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The weak yen was the last straw for Potato Snack, the 25-year-old Japanese cracker, to the dismay of die-hard fans.

via WSJ.com: Lifestyle http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323689204578573151024866028.html?mod=WSJ_GoogleNews

Through her filibuster, Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis managed to delay and publicize a bill winding through Texas’s House of Representatives that would severely restrict that state’s abortion access. But she and her fellow Democrats couldn’t kill it. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives provisionally approved the bill by a vote of 98 to 49, along party lines, following a 10-hour debate flanked by activists on both sides. As The New York Times reports, the bill “sailed out of committee after thousands of people registered their positions and more than 500 people testified until 1:45 a.m. on Tuesday.” A final, formal vote is scheduled for Wednesday, the AP reports, and it’s expected to pass, then go to the Republican-majority Senate, where it will likely pass as well.

The two camps demonstrating outside the House were easy to distinguish as supporters of the bill wore blue and opponents wore orange. Some House Democrats and female Republicans opposed to the bill carried coat hangers with them to the podium to speak against it, symbolizing the dangerous at-home abortions they say will take place if abortion clinics close.

The bill would “require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, only allow abortions in surgical centers, dictate when abortion pills are taken and ban abortions after 20 weeks,” the AP reports. The restrictions “essentially would shut down most abortion clinics in Texas,” according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, which added that final approval in the House could come as early as today.

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via Daily Intelligencer http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/texas-house-approves-the-bill-wendy-davis-fought.html

EXCLUSIVE: Style Media has signed a development deal with the guys behind the Twitter-to-Web series Sh*t Girls Say to take their wide-eyed, brunette star and have her explore the worlds of fashion, beauty and lifestyle. In case you’ve been living under a flat rock: Sh*t Girls Say started out as a Twitter account poking fun at the way two guys — photographer-filmmaker-director Graydon Sheppard and writer/graphic designer Kyle Humphrey — observe women talking to friends, strangers, co-workers, and themselves. All comments come out of the mouth of the one girl — played by Sheppard. Humphrey drew the short straw and plays the boyfriend. First tweet: “Could you pass me that blanket?” debuted on April 7, 2011. Nearly 2 million Twitter followers, a four-episode web series with nearly 36 million views, one Sh*t Girls Say book, and thousands of parodies later, they’ve hooked up with Style and StyleNetwork.com — owned by NBCUniversal, and targeting women 18-49 “seeking to fuel their insatiable appetite for looking great and living stylishly.” (Style network’s telecasts Tia & Tamera, Jerseylicious and Giuliana & Bill to 76 million subscribers.)
“Even as she finds herself in outrageous comedic situations, ‘The Girl’ represents our core audience — a passionista who loves fashion and entertaining,” said Style’s SVP Original Programming and Development Sarah Weidman. Anyone else hoping “passionista” makes its way into the … Read More »

via Deadline.com http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/sht-girls-say-style-network-developement-deal/