August 30th, 2008 by Co-Worker

August 30th, 2008 by Co-Worker

Andrew Garfield Talks About 'Spider-Man'

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'Don Quixote' Dies

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Jan de Bont To Direct 'Mulan'

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'Deathly Hallows' New Photos

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Jamie Bell Will Be A 'Man On A Ledge'

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Olivia Thirlby Joins 'Judge Dredd'

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New 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' Clip

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New 'Devil' Film Clip

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First Film Clip For 'Let Me In'

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New 'Monsters' Poster

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'The Three Musketeers' Teaser Poster

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Joe Johnston Talks 'Captain America'(3)

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'Due Date' International Trailer

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'Mad Men' Actor Set For 'Friends With Kids'

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Ridley Scott Talks About 'Alien' Prequel

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Liam Neeson Set To Fight Killer Wolves In 'The Grey'

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Contest: Learn About What's Opening This Week Then Predict Box Office Results To Win Free Popcorn And Drinks

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'Buried' Trailer Takes Us Inside the Box

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New International Trailer for 'Due Date'

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'Toy Story 3' Heads Back to Theatres This Weekend

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Reflections In The Blade: The Faces You'll See In 'Machete'

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Chris Pine May Be the Lead in Next Clooney Film

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Early Reviews for 'Black Swan' Are In

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New Website for 'The Social Network'

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Robert Rodriguez Out of 'Deadpool?'

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August 29th, 2008 by Co-Worker

Old men may walk slow, BUT think F A S T

An elderly man in Queensland had owned a large property for several years. He had a dam in one of the lower paddocks where he had planted mango and avocado trees. The dam had been fixed up for swimming when it was built and he also had some picnic tables placed there in the shade of the fruit trees.

One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the dam to look it over, as he hadn’t been there for a while. He grabbed a ten litre bucket to bring back some fruit. As he neared the dam, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his dam. He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end.

One of the women shouted to him, ‘We’re not coming out until you leave!’ The old man frowned, ‘I didn’t come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the dam naked.’

Holding the bucket up he said, ‘I’m here to feed the crocodile.’

August 27th, 2008 by Co-Worker

Creative Adidas ad for the Beijing 2008 Olympics,  focusing on athlete stories.

August 24th, 2008 by Co-Worker

Australian Olympic Swim Team Song

August 20th, 2008 by Co-Worker

Sochi Winter Games contractor boss fired (AAP)

The chief of a top contractor building infrastructure for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Russian city of Sochi has been fired in a corruption scandal. (read more)

London 2012 plans for archery at Lord's given go-ahead (Reuters)

LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Cricket will make way for archery at the historic Lord's ground in two years' time after London 2012 organisers got the go-ahead for their plans on Monday. (read more)

Witt to help Munich bid as chief steps down (Reuters)

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Munich 2018 bid chief Bogner steps down (Reuters)

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Munich bid chief Bogner steps down for health reasons (Reuters)

BERLIN, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Munich 2018 Winter Olympic bid chief Willy Bogner has resigned due to illness, bid officials said on Monday. (read more)

'No malice' in Rice's Twitter slur (ABC)

Team-mates of Olympic champion Stephanie Rice have described a homophobic slur on the swimmer's Twitter account as "out of character". (read more)

Swans show Blues the door (ABC)

Sydney delivered Carlton another gutting first-week elimination from the AFL finals with a thrilling five-point triumph at the Olympic stadium on Sunday afternoon. (read more)

Games team short on sponsors (AAP)

The problems plaguing New Delhi have hit Australia's Commonwealth Games team which is likely to fall at least 30 per cent short in sponsorship. (read more)

It's Aussie orange for Games uniforms (AAP)

Australian gold made way for tangerine orange when the formal team uniform for next month's Commonwealth Games was unveiled in Melbourne. (read more)

Leisel Jones excited about Delhi (AAP)

Olympic swimming champion Leisel Jones is fiery about competing but laid-back on security and health concerns at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. (read more)

August 20th, 2008 by Co-Worker

GOD’S PHARMACY My niece emailed this. It’s been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish… all before making a human. He made and provided what we’d need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We’re such slow learners.. God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body! God’s Pharmacy! Amazing! A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye… and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes. A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food. Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today sh ow s grape s are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food. A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function. Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys. Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body. Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female – they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (mo dern science has only studied and named about 141 of them) Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility. Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics. Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts. Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

August 14th, 2008 by Co-Worker

For a man recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, it might not seem the ideal recovery plan. But a daily dose of fish and chips has worked wonders for 71-year-old Ermis Nicholas.

He has been tucking in at his favourite seaside resort every weekday for the last ten years. And he has still managed to shed seven stone.

Together with wife Androniki, the retired restaurateur takes the bus on the 60-mile round trip from their home in Bristol to Weston-super-Mare.

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August 14th, 2008 by Co-Worker

Oscar was raised in the nursing home

The patient in the next room into which Oscar pokes his grey-and-white head is not so lucky. This time, Oscar weighs the situation carefully, then leaps on to the bed and curls up beside the woman lying in it.

A few moments later he is spotted, snuggled up there, by a passing nurse who immediately raises the alarm, not kick-starting a security alert to rid the ward of an unwanted intruder but a frenetic flurry of activity as medical records are fetched, a priest is called, and relatives are alerted to the likelihood of the patient’s imminent demise.

Because Oscar, as everyone in this nursing home is agreed, has special powers – more even than the doctors and palliative care specialists who come to tend to the terminally ill here.

For like a harbinger of bad news, Oscar is able to discern the exact moment at which the angel of death comes to stand at their bedside. It is an unusual skill, certainly. All the more so because Oscar is just a cat

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August 4th, 2008 by Co-Worker

Petraeus: Pastor Endangers U.S. Troops With Quran Burning

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Fired Up Obama Pushes Infrastructure Plan for Jobs, Blasts GOP

Obama used the Labor Day event to unveil a new six-year, $50 billion plan to create jobs by improving and expanding 150,000 miles of the nation's roads, 4,000 miles of railways and 150 miles of runways.



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Van Der Sloot Confesses to Extortion

Joran van der Sloot speaks from Peruvian prison and says he has only himself to blame, but suggests the FBI lured him to Peru to extradite him on U.S. extortion charge.



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Ex-Soldier Takes 3 Hostage at Military Hospital

A former Army soldier demanding behavioral treatment at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded the gunman to surrender peacefully.



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Paying More for Less Insurance Coverage?

Workers are paying 14 percent more for their employer-sponsored plans than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a new survey.



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Avandia Faces Scrutiny in U.K.

On July 15 -- a day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration completed two days of hearings on the diabetes drug Avandia -- a British advisory commission on drugs concluded that the product should be withdrawn from the market, according to an investigation conducted by BMJ.



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Woman Devours 181 Chicken Wings in Contest

Va.'s Black Widow gobbles up 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes to win NY contest, set record



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'World News' Craigslist Story Saves Girl's Life

Craigslist, the popular online community site with millions of American users, may be creating an outlet for pimps to sexually exploit children.



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Report: Money Can Buy Happiness, to a Point

They say money can't buy happiness, but they're wrong, at least up to a point. People's emotional well-being increases along with their income up to about $75,000, researchers report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.



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Travolta Extortion Case Dismissed By Judge

A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta. Officials said the actor no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son.



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'Transformers' Stunt: Latest to Go Wrong

The 'Transformers 3' tragedy involving extra Garbiela Cedillo is just the latest to happen during the making of a Hollywood picture. Below, five of the worst on-set disasters of all time.



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MJ's Kids Thriving in the Classroom

For the first time, Michael Jackson's oldest children, Prince Michael and Paris will leave homeschooling behind and head into a classroom.



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Brought Together by Britney: JT and K-Fed

Justin Timberlake, Kevin Federline: two of many celebs who've bonded over exes.



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7 Tips for Scoring Fashion Deals Online

Tips and tricks for finding high fashion without a high price tag.



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WATCH: Police Shock Attacker at Gas Station

Police Shock Attacker at Gas Station



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WATCH: Terrifying Moped Crash Caught on Tape

A moped rider in Iowa walks away with bruises after being hit by a pickup truck.



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WATCH: Moose Runs Over 6-Year-Old Boy

The boy was injured near Grand Lake, and is now recovering at a Denver hospital.



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WATCH: Axl Rose Bombed by Bottles at Show

Guns N' Roses ends Dublin concert after the crowd throws bottles at group.



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WATCH: iPad Effect Brings Imitators

Apple's competitors are releasing tablet computers of their own.



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When Corporate Cards Hurt Personal Credit

They go by many names: corporate cards, company cards, travel cards and purchase cards. Whatever you call them, american workers charged 140-billion dollars on them last year. And if you don't know how yours works, you could be responsible for that balance.



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Betting the Farm: FarmVille Soars in Popularity

FarmVille is the online social networking game that being played by a whopping 80 million people each month on Facebook. What's more, the majority of the game's players are 40-something women. That flies in the face of convention, which says so-called 'gamers' tend to be younger men. In fact, since its launch in June, FarmVille has turned those norms on its ear.



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'Miracle' Encounter: Nurse Finds Long-Lost Dad in Hospital Bed

A nurse was reunited with the father she had never met after a chance bedside encounter at a New York hospital for the terminally ill.



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WATCH: Juju Preps for First Triathlon

Juju Chang shares her motivation to get in shape and train for a triathlon.



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British Tabloid Center of Phone-Tapping Probe

London's Metropolitan Police may open an investigation into phone-tapping allegations against British tabloid 'News of the World' after a former reporter came forward saying he and his colleagues were encouraged to hack into the voicemails of high-profile people.



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The Long, Anxiety-Ridden Journey of Being Jobless

This recession, it's taking at least six months for nearly half of job hunters to find work. Employers' fears and concerns about the unstable economy are to blame.



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The Conversation: Bible Tweeter Chris Juby

For years, Chris Jubyhas had a daily habit of reading the Bible, but he's recently launched a project to summarize the entire Bible -- one tweet at a time. Juby, a freelance web developer and director of worship at King's Church in Durham, England, does not simply re-type the text of the holy book. He reads a chapter of the Bible every morning and boils the words down to a single, 140-character tweet.



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Bell City Council Fights Overpaid Managers

The people of Bell, Calif., in southern Los Angeles County, are reeling at recent allegations of city official corruption, but now they are also fighting back.



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WATCH: Anti-Islam Feeling High for 9/11 Anniversary

As the nine-year anniversary approaches some Christians preach hate for Muslims.



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Democrats Triage in Scramble to Hold On

The "summer of recovery" wasn't. And now, if Democrats hope to hang on to power on Capitol Hill, their political survival will be a lonely process.



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BP's Failed Blowout Preventer Surfaces

Investigators may now be able to answer the most elusive question since a rig explosion unleashed the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill more than four months ago, as they get a close-up view of a key piece of equipment for the first time.



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The Next Big Thing: British DJ Granny Rocks!

At 69, Ruth Flowers, a.k.a DJ Mamy Rock, is the latest sensation on the European nightclub scene.


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Can You Identify a False Confession?

Wayne and Sharmon Stock were found viciously murdered in their Nebraska farmhouse, apparently killed on Easter Sunday, 2006. The tiny town of Murdock, Nebr., where many hadn't locked their doors for years, was in utter disbelief. But soon there would be two bewilderingly different first-hand accounts of the murder. Two videotaped confessions -- by completely different people. One would turn out to be totally innocent. Can you tell which is which? Watch 20/20 Friday at 10 p.m. ET for the answer.



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Revenge or Random: Nebraska Couple's Mysterious Death

Wayne and Sharmon Stock were found viciously murdered in their Nebraska farmhouse, apparently killed on Easter Sunday, 2006. The tiny town of Murdock, Nebr., where many hadn't locked their doors for years, was in utter disbelief.



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Tanzanian With Albinism Gets New Arms

Persons with albinism, like 28-year-old single mother Mariamu Staford, are being hunted down and murdered; their bodies sold on the black market and used in witchdoctor potions, all because of a superstitious belief that the limbs of albinos possess special powers. Nearly 60 albinos have been murdered in the last three years. Both of Staford's arms were chopped off in the vicious attack, which left her unable to feed or clothe herself, or care for her young son. Staford comes to the United States with help from ABC News and gets fitted for a custom set of prosthetic limbs.



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Africans With Albinism Hunted in Tanzania

In Tanzania, a tourist mecca known for safaris and visits to Mount Kilimanjaro, people with albinism who have faced discrimination are now being hunted down like animals. Since 2007, 54 Tanzanians with albinism, including children, have been murdered by gangs of men who hack off arms, legs or genitals. Observers say even more cases of attacks have gone unreported. 'Primetime' traveled to Tanzania to investigate.



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'I've Been Raped': Assaults on Campus

As college students head back to school, now is the time for parents to remind their kids to stay safe. Megan Wright was a 19-year-old freshman at Dominican College in Orangeburg, N.Y., when she was allegedly gang raped. She ultimately committed suicide.



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Tree Kangaroos: Papua New Guinea's Rare, Fuzzy Creatures

"Nightline" travels to Papua New Guinea to see tree kangaroos, a rare and endangered species, roam tree tops.


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Lego Builds Back Toward Prosperity

Lego, the old favorite toymaker, is offering new movie- and video-game-based products to help boost sales.



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Toys 'R' Us Fights Price-Fixing Allegations

If you feel as if you're overpaying for strollers, car seats and other baby products, you're not alone. Consumers suing Toys 'R' Us claim that the country's largest retailer illegally kept prices high on baby products and, as reported in recent days, the Federal Trade Commission is also investigating the issue.



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Top Education Officials Spar Over Teacher Reform

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, President of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten and Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of D.C. Public School, discuss education reform on "This Week."



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The Naked Chef's 'Food Revolution' Comes to 'This Week'

Jamie Oliver comes to "This Week" to discuss is efforts to make school cafeterias more healthy.



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WATCH: Roundtable: Recovery Summer?

George Will, Donna Brazile, Richard Haass and Susie Gharib.



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