|  |  |  | | | | | Huffington Post | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  A monstrous dust storm roared through Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday night, delaying flights and causing power outages for thousands of people.
The AP reports that the massive dust cloud, also known as a "haboob," was around 5,000 feet when it arrived in Phoenix, but radar data reveals that it reached heights anywhere from 8,000 to 10,000 feet high prior. The storm appeared to be around 50 miles wide in some areas, KSAZ-TV reported. The dust storm originated in Tucson, and was a part of Arizona's monsoon season.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  THE CANADIAN PRESS — OTTAWA - When the Conservatives are kicking your butt by $10 million in fundraising each year, it might be time to try something new.
For the Liberals, that something new is ripping a page — or rather a letter — right out of the Conservative play book.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  This weekend, Sean Penn took to the beach in Malibu, showing off his fit physic and his fetching new lady, Stacey Koplin.
Bauer-Griffin snapped photos of the new pair walking along the surf together. Penn and Koplin looked relaxed and comfortable on the sandy shore. Penn later showed off a very toned chest and the two ended the day with a jet-ski ride.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  We all know that fireworks are illegal in Chicago. So technically, these videos never happened.
That being said, three of our favorite local blogs found three distinct and amazing videos of homemade July 4th fireworks extravaganzas around the city. Now that most of us have recovered from the long weekend's festivities, we figured we'd take one last look at the explosive, straight-from-Indiana beauty that we set off to celebrate our freedom.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  If you're still a little sunburned from the fourth and looking for some fun sites to help take the edge off of this shortened work week, don't worry, cause we're here with our Wednesday batch of fresh distractions. Go ahead and ignore the dust storms and the crazy court cases and click around for a while.
And once you're done be sure to vote for your favorites and let us know if you come across any awesome time-wasters that you think we should feature.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  A little bird is chirping dollar signs: Social messaging service Twitter could be valued at as high as $7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Back in December, Twitter was valued at close to $3.7 billion, after a $200 million financing round led by venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Just as he's reaching back into the past with his recent adventure in the wild void that is MySpace, it seems Justin Timberlake is rekindling another old flame. Of course, any comparisons between a social network and the gorgeous, accomplished Jessica Biel end right there.
Us Weekly is reporting that the pair, having broken up in March, are quietly reconciling. "They have been talking the whole time and decided to give it another shot. Jessica really wanted to get back together with him and Justin realized single life is not what it's cracked up to be," a source told the magazine.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  If you spend even five minutes on any news website today you're bound to find a headline that reads like a joke. Sometimes the story writes its own punchline, other times it seems as though comedians are getting headline-writing gigs now.
Either way, comedian Christopher Titus is on to this trend and did some hilarious material on it during his recently aired Comedy Central special "Neverlution". Some of them are more sad than funny ("Pro Lifer Kills A Man") but it's hard to believe that some of these get published.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Newly-crowned Miss South Carolina Bree Boyce is already on a mission, The State reports.
The 22-year-old dropped 110 pounds over the course of two years before winning last weekend's pageant and, according to her "Eating Healthy and Fighting Obesity" Facebook page, her "goal in life is to inspire all ages to become healthy through good eating habits, exercise, and believing in Yourself."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  What is a nerd? A person that throws himself or herself into rigorous academics, stands in the corner at parties and tries to pick up potential mates with a pocket protector? We think not. Modern nerds fit into a more important category: people that pursue what they want with all their heart. They confidently participate in what they love, even if what they love is totally bizarre.
They're the future Nobel Laureates, astronauts and engineers, but also the champions of bygone eras, the lovers of mustaches, bike-jousting and campus-wide Rube Goldberg machines. From weird traditions (Seventh Annual Nitrogen Day?) to entertaining extracurricular activities (the Mustache Club?), these nerds do it all. Props to these schools for playing host to some of the most important, dynamic, driven young men and women of our generation!
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  In the most recent "Pirates of the Caribbean" film, Jack Sparrow was in search of the Fountain of Youth. Now, it looks like he'll live for yet another adventure.
The Wrap reports that Depp is close to wrapping contract talks to star in a fifth "Pirates" film with producer Jerry Bruckheimer. And if he's looking for a pot of gold, well, he may just get one; despite its weaker domestic gross (not that $234 million is shabby), the fourth film, this May's "On Stranger Tides," has grossed over a billion dollars worldwide.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  As financial markets brace for the possibility of a Greek debt default, economic officials here are sketching out doomsday scenarios in a grim acknowledgment that even the world's strongest economies are vulnerable.
With Greece shelling out record interest rates, and with some frustrated investors pushing for a default, economists fear that the collateral damage from a credit event could reach the UK. By virtue of our connections to institutions throughout Europe and our reliance on credit, British banks bear heavy indirect exposure to Greece, setting them up for significant losses if the currently perilous Greek debt situation were to evolve into a full-blown crisis, the UK central banker said in a news conference late last month.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  On any given day, technology offers an unending stream of stimuli: there are e-mails to be sent, text messages to be typed and video games to be played. A growing body of scientific literature is questioning exactly how these digital devices impact behavior and health -- including a mounting focus on how they affect both the quality and quantity of people's sleep.
"I have seen the full spectrum," said Dr. Nerina Ramlakhan, a sleep and energy therapist and author of the book "Tired But Wired -- The Essential Sleep Toolkit." "A barrister I worked with had terrible problems, he was exhausted all the time. He was sleeping with his Blackberry switched on and tucked into his pillowcase at night. To me, that's not normal behavior."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  A 30-year-old love letter from Michael Jordan that went viral last week now has the original recipient of the missive threatening legal action.
Laquetta Robinson, the woman whom the 18-year old Jordan wrote the letter to while he was in advanced chemistry class at Emsley A. Laney High School, says that she has no idea how it got from her possession to an auction house and then into the hands of an unknown bidder.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up until now, News International and the government have sought, and to some extent succeeded, in making the phone-hacking story one that is largely about celebrities.
Even for popular celebrities, there is little automatic public sympathy for the idea that a journalist or a private detective might listen in to their voicemail messages. 'They use the media when it suits them, so they can hardly complain when they turn on them,' is one fairly oft heard view. 'If they're daft enough to leave sensitive messages, serves them right,' is another.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," said one the America's Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin.
Well, that was a long time ago. We're now in Russell T Davies' world, and we can't even rely on that much.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  DAVID CAMERON is set to face a barrage of questions about phone hacking in today's PMQs, ahead of a three hour parliamentary debate on the controversy.
An emergency debate on phone hacking was yesterday granted by speaker John Bercow, after Labour MP Chris Bryant called for Parliament to debate allegations that the News of The World accessed voicemails from murdered teenager Milly Dowler.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When it comes to stories that bear transposition to varying eras and settings, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) seems a prime example of a plot that never seems to get old.
It was the basis for the classic American western, The Magnificent Seven, and the less classic (but still enjoyable) Battle Beyond the Stars, a cheesy 1980 sci-fi action film that featured a script by John Sayles (and included Robert Vaughn as a nod to Magnificent Seven).
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  David Cameron will announce further details of British troop withdrawals from Afghanistan on Wednesday.
In a statement to the Commons following a two-day visit to Kabul and Helmand, the Prime Minister will reiterate his commitment to end the UK's combat role in the conflict by 2015.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | David Cameron will announce further details of British troop withdrawals from Afghanistan on Wednesday.
In a statement to the Commons following a two-day visit to Kabul and Helmand, the Prime Minister will reiterate his commitment to end the UK's combat role in the conflict by 2015.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Light drinking in pregnancy has no effect on premature birth, small babies or low birthweight, research has suggested.
Experts reviewing 36 studies on the issue found no link between low to moderate amounts of alcohol and three major risks to a baby. However, the research did confirm previous studies which have shown that heavy drinking in pregnancy increases the chance of a baby being born premature, small for their gestational age or too light.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Republicans won't take yes for answer in the debt ceiling negotiations. As conservative columnist David Brooks writes in the New York Times, this should be the "mother of all no brainers."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/opinion/05brooks.html
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to visit a Canadian town devastated by wildfires that forced thousands of residents to flee.
William and Kate will fly to Slave Lake, Alberta, to take a mini-bus tour of parts of the town that were affected by the blazes in May. The fire forced the complete evacuation of the settlement's 7,000 residents and is considered the largest displacement in the province's history.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the lexicon of journalism the word "unprecedented" has reached cliché status. But I make no apology for using it to describe both the allegation against the News of the World that it hacked into a murdered girl's voicemail messages and the public response to it.
Though the phone-hacking scandal has been running since 2006 and has grown in intensity in the past year, no incident has captured the public imagination like the revelation that the paper intercepted and deleted messages from the mobile phone of 13-year-old Milly Dowler after she went missing in March 2002.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Hugh Grant, commenting on phone hacking, says he is repulsed but not surprised by the latest allegations made against the News of the World.
"I was told about this by an ex-News of The World features editor a few months ago, when I secretly taped a conversation with him... We're talking about very nasty people here."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  News that Sir Paul McCartney is to marry again should not come as too much of a surprise, bearing in mind that he has been dating Nancy Shevell for four years.
Of course, given the acrimonious and costly end to his marriage with Heather Mills, the former Beatle could have been forgiven for avoiding any exchange of rings or vows this time around.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Face it. We live in two nations, sharply divided by an enormous economic chasm between the super-rich and everyone else. This should be an obvious fact of life for most Americans. Just read the story in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal headlined "Profits Thrive in Weak Recovery." Or the recent New York Times story pointing out "that the median pay for top executives at 200 big companies last year was $10.8 million," a 23 percent gain over the year before.
In the midst of a jobless recovery, those same corporations are sitting on more than $2 trillion in reserves, refusing to invest in this country, as increasing percentages of their profits are garnered in tax-sheltered operations abroad. And the bankers who caused the economic meltdown have turned against President Barack Obama, who saved them; instead they favor a tea-party-dominated Republican Party that seeks to limit any restraint on corporate greed while destroying the ability of state and federal governments to bring some measure of relief to ordinary folk.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  You can transform adversity into acceptance, selfishness into kindness, just like palm trees that transform muddy water into sweet coconut milk.
This is a part of Ed and Deb Shapiro's Daily Chill Pill series. A new Chill Pill will be posted every day so check back for your daily dose of zen.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Rebekah Brooks is under increasing pressure to leave her job as the head of News International, following further claims in The Daily Telegraph that police are contacting relatives of people killed in the London bombings of July 7th 2005. The suggestion is that their voicemails were hacked into by journalists shortly after the attacks.
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More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  PRESS ASSOCIATION - The gap in average earnings between employees in the private and public sectors has widened, with state workers paid nearly 8% more last April, figures show.
Public sector employees were paid on average 7.8% more than their counterparts in the private sector in April 2010, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Former NFL star fullback Lorenzo Neal was one of 100 arrested people in Fresno County, Cali for drunk driving on July 4.
According to KFSN TV, Neal tested above the legal limit of 0.08 percent after he crashed his vehicle into a pole.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Press Association -- An expenses cheat MP who carried on regardless in the face of public anger has complained from behind bars about the difficulties of getting a fair trial in the internet age.
Jim Devine, who was jailed for 16 months after being branded a liar by his trial judge, questioned whether jurors listened to the judge's warning not to research the case online.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  To welcome HuffPost UK to the fold, the Style section tracked down designer Sophie Cranston of Libélula -- a Duchess of Cambridge favorite -- to talk about life in London, her sojourn in Spain and what it was like to work under Alexander McQueen. Peruse what she had to say and peep another British fashion force's answers here.
HuffPost Style: What sets London apart as arguably the fashion capital of the world?
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  The Masters and US Open are perhaps more heralded amongst American golf fans, but no tournament is more prestigious overseas than the British Open.
Next Thursday marks the return of one of golf's trickiest courses – Royal St. Georges in Sandwich, England – where good tee shots go to die and low scores are nearly impossible.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  To welcome HuffPost UK to the fold, the Style section tracked down designer Daniella Helayel of Issa -- a Duchess of Cambridge favorite -- to talk about swapping Brazil for London, casting real, live supermodels in her shows and her plans for expansion. Peruse what she had to say and peep another British fashion force's answers here.
HuffPost Style: Why did you choose to settle in London after growing up in Brazil and attending F.I.T. in New York? What is different about fashion in each of the cities?
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  As the global news media shifts from pulp to digital, cries of "Stop the press!" seem destined to fade into golden, halcyon twilight. But Newspaper Club, a three year-old London startup, offers a glimpse into a future where paper and presses might just have a place after all.
The online company -- now more of a cottage industry than a members-only club -- bills itself as a place to "help people make their own newspapers." Users can upload PDFs of their own designs or use a custom web publishing tool to design and create their own papers on the club's website. Print runs can range anywhere from one black and white 12-page paper (priced at £14) to five thousand colour papers (more cost effective, with copies running at 22 pence a piece).
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LONDON - I am delighted to be in London today for the first Huffington Post launch outside of North America: Welcome to HuffPost UK.
Britain has always held a very special place in my heart. I started (and finished) college here. I started (and finished) my first serious love affair here. I didn't move away from my childhood home in Greece as much as I moved to Britain. What started the whole thing was a magazine article on Cambridge I saw as a teenager. I looked at the photos and instantly set my heart on studying there. Everyone thought I was crazy -- except my mother, who completely supported my dream and helped make it a reality. Cambridge was a transformative experience for me. When I arrived, I was a classic fish out of water -- and one who spoke a different language, to boot. But, emulating the Brits I saw around me, I forged ahead, and quickly adapted. I loved what ended up being the decade I lived in the UK, at Cambridge and then in London.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Press Association -- David Cameron will announce further details of British troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.
In a statement to the Commons following a two-day visit to Kabul and Helmand, the Prime Minister will reiterate his commitment to end the UK's combat role in the conflict by 2015.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Press Association -- A "wicked" man who murdered his first wife in a staged car crash and tried to kill his second in a copycat smash has been jailed for at least 30 years.
Malcolm Webster, 52, was handed a life sentence for killing Claire Morris, 32, in the planned crash in Aberdeenshire in 1994 and trying to kill Felicity Drumm in 1999 in New Zealand.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Some diseases strike at random, while other are directly related to some core aspect of a person's identity.
Smoking is a dangerous activity that can lead to lung cancer and heart disease. However, smoking becomes a part of a person's identity -- which can make it harder for that person to stop smoking. Diseases like breast and ovarian cancer primarily plague women. These diseases often have a deep connection to a woman's self-identity, because of both the role breasts play in conventional feminine appearance and because of the role of both the breasts and ovaries in reproduction.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  It's the simplest of soothing, sleep-inducing remedies, something we all naturally do: rocking a baby gently to sleep.
Long after we've left childhood, we all can be deeply affected by this relaxing rocking motion. Think of the peaceful glide of a porch swing, sleeping on a boat or the calming sway of a hammock nap.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  I'm nothing without my music. Turn off the tunes and I can't run as fast or bike as powerfully; I can't relax on a plane or enjoy a car ride. We've all felt it: calm music slows our heart rate; fast tunes jazz us up and motivate us to move. And it's scientifically proven to be a powerful fitness tool -- like a jolt of caffeine, with a melody. Here's how the right music can amp up your workout!
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Ford UK became the first major brand to pull their advertising from The News of the World and several other major companies said they were considering their options after it emerged that the newspaper hacked murder victim Milly Dowler's phone.
Ford said in a statement: "We are awaiting an outcome from the News of the World investigation and expect a speedy and decisive response. Pending this response we will be using alternative media within and outside News International Group instead of placing Ford advertising in the News of the World."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Credibility is a fraught issue these days. Playing out in one courtroom is the debacle of the discredited accuser in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case. In another is the Casey Anthony trial with its holiday parade of potential liars. Maybe you are confident that you are a terrific lie detector -- you are sure you can separate the trustworthy from the slime. Surprise! More than a dozen studies have shown that there is no link between confidence and skill. If you think you are a great human lie detector, you are no more or less likely to actually be great than if you think you are a terrible lie detector.
In my decades of doing research on deception and studying the work of others, I've found a whole raft of ways our judgments of credibility can go astray. Here's a sampling.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Recently, psychologists have stepped outside of the clinical setting and have accumulated research on how the dark side of human nature varies in the general population. What has become quite clear is that the "dark triad," which consists of the combination of Machiavellianism, subclinical narcissism and subclinical psychopathy, is an overarching trait that everyone has to some degree. Unfortunately, some people just have a lot more of it than others.
While acknowledging that clinical levels of the dark triad traits are certainly socially undesirable, Peter Jonason and his colleagues argue the traits that underlie the dark triad are best viewed as one particular social orientation toward others and may facilitate people's goals, especially when those goals involve an exploitative social strategy and a short-term mating strategy. They have found across multiple studies that those scoring high on the dark triad are characterized by a distinct psychological profile of personality traits and social strategies, displaying higher extroversion, openness to experience and self-esteem while being less agreeable, neurotic, conscientious and altruistic.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Recently, I stepped out of bed and managed to double-stub my toe on a computer printer and a lamp, both of which were on the floor next to my bed for some unknown reason. In college, a lamp and printer on the floor would have been part of my preferred design aesthetic. But now, living in a New York apartment with a wife and two kids, this clutter meant our two-bedroom was bursting at the seams. It was time once again to consider a move to the suburbs.
The city vs. suburb debate comes up a lot in our household. Sometimes it starts when we watch one of those family movies that romanticize suburban life, with kids playing on front lawns, riding bikes and having a big dog. Other times it is ignited because of frustrations regarding the quality of public schools and the expense of private schools in the city. And, finally, as with my stubbed toes, it is raised based on the need for more space, and the fact that we just cannot afford more metropolitan square feet.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Yoga -- the ancient Indian word for the union of mind and body -- is more than a fitness regimen. Despite its current avatar, yoga is really about calming the mind through a combination of breathing and physical poses. The names of the various asanas or poses are in themselves indications of the purpose they are supposed to fulfill: warrior pose for confidence and strength, wind-releasing pose for stomach problems and so on. Combinations of poses can also be used for specific conditions: slow stretching poses for better sleep or a specific set of asanas for pregnancy.
This slideshow describes six yoga poses recommended by Virayoga's Elena Brower that lend themselves to the alleviation of anxiety and depression -- from the warm, comforting embrace of the child pose to the relaxing stretch of the cat pose.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Most of us were good at playing games of pretend as children and as adults, that skill can be harnessed to take powerful leaps in consciousness. Just as we can suspend our disbelief as we watch a movie and enter the lives of characters as real people, we can suspend our disbelief by putting on hold our view of a sullied world full of bad people and enter a new "movie" filled with pure beings. The "game" I describe here is the Buddhist practice of pure view in which we use all of our imaginative faculties to help us let go of distorted thinking and perceive something closer to the truth of how things actually exist. In a sense, we "pretend" the truth until we can fully live it.
Normally we see the world through our false projections. These feel true because they are familiar, but they are actually distortions born of conditioning and negative habits of mind. Such projections are not indications of anything fundamentally wrong with us -- they are just part of being human. We have survival instincts that bring up fear and confusion, and this gets in the way of clear seeing. Especially when things seem ominous and frightening -- either personally or collectively -- our fear can drain us of our power to shift things in a more wholesome, satisfying direction. Practicing pure view is a way of investigating the truth of our fearful projections and trying on another way of seeing the world.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  In spite of recent cuts to publicly funded advertising campaigns, the UK has led the charge in effective public health campaigns aimed at promoting preventative measures, including healthy eating and smoking cessation.
Last week, for example, researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical published the results from the so-called "txt2stop" campaign. Some 5,800 smokers were sent text messages encouraging them to quit; those who did were twice as likely to stop after six months than their counterparts who received no messages. The campaign has been hailed as a simple but cutting-edge intervention that could serve as a powerful tool in promoting behavioral change.
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