Top Picks: Oliver Stone's US history, a three-CD Creedence Clearwater Revival compilation, and more

CeeLo Green celebrates the holidays with a new CD, the History Channel explores the story of humanity, and more top picks.

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Guitar player and teacher Julia Crowe explains the genesis of her book, My First Guitar: "Just how does anyone get so passionate about the guitar that they can't imagine a life without it?" Her subjects ? jazz, rock, and classical guitar heroes including Andy Summers of The Police; The Byrds' Roger McGuinn; jazzer George Benson; and the reclusive, press-averse guitar legend Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin ? 76 string wizards in all? ? describe their first encounters with the instrument that would become their lifelong companion and ticket to fame.

History's margins

Filmmaker Oliver Stone has never been shy about putting his personal stamp on a project. Showtime's upcoming Untold History of the United States, co-written and narrated by Mr. Stone, is no exception. In partnership with historian Peter Kuznick, the 10-part series takes the important events of the 20th century and expands the narrative to include overlooked players and newly discovered facts from the Kennedy administration and the Vietnam War. Begins Nov.12.

Human footsteps

In Mankind: The Story of All of Us, the History Channel launches an ambitious six-part, 12-hour miniseries, examining the key moments that enabled mankind to survive everything from the Ice Age to modern times. Narrated by Josh Brolin, the series, launching Nov. 13 at 9 p.m., traces the invention of fire, community building, farming, written language, and industry. Future episodes look at the sacking of Rome, the Industrial Age, space exploration, and the human body.

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If ever pop music was created to sound awesome in a car, it was CCR's. Short, snappy, rocking singles like "Proud Mary," "Down on the Corner," and "Bad Moon Rising" blasted from radios coast to coast in the late 1960s and early '70s. And you know what? Their music holds up and still rocks, big time. The Ultimate Creedence Clearwater Revival is a comprehensive compilation on three CDs.

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Inventing David Geffen, a PBS biography of the Los Angeles music mogul, opens with a meditation on the power of the imagination to invent one's life. Mr. Geffen's talent is a testament not only to the rewards of pursuing a big dream, but also the possibility of influencing an entire culture along the way. Geffen launched many baby boomer generation icons such as Laura Nyro; Crosby, Stills and Nash; The Eagles; and Jackson Browne. The profile of a Brooklyn high school graduate-turned-billionaire philanthropist airs Nov. 20.

A GREEN CHRISTMAS

Singer CeeLo Green is a force ? with equal parts talent and exuberance. Mr. Green's Magic Moment is his new Christmas album, which captures the big man at his fervent best, spinning out holiday classics in his unique style. Christina Aguilera joins him for a sultry "Baby, It's Cold Outside," and the ageless Rod Stewart and Green romp through the R&B chestnut "Merry Christmas, Baby." The full-bore gospel rave-up "What Christmas Means to Me" showcases Green's range.

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January Jones welcomes back the popular Humorist Bobbe White discussing "Turkey Talk" for the upcoming Thanksgving Holiday. Bobbe shares her thoughts on "Downsizing Thanksgiving" with humor and hope for everyone.

Fred Williamson; actor, director, producer and former football player joins the show today. Fred has stared numerous films, Three The Hard Way, Bronx Wariors, Orginal Gangstas and Starsky & Hutch. Fred has also starred in the TV series The Cloud Miners and Star Trek. He is also being inducted into the Kansas City Hall of Fame and has a new movie titled: "The Last Ounce of Courage".

Follow those eggs over easy riders Garrison and Scot with this week's guests: Mike Vaughan, former Director of Marketing for Kawasaki Motors Corp USA and former CEO of Triumph Motorcycles America and indie singer-songwriter Ainjel Emme.

From the people who brought you such introductions as 'Barbara Streisand', 'Dream Come True' and the 'Julia Child' rose, Karen Kemp-Docksteader from Weeks Roses joins Rose Chat Radio to preview their 2013 rose introductions.

Does money make you happy? Do your kids, family and your work make you happy? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the midst of a happiness revolution? Kardec Radio interviews Roko Belic, the director of the "Happy" movie.

Paul Gant's GO4IT (@goforitgant) will be joined by Indianapolis Colts DB Sergio Brown, who will discuss the season and more. Also, Hall of Famer Willie Roaf will stop by to discuss all things NFL.

Laura Jane has performed and recorded with some of the biggest names in the business, such as Latin Superstar Enrique Iglesias, Dave Matthews Band and Kelly Clarkson. Joy Keys chats with Singer Laura Jane about her second album Everything Changes.

Cooking it up in the Callywood Nation Chef Darrell "Das" Smith from Food Network's: Next Food Network Star; Season 6. Food is life -literally. Come tune in to see what's cooking!

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Join Take 2 Radio as they make their debut. Pam, Dawn & Jay, bring you up close and personal to some of the best actors, and artists in the entertainment industry. Always entertaining & the hottest show around, Take 2 Radio the show you won?t want to miss!

join hosts The Bad Seed and Nadine Michel as they welcome Queensbridge representer and 25 to life member Imam Thug to the show. Imam discusses the drama between prodigy and havoc which led to the group mobb deep's demise. He also talks Noreaga and Tragedy.

Today, Fernando Hernandez, author of "The Cubans" joins Canto Speaks. Sylvio and Fernando will discuss the story of Roberto Goizueta the Chief Financial Officer of Coca Cola.

Jaimee Lee and Dr John welcome Barbara Hand Clow to the program tonight. Barbara Hand Clow is an internationally recognized Mayan Elder, Ceremonial Teacher, and Cherokee Record Keeper. She is the author of over ten books including: ?The Mayan Code.

Jaimee Lee and Dr John welcome Barbara Hand Clow to the program tonight. Barbara Hand Clow is an internationally recognized Mayan Elder, Ceremonial Teacher, and Cherokee Record Keeper. She is the author of over ten books including: ?The Mayan Code.

Vicki Vann returns to Jammin Jukebox Radio Show to kick off their holiday music season. Jammin' Jukebox chats with Vicki about her holiday release and then you're in for a real treat as they feature some of her holiday music to get you in the holiday spirit!

Independent game developer, Jacques Montemoi?o, is interviewed by GaminG4Respect with his new title (Jake Konoichi: Butterfly Legend) being released this weekend. Jacques is one of only five Hispanic-American's to be the Head of a game development studio. Jacques' studio is called Gideon Games, and he has achieved much, much more.

Host Sonia Fitch of Variety Topics Talk welcomes author celebrity trainer spokesperson and Fitness Hall Of Famer Kathy Kaehler. For thirteen years, she appeared on the TODAY Show as the fitness correspondent while training celebrities such as Julia Roberts and more!

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BY?Pradip Rodrigues

Recently a forwarded piece of mail was accidentally sent to this newspaper, I figured it out after I called the sender who was baffled. He told me it was a private email that was definitely not supposed to be sent to a newspaper office of all places. The email contained two attachments, one pertaining to Bill 13, which amends Ontario?s Education Act with respect to bullying. And the other was a downloadable letter parents could sign and send to their child?s school.
Now Bill 13 is controversial because several faith-based religious groups have resisted it based on the fact that the subjects dealt with are contrary to their religious and moral values. So what exactly is this Bill 13 that seems to have stirred a hornet?s nest. Following cases of bullying and growing intolerance toward LGBTTIQ (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirited, intersex, queer and questioning) people. The Bill introduced by the McGuinty government passed earlier this year is intended to ensure school-going students have the knowledge, skills, attitude and values to engage in the world and importantly, making their schools and communities more tolerant for all people.
The forwarded email had a downloadable letter titled- Our Family?s Traditional Values Letter for parents who wished their children excused from discussions and classes that dealt with subjects like sex education, environmentalism, moral relativism and situational ethics. The reason being that these were sensitive subjects and the position held by a secular society clashed with their conservative religious values.
Thousands of conservative students all across Ontario and more specifically the GTA are routinely pulled out of classes that their parents deem inappropriate . In some schools a significant number of students are excused from attending following notes from their parents. Looked at in another way, this well could be another form of censorship?restricting a child?s access to information being discussed logically in a classroom. This is not to say that the children will feed their heightened curiosity by simply looking it up on the Internet.
I met a conservative Muslim mother recently who was vehemently opposed to any teachings about gays and lesbians because to her it was wrong and unnatural and the way the schools were teaching the subjects tended to lend legitimacy to the subject.I wonder how this parents will explain to her child that in 2012, it is quite okay for a child to have two mothers?
On an online blog, one South Asian parent actually went on to suggest that since pre-marital sex was not an option for South Asian children, attending a sex education class was quite unnecessary. My research for this piece led me to an abortion clinic near Trillium hospital in Mississauga. On that particular afternoon, there were women from all races, 50 percent of the women seeking abortions were non-White, one girl, who I suspected could be no more than 19-years-old was there with her boyfriend, she was obviously in some school for sure, she even had books with her and one more thing, she wore a hijab. I so wish some of these parents who are under the mistaken belief that their children do not need to attend sex education classes saw what I saw. How many of these conservative girls and boys missed those classes because their parents thought it clashed with their religion and values?
As a parent, I teach my child values, but that doesn?t mean I will shield him from a discussion at school on any issue regardless of how I feel about it. For example, my Grade 2 son startled me last year when he told me that men can get married to men, apparently a boy in his class mentioned it to him. When it is time for the school to have a talk on the issue, I will be quite happy to have him sit in there and understand the issue as well as every other issue that will help make him a better and more tolerant individual.
If more and more children are kept away from free and frank discussions on sensitive issues, we risk a return to the dark ages. It is okay for families to privately believe God created earth or that aliens were behind it. But a classroom is probably the only sane place where all viewpoints can be aired, discussed and debated so that everyone has a broad understanding of life in the 21st century.
It isn?t just the separation of Church and State that needs to be enforced but the separation of Church and School.

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Should next president treat Russia as friend or foe?

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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, on June 18. In the past six months, while supplying arms and support to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, Putin has shut down a U.S. government program inside Russia that dismantled its obsolete nuclear weapons, and restricted USAID's operations there.

By Jim Maceda, NBC News

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LONDON -- One thing is clear: whether it's President Barack Obama or President Mitt Romney, dealing with Russia will be on his "must do" list.

The "sleeping bear" has been pretty restless lately: it has vetoed U.N. Security Council resolutions on Syria and blocked U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to end the civil war there; it has refused to pressure Tehran, even though it helped build Iran's nuclear enrichment program; and relentless push-back by Russian President Vladimir Putin against basing a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic ? both former Soviet satellite states ? has left those two NATO members exposed and nervous.

But figuring out what to do about Russia first means defining who exactly Russia is. Is it, as Romney submits, America's "number one geopolitical foe"? Or, as Obama seems to believe, is Russia a post-Cold War rival with whom we can do business?

Let's step back a little here. Certainly, after the fall of the Soviet Union, relations with Russia under President Boris Yeltsin were more benign. Remember all the guffawing and back-slapping between Yeltsin and President Bill Clinton?

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President Bill Clinton laughs with Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin during a press conference on October 23, 1995.

Unfortunately, all that good cheer soon turned into a humiliating debacle. Yeltsin was often intoxicated. He launched two disastrous wars in Chechnya, and became a laughingstock as his economy tanked and rich "oligarchs" divvied up the nation's wealth.

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Then came Putin ? the former KGB agent who heavy-handedly stopped the hemorrhaging. He re-established Kremlin control over oil and gas, and as oil prices tripled he pumped billions of petro-dollars into his military and, as importantly, into the salaries and pensions of Russian voters.

'An equal'
His popularity skyrocketed; and it was time for the West to take heed. At a Munich security conference in 2007, Putin threw down the gauntlet. He accused the United States ? under President George W. Bush ??of a murderous policy of global domination and said Russia had the weapons to "neutralize" any missile defense near its borders.

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It was not a declaration of war, but it was a turning point ??from an America-friendly?to a confrontational Russia. "Russia was back," Fyodor Lukyanov, managing editor of Russia in Global Affairs, told me. "That was the message ??we have the resources. You need the resources, and you need to treat Russia with respect. As an equal."

And the chill began to thaw. Dmitry Medvedev succeeded Putin as Russian president and seemed more open and Western-minded than his mentor.

President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney discuss foreign policy in the third and final presidential debate.

He and his counterpart, Barack Obama, agreed to "reset" relations, hoping that the rebooting would clear all the static. Soon, both sides came together on transporting supplies for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan across Russian territory; cooperation in areas like counter-terrorism and narcotics interdiction increased; Medvedev even championed some political reforms that would have guaranteed the emergence of a real opposition. That is, until Putin retook the presidency last May. Since then, he's rolled back all the reforms, and seems to have "re-reset" U.S.-Russian relations to the days of the Cold War.

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Putin is turning the screws, and not just by dramatic moves, like imprisoning members of the female punk group, Pussy Riot, on charges of blasphemy for having performed an anti-Putin song in a Moscow church.

Members of the band Pussy Riot, arrested in February after storming a Moscow cathedral, were sentenced to two years in jail Friday. Critics say the arrest was Putin's personal revenge, raising questions about justice in Russia. NBC's Duncan Golestani reports.

"A pale of repression is settling over the country," wrote Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation in a recent New York Times editorial. "This crackdown is wrapped in legislative garb, but the iron grip of authoritarianism is unmistakable."

New laws now slap pro-democracy protesters with large fines for "illegal assembly." One protest leader ? Sergei Udaltsov, the head of the Left Front ? has been charged with "plotting riots" and could spend 10 years in jail.

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Others may follow ??the courts have just expanded the meaning of "high treason" to include the sharing of information with any foreign non-governmental organization. In addition, NGOs which get funding from abroad must now register as "foreign agents," echoing the days of Cold War espionage.

And even as our presidential candidates debate whether Russia is a friend or enemy, there seems little doubt that Putin himself sees America as a looming geopolitical target. In the past six months alone, while supplying arms and support to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, Putin has shut down a U.S. government program inside Russia that dismantled its obsolete nuclear weapons; he's closed the UNICEF offices, and restricted USAID's operations there.

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As his anti-American policies multiply, it's small wonder that in a recent national poll, Russians were seriously divided on whether they loved America?or hated it (46 percent to 38 percent, respectively).

Conservatives like Cohen are frustrated. While Putin turns Russia into a "fortress," they say, the Obama administration keeps offering up carrots, like gaining Russia access to the World Trade Organization.

Vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan praised running-mate Mitt Romney's foreign policy stances at the last presidential debate, telling TODAY's Savannah Guthrie that the GOP candidate did a "fantastic" job of spelling out his doctrine.

They claim the reset just hasn't worked.

"America should pursue its national interests in relations with Moscow, instead of pursuing a feel-good mirage," Cohen wrote.

'Putinization' spreading in Europe, US group warns

President Romney says he would stand up to Russia and talk tough about human-rights abuses. But it's less clear just how a 2nd term Obama presidency would deal with Putin's Russia.

Putin himself has said that he'd rather work with Obama than with the "misled" Romney. That's understandable ? on Obama's watch, Putin has succeeded in cracking down on civic dissent at home and building the world's largest publicly-traded oil company ? Rosneft.

Russia's Putin: Romney 'mistaken,' Obama 'honest'

Some Russia analysts are calling strategic energy reserves Putin's "new Red Army" ??the Kremlin now controls some 25 percent of Europe's, including European NATO members', energy needs.

But does all of that make Russia an enemy, like al-Qaida or Iran? Hardly. Still, it probably means that the next U.S. president is going to have to take off the gloves in dealing with it.

"Putin's understanding of international affairs comes down to a fight for power and prestige," says Lukyanov.

And Putin seems intent on using that power and prestige to counter U.S. influence around the globe, even as he turns Russia back into a police state.

Vice President Joe Biden ?reacts to President Obama's performance in the third and last debate, noting the president has demonstrated the "grasp and a gravity" of foreign policy.

The columnist John Vinocur recently suggested that, if re-elected, Obama should "stand up with protesting Russians the next time they fill Moscow's streets."

But how many protesters ? and their leaders ??will be languishing in jail by then?

Jim Maceda is an NBC News correspondent based in London who has covered Russia and the former Soviet Union for more than 20 years.

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Factbox: U.S. companies delay results due to Sandy

(Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. companies postponed releasing quarterly results after superstorm Sandy hit the U.S. east coast, disrupting power supplies and transportation and flooding large parts of New York city.

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Companies announcing delayed results and/or conference calls:

-- Abiomed Inc rescheduled second-quarter conference call to November 1 at 8 am Eastern Time.

-- Accelrys Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31, after market.

-- Acorda Therapeutics Inc rescheduled third-quarter results and conference call to October 31.

-- Advent Software Inc rescheduled third-quarter results and conference call to October 30.

-- Aegion Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31, after market closes. Its conference call will be held on November 1, 9.30 am Eastern Time.

-- Affiliated Managers Group Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31. Will hold a teleconference at 11.00 am Eastern Time.

-- AGCO Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31, 8 am Eastern Time from October 30.

-- American Capital Agency Corp rescheduled its shareholder call to November 1. The earnings call may be further postponed depending on when equity markets reopen, it said.

-- Arch Capital Group Ltd rescheduled third- quarter results to aftermarket on November 1. The conference call will be held at 10 am Eastern Time on November 2.

-- Arkansas Best Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1 from October 30.

-- Armstrong World Industries Inc rescheduled its third-quarter conference call and webcast, and said new timings would be announced later.

-- Aspen Technology rescheduled first-quarter conference call to November 1, 8 am Eastern Time.

-- Automatic Data Processing Inc rescheduled first-quarter results to November 1.

-- Avis Budget Group Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1, after market. The company will host a conference call on November 2 at 8:30 am Eastern Time.

-- Avon Products Inc tentatively rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1. The company said it would confirm once the weather stabilized.

-- Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1 after market close.

-- Blackbaud Inc rescheduled third-quarter conference call to November 1.

-- Brightcove Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1 from October 30.

-- Carmike Cinemas Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1.

-- Cell Therapeutics Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1 from October 30, and will hold its conference call at 8:30 am Eastern Time.

-- Cerus Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to November 7 after markets close.

-- Cirrus Logic Inc rescheduled second-quarter results to October 31 at about 4 p.m. Eastern Time.

-- Compugen Ltd rescheduled third-quarter results conference call to November 5.

-- Con-way Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings report to October 31, after market. Conference call will be held on November 1, starting at 8:30 am Eastern Time.

-- Cummins Inc pushed back earnings by a day to October 31, 7 am ET.

-- Danaos Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to November 5, after markets close.

-- Dendreon Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to November 2 and will hold its investor conference call the same day at 9 am Eastern Time.

-- DreamWorks Animations SKG Inc rescheduled third- quarter earnings announcement and conference call for November 1, after markets close.

-- Drew Industries Inc rescheduled third-quarter to November 1, before market and a conference call will follow at 1 pm.

-- Entergy Corp rescheduled third-quarter earnings conference call to November 5.

-- Equinix Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1 and will hold its quarterly conference call at 5.30 pm Eastern Time.

-- Exelon Corp rescheduled third-quarter earnings call to November 1 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time, from October 31.

-- GNC Holdings Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings call to November 1 at 10 am Eastern Time.

-- Heartland Payment Systems Inc rescheduled its conference call to November 1 at 9 am Eastern Time. Results will be issued prior to the market open on the same day.

-- Heidrick & Struggles International Inc : rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31.

-- Hess Corp rescheduled third-quarter earnings conference call to November 2, at 10 am Eastern Time.

-- hhgregg Inc rescheduled second-quarter results to November 2.

-- Hercules Technology Growth Capital Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1 at 5 pm Eastern Time, from October 30.

-- Hertz Global Holdings Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings to October 31, after market, and the conference call will be held on November 1 at 10 am Eastern Time.

-- ICG Group Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 5, before market. The Company will host a conference call at 10 am Eastern Time that morning.

-- Iconix Brand Group Inc rescheduled third-quarter results and earnings call to November 1.

-- Integrated Silicon Solution Inc rescheduled fourth-quarter results conference call to November 1, 4.30 pm Eastern Time.

-- Intelsat S.A. rescheduled third-quarter results and conference call to November 5 from October 31.

-- Itron Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1, 8.00 am Eastern Time.

-- ITT Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to November 2, 7 am Eastern Time.

-- Kaman Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31, after the bell. A webcast and conference call will be held at 8:30 am Eastern Time on November 1.

-- Kilroy Realty Corporation rescheduled third-quarter conference call to October 31, 10 am Pacific Time.

-- L-3 Communications rescheduled third-quarter conference call to November 1 at 11 am Eastern Time. The press release of the quarterly results will be issued on the same day before market.

-- Life Technologies Corp rescheduled its third-quarter earnings and conference call to November 1.

-- LPL Financial Holdings Inc rescheduled third- quarter results to October 31, before market opens.

-- MannKind Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1, and will host a conference call at 6 pm Eastern Time.

-- Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1 from October 30.

-- MCG Capital Corporation : canceled its conference call scheduled for October 30, 9 am. It will instead file prepared remarks with the SEC on an 8-K.

-- M.D.C. Holdings Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1 before market opens, and will host a conference call at 12.30 pm Eastern Time.

-- Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1 after market, from October 29.

-- Medidata Solutions Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31 from October 30.

-- Monolithic Power Systems Inc : rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1, and will hold its conference call at 5 pm Eastern Time.

-- MPG Office Trust Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 5, after market.

-- MSC Industrial Direct Co Inc rescheduled its fiscal fourth-quarter results to October 31 from October 30.

-- NCI Inc rescheduled third-quarter to November 7 after market. Conference call will be at 5 pm Eastern Time.

-- Neustar Inc rescheduled its third-quarter results and conference call to November 5, after market.

-- Newtek Business Services rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31 at 4:15 pm Eastern Time.

-- NiSource Inc rescheduled its third-quarter results to November 2. The company's analysts conference call is now scheduled for 9 am Eastern Time on November 2.

-- NRG Energy Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings conference call to November 2 from October 31.

-- Nu Skin Enterprises Inc rescheduled third-quarter results and conference call to premarket on October 31.

-- Office Depot rescheduled third-quarter earnings announcement and conference call to November 6.

-- Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings announcement to November 1, and host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

-- Papa John's International Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31, at 5 pm Eastern Time. Conference call will be held on Nov 1, at 10 am Eastern Time.

-- Parkway Properties Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1, after market, followed by a conference call at 5 pm Eastern Time.

-- PartnerRe Ltd

rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31, after market.

-- Penske Automotive Group Inc rescheduled third- quarter earnings release and conference call to November 2.

-- Pentair Ltd rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1 from October 30.

-- Peregrine Semiconductor Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31 from October 29.

-- Pfizer Inc rescheduled third-quarter results and conference call to November 1, before the bell, from October 30.

-- Post Properties Inc will hold its quarterly conference call on October 31 at 12 noon Eastern Time. The company released results on October 29.

-- Qiagen NV now plans to issue its third-quarter results in on November 4 at 12 noon Eastern Time.

-- Ralph Lauren Corp rescheduled second-quarter results to November 1.

-- Republic Airways Holdings Inc : rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1, at 1 pm Eastern Time.

-- Rogers Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to about two hours before the market on November 5.

-- Rudolph Technologies rescheduled third-quarter results and conference call to October 31.

-- Saba rescheduled conference call to November 5.

-- Saia Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1, before market opens.

-- Sanmina-SCI Corp rescheduled fourth-quarter results to October 30, after market. Hosts a conference call on October 31 at 8:30 am Eastern Time.

-- Scana Corp rescheduled third-quarter results to November 6, before the market opens.

-- Seagate Technology plc rescheduled first-quarter 2013 results and conference call to October 31.

-- Sealed Air Corp rescheduled third-quarter results announcement to November 2.

-- Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1, 7.30 am Eastern Time.

-- Sirius XM Radio rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1.

-- Solta Medical Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1, before market opens, and will host a conference call at 10:30 am Eastern Time.

-- Sourcefire Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 1.

-- Southern Co rescheduled third-quarter results to November 5, 7.30 am Eastern Time.

-- Sterling Bancorp rescheduled third-quarter results and related conference call to November 2 from October 30.

-- Sungard Data Systems Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to October 31, and will host a conference call at 4.15 pm Eastern Time.

-- Systemax Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings announcement to November 1, after market. The Company will host an earnings teleconference at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on that day.

-- Take-Two Interactive Software Inc rescheduled second-quarter results and conference call from October 30. The new schedule will be announced later.

-- Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd rescheduled announcement of results for quarter ended September 30 to November 1, after market closes from October 30.

-- Tesla Motors Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 5 at 6:30 am Eastern Time from October 29. The company will hold a live Q&A session at 8 am Eastern Time.

-- Texas Roadhouse rescheduled third-quarter results and conference call to November 1.

-- The Corporate Executive Board Co rescheduled third-quarter results and conference call to November 1.

-- The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings and conference call to November 2 from October 31.

-- Thomson Reuters Corp rescheduled earnings announcement to November 2 from October 30.

-- Time Warner Cable Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 5 and will hold a conference call at 8.30 am Eastern Time.

-- TripAdvisor Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings release to November 1.

-- True Religion Apparel Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 5 before market.

-- USA Mobility Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings announcement to November 1, 4.30 pm Eastern Time.

-- Unilife Corp rescheduled the release of its first-quarter results to November 8 at 4.05 pm Eastern Time. It will hold a conference call at 4.30 pm the same day.

-- Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc rescheduled third-quarter results to November 2, before market.

-- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings and conference call to after market close on November 1 from October 29.

-- Virtusa Corp rescheduled second-quarter earnings to November 1 and will hold a conference call at 5 pm Eastern Time.

-- Vision-Sciences Inc rescheduled second-quarter results to November 5. Conference call will follow on November 6.

-- Waddell & Reed Financial Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings announcement to October 31 from October 30.

-- Waste Management Inc rescheduled third-quarter earnings conference call to October 31, 10 am Eastern Time from October 30.

-- Weingarten Realty rescheduled its conference call previously scheduled for October 29.

(Compiled by Bijoy Koyitty and Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/factbox-u-companies-delay-results-due-sandy-160159017--finance.html

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NYC utility prepped for big storm, got bigger one

This photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, shows what appear to be transformers exploding after much of lower Manhattan lost power during hurricane Sandy in New York. After a gigantic wall of water defied elaborate planning and swamped underground electrical equipment at a Consolidated Edison substation in Manhattan's East Village, about 250,000 lower Manhattan customers were left without power. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)

This photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, shows what appear to be transformers exploding after much of lower Manhattan lost power during hurricane Sandy in New York. After a gigantic wall of water defied elaborate planning and swamped underground electrical equipment at a Consolidated Edison substation in Manhattan's East Village, about 250,000 lower Manhattan customers were left without power. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)

Streets around a Con Edison substation are flooded as the East River overflows into the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, N.Y., as Sandy moves through the area on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Superstorm Sandy zeroed in on New York's waterfront with fierce rain and winds that shuttered most of the nation's largest city Monday, darkened the financial district and left a huge crane hanging off a luxury high-rise. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Consolidated Edision trucks are submerged on 14th Street near the ConEd power plant, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Sandy knocked out power to at least 3.1 million people, and New York's main utility said large sections of Manhattan had been plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 customers without power as water pressed into the island from three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

FILE -In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, file photo, workers clear debris outside the Consolidated Edison power sub-station on 14th Street. After a gigantic wall of water defied elaborate planning and swamped underground electrical equipment at a Consolidated Edison substation in Manhattan's East Village, about 250,000 lower Manhattan customers were left without power. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? They planned big for Superstorm Sandy, but not big enough.

Consolidated Edison figured any surge would not surpass the 11-foot record set nearly two centuries ago. Or the design limit of 12.5 feet for a key substation in lower Manhattan.

But the wall of seawater reached 14 feet.

The surge that swamped the substation cut power to about 250,000 customers. It was the signature event in a series of electrical failures from winds and floods that at one point left almost 1 million Con Ed customers in the dark ? a record storm outage for the utility.

Con Ed planners knew by Monday evening that they would face an extraordinary mix of threats to their electrical network: a historically powerful storm, a very high tide driven by a full moon, critical electrical equipment buried under the streets, and full-force exposure to the intensity of the elements via New York Harbor, the Atlantic estuary known as the East River, and other waterways.

So they prepared for a rough go.

But events defied elaborate planning and expectations.

The substation, located near the East River in the southeast portion of Manhattan, had withstood a surge of 9.5 feet during last year's Hurricane Irene.

The utility figured the infrastructure also could handle a repeat of the highest surge on record for the area ? 11 feet during a hurricane in 1821, according to the National Weather Service. They also did not expect the design limit of 12.5 feet to be threatened.

But as water poured into the substation Monday evening, the blinding flash of an explosion lit the most famous skyline in the world, then plunged the bottom third of Manhattan into darkness.

"Nobody predicted it would be that high," said Con Ed spokesman Allan Drury.

A proactive Con Ed had hoped to avoid disaster by shutting down three similar power networks in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn in advance of the storm surge.

As the storm's predicted path zeroed in on the New York metropolitan area, Con Ed brought on extra work crews and laid plans to shut down some underground equipment in lower Manhattan and other parts of the city.

By late Monday afternoon, the utility started to notify Manhattan customers south of 36th Street ? an area encompassing nearly a third of Manhattan ? that power might be shut off if underground equipment was flooded with corrosive, destructive seawater. The company gave the same heads-up to some customers in outlying Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

By mid-evening, though, conditions had worsened. More than 150,000 customers in New York City and the northern county of Westchester were already off grid. The utility began turning off the power, as a precaution, to a section of lower Manhattan, including Wall Street, in an attempt to stem damage. Shortly afterward, the company began cutting electricity in parts of Brooklyn too; a total of 220,000 other customers were already in the dark.

Less than an hour later, more equipment flooded, sparks flew, and the blast boomed across the East River ? Manhattan's eastern border ? and throughout lower Manhattan from what Con Ed believes was a circuit breaker at its flooded substation.

The flooded equipment had failed.

When live electric equipment is inundated with salt water, electricity escapes every which way, sending sparks flying and damaging equipment. "You see a huge blast just from the short circuit," says Arshad Mansoor, senior vice president for research and development at the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry-funded research group.

And the troubles didn't end as the storm slowly moved off. Con Ed said problems to its high-voltage systems caused by the hurricane forced the utility to cut power to about 160,000 customers in Brooklyn and Staten Island on Tuesday night.

As day broke Tuesday, the company was busily assessing damage and fixing equipment. But downed trees and wires, as well as lingering flood waters, made it hard for repair crews to reach some areas.

The utility was able to get at least 140,000 customers back on the grid within several hours, while hundreds of thousands of others hunkered down for a longer outage. Con Ed said customers served by underground equipment should be restored to service by the weekend. Those who get power from overhead lines are expected to wait longer. That's because there are so many fallen lines.

The most densely populated parts of the city, generally in Manhattan and Brooklyn, are served by underground transmission wires. These offer protection from wind and falling tree limbs that plague overhead wires and make the suburbs far more vulnerable to outages.

Underground wires, though, can flood and be more difficult to repair, especially in low-lying areas. It can be harder for workers to get to the wires because manholes flood. When water recedes, it can be harder to find problems, pull out wires and equipment, dry them, fix them, and slide them back into place.

The damage assessment could take days to complete.

To engineers like Joannes Westerink, a University of Notre Dame researcher who is working on a computer model for future New York City storm surges, this was all predictable.

"You build infrastructure too low, and you run into trouble," he said. "It's a recipe for disaster."

He said it's well known that New York City had spread to ever-lower zones in modern history. He cited Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan as a dramatic example.

Con Ed could likely have preemptively shut more networks served by the substation that exploded, but that would have meant cutting power to tens of thousands of people and critical facilities like hospitals. Even though hospitals have backup power generators, they too can fail. Generators at New York University Langone Medical Center went down Monday night, and patients were evacuated.

"You have to make the decision to shut off power to a substation very, very carefully, especially if it serves critical facilities," Mansoor said. The decision can turn into a lose-lose situation.

Despite the latest damage, Mansoor called the New York City system the most reliable in the world because it's normally well protected from weather and set up with backup equipment. That protects the city from minor disruptions and helps keep major disruptions from cascading through the city.

No system, he said, can be designed to withstand every storm, no matter how severe.

Carol J. Friedland, a Louisiana State University engineer who has studied the impact of flooding on electrical systems, said more measures should be taken to protect equipment in low-lying places. For example, sea walls can be raised, and equipment can sometimes be relocated.

"My personal opinion ... is that there should be more resilience built into these types of infrastructure, because when the power goes out, it disrupts the entire community," she said.

Massoud Amin, a University of Minnesota electrical engineering professor who has studied power outages, said the storm underscores the need to improve the nation's electric grid by stringing more high-voltage wire and using modern sensor technology to spot problems sooner, isolate damage, and speed recovery from outages.

"Our electrical infrastructure system is a marvel of engineering for the last century," Amin said. "The grid operators and the power companies are doing the best they can."

It is too soon to say if anything more could have been done to keep the New York City grid working. Under state regulations, Con Ed will be required to file a report on the outage to the New York State Department of Public Service within 60 days of power restoration. That agency's staff will evaluate how problems were handled and if improvements can be made for the future, according to agency spokeswoman Pamela Carter.

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Donn reported from Plymouth, Mass., and Carpenter from Chicago. AP Airlines Writers Scott Mayerowitz and David Koenig contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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