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NBA 2k12 Basketball

 Sports shows NBA 2K12 Basketball video game. Associated Press This photo provided by Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc./2K Sports shows NBA 2K12 Basketball video game. When your last game cover features your sport's greatest player ever, what do you do for an encore? If you're 2K Sports, you get three of the greatest players ever. The NFL to a certain extent can take a hit, but the NBA is in a more fragile state. Even if there is an NBA 2k game, it will be an empty feeling without the real NBA thing going on. One fan who's been on a quest to make it onto the NBA 2k12 soundtrack .NBA 2K12 getting three covers featuring Jordan, Bird and Johnson. 2K Sports has announced NBA 2K12 will offer three separate covers featuring Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. The covers will spotlight each legendary player .The folks over at 2K Sports have upped the ante in the cover athlete game once again. Last year's well-received NBA 2K11 surprisingly sported former minor l

medco Health Solutions

 its planned $29.1 billion purchase of rival pharmacy-benefits manager Medco Health Solutions Inc. (MHS), is firing a shot across the bow of pharmaceutical companies that charge .Express Scripts Inc will buy rival Medco Health Solutions Inc for $29.1 billion, creating a U.S. powerhouse in managing prescription drug benefits that is sure to draw antitrust scrutiny. Under the acquisition agreement, Express Scripts shall form a new holding company called Express Scripts Holding Company ("ESHC") and shareholders will receive $28.80 in cash and 0.81 shares of ESHC for each Medco share. Based on the closing price of .However, the move comes just as Medco, which is the largest PBM, lost an important $11 billion contract with UnitedHealth Group that accounted for 17 percent of its business. Medco has also lost other big contracts recently, .Express Scripts will buy rival Medco Health Solutions for $29.1 billion in cash and stock to create a powerhouse in managing prescription drug

blood bank for life

A blood bank is a cache or bank of blood or blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion. The term "blood bank".A place where whole blood or plasma is typed, processed, and stored for future use in transfusion. Blood or plasma stored in such a place.A cord blood bank is a facility which stores umbilical cord blood for future use. Both private and public cord blood banks have developed since the mid- to late-1990s in response to the potential for cord blood transplants what is a blood banking:- Blood banking, the process of collecting (donation), testing, processing, and storing blood for later use (transfusion), is a cornerstone of emergency and surgical medicine and is dependent on the clinical laboratory for ensuring the safe use of blood and its components. This article provides a glimpse into four key aspects of blood banking:     Donating Blood,     Protecting Supply,     ensuring its proper use,

Robert Redford and his wife

Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Hart. His mother died in 1955, the year after he graduated from high school. Charles Robert Redford Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of drunkenness. Charles Robert Redford Jr., better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, Television and stage experience coupled with all-American good looks led to movies and television roles. His breakthrough role was "The Sundance Kid" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), when the actor was 32. The Way We Were (1973) and The Sting (1973), both in 1973, made Redford the number one box office star for the next three years. Redford used his clout to advance environmental causes and his riches to acquire Utah property, which h

Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress

Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in The Terminator and its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Catherine Chandler ,Born in Salisbury, Maryland, USA, following high school, Linda studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York. In New York, she attended acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg. Her career began in 1980, and her breakthrough came four years later in The Terminator.Linda Hamilton, star of of the first two "Terminator" films and mom of Intersect extraordinaire, Chuck Bartowsky. Last week, two Marines snagged dates to upcoming Marine Corps Balls with "Friends With Benefits" co-stars Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake via YouTube videos. Admittedly, we inwardly groaned when Sgt. Ray Lewis jumped on the band wagon Monday (July 18) and extended an invitation to 90-year-old actress Betty White to accompany him.Hamilton offered hers

Hope Solo is an American Soccer

Hope Amelia Solo is an American soccer goalkeeper who currently plays for the magicJack of Women's Professional Soccer. She is the current starting goalkeeper for the United States. Watch Hope Solo Eliminated From DWTS Semifinal [VIDEO] Solo recovered from major shoulder surgery last September to earn her place on the squad. Widely hailed as one of top goalkeepers in the world with an unparalleled .Hope Solo and Alex Morgan were at the Entourage premiere last night in New York City, and the superstar soccer players could use some help in the fashion department.United States goalkeeper Hope Solo’s stunning looks and game-saving heroics in Sunday’s penalty shootout victory over Brazil have .U.S. Goalkeeper Made Quite a Comeback of Her Own Hope Solo, ostracized by her team at the 2007 World Cup for being openly critical of the coach and a fellow goalkeeper, seems . READ MORE ON CELE BUZZ PICS AND NEWS 007:

kim kardashian is a star

Kimberly Noel "Kim" Kardashian (born October 21, 1980) is an American socialite, television personality, model, and actress. She is the daughter of late attorney Robert .The 30-year-old socialite – who is to marry NBA star Kris Humphries later this summer – wants her nuptials to be a huge occasion which will eventually air on one of her reality TV shows. A source told National Enquirer magazine,The reality star may hit Old Navy with a $20 million lawsuit. The celeb apparently takes issue with a look-alike that the retailer is using in an ad campaign. The company even tweeted about the Kim twinKardashian (1944-2003), who became famous in 1994 when his friend and client O.J. Simpson was arrested and tried for murder. Kim Kardashian became one of Paris Hilton's party pals and then in 2007 boosted her profile by taking legal action to prevent the distribution of a naughty home video she had made with then-boyfriend Ray J (born William Ray Norwood, Jr., the brother of singe

there is Famine In Southern Somalia Declared by Un

The UN officially declared famine in two southern Somalia regions Wednesday as the world slowly mobilised to save 12 million people battling hunger in the region's worst drought in 60 years. The United States urged Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab rebels controlling the area to allow the return of relief groups they expelled two years ago, , Valerie Amos, urged the world to make the link between climate change and the drought. Somalia is the most dangerous country in the world to work in, according to the U.N.'s World Food Program, which lost 14 relief workers in the past few years. Looting and attacks on aid convoys occur frequently. WFP head Josette Sheeran said the group is willing to return to southern Somalia if the insurgents guarantee safe passage. "We are absolutely fully committed to going where the hungry are," she said. The extended drought is forcing an estimated 3,000 people a day from Somalia to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. We speak to Yves van Loo i

MIT's Backtalk project / art exhibit traces the unseen life of discarded gadgets

Sooner or later, the device you're reading this on will either be sold, donated, recycled or otherwise disposed of; and unless you're particularly nostalgic about old gadgets like us, you likely won't ever give it much more thought. But no matter how you get rid of it, that device doesn't just vanish off the face the Earth. It's that extra life that got the folks from MIT's SENSEable City Lab thinking, and the Backtalk project is what they've come up with. Part research project and part art exhibition (now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York), the effort involved using GPS tracking devices to trace where things like cellphones, batteries and printer cartridges end up after being discarded -- and, in the case of 40 netbook computers, some tracking software and their built-in webcams, which recorded data and images that were sent back to MIT at regular intervals (with the new owners' consent, of course). Some of the results can be seen in

Allen West's sophomoric, whiny tirade against Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  This above video of Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the House floor provoked Rep. Alan West, another new favorite plaything of the wingnuts and the Villagers, to new lows of incivility, proving yet again how really thin-skinned he is Florida GOP Congressman Allen West this afternoon dispatched a scathing personal email to Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, calling her "vile, unprofessional ,and despicable," "a coward," "characterless," and "not a Lady," and demanding that she "shut the heck up." Wasserman Schultz, in whose neighboring South Florida district West lives, provoked his tirade with remarks after he left the House floor today, in which she responded -- without naming him -- to the Tea Party freshman's support for "Cut, Cap, and Balance" legislation to raise the debt ceiling. "The gentleman from Florida. who represents thousands of Medicare bene

Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7)

Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) is the eighth major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. . Mac OS X Lion is also the first version of Apple's operating system to come with the Mac App Store built-in. The marketplace launched in January as a download for Snow Leopard users. Apple's latest operating system update comes just a day after the .After yesterday's earnings call and a stellar third quarter resulting with an 82% increase in revenue, Apple released its Mac Mini and OSX Lion today, July 20. So what's new with their products? Did it bring something innovative, .Apple announced a slew of upgrades for its MacBook Air computers and threw in the OS X Lion for good measure. What about the iPhone 5, though? We've figured out by now that Apple likes to make a big splash when it comes to new product announcements. .It looks like the rumor mill got this one right. As widely speculated, Wednesday brought with it the