamin Harting served in Iraq with the Air Force National Guard. Jose Sanchez of Binghamton spent nine months in Afghanistan with the Army National Guard.

13On a plain

Package Includes: StreetPilot c340, windshield mount, USB cable, Lithium-ion batteryThe new Garmin StreetPilot c340 provides in-car navigation that s simple to use and offers use-friendly options and control. The c340 gives you turn-by-turn directions and turns text into speech -- and if you miss a turn, it will automatically calculate a new route.

14Negative creep

Looking back on this trip I don't really think I'll be able to travel any other way from now on. I had a total blast, it was great meeting people from all over the country/world and it was even more fun telling them I flew in just for the day. Plus I got to see and do everything I wanted to and did not spend much cash in the process.

15Polly

Few thought that Judith Regan, the infamous, ribald publisher Rupert Murdoch dismissed a year ago over OJ Simpson's quasi-confessional book If I Did It, would stay quiet for long. Last week, with almost perfect political and media timing, she launched her counter-attack: a lawsuit against News Corp seeking $100m in damages, and exquisitely...

16About a girl

17Lounge Act

The box set is a curious beast - a combination of curatorial selection, increased quality, whiz-bang packaging and new insights on favourite talents. Nowhere is this truer than with "Dylan," an impressive yet redundant three-disc compilation of the talents of one of America's best creative minds.