Which strategist told CNBC Friday, "All financials will be owned by the U.S. government in a year"?

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Which strategist told CNBC Friday, 'All financials will be owned by the U.S. government in a year'?

Answer: Hugh Hendry

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Jim Cramer said HP's Q4 pre-announcement yielded no "pin action." Who did he say could have benefited from that action?

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Question: Jim Cramer said HP's Q4 pre-announcement yielded no "pin action." Who did he say could have benefited from that action?

Answer: all of the above

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According to Jeffrey Saut of Raymond James, when did the market bottom?

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Question: According to Jeffrey Saut of Raymond James, when did the market bottom?

Answer: Oct. 10

Enjoy our Holiday Cigars slideshow. Now name the only 2-time winner of Cigar Aficionado's No. 1 Cigar of the Year

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Enjoy our Holiday Cigars slideshow. Now name the only 2-time winner of Cigar Aficionado's No. 1 Cigar of the Year. 

Answer:  The Padrón Family

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Black Friday Deal Source

Time to start checking for those Black Friday sales: BlackFriday.info, Bargainist.com, DealTaker.com, BFads.net, and TheBlackfriday.com.

You might want to check the above out before you hit the stores.

In the story, Stocks Could Get a Short Post-Election Bounce, who said Obama offered markets a "big positive"?

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Question: In the story, Stocks Could Get a Short Post-Election Bounce, who said Obama offered markets a 'big positive'?

Answer: Bruce Fenton of Atlantic Financial

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Forget MRSA C Difficile Worse

With all the attention on antibiotic-resistant staph, or MRSA, you may have overlooked Clostridium difficile, the nasty bacterium behind a growing number of hospital-acquired infection. Turns out C. diff is infecting more than 1 in 100 inpatients, a nationwide survey just found.


Forget MRSA for a Moment, Clostridium Difficile is a Growing Problem

With all the attention on antibiotic-resistant staph, or MRSA, you may have overlooked Clostridium difficile, the nasty bacterium behind a growing number of hospital-acquired infection. Turns out C. diff is infecting more than 1 in 100 inpatients, a nationwide survey just found.

APIC, the big infection-control group, asked its members to take a one-day snapshot of C. diff in U.S. hospitals; responses came back from more than 600 facilities in 47 states.

A day in the life of C. diff proved sobering. Thirteen of every 1,000 hospitalized patients are colonized with C. diff, and 94% of those patients show signs of C. diff disease, such as severe diarrhea. The finding suggests that, on any given day, some 7,000 hospital patients have C. diff, and about 300 will go on to die of the disease, the authors wrote.

The one-day-snapshot method is somewhat unusual, so it’s tough to compare these findings with C. diff numbers from earlier studies. But by any measure, it’s clear that C. diff is a growing problem. Check out this analysis, which found that the percentage of hospital patients with C. diff doubled between 2000 and 2005.
C. diff has the nasty habit of flourishing after patients are treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics, which wipe out the intestinal bacteria that normally keep C. diff in check. And it forms hardy spores that are difficult to kill — alcohol-based disinfectant gels, for example, don’t do the trick. What’s more, a recently discovered strain called NAP1 is not only especially virulent, but also appears to pass more easily from person to person than other strains of C. diff.

So what can be done? Solid isolation and hygiene by hospital personnel helps. So does avoiding broad-spectrum antibiotics when possible, and keeping the course of treatment short. For more tips, see this WSJ story.

Photo of C. diff spores by Photo Researchers

The Water Thief

After vacation we noticed our water bill was very high. Nothing was leaking, and it appeared no one had been in the house. Our dog was still outside, and our cat was still inside, so we were stumped as to how so much water had been used. We suspected someone was turning on a tap and running it during the night. The other night we heard water running. I grabbed my camcorder to get a movie of the law breaker in action to give to the police. The water thief was caught on tape!!!

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Palin: Media Criticism of My Criticism = First Amendment Violation

When you are a true believer, you are a true believer all the way.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com Palin reportedly told WMAL that her criticism of Obama’s associations, such as those with Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, shouldn’t be considered negative attacks. The media’s suggestions that it’s going negative may threaten a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, she said. “If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.”