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Did you see this week's crossword puzzle?!

The October 28th edition of New York Time Magazine included #68 down - "Your Business" airer.

Don't miss "Your Business" Sundays at 7:30 am ET on MSNBC! 

JJ Ramberg joined CNBC's Maria Bartiromo on the "Wall Street Journal Report" to discuss the the upcoming election and it's impact on small businesses.  Check out the video below:

Watch JJ weekends at 7:30 am ET on "Your Business" and check out her new book "It's Your Business: 183 Essential Tips that Will Transform Your Small Business" on sale now!

MSNBC's JJ Ramberg has had a very interesting career path.  In an interview with Forbes she talks about being the host of "Your Business," a small business owner and new author of "It's Your Business: 183 Essential Tips that Will Transform Your Small Business."  Check out part of the interview below. 

Q. How did you become a small business guru for MSNBC?

JJ: My career has bounced back and forth between small business and journalism.  I started as a journalist at NBC but left to get my MBA at Stanford. After that I joined an Internet start-up and then returned to CNN as a business journalist.  Next, I left CNN to start my own company, goodsearch.com.  So, when msnbc was looking for a host for their new small business program Your Business, I had experience as both an entrepreneur and a journalist.

Click here to read the rest of the interview and tips from her new book!

Watch JJ on Sundays at 7:30 am ET on "Your Business."

Check out JJ discuss how to turn a no into a yes, how to get your holiday gift noticed and viewer questions during her visit to "Weekend Today," below.

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Watch JJ weekends at 7:30 am ET on "Your Business" and find out more small business tips in "It's Your Business: 183 Essential Tips that Will Transform Your Small Business" on sale now!

Entertainment Weekly's Melissa Maerz made a recent trip to Studio 3A to hang out on the "UP w/ Chris Hayes" set. The article she wrote (which hit stands today) says of host Chris Hayes, "With his pop culture savvy, political smarts, and fervent fan base, the 33-year-old is keeping election coverage fresh." Check out what else Melissa had to say of her visit to 30 Rock in the October 26 issue of EW.

And don't miss "UP w/ Chris Hayes" weekends at 8am ET on MSNBC. (You can also catch the clips on www.upwithchris.msnbc.com)

"It's Your Business: 183 Essential Tips that Will Transform Your Small Business" is available online and in bookstores today!  

Small Business Trends recently posted a great review and said "It's Your Business" "is realistic and unpretentious.  The advice you’ll get here can be applied to any kind of business big or small, one thousand employees or just one."  You can read the rest of the review, here.   

Join the conversation on the "It's Your Business" facebook page to post your favorite tips and small business success stories, here.  

Don't miss JJ and "Your Business" Sundays at 7:30 am ET on MSNBC.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes participated in a panel for Advertising Week 2012 along with the New York Times' Jeremy Peters and Newsweek/Daily Beast's John Avlon.  The topic of discussion was the truth in politics based on a recent study conducted by McCann Truth Central.  Check it out below.

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Set your DVRs, #uppers! 

Chris Hayes will be on with Carson Daly tonight talking about the upcoming presidential election, his show "UP" (which just celebrated its one-year anniversary), and his debut book "Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy."

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Did you know that Carson is a fellow Upper?! Really great interview, you don't want to miss it.

Check out "Last Call with Carson Daly" tonight at 1:35am!

Big news! This weekend on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry," Melissa will sit down for an exclusive one-on-one interview with celebrated author and poet Dr. Maya Angelou. Don't miss this interview on Sunday at 10am only on MSNBC. Clips will be available afterwards on mhpshow.msnbc.com.

      HARRIS-PERRY:  Twenty-one years ago, as an undergraduate at Wake

Forest University, I had the honor of being a student in the classroom of

an American icon, Dr. Maya Angelou.

      And over the course of her 84 years, the little girl born as

Marguerite Ann Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, raised in Stamps, Arkansas,

evolved into the global Renaissance woman we all know as Maya Angelou.

      She had done it all -- novelist, poet, activist, teacher, singer,

dancer, historian, actress, filmmaker, even the first black woman to

conduct a streetcar in San Francisco.  Her globally acclaimed first memoir,

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" added the life story of a black woman to

the cannon of the great American novel.

      In her role at professor at Wake Forest University, she taught

courses in literature, democracy, social action and all those who are

familiar with her infinitely quotable wisdom can attest, the lessons she

has to teach reach far beyond the classroom and into our very lives.  And

as I found out when I sat down with Dr. Angelou recently, in the living

room of her Winston-Salem, North Carolina, home, her wisdom reaches into

our understanding of modern-day American politics.

      (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

      HARRIS-PERRY:  So it`s been 20 years I think.  I took your course as

a sophomore here at Wake Forest.

      And I remember that one of key lessons was courage.  And that courage

is the most important virtue.

      DR. MAYA ANGELOU, AUTHOR, POET:  That`s right.

      HARRIS-PERRY:  Because without it, nothing else can be practiced

consistently.

      ANGELOU:  That`s right.  Your memory is good, by the way. 

      HARRIS-PERRY:  I have said it to myself over and over for 20 years.    

      When you look at our current world, do we lack courage?

      ANGELOU:  Yes.  We lack courage, particularly because we`re not wise

enough to try to educate ourselves so that we really can develop courage.

      So we act like cowards.  We sit in rooms where people use

pejoratives, racial pejoratives or sexual pejoratives.  There are people

assaulting and beleaguering other people, Mexican, or Arab, or Jewish.  We

just sit there like numb skulls instead of taking up because whoever is

being assailed, that`s you nit wit.

     So you should say excuse me, just a minute, I won`t sit in this room

when people are being assailed.  Those are human beings and I`m a human

being.  And so, I have to take up, for I must support this person.

      You say he`s too skinny, fat, thin, stupid, bad teeth.  I mean, wait

a minute.  The statement is I am a human being.  Nothing human can be alien

to me.

      And if you know that, then you have enough -- develop enough courage

so that you can stand up for somebody and without -- maybe you don`t know

it at the time, but you`re really standing up for yourself.  It`s the human

in you.  It`s the kindness in you which allows you to be courageous.

      You develop courage in small ways.  You say I will not be called this

because I`m a woman.  I`m not a B.  Because I`m black, I`m not an N. 

Because I`m an American, I`m not a fool or a murderer.  I`m not that.

      You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself and

then you take up for someone else.  And so sooner or later, you have enough

courage to really stand up for the human race and say I`m a representative.

      HARRIS-PERRY:  You`ve also always said that words are things.

      ANGELOU:  Right.

      HARRIS-PERRY:  They can harm or uplift.  When I look at our current

political environment, I feel lack of courage, I see us turning our

opponents into enemies, and I see us using our words as weapons.

      Beyond the partisanship, beyond supporting this candidate or that, is

there some lesson for a political world that we can gain?

      ANGELOU:  I don`t know how we can, after the fact, after the

election, how we can look at each other with friendly eyes, having for all

intents and purpose, cursed each other out and said that this person is not

-- this person is a liar, a brute.  This person is a fraud.  And then the

elections will take place and then we have to work together in the House of

Representatives or in the Senate or in the supermarket.

      I think it`s fair and proper to say -- to explain your point of view

and what you hope to achieve.  That`s fair.  But that doesn`t mean then

that -- say of the other person who has another agenda that he`s a brute. 

Or she`s a terrible word.  That`s stupid.

      What breaks my heart, Ms. Perry, Dr. Perry, what breaks my heart is

to think what would our nation be like if we dared to be intelligent, if we

dared to allow our intelligence to dictate our movements, our actions? What

would -- can you imagine?

      HARRIS-PERRY:  Yes.

      (END VIDEOTAPE)

      HARRIS-PERRY:  Can you imagine?

      More from my interview with Dr. Maya Angelou tackling the issue of

education is next.

      (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

      One of the most memorable lessons taught to me by Dr. Maya Angelou is

that words are things, they have power.  If that`s true, the words of her name,

Maya Angelou, are powerful indeed.

      In my talk with her, we talked about the magic of the name Maya

Angelou and its ability to give new life to communities and to transform

young lives.

      (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

      ANGELOU:  I don`t know that of 40 schools around the country named

for me and libraries and homes and things, areas in cities, in Portland.  In

fact, in Harlem, areas named for me.  People have been told, maybe if you name it

for Maya Angelou, maybe the people will take it back and oppose their druthers, and the

brutes.  It`s a blessing to work hard and be given such kudos, such

responsibility, such honor.

      HARRIS-PERRY:  But it`s more than that.  That means your name -- you

talk about words being things -- your name has actual power.  If you name

it for you, perhaps people will take it back.

      ANGELOU:  Yes.  What we can do when we have built a name or when

we`re building a name or when we`re just starting, the moment we understand

-- oh, wait a minute, I can help somebody, just a minute.  I can help somebody.

      Then you realize that that person that you`re speaking to and

speaking of is in your lap, and needs you.

      HARRIS-PERRY:  There are four schools in Washington, D.C. named for

you.

      ANGELOU:  Yes.

      HARRIS-PERRY:  It seems like 444 too few.  One of them is especially

for adjudicated youth.

      ANGELOU:  That`s right.

      HARRIS-PERRY:  Why is that important to you?

      ANGELOU:  It`s so important.  When the larger society is saying,

you`re nothing.  I don`t have to consider you.  Then -- they then begin to

believe they`re nothing and worth nothing.

      And so, they become obese.  They become cruel.  They become criminal.

      They hold up liquor stores.  I mean, they risk their lives and so

that`s how they can only get into the school, supported or introduced by

the probation officer or parole officer.

      The children come in.  They have to be in school from 8:00 in the

morning until 8:00 at night.  And 8:00 at night, they don`t want to go home

because home may be where the hurt is.

      HARRIS-PERRY:  Right.

      ANGELOU:  So they stay in the school, and I’ll just tell you wonderful

story.

      HARRIS-PERRY:  OK.

      ANGELOU:  I went up there, supporting this school, then the two young

men, the two lawyers had a contest, how to name the school.  I was sitting

there.  Dr. Dorothy Height and one of the founders said here`s a young woman who

has earned the right to name the school.  The young woman got up, she was not looking all that good

and she had a piece of paper.

      She said, how are you going to name the school? She said, Maya Angelou, she’s telling us to

get up, get up.  You know, she`s trying to make us do good and, you know,

Maya Angelou been down low, she`s down lower than any of us.  And now she`s

up high.  She`s way up over you white people.  She`s up over it.  I said what?

      (LAUGHTER)

      ANGELOU:  That was 12 years ago.

      About four years ago in Philadelphia, a young woman came, she said

Dr. Angelou, how are you?  I said fine.  She said, you don`t remember me.

      I said no.  She said, my letter won the right to name your first

school.  I asked, you are -- she told me her name, and I said, what

happened to you?  She said, well I finished at the Maya Angelou school and

then I took my first degree from Howard.  And my second from Hampton.  And

I`m now working on my doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.

      See?  This young woman was just waiting to happen.

      (END VIDEOTAPE)

      HARRIS-PERRY:  She was just waiting to happen.

      That also perfectly describes exactly how I felt when I first met Dr.

Angelou more than 20 years ago.  And I am so grateful that she took the

time to talk with me this week.

      Dr. Angelou and her lessons as a teacher will be on my mind next

Sunday.  I will be hosting a special edition of this show.  It will be a

student town hall as part of NBC`s education nation summit live from the

New York Public Library in Midtown Manhattan.

      To inform and guide this discussion, we will be collecting questions

and ideas from students.  You can send your ideas via Facebook, on

Facebook.com/educationnation.  And on Twitter @educationnation.

      Also students can upload YouTube videos for a series we`re calling my

solution, by going to educationnation.com.  Go ahead.  And invite the

students in your home to do that today.  And be sure to tune in next Sunday

at 10:00 a.m. Eastern.

Hi #uppers and MSNBC fans! Don't miss Chris Hayes tonight on "The Colbert Report," where he'll be discussing his new book, "Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy" - 11:30p ET!

"UP w/Chris Hayes" will be back on the air at 8a ET on August 11. See you then!

The Firebrand Magazine recently posted a great review of Chris Hayes' book "Twilight of the Elites," saying that Chris's discussion of American meritocracy and inequality "breaks away from the past without really trying, thus letting it recede and putting fresh theory into public discourse." You can read the full review of "Twilight of the Elites" on The Firebrand's website. 

"UP w/Chris Hayes" is currently on hiatus due to the Olympic games, but will be back on the air beginning August 11! Meanwhile, you can keep UP with Chris and the show by following them on Twitter. 

You can also see Chris tomorrow night on "The Colbert Report" - 11:30p ET!