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As Obama's foreign tour comes to a close, do hearts and minds abroad translate into a boost in the polls at home? Find out in the Political Lunch Friday 10-in-3! ALSO: What's McCain doing in front of that cheese case?

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Mary Helt and Chris Sittel of maryink met at a party in Nashville when they were home visiting their families. At the time Mary was living in NYC working as a photographer's stylist and Chris was living in Florida working at a silk screen studio. After a few years of tee shirt parties and projects the two packed up and moved back to Nashville to start their original silk-screen design clothing company maryink. Check out the rest of Etsy's Handmade Portraits series at Etsy.com

http://live.pirillo.com - If you're a fan of words like I am, or even word games, you probably love playing Scrabble. Thanks to the App Store, you can play Scrabble on your iPhone now, as well! This is an excellent way to ward off boredom while sitting on the bus headed home from work.

A unboxing and first look at HP's new IQ500 TouchSmart PC. This is an all in one PC with Touchsceen and HP's own Touch UI

Stalking is such a negative word these days.

Breitbart.tv editors Scott Baker and Liz Stephans look at the day's hot news stories.

We stop four ads in their tracks and debunk misleads on energy, war funding, Afghanistan hearings and attributions gone AWOL.

Rachel Maddow and Rob Millis discuss press bias toward McCain and Obama. The press is allegedly "in love" with Obama, while McCain woos them with BBQs and camaraderie. But what about that CBS edit this week?

This week s DaFoWo is brought to you by the letter A, for air-guitar gods; by the letter B, for Bible-wielding public-school teachers; and by the number 556.62 one apartment-dweller s shocking June electric bill. Watch for new shows at noon every Thursday at www.dafowo.com.

A suspicious fire gutted the main building of the Gateway School in south Gilroy tonight. The blaze erased the rebuilding efforts that parents, teachers and administrators had launched since another suspicious fire gutted the same building just six months ago.At 7:27 p.m., firefighters responded to a three-alarm fire at 7151 Hanna Street, near Glen View Elementary School, said Battalion Chief Phil King. The building, already heavily damaged from a January fire, was nearly destroyed by 8:30 p.m.Charred remains of the outer walls fell to the ground in clumps and only a skeleton of the building remained. "It was going pretty good when we got here," King said. In this video, we show you the fire and read highlights of the story.

Larry Anderson is not happy with Jose Reyes' showboating.

Jack Knife is a classical Pilates exercise that strengthens the abdominal muscles and challenges the core. Jack Knife builds on the Roll Over by adding extension of the legs to the ceiling, and maintaining the position of the legs as high as possible above the torso while rolling down to the starting position. Great for 12 pack abs! Visit www.PilatesOnFifth.com for more info.

http://live.pirillo.com - It's hard to get my attention these days with a glut of new products being released on a regular basis. mDialog got my attention quickly with their amazing marketing promotion. Thanks to them, we're doing a special giveaway for the Moderators in my chat room.

Jacob Soboroff wants to see more people voting and isn't afraid to ask the hard questions.

John McCain claims the media's in love with Barack Obama. Is there any truth to that, or is McCain just grumpy that his golf-cart photo-op was upstaged by Obama's ride in the King's Benz. (No idea what we're talking about? Watch today's Lunch!)

The invasive lionfish--venomous and voracious--has reached the tropical western Atlantic, where its reproductive rate is soaring. Invasive species expert, Lad Akins, of the Reef Environmental Education Foundation; along with College of the Bahamas marine science intern, Everton Joseph; and specimen collector for the Bermuda Aquarium, Chris Flook, team up in the waters of the Bahamas, where they dive, collect, tag and dissect, to better understand the invader in its new home. They'll run key field experiments, to identify potential controls, and assess the likely impacts of the invasion, on fragile reef ecosystems and ocean-based economies.