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Romney no friend on women's health - CNN.com
www.cnn.com » A woman in Ohio recently wrote us about her struggles in finding the time and the money to take care of her health. Billie wrote, "I am 33 years old and without Planned Parenthood I would have never found out in time that I'm a woman with precancerous cells in my uterus and cervix. I cannot afford to pay for my health care, and by them having a sliding scale I could afford it or else otherwise I may have died from cervical cancer. I wouldn't have found out about it in time. ... (Now) I can see my children grow up."
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Borderlands 2 Collector's Edition Pre-Orders Open - G4tv.com
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Gearbox Software gave fans at PAX East 2012 an early look at one of the Borderlands 2 Collector's Edition options that would be available this fall, but a morning press release now reveals the full extent of what's being offered. There are actually two Collector's Edition packages to choose from: the Deluxe Vault Hunter's Collector's Edition for $99.99 and the Ultimate Loot Chest Limited Edition for $149.99. Pre-orders for both are open as of today, May 17.
The cheaper option includes a copy of Borderlands 2, Marcus Kincaid bobblehead, a hardbound art book, a set of collectible stickers, a map of Pandora, a download code for a digital comic, and "bonus downloadable in-game digital content." The more expensive option includes everything mentioned already, along with a steelbook case for the game, a Creature of Pandora ID chart, a postcard set, field notes from Sir Hammerlock, a cloth map of Pandora, and a certificate of authenticity. The bigger pack also comes housed in the loot box replica that Gearbox showed off at PAX East.
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TechCrunch | Slide.ly Is Bringing Back The Mashup With Its Social Slideshow Service
techcrunch.com » The lowly photo slideshow is not dead yet, or at least that's the hope of the team at Tel Aviv-based EasyHi, which is debuting its new product Slide.ly today, backed by $1 million in seed funding. The company aims to pick up where Slide.com (acquired by Google in 2010) left off. It's building a slideshow creation tool for the new age, using sources like Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Pickplz, and Picasa, as well as Google Images, photos from your friends or those from your computer. You then mix that content with music from SoundCloud and YouTube and add - you guessed it - Instagram-like effects.
Although there's no space on Facebook to "embed" your glorious creation permanently, as Slide.com's shows were once pinned on dizzy MySpace pages, the resulting slideshows can be shared to your Facebook TimeLine or page, tweeted or emailed.
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Manhunt Under Way For Groom Charged In Bride's Slaying
www.huffingtonpost.com » CHICAGO -- Police and FBI officials were poring over more than 100 tips as they hunted for a man accused of stabbing his new wife to death and leaving her body in her bathtub, still clad in the silver sequined cocktail dress she wore to celebrate their wedding. More than 30 law enforcement agencies had joined federal agents in the manhunt for Arnoldo Jimenez, who secretly married Estrella Carrera on Friday night at Chicago City Hall and allegedly killed her just hours later.
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TechCrunch | Buffer Acquires ShareFeed, Brings KISSmetrics CEO Hiten Shah On As Advisor
techcrunch.com » BufferBuffer, the little service for scheduling your social media updates, has some big news today: it's acquiring competitor ShareFeedShareFeed, and is bringing its CEO Hiten ShahCEO Hiten Shah on board as a mentor and advisor. ShareFeed was launched in 2009 as a side project from Shah's company KISSmetricsKISSmetrics, which is backed by True Ventures, SoftTech VC, Polaris Ventures, and other angels. Of ShareFeed's team of three, only Shah will be working with Buffer going forward, and will advise the company on how integrate some of the technology the ShareFeed had previously developed.
While terms of the deal were not being disclosed, ShareFeed's main contribution to Buffer, outside of Shah's mentorship, appears to be the technology itself and the data the company had previously collected on social sharing.
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TechCrunch | The Weather Channel Beautifies And Socializes Its iPhone App
techcrunch.com » In an effort to streamline its digital offerings, The Weather Channel has today announced that its popular iPhone app has undergone a major redesign. It started with the launch of the iPad app, and just a few weeks ago The Weather Channel followed suit on the webThe Weather Channel followed suit on the web. But the iPhone marks a major portal between TWC and its consumers, in that mobile and weather undoubtedly go hand in hand.
The redesign reminds me a bit of HTC's Sense 3, with the home screen offering up a weather-themed background based on the weather outside. The user interface seems much more navigable, but the features themselves are getting a bump as well.
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Happy Feet Video - NHL VideoCenter
video.nhl.com » Happy Feet - Martin Brodeur makes a spectacular save with his skate, kicking his leg up to keep the puck out. - With NHL Network Online you get all hockey, all access, all the time, live and direct around the league, every goal of every game, NHL Live on XM, classic moments, podcasts, and special programming all on demand
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Moody's Warns Spain It Will Downgrade "More Than 21" Spanish Banks - Expansion | ZeroHedge
www.zerohedge.com » It was such a promising morning for Spain which sold some €2.5 billion in 2015 and 2016 bonds earlier in yet another meaningless and symbolic LTRO-covered exercise, when things went from bad (bank run, pardon, withdrawal meme) to worse, as local Expansion newspaper says Spanish bank ratings will be downgraded in a few hours.Google translated:The rating agency Moody's announced this morning that the Spanish bank announced in the next 12 hours, as by law, a reduction in its credit rating could affect more than 21 entities. According to several sources, the statement will be released expected at nine in the evening. As Standard & Poor's for two weeks, the reduction occurs automatically as a result of the downgrading of the debt of the Kingdom of Spain and not motivated by the dynamics of each of the entities. It is a performance similar to that made ??Moody's with Italian banks . Among the arguments of the cut score are the adverse conditions facing the banking business in a macroeconomic environment of recession and the rapid deterioration that is suffering the delay. Furthermore, for months are not entities access to capital markets, although they have settled their funding through the open bar of liquidity. The action by Moody's is the result of a process initiated in February 2012 when he decided to check the creditworthiness of all European banks to "the adverse and prolonged effect of the crisis in the euro area and the deterioration in the rating of several European governments ".
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Auto union slams Obama budget as ‘attack on the middle class’ | Fox News
www.foxnews.com » President Barack Obama’s 2012 budget was slammed May 16 as an “attack on the middle class and our most vulnerable citizens” by the United Auto Workers (UAW).The slam came as Republican senators used the Senate’s complex rules to schedule a floor debate May 16 on five rival budget packages, including a basic version of Obama’s 2012 budget request.As expected, Obama’s budget got zero votes when it was offered by GOP senators who were seeking to highlight the unpopularity of Obama’s policies.
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Google Broadens Its Search Vision
bits.blogs.nytimes.com » With Facebook about to go public Friday, Google announced big changes to its search results. Many have predicted that Facebook's "social graph" will make Google's search results irrelevant. Google's new search feature, the Knowledge Graph, hopes to churn up more relevant search results based on a new database of 500 million objects and 3.5 billion facts about the connections between them.
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Who Will Be The Next JPM? | ZeroHedge
www.zerohedge.com » So, in today's news we have Greek bank runs (again), remnants of JP Morgan yield grab gone bananas, and European Banks Battered As Reality Sets In. I know there has to be at at least a small contingent of you who truly don't want to hear me say "I told you so". Well, guess what I have to say to that small contingent...Better yet guess what very popular American bank has their fingers in all three of the fires fanning above? You see, I not only warned of a European bank collapse nearly three years ago, I actually went on a European banking collapse tour throughout, of all places, Europe! The bank run thingy was actually a foregone conclusion. Greece is only step one, albeit a very obvious step one, but still the first step nonetheless - reference How Greece Killed Its Own Banks!, written exactly TWO years ago - Tuesday, 27 April 2010. The MSM should stop harping on Greece, its done. The real story is what will Greece's bust bring about. Well, there are quite a few banks in much 'allegedly" stronger domiciles primed to do the 'ole accelerated one-two step (that's bank run for those without a sense of humor), reference "How to Prevent Bailouts, Bank Runs and Other Fun Things To Do With Your Hard Earned Dollars". Now, the question for the truly big boys is what happens after the inevitable Pan-European bank runs get started. Well, the answer to that is already stored in the BoomBustBlog archives. Come on, y'all, where the strategists, the chess players, those who are able to look more than two moves ahead. I made this post so, now others may start "Hunting the Squid", looking at JPM Morgan as the sovereign entity that it wants to be and DB as the leveraged powder keg that it appears. Then there's BNP, HSBC and BofA. You heard it all here first. Despite that, the MSM has put analysts in the consistent spotlight who I feel (without intending to disrespect them, of course) have been serially incorrect on banks.
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Single photos that capture both day and night
nokiaconnects.com » This stunning series of photographs blends cityscape views during both day and night in single images, some with striking contrast, and others with more subtle juxtaposition. Perhaps the allure of these images is similar to the reason people are captivated by time lapse videos. Time lapse films allow you to see changes that happen gradually over the course of time within a matter seconds, just like these photos allow you to see the same place at a different time in a single glance. The images above were created by photographer Stephen Wilkes who captures "images over up to a 15 hour period and later stitching them together into the seamless whole that you see here," Visual News explains. "The series, appropriately called Day to Night, tells the story of a city which bustles around the clock: people remain in the images both bright and dark. What does change are the activities presented: Coney Island transforms from a suntanning mecca to a brightly lit [...]
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Twitter reaches 10 million UK users
www.independent.co.uk » It’s the website that offers its users a front row seat to the never-ending feud between Lord Sugar and Piers Morgan, the place to rant when contestants are voted off unscrupulous reality shows, and a window into just how “on message” our politicians and government figures really are. It should come as no surprise, then, that more Britons are addicted to Twitter than ever before.
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David Winters: Outside the Oulipo | berfrois
www.berfrois.com » For over fifty years now, the (mostly) French phenomenon known as the Oulipo (short for Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or ‘Workshop for Potential Literature’) has been baffling and enthralling readers everywhere with its array of opaque literary techniques. Founded in 1960 as a subcommittee of the even more enigmatic Collège de ‘Pataphysique, the group has included such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Georges Perec and Raymond Queneau.
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