iPad mini 'mini' only in size not in price

Apple inc. launched a 7.9-inch iPad mini that is as thin as a pencil and as light as a pad of paper, Apple threw itself into the market for smaller tablets currently ruled by its rivals.
Its price is higher than expected.Its much higher than Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire HD or Google Inc.'s Nexus 7. The iPad mini starts at $329.

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AUTUMN PASQUALE

New Jersey
A teenage boy lured a 12-year-old girl into his house under the guise of getting parts for her treasured bicycle and then, with his older brother, killed her, police said Tuesday. The girl's disappearance had sparked a frantic search by residents of her small town until a tip from the boys' mother led police to her body, stuffed into a home recycling bin.
The boys, ages 15 and 17, were charged with murdering Autumn Pasquale, who disappeared while riding her BMX bike Saturday, a little more than a week before what would have been her 13th birthday.
Both brothers were charged with counts including first-degree murder, body disposal and tampering with evidence. The 15-year-old was also charged with luring.

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iPad mini

Apple Inc. is expected to make its biggest product move on Tuesday since introducing the iPad two years ago, launching a smaller, cheaper tablet into a market to give competition to Amazon's Kindle and Google's Nexus 7 .
Apple has invited for an event taking place on October 23 and the event will be live streamed on Apple TV.It states "we've got a little more to show you" -it refers to the iPad mini most probably.
It is speculated that tablet will come in 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions, with the option of Wi-Fi only and 3G/4G.
It is expected that Apple's new tablet will fall between 7 inches and 8 inches in size.Its price will be crucial to its success.

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Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3 is an upcoming American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

"Iron Man 3" pits billionaire, playboy, philanthropist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?"

Iron Man 3" hits theatres on May 3, 2013 and stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale, Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley. The film is directed by Shane Black, who directed Downey Jr. in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". Black also co-wrote the script with Drew Pearce.

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Presidential debate : USA facts

Current news:
In their final debate before the November 6 U.S. presidential election, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney battled over foreign policy issues, including the U.S. response to Syria's civil war, Iran's nuclear program, and defense spending.   The 90 minute encounter was Governor Romney's chance to put to rest doubts about his ability to handle foreign affairs challenges, and an opportunity for President Obama to solidify his image as someone better equipped to manage foreign policy and national security issues.  Governor Romney pointed to what he called disturbing events during Mr. Obama's first term in office, including 30,000 dead in Syria, the attack on Americans in Libya, and an Iran four years closer to a nuclear weapon.   Libya and the killing of Americans in Benghazi was discussed, with Mr. Obama repeating his determination to find the killers. The president, Mr. Romney said, has failed to provide a comprehensive strategy to deal with rising Muslim extremism.  "I congratulate him on taking out Osama bin Laden and going after the leadership in al-Qaida, but we can't kill our way out of this mess. We're going to have to put in place a very comprehensive and robust strategy to help the world of Islam and other parts of the world reject this radical, violent extremism," he said.
History:
The first general election presidential debate of USA was held on September 26, 1960, between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, in Chicago at the studios of CBS' WBBM-TV.
Rules:
A coin toss determines who gets to answer the first question and each candidate will get alternate turns. Once a question is asked, the candidate has 2 minutes to answer the question. After this, the opposing candidate has around 1 minute to respond and rebut her/is arguments. At the moderator's discretion, the discussion of the question may be extended by 30 seconds per candidate.
In recent debates, colored lights resembling traffic lights have been installed to aide the candidate as to the time left with green indicating 30 seconds, yellow indicating 15 seconds and red indicating only 5 seconds are left. If necessary, a buzzer may be used or a flag.

2012 Elections:
October 3: First presidential debate :University of Denver,Colorado
October 16: Second presidential debate :Hofstra University,NewYork
October 22: Third presidential debate :Lynn University,Florida

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Google data storage centre

EVER wondered what happens to your Google searches every time you hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on the search site's front page?
Google did something unprecedented recently, and took its Street View cameras inside one of its own top-secret data centres.

The huge building in North Carolina is crammed full of thousands of specially made computers.
No piece of data is stored in just one place, everything is doubled up in case of disk failure.
Disks fail a lot, so they have their own disk-destroying machine.Video is on youtube.

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Paranormal Activity 4

Paranormal Activity 4 is next installment of American supernatural horror film series.It is directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost.Its writer is Zack Estrin.It is a sequel to Paranormal Activity 2.

Story: Alex (Kathryn Newton) films her younger brother Wyatt's soccer match. At Alex's house, she shows her boyfriend Ben (Matt Shively) the treehouse in the garden. Here they discover Robbie, the neighbor's child. Puzzled as to why he is there, she takes him back to his own house across the street. In the early hours of the next morning, Alex hears an ambulance outside at Robbie's house. That day, Robbie turns up at the house after Alex's mom Holly (Alexondra Lee) offered to look after him for a few days, while Robbie's mother is admitted to hospital. Later on, Alex finds Wyatt and Robbie in her treehouse talking to Robbie's invisible friend.
In the evening Wyatt plays multi-player on the Kinect by himself, while Robbie sits on the sofa. Ben asks who Wyatt is playing with and Robbie answers that it's the invisible friend from the tree house. Ben turns the lights off and shows Wyatt the infra-red tracking dots. As Alex, Ben and Wyatt dance in the dark, Robbie sits on the sofa, where the camera detects an unknown figure moving next to him.
The next day Ben reveals to Alex that his computer automatically records their webcam chats, and in the middle of the night while Alex was sleeping, Robbie came in and slept next to her. Baffled by his odd behavior, Ben offers to install laptops around the house to record any other strange occurrences. Over the next couple of days, the computer records strange events around the house, including Robbie waking up in the middle of the night to talk to the TV, and Robbie and Wyatt chasing the silhouette of a small child figure throughout the house. Robbie draws a strange symbol on Wyatt's back, which Alex later finds to be part of an old cult (first appeared in Paranormal Activity 3).
Late one night Alex notices several black cars outside Robbie's house across the street; upon investigating, she discovers several women in black garb entering the house. She is confronted by one of these women and flees the scene. The next day Alex is home alone, and after hearing noises, follows them to the hallway, where the chandelier falls from the ceiling and smashes into the floor, almost striking her. Although her father Doug (Stephen Dunham) blames the light fitters, Alex is suspicious of Robbie.
The following day, Alex sees Robbie and Wyatt entering Robbie's house across the street. Alex follows them to discover that Robbie's mother Katie (Katie Featherston) is actually home, and shows no sign of illness. Wyatt tells Alex that Katie told him he was adopted, like Robbie. Alex questions her parents about Wyatt's real parents but they refuse to say anything. Later that night, Wyatt begins talking to an invisible figure, insisting that his name isn't Hunter. During this conversation a figure approaches him, but is interrupted when Doug enters the room.
One night during Wyatt's bath, Holly leaves the room to answer the phone, leaving Wyatt in the tub. He is violently pulled underwater by an unseen force, where he remains for a long time. He reemerges moments later, but is unnaturally calm and sedate, thereafter referring to himself as Hunter. That night, he appears in Alex's room, where she levitates off the bed while sleeping.
The next day, Holly is alone, and begins to hear strange noises. A possessed Katie enters the house undetected, and heads upstairs. When Holly enters the lounge an unseen entity suddenly picks her up and violently throws her against the walls, before dropping her on the floor. Katie returns to drag her body away. Ben later arrives to discover no one is home. He goes to view the footage in Alex's bedroom but Katie appears and snaps his neck.
Alex and her father arrive, and he thinks he sees Alex's mother with Wyatt walking to Katie's house. As he goes to explore Alex goes home to discover Ben's body. She runs out of the house and over to Katie's house to warn her dad, but witnesses him being dragged violently through the house by the unseen entity. She runs to a bedroom at the far end of the house but can't find his body. As she turns around to head back out Katie appears who storms forwards, demonically screaming to Alex. Alex quickly runs and climbs out of the window where she discovers Wyatt standing outside. Just as she is about to run away with Wyatt, numerous blank-faced people appear in Katie's garden. Alex turns the other way only to be attacked by a screaming Katie before the camera cuts out.END
A fifth movie of this series is also planned by Paramount Pictures.

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Kateri Tekakwitha:First native American Saint

POPE Benedict XVI has named seven new saints, including the first Native American saint.
Kateri Tekakwitha, known as "Lily of the Mohawks".For centuries she has been a symbol of hope for the long-oppressed American Indians.She was canonised in a lavish ceremony in St Peter's Square .
The Pope is the Bishop of Rome and he is the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. Catholic Church,regards him as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle. The current office-holder is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected in a papal conclave on 19 April 2005.
Election process:
The election of the pope takes place in the Sistine Chapel, in a meeting called a "conclave" so called because the cardinal electors are theoretically locked in, cum clave, i.e., with key, until they elect a new pope.
Three cardinals are chosen by lot to collect the votes of absent cardinal electors (by reason of illness), three are chosen by lot to count the votes, and three are chosen by lot to review the count of the votes.
The ballots are distributed and each cardinal elector writes the name of his choice on it and pledges aloud that he is voting for "one whom under God I think ought to be elected" before folding and depositing his vote on a plate atop a large chalice placed on the altar .The plate is then used to drop the ballot into the chalice, making it difficult for electors to insert multiple ballots.
Before being read, the ballots are counted while still folded; if the number of ballots does not match the number of electors, the ballots are burned unopened and a new vote is held. Otherwise, each ballot is read aloud by the presiding Cardinal, who pierces the ballot with a needle and thread, stringing all the ballots together and tying the ends of the thread to ensure accuracy and honesty. Balloting continues until someone is elected by a two-thirds majority.
One of the most prominent aspects of the papal election process is the means by which the results of a ballot are announced to the world. Once the ballots are counted and bound together, they are burned in a special stove erected in the Sistine Chapel, with the smoke escaping through a small chimney visible from St. Peter's Square. The ballots from an unsuccessful vote are burned along with a chemical compound to create black smoke, or fumata nera.When a vote is successful, the ballots are burned alone, sending white smoke or fumata bianca through the chimney and announcing to the world the election of a new pope.
The Dean of the College of Cardinals then asks two solemn questions of the cardinal who has been elected. First he asks, "Do you freely accept your election?" If he replies with the word "Accepto", his reign begins at that instant, not at the inauguration ceremony several days afterward. The Dean then asks, "By what name shall you be called?" The new pope then announces the regnal name he has chosen. (If the Dean is elected pope, the Vice Dean performs this task.)
The new pope is led through the "Door of Tears" to a dressing room where three sets of white papal vestments (immantatio) await: small, medium, and large. Donning the appropriate vestments and reemerging into the Sistine Chapel, the new pope is given the "Fisherman's Ring" by the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, whom he first either reconfirms or reappoints. The pope then assumes a place of honor as the rest of the cardinals wait in turn to offer their first "obedience" (adoratio) and to receive his blessing.
The Senior Cardinal Deacon then announces from a balcony over St. Peter's Square the following proclamation: Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum! Habemus Papam! ("I announce to you a great joy! We have a pope!"). He then announces the new pope's Christian name along with his newly chosen regnal name.

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Orionid Meteor shower

The Orionid meteor shower, usually called Orionids, is associated with Halley's Comet. These are so called because they appear to come from a point called the radiant,which lies in the Orion constellation. Orionids are an annual meteor shower which last for one week in late-October.

The Orionid meteor shower is produced by Halley's Comet, named on astronomer Edmund Halley who calculated its periodicity in 1705.It passes through inner solar system every 76 years.When the comet passes through the solar system,some rock particals break from it due to removal of ice layer of the comet by sun.After the passage of comet,these particles continue on the comet's trajectory and appear as meteors or "falling stars" when they pass through Earth's upper atmosphere.

The Eta Aquariids are other meteor shower which is associated with Halley's Comet.It is visible from mid April to late May every year.It is so named because its
radiant point appears to lie in the constellation Aquarius, near star, Eta Aquarii.

Halley's Comet last appeared in 1986 and will next appear in 2061.

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James Bond -007:SKYFALL

"Name is Bond,James Bond!!".You must have heard this dialogue i'm sure.Let me tell you about the character who delivers it and latest news about him.
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming.
James bond's first movie was" Dr. No", starring Sean Connery as Bond. As of 2012, there have been twenty two films with a twenty third, "Skyfall"due for release on 26 October 2012. The film will star Daniel Craig in his third portrayal of Bond: he is the sixth actor to play Bond.Twenty fourth movie is scheduled in 2014 with Daniel Craig again.
Dr. No-1962
From Russia with Love-1963
Goldfinger-1964
Thunderball-1965
You Only Live Twice-1967
On Her Majesty's Secret Service-1969
Diamonds Are Forever-1971
Live and Let Die-1973
The Man with the Golden Gun-1974
The Spy Who Loved Me-1977
Moonraker-1979
For Your Eyes Only-1981
Octopussy-1983
A View to a Kill-1985
The Living Daylights-1987
Licence to Kill-1989
GoldenEye-1995-Pierce Brosnan
Tomorrow Never Dies-1997
The World Is Not Enough-1999
Die Another Day-2002
Casino Royale-2006-Daniel Craig
Quantum of Solace-2008
Skyfall (unreleased)-2012

SKYFALL-23rd Bond movie.Daniel Craig as James Bond-007 British intelligence service agent.
Naomie Harris as Bond girl.
Judi Dench as M, the head of MI6 and Bond's commanding officer.
Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva,the film's main villian. Silva is a former MI6 agent turned cyberterrorist.

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Big Tex

It's a cowboy mascot,52 feet tall made for the State Fair of Texas.It got burnt up due to a suspected electrical malfunction, reducing the animated structure to a charred skeleton.
Big Tex was built in 1949 as a giant Santa Claus for a Christmas celebration in Kerens, 60 miles south of Dallas.The State Fair paid $750 for the structure, which debuted as Big Tex in 1952.

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Tagg Romney

Tuesday's second presidential debate was a clash of finger-pointing, interruptions etc.Eldest son of Romney had an especially visceral reaction. Tagg Romney said his instinct was to “jump out of your seat” and “rush down to the debate stage and take a swing’’ at President Obama.
He answered that when a North Carolina radio host, asked him how it felt to hear the president “call your dad a liar.’’
Tagg Romney quickly indicated he wasn’t speaking literally about striking the president.
“You know you can’t do that,’’ he continued, “because, well, first because there’s a lot of Secret Service between you and him, but also because this is the nature of the process. You know, they’re going to do everything they can do to try to make my dad into someone he’s not. We signed up for it. We’ve got to, kind of sit there and take our punches and then send them right back the other way.’’
The younger Romney’s remarks were indicative of how fiercely the campaign is being fought in its closing weeks. Although Tagg Romney, 42, the eldest of the five Romney sons, was reported to have assumed a prominent role in the campaign, even taking part in a family “intervention,” the picture he painted was of a far less significant player.

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Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) said it supported the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) decision to erase the rider's entire career after August 1998.
Earlier Armstrong stepped down as chairman of the Livestrong cancer support charity he founded.As a sponser Nike Inc dropped him too.Livestrong rubber bracelets are worldwide famous.
Lance Armstrong is an American former professional racing cyclist. He is a former world champion and has also won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times between the years of 1999 and 2005.
He was charged with having used illicit performance enhancing drugs in June 2012 by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and in August they announced a lifetime ban from competition as well as the stripping of all titles.
Armstrong survived testicular cancer in October 1996.

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Kyna Treacy -A-rod

Kyna Treacy, a 33-year-old Australian bikini model,got suddenly famous when she became the "cause of distraction" for the New York Yankees' highest-paid benchwarmer Alex Rodriguez nick name A-rod.
Treacy — a sexy catwalker who started her own swimwear line, Kini Bikini— was sitting two rows behind the dugout with pretty pal Kate Quinn.
She received a baseball from ARod with his phone number on it.
Follow her on twitter: @kinibikini

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Herman melville : Moby-Dick

Google moby dick doodle:

oogle on 18th Oct is celebrating the 161st anniversary of the publication of the novel Moby-Dick or The Whale written by an american novelist Herman Melville who was also a poet, essayist and short story writer. Novel was published on October 18, 1851.
The classic novel Moby Dick, classified as American romanticism, is a symbolic allegory with exemplary commentary on human destiny and universe.
Each character in the novel has symbolic significance. And the plot of the novel revolves around the protagonist Ishmael, an enagmatic character, and his adventure filled voyages on the whaleship Pequod that was under the command of Captain Ahab.
Today's Google doodle depicts the white sperm whale and portraits Captain Ahab, along with his crew, in a whaling boat holding a harpoon in his hands ready to attack the white sperm whale.
The white whale is seen swimming in the sea close to the whaleship and pumping out water. The pumped out water forms the letter 'L' of the Google logo.
Moby-Dick was first published by Richard Bentley in London on October 18, 1851, titled The Whale.

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Heather clem-Hulk hogan-Bubba-gawker

Hulk Hogan the american wrestling legend (real name Terry Gene Bolle) is suing the parties allegedly behind his recently leaked sex tape for more than $100 million.
He and his attorney appeared at a press conference in Tampa, announcing two lawsuits.
One suit is against Hogan’s pal Bubba the Love Sponge and his ex-wife Heather Clem (Hogan’s partner in the tape) for secretly recording Hogan’s sexual encounter with Clem.
The other lawsuit is against Gawker, which posted a clip from the tape earlier this month.
Hogan is seeking $100 million in damages against Gawker for leaking the footage.
Hogan’s legal team said the recording and distribution of the illicit tape was “illegal, outrageous, and exceeded the bounds of human decency.”

They will go after any other outlets or individuals who display the footage.
Last Thursday Linda hogan ( onetime reality star ) ex-wife of Hulk Hogan was busted for suspected drunk driving .
Hulk Hogan is a 12-time world champion being a six-time WWF/WWE Champion, six-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and a former WWE World Tag Team Champion with Edge. He is the second longest-reigning WWF Champion of all time (after Bruno Sammartino) and the longest-reigning of the 1980s, having held the title for 1,474 days from 1984-1988, as well as the longest-reigning WCW World Heavyweight Champion of all time, with a 469 day reign from 1994-1995. Hogan won the Royal Rumble in 1990 and 1991, making him the first man to win two consecutive Royal Rumble.
He made his personal life the centerpiece of the television show Hogan Knows Best, which included his wife and two children daughter Brooke and son Nick.

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Winsor McCay:Google doodle

Winsor Zenic McCay  was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for the comic strip Little Nemo (begun 1905) and the animated cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). He worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend.

Google has celebrated the 107th anniversary of Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland with one of the search engine's most elaborate doodles ever.

The doodle recreates the adventures of the main fictional character from the illustrator's comic strips, which first appeared on 15 October 1905 in the New York Herald.

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Felix Baumgartner

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner has become the first person to go faster than the speed of sound, reaching a maximum velocity of 833.9mph (1,342km/h).
He jumped out of a balloon 128,100ft (24 miles; 39km) above New Mexico, the 43-year-old also smashed the record for the highest ever freefall.
It took just under 10 minutes for him to descend. Only the last few thousand feet were negotiated by parachute.
"Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive," he said afterwards at a media conference.
None of the new marks set by Baumgartner can be classed as "official" until endorsed by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI).
Its representative was the first to greet the skydiver on the ground. GPS data recorded on to a microcard in the Austrian's chest pack will form the basis for the height and speed claims that are made.

Numbers-
Exit altitude: 128,100ft; 39,045m
Total jump duration: 9'03"
Freefall time: 4'20"
Freefall distance 119,846ft; 36,529m

Max velocity: 833.9mph; 1,342.8km/h; Mach 1.24

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Amanda Todd

Amanda Michelle Todd (died October 10, 2012) was a 15-year-old Canadian teenager who committed suicide attributed to cyber-bullying through the social networking website Facebook.

On 7 September 2012, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of flash cards to tell of her experience of being bullied.Shortly before 6:00 pm on October 10, 2012, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called to her home in Port Coquitlam, to investigate what they refer to as a "sudden death".They have since launched a full investigation into Todd's death.Police are conducting interviews, reviewing content at social media sites, and are actively monitoring pages.  Christy Clark, the Premier of British Columbia, made an online statement of condolence suggesting a national discussion be made discussing criminalizing cyber-bullying.Todd was a 10th-grade student at CABE Secondary in Coquitlam.

The internet hacking and activist group Anonymous has named a man the group says was the girl's primary tormentor. Anonymous published the name and address of a Vancouver-area man that the group claims was bullying and preying on Todd via the internet. The activist group, which often uses a caricature Guy Fawkes mask as its logo, claims the 32-year-old man has also made postings to child pornography sites. The man himself has now been threatened online by others vowing to carry out vigilante justice.

Todd's family has pleaded with people to report anyone desecrating online tribute pages to Amanda and also to come forward with information about those who bullied her online. The kind of sexual exploitation described by Todd is part of a seedy cyber-underworld that targets young girls and it is not bullying, but a vicious crime that should be pursued even after her death.

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The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is a television drama series developed by Frank Darabont. It is based on the comic book series The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard.  The series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes who wakes up after being in a coma to find the world dominated by "walkers", resembling the zombies of George A. Romero's horror movies. He sets out to find his family and other survivors along the way. The Walking Dead premiered on October 31, 2010 on the cable television channel AMC in the United States.Based on its reception, AMC renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes which premiered on October 16, 2011.Two episodes into the second season, AMC announced that the show would return for a third season, scheduled to start airing on October 14, 2012.

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