FOX Fall 2012 Preview Video: Glee

FOX has released a preview video showcasing Glee Season
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[Source: KSiteTV]

A Free Online Class From Wharton To Get You Started On Business School

It’s not for credit, of course, but maybe it will whet your appetite. The University of Pennsylvania’s business school is the latest A-list educational institution to offer free online learning.

[Source: Fast Company]

The Power of Gratitude

Grateful people are humble, caring and considerate. They are optimistic in nature and usually live happier lives. Discover the Power of Gratitude and change your life forever!
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[Source: The Abundance Blog]

USA's 'Nordic Thunder' wins world air guitar champs

American Justin Howard, alias Nordic Thunder, was crowned world champion air guitar player in Finland late Friday, narrowly ahead of his compatriot Matt Burns, aka Airistotle.




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[Source: NBCNews.com: Weird news]

Electrolux Takes Pop-up Dining To New Heights

The manufacturer has created a floating restaurant atop Europe’s great neoclassical buildings, where Michelin-starred chefs are making over-the-top meals with over-the-top views. Ari Karpel takes one for the team and joins the feast.

[Source: Fast Company]

Gas prices jump, but good news expected

Gas prices have jumped again nationwide, according to a survey published Sunday.

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[Source: CNN.com - Travel]

SWCVI: Closing Ceremony

The time has come to bid farewell to Celebration VI!  And what better way to start the closing ceremony than with a little dancing and singing?  In addition to a dance off between Jedi and Sith, Mark Daniel got the crowd to sing along to his Star Wars version of, “Feeling Hoth, Hoth, Hoth.”  Even [...]
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[Source: The Official Star Wars Blog]

Vacation, vashmaytion

What could possibly happen in the week before Labor Day? We tell ourselves that every year, and every year something wild and wacky happens, like Disney buying Marvel, or Rob Liefeld becoming the Twitter Assassin. Despite temptation, we're still taking some time off this week to view historical sites around the US. Todd Terrific is also indisposed this week, and I think Sterling Steve is also on vacation. Tireless Torsten and Jaunty Jessica are still at the helm, however.
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[Source: The Beat]

A Lonely Place for Dying - First 8 Minutes

It is 1972. An abandoned Mexican prison sits alone in the dusty Chihuahua desert. KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. Dzerzhinsky holds explosive evidence against the CIA--information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper must obtain this evidence and kill Dzerzhinsky or risk the end of his CIA career. As the two men hunt each other, they discover that the sins from their past destined them for this deadly confrontation.
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[Source: Latest Movie Trailers]

Audit: FAA ineffective in program to keep animals from hitting planes

The FAA has not effectively implemented a program designed to keep birds and other animals from causing damage to airplanes, according to an audit from the Department of Transportation.

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[Source: CNN.com - Travel]

Can Nicaragua deliver on potential?

Known as the "Land of Lakes and Volcanoes", Nicaragua has immense natural beauty and alluring colonial towns. But the Central American country is still underdeveloped and lacking in tourism infrastructure.

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[Source: CNN.com - Travel]

Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo praised for amazing performances in Marvel's Avengers

CHRIS Evans and Mark Ruffalo have been praised for their amazing performances in The Avengers.

Both feature in a new clip from the upcoming Blu-ray and DVD release of the superhero blockbuster, known as Marvel's Avengers Assemble in the UK.

Continuing the countdown to the arrival of the film in stores, another behind-the-scenes video has been unleashed.

This time it's a featurette called Assembling The Ultimate Team, which takes a look at the casting and performance of Captain America and Hulk.

It was Chris Evans who stepped into the red, white and blue uniform of the patriotic hero, following his earlier appearance as Human Torch, another Marvel Comics character, in Fox's Fantastic Four films.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige says Evans completely owns his new role as the 1940s supersoldier Steve Rogers, who finds himself thrust into a dangerous modern world that could still benefit from the leadership and discipline of his wartime duties.

Feige says in the featurette: "Chris Evans has risen to the forefront as Steve Rogers. If you look at Chris Evans you forget any role he has ever played before and all you can see is Steve Rogers."

Director Joss Whedon says of the character: "Captain America is a whole new ball game because it's a whole new era, and [Chris] really did an amazing job."

Mark Ruffalo, who plays scientist Bruce Banner and his alter-ego the Hulk, enjoyed appearing in the movie alongside Evans, explaining: "It's very cool, I'm wildly impressed with him."

Whedon says Ruffalo was always his first choice for the role of Banner, while Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr added: "With Mark Ruffalo, I have someone who I would be happy to do every scene with for the rest of my life."

The Avengers Blu-ray and DVD is out on September 17 in the UK and September 25 in the US.

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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]

New regulatory mechanism discovered in cell system for eliminating unneeded proteins

Work led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists offers clues into molecular malfunction at the heart of a rare blood vessel disorder, revealing an important new regulator of cellular proteins. (Brenda Schulman, PhD)
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[Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Latest News]

Remote Viewing and Remote Influencing

What would you do if you had the ability to "see" at a distance and the possibility to change your future?


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[Source: The Abundance Blog]

Are you a window flier or an aisle seater?

It's a powerful thing: the airline window seat. Statistics suggest that window seat passengers may enjoy their flights more. But changes are afoot for this travel touchstone.

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[Source: CNN.com - Travel]

Coming Attractions: Andrews McMeel: Fall 2012 – Spring 2013

Share this link on Facebook!___________________________________________________________________________Andrews McMeel is the publishing division of what was once known as the Universal Press Syndicate. If one ignores the various archival publishers of comicstrips, then AMU is the predominant publisher of comicstrip collections in the United States.This Fall, AMU launches a line aimed at kids, known as AMP!. [...]
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[Source: The Beat]

Livestrong CEO Doug Ulman: What Lance Armstrong Created "Will Win Out"

This time, it's really not about the bike.

Doug Ulman

The news broke last night that Lance Armstrong will no longer contest the latest allegations of cheating throughout his cycling career, prompting the United States Anti-Doping Agency to strip him of his seven Tour de France titles. If any organization can ever be prepared for a global maelstrom of damning headlines about its founder and most public face, it’s Livestrong, the cancer-fighting foundation Armstrong established in 1997. As CEO Doug Ulman told the assembled staff at Livestrong headquarters in Austin this morning, “Ever since we’ve moved into our office three years ago, we’ve been dealing with this.”

Two years ago, in the midst of an exhaustive federal criminal investigation into Armstrong’s alleged doping and a cover-up, I explored the question, “Can Livestrong Survive Lance”? The foundation continues to capitalize on Armstrong’s celebrity while eluding his notoriety. When an Associated Press story ran at the time speculating about the foundation’s demise, Ulman gathered his staff that day in Austin and urged them not to get distracted from serving 28 million cancer survivors. That night, he followed up with an email: “People are assuming we will fail to fulfill our mission…They don’t know the power of 28 million people.”

“Our supporters have grown not numb to it, but they accepted it as a cloud sitting over us. It’s time to focus on more important things.”

This morning, Ulman says, he told the team, “The mission of the organization and what Lance created will win out. That’s what I firmly believe.”

In February, the feds dropped their case against Armstrong. But the USADA promptly launched its own inquiry. If anyone was hoping for a nice tidy ending to the whole did-he-or-didn’t-he matter, today’s news isn’t it. Armstrong isn’t admitting anything. He’s his usual defiant self. He calls the USADA’s case “an unconstitutional witch hunt” and says, “I am finished with this nonsense.” ...

[Source: Fast Company]

Judge Dredd Year One offers prequel ahead of Pete Travis reboot starring Karl Urban

EXPLORING the early years of comic book heroes is proving popular in Hollywood.

Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class and TV hit Smallville are among the success stories, while Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and the upcoming series Arrow are also exploiting the trend.

Latest to join the crowd, but this time in printed form, is Judge Dredd. In anticipation of the upcoming Dredd movie, a new digital book aims to offer an essential introduction to the character and shed new light on his origins.

Matthew Smith, editor-in-chief of 2000 AD - the comic in whose pages the character was introduced - takes us back to the futuristic lawman's first year on the beat in his new e-novella Judge Dredd Year One: City Fathers.

Official description

Mega-City One, 2080. It is Joe Dredd's first year as a full-eagle Judge - he may have been created from the genes of Eustace Fargo, the 'Father of Justice', and thus part of an illustrious lineage, but right now Dredd is not long graduated from the Academy, and yet to establish himself as the metropolis's toughest, greatest cop.

His reputation will be moulded in the years ahead, but at the moment he's a young lawman, fresh on the streets.

The brutal murder of a Justice Department-sanctioned spy sparks an investigation that will see Dredd trawl the criminal underworld in the hunt for the killer - and he will discover that all is not what it seems in the sector's murky black market. Something new has entered the system, and unless Dredd can stop it, chaos will be unleashed.

This is an ebook exclusive novella from Matthew Smith, editor of 2000 AD and author of the novels, Judge Dredd: The Final Cut and Tomes of the Dead: Words of Their Roaring.

The 93-page book is available now, via digital platforms.

2000 AD also teamed up with Abaddon to publish a collection called Dredd.

New big-screen adaptation, Dredd, starring Karl Urban, is in cinemas on September 7.

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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]

Stress Management Tips

Are you feeling the effects of stress in your life? If so, you are not alone. Millions of people deal with some sort of stress on a daily basis. Learn basic stress management tips to help you better cope with common life stressors.
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[Source: The Abundance Blog]