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Bank of America to charge $5 monthly debit card fee
Seriously – it’s time to move to a credit union. Lower fees, better service.
CNN Money: Get ready for a new wave of bank fees. Bank of America will begin charging a $5 monthly fee at the beginning of next year for customers who make debit card purchases.
Whether you use your card for one purchase a month or 20, you will pay $5 per month starting in 2012. It doesn’t matter if you select “debit” or “credit” at the point of sale.
Bill Maher – It Gets Better
Al Qaeda’s Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen
Big news today – the death of Al Qaeda’s Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American-born cleric who was a leading figure in al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen.
The Obama administration has confirmed al-Awlaki’s death, and NBC reports that it was a U.S. drone that killed him. Al-Awlaki is be the most prominent Al Qaeda figure to be killed since Osama bin Laden’s death
No president since George H.W. Bush has had more foreign-policy successes happen under his watch than President Obama:
- The death of bin Laden
- The dismantling of al Qaeda
- The ouster of Khaddafy
- The end of combat operations in Iraq
Yet when you look at polls and Obama’s approval rating, he’s getting almost no credit from the American public, a la Bush 41.
Idina Menzel to tape PBS special in Toronto
From the Toronto Star: Tony-winner Idina Menzel would be filming her PBS special in Toronto on November 17-18 with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphone at Koerner Hall.
“I can’t tell you how excited I am about doing this!” enthuses Menzel from the set of Glee in California, “I’ve been honing this program for over a year and it’s full of things I love singing.”
Fans of the multi-talented performer will be glad to hear that Menzel’s favourites probably coincide with theirs and will, of course, feature songs like “Defying Gravity” from Wicked and “No Day But Today” from Rent.
Information on tickets for all performances will be available shortly by visiting www.IdinaMenzel.com.
The Tony Award winner has had a diverse career on stage and in film, television, and music, recently appearing in the television hit Glee, and is currently on a sold-out tour, performing with leading orchestras around the country. In 2009 Ms. Menzel co-starred with Josh Groban in the concert version of Chess: The Musical, recorded at London’s Royal Albert Hall and broadcast on PBS. In December 2005 she completed her role as “Elphaba” in Broadway’s Wicked, for which she received a Tony Award for Lead Actress in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award nomination.
Spanish scientists trial promising HIV vaccine
Researchers at the Spanish Superior Scientific Research Council (CSIC) have successfully completed Phase I human clinical trials of a HIV vaccine that came out with top marks after 90% of volunteers developed an immunological response against the virus.
The MVA-B vaccine draws on the natural capabilities of the human immune system and “has proven to be as powerful as any other vaccine currently being studied, or even more”, says Mariano Esteban, head researcher from CSIC’s National Biotech Centre.
The trial demonstrated how the vaccine stimulates the production of lymphocytes B, which produces HIV attacking antibodies that block the virus from infecting healthy cells.
“MVA-B immune profile meets, initially, the requirements for a promising HIV vaccine,” says Esteban. Although it does not remove the virus from the body, the immune response induced by the vaccine could keep the virus under control by destroying the infected cell.
According to CSIC, “if this genetic cocktail passes Phase II and Phase III future clinic trials, and makes it into production, in the future HIV could be compared to herpes virus nowadays”.
Phase I clinic trials will also commence with HIV infected volunteers to test its efficiency as a therapeutic vaccine.
Read more at gizmag.com
Ellen Degeneres and Nancy Pelosi discuss booing of gay soldier/DADT
“It’s My Party” movie trailer
When Michael was still VP of Publicity at Varese Sarabande Records, the soundtrack to this film came to the label and Michael pushed the label to release the soundtrack to this excellent indie movie by Randal Kleiser.
It’s very touching and has an amazing all-star cast including Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Olivia Newton-John, George Segal, Bruce Davison, Marlee Matlin and Lee Grant. I never saw the movie trailer until today.
It’s a beautiful movie, and a beautiful soundtrack by Basil Poledouris. I used to play the soundtrack all the time. Thoughtful, sensitive and perfect for the film it’s written for.
Synopsis: Eric Roberts portrays a successful architect who throws a farewell party for friends and family after he learns he is losing his hard-fought battle against the AIDS virus in this vibrant film that co-stars Gregory Harrison.
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Fantastic cover of Adele’s “Someone Like You”
The girl is Emily Luther and the boy is Charlie Puth.
He’s cute, and her voice is terrific! You can download this version of the song from iTunes by clicking here.
This is apparently an entry for an “Adele cover song competition” Perez Hilton is doing.
You can click here to send a tweet to Perez to pay attention to this entry.