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Movie Preview: Wanted (Entertainment Weekly)
EW Presents... Summer action spectacles are clearly in the throes of a self-improvement kick: Tough-as-Kevlar superstuds muttering monosyllabic one-liners have been traded in for vulnerable Everymen, while paper-thin plots have been swapped for epic sagas.

Email This | Print This (Daily and Sunday Jeffersonian)
LEADING PVC PLASTIC SHEET MANUFACTURER Quality Engineer A leading plastics manufacturer located in Newcomerstown, Ohio is seeking a self-motivated individual for the position of Quality Engineer.

FYI: Work force development: We must start with reading (Knoxville News Sentinel)
State government is passing rules to beef up the requirements for graduation from Tennessee high schools. Unfortunately, the rule makers are starting at the wrong place. Nearly 40 percent of our high school students can't read well enough to pass these beefed-up courses. The consequences will negate the "improvement."

No spiritual enlightenment to be found in 'Love Guru' (LA.com)
Hit-and-miss (mostly miss) gagfest about Eastern self-improvement teachers, hockey and really juvenile sex jokes

Robertson: Does The Industry Need More Self-Awareness? (Gamasutra)
The Dutch Festival of Games opened Wednesday with the mayor of the Netherland's oldest city introducing gaming's oldest pioneer: Ralph Baer. After a ceremonial game of Pong on a replica of Baer's original "Brown Box" against the mayor of Utrecht, the 86-year-old inventor smiled at his victory, and proceeded to tell an eager audience of developers and academics how he invented the home console, ...

Authors to sign books, appear on TV (The Norman Transcript)
Storytime is 1 p.m. Saturday at Hastings Books Music and Videos, 2300 W. Main St.Scott Weeden will sign "High Times and Low Life's at the Sandbar Town Saloons" 2 p.m. Saturday at Hastings.Nancy Nichols, Houston humorist, keynote speaker and author of the newly released self-improvement book, "Secrets of the Ultimate Husband Hunter: How to Attract Men, Enjoy Dating and Recognize the Love of Your ...