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]