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Click here for a mobile version. If you are having trouble viewing images, Click here. As requested Fred, here's the latest news from ConsumerReports.org. It's October — and the swine flu is on everyone's mind. Get our helpful tips for protecting you and your family. Learn which generic store brand foods performed better than the name brands. Discover which brands of CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs) were top rated. Looking for a tasty, high fiber cereal? Check out our Ratings. Plus, see which wrinkle creams were rated best. This month, we'll feature these reports and much more! What you need to know about H1N1 Flu Swine flu. It's what everyone is talking (and worried) about. Click here to find out the answers to some frequently asked questions, learn ways to treat and prevent it and discover the most current health news from the FDA and CDC. Store vs. Brand Name The age old dilemma…should I buy generic or name brand? Perhaps you think you'll sacrifice taste if you make the generic purchase. Well, ConsumerReports.org has put some everyday grocery items to the taste test. Click here to see which generic items scored best! Compact Florescent Light Bulb Ratings Compact fluorescent light bulbs (or CFLs as they're generally known) are a great "green" solution for reducing your energy bill and energy usage. Click here for our detailed Ratings on 20+ CFL brands and types. Cereals put flavor in the fiber Many high fiber cereals are great for your health, but not always for your taste buds. ConsumerReports.org put 18 high fiber cereals to the test and found a handful that taste great and cost less! Click here for our full Ratings. Best Wrinkle Creams Youth in a bottle…or at least that's what we all hope for when buying wrinkle creams. But can using eye and anti-wrinkle creams really help turn back the clock? We've tested 16 different brands. Click here to find out what our tests revealed. Twitter Yes, Consumer Reports is now streaming on Twitter. Get updates on today's top consumer news stories; see what's happening in our Test Labs; and join the conversation when you click here.   Copyright © 2001-2009 Consumers Union of U.S., Inc., 101 Truman Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10703

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>>> Having trouble viewing this newsletter? View as a webpage. Top Stories Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Michelle, Oprah arrive in Copenhagen | VIDEO Michelle Obama begins to lobby members of the International Olympic Committee, who will decide if Chicago will host the 2016 Summer Games. Jury mulls death penalty in Palatine killings | VIDEO The final phase begins in the trial of a man convicted in the 1993 Brown's Chicken murders. James Degorski was found guilty Tuesday. NW Side fire kills 1, injures 4 | VIDEO A fire has killed a man in his 90s and injured four others on Chicago's Northwest Side. Man hurt in West Side police shooting Police were responding to reports of gunfire on South Trumbull near Ogden when they shot and wounded a 23-year-old man. Kraft given Nov 9 deadline to bid on Cadbury Kraft Foods Inc. has six weeks to make a binding offer to buy British candy maker Cadbury PLC or else walk away for at least six months, Britain's mergers and acquisitions regulator said Wednesday. MORE STORIES Strange Goodwill attendants find more than donated shoes Man calls 911 to confess to robbery Man pleads guilty to smuggling birds from Vietnam Oops at Mizzou in cell phone sale Bar plans charity Favre burn Consumer Toyota to recall 3.8 million vehicles Starbucks begins selling instant coffee Walgreens to sell beer, wine again UPS testing putting ads in packages Picking out an orange juice Healthbeat Hospital makes flu shots mandatory No more biopsies? Congress examines supplements with steroids High schoolers short on fruits, veggies High heels, sandals linked to foot pain MOST POPULAR Man missing in Mich. found dead Teen beaten to death in Roseland mob fight Surfers catch waves on Lake Michigan Regal mansion on auction block Michelle, Oprah arrive in Copenhagen All Most Popular Advertisement TODAY'S WEATHER OUTLOOK 60°F 41°F Sunny to partly cloudy Hour-by-Hour | 7 Day Forecast | Radar & Satellite TONIGHT ON ABC 7:00 PM Hank 7:30 PM The Middle 8:00 PM Modern Family 8:30 PM Cougar Town 9:00 PM Eastwick 10:00 PM ABC 7 News Lottery Results Your Daily Horoscope South Pacific islands tsunami kills 100 A massive tsunami unleashed by a powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 99 and leaving dozens missing Wednesday. The death toll was expected to rise. SLIDES: Tsunami hits American Somoa IMAGES: Destruction of the 2004 tsunami Thin crust gains ground in Deep Dish city A wave of new thin crust joints have opened over the past two years in Chicago. ABC7's Hungry Hound checked out the latest Neapolitan pizza oven. More from the Hungry Hound Neapolitan pizzas challenge 'deep dish' rep SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS I'd like to receive the following newsletters from abc7chicago.com Daily Weather | Daily News | 190 North Sign up for news alerts

Funeral Arrangements for Derrion Albert

The funeral arrangements for Derrion Albert, (the young man in the >news beaten to death) will be:  >Saturday  October 3, 2009 - 10:00 AM  at Mt. Hebron Church 8000 S. Wood St.  >                                                  Chicago, Illinois  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nas' Open Letter To Chicago Teens   Dear Young Warriors fighting the wrong wars! Killing each other is definitely played out. Being hurt from the lost of a love one was never cool.   Dear Young Warriors fighting the wrong war! I know that feeling, that frustration with life and needing to take it out on someone, any one. But....   We chose the dumbest things to go the hardest for. I remember seeing deaths over 8 ball jackets, Fila sneakers, and name plate chains. Deaths over "he say, she say"!!!!! "I'm from this block or I'm from that block", or "my moms n pops is f*cked up now the whole world gotta pay"!!!   I remember feeling like I was the hardest "n*gga" breathing. And I couldn't wait to prove it. But let's think. What are we really proving?? And proving what to who?? Everybody knows Chicago breeds the strongest of the strong but I just feel, me, being ya brother from another state feels your pain as if I grew up with you in ya very own household.   You have the ability and mindpower to change they way we are looked at. Look who's watching us young warriors, look who's throwing us in jail constantly, look at the ignorance in the world. Look at the racist dogs who love to see us down. Loving to bury us in the ground or in jail where we continue this worthless war on one another. Young warriors.... We are WASTING more and more time. We gotta get on our jobs and take over the world. Cuz this movie left the theaters years ago, Juice, Menace, Boys n the Hood , Blood n Blood Out, Belly!   When we see each other why do we see hatred? Why were we born in a storm, born soldiers, WARRIORS....and instead of building each other up we are at war with each other.. May the soul of this young person find peace with the almighty. I'm with you young warriors. You're me and I'm you. But trust me! you are fighting the wrong war.   This sh*t sucks !! -Nas   I snagged this letter in its entirety at www.globalgrind.com

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Media Matters Daily Summary

Here are today's news items from Media Matters for America, click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story. Military coup fantasy is latest in trend of extremist right-wing rhetoric Continuing a trend of increasingly violent and revolutionary rhetoric advanced by conservative media figures, Newsmax columnist John Perry wrote that President Obama "is inviting" a military coup and detailed the reasons he said officers might support such a "[m]ilitary intervention" with the end result being one in which "[s]killed, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars." On the same day, radio host Jim Quinn told armed service members to "run for your life, get out," because Obama "is gonna get you killed." Read More Kudlow distorts health insurance mandate to claim violators "face a $25,000 fine, or imprisonment, or both" On his CNBC show, Larry Kudlow distorted a provision in the health care reform bill proposed by Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) to claim that "if an individual opts out of this insurance plan ... apparently they face a $25,000 fine, or imprisonment, or both." In fact, the bill would levy a $1,900 "excise tax" on those who don't purchase health insurance; those who refuse to pay the tax could face a fine or prison sentence, as the Wall Street Journal editorial Kudlow cited as the source of his claim clearly stated. Read More Beck leads conservative media in raising specter of Chicago cronyism to attack Obama's bid for Olympics Conservative media have suggested or claimed that President Obama is advocating for Chicago to host the 2016 Olympics in order to return political favors to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley or forward the financial interests of other "Chicago pals." For instance, Glenn Beck advanced baseless speculation that Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett "may personally benefit" from the Olympics, and Michelle Malkin wrote that Daley "cronies" in Obama's circle are "returning the favor for their hometown boss" by pushing for the Chicago Olympics. Read More Beck guru Skousen's "story of slavery" suggests slave owners were "worst victims of the system" Fox News' Glenn Beck has heavily promoted the writings of far-right activist W. Cleon Skousen, even making Skousen's book, The 5000 Year Leap, a central part of his 9-12 Project. Skousen is the author of several controversial works, including The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution, which presented as "the story of slavery in America" a passage from a book that attacked abolitionists for delaying emancipation; cast slave owners as "the worst victims of the system"; claimed white schoolchildren "were likely to envy the freedom of their colored playmates"; and claimed that "[s]lavery did not make white labor unrespectable, but merely inefficient," because "the slave had a deliberateness of motion which no amount of supervision could quicken." Read More More "indoctrination": Conservative media attack Obama's proposal for more school Glenn Beck and other conservative media figures are now attacking President Obama's proposal to extend the length of school days and the school year, adding to conservative media's recent penchant for fearmongering about children in order to smear progressives. Beck and Rush Limbaugh claimed government mandates for longer school days would give the government more time to "indoctrinate" kids, and Michelle Malkin said Obama is acting as "school czar." Read More Beck repeatedly gets basic facts wrong despite boasting that "some of the biggest minds in America" do his research Fox News' Glenn Beck has bragged that "[m]y credibility means everything to me," and that he has "some of the biggest minds in America" on his research team "working harder than ... any staff ever on television" to get the truth out, but Beck frequently gets his facts wrong. For instance, in recent weeks Beck has falsely claimed Van Jones was a "convicted felon"; repeated Andrew Breitbart's false claim that an online video showed community organizers from the Gamaliel Foundation "pray[ing]" to President Obama; claimed an obsolete constitutional provision protecting the slave trade applies to "immigrants"; and, most recently, claimed a "Class of 2007" mosaic painted on tiles outside a California school was carried by G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh this week. Read More Despite evidence to contrary, Fox News machine claims Jennings "cover[ed] up statutory rape" Despite evidence to the contrary, Fox News -- led by Sean Hannity -- and other right-wing media have claimed that Department of Education official Kevin Jennings "cover[ed] up statutory rape" and violated Massachusetts law by not reporting to authorities a 1988 conversation in which a high school student told Jennings about his relationship with an older man. In fact, Jennings' attorney wrote in a 2004 letter that the student was 16 years old, which is -- and was at the time -- the legal age of consent in Massachusetts. Read More You can help support our work; become a volunteer media monitor, or donate to Media Matters for America.