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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed         Canadian Football Players Plank After Touchdown (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 3:23 PM   During a recent Canada Football League game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepted the ball and ran it back for a touchdown. Standard enough. But what wasn't so standard was the team congregating in the endzone and celebrating the score by planking. The question on everyone's minds now: is this just lighthearted meme participation, or another Canadian cultural thing we don't quite understand? WATCH: Read More... More on Canada         Spotify Coming To U.S. July 6, 2011 at 3:23 PM   After months of false starts, rumored difficulties obtaining licenses from record labels and a whole lot of hullaballoo, European music streaming startup Spotify is finally coming to America. "The award-winning music service that's taken Europe by storm will soon be landing on U.S. shores," Spotify's website proclaims. The site does not say yet when exactly the service is due to debut, or how much it'll cost. Read More...         Kwame Kilpatrick's Book Covers Affair, Legal Saga July 6, 2011 at 3:23 PM   DETROIT — Disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick claims in an upcoming book that an unspoken alliance of political adversaries, Detroit business leaders and an aggressive media capitalized on a sex and perjury scandal to send him from leading one of America's largest cities to a prison cell. The former politician bills "Surrendered! The Rise, Fall and Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick" as the true tale of his saga. While he takes responsibility for an affair with an aide and lies told during a civil trial, he also blames plenty of others for his downfall. Read More...         Minnesota Government Shutdown 2011: Food Shelves Send Plea, Funding Quickly Restored July 6, 2011 at 3:23 PM   As negotiations continue on a bill that would end the government shutdown in Minnesota, the state's hungry got some encouraging news. The Star Tribune reports that food shelves will receive their federal food supply, after initially being deemed "non-critical" and temporarily halted during the shutdown. Advocates told St. Louis Park Patch that continuing to stock shelves was crucial during the shutdown. "There was literally one million pounds of food that wouldn't have been distributed," Joan Wadkins, a spokeswoman for the food shelf Second Harvest Heartland said. Read More... More on Homelessness         Swing-State Voters Favor Taxing The Rich To Lower Deficit: Poll July 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM   WASHINGTON -- Republicans may find a resolution to make the rich share more of the pain in debt-reduction "rather pathetic," but new survey data suggest voters in swing states favor the idea -- strongly. Poll data by the Democratic-aligned Public Policy Polling released Wednesday said voters in Ohio, Missouri, Montana and Minnesota back hiking taxes on the wealthy -- even for people with incomes as low as $150,000. The respondents were asked: "In order to reduce the national debt, would you support or oppose raising taxes on those with incomes over $1,000,000 a year?" Read More... More on Bush Tax Cuts         Anderson Cooper On What It Was Like Growing Up With Mom Gloria Vanderbilt (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM   For Anderson Cooper, growing up with Gloria Vanderbilt as a mom was totally normal. Except, of course, that women wearing her denim line across America had her name emblazoned across their backsides. In a preview video for his upcoming eponymous daytime talk show (set to debut September 12), Anderson Cooper answers a Twitter follower's question: "What was it like growing up with a famous fashion designer as a mother?" Read More... More on Fashion         Even With IVF, Pregnancy Chances Still Low For Infertile Couples July 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM   LONDON -- More than 30 years after the world's first test-tube baby was born and despite modest advances, scientists are still struggling to dramatically improve the odds for infertile couples trying to have children. Though new techniques have been introduced in recent years, in-vitro fertilization remains a costly, stressful process, with only about a 25 percent chance of success in most cases. Read More... More on Healthy Living Health News         Osbourne Estate For $12.99 Million July 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM   The real-estate-loving Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have listed their Cape Cod-inspired mansion for $12.99 million. Located in the celeb-heavy enclave of Hidden Hills, this six bedroom, ten bathroom home was featured in the June 2011 issue of Architectural Digest. Designed by Martyn Lawrence-Bullard of Bravo's Million Dollar Decorator, the home features less goth-like elements than one might imagine. In fact, it seems almost like a doll house, with gilded mirrors and a sprawling 2.25 acre lawn. Bullard, a friend of Sharon's, has worked with her before -- most notably on her Sierra Towers pied-à-terre which he designed on the season premiere of the Bravo series. Read More... More on LA Real Estate         Sex Show Competition Forces LA Porn Conventions To Cancel July 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM   LOS ANGELES — Organizers of the Adultcon porn convention are pulling two of their shows from the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Los Angeles Times says it's because the center refused to bar other sex-themed gatherings within three months of the event. Read More...         Equatorial Guinea Falls To Brazil 3-0 At Women's World Cup July 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM   FRANKFURT, Germany — Fancy footwork is a Brazilian tradition, and Erika produced some samba skills to lead her team to a 3-0 win over Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday at the Women's World Cup. The South Americans secured the top spot in Group D. Read More... More on Soccer         Twitter Town Hall: Obama Quizzed On 14th Amendment July 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM   WASHINGTON -- During a Twitter town hall Wednesday, President Obama was asked whether he would consider invoking the 14th Amendment to pay government obligations if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling. Obama did not rule out such an option, but instead insisted that the situation should not get to a place where such drastic measures would be needed. "I don't think we should even get to the constitutional issue," Obama said after outlining the issue. Obama predicted that a deal would be struck in a "week or two weeks." Read More... More on Barack Obama         Illinois Could Drastically Cut Burials For The Poor, Pastors Protest July 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM   While massive budget cuts threaten the existence of a program that pays funeral homes and cemeteries to honor and bury deceased individuals whose families cannot afford such services, a coalition of Illinois pastors have lashed out against the plan. The group, called Pastors United for Change, said Tuesday that if the program goes unfunded in Illinois' new budget, "a national embarrassment" could result as bodies pile up "in President Barack Obama's home state," as Chicago's Greater St. John Bible Church Rev. Ira Acree said, according to an AP report. The Rev. Roosevelt Watkins, of Chicago's Bethlehem Star Church, described the potential lack of funding for the program "outrageous" and "unfair." Read More...         USA vs. Sweden LIVE UPDATES: 2011 Women's World Cup Group C July 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM   The USA women's national soccer team takes the field once again at the 2011 World Cup today to take on Sweden for its final match of Group C play. Both teams are 2-0, having handed North Korea and Columbia each losses, so the showdown promises to be an exciting one. The match begins at 2:45 p.m. ET on ESPN and can be viewed live on ESPN 3. Read More... More on Soccer         UK Companies Pull Ads From News Of The World July 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM   LONDON — Companies rushed to pull ads from British tabloid News of the World on Wednesday amid public outcry over alleged phone hacking, but media mogul Rupert Murdoch insisted his top executive in Britain, Rebekah Brooks, would not resign. As reports emerged that employees at the paper – owned by Murdoch's News Corp. media empire – hacked into the phones of missing schoolgirls and families of victims in London's 2005 terror attacks, the backlash from consumers escalated. Read More...         David Smith: 'Cannonball' Launches Over Stadium Walls To Become 'The Human Home Run' (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM   David "Cannonball" Smith, also known as "The Human Home Run," lived up to his nickname on Tuesday night when he shot out of a 35-foot cannon and over the wall of LeLacheur Park in Lowell, Mass. According to The Lowell Sun, Smith, 69, performed the stunt in front of more than 3,800 fans during a double header between the Lowell Spinners and Connecticut Tigers. A former school teacher, Smith has made a career out of launching himself out of cannons, racking up more than 1,000 shots. There are conflicting reports about whether or not this instance was his first time being launched over stadium walls. Read More... More on Video         Equatorial Guinea Falls To Brazil 3-0 At Women's World Cup July 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM   FRANKFURT, Germany — Erika's brilliant footwork got a frustrated Brazil on track for a 3-0 win over Equatorial Guinea to secure the top spot in Group D at the Women's World Cup. After the Africans neutralized the heavy favorites with dogged defending for 49 minutes, Erika controlled a loose ball on her chest, then tapped it from her right foot to the left to send a volley flying past goalie Miriam from 13 yards. Read More... More on Soccer         Australia's Night Sky Makes For A Gorgeous Time Lapse (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM   A rocky Australian coast on the Great Southern Ocean is the setting for this latest time lapse find from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day blog. In the video, created by "hobbyist astronomer" Alex Cherney, we're treated to a spectacle in the sky, courtesy of a colorful sunset, dark floating clouds and a vertical band of zodiacal light. The constellation Orion also makes an appearance toward the end of the time lapse. Cherney used over 30 hours of exposure, collected between 2009 and 2010, to make the award-winning video. Read More... More on Australia         Newsweek's "Diana" Issue Sells Just 13.8 Ad Pages? July 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM   Newsweek's July 4 cover featuring a simulated Princess Di next to Kate Middleton as part of piece in which editor Tina Brown imagines the late princess at age 50 (an illustration of Diana holding an iPhone is part of the package) provoked critics who claimed the image was in poor taste but the issue also underperformed with advertisers just as Newsweek seemed to be gaining traction on the business side. Read More... More on Newsweek         Obama Twitter Town Hall (LIVE UPDATES & VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   President Obama is holding a Twitter town hall at 2:00 PM ET. The AP explains the format: The 2 p.m. EDT event is expected to focus on jobs and the economy. Twitter "curators" will help select questions for the president that are representative of the most popular topics submitted online, the White House said. While questioners will have to limit their inquiries to 140 characters, Twitter's maximum message length, the president will have no such restrictions. Instead of answering via Tweet, Obama will go the more traditional route and answer verbally in front of a live audience gathered in the East Room of the White House. Read More... More on Barack Obama         Eliot Spitzer Show CANCELED In CNN Shakeup July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   CNN has canceled "In the Arena," the 8PM show hosted by Eliot Spitzer, as part of a shake-up of its evening schedule. In its place, the network will move Anderson Cooper's flagship "AC 360" broadcast to the 8PM spot, where it will compete against Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor" and MSNBC's "Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." "In the Arena" had itself replaced "Parker Spitzer," the show Spitzer launched with former co-host Kathleen Parker last year. Read More... More on CNN         Sen. Mark Udall Wants To Help 3 Colorado Sawmills Stay Afloat During Economic Downturn July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   U.S. Senator Mark Udall sent a letter to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging immediate action to help three of Colorado's largest sawmills which are struggling financially. Udall is requesting that the USFS and USDA work with the sawmills to modify some contract terms so the mills can remain open. Intermountain Resources, Mountain Valley Lumber and Delta Timber are the three mills in jeopardy. Intermountain Resources, the largest of the three mills, went into receivership in June 2010. The mills employ hundreds of Coloradans and play a part in the fight against the bark beetle and wildfires by providing the infrastructure to help clear millions of acres of fallen or beetle-killed trees and processing them into wood products. Read More... More on Wildfires         Louise Casey: Rich 'Protected More Than Victims' July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   Press Association -- The current courts system protects the rich and wealthy more than it does the families of murder victims, the victims' tsar has said. Louise Casey called for a new law to guarantee the rights of victims' families to help them cope better with the ordeal of going through the justice system. Defendants' rights were already protected, she said, but while wealthy celebrities were pursuing injunctions to protect their privacy in the High Court, victims' families were being put through traumatic ordeals in the witness box. Read More...         Facebook's Awesome Announcement: Group Chat, Video Chat, New Chat Design July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   Mark Zuckerberg promised "something awesome" for Wednesday's conference. What Facebook delivered is a trio of new chat features, including the earlier reported Skype-video chat integration. The new features include a redesigned chat interface, group chats, and the aforementioned video chat, all explained on Facebook's blog. The group chat feature will let users chat with multiple friends at once by selecting "Add Friends to Chat." According to Facebook, 50 percent of users are using the Groups feature, for things like co-ordinating events. Users can add friends that are not online at the time, and those friends will receive a summary of the chat later on. The feature rolls out today. Read More... More on Facebook         Goldman Sachs Took Biggest Loan During Fed's Emergency Program July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   WASHINGTON - Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and European banks RBS and UBS were the biggest beneficiaries of very short-term Federal Reserve loans extended at the height of the financial crisis, according to data released on Wednesday. The details of the lending program were disclosed after a lengthy legal battle eventually won by Bloomberg News LLP. The data, available on the Fed's website, showed Goldman took $15 billion in exchange for securities ranging from Treasuries to mortgage bonds. Swiss-based UBS AG (UBSN.VX), UK-based RBS Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) and Lehman took $10 billion each. Read More... More on Lehman Brothers         Bird Attacks Tiger (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   Size isn't everything, sometimes it's all about the surprise and even the most ferocious animals can get spooked. Check out this video to see a tiger, who was just minding his own business, lose his cool when his space is invaded by a feathered friend. We're not sure what the tiger did, but that's definitely one angry bird. Read More... More on Animals         Social Security Cuts On The Table In Debt Ceiling Negotiations July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   Last week, President Barack Obama insisted that nothing could be off limits in talks to raise the nation's debt ceiling. The president was mostly referring to tax increases on the wealthy, which Democrats have been pushing for in the deficit talks, and which Republicans have steadfastly opposed. But it now appears Social Security could be under the knife, according to Talking Points Memo. Over the last few weeks, congressional aides, strategists and advocates have told TPM that a "stealth change" to the Social Security benefit structure is on the table. Read More... More on Barack Obama         California Gay Textbooks: Proposal Would Require LGBT Lessons In Schools July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   California lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that would make the state the first to require public schools to teach lessons on historical and current contributions of gays and lesbians. The bill now goes to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, who has not indicated whether he will sign the document, the Associated Press Reports. The regulation would also prohibit the use of any materials that reflects negatively on gays. From the AP: Read More... More on Jerry Brown         Wilderness Brewing Company Entrepreneurs Go From Bible College Students To Craft Brewers July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   Mike Reinhardt and Nate Watson, both 31, met 10 years ago as undergraduates at Central Bible College, a school of 650 in Springfield, Mo., that "train[s] ministers and missionaries for tomorrow's Church." The friends first met when Watson walked by Reinhardt's dorm room and noticed him listening to the Smashing Pumpkins. Read More... More on Beer         James Spader In 'The Office': Robert California As Dunder Mifflin CEO July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   James Spader will be the new boss on "The Office." For about a day. Then, it's up to corporate. A press release from Universal reveals that Spader has sealed a deal to join the show on a full-time basis, reprising the character he played during last season's finale's hunt for a new Scranton head honcho. But instead of settling for the desk in Pennsylvania, he ends up climbing much, much higher -- to the top of Sabre. "James will reprise his role as Robert California, this uber-salesman that has a power to convince and manipulate, like a high-class weirdo Jedi warrior," said Paul Lieberstein, one of the series' executive producers and a series regular. "He'll have been hired over the summer as the new manager, but within hours, got himself promoted. Within days, he took over the company. James has an energy that is completely his own, and 'The Office' has no tools for dealing with this guy. We're thrilled he's joining our cast." Read More... More on The Office         Michele Bachmann's Personal Life Goes Under The Microscope July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   Now that Michele Bachmann is out on the stump and breaking upwards in most polls, it seems to be time to start putting her personal life through the media churn. So far, the result is mostly a litany of things you already knew, or could surmise, from her rather plainspoken Christian conservative beliefs. There's a healthy emphasis on the divisive -- and that's the rub, really. Most of what we're (re-)learning about Michele Bachmann is precisely the sort of thing both candidate and campaign don't mind being discussed. Moreover, there's plenty of muddle in the reporting, as the pieces, to varying degrees, reach for a judgment-free tone. Let's begin with today's Washington Post, which has an article up today titled "Michele Bachmann's husband shares her strong conservative values." Those values? Well, they primarily involve extreme antipathy for members of the LGBT community. The article leads with the quote from Marcus Bachmann that's getting such wide play of late, in which he refers to homosexuals as "'barbarians' who 'need to be educated, need to be disciplined.'" The couple, it is reported, share a "common abhorrence of homosexuality." So, got that? The Bachmanns oppose gay rights, and as the Post relates, "Bachmann & Associates, the Christian counseling center he runs, practiced 'reparative therapy,' a method of converting homosexuals to heterosexuality often called 'praying away the gay.'" (There are persistent rumors in the ether that Marcus Bachmann may have some personal experience in such "reparative therapy," a matter that's basically too seedy for reporters to touch, though when the Post reporter makes note of the fact that Bachmann's husband "has acted as her media planner, traveling assistant and even personal shopper," I instinctively know to say, "I see what you did there.) Read More... More on 2012         Championship Coach Tackles God On The Gridiron July 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM   By Greg Garrison Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) After Auburn University's football win over Clemson last season, coach Gene Chizik declared, "It's a God thing." Read More... More on College Football         Armen Gilliam Dead: Former NBA Player Dies At 47 July 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM   Armen Gilliam, former NBA player, died at age 47 on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack in Pittsburgh, PA. According to police, Gilliam was playing basketball at LA Fitness in Collier Township when he collapsed. He was rushed to St. Clair Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Gilliam, nicknamed "The Hammer," was selected by the Phoenix Suns with the No. 2 pick overall pick in the 1987 NBA draft. Read More... More on NBA         Gary Medel's Dirty Play On Giovani Dos Santos During Chile-Mexico Copa America Match (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM   You don't need Spanish lessons to figure out that this dirty move is against the rules. Dare we say that Chile's Gary Medel wasn't exactly making a play on the ball when he grabbed onto Giovani Dos Santos' personal regions, not letting go until the Mexican midfielder went down in what can only be described as agony. Despite the nauseating tactics seen in this video, Chile won the match 2-1 and will face Uruguay on Friday. Read More... More on Mexico         'No Contract, No Cookies': Stella D'Oro Strike Documentary Premieres July 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM   When Stella D'Oro workers went on strike in 2008 protesting unfair wages, Emmy Award winning filmmakers Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill were right alongside them covering their story for a documentary. Two years later, that story is coming to light, as No Contract, No Cookies premieres on HBO2 tonight. The film covers the duration of the 11-month-long strike, from its joyous second act and all the way to the depressing epilogue. Read More... More on Film         Eliot Spitzer Show CANCELED In CNN Shakeup July 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM   CNN has canceled "In the Arena," the 8PM show hosted by Eliot Spitzer, as part of a shake-up of its evening schedule. "In the Arena" had itself replaced "Parker Spitzer," the show Spitzer launched with former co-host Kathleen Parker last year. In its place, the network will move Anderson Cooper's flagship "AC 360" broadcast to the 8PM spot, where it will compete against Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor" and MSNBC's "Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." Read More... More on Eliot Spitzer         Manhattan Man Found Guilty of Murder In Brutal 2007 Stabbing July 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM   A 44-year-old drug dealer and addict with a long criminal record was found guilty of second-degree murder on Tuesday for the brutal stabbing death of his girlfriend in 2007. During the trial, Juan Rios, of Manhattan, confessed on the stand that he had stabbed Denise Deperrie, 40, nearly two dozen times with a kitchen knife while high on methadone and Xanax. Yet his defense attorney pleaded for leniency, claiming Rios was mentally ill and suffered from extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the attack. Rios testified that he killed Deperrie in a fit of jealous rage after she threatened to leave him. Her decomposing body was discovered in her SoHo apartment a week after the murder. Read More...         Mitch McConnell Criticizes Handling Of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame July 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM   WASHINGTON — The Senate Republican leader on Wednesday accused the Obama administration of undermining U.S. national security by bringing a Somali man facing terrorism charges to New York for trial. In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Mitch McConnell assailed the administration's decision, arguing that the Somali citizen – Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame – belongs at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he could be tried by a military tribunal. Read More... More on Somalia         12 And 13-Year-Old Kids Turn In Dad For Marijuana Possession Say Police July 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM   SALT LAKE CITY -- Authorities say a Utah man was arrested after his two children called police to report that he had marijuana in the house. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the man was charged Tuesday with two third-degree felony charges of child endangerment and one class B misdemeanor accusing him of possession of a controlled substance. Read More... More on Marijuana         Google Exec Marissa Mayer Explains Why There Aren't More Girl Geeks July 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM   In 1999, Marissa Mayer, then a recent Stanford University graduate, joined a little-known startup with fewer than 20 employees that she calculated as having a two percent chance of success: Google. Now, as a senior executive with the search giant, Mayer is one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley. Her work at Google influences how hundreds of millions of people access information on the web and she plays a key role in shaping Google's most important products, from the look and feel of its homepage to popular features like Google News and Gmail, as well as its more recent forays into location-based services. One of the most iconic women in tech today, Mayer's career path offers lessons for how to attract more women to a male-dominated field and undermines the assumption that to foster more female techies, it's early or never. Mayer, who calls herself a "proud geek," did not grow up obsessed with computers -- she bought her first one in college -- or with dreams of becoming the next Bill Gates. She wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon. Read More... More on Women In Tech         The Best Rooftop Bars In New York July 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM   If you're in the mood for a new perspective, good view, or gentle breeze, shout it from the rooftop. Night of Joy Tucked away in Williamsburg is a Victorian-inspired rooftop bar with a handsome bar staff, handwritten menus, stocked jukebox, and thoughtfully crafted drinks (like basil gimlets and rosemary bourbon). It's imbued with an urban coziness that's hard to come by -- from this vantage point, a view of the BQE is somehow beautiful. Read More... More on New York Restaurants         "Follow The Sun" Takes The Classic Intermission Reel To A Dark Place (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM   Movie intermission and preview reels are as part of the movie-going experience as colossal popcorns and soda as tall as the kids. It's a pretty natural progression, then, that design studio MK12 took to the clips for inspiration for their latest short, and did it their own way. In "Follow The Sun," we get up close and personal with the grotesque dancing snacks and beefy treats that lure us out of our velvet movie chairs - and then we watch them spiral into junk food hell and meet their doom. The resulting feature is one of both beautiful whimsy, and really creepy treats. To make the nightmarish short, Kansas City based MK12 became experts in stop-motion animation and drive-in reels, calling on cel-frame animator TJ Fuller of Cal Arts for help. "Follow The Sun' premiered at the 10th annual FITC Design & Technology event in Toronto this year. Read More... More on Weird Photos and Videos         Daniel Craig Talks 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,' Politics, Class In Esquire July 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM   Daniel Craig is not a particularly fragile man, what with his mysterious eyes, ripped James Bond redefining the character and upcoming, rough and tumble western, "Cowboys and Aliens" epic ready to burst into theaters. But even he, this steely-gazed Brit, was taken aback when he was allowed into David Fincher's editing room. Fincher, director of Craig's upcoming English-language adaptation of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," shocked his star with what he put on screen -- and what he didn't (no small task, considering both the racy content of the book, and the fact that Craig was there on set). "It's as adult as you can possibly make it," Craig tells Esquire, the cover of which he graces this month. "This is adult drama. I grew up, as we f*cking all did, watching The Godfather and that, movies that were made for adults. And this is a $100 million R-rated movie. Nobody makes those anymore. And Fincher, he's not holding back. They've given him free rein. He showed me some scenes recently, and my hand was over my mouth, going, Are you f*cking serious?" Read More...         Small Business Hiring Slows, But Employers Raise Wages: Survey July 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM   WASHINGTON - Hiring by U.S. small businesses slowed in June but employers increased hours and raised compensation for existing workers, an independent survey showed on Wednesday. Intuit, a payrolls processing company, said small businesses added 45,000 jobs last month after increasing employment by 60,000 in May. Read More... More on Small Business         Poetry Society Channels William Carlos Williams July 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM   Disgruntled poets channelled William Carlos Williams yesterday when they delivered a red wheelbarrow carrying members' signatures to the Poetry Society, demanding its board of trustees explain what lies behind a recent spate of high-level departures. Read More... More on Poetry         'Gas-Flushed' Sandwiches Stay 'Fresh' For Two Weeks July 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM   Food technologist Ray Boggiano has spent nearly a year developing sandwiches that stay fresh, even when they are two weeks old. Boggiano uses a process called "gas-flushing" (mmm..tasty) that replaces oxygen with carbon dioxide and nitrogen in the protective packaging. The choice of ingredients are a crucial part to the sandwiches' freshness. Foods that are highly perishable, such as lettuce, are not used. Likewise, oatmeal bread is used since it lasts longer than conventional bread. Boggiano's sandwich varieties include chicken tikka, cheese ploughmans, tuna mayonnaise, ham and cheese, chicken and bacon, and cheese and onion. The sandwiches will be available at convenience stores and corner shops in the UK. Read More...         Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan President, To Be Fairy Tale Hero July 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM   ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- The life story of Kazakhstan's authoritarian president has already been the subject of a glowing cinematic biopic and a play. Now, it is getting the fairy tale treatment. A newly published book heralds Nursultan Nazarbayev's achievements on the international diplomatic scene in the form of illustrated fables, state news agency Kazinform reported. Read More... More on Asia         Cutting Salt Doesn't Necessarily Lower Heart Disease, Death Risks: Study July 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM   In an analysis that set off a fierce debate over the health effects of salt, researchers said on Wednesday they had found no evidence that small cuts to salt intake reduce the risk of developing heart disease or dying prematurely. In a systematic review published by The Cochrane Library, British scientists found that while cutting salt consumption did appear to lead to slight reductions in blood pressure, that was not translated into lower death or heart disease risk. Read More... More on New Research         Milla Jovovich & Daughter Ever Gabo Sit Front Row At Gaultier Haute Couture (PHOTOS) July 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM   Milla Jovovich and the entire mishpacha made it to the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture show in Paris on Wednesday. The model-slash-actress, her husband Paul W. S. Anderson and their daughter Ever Gabo sat front row, where the toddler looked alternately like she was having the time of her life, frightened by the flashbulbs and annoyed at the wait time. We, too, experience the same range of emotions during fashion week. Check out some photos. Read More... More on Models         Carly Hibberd Dead: Australian Cyclist Killed After Being Hit By Car July 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM   Australian cyclist Carly Hibberd was killed on Wednesday after getting hit by a car while training in Northern Italy, according to local newspaper InInsubria. She was 26. Hibberd was reportedly training with Colombian rider Diego Tamayo when she was hit. Hibberd was said to have died at the scene of the accident, while Temayo was left unharmed. Read More... More on Cycling         10 Female Tech CEOs To Watch July 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM   While people are quick to characterize Silicon Valley as dominated by young men in hoodies, a band of women are emerging to make the industry their own. More and more women are at the helm of high-tech companies that are changing the world with innovations ranging from new ways to turn algae into fuel to robots that help children through physical therapy. As part of our Women in Tech series, we've picked ten female CEOs in the tech world to watch--women who are all using tech to radically change the way things are done in a range of industries. Read More... More on Women In Tech             This email was sent to venturepoliticalcapital@gmail.com. Delivered by Feed My Inbox PO Box 682532 Franklin, TN 37068 Account Login Unsubscribe Here