|  |  |  | | | | | Huffington Post | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  By Greg Garrison
Religion News Service
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I work at a company that develops mobile apps and other digital content. We recently released an iPhone game called "Office Riot," and, as the name suggests, it has a workplace theme. Compared with the number of games that take place on spaceships or in military outposts, there are very few action-oriented games that take place in businesses. Yes, on paper, office work doesn't sound as exciting as shooting zombies, but in practice, the following five games with corporate settings still prove that there's plenty of fun to be had by playing games at work.
1. "Elevator Action" (Taito, 1983)
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A husband who attempted to kill his wife in a home-made electric chair has been jailed for 10 years.
Andrew Castle, 61, rigged up the device in the couple's garage after his wife Margaret told him she wanted a divorce. He coaxed her into the garage to discuss the break-up and when she tried to get out of the chair, he hit her over the head with a rubber cosh, Preston Crown Court heard.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
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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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  HuffPost Sports Columnist Jordan Schultz joined Chuck Todd and The Daily Rundown on MSNBC to discuss the NBA Lockout Wednesday morning.
Schultz broke down the highly dysfunctional relationship between the two owners and players, namely the lack of revenue sharing and guaranteed contracts and, how they in turn decrease the parity of the NBA game.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | How do you deal with elderly parents who are not living near you? What happens when their health begins to fail? How do you know that they are doing okay?
We are taught from when we are very young to "respect" our elders ... but what if what they want is not what you think is the best for them? What if what I think might be "best" for my parent, is not something with which my parent agrees? "Best" is a relative term (no pun intended), so, where does the middle ground come in? One of the Ten Commandments is to "obey" our parents. Well, what happens when we think that it is not in their best interest to continue living where they are living or we feel it is unsafe, and they disagree with us?
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Liberal pundits are panicking over constitutional conservatism. They shouldn't, because every child -- whether the parents are liberal or conservative -- will benefit from constitutional conservatism's ascendency. If America elects a constitutional conservative president and Congress in 2012, we'll move forward as a freedom-loving nation.
Several outlets on the Left -- such as The New Republic -- are raising an alarm about this disturbing new term, saying that it's secret code for "absolutists" and "zealots" on economic issues, overturning Roe v. Wade, and implying that constitutional conservatives are segregationists bent on creating a theocracy.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Check here for live updates from our launch debate on the state of the media with Arianna Huffington, Alastair Campbell, Jon Gaunt, Kelly Osbourne, journalist Celia Walden and human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti. Richard Bacon is chairing the panel.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Last week the G20 agriculture ministers meeting in Paris issued a communiqué calling for the World Food Programme to develop hedging strategies to purchase food. In a little-noticed section toward the end of a 24-page document, the ministers stated:
We invite the multilateral, regional and national development banks or agencies to further explore, in connection with the private sector as appropriate:
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  One in three adults isn't getting screened for colorectal cancer when they should be, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While the total number of people being screened for colorectal cancer in the United States has increased over the last eight years -- from 52 percent in 2002 to 65 percent in 2010 -- screening rates are still too low among people ages 50 and 75, the Vital Signs report said.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  When an incredible wall of sand and dust began wafting through Arizona, folks from Phoenix and other towns standing in the disaster's inevitable path grabbed their cameras and braved the elements to produce some remarkable, up-close-and-personal footage.
The dust wall, known as a haboob, reached peak heights of 8,000 to 10,000 feet, National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Iniguez told the Associated Press. By the time the storm reached Phoenix, it was an estimated 5,000 feet.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Observing last night's Givenchy presentation at Hotel d'Evreux in the Place Vendome, I was reminded how seriously people take fashion. Watching inquisitive editors take diligent notes and detailed photos of each intricate cream, gold, and white gown, knit, and blouse accessibly displayed on forms that could be touched by prying and curious hands brought this still life presentation completely to life.
I have been a huge fan of Ricardo Tisci's work at Givenchy. His first Couture shows mystified me, but I came around to his gothic Couture. His men's and women's ready to wear is both a commercial and critical success, but it is his Couture where his poetry and artistry is elevated to spectacular heights. What is marvelous about these intimate presentations is the ability to see all the work that goes into each creation -- be it tiny seed pearls hand-applied to the lightest chiffons or a dramatic gold evening bag with metal fringe long enough to graze the floor, if you are really cool and really rich, this is your wardrobe. I don't know exactly where one wears most of these clothes as the are ultra sheer and ultra precious, but a bride with bucks and an apartment overlooking the Vendome Column could probably justify this wardrobe. If the Hotel d'Evreux is available, buy the apartment and the spectacular clothing currently hanging in it.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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. I, on the other hand, see Toddlers & Tiaras for what it is surely meant to be: Life Lessons. Seven in fact. Here goes:
- Sparkle. Inner beauty is inconsequential if you have enough glittery objects on the outside. There is no such thing as "overdone." So get a spray-tan on "dark," add as many hair extensions as your scalp will allow, insert false teeth even if you're not yet potty-trained, and sparkle until it hurts. If you forget to sparkle, some well-placed yelling by a third-party can put you back in overdrive. Be sure to wear a name tag, though, so friends and family will recognize you.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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).
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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!
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  It's official: Bobby Sanabria will be suing the Grammys. At a press conference at the law offices of Balber Pickard Maldonado and Van Der Truin, Mr. Sanabria, a four-time Grammy nominee read his own explanation of the reasons, as he sees it, for the action. I will let him and his council speak for themselves, before throwing in my two cents.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When most of us think of Scientology, we think of Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Not Janet Reitman, a Rolling Stone journalist who wrote a National Magazine Award-nominated investigation of the Church of Scientology in 2006.
She's spent the last six years digging into this unusual faith, and her new book, "Inside Scientology," reveals much about this unknown world. She interviewed more than 50 people involved with Scientology, almost all of them on the record, and everything triple fact-checked. I was curious how she won the trust of this famously secretive organization, and what she found on the inside.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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 number—220—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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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 — from an official White House account no less — have been with Eder.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Some pets are wanderers, but one Labrador-retriever from Montreal is more ambitious than most.
Suki, whose real name is Pollux, is about to be reunited with her Quebec family after a one year, 4,500 kilometre separation.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  The Army has officially banned "toe shoes." Not because the glove-like shoes are inferior or pose a health hazard to soldiers but because old people think they look silly.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Nathan Fillion ("Castle," "Firefly") has an important message: Don't let swamp ass happen to you.
All of us have been touched by swamp ass in some way. Maybe you've contracted it yourself, maybe a loved one has suffered from it, or maybe you've detected it on a complete stranger who happens to be on your couch because your roommate left the door open and the PlayStation on.
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Here on the streets of Manhattan last week, we spoke with Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor of All Things Digital, about her Loeb award and her definition of blogging (it's the same as reporting, she says).
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  If the economy is showing tepid signs of recovery, we're seeing no indication at the hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters we serve daily. Across the country and throughout Chicago and Cook County, record numbers of men, women and children are still in need of emergency food assistance -- many for the first time.
A few weeks ago, David, a single father of two in his 30s, walked into a community center in South Suburban Harvey. He needed food to feed his young children because his work hours had recently been cut. He'd seen a flyer about an assistance program, but didn't know what to expect. From a Greater Chicago Food Depository outreach worker at the center, David learned of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly the Food Stamp Program), and that he might be eligible for help. He also learned that there was a fresh source of wholesome food close to his home at a nearby stop of the Food Depository's pantry on wheels, the Producemobile. For David, the social safety net worked beautifully, as it should.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  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."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  In a few days' time, world leaders and policy makers will convene at the United Nations for a special summit on young people. Given recent developments in many parts of the world, such a meeting is timely.
With world population projected to reach 7 billion this year on Oct. 31, there is renewed interest in our collective impact on the Earth. This is prompting some to wonder: are there too many people in the world?
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  CAP FREHEL, France — 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.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  The U.S. Supreme Court ended its term this week and now starts a three-month vacation. If the Court's members follow past practices, Justice Thomas will head out in his motor home in search of NASCAR race venues. Justice Scalia will spend the summer racking up speaking fees at Federalist Society conferences or in a duck blind with Dick Cheney.
Judging from some of the cases decided by the Court during its past eight-month term, the conservative bloc of five Republican appointees appear to want more time for vacationing. Those five justices seem intent on America's courts taking it down a notch and kicking back more.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Once a massive primetime star thanks to his heroic talking car in "Knight Rider" and then camp hero thanks to buxom heroine lifeguards in "Baywatch," David Hasselhoff has, over time, made the career-elongating transition from legitimate draw to B-style television to straight up self-parody. Some might argue that his time patrolling the waves was, at least by the end, an exercise in self-awareness and winking all by itself, but regardless of the exact moment of meta changeover, The Hoff is now, undoubtedly, always The Hoff.
Following a rough end to his gimmicky presence on "America's Got Talent," Hasselhoff has now signed on to what sounds like a perfect bit of self-parody: according to TVGuide, Hasselhoff will be playing Dondo, a former porn star turned girl-on-girl skin flick director.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After News Corp-owned News of the World is heavily criticized and accused of illegal activity, Jeremy Hunt is expected to approve News Corporation owning all shares in BSkyB this Friday, in a move which the BBC business editor says will "generate revenues that would dwarf all rivals, even the BBC". Obviously, this should make any sane person very happy.
I actually quite like empires. Sure, sometimes they become bureaucratic -- the Death Star out of Star Wars, which was essentially just one big laser canon, seemed to have a lot of redundant office space for what it was. And yeah, they might tend towards evil sometimes -- like, say, the Evil Empire out of Star Wars. But if Star Wars has taught me anything (and everything I know about empires I learned from Star Wars, so clearly it did), it's that empires always prevail (nb I have only seen up to The Empire Strikes Back, NO spoilers please). That's why I'm over the moon about that the Culture Secretary is about to make News Corporation an even more colossal media empire than it already was (it owns a third of the British newspaper market), despite heavy criticism leveled at News Corp-owned News of the World this week by the liberal media, who resorted to "facts" and "basic decency" in order to ruin this paper's good name.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  President Barack Obama has named Brenda S. "Sue" Fulton to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, making her the first openly gay or lesbian person to serve there.
Fulton is an army veteran who graduated from West Point in 1980, part of the first class to include women. She is the executive director and co-founder of Knights Out, an organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered West Point graduates and their supporters, and a founding member of OutServe, which represents actively-serving LGBT military personnel who cannot reveal their sexual identity.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  MANHATTAN -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg flip-flopped on perp walks Tuesday, blasting the practice as "outrageous" two months after saying he had no problem with them.
Bloomberg's sudden change came to light as he was discussing the crumbling case against former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, where the French politician was subjected to a humiliating gantlet of press photographers who snapped pictures of him in handcuffs.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've been blogging for about two years now, and it's time to step up my game--with a newsletter! I really love blogging. It's the perfect creative outlet for all my diverse interests--whether it's organic tirades, utterly simple and yummiful recipes, or insights into my eclectic reading and musical tastes. And whether you read these posts right on my mariasfarmcountrykitchen.com blog, the Huffington Post, Care2.com, or Facebook or Twitter, or some random linkage, the truth is, I want you to be counted. I want to know that you are with me!
So here are my top 10 reasons to sign up for my newsletter:
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Never has there been a bucket of fried chicken, a slice of greasy pizza, or a juicy double cheeseburger that I wasn't happy to have appear on my plate. I love to eat, and I'm not shy about indulging my enthusiasm for food.
As a first-time candidate for public office, I've quickly realized that just as so many other daily routines take on a life of their own in the context of trying to get elected, chowing down has its own set of rules and realities on the campaign trail.
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