Brette Borow launched GirlsGuideTo way back in 2006 when she was a post-college, LA-based early-twentysomething with a mission to ?help young women embrace life, love themselves, and evolve into the women they want to be? and a vision to ?create a multi-platform digital network that will become the premier destination for young women to help develop and share in their individuality.? In the past six years, Borow?s been able to realize at least part of that vision. GirlsGuideTo has garnered a sizable online and social media following (it?s currently topping 140K fans on Facebook) as a fun, friendly, and fabulous place for individuals in possession of two X chromosomes to get and give advice on things relevant to ladies who are at that interesting/difficult life stage that?s somewhere between ?teenager? and ?adult.? The part of Borow?s early vision for GirlsGuideTo that the site?s founder hadn?t been able to realize in the past six years is all that stuff about multimedia. But then Borow found Big Frame. The YouTube network that recently closed a $3 million funding round just launched GirlsGuideTo TV, an online video offshoot of the female-oriented website that?s marketed as ?Cosmo for the Facebook Generation.? The series stars familiar faces from online video screens - including ExoticJess aka Jessica Lizama, Nikki Phillippi, Sh*t Girlfriends Say?s Kelsey Darragh, and Miranda Mayo - who sit close enough to one another so they can all fit into the same frame, but are somehow still able to maintain a kind of conversation that feels uncharacteristically casual, in a good way
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Democrats in Tampa: What did Romney build?
- Obama campaign and Democratic National Committee are in Tampa getting their message out
- L.A. mayor: "It's worth asking: What did Romney build?"
- Maryland governor: "Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class"
- Romney camp fires back: Obama "cannot defend a record of broken promises and failed policies"
Tampa, Florida (CNN) -- Democrats wasted no time on Tuesday trying to undercut Republicans as they began their convention, attacking a key GOP message before party luminaries took the spotlight in Tampa.
Republicans aggressively pushed their convention theme, "We Built It," while Democrats sought to turn it back on Mitt Romney, who was affirmed as the nominee by a roll call of delegates in the first significant moments of the event.
Republicans highlighted a remark by President Barack Obama, who said in July that public investment in infrastructure helps businesses grow. "If you are successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. ... If you've got a business, you didn't build that," Obama said at the time.
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Rebutting the GOP message Republicans have seized on the comment to suggest that Obama is out of touch with small business owners and does not understand how the private sector works. Democrats, however, contend that their rivals are taking things out of context.
"So as Republicans continue to distort the president's words and push their 'We built that' theme in Tampa," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said from the "war room" Democrats have set up in downtown Tampa near the convention site. "It's worth asking: What did [Mitt] Romney build?"
Villaraigosa, chair of next week's Democratic convention in Charlotte, answered his own question - "A bank account in Switzerland, investments in Bermuda and the Caymans, and an inexplicably large IRA. That's what he built."
Democrats are trying to nail Romney with a one-two punch: casting him as wealthy and privileged and saying that his policies would hurt the middle class.
"A stronger, growing middle class means a stronger, growing American economy," Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said, "And that's really what this election is all about." "On a national scale, Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class, would be wrong for America's middle class, would not grow our middle class. And, in fact, would harm our middle class," O'Malley added.
On Romney's tenure at the top of Boston private equity firm Bain Capital, O'Malley said the Republican's goal when investing in troubled companies was not creating jobs. Instead, O'Malley suggested that the firm under Romney destroyed businesses and jobs in order to generate profit for investors.
"In this economy, there are shipbuilders and there are ship-wreckers," O'Malley said. "There are those who manufacture automobiles and there are those who scrap automobiles. There are those who build up and create things and there are those who make a quick profit by dismantling things."
The Romney campaign quickly fired back.
In an email, Romney spokesman Ryan Williams accused Democrats of launching "false and baseless attacks" against the former Massachusetts governor whose tenure at the firm prior to his public life made him wealthy.
"The facts speak for themselves," Williams said, "with 23 million Americans struggling for work, nearly one in six Americans living in poverty, and median incomes declining, the Obama campaign cannot defend a record of broken promises and failed policies. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have a plan to strengthen the middle class by creating jobs and turning around our economy."
Asked at the event about recent polling indicating the public views Romney stronger on handling the economy, Obama senior adviser Robert Gibbs countered. Gibbs pointed to other recent polling data suggesting the public is more partial to Obama on the questions of who cares about people and who cares about the middle class.
"I think those polls demonstrate overwhelmingly that the president is their pick," Gibbs said.
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The event was the latest salvo in an escalating pace of aggressive campaigning, rhetoric, and attacks on the part of both presidential campaigns.
In a break from tradition, the president is out campaigning this week while Republicans hold their nominating convention. Speaking in Iowa Tuesday, Obama said he expects the event to be a "pretty entertaining show."
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"I'm sure they'll, you know, have some wonderful things to say about me," he joked.
CNN White House Producer Alexander Mooney contributed to this report.
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The annual Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival is usually just flooded with discounted computer products and booth babes, so we were pleasantly surprised when we spotted a couple of unreleased Windows 8, dual-digitizer devices at the Fujitsu booth. Pictured above is the Stylistic Q702 "Quattro," an 11.6-inch tablet-cum-laptop that was announced last month. This particular unit sported an Intel Core i5-3427U chip (capped at 2.3GHz instead of 2.8GHz), a vibrant IPS panel, a fingerprint scanner, front and back cameras, 4GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD -- twice the announced capacity, for some reason. Much like the ASUS Transformers, undocking the tablet was only a matter of pulling the latch on the hinge, but we found the latch to be rather stiff to operate. Hopefully this is just a prototype issue. Other than that, we just wish the final keyboard dock will somehow get a slight weight reduction: for the screen size, 1.88 pounds isn't too bad for the tablet alone, but together with the heavy keyboard, the Q702 could become a nightmare for regular travelers.
The second prototype lurking at the back of the booth was the bulkier LifeBook T902 "Tercel," a 13.3-inch convertible laptop that was unveiled alongside the Q702 last month. According to its label, this swivel-hinged machine packed a Core i7-3520M, 8GB of RAM, 500GB 7,200rpm hard drive, Blu-ray burner, LTE radio and a 72Wh (6,700mAh) battery. Oh, and there's also a fingerprint scanner below the display. While the software failed to reverse the screen rotation after we flipped the screen back to laptop mode, it was in general just as responsive as the Q702, though the hardware felt more solid and ready. With this in mind plus the Windows 7 label and Wacom label below the keyboard, we wouldn't be surprised if the T902 comes out before the Q702. Until then, feel free to check out our impromptu hands-on video of the Q702 after the break.
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