Growing Better Rice for a Hungry World

The global demand for rice is booming. To keep up with this demand, rice production must increase by about 70 percent over the next two decades.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

Cryptozoic Entertainment signs with Diamond

Founded by Cory Jones (ex Blizzard), John Nee (ex DC) Scott Gaeta (ex Upper Deck) and some other folks, Cryptozoic Entertainment is a newish company with strong roots and, from what we heard at SDCC, lots of things in the works. They're putting out a Walking Dead board game, and have signed with Diamond for distribution. Could there be more products in the works? Keep an eye on them.
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[Source: The Beat]

Restless - Trailer

Annabel Cotton (MIA WASIKOWSKA) is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae (HENRY HOPPER) is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world. For Enoch, it includes his best friend Hiroshi (RY
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

More than a Goal

Fútbol Club Barcelona and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation kicked off a three-year partnership to energize the global fight to end polio and draw attention to the promise of life-saving vaccines.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

Vaccines Save Lives - For the Cost of your Favorite Soccer Gear

In developing countries, just a few diseases kill millions of children under the age of five. Many of these are preventable with simple vaccines that cost just a few dollars per child.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

Love Crime - Trailer

When Christine, a powerful executive (Scott Thomas), brings on a naive young ingenue, Isabelle (Sagnier), as her assistant, she delights in toying with her naivete and teaching her hard lessons in a ruthless professional philosophy. But when the protege's ideas become tempting enough for Christine to pass one as her own, she underestimates Isabelle's ambition and cunning-- and the ground is set for all out war. In this devilish, propulsive thriller, Corneau sets up a the scenery expertly and his actors devour it.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Facebook page lists Sitka, Alaska, bear sightings

Residents of Sitka, Alaska, are using social media to share reports about bear activity in the area.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Nev. couple return to Fla. church for suicide pact

A Las Vegas couple traveled from their home in Nevada to the Florida church where they were married 40 years ago to kill themselves in an apparent suicide pact, police said.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Signaling molecule identified as essential for maintaining a balanced immune response

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists show that the molecule serves as a bridge between the two arms of the immune system that provides a new mechanism guiding T cell differentiation
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[Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Latest News]

Heavy Times - Trailer

Out of boredom and peer pressure, three best friends (Dan, Mark, and Hugh) go to visit Dan's sister for dinner. Soon after meeting Dan's brother-in-law Rick, the trio finds themselves miles from home and far outside their comfort zone. What started off as an innocent trip spirals into an outrageous series of events none of them were prepared for.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

I Don't Know How She Does It - Trailer

Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Munn, and Christina Hendricks star in I Don't Know How She Does It, a comedy from director Douglas McGrath (Emma, Infamous) and producer Donna Gigliotti (The Reader, Let Me In). Based on the critically acclaimed bestseller by Allison Pearson, I Don't Know How She Does It follows a Boston-based working mother trying desperately to juggle marriage, children, and a high-stress job. Kate Reddy (Parker) devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard (Kinnear) and their two young children. It's a non-stop balancing act, the same one that Kate's acerbic best friend and fellow working mother Allison (Christina Hendricks) performs on a daily basis, and that Kate's super-brainy, child-phobic young junior associate Momo (Olivia Munn) fully intends to avoid. When Kate gets handed a major new account that will require frequent trips to New York, Richard also wins the new job he's been hoping for--and both will be spreading themselves even thinner. Complicating matters is Kate's charming new business associate Jack Abelhammer (Brosnan), who begins to prove an unexpected source of temptation.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Ohio pool's staff includes 4 sets of twins

Families are doing double duty this summer at an Ohio pool with four sets of twins on staff.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Suing The Devil - Clip

A down-and-out law student sues Satan for $8 trillion dollars. Satan appears to defend himself and the trial of the century takes place.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Advertising Art For The CW’s Ringer

Thanks to Mr. Video, here's some advertising artwork for The CW's upcoming series Ringer starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. The show premieres on September 13.
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[Source: KSiteTV]

Tumor suppressor protein is a key regulator of immune response and balance

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists provide insight into immune system biology and identify the mechanism that keeps white blood cell activity at a minimum until the specific immune response is needed.
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[Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Latest News]

Why Ending Polio Is More Than Just a Goal

Thanks to global childhood immunization campaigns, polio has been reduced by 99 percent globally, and eradication is within reach.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

Man uses phone glitch to bond out of Fla. jail

Authorities say an inmate at a central Florida jail used a glitch in the facility's phone system to bond himself out.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Atrocious - Trailer

In April 4th of 2010, Spanish police reported the discovery of 37 hours of recorded evidence that shed some new light on a gruesome murder investigation. The found footage documents a family of five spending their holidays at their summerhouse where brother and sister Cristian and July Quintanilla pass the time investigating a terrifying local urban legend. As their investigation intensifies, strange occurrences in and around the house escalate rapidly, before culminating in unspeakable atrocities.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Wisconsin professor wins 2011 bad writing contest

A sentence in which tiny birds and the English language are both slaughtered took top honors Monday in an annual bad writing contest.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Two More Secret Circle Directors Revealed

KSiteTV has learned of two more directors for upcoming episodes of The CW's new Secret Circle shooting in Vancouver. Colin Bucksey is directing the third episode (the number #3 includes the pilot), and David Barrett is directing episode #4. Bucksey's previous credits include Burn Notice, The 4400, Breaking Bad, and Miami Vice. Barrett's credits include [...]
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[Source: KSiteTV]

Reinventing the Toilet

Four out of 10 people worldwide don’t have a safe way to poop. Find out why we need a toilet revolution!
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Safe, sustainable approaches to sanitation can help save the lives of children who die from diarrhea.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

Interview With The Vampire Diaries’ Bad Boy “Klaus” – Joseph Morgan

Interview With The Vampire Diaries' Bad Boy "Klaus" - Joseph Morgan
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[Source: KSiteTV]

Insight - Trailer

Kaitlyn (Natalie Zea), an ER nurse who is tending to a young stabbing victim, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that is used in an effort to save the woman's life. Almost immediately she starts to experience the victim's memories. Kaitlyn turns to family, friends, and the police, but no one takes her seriously. She decides to take it upon herself to solve the crime - as the terrifying visions threaten her sanity.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Interview With The Creative Talents Behind The New Thundercats

Interview With The Creative Talents Behind The New Thundercats
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[Source: KSiteTV]

MTV Picks Up Teen Wolf For Season 2

MTV Orders A Second Season Of Teen Wolf
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[Source: KSiteTV]

Higher Ground - Trailer

Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, is a coming-of-age drama in which Farmiga delivers a subtle, nuanced performance completely from the gut, with equally strong and compelling supporting characters. Set against the backdrop of the Sixties, when feminism reached its zenith, the film expertly depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community. Inspired by the resonant memoir from Carolyn Briggs (who also wrote the screenplay) the film is an exquisite study of one woman's internal struggle with the primary love relationships in her life. John Hawkes, Donna Murphy, Bill Irwin, Dagmara Dominczyk, and Joshua Leonard round out the cast, along with Farmiga's younger sister Taissa, who proves herself to be an extraordinary new talent as Young Corinne.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Falling Skies Episode 6 “Sanctuary, Part 1″ Images

Falling Skies Episode 6 "Sanctuary, Part 1" Images (Airs July 17)
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[Source: KSiteTV]

Project Nim - Featurette

From the Oscar-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Man tests law by claiming to be a `pastafarian'

Niko Alm wanted to test an Austrian law saying that head coverings would only be allowed in official documents for religious reasons.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Two-headed snake on display in Ukraine zoo

A two-headed snake has gone on display at a zoo in southern Ukraine.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Man accused of throwing snacks at flight attendant

A Utah man has temporarily lost his flying privileges and passport after authorities say he pelted a flight attendant with peanuts and pretzels on a Southwest Airlines plane from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Xeric Award Winding Down

Trolling the internet while on vacation, I was chilled down to the bone (impressive given the 100+ temperatures in Texas) to see on the announcement on the Center for Cartoon Studies website that the Xeric Award would be no more. Since 1992, Peter Laird of the amazeballs black and white comic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (self-published in 1984) has granted two awards a year to a cartoonist or project for its excellence.
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[Source: The Beat]

Pa. trooper's windshield smashed by orange drink

Authorities say someone dropped a large plastic cup full of orange drink from an interstate overpass in Pennsylvania and it smashed the windshield of a police cruiser.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Kan. woman fined for repeated littering in 1 yard

A Kansas woman ticketed for tossing her empty tea bottles in the same yard nearly every day for two years insists there was no malice involved.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

NM man accused of handing out semen-tainted yogurt

A New Mexico man was indicted after police said he was linked through DNA samples to semen-tainted yogurt samples handed out at a grocery store.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Chris Colfer, Cory Monteith, & Lea Michele To Leave GLEE After Season 3

The Hollywood Reporter today posted confirmation from showrunner Ryan Murphy that series leads Lea Michele (Rachel), Chris Colfer (Kurt), and Cory Monteith (Finn) will not be continuing with GLEE once their characters graduate at the end of the third season. Murphy told THR that they "are not going to be back at all for season [...]
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[Source: KSiteTV]

Potterdammerung II

Seeing it in a few minutes! More thoughts later.
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[Source: The Beat]

No one bothers to run in small NC town's election

The races for mayor and three commission seats are wide open in the small North Carolina town of Tar Heel - because no one bothered to run.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Brazil boy seems to attract metal objects

An 11-year-old boy in Brazil's northeastern city of Mossoro is drawing attention with his purportedly magnet-like qualities.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Thieves steal air conditioners from Ariz. church

Parishioners at a suburban Phoenix church had to sweat through a service after thieves stole two of the church's three air conditioners.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

'Fore'-legged duffer found wandering NY golf club

Anyone lose a small horse near the ninth hole at a central New York golf course?
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Colo. teen hurt in coffee grinder fireworks blast

A Colorado teen is recovering from serious burns he suffered when the fireworks he was attempting to mix in a coffee grinder exploded.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Images From Syfy’s Alphas (Premieres July 11!)

Images From Syfy's Alphas (Premieres July 11!)
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[Source: KSiteTV]

NYC pet store bans drunken puppy-buying

A New York City pet store that's surrounded by bars has banned drunken puppy-buying.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

A Better Life - Chat

From the director of About a Boy comes A BETTER LIFE -- a touching, poignant, multi-generational story about a father's love and the lengths a parent will go to give his child the opportunities he never had.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Images From Syfy’s Alphas Pilot

The premiere episode of Alphas airs Monday night, July 11 at 10PM (ET) on Syfy. Here are some images that Syfy has released from the first episode. You can read more about Alphas here at KSiteTV.
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[Source: KSiteTV]

Lightning strikes twice for NJ's Lucy the Elephant

Who says lightning never strikes twice in the same place? Certainly not Lucy the Elephant.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Mysteries of Lisbon - Trailer

Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel (by Camilo Castelo Branco) evokes the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

War Horse - Trailer

DreamWorks Pictures' "War Horse," director Steven Spielberg's epic adventure, is a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets--British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter--before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse--an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. "War Horse" is one of the great stories of friendship and war-- a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Arizona man sentenced for shooting his car

A western Arizona man has received a three-month sentence after authorities say he shot his Camaro because it wouldn't start and then refused to come out of his home.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Ohio kids say teens robbed their lemonade stand

Children selling lemonade in the Cleveland suburbs have told police they were robbed by teenagers who pulled up in a rusty old car and threatened to beat them up.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

John Sage Named Director of Stakeholder Communications at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

SEATTLE—John Sage, founder of 6H Consulting LLC, has joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as director of stakeholder communications.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

Phase 7 - Trailer

Coco (Hendler) has just moved to a new apartment with his wife Pipi (Stuart), who's seven months pregnant. At first, they don't seem to notice the growing chaos around them, but when authorities quarantine their building after a deadly pandemic breaks out, Coco joins forces with his off-kilter, but well-prepared and stocked next-door neighbor Horacio to defend his refrigerator and keep Pipi safe. Meanwhile, outside the building, Buenos Aires, and the world as the apartment denizens know it, is disappearing. The world is ending; got ammo?
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Ohio shop's gorilla mascot attacked by banana

The manager of a cell phone store in Ohio called 911 to report a gorilla had been attacked by a banana.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Tweets in French earn USC professor knighthood

A University of South Carolina professor who encourages her students to use Twitter in French class will be getting honorary knighthood from the French government.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

The Walking Dead Season 2 Teaser Video

Season 2 of AMC's The Walking Dead isn't coming until later this year, but if you want a slow-motion new teaser video, you're in luck. Be sure to come talk about The Walking Dead on our forum!
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[Source: KSiteTV]

Woman charged with putting antifreeze in smoothie

A woman was being held on an attempted murder charge Wednesday after police say she spiked her roommate's peach smoothie with antifreeze three years ago.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

TNT Officially Renews Falling Skies For Season 2

TNT wants more Falling Skies as the network has ordered a second season of the show. Here's the press release. Talk about this news on our Falling Skies forum! TNT Orders Second Wave of Falling Skies, Cable's #1 New Series Epic Series from DreamWorks Television and Executive Producer Steven Spielberg, Starring Noah Wyle, Scores as [...]
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[Source: KSiteTV]

World War Z suffers two zombie casualties: Fox and Harris bail

World War Z suffers two zombie casualties: Fox and Harris bail
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[Source: Blastr Atom Feed]

July Fireworks

Developed by the ancient Chinese, fireworks are the oldest form of rockets and the most simplistic model of a rocket powered by gunpowder. Did you know that certain types of explosive fireworks for example: cherry bombs, M-80s and others were made illegal by federal law in 1966? Or that in 1996, a string of firecrackers were lit that banged for a full 22 hours, to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Hong Kong? Photo: Mary Bellis

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[Source: About.com]

The Legal View: From Superman to Supergods with Grant Morrison

By Jeff Trexler-- In March 2008, Grant Morrison's homage to Siegel and Shuster appeared in comic shops on the very same day that the Siegel heirs recaptured half the original Superman copyright.  Now Morrison is set to work his shaman's magic once again in the September relaunch of Action #1--and this time, the Siegels could lose everything.Morrison's upcoming Supergods holds the key to understanding why. For an explanation and a sneak preview of Morrison’s new book, click below. A mysterious appeal, Joe Shuster’s super-swastika and the final crisis of the legal multiverse--this one has it all.
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[Source: The Beat]

Win 5 USB Gadgets! – GFM’s First Competition Give-Away!

Yes, its true. We have decided to bring a bit of Christmas cheer early by giving away 5 great USB gadgets in our first ever Gadgets For Men competition give-away. We have carefully hand picked a selection of fun and practical USB powered gadgets to give away to one lucky reader. So what USB gadgets [...]

Win 5 USB Gadgets! – GFM’s First Competition Give-Away! is a post from: Gadgets For Men (UK)

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[Source: Gadgets for Men]

Comedian Jimmy Carr writes debut comic strip, plus first look at artwork

COMEDIAN Jimmy Carr has written his first comic strip.

The stand-up funnyman, who hosts Channel 4's panel show 8 out of 10 Cats, has penned an exclusive tale of "violent point-scoring and social alienation" for the latest issue of CLiNT.

A first look at the artwork is featured below, while the magazine cover is above.

The story, Beat My Score, is described as "a nihilistic satirical sideswipe at the glamorisation of violence, tackling the difficult and disturbing effects as seen in school shootings around the world. Its manga-styled images by Japanese artist Ryusuke Hamamoto will resonate in the brain like a ricochet long after the final shots have been fired."

The premise of the tale is: When every action is assessed for its potential as a Tweet, and every success is accompanied by Achievement Points, what will one maladjusted Japanese college student do to claim pole position?

CLiNT, which launched last September, has already featured the first look at Kick-Ass 2, Mark Millar's sequel to the comic that inspired Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation.

Jimmy Carr's Beat My Score will feature in CLiNT issue 9, which is on sale from tomorrow, June 30.

TV presenter Jonathan Ross and comedians Frankie Boyle and Stewart Lee have also presented their comic-strip debuts in the Titan Magazines publication.

Turf, by Jonathan Ross and acclaimed artist Tommy Lee Edwards, mixes vampires, aliens and gangsters in a period thriller, while Rex Royd, by Frankie Boyle, introduces The Renaissance Man of Madness in a supervillain strip.

Kick-Ass creator and CLiNT editor Mark Millar said: "We've been incredibly lucky in this first nine months. We just got nominated for a big award before we've even reached our first birthday and the talent line-up has been unmatchable. We've had people as diverse as Victoria Coren, Ian Rankin, Jonathan Ross and Frankie Boyle in here and now we've got Jimmy Carr doing comic books. It's crazy.

"What's nice is that Jim...

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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]

TV THIS WEEK: Torchwood's back, Futurama's Fry quits and more!

TV THIS WEEK: Torchwood's back, Futurama's Fry quits and more!
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[Source: Blastr Atom Feed]

BOOM! suggests you reserve and read SNARKED

Via BOOM!'s mailing list, Chip Mosher has a pretty clear suggestion that shows just how publishers are living on a copy here and a copy there. With DC's massive relaunch coming up a lot of retailer dollars are going to be tied up elsewhere so a book like Roger Langridge's SNARKED needs every little boost:
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[Source: The Beat]

Humpback Whale Watching Season on Oahu

To native Hawaiians, the humpback whale is a representation of the Hawaiian god Kanaloa (god of animals in the ocean).

Humpback whales begin their migration south from Alaska to Hawaii every year in December. The approximate distance they travel during their annual migration is 4,000 miles round-trip, making this journey one of the longest migration distances of any animal species. The whales usually stay through April so this is a prime opportunity to witness these amazing mammals in nature.

They come here every year to give birth to their calves and to mate.

Awwwww......

Aloha ~

Ali

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[Source: Going2Oahu Hawaii Travel Blog]

Vaccines: The Heart of Primary Care in Ethiopia

“Vaccines are the heart of our primary care,” Emebet Meshesha, a health extension worker, told me last month when I visited the Adama Udie health post in Ormoia, just outside Addis Ababa.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

Listen: Vudu Ceremony On Mt. Fuji

"Sometimes just focusing our thoughts on something, in a positive or unique way, provides the energy for new ideas to manifest themselves in the toughest of times," says Brooklyn-based sound composer Charles Edward Fambro. On March 3 -- a week before disaster hit Japan -- he released "Vudu Ceremony On Mt. Fuji," a free improv [...]
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[Source: Pink Tentacle]

True Blood's Deborah Ann Woll promises: 'We are coming to get you'

True Blood's Deborah Ann Woll promises: 'We are coming to get you'
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[Source: Blastr Atom Feed]

Using Soccer and African Corporate Leadership to Unite Against Malaria

As a native of Ireland, I can attest to “football (soccer) fever” and the power that soccer has to capture the attention of people of all ages, and from all walks of life.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

Police: Polite NJ burglar offers to repair screen

Authorities say a burglar offered to repair the screen that he damaged breaking into a New Jersey home after he was confronted by the homeowner and told her he meant to break into a neighbor's home.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Senna - Trailer

Senna's remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of SENNA, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later. Far more than a film for F1 fans, SENNA unfolds a remarkable story in a remarkable manner, eschewing many standard documentary techniques in favor of a more cinematic approach that makes full use of astounding footage, much of which is drawn from F1 archives and previously unseen.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Footloose - Trailer

Writer/Director Craig Brewer ("Hustle & Flow," "Black Snake Moan") delivers a new take of the beloved 1984 classic film, "Footloose." Ren MacCormack (played by newcomer Kenny Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid) responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister's troubled daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the process.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Colo. man spends 15 hours in air-conditioning vent

A 28-year-old Colorado man was rescued dusty but alive after he was trapped nearly 15 hours in an air-conditioning vent.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Bicyclists report getting smacked by angry bird

Bicyclists in eastern Oregon say they're getting whacked on the head by an angry bird.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Teen Wolf Episode 6 “Heart Monitor” Trailer

MTV has released an official trailer for the July 4 episode of Teen Wolf. So, after you enjoy the fireworks on Monday night, enjoy fireworks of a different variety at 10PM with "Heart Monitor."
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[Source: KSiteTV]

Mass. tavern boss happy as clam with chowder title

A restaurant celebrating its 25th anniversary this year also is celebrating the prestigious title of Boston's Best Chowder.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Fitness: Fitness Magazines, What’s With Them?

... only provide relevant pieces of information that matter most to you and your family.

Each article written in fitness magazines are classified according to the topics they possess. The categories may range from basic information about ... Continue reading →
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[Source: Home Fitness Body]

Wayward baboon, likely from park, captured in NJ

A wayward baboon that apparently escaped from an amusement park and became a mini-celebrity - appearing at a golf course and being followed on Twitter - was captured Saturday after spending three days on the lam.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

There are a number of applications that will make sure you're on time for your appointments and never forget your best friend's birthday, but they're not all created equal. Here's a look at five of the most popular desktop calendaring applications. More »

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Survival of Women and Newborns in Crisis

Imagine you are eight months pregnant with your third child with two other young children at home. The ground starts moving violently beneath you and panic sets in. You flee your collapsing home with your children.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

Instructables user namrac details how to repurpose a plastic paint bucket as a floating, outdoor speaker perfect for a little music on the water. More »

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Bill Gates Challenges Global Leaders at 64th World Health Assembly: Make Vaccines a Priority to Save 10 Million Lives

GENEVA -- Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, called on government leaders to increase their investments in vaccines and to hold themselves accountable for extending the benefits of vaccines to every child.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

My Invisible Earthquake: One Woman’s Journey Through Stillbirth

On a New Year’s morning in January 2003, my life took a shocking turn with my obstetrician uttering three simple but devastating words: no fetal heartbeat.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

High-resolution photos of Fukushima Daiichi

These high-resolution aerial photographs of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were taken on March 20 and 24, 2011 by a small unmanned drone operated by Air Photo Service, a company based in Niigata prefecture. Click [Enlarge] under each image for the full version. [Enlarge] Unit 3 (left) and Unit 4 (right) - March [...]
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[Source: Pink Tentacle]

Getting the “Last Hair” in Nigeria

In Nigeria we have made remarkable progress in the fight against polio, with campaigns that drove polio down from 388 cases in 2009 to 21 in 2010—a 95 percent reduction. We are extremely hopeful these gains continue and we know much hard work remains.
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[Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]

ICAF goes to CCS

We hadn't seen this formally announced anywhere but we might have missed it: ICAF, the annual meet-up for international comics scholars, will be hosted at CCS this year. The conference will be held September 29-October 1, and spotlight the American Bande Dessineé Society.
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[Source: The Beat]

Doctors pull stubborn moth from Colo. boy's ear

Doctors have removed a stubborn moth from a 12-year-old Colorado boy's ear after trying in vain to kill it.
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[Source: MiamiHerald.com: Weird News]

Big Screen event in London brings Cowboys & Aliens, Real Steel, Fright Night, Conan, Star Wars and more

FILM fans will be treated to a host of Hollywood's upcoming releases at a three-day festival in London next month.

Bauer Media and Clarion Events have announced Empire Presents...Big Screen and revealed details of the line-up.

It will include chances to meet the stars and see premieres, screenings and worldwide debuts of new footage.

The event, from August 12 to 14 at the 02, is backed by all the big studios including Paramount, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Sony, Marvel Studios, Warner Bros, Universal, Optimum Releasing, Pixar, Momentum, Lionsgate and Icon.

It will open with the UK premiere of Paramount's genre-mashing comic book adaptation Cowboys & Aliens, with the cast in attendance. The film, directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Iron Man 2), stars Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford. As well as the premiere, there will be special screenings on each day.

Industrial Light and Magic will take Star Wars fans on a journey behind the scenes of the films and reveal new content from the upcoming Blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Visitors will have chance to be photographed on part of a replica Star Wars set and take part in the Star Wars: Padawan Training School for would-be Jedi.

The closing night film has been confirmed as the UK premiere of DreamWorks Pictures' Fright Night, starring Colin Farrell. David Tennant, who co-stars in the movie, will be the special guest to welcome fans.

Sony Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, the geniuses behind Wallace & Gromit, will introduce highlights from Arthur Christmas and The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists and demonstrate how they bring these characters to life.

Exclusive screenings include the Dreamworks film adaptation of the New York Times bestseller The Help; Universal's comedy The Change-Up, starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman; The Guard, followed by a Q&A with director John Martin McDonagh; Norwegian horror movie TrollHunter, plus a cast Q&A; and Lionsgate...

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EIGHTEEN minutes of footage have been added to Zack Snyder's fantasy adventure Sucker Punch for a brand-new director's cut on the upcoming Blu-ray.

Warner Bros has announced that the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film will hit UK shelves on August 8.

Both formats include four animated features which aim to take viewers deeper into the filmmaker's immersive world.

The film stars Emily Browning as Babydoll, a young woman who retreats into a fantasy realm when she is locked up in an asylum.

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Special features on the DVD are: Animated Short: Feudal Warriors (2:38), Animated Short: The Trenches (2:54), Animated Short: Dragon (2:54) and Animated Short: Distant Planet (2:49).

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