Richard Miles

Insight on why the corporate profits are starting to show some weakness and should be looked over the jobs data, with Ed Keon, Quantitative Management Associates at Prudential Financial; Richard Bernstein, Richard Bernstein Advisors; Miles Nadal, MDC Partners chairman/CEO, and CNBC's Steve Liesman.

Imagine devoting your life to the exploration of a region of the world so formidable, so intimidating that few people ever visit it. Imagine months of travel in frigid, incapacitating temperatures capable of taking your limbs. Imagine seeing only vast expanses of ice for miles. Now imagine parts of this region no longer exist. This isn t your imagination. This is the reality of world-renowned polar explorer Will Steger. While we debate the validity of global warming, Steger has carved out an uncommon perspective about this phenomenon one that is more than 40 years in the making. A legend at age 63, Steger s achievements place him among the best in exploration alongside Jacques Cousteau, Charles Lindberg, Amelia Earhart and Robert Peary as he has completed some of the most significant polar expeditions in history: the first person to reach the North Pole via dogsled without resupply a traverse of Greenland that remains the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica the first dogsled traverse of the Arctic Ocean in one season Steger has received countless awards and distinctions throughout the years but he knows his Arctic achievements are null unless he can rally the next generation of leaders to embrace environmental activism and preserve one of the world s most fragile ecosystems. Enter Sam Branson, son of Virgin Group mogul Sir Richard Branson. Steger is galvanizing the next generation of leaders to advocate for the environment and has compiled an international team of 20-something adventurers to give us an Arctic close-up of global warming. The younger Branson an adventurer, musician and author who joined Steger s 2007 expedition to Baffin Island is one member of an impressive team that includes two National Geographic Young Explorer grantees, an Iditarod competitor, a Polar historian and two international record-holders in kite-skiing who hail from Norway, Great Britain, Canada and the United

Nightlight impresario Sacco enjoys life in the fast lane, but even she's never done it quite like this--going 165 miles per hour at the Richard Petty Driving Experience in Las Vegas.

Staines is just a quick train ride from the glamorous center of London, but for those who live there, the drab suburb can seem a million miles away. Local boys Hard-Fi reflect this world in their dark, dub-pop about suburban clubbing, isolation and coming up skint at the cash machine. Maybe that s why the DIY energy of their debut album, Stars of the CCTV, struck such a chord at home with fans and critics. Fresh from a tour of the US, Hard-Fi frontman Richard Archer sat a spell in the mtvU Hot Seat to talk hotel golf, ribs and how Kiefer Sutherland ruined his life.