|  |  |  | | | | | Huffington Post | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  When Vincent Simone pulls Flavia Cacace into his arms, flings her from him across the dance floor and finally draws her close once more, audiences could be forgiven for thinking they are witnessing a real-life love affair. Their history, inevitably, is far more complicated.
The lives of this glamorous pair have been intertwined since they started dancing as teenagers, but the spotlight was focussed on their personal partnership when they joined the professional line-up of Strictly Come Dancing in 2007. The following year brought romantic upheaval when Flavia fell for her celebrity partner Matt Di Angelo, while Vincent bewailed his very public cuckolding from the red-tops.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Weather has rapidly become more dangerous across the globe, likely the result of planet-wide human-caused climate change, according to scientific consensus. But the notion of Mother Earth rising up against her human inhabitants is not merely a global one, it strikes on the local level as well.
I've been without power for the last few days, and much of my hometown of Kenosha, WI, lies in shambles. The trees struck, and they struck hard and fast.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Some players bleed hoops. And some players bleed because of hoops. While we're not sure if Oregon State guard Roberto Nelson falls into the former camp, we're quite certain he qualifies for the latter after watching the video above.
While on a tour of Macedonia, Nelson and a few of his fellow Beavers put on a dunking display at a local gym. Nelson apparently threw down with a touch too much gusto, however, and shattered the backboard. Beyond simple damage to the gym's facilities, however, Nelson emerged from the accident badly cut on his face, as seen in the graphic video above.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Poll after poll indicates that GOP voters are not particularly happy with the field of candidates that are vying for the 2012 GOP nomination. But how would they feel if white supremacist David Duke jumped into the race? Well, since polls also put a high premium on electability, I'm guessing they'd feel even more dispirited about it. But we'll have to see if anything comes of the news today that Duke is mulling getting into the presidential fray, as Eve Conant reports for The Daily Beast.
Add to the growing list of candidates considering a bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012 America's most famous white-power advocate: David Duke.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Eataly is big. The 40,000-square-foot Italian food-and-drink emporium already comprises a wine store, a beer garden, a bakery, a grocery store and six restaurants, all on 23rd Street in Manhattan. Eataly is so big that Little Italy's merchants have been complaining that it's stealing business from Mulberry Street. But by the end of 2012, if all goes according to plan, it will get bigger.
That's when Joe Bastianich says he and Eataly's co-owners (who include superstar chef Mario Batali) hope to have opened their second of three American branches of Eataly they currently have planned—in Los Angeles and Washington, DC.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Innocent until proven guilty, that's the legal right of any person standing trail in the United States, no matter how sensational the case may be, or how high profile the people involved. But what happens when the outcome that seems so blindingly obvious to the public does not stand in court?
These 11 court cases prove that regardless of who is on trial or how conclusive the evidence may seem, no one is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt until the jury says so.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I sometimes feel like I am living in several different time zones simultaneously, all in the same country, often at the same desk.
There is the here and now, always the most pressing, often the most challenging, especially if you have something of an up and down mental state (certificates to prove), and a book out dredging up the past again. There is the place where the present meets the future, and as a diarist, and one now committed to what one reviewer called a 'publishing juggernaut', that is a place I have grown to know well. What I write in my diary at night gets published some years down the track, in a different context for different times. The raw and immediate can sometimes look a bit odd when even the author has forgotten all about it.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Last Wednesday at the View Tube, an arts and community center in East London within clear view of the nascent 2012 Olympic site, the artist Faisal Abdu'Allah launched a two-week film exhibition on breathing.
In collaboration with three Olympic athletes and scientists from King's College and Brunel University, the 9-minute, 58-second film titled "Double Pendulum" - its duration cleverly designed to match the current 100-meter sprint record set by Usain Bolt in 2009 - nominally "examines the journey that air takes through the human form."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I touched on fisheries science in my last post, but here I would like to take a more detailed look at the use of research in setting policy and managing our marine resources.
Industry representatives frequently charge that federal fisheries managers use bad science to make decisions. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  While vacationing in Malibu, without even so much as a plunging neckline, Reese Witherspoon revealed much more than we'd seen before. Underneath a denim button-down, X17 snapped a photo of the girl-next-door's very sexy and very large tattoo.
Who knew that Reese was hiding all that rebellion behind her down-home venere? Bravo sea-breeze, now we see the demure beauty in a whole new light.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  NEW YORK -- Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal announced Tuesday that widespread cheating inflated Atlanta Public Schools' 2009 state standardized tests scores.
The product of a two-year investigation, the report concluded that systematic cheating occurred within Atlanta Public Schools -- which had been lauded for its quick testing gains -- including at least 44 of the 56 examined schools. The report implicated 38 principals, noting that 178 educators pled the Fifth Amendment when questioned. Eighty-two other educators confessed to various forms of cheating, including erasing wrong answers on students' multiple choice exams and then replacing them with the correct ones.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  This little, er... big guy is an elephant seal, and he's tuckered himself out. See the funny shape of his nose? During mating season it's really helpful in luring the ladies to his part of the beach. While sleeping, it's just plain adorable.
We know it's not polite to laugh and stare, but come on, look at that little flappy face. Can we help it if the very body part he uses to attract women is the same we find oh-so-cute?
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  One of five Sudanese journalists on trial for publishing articles related to the alleged rape of a female activist was jailed for a month on Tuesday.
As the AFP is reporting, Fatima Ghazali -- a reporter at the Sudanese daily Al-Jarida -- was handed a month sentence for writing about Safiya Ishaq, a youth activist who claimed in videos posted online that she was raped repeatedly by three security officers after her arrest in Khartoum in February. A judge convicted Ghazali of publishing lies and ordered her to pay a fine of 2,000 Sudanese pounds ($625) or spend a month in prison, lawyer Hassan Abdullah al-Hussein told AFP.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  WASHINGTON -- Democratic and Republican negotiators tasked with working on debt negotiations sounded as far apart as ever Tuesday on a deal to keep America's bills paid -- but they agree they want the President to pay them a visit to move things along.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's sudden request for President Obama to drop by for lunch was spurned by the White House, so McConnell invited him again Tuesday afternoon.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both sides on the "life issues" remain totally invested in being morally "right." The purists on both sides also refuse to admit that most Americans (if public opinion polls are to be believed) occupy a -- sensibly conflicted -- middle ground on "the issue."
Abortion must be legal because women have a need to determine their individual futures, because many women find themselves pregnant without the support of a loving community and in horrible circumstances, because women have been picked on and kicked around throughout history as a result of religious beliefs related to "family values" that turn out to be anything but.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Everyone talks about yoga the way they talk about sex when they finally get good at it, or the way a few friends from [insert high school, college, grad school, work, summer] talk about [insert pot, shrooms, Levain chocolate chip cookies, God, Clapton, David Foster Wallace, Princeton]. I tried yoga about a decade ago (and yes, I am now old enough to be able to toss around phrases like "a decade ago") -- and I hated it.
In short, yoga was this thing that I tried, didn't like and moved on from.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When people think of caregiving, they envision a middle-aged woman providing loving care for her elderly mother who lives in a nursing home. In reality, a caregiver can be a relatively youthful spouse whose husband or wife has a chronic condition -- such as diabetes -- that requires daily monitoring.
Diabetes is a condition in adults and children that occurs when the body cannot properly convert glucose (sugar) into energy. According to the American Diabetes Association, approximately 26 million adults and children in the United States are living with diabetes, and another 79 million people have pre-diabetes (a condition that increases their risk for developing Type 2 diabetes).
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 13th-century Sopoćani monastery is a UNESCO World Heritage Site near the source of the Raška River, just east of Novi Pazar in the south-western corner of Serbia. After two centuries of attack, desolation and abandonment, its Church of the Holy Trinity is now rebuilt, its frescoes restored and its monastic life revived.
 In the southern choir of that eastward-pointing church are frescoes of seven apostles. Five are now unidentifiable, as time and decay has literally defaced them, but each is folding a single scroll. Matthew is identifiable and he is holding the book of his Gospel. But the most clearly identifiable is the leading figure on the choir's east wall. It is the apostle Paul, complete with his recognizable receding hairline. His right hand is raised in the traditional Byzantine teaching gesture of fingers separated into two (for two natures in Christ) and three (for three Persons in the Trinity). What is extraordinary, however, is that his left hand holds 10 clearly distinguishable scrolls -- not a single scroll or book but 10 scrolls in a cluster.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  WASHINGTON -- Republicans, led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), successfully forced the Senate to drop consideration of a resolution on Libya Tuesday in order to focus on budget negotiations and raising the debt ceiling.
A Republican aide familiar with the situation said that 37 senators -- more than half of the GOP caucus -- said they would vote against the motion to proceed on the Libya resolution, which would grant congressional approval for President Obama to continue military operations in the conflict.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  OTTAWA -- The federal government has officially listed the Pakistani Taliban as a terrorist organization.
The group, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, operates from northwest Pakistan in the mountainous tribal regions along the Afghanistan border.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  WASHINGTON - Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Tea Party favorite who is likely to run for the U.S. Senate in 2012, will endorse Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, on Wednesday.
Chaffetz is backing Romney over former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, despite the fact that Chaffetz worked for Huntsman for two years, eventually serving as his chief of staff. In an interview with The Huffington Post, Chaffetz said his assessment that Romney has the best shot of defeating President Obama in the general election had led to his decision.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  On a recent trip to a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, photographer David Slater left his camera unattended for a moment and a female crested black macaque monkey snatched it to snap some self-portraits.
It seems she was so fascinated by her own reflection in the lens that she didn't notice she was inadvertently taking self-portraits while gazing at herself. The result is a series of photos that are oddly posed exactly like the profile pictures of a 15 year old Facebook fashionista.
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KHARTOUM, July 5 (Reuters) - A boat packed with refugees bound for Saudi Arabia sunk off the Sudanese coast, killing 197 people, Sudanese media linked to the government said on Tuesday.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  My kids are not very smart. Really.
They're all in high school, and they get decent grades. And, OK, they're pretty good kids. But a few weeks ago my oldest son filled our Toyota Corolla's tank with diesel. My other son, a few years ago, thought it would be a fun prank to throw eggs at a car and chose our next door neighbor's Honda instead of someone much farther away. My daughter made out with her first boyfriend on our street not 100 yards away from my office window. In broad daylight. While I watched in astonishment. These are not people who will one day rule the world, and for that we can all be thankful.
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NEW YORK (Jonathan Stempel) - A group of bondholders plans to challenge Bank of America Corp's $8.5 billion settlement with holders in soured mortgage-backed securities, saying it may be unfair to other bond investors.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Independence Day weekend brought more than fireworks to the Denver area. Once again, the annual Cherry Creek Arts Festival lured artists, musicians, chefs and throngs of locals for a four-day creative extravaganza.
The festival is a non-profit organization that brings about 350,000 people every year to the Cherry Creek North shopping district.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've been keeping quiet about the fact that I published my first novel without the aid of a publishing house. I've received a whole bunch of stellar reviews (including this one from a fellow Huffington Poster) and it really hasn't been an issue. There's a publishing company listed on the spine of the book and that seems to be good enough for most people. Partially, I blame that on the fact that I paid an incredibly talented artist and designer to put together the covers and they don't look like your average self-published fare.
Some people are pleasantly surprised by the fact that I took on the job of publisher as well as writer and don't seem to have any trouble accepting it. It doesn't take a genius to see that the traditional publishing model offers very few advantages to readers or writers in this day and age. Aside from shelf-space for a new release and reviews in slightly larger publications, I can do just about everything they can do and more.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  We knew this day was coming: Verizon will end unlimited data plans by July 7.
The company has planned to move customers over to tiered data plans for a while now, a pricing structure that competitor AT&T already implements. DroidLife first reported the date and pricing of the shift in late June.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  We spend most of our days coming up with funny things to say about ridiculous photos, so it's only fair that we put our dear readers' skills to the test. Cue "Caption This," our weekly caption competition where you can submit hilarious captions for the photo of the week via Twitter.
Simply tweet your best captions to @HuffPostComedy or use the hashtag #CaptionThis to send us your submission, and you might make into our slideshow of the best captions! Check back later to see all the hilarious submissions and try again next week when we pick a different photo to have fun with.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Four hundred pieces of evidence, more than 90 witnesses, and 33 days of testimony all added up to today, when Casey Anthony was found not guilty of killing her daughter, Caylee, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter of a child.
Although she was found guilty of misleading law enforcement, Anythony wept and embraced members of her legal team. Looking back on such a complicated and drawn out case, it's easy to forget some of the important landmarks along the way. Scroll through the timeline of the trial and let us know what you think.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  From politics to health to child rearing, celebrities are quick to make sure their opinions are heard by the world at large. And with the advent of Twitter, it's never been easier for a movie star, musician or reality personality to get their message out to the world as soon as news breaks.
With Casey Anthony being found not guilty of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child (though she was convicted of misleading law enforcement) in the case of daughter Caylee Anthony's death, celebrities were quick to tweet out their thoughts -- including Kim Kardashian, whose father Robert helped lead OJ Simpson's successful defense in his murder trial. In this case, she was with the prosecution.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  After a long holiday weekend chowing on too much barbecue and staying out late at the local pub with his old friends from home, this little cat decided to mix business with pleasure. Not only is he getting a good rub down, which felines go bonkers for, by the way, he's also cleaning all the hot sauce, draft beer and red, white and blue confetti out of his silken hair.
At least that's what we'd like to imagine he's doing. In reality, he's a cat, so he's probably just really enjoying the petting sensations courtesy of the vacuum hose. But we can dream, can't we?
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  While speaking with Idris Bello and hearing about his numerous accomplishments, one begins to feel a bit lazy in comparison. Though he only just graduated from Rice University's business school, Bello has amassed a laundry list of awards and fellowships that barely fit on one page.
But for this self-proclaimed "Afropreneur," the grants and awards are only the tip of the iceberg. Bello has also been instrumental in creating a staggering number of organizations that aim to make Africa more self-sufficient, a goal he has had since he arrived in the U.S from Nigeria to attend the University of Houston in 2004.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A recent post from me entitled "Sarah Palin, My President" led to a frantic call from my lawyer, who prefers to remain anonymous where blatant acts of humor are involved. If a man can shudder over the telephone, he was shuddering. "How can you do this?" he wailed. "You made fun of a Republican! They are the most American of Americans. Just ask them."
"Then they must revere freedom of speech," I said. "It's in the Constitution."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Cross-posted from theyec.org
As a business owner, you face many challenges and incur a slew of expenses. One of the biggest challenges you'll face is how to meet the legal requirements of your business, while balancing the need to preserve time and capital. Here are a few questions to consider when looking for a qualified, trusted business attorney.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The refereees in Major League Soccer have come under fire with great regularity this season. From refs getting suckered by players taking dives to them sending star players off the pitch for no apparent reason, the league has seen its season disrupted by an alarmingly high number of bad calls.
That trend continued on Monday night during the New England Revolution's visit to Real Salt Lake. Just three minutes into the match, RSL defender Nat Borchers made what appeared to be a great defensive play during a Benny Feilhaber breakaway by catching Feilhaber from behind and kicking the ball off of his face and out of bounds.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the summer of 1969, riots erupted in and around New York City's Stonewall Inn as throngs of angry lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, exhausted by years of harassment, confronted police officers. Facing yet another bar raid designed to intimidate, these courageous would-be activists decided to stand up and, in doing so, began the modern LGBT civil rights movement.
Forty-two years later, as I marched down Christopher Street passing the Stonewall Inn during the annual pride parade, I was met by an entirely different atmosphere, one of celebration and gratitude.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Hungry for a good film? Check out these new food films, and make sure to see the food films listed in Part I of the series.
Dive!
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The late NBA legend Manute Bol has become an icon. And as South Sudan stands ready to become the world's poorest nation, there is hope and heroism amidst the horror of daily life.
As South Sudan celebrates independence this July 9th two very different groups are turning to the late Manute Bol, as a symbol and inspiration.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  11 days after the Senate voted to legalize same sex marriage In New York, couples are now able to apply for marriage licenses through the nyc.gov website. However, for now there are a few problems with the application.
The Times notes that "the official online form, apparently unrevised, requires applicants to list both a "groom" and a 'bride.'"
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is calling for the elimination of the Transportation Security Administration and recommending that the agency be replaced with "real privatization of security."
"The press reports are horrifying," writes the Texas congressman in an op-ed published online by The Hill. "Children molested; disabled people abused; men and women subjected to unwarranted groping and touching of their most private areas; involuntary radiation exposure. If the perpetrators were a gang of criminals, their headquarters would be raided by SWAT teams and armed federal agents. Unfortunately, in this case the perpetrators are armed federal agents. This is the sorry situation ten years after the creation of the Transportation Security Administration."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  After 33 days of testimony, 400 pieces of evidence and more than 90 witnesses, the jury in the Casey Anthony case has reached a verdict.
After just a day of deliberation, jurors informed the court at midday that they had reached a decision, and both sides in the case were ordered to assemble in the courtroom. The verdict is expected to be read at 2:15 p.m. Eastern Time.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  In the late 1990s, the Web was a portal world. Web portal players like AOL, Lycos, Excite, MSN, and Yahoo! built islands of information and fought like hell to keep users with services like email and "exclusive content." Everything was about acquiring and keeping eyeballs and stock market valuations were priced accordingly. At the time I was in the business of supplying news content to the portals and it had the air of a Turkish bazaar as content feeds were bought and sold like a commodity.
As the portals fought with each other, consumers were left out of the discussion. So while the analysts talked up the merits of this portal vs. that as if that's all there was, a little search engine called Google figured out a better way to organize information on the Web.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Back in May, a group of beer and food servers at Yankee Stadium sued the concession company they worked for, accusing Legends Hospitality of pocketing their hard-earned tips. Legends -- which is co-owned by the Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys and Goldman Sachs -- seems to have gotten the vendors' message, judging from revamped menus now found inside the stadium.
The vendors' lawsuit revolves around an involuntary 20 percent service fee that's tacked on to the original price of a cold beer, hot dog and any other ballpark fare sold to fans in lower-level seats. Although most fans would assume the 20 percent fee is a tip, the bulk of that surcharge has been going not to the hustling vendors but to Legends itself, according to the lawsuit. Brian Schaffer, an attorney for the vendors, previously told HuffPost that Legends management had forbade his clients from explaining to spectators how the system really works.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Broke British author Paul Carr gave up his dumpy London flat for a life of luxury in the best hotels around the world. How did he do it? A combination of a strong British pound, a weak dollar and some clever uses of Internet travel sites. Watch for his favorites, his failures, the cities he loves and those he won't be returning to any time soon.
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More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Let's be real, seven years at Hogwarts just isn't enough. I mean those kids need to know a little more than just how to cast a few spells, right? I could totally get down to Rowling penning a few more books on Harry Potter: The College Years. Saved By the Bell did it, Boy Meets World did it, pretty much every other sitcom centered on high school life did it. So why not, Potter kids?
JK, I'll even help you out a little so you can hit the ground running with this one. According to the sorting hat in my head, here's where you can expect to see all of our favorite HP characters heading off to earn their degrees.
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