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The Show 11-17: TN to Release 4000 Prisoners - WTF??/Rakim Drops New CD/Janet Jackson Blames Dr. Murray/RANDOM MADNESS/Free Honey Baked Hams/Final Thought


-Local News:
"TN could release 4,000 prisoners to cut costs"
*Tennessee might release as many as 4,000 nonviolent felons, such as people convicted of drug dealing and robbery, under a plan outlined Monday by the Department of Correction to deal with the state's budget crisis.
Correction Commissioner George Little said the department would have no choice but to recommend early release of inmates if it were to implement the budget cuts called for by Gov. Phil Bredesen. The department has already squeezed out savings by scaling back on roadside litter-removal crews and leaving about 400 positions unfilled, and it is relying heavily on federal stimulus funding in its current budget, he said.
"This isn't scare tactics," he said. "We've got to make ends meet. … We would not propose these sorts of very serious and weighty options if we were not in such dire circumstances."
The early-release plan, which Little laid out on the first day of state budget hearings, is meant to show how the Department of Correction would proceed if Bredesen were to go ahead with a cut of up to 9 percent from all state department budgets.
The governor said the state may need to reduce spending by as much as $1.5 billion during the next fiscal year because of declining tax revenues and the end of the federal stimulus program.
Bredesen, who will not finalize his budget proposal until early next year, said after the hearing that he would try to avoid so drastic a cut to the prison budget.
"I obviously am not interested in returning hardened criminals back to the streets," he said. "But I've told each of them (departments) to come in and tell me, if I say you've got to have 9 percent, tell me how you can get it. … The best thing to do is to get all the possibilities on the table and sort through it."The governor also said equally tough cuts are contemplated for the Department of Children's Services. Read more:
www.tennessean.com


"Metro Council Discusses Guns In Parks Again"



*NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Metro Council will once-again consider the controversial issue of guns in public parks Tuesday night.
Councilman Sam Coleman wants to allow guns in Metro's rural parks, so visitors to isolated parks could protect themselves.
In August, the council voted to opt out of a new state law allowing guns in parks, but the new proposal would exempt nine parks and greenways including Alvin Beaman, Bells Bend and Cane Ridge.


"Jamie Hollin Sworn Into Metro Council"


*NASHVILLE, Tenn. - It's official, Jamie Hollin became a member of the Metro Council Monday night. Hollin was sworn surrounded by people who live in his district when he was sworn in.
Hollin defeated Pam Murray last week by just two votes in Nashville's historic recall election for the District 5 seat.Murray said she is considering contesting the election.
"Son charged with stabbing father in the back, face"
A father suffered multiple stab wounds from his son Sunday morning inside their Smyrna home, a sheriff’s deputy reported.
Andy Seymour, 52, of Olive Branch Road, suffered a stab wound to the back and cuts to his face and neck, Deputy Derrick McCullough reported. He was treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Son Adam Seymour, 24, of the same address, was charged with aggravated domestic assault.
McCullough found the father lying face down outside the home with a large stab wound to the center of his back next to his spine and another large laceration on the left side of his face to his neck.
"Both wounds were bleeding severely and Mr. Andy Seymour was complaining of a burning and tingling sensation over his entire body,” McCullough reported.
The father was in the living room when he felt a sharp pain in his back, the deputy reported. As he turned, he saw his son stabbed him. Before he could react, the father reported his son cut his face.
He attempted to block his son from cutting him again but he accused his son of trying continually to stab him, the deputy reported. He went outside to get away and fell in the front yard. A neighbor heard Seymour yelling for help and called 911.
Paramedics treated the father before taking him to Vanderbilt.
Deputies found the son about one-fourth mile away from the home. Deputy Dennis Ward took the son to the Adult Detention Center and booked him.
Detectives Scott Tillman and Lisa Svitak collected evidence and took photographs. Tillman obtained arrest warrants. A hearing is pending in General Sessions Court.


-HEADLINERS:
"SARAH PALIN KICKS OFF MEDIA BLITZ"




*Today's the big day for author Sarah Palin, whose book, Going Rogue, went on sale at midnight. Tomorrow, she'll be starting her book tour in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Yesterday, she was on Oprah Winfrey's show.
Asked about Levi Johnson, the father of her grandchild, who has been bagging on her of late, Palin said, "I think he needs to know that he is loved, and he has the most beautiful child, and this can all work out for good. It really can. We don't have to keep going down this road of controversy and drama all the time. We're not really into the drama. We don't really like that."


"Woman expected to enter guilty plea in Smart case"
*SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The woman charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors and will plead guilty in the case, her attorney said Monday.
Wanda Eileen Barzee, 63, was indicted on charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor.
BACKGROUND: Elizabeth Smart testifies about '02 abduction
Attorney Scott Williams said she will plead guilty to both charges Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. A final agreement was reached Monday, he told The Associated Press.
Barzee and her estranged husband, Brian David Mitchell, were both indicted in March 2008, six years after Smart was taken from her Salt Lake City home at knifepoint. She was found nine months later walking with the couple a suburban street.
Melodie Rydalch, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office, said Monday she could not comment beyond what was contained in papers filed earlier in the day in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City.
A decorum order for the expected arraignment Tuesday issued by U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball said Barzee "will be arraigned and is anticipated to enter into a guilty plea pursuant to an agreement with the United States."
Previous state court cases for the pair were stalled after both were ruled incompetent for trial. Barzee was ordered to under go forced medication treatments in 2007.
Last month, a state hospital report to a state judge said Barzee was now competent. "No issues of competency will be raised in the federal court matter," Williams said Monday.
Mitchell's case is also moving through federal court. The 55-year-old onetime itinerant street preacher is scheduled for a 10-day competency hearing beginning Nov. 30.


-A POSITIVE MOMENT:

"CONJOINED TWINS SEPARATED"


*Doctors in Australia successfully separated Bangladeshi twins joined at the head yesterday. It took 16 doctors more than 25 hours to complete the procedure on the three-year-old girls, who are named Trishna and Krishna. The chief of surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne said they were "doing well."


-TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY:
"Blacks Elected to Congress~November 17, 1972"
*Sixteen Blacks were elected to Congress. Andrew Young of Atlanta was the first Black elected to Congress from the Deep South since the Reconstruction era. Also elected for the first time were Barbara Jordan (Tex.) and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (Calif.). Republican Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts was overwhelmingly endorsed for a second term.

-HEALTHY MATTERS:
"MAMMOGRAM GUIDELINES CHANGE AGAIN"


Federal recommendations for routine breast X-ray screening have changed again, this time claiming that, for women under 50, the potential harm and risks outweigh the benefits. The new guidelines call for tests every two years, not annually. The recommendations are controversial, with some cancer specialists noting how much the death rate has decreased since annual testing for women 40 and older has been in place.


-RANDOM MADNESS:
"WORD OF THE YEAR"


*The normally serious folks at the New Oxford American Dictionary have selected "unfriend" as word of the year, giving eternal merit to the act of deleting someone as a Facebook friend.
Phone topic: Do you think social network sites are getting too much attention in the media?


-CELEBS:
"JANET JACKSON: Murray Is Responsible"


*Janet Jackson blames Doctor Conrad Murray for the death of her brother, Michael Jackson. In an interview with A-B-C's Robin Roberts set to air tomorrow night, she says, "He was the one that was administering. I think he is responsible." Murray is at the center of a manslaughter investigation into the King of Pop's death from lethal levels of propofol.
Janet also recalls the frantic moments that followed after she got word Michael had gone into cardiac arrest. "I was at my house in New York. You know, another day. Another morning. And I get a call... [My assistant] said, 'Your brother's been taken to the hospital. It's on C-N-N right now.' I called everyone's. There's a line busy or -- someone wasn't picking up. I spoke to Mother. I spoke to [brother] Tito. I spoke to my nephew Austin. I spoke to my sister LaToya."
Janet's interview on A-B-C airs tomorrow night at 10 p-m [ET]. -- Jamila Daniel
QUESTION??: Is Doctor Murray the only one you think is responsible for M-J's death? If not, who else should take some responsibility?
"JANET JACKSON: In Stores Today"-Janet Jackson's two-disc Number Ones compilation is available today. It features all the hits from her two-decade career, including "Nasty," "Escapade," "Go 'Til It's Gone," "All for You."


"RAKIM: In Stores Today"


-And rapper Rakim returns with The Seventh Seal, his first new disc in eight years. Ra recently told AllHipHop.com, "Seventh Seal is an option for those who want to change what they're doing, or [are] trying to better themselves. It's not too much about Rakim, and more the listener. It's definitely for the youth, but I'm an old dude and got something for the old heads as well." Guests include Maino, The LOX and Busta Rhymes.


And after much court battle, Q-D-3's Lil Wayne documentary The Carter arrives on D-V-D today.



"USHER: Disc Due Next Month"


*Usher's new album, Raymond Vs. Raymond, will arrive before the end of the year, according to Jive Records. Originally slated for release in early 2010, the follow-up to last year's Here I Stand is now due December 21st.
Raymond Vs. Raymond has already spawned the hit "Papers" and features contributions from Rico Love, Sean Garrett, Bryan Michael Cox and Pharrell Williams.


"SNOOP DOGG: Rings NYSE Opening Bell"


*Snoop Dogg took part in Global Entrepreneurship Week (November 16th through 22nd) yesterday by visiting New York's financial district. The rapper was on hand to ring the New York Stock Exchange's opening bell as well as to host the second annual Mentoring Madness event. The program is a nationwide search for inventive capitalists with promising, innovative business plans that contribute to social responsibility.
*Snoop's new disc, Malice 'n Wonderland, arrives December 8th.


"TREY SONGZ, KERI HILSON: Hop Into "Bed"
*Keri Hilson has played leading lady to Usher and Kanye West -- and now Trey Songz. Hilson and Songz are teaming up for a steamy video for "Your Side of the Bed," the third single off his latest disc, Ready. Trey will co-direct the clip, which they're shooting in Los Angeles this week.
*"I Invented Sex" is at number-four on the Billboard R-&-B chart.


"T.I., TINY: Wedding Bells in 2010"
*Tameka "Tiny" Cottle says she and T-I will finally walk down the aisle in 2010 -- they just haven't set a date yet. Tiny tells HipHopWired.com, "We can't really give a date yet because we have to find out exactly when Tip is coming home. We'll have to just plan around that, but I envision a fairytale wedding."
Tiny -- who rose to fame in the '90s with girl group Xscape -- says she and T-I are planning musical collaborations. "We did one song and we just never really got back in the studio, but I can't say that you won't hear anything in the future... We have several things that we're talking about doing together, so we'll see how that works out."


QUESTION???: Would a musical collaboration between Tiny and T-I be hot or not?



-THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
Today, life begins anew. Today, you are blessed with fresh, new opportunity.
You can build on the best of what has been. You can look clearly and objectively at the limitations that have held you back, and find new ways to transcend them.
Today, you can make amazing progress. Today, you can reach higher than you've ever reached before.
All your mistakes are behind you, and you've learned much from each one. All your experience is still with you, and you can use it in innovative new ways.
This day has begun, and with it comes your chance to make a difference. In these moments you can bring your dreams to life.
From deep within your purpose, look out and see all the great possibilities. This is a day that's now here for you to live more richly than ever.
-- Ralph Marston

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