Jun 25
Jun 25
Nora Ephron applied her trademark wit to everything in life, from the women’s movement of the seventies, to the soul-strengthening power of mashed potatoes
But here at HuffPost Divorce, we’re most fond of Ephron’s writings on heartbreak and healing after a split.
Divorce was a subject Ephron knew all too well: In 1983, after marrying and subsequently divorcing journalist Carl Bernstein, Ephron wrote Heartburn, a bitingly funny novel that changed our perspective on what it meant to be divorced.
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Jun 25
Jun 25
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D), who captivated the country with her attempted 13-hour filibuster of a sweeping anti-abortion bill, likely would have lost her seat in 2012 to redistricting if not for the Voting Rights Act that was gutted Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
MSNBC’s Zachary Roth reported earlier this month that Republican leaders in Texas tried to slice up Davis’ Fort Worth district in 2011 and move thousands of black and Hispanic voters into neighboring districts. But Davis challenged the move in federal court under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act — a part of the law rendered inoperable by the Supreme Court decision that struck down the heart of the law.
Section 5 allows the federal government to prevent states with a history of racial discrimination from making election changes that could affect the voting rights of minorities. Davis told MSNBC that under Texas’ new districting plan, minority voters “were being separated very purposely from each other — and therefore from the power to ever express their preference at the ballot box again.”
Jun 25
Jun 25
Having already convinced small businesses and folks to use their phone to buy and sell goods, today Square is announcing Square Market, an online marketplace to, well, buy and sell goods.
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Jun 25
BY JIM VERTUNO AND CHRIS TOMLINSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas’ lieutenant governor late Tuesday suspended a senator’s filibuster against wide-ranging abortion restrictions, but Democrats moved quickly to appeal the decision and set off a parliamentary fight over the rules.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst after determining that Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis strayed off the topic when she talked about a sonogram bill passed in 2011 and how the new abortion restrictions only compounded the anti-abortion laws in Texas.
Jun 25
A prominent political donor purchased a Rolex watch for Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, according to two people with knowledge of the gift, and the governor did not disclose it in his annual financial filings.
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Jun 25
NVIDIA has officially kicked off its GeForce GTX 760 GPU, which is being offered at the budget-friendly price of $249 and harboring Kepler architecture. In gaming benchmarks, the GTX 760 beats out the previous GTX 660 across the board, in some cases quite substantially. NVIDIA hails it as offering power “dramatically” beyond the gaming consoles
Jun 25
Mouse Computer – Windows 8 laptop “LuvBook K series” from ¥99,750 – With 15.6 inch full HD non-glare LCD display and the NVIDIA GeForce GT750M
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Mouse Computer has just released its new Windows 8 laptop “LuvBook K series” with 15.6 inch full HD non-glare LCD display and the NVIDIA GeForce GT750M today. The price starts from ¥99,750.
Basic model:
OS: Windows 8 64bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-4700MQ Processor
Memory: 16GB PC3-12800 (8GB×2/Dual Channel)
Hard disk: 500GB WesternDigital’s SerialATAII 5400rpm
Optical drive: DVD Super Multi Drive
Display: 15.6 inch full HD non-glare LCD (1,920×1,080/ LED backlight)
Wireless network: IEEE 802.11 b/g/n ・ Bluetooth V4.0 + LE
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