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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com         Florida Home Reportedly Ransacked By Buffett-Linked Mortgage Firm July 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM   Chris Boudreau of Brooksville, Florida says he is the unwilling recipient of a home makeover, courtesy of his mortgage company. 21st Mortgage Corporation, which says it is a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's firm Berkshire Hathaway on its website, allegedly hired a private firm to ransack and clean out Boudreau's home, according to WTSP 10 News. They reportedly took out his sofa, tables, television, DVD player, tapes and cabinets. They even shredded Mrs. Boudreau's wedding dress, claims Boudreau. "When she saw what happened, she actually went into in the dumpster trying to go through the stuff," Boudreau told the news station. "She was crying her eyes out." Read More... More on Florida         James M. Clash: America's First Woman Space-Walker Remembers Shuttle Rides July 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM   Undaunted, Kathryn Sullivan flew again, not once but twice -- in 1990 on Discovery, and in 1992 on Atlantis. "I had to," she said without hesitation. Read More... More on Science         Your Daily mOMent July 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM   We’re all busy. Work, activities, errands, bills, responsibilities, friends -- sometimes it all turns into one big run-on sentence and we forget to take a minute to … breathe. Pause. Smile. Notice the small things. It can take just a moment to give everyday life a little perspective. Today's video was shot at Central Park. Check back here every afternoon for a new "mOMent" to enjoy. Have a great idea for one? Send along a photo or video to moment@huffingtonpost.com! Read More... More on Healthy Living Spirit         Tamar Abrams: Seven Critical Life Lessons From Toddlers & Tiaras July 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM   Some see the show as exploitation of little girls, while others see it as an exposé of moms seeking validation through the beauty of their children. Read More...         Royal Visit: Plastic Surgeon On Call For Prince William's Polo Match July 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM   Prince William has a plastic surgeon reserved for his upcoming visit to Southern California -- but, no, he's not getting any work done. Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Toby Mayer will be on standby at the charity polo match Prince William will participate in Saturday afternoon at the Santa Barbara Polo Club. Mayer's job? Making sure that if the Duke gets hurt he's quickly taken care of. Read More... More on Prince William         Last Shuttle Launch Could Face Delay Over Bad Weather July 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM   CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The weather isn't cutting NASA any breaks, not even for the last space shuttle launch. Forecasters say there's a 70 percent chance that rain or thunderstorms will prevent Atlantis from flying Friday. That's worse than before. The weather forecast improves slightly over the weekend. Read More... More on NASA         LeBron James Focusing Annual Bike-a-thon On Third Grade Education July 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM   LeBron James is gearing up for third grade. James' annual bike ride through hometown Akron, Ohio -- formerly "King for Kids" -- will be called "Wheels for Education" this year, focused on 360 rising third-graders attending a reading and technology summer camp. The two-week camp launches Aug. 8, with James taking a 2.6-mile ride through Akron with 20 high school students. His program targets children that share James' family background -- a single-parent home. Read More... More on LeBron James         Jon Andre Fredriksen, Norwegian Soccer Player, Scores Amazing Goal From Midfield (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM   When it comes to amazing soccer goals, some are scored due to pure luck and circumstance, while others are rooted in great skill and athleticism. And then some are a little bit of both; as shown by the tally above. During a recent Norwegian Second Division match between Stabæk 2 and Moss, Moss midfielder Jon Andre Fredriksen collected the ball near midfield, just barely on his side of the pitch. Having apparently noticed that the Stabæk goalkeeper was cheating forward off his line a bit too greedily, Fredriksen decided to take his chances and loft a very long and very high arcing shot towards the opposition's net. Fredriksen's amibitious attempt struck gold, and led to a rare midfield goal celebration (most players run to one of the corner flags after scoring). The match ended in a 3-3 draw. Moss currently stands in ninth place in their 14-team group (Norway's second division apparently consists of 56 teams broken in to four groups of 14 teams each). Read More... More on Soccer         Obama's Twitter Town Hall On Jobs Crashed By House Republicans July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are crashing President Barack Obama's Twitter Town Hall on Wednesday by flooding the event with questions of their own about what they're calling his "failed" economic policies. Hours ahead of Obama's first-ever Twitter event, during which he will answer questions from people around the country on jobs and the economy, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) launched a live stream feed of GOP questions for the president. "With 9.1% unemployment & 'shovel ready' jobs a bust, will you admit the 'stimulus' was a mistake? http://bit.ly/oTK17f #askobama," Boehner tweeted. Read More... More on 112th Congress         Anav Silverman: No Yellow Brick Road for Palestinian UN Bid July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   The creation of a Palestinian state via the UN will in no way end the Mideast conflict, but will only add another dimension of instability to the region. Nor will it serve the interests of the Palestinian people. Read More... More on Middle East         Dominique Strauss-Kahn Scandal: New York Times On Former IMF Head's Hotel Maid Accuser July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   REVELATIONS about the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault suggest that she embellished claims of abuse to receive asylum, fudged her tax returns, had ties to people with criminal backgrounds, had unexplained deposits in her bank account and changed the account of the encounter she gave investigators. Yet those who would rush to judge her should consider the context. Mr. Strauss-Kahn's accuser is from Guinea, also the home country of Amadou Diallo, the street peddler who was shot to death in the doorway of his Bronx apartment building by four New York City police officers in 1999. Guineans leave their country in large numbers, partly because of grinding poverty; 70 percent live on less than $1.25 a day , despite the fact that Guinea has almost half of the world's bauxite (from which aluminum is made), as well as iron, gold, uranium, diamonds and offshore oil. Read More... More on Dominique Strauss-Kahn         Huffington Post UK Launches (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   Our very own Arianna Huffington visited BBC News this morning to discuss the newly-created HuffPost UK. Joining HuffPost Canada, HuffPost UK is HuffPost's second expansion effort outside the U.S. Like the American site, it will offer blogs, original reporting, and aggregation led by a completely British staff. According to Huffington, HuffPost UK will also "bring the signature part of The Huffington Post, which is really engagement." Take a look at what else she had to say about the new site: Read More... More on Video         Subway, Wendy's Plan Major Expansions In Chinese Market July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   In the past month, both Subway and Wendy's have announced plans to open new fast food outposts in China. Representatives from Subway told the AFP that they hope to have opened "well over 600" stores in the People's Republic by 2015. This is almost triple the numberâ€"220â€"they have today. Wendy's, which announced the dissolution of its three-year partnership with Arby's today, has just begun opening outposts in emerging Eurasian markets. It launched a Russian venture in June. Wendy's representatives said that the chain plans to move into Brazil and China shortly. Chinese food spending is expected to grow about 80% by 2015. Though American fast food sales have remained strong throughout the recession, experts have pointed to emerging markets as the central source for future revenue in the sector. The strongest force in the Chinese fast food market today is YUM! Foods, which owns KFC and Pizza Hut, among others. Read More... More on Fast Food         Libya To Charge 21 Rebel Leaders In Special Court July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan prosecutors plan to charge rebel leaders with national security crimes, seeking to convict as traitors those leading the armed uprising against Moammar Gadhafi that has plunged the country into civil war, officials said Wednesday. A judge compiling the charges laid out his case against 21 rebel officials who are based in the eastern city of Benghazi, including the National Transitional Council's head, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil. Defendants will be tried in absentia. Read More... More on Muammar Gaddafi         Alef Portman-Millepied: Natalie Portman's Baby Son's Name July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   He's Natalie Portman's first child, and, if rumors are true, he has a very symbolic and orderly name. A report at Israel Hayom relays that the Israeli TV show "Good Evening with Guy Pines," revealed that Portman named her and fiance Benjamin Millepied's first son, born in June, Alef, which is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Portman, of course, is a native Israeli, having originally been given the name Natalie Hershlag. The report on the TV show aired last month; The Huffington Post also received a tip last month that Portman had indeed named her son Alef, but her representatives declined to confirm. HuffPo has reached out once again for comment, and will update when more is known. Read More... More on Natalie Portman         Michal Shapiro: Are the Grammys Racist? July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   By lumping together certain ethnic musical forms, it makes it far harder for the artists involved in those genres to get the acknowledgement that the Grammy award bestows, and the career benefits thereof. Read More... More on Grammy Awards         Twitter Bullying: Arguing On Political Opinion Now Counts? July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   When I get an article with the headline, "White House uses Twitter to bully critics," it sort of primes me to expect to see some examples of some hardcore online bullying. But in the case of White House Director of Progressive Media and Online Response Jesse Lee, as reported by The Daily Caller, this is about as good as it gets: Of the 267 tweets written by Lee in just over a month, a stunning 40 of them have been directed at Kevin Eder, a prolific Twitter user with more than 83,000 tweets to his credit. That means 15 percent of Lee’s tweets â€" from an official White House account no less â€" have been with Eder. One such example happened last week in a dispute over the budget. Read More... More on Twitter         2018 Winter Olympics: South Korea Chosen To Host Winter Games July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   DURBAN, South Africa — The South Korean city of Pyeongchang was awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics on Wednesday after failing in two previous attempts. Pyeongchang defeated rivals Munich and Annecy, France, in the first round of a secret ballot of the International Olympic Committee. Read More... More on Winter Olympics 2010         Debt Hawk GOP Wants Big Boost For Pentagon Budget While Domestic Programs Are Slashed July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   WASHINGTON -- As it considers steep cuts to domestic programs in an effort to slash the deficit, the House is set to consider a defense spending bill on Wednesday that increases the Pentagon's budget by $17 billion. The Defense Department appropriations bill includes $530 in base Pentagon spending, which is $8 billion less than President Obama's request for fiscal year 2012. There's an additional $118.6 billion for overseas contingency operations -- a $39 billion drop, reflecting the expected drawdown in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Republicans announced in May that they were going to try to cut $30 billion from federal agencies' operating budgets in order to deal with the growing deficit. Read More... More on Obama's Budget         Kerry Trueman: No Contract, No Cookies: Is This the Way a Country Crumbles? July 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM   Isn't a 'jobless recovery' as preposterous as a fetus-less pregnancy? We've got a bloody pile-up at the intersection of Wall Street and Main Street, where reality collides with such corporate conceits. And it's the workers who wind up on life support, while the suits speed away from the wreckage undented and undaunted. Back to the bat cave, to plot the next leveraged buyout! The new HBO documentary, "No Contract No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike," premiering on HBO2 tonight at 8pm, tells the story of a beloved Bronx bakery, founded by Italian immigrants in 1932, that now lies shuttered, like so many factories all over America. The saga of how the company went from a thriving family-owned enterprise to a gutted equity fund acquisition is a success story only if you're rooting for our modern day robber barons. For the dwindling middle class and the unwashed masses, it's an American tragedy that's being repeated all over the country. "No Contract No Cookies" puts a poignant face--or 138 faces, to be precise--on the massacre of manufacturing jobs that CEOs routinely commit in the name of prosperity. At the Stella D'Oro factory, folks from 22 different countries worked convivially alongside New York natives and gained a foothold in the American middle class, only to be kicked off the ladder when Brynwood Partners, a private equity fund, bought the company. In 2008, when the workers' contract expired, Brynwood demanded a 30% pay cut. Read More... More on Labor         Michelle Obama Takes Some Friends Out To The Ball Game (PHOTOS) July 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM   Michelle Obama took a group of nine children from military families out to the ball game at part of "Joining Forces" on Tuesday night, MLB.com reports. Each of the kids got to throw a first pitch at the Washington Nationals vs. Chicago Cubs match-up. Second baseman Danny Espinosa told Steven Miller, "I had fun. I said we'd love to have her and the president come out to some games and support us. I just said no Chicago hats next time," referencing Obama's White Sox cap. Espinosa added, "All she said was: 'You guys have done a great job, and we've seen that you guys have really started to make some things happen.' A couple compliments, which was nice." To hit the mound à la mode, the first lady picked a printed tank, black capris and sneakers. Read More... More on Michelle Obama Style         Jim DeMint: Michele Bachmann 'Disappointed' Me On Cut, Cap And Balance Pledge (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM   Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said he's "disappointed" that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) -- who's running for the Republican presidential nomination -- hasn't signed her name to the "Cut, Cap and Balance" pledge during an appearance on CNN's "American Morning" on Wednesday. Standing behind the "Cut, Cap and Balance" pledge entails opposing any debt limit increase without significant spending cuts, enforceable spending caps and congressional approval of a balanced budget amendment. Bachmann, who has already cast a vote against raising the nation's debt limit, has signaled her reluctance to sign the pledge stems from her belief that it doesn't go far enough. Read More... More on Elections 2012         Kate Maehr: Remember the Most Vulnerable in the Deficit Battles July 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM   If the economy is showing tepid signs of recovery, we're seeing no indication at the hundreds of food pantries and shelters we serve daily. Record numbers of people are still in need of emergency food assistance -- many for the first time. Read More... More on Chicago Impact         Alasdair Thompson, New Zealand CEO, Fired After Linking Women's Workplace Productivity To Menstruation, Childbirth July 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM   The head of a major New Zealand employers' group has been fired after implying that women were paid less than men because they took more sick leave due to menstruation. As the BBC is reporting, Alasdair Thompson of the Employers' and Manufacturers' Association (EMA) made the controversial comments on June 23 radio program. "Who takes the most sick leave? Women do, in general," he said during a debate on recent figures that showed New Zealand women were paid about 12 percent less than men. "Why? Because once a month they have sick problems. Not all of them, but some do. They have children that they have to take time off to go home and take leave of. Therefore it's their productivity. It's not their fault." Thompson then went on to note, "I'm sorry, I don't like saying these things because it sounds like I'm sexist, but it's the facts of life." Read More... More on Civil Rights         Janez Brajkovic Crash: RadioShack Rider Out Of Tour de France After 5th Stage Accident (PHOTOS) July 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM   CAP FREHEL, France â€" RadioShack rider Janez Brajkovic quit the Tour de France after falling in one of several crashes in Wednesday's fifth stage, including one that brought down three-time winner Alberto Contador. Contador was entangled in a crash at about the 44-mile mark and took off his helmet briefly, then gave a thumbs-up that he was OK and returned to the flat, 102-mile stage from Carhaix to Cap Frehel. Tour organizers said Brajkovic, a Slovenian who won the Dauphine Libere last year, was taken by ambulance to hospital for treatment for head injuries after his crash. Read More... More on Cycling         Tom Ruprecht: Rangers Fans July 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM   Assuming Madison Square Garden doesn't raise prices, I'll have to fork over more than $290,000 to keep Rangers seats for the next 60 years (though the amount may be slightly less as I'm sure a few of those seasons will be cancelled due to a lockout). Read More...         Andrew David Thompson, Michigan State University Student, Says He Killed 13 Italian Greyhounds Out Of Anger July 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM   OKEMOS - Andrew David Thompson told investigators he killed more than a dozen dogs out of anger, according to court transcripts obtained by the Lansing State Journal. The 24-year-old Michigan State University osteopathic medicine student said he would throw them to the ground or against a wall, grab them by the neck or beat them. All were small, Italian greyhounds. Read More...         Australia's Cattle Export Ban Lifted, Trade Resumed With Indonesia July 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM   SYDNEY -- Australia lifted a ban on its $350 million a year live cattle trade with Indonesia on Wednesday, with the federal government saying a new set of strict conditions on exporters will help ensure the animals are treated humanely. The government banned exports to Indonesia last month after an outcry over a video that aired in Australia showing animals screaming and writhing as they were slaughtered. The footage also showed cattle being beaten and taking minutes to bleed to death as their throats were repeatedly slashed. Read More... More on Animals         Yellowstone Oil Spill: Exxon Mobil Took Longer To Seal Pipeline Than Publicy Disclosed July 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM   LAUREL, Mont. -- Federal documents show it took Exxon Mobil nearly twice as long as it publicly disclosed to fully seal a pipeline that spilled roughly 1,000 barrels of crude oil into the Yellowstone River. Details about the company's response to the Montana pipeline burst emerged late Tuesday as the Department of Transportation ordered the company bury the duct deeper beneath the riverbed, where it is buried 5 to 8 feet underground to deliver 40,000 barrels of oil a day to a refinery in Billings. Read More...         David Coleman: Don't Go Away Mad, Just Go Away: The Supreme Court Closes Up Shop July 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM   Closing down for the summer is not the Roberts Court's only disappearing act. During this past term, a disturbing trend emerged of withdrawing the courts from their historic and institutional role in providing justice for ordinary Americans. Read More... More on Dick Cheney         UK Phone Hacking Targets More Slain Schoolgirls July 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM   LONDON -- Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal dominated the airways Wednesday as it swelled to allegedly involve more missing schoolgirls and the families of London terror victims. Lawmakers held an emergency debate, companies hastily pulled their ads and the prime minister demanded two new inquiries. News International, the British linchpin of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp. media empire, was under intense pressure due to its News of the World tabloid, which has admitted hacking into the phones of celebrities but now stands accused of possibly interfering with police investigations into missing girls who were found murdered. Read More...         Cara Joy David: Will Cirque's Irresistably Odd Escape Frighten Broadway? July 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM   Traditionally Cirque shows have played outside Manhattan proper. However this year, the circus arts have landed at Radio City. And Cirque just may be taking money away from Broadway shows. Read More... More on NY Around Town         Lydia Tillman, Fort Collins Woman, Found 'Severely Beaten' After An Apparent Jump From Her Burning Apartment Building July 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM   Fort Collins, Colorado police are still investigating the events that led Lydia Tillman, 30, to an apparent jump out of her burning apartment from a second-story window after being assaulted and left in critical condition. Tuesday morning, authorities arriving on the scene reported that Tillman appeard to have been “severely beaten” by an unknown assailant prior to her jumping out of her burning apartment, the Coloradoan reports. However, police and fire officials determined there were no other occupants in the apartment and no sign of forced entry. Firefighters found Tillman in the backyard of her apartment building, while the second-story apartment burned. She had burns from the fire, injuries from the jump, along with injuries from what appears to be a recent assault, according to 7News. Read More... More on Denver News         Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin: In a World of 7 Billion People, We Must Invest in Adolescents and Young People July 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM   As a former Minister of Health in Nigeria and now head of a United Nations agency, I have come to one inescapable conclusion: if we are to tackle the consequences of growing populations, we need to invest in adolescents and young people now. Read More... More on Poverty         Dalai Lama Celebrates Birthday In Washington D.C. (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM   Today marks His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 76th birthday. Followers of the spiritual leader celebrated the occasion around the world, although the occasion was yet another reminder of the controversial dispute in Tibet. Himself, the Dalai Lama is in Washington D.C. for the much talked about "Kalachakra for World Peace." Today is the first day of the 11-day event that will include several teachings and ceremonies led by the Dalai Lama. WATCH: Read More... More on Dalai Lama         Elizabeth Dickinson: An Inside Look at UN Women's First Year July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   UN Women is releasing its first annual look at the state of females worldwide. And it focuses on exactly that: peace and justice, a sector that underlies many of the areas in which women lag behind. Read More... More on Women's Rights         IMF Head Lagarde: Global Economy 'On The Rebound' But Unbalanced July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   WASHINGTON - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday the global economy was rebounding from the financial crisis but recovery remains unbalanced. "When we look at our growth forecasts for 2011, 2012, we are clearly on the rebound and things are improving and are getting better when compared with the situation as it was in 2009 at the height of the crisis," she said at her first press conference as the new IMF chief. Read More...         Jared Bernstein: State Budgets: The Role of the Federal Government Is Increasingly Important July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   The stock market crash that precipitated the early 2000s downturn was particularly tough on high-end wealth relative to the housing bust of the Great Recession. In the latter case, you hit a lot more people in the middle class, and it weighs dramatically on local revenues. Read More... More on Budget Cuts         Women And Sex: Female Authors Reveal More Sex Details Than Male Authors July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   Women like to write about sex. In the last 10 years alone, women have written books about spanking, anal sex, prostitution, swinging, body fluids, S&M, casual sex, tantric sex and sex over the age of 50. These can be emotionally honest as well as oblique; they are always sexually graphic, often funny and feminist in their politics. Read More...         Danna Harman: A Puff in Paris July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   France has some of the most conservative drugs laws in Europe, but whether the harsh law has diminished the French penchant for cannabis is questionable. Read More... More on France         New York City Schools Can Once Again Keep Rainy Day Funds July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   In a reversal of a relatively new policy, the new chancellor of New York City Schools is again allowing New York principals to add savings from one year to the next year's budget. But this benefit only applies to those that perform well on the city's annual school progress reports, The New York Times reports. In February, then-Chancellor of schools Cathleen Black announced that schools would no longer be able to roll over money they saved in their so-called rainy day funds. If they didn't spend the money, the city would seize half of what the schools had left. Facing severe backlash from schools and subsequent discussions with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, officials from the New York Department of Education compromised to take 30 percent of leftover funding instead, the New York Daily News reported. Read More... More on Budget Cuts         Thomas Levet Celebration Injury: Golfer To Miss British Open Due To Broken Shin (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   INVERNESS, Scotland â€" Thomas Levet's exuberant celebration after winning his home tournament in France last weekend has cost him a place in the British Open. Levet withdrew Wednesday from the year's third major after being ruled out for six weeks with a broken shin. He broke the bone when jumping into a lake to celebrate his victory at the French Open on Sunday. His spot will go to Robert Garrigus of the United States. Read More... More on Golf         Mitt Romney Fundraising Efforts Net $18.25 Million While Newt Gingrich Campaign Remains In Debt July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign is reporting that it raised $18.25 million over the course of the past three months. “Voters are responding to Mitt Romney’s message that President Obama’s policies have failed and that we need new leadership in Washington," said Romney National Finance Chairman Spencer Zwick in a statement. "Our fundraising for the second quarter represents the strong support Mitt Romney has across the country." The Romney campaign offered the following rundown on the numbers: Read More... More on Newt Gingrich         Robert J. Elisberg: Politics 101: Sorry, No, Yelling Doesn't Make You Right July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool," Abraham Lincoln famously said, "than to speak out and remove all doubt." One of the banes of instant Internet communication is the ease of impulsively dashing off the first, angry thought you have. The angrier you are, the logic seems to go, the more passionate - and therefore what you say must be so. Unfortunately, passion and logic are polar opposites. And "I'm entitled to my opinion" is no defense. After all, expressing a foolish opinion (no matter how entitled you are to it) is precisely what Lincoln was talking about. Read More...         Anushka Jatoi: Voices of Pakistan: Our Future July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   Pakistan, in English is translated to 'the land of the pure.' Ironically, the constant fear and the ease with which lives are lost, is nothing short of the norm in this Islamic republic. Read More... More on Voices of Pakistan         Dalai Lama Celebrates Birthday In Washington D.C. (VIDEO) July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   Live video by Ustream Read More... More on Dalai Lama         Dalai Lama Birthday: Indian Celebrations Honor The Exiled Spiritual Leader (PHOTOS) July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   The Dalai Lama may currently be in Washington, but that didn't stop exiled Tibetans in India from celebrating their spiritual leader's 76th birthday in truly spectacular fashion. As Phayul.com is reporting, festivities in Dharamshala -- where the Dalai Lama has lived since fleeing Tibet after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule -- included traditional song and dance performances, as well as traditional Tibetan games and sports, including an archery competition, tug-of-war matches and arm wresting contests. The Dalai Lama's U.S. visit comprises an 11-day Buddhist ritual, known as a kalachakra, that organizers expect will draw upward of 10,000 followers a day from America, Asia and Europe. Read More... More on Tibet         Study Finds UK Locals Fail To Use Sunscreen, Rely On Clouds For Protection July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   Britons are failing to armor up before going outside to fight that old nemesis, the sun. A study by the North West Cancer Research Fund revealed that while 96 percent of UK citizens wear sunscreen when abroad, only 65 percent of them lather it on when vacationing at home. Read More... More on United Kingdom         UK Phone Hacking Targets More Slain Schoolgirls July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   LONDON — Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal dominated the airways Wednesday as it swelled to allegedly involve more missing schoolgirls and the families of London terror victims. Lawmakers held an emergency debate, companies hastily pulled their ads and the prime minister demanded two new inquiries. News International, the British linchpin of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp. media empire, was under intense pressure due to its News of the World tabloid, which has admitted hacking into the phones of celebrities but now stands accused of possibly interfering with police investigations into missing girls who were found murdered. Read More...         Arnal Dayaratna: Ten Things You Should Know About Zynga and Its IPO July 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM   Zynga is the biggest developer of Facebook applications. The company has 60 million daily active users on Facebook and more daily active users than the next 30 Facebook social game developers combined. Read More... More on Business             This email was sent to venturepoliticalcapital@gmail.com. Delivered by Feed My Inbox PO Box 682532 Franklin, TN 37068 Account Login Unsubscribe Here