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Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing

13 minutes ago - New York Times Business
Ed Cunningham, an ESPN sports analyst, tapped the crowdfunding service Kickstarter to finish what has been a nearly six-year labor of love. by By MICHAEL CIEPLY

H&M Led Labor Breakthrough by European Retailers

13 minutes ago - New York Times Business
The Swedish retail giant H&M, though it had no ties to a disaster in Bangladesh, found its efforts to improve garment workers’ conditions accelerate... by By LIZ ALDERMAN

Media Decoder: Charlie Rose to Host a Prime Time Show on PBS

13 minutes ago - New York Times Business
Mr. Rose will host a half-hour program called “Charlie Rose Weekend,” which will replace “Need to Know” on Friday evenings. by By ELIZABETH JENSEN

Tech Industry Pushes to Amend Immigration Bill

13 minutes ago - New York Times Business
Executives from Silicon Valley say that the Senate immigration bill imposes too much regulatory control over a company’s hiring of temporary foreign... by By SOMINI SENGUPTA

Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen

11 minutes ago - Yahoo News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products...

Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing

H&M Led Labor Breakthrough by European Retailers

Media Decoder: Charlie Rose to Host a Prime Time Show on PBS

13 minutes ago - New York Times Business
Mr. Rose will host a half-hour program called “Charlie Rose Weekend,” which will replace “Need to Know” on Friday evenings. by By ELIZABETH JENSEN

Business

Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing

1 hour 56 minutes ago - New York Times Business
Ed Cunningham, an ESPN sports analyst, tapped the crowdfunding service Kickstarter to finish what has been a nearly six-year labor of love.

H&M Led Labor Breakthrough by European Retailers

1 hour 54 minutes ago - New York Times Business
The Swedish retail giant H&M, though it had no ties to a disaster in Bangladesh, found its efforts to improve garment workers’ conditions accelerate...

Media Decoder: Charlie Rose to Host a Prime Time Show on PBS

1 hour 47 minutes ago - New York Times Business
Mr. Rose will host a half-hour program called “Charlie Rose Weekend,” which will replace “Need to Know” on Friday evenings.

Tech Industry Pushes to Amend Immigration Bill

29 minutes ago - New York Times Business
Executives from Silicon Valley say that the Senate immigration bill imposes too much regulatory control over a company’s hiring of temporary foreign...

Stronger Yuan Makes Life Harder For Chinese Exporters

35 minutes ago - Forbes
For China's currency, the yuan, there is no turning back. This currency is gaining on the dollar each year. The government wants to make it a fully co...

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Family

Finally! The Land Of Nod opens a new store

Yesterday - Baby Chic 101
For many years now, only Seattle and Chicago have been able to enjoy an actual bricks and mortar Land Of Nod store. Well that ends next month. As you...

Aden + Anais introduces stroller blankets

2 days ago - Baby Chic 101
Aden + Anais has a new line of muslin blankets, this time made for on the go. The Aden + Anais stroller blanket has now hit stores in 6 different colo...

Halo's new BassiNest - Youtube Video

3 days ago - Baby Chic 101
Brixy posted this video of Halo's new awesome product, the BassiNest. It's a great new type of co-sleeper that swivels a full 360 degrees so parents c...

Win a Peg Perego convertible car seat

4 days ago - Baby Chic 101
Peppy Parents is giving away a Peg Perego Primo Viaggio SIP 5-70 premium convertible car seat($329.99 value to one lucky winner). You can enter the co...

Britax debuts new B-Agile colors

5 days ago - Baby Chic 101
Three bright new spring fashions have for the Britax B-Agile. The stroller will now be available in Peacock blue (above), Plum purple and Granite gr...

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Fashion

How to Get Hair Like Your Favorite TV Heroines

2 hours 24 minutes ago - Fashionista
Dying to try out a complicated Game of Thrones Daenerys Targaryen braid or get that flowy Russian spy mane that Keri Russell sports in The Americans?...

Fashionista’s First-Ever Conference, All The Fashion at Cannes, and More Met Ball

4 hours 24 minutes ago - Fashionista
You Are Cordially Invited to Our First-Ever Conference: Find out what it takes to “make it” to the top of the fashion pile, as well as how to netw...

Peter Pilotto on Why He Wants Investment Sooner Than Later

7 hours 41 minutes ago - Fashionista
The international talent at Singapore’s Audi Fashion Festival is impressive: Carolina Herrera opened the event, Hussein Chalayan will close it. Frid...

We’re Livestreaming SCAD’s 2013 Senior Fashion Show!

Yesterday - Fashionista
The Savannah College of Art and Design’s (SCAD) School of Fashion is one of the best in the country, and the student fashion show is an event that w...

Zoe Saldana in Prabal Gurung, Liberty Ross in Dior and More

Yesterday - Fashionista
Tired of the endless stream of extravagant gowns at Cannes? Yeah, neither are we. But, we felt bad for the step-and-repeating celebs who don’t happe...

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Food

7 Recipes for Veggie Burgers

9 hours 24 minutes ago - CHOW

What's the Deal with Juicing?

Yesterday - CHOW

St. Louis-Style Ribs vs. Baby Back Ribs

Yesterday - CHOW

Lemon Blueberry Ricotta Pound Cake

2 days ago - Simply Recipes
It’s the beginning of blueberry season over here; let the parade of baked goods begin! I had a basket of blueberries giving me the eye the other mor...

Do You Really Need Herb Shears?

2 days ago - CHOW

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Games

Guilty Gear Xrd SIGN announced at Arc System Works festival

Less than a minute ago - Joystiq
Arc System Works announced Guilty Gear Xrd SIGN at its 25th anniversary festival in Yokohama, Japan today. While there are no details yet on what plat...

Terry Cavanagh picks up 'proper, meaty puzzle game,' Halting Problem

1 hour 24 minutes ago - Joystiq
Terry Cavanagh throws a ton of game ideas into the online hive mind, and it looks like he found one that sticks with Halting Problem (tentative title)...

Arkham Origins stars Deathstroke in some playable capacity

2 hours 54 minutes ago - Joystiq
A Batman: Arkham Origins pre-order image on Amazon offers Deathstroke as a playable character via DLC. Check it out in a rolling image header here. B...

Why Defiance's 'fun now, depth later' is great for MMORPGs

4 hours 24 minutes ago - Joystiq
This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics,...

Kevin Conroy returns for Batman: Arkham Origins

5 hours 54 minutes ago - Joystiq
Kevin Conroy will be in Batman: Arkham Origins, and he's already spent 10 months in the studio recording those gruff-yet-dulcet tones. Conroy confirme...

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Health

More young people having strokes, study says

46 minutes ago - MSNBC Health

Indonesia's nationwide healthcare plan stumbles at first hurdle

3 hours 11 minutes ago - Yahoo Health
By Randy Fabi and Nilufar Rizki JAKARTA (Reuters) - When a sick Indonesian baby died after 10 hospitals in Jakarta turned her family away in February,...

Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older

7 hours 16 minutes ago - Yahoo Health
By Li Hui and Maxim Duncan QIANTUN, China (Reuters) - Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager...

What do we eat? New food map will tell us

6 hours 37 minutes ago - Yahoo Health
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought

Fate of LA pot shops left to voters

4 hours 5 minutes ago - Yahoo Health
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the...

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Humor

5 People Who Took Revenge to a Whole New Level

12 hours 24 minutes ago - Cracked
By Jacopo della Quercia,Evan V. Symon Published: May 19th, 2013 They say that the best revenge is living well. And that's probably true, but you kn...

Why 'My Little Pony' Is About to Get Even Creepier

12 hours 24 minutes ago - Cracked
By XJ Selman Published: May 19th, 2013 Hasbro recently announced a My Little Pony spinoff movie, titled My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, which will...

If Hollywood Was Honest About Sex

12 hours 24 minutes ago - Cracked
By CRACKED Readers Published: May 19th, 2013 There's nothing the viewer loves more than a nice steamy sex scene. And Hollywood loves to put them on...

5 Disturbing Ways Insects Can 'Hack' Nature

12 hours 24 minutes ago - Cracked
By Monte Richard Published: May 19th, 2013 Nature is a giant computer: a vast mechanism of endless complexity and variety. It calculates, compiles,...

5 Obnoxious Things Restaurants Need to Stop Doing

12 hours 24 minutes ago - Cracked
By Felix Clay Published: May 19th, 2013 Polka Dot Images/Polka Dot/Getty Images Everyone likes eating out at restaurants, except I guess people who...

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Movies

Box Office Guru Wrapup: Star Trek Softer Than Expected at #1

5 hours ago - Rotten Tomatoes
Vulcans and their comrades came out to power the sci-fi sequel Star Trek Into Darkness into the number one spot at the North American box office, howe...

Indie Trailer Sunday: Badass Punk Rock Doc 'A Band Called Death'

4 hours 31 minutes ago - First Showing
"We are fighting to maintain our identity!" While the Cannes Film Festival rages on, today's trailer is for an indie rock doc called A Band Called Dea...

Kickstart This: Awesome Practical FX Creature Film 'Harbinger Down'

4 hours 48 minutes ago - First Showing
Welcome back to another edition of Kickstart This, FirstShowing's weekly column dedicated to spreading the word about cool indie projects that need yo...

Box Office Results: Star Trek into Darkness Opens with $84 Million Domestic

20 hours 24 minutes ago - Coming Soon
The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Click here for the full box office estimates of the t...

Kevin Conroy WILL Return for Batman: Arkham Origins

20 hours 24 minutes ago - Coming Soon
Remember a few weeks ago when rumors began to circulate that voice actor Kevin Conroy would not be returning to voice Batman in the upcoming prequ...

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Music

Chrissy Teigen Owns The Beach At Hangout Fest 2013!

13 hours 48 minutes ago - MTV News
From a romp through Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' set to a shrimp-eating contest with 2012's Miss Alabama, model/TV host racks up adventures.By Mike Ayers...

Public Enemy Are 'Rolling Stones' Of Rap, Chuck D Says At Hangout Fest

15 hours 32 minutes ago - MTV News
'Not braggin', lips bigger than Jagger, not saggin''' Chuck D tells MTV News' Sway Calloway.By Gil Kaufman, with reporting by Sway Calloway Chuck...

Kim Kardashian Confirms Kanye West's Yeezus Title And Release Date

17 hours 59 minutes ago - MTV News
West's girlfriend Instagrams picture of album cover and confirms June 18 release date in tweet.By Gil Kaufman Kanye West's Yeezus Photo: Kanye W...

Afrojack, Calvin Harris, Porter Robinson 'Take Over' Electric Daisy Carnival: Day Two

18 hours 55 minutes ago - MTV News
Cloudy skies were an afterthought Saturday as the EDM fest saw Thomas Gold, AN21 and Max Vangeli and more rocking New York's Citi Field. By Sarah Harp...

Kendrick Lamar Inspired By Kanye West Album Roll-Out

8 hours 13 minutes ago - MTV News
'That's that creative Kanye genius stuff out the box ...I can't wait to hear it,' Lamar says of the way West is revealing his new work.By Gil Kaufman,...

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News

Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen

20 minutes ago - Yahoo News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products...

In Syria, 'winning' is a relative term

20 minutes ago - MSNBC Top Stories
News analysisDAMASCUS, Syria – It's early Friday morning, a holy day in Syria's capital. But war is no respecter of dawn or devotion; dense smoke is...

Tornadoes rip through Oklahoma

51 minutes ago - CNN Top Stories
Tornadoes damage homes and businesses in rural Oklahoma

Weeklong traffic mess possible after CT derailment

53 minutes ago - Yahoo News
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line af...

How to prepare for your parents' retirement

53 minutes ago - MSNBC Top Stories
When Eileen Crehan thinks about her parents’ retirement plans, she worries.The 27-year-old PhD candidate, like many young adults, knows that her par...

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Politics

Will we reach a tipping point with Syria?

46 minutes ago - MSNBC Politics

Damage control at the White House

46 minutes ago - MSNBC Politics

The part of Obama's speech that struck Morehouse students most

46 minutes ago - MSNBC Politics

WHITE HOUSE STANDS BY SARAH...

36 minutes ago - Drudge Report
WHITE HOUSE STANDS BY SARAH...(Top headline, 1st story, link)Related stories:Anonymous IRS official -- everything comes from the top...McConnell: 'The...

Kerry heads to Middle East, focus on Syria

1 hour 8 minutes ago - MSNBC Politics

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Pop Culture

Justin Bieber And Selena Gomez Embrace Their LOVE In Sin City Before Billboard Music Awards!

2 hours 23 minutes ago - Perez Hilton
We expect them to be sitting next to each other at tonight's 2013 Billboard Music Awards, but the day before, there is no question that Justin Bieber...

Star Trek Into Darkness Does NOT Meet $100 Million Box Office Expectations, But Still Beats Iron Man 3!

2 hours 51 minutes ago - Perez Hilton
Star Trek Into Darkness may have tried to boldly go where no blockbuster had gone before, but unfortunately, it appears to have fallen a few million d...

Jenni Rivera's Final Concert Before Death Documented In Heartbreaking I Love Jenni Special!

3 hours 21 minutes ago - Perez Hilton
Frankly, we're already in tears just thinking about this! We doubt we're alone when we say that Jenni Rivera has rarely been too far from our thoughts...

Drake Gets His Afro On While Filming Cameo For Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues!

3 hours 55 minutes ago - Perez Hilton
Thank goodness there is NO SUCH THING as being Anchorman'd out! Because this week has been the best kind of Ron Burgandy overload EVER, between the mu...

Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Gets NEW Castmember! Find Out Who Will Be Joining The 90210 Ranks HERE!

4 hours 22 minutes ago - Perez Hilton
Surprise! Seriously! Did anyone else know her name was on the shortlist? We've all sorts of rumors regarding potential new castmembers for the fourth...

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Science

The Week In Numbers: Fire In Space, The First Cloned Human Embryo, And More

2 days ago - Pop Sci
Grains of interstellar dust stretching across a segment of the Orion Nebula ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 1,350 light-years: the distance to a "fiery ri...

8 Of The Year's Most Oddly Gorgeous Science Images

2 days ago - Pop Sci
Maze Dweller A goby fish peeks out of the coral it lives in. Goby fish are good housekeepers--they may remove algae from the coral that would otherwis...

A Zombie Worm And Other Amazing Images From This Week

2 days ago - Pop Sci
Zombie Worm This horrifying worm is an Osedax, also called a zombie worm or bone-eating worm, for a pretty obvious reason: it lives inside the bones o...

Drone-Vision Rifle Goes On Sale For $22K

2 days ago - Pop Sci
TrackingPoint XactSystem Series 1) The hunter marks his prey. 2) The ballistics computer determines where the shot will land in current conditions. 3)...

7 Reasons Why 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Is A Beginner's Guide To Star Trek [Spoiler Alert]

2 days ago - Pop Sci
Star...Battles? The USS Enterprises faces off against a much larger warship. Paramount Everyday science, familiar plotlines, and an absence of jargon...

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Sports

NHL playoffs: Los Angeles Kings return home between road playoff games

9 minutes ago - Sporting News

Indianapolis 500: Young Americans waste no time qualifying

28 minutes ago - Sporting News

Preview: Penguins look to take 3-0 lead on Senators

1 hour 51 minutes ago - SI
Sidney Crosby and the Penguins have had their way with the Senators so far to take a 2-0 lead. Can the return of Jason Spezza help Ottawa rally to win...

Italian Open: Rafael Nadal beats Roger Federer; Serena Williams wins

51 minutes ago - Sporting News

Preview: Penguins look to take 3-0 lead on Senators

1 hour 51 minutes ago - SI
Sidney Crosby and the Penguins have had their way with the Senators so far to take a 2-0 lead. Can the return of Jason Spezza help Ottawa rally to win...

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T.V.

Motive: Will Canada's No. 1 New Show Connect with U.S. Audiences?

1 hour 26 minutes ago - TV Guide
On ABC's new police procedural Motive, the question at the start of each episode is not who committed a crime, but why. But the looming question on th...

Twilight Zone Actress Christine White Dies at 86

1 hour 57 minutes ago - TV Guide
Christine White, an actress best known for The Twilight Zone, passed away on April 14 in Washington, D.C., the Carroll County Times reports. She was 8...

"Undercover Angel" Singer Alan O'Day Dies at 72

1 hour 56 minutes ago - TV Guide
Singer-songwriter Alan O'Day passed away Friday following a battle with cancer, The Hollywood Reporter reports. He was 76. Read More > Other Links...

Why Star Trek Should Return to TV

2 hours 1 minute ago - TV Guide
Star Trek had been off television for four years before J.J. Abrams rebooted the film franchise in 2009. While Abrams' vision has clearly struck a cho...

Alia Shawkat on Arrested Development Season 4: Maeby Takes Advantage of George Michael

2 hours 19 minutes ago - TV Guide
Arrested Development's return is less than one week away, so break out the virgin pina coladas and let's get this party started! Alia Shawkat sat down...

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Technology

Ziff Davis Is Buying NetShelter/InPowered's Display Ad Business

49 minutes ago - Techcrunch
Digital media company and ad sales platform Ziff Davis is expanding its network of properties even further with the purchase of NetShelter’s display...

Google Glass Year In Review

24 minutes ago - Techcrunch
It’s been a little over a year since Google started teasing something it called “Project Glass.” The futuristic, wearable computer that would ch...

3D printing poised on the edge of the mainstream (photo gallery)

46 minutes ago - Venture Beat
3D printers haven’t quite made the leap to mainstream — they’re still a bit too finicky, unreliable, and expensive for most consumers — but th...

The Weekly Roundup for 05.13.2013

39 minutes ago - Engadget
You might say the week is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the...

Google Believes Web Components Are The Future Of Web Development

2 hours 24 minutes ago - Techcrunch
While it was missing the skydiving antics of last year’s event, Google’s I/O keynote last week wasn’t short on product launches. In between the...

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Live News

NHL playoffs: Los Angeles Kings return home between road playoff games - Sporting News

Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen - Yahoo News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products ...

Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing - New York Times Business
Ed Cunningham, an ESPN sports analyst, tapped the crowdfunding service Kickstarter to finish what has been a nearly six-year labor of love.

H&M Led Labor Breakthrough by European Retailers - New York Times Business
The Swedish retail giant H&M, though it had no ties to a disaster in Bangladesh, found its efforts to improve garment workers’ conditions accelerate...

Media Decoder: Charlie Rose to Host a Prime Time Show on PBS - New York Times Business
Mr. Rose will host a half-hour program called “Charlie Rose Weekend,” which will replace “Need to Know” on Friday evenings.

Tech Industry Pushes to Amend Immigration Bill - New York Times Business
Executives from Silicon Valley say that the Senate immigration bill imposes too much regulatory control over a company’s hiring of temporary foreign...