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The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed         Marianne Mollmann: How Not To Address Teen Pregnancy May 17, 2011 at 7:14 PM   The United States has a long way to go to ensure access to age-appropriate, comprehensive sex education and modern contraception. Read More... More on Parenting         Sunia Zaterman: Media Hit on Housing Programs Is Off Target May 17, 2011 at 6:41 PM   Public housing is a multibillion dollar asset that is home to 2.2 million working families, seniors and people with disabilities. Not only is money not being wasted, it is producing an excellent return on investment. Read More... More on Wash Post         Dal LaMagna: How I'm Celebrating Small Business Week May 17, 2011 at 6:41 PM   Those of you sitting on the fence about starting a small business, you can celebrate Small Business Week by jumping off the fence and starting yours. Read More... More on Small Business America         Erich Pica: People or Polluters: Ending Oil Subsidies May 17, 2011 at 6:28 PM   It is indefensible for our federal government to demolish the social safety net while continuing to hand out more than $200 billion in subsidies to environmentally destructive industries. Read More... More on George W Bush         Lauren Mackler: Becoming Who You Already Are May 17, 2011 at 6:28 PM   Living by deliberation means intentionally aligning your thoughts, behaviors, and choices with who you really are, and the outcomes you're trying to achieve. Read More... More on Mindfulness         Rajesh Panjabi: In the Shadows of Ivory Coast's War May 17, 2011 at 6:28 PM   In 1990, militias deployed Gaddafi's tactics to terrorize our home country, Liberia, and ignite a civil war that claimed the lives of a quarter million Liberians. Today, Gaddafi's nightmare lives on in Ivory Coast. Read More... More on Muammar Gaddafi         Daniel Menaker: A Rejection Is a Rejection May 17, 2011 at 6:18 PM   If you're curious about this kind of thing, what goes on inside the submission process of publishing, here are 8 edited examples of the rejection notes I got, through my agent, for 25,000 words of a memoir. Read More... More on Book Publishing         Robert Naiman: Rep. Schakowsky, Am I a "Provocation"? May 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM   For these Members of Congress to tell Turkey to stop the flotilla is like telling someone that they should give up acting because they are no good at it, right after they won an Academy Award. Read More... More on Israel         Carl Pope: Why They Don't -- and Can't -- Get It Right May 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM   Before long, nuclear will no longer be a low-cost option for even Asia's most rapidly growing electricity markets. The U.S. is obviously not going to build many new nuclear plants but time is running out to jump on the clean-energy bandwagon. Read More...         Danielle Crittenden: Discovered: Strauss-Kahn's Travel Review of New York Sofitel May 17, 2011 at 6:03 PM   SOFITEL NEW YORK 45 West 44th Street, New York City, NY 10036 Hotel Website E-mail hotel Read More...         Michael B. Keegan: The Hypocrisy Hall of Fame: Schwarzenegger and Marriage Equality May 17, 2011 at 6:02 PM   No politician, however squeaky clean his or her personal record is, should be in the business of telling grown adults who they can love and marry, or demonizing people who are trying to achieve the financial and emotional security of marriage. Read More...         Ilene H. Lang: Check the Chart May 17, 2011 at 5:55 PM   Companies with Read More...         Katherine Franke: Egyptian Women and Palestinian Men Can Now Confer Egyptian Citizenship on Their Children May 17, 2011 at 5:55 PM   The overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt has ushered in a number of important paradigm changes. One of them is a refiguration of Egypt's relationship to Israel/Palestine. Read More... More on Women's Rights         Rick Horowitz: In Wisconsin, Everything Must Go May 17, 2011 at 5:55 PM   It's "Beat the Recall" Days! We might be losing our majority, but we're not losing our nerve! In fact, we're working 24/7 to clear out all our remaining stock of legislation before we have to close our doors for good! Read More... More on Wisconsin Protests         Vivian Norris: Interview with Akira Tokuhiro, Nuclear Engineer, Fukushima and the Mass Media May 17, 2011 at 5:55 PM   "Only the mass media can put the kind of pressure on TEPCO and the Japanese government to bring about major change. This will cost at least 10 billion dollars if not 20-30 billion to clean up. It will take at least 10 years if not 20 and roughly 10,000 people working on the cleanup. The nuclear business is global. This needs an international effort to clean up Fukushima". -Nuclear Engineer Akira Tokuhiro In today's email from Japanese born, US-educated nuclear engineering professor Tokuhiro, he wrote the following: Read More... More on Japan         Stacey Nemour: Abbot Shi Yongxin of China's Shaolin Temple Coming to L.A. May 17, 2011 at 5:55 PM   Shi Yongxin, the abbot of the Shaolin Temple, is a tireless advocate for a wide array of measures toward the understanding, revival, preservation and sharing of the Shaolin legacy. He is considered a spiritual head to more than 400 million practitioners of Chan Buddhism and an estimated hundreds of millions of practitioners of martial arts worldwide. As a member of China's National People's Congress, Shi Yongxin has advocated for the expansion of the role of faith in Chinese life. He has also been active in interfaith dialog as chairman for international exchange of China's Buddhist Association. He has compiled many volumes on Shaolin classics, such as "The Secret Book of Shaolin Kung Fu and Medicine," and frequently writes books and essays on a variety of topics with a Chan perspective. Abbot Shi Yongxin joined the Shaolin Temple in 1981 as a young man, and he became its administrative head by 1987, after the death of his master, then-Abbot Xingzheng. In 1999 the official title of Abbot was conferred upon Shi Yongxin. Read More... More on Spiritual Development         Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - May 17, 2011 May 17, 2011 at 5:55 PM   TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. Read More... More on Extreme Weather         Daniel Menaker: A Rejection Is a Rejection May 17, 2011 at 5:55 PM   If you're curious about this kind of thing-what goes on inside the submission process of publishing-there follow, a few paragraphs down, eight edited examples of the rejection notes I got, through my agent, for 25,000 words of a memoir. The book is about my childhood, work at The New Yorker, and twelve years in the book business and is tentatively titled MY MISTAKE. (The title seemed apter and apter as these "nos" piled up-if aptness admits of degree.) Those who know the business may enjoy a guessing game here. Those who don't may enjoy a glimpse of book-business manners and lack of them. I post them here because in a way they are all part of a coded conversation. You can read between the lines, assaying the praise for sincerity-I believe half of it, maybe, but am pathetically grateful for all of it, and was of course inclined to accept all of it prima facie, especially "sublime." And finally, these notes give a taste of how disappointing and frustrating the writing game can be, especially these days. In case you think it's vanity at work here, remember this: a rejection is a rejection. That said, there exist in my mind at least two perfect examples of ego-sparing ways in which a book can be turned down. One is in Ian MacEwan's "Atonement"-a fictional rejection sent to the novel's protagonist from a real and very famous editor, Cyril Connolly, which includes such specific and helpful questions as "If this girl has so fully misunderstood or been so wholly baffled by the strange little scene that has unfolded before her, how might it affect the lives of the two adults? Might she come between them in some disastrous fashion?" The other letter was perhaps an urban legend I once heard about a titanically self-effacing Japanese publisher who said, more or less, "Your book is so wonderful that if we were to publish it, we would have to go out of business completely, since we would never again be able to match its excellence." Read More... More on Book Publishing         Toni Emerson: Can We Live in a Constant State of Love? May 17, 2011 at 5:55 PM   The power of love to dissolve negativity cannot be underestimated. This power becomes our closest ally in removing the emotional blocks that keep us isolated from our love source. Read More... More on Wisdom         Michael B. Keegan: The Hypocrisy Hall of Fame: Schwarzenegger and Marriage Equality May 17, 2011 at 5:21 PM   Arnold Schwarzenegger's long list of past indiscretions - including the recent revelation that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff - shouldn't be any of our business. As long as he didn't break the law, nobody beyond his immediate family should be concerned with his private affairs. But is it too much to ask that Schwarzenegger, and other politicians who have found themselves caught up in messy family situations, extend to all Americans what they say they want for themselves: to not have others meddle in their private lives. I am still angry at Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not because he hid a personal secret from the public and from his own family, but because he did so while working to deny thousands of California citizens the right to have legal families at all. Read More... More on Gay Marriage         Danielle Crittenden: Discovered: Strauss-Kahn's TripAdvisor Review of New York Sofitel May 17, 2011 at 5:21 PM   SOFITEL NEW YORK 45 West 44th Street, New York City, NY 10036 Read More...         Mohamed Elmenshawy: Time to Talk to the Egypt's Islamists May 17, 2011 at 5:05 PM   The Egyptian right wing forces should work toward proving the compatibility of Islam and democracy and the concept of citizenship' rights in order to foster a positive image inside and outside Egypt. Read More... More on Barack Obama         Jon Chattman: Sound Bite: Bob Schneider's 'Perfect Day' May 17, 2011 at 5:05 PM   Last month, the celebrated musician released his 11th solo album, entitled A Perfect Day. I caught up with the talented Austinite and asked him about the new album, the writing process and touring. Read More...         Donald Kaul: Debt Ceiling Kabuki May 17, 2011 at 5:05 PM   The Kabuki tradition in Congress over raising the federal government's debt ceiling is in full flower. It's a more reliable Washington ritual than the Cherry Blossom Festival. Read More... More on Budget Cuts         Joe Mirabella: San Francisco Giants Make History as First Pro Sports Team to Make "It Gets Better" Video May 17, 2011 at 5:05 PM   The San Francisco Giants will become the first team in professional sports to produce an "It Gets Better" video taking a stand against anti-gay bullying and homophobia, supported by more than 6,500 fans and four San Francisco mayoral candidates. Read More... More on Bullying         Julie Spira: The Rules of Netiquette -- To Tag, or Not to Tag May 17, 2011 at 5:05 PM   Being tagged in a video without your permission where you have no sales relationship with someone simply breaks the rules of netiquette. My followers would assume I was endorsing and approving a service that I knew nothing about. Read More...         Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): Why the 'Tragedy' of Sarah Palin Isn't Really a Tragedy May 17, 2011 at 5:05 PM   Joshua Green's article in the Atlantic, "The Tragedy of Sarah Palin," asks the question, "What went wrong?" But this is a false question. "What went wrong" was Palin being who she is -- consistently and predictably opportunistic. Read More... More on Sarah Palin         Abraham H. Foxman: Abu Mazen: Where Does He Stand? May 17, 2011 at 5:05 PM   Abu Mazen's case for going to the U.N. for support of a Palestinian state because there is no other way is a gross distortion of events, which again raises questions about his intent. Read More... More on Israel         Nicole Betancourt: Man With a Pan: Dads Who Cook (Spoof Video) May 17, 2011 at 4:49 PM   The amount of time American fathers are in the kitchen today is at an all-time high. Dads now account for nearly one-third of the time the family spends cooking. In 1965, that figure was only 5 percent. Move over, June Cleaver! Read More...         Thomas Moore: A Dreamer's Life May 17, 2011 at 4:49 PM   I want a dream to take us deeper, to see everything as a gauzy display of images. Dreams help me see through ordinary experiences to their underlying narratives and images and mysteries. Read More... More on Spiritual Development         Carol J. Scott, M.D.: Stress 911: How Uncertainty Affects Cardiovascular Health May 17, 2011 at 4:49 PM   Uncertainty brings worry. And worry often brings anxiety. Yet the physical worst for your health may be yet to come. Read More... More on stress         Peter H. Gleick: Climate Triage and the "New Normal" May 17, 2011 at 4:32 PM   In coming years, we are going to be faced with increasingly difficult decisions in what must now be called climate triage -- choices about who and what is going to be protected and saved, versus abandoned and lost. Read More... More on Climate Change         Rep. Yvette D. Clarke: Keeping Hope Alive in Haiti's Tent Cities May 17, 2011 at 4:32 PM   Almost 700,000 Haitians who lost their homes in the quake are still living in appalling conditions. The majority of these people still lack access to basic services like healthcare, clean water, toilets, sanitation and live in tattered shelters. Read More... More on Haiti         John Bobey: Advice for Arnold Schwarzenegger: We're Going to Get Through This ... Together May 17, 2011 at 4:32 PM   Arnold, welcome to the club! I've been through a divorce myself, and I totally get it. Women -- you can't live with them, you can't live without them tolerating your constant infidelity while you father a secret baby with the maid -- am I right? Read More... More on Arnold Schwarzenegger         Art Levine: GOP-Style Democrats Slash DC Budget: Homeless Moms Already Given Bus Tokens, Not Shelter May 17, 2011 at 4:32 PM   The ability of local progressive groups to effectively organize will not only determine the outcome of one local budget, but become a symbol of what's needed to get even Democratic cities and states to serve people in need, not just corporations. Read More... More on Wash Post         Alice M. Rivlin: Saving Chairman Ryan May 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM   Has Paul Ryan killed a promising bipartisan approach to Medicare reform -- premium support -- by presenting it in a form unacceptable to most Democrats and many Republicans? Read More... More on Paul Ryan         GloboMaestro: Secrets of the New York Public Library as It Turns 100 May 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM   In this video, Raphael Pallais, chef concierge of The Plaza, shows some of the library's secrets -- from the fabled stacks that few visitors ever see to the collection of objects from literary giants like Charles Dickens. Read More...         Tiffany Williams: What About the Woman Strauss-Kahn Allegedly Raped? May 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM   Being a housekeeper doesn't exactly put you on equal footing with the wealthy and powerful when you are in "their" space. So when you're stuck in a bedroom with them, what are your defenses? Read More... More on Dominique Strauss-Kahn         Regina Varolli: Interview With a True Original, Emeril Lagasse May 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM   Emeril Lagasse is a rare combination in today's culinary industry, a humble, hard-working chef who is truly respected by his peers, and a wildly successful TV personality whose jovial face is recognized across America. Read More...         Bonnie Fuller: Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Triply Betrayed His Wife Maria Shriver & All His Kids! May 17, 2011 at 3:44 PM   Arnold the Sperminator, this is a doozy of a cheating scandal. No doubt your children also knew their step-sibling without knowing that they were related. How disconcerting is that? Read More... More on Arnold Schwarzenegger         Jay Weston: Why Bazaar's Spanish Chef Got a James Beard Award May 17, 2011 at 3:44 PM   The James Beard Foundation has just acknowledged that 41-year old Spanish-born Chef José Andrés is simply the most inventive, innovative, and amusing character in our culinary universe. Read More...         John Farr: A Sour Note At Carnegie Hall Few Heard, Coming From Above May 17, 2011 at 3:44 PM   Imagine if in "It's A Wonderful Life", Mr. Potter had actually prevailed and George Bailey, a ruined man, had to relocate. That couldn't happen in a Frank Capra movie, of course, but sadly it can and did happen in real life, at Carnegie Hall, and without that much fuss or fall-out. Photographer Josef Astor's new documentary, "Lost Bohemia", which opens this Friday at Manhattan's IFC Center (and for you non-New Yorkers out there, will also appear soon on DVD) tells this fascinating, revealing tale. And anyone concerned with the role of art and artists in modern society should see it. Read More... More on Chelsea Handler         Cator Sparks: Attention Men of the Western World: Calm Down and Embrace the Kandura! May 17, 2011 at 3:44 PM   My friends roll their eyes when I head to some exotic locale, knowing I'll come back in full local drag. After India I wore turbans, after Egypt, caftans, and now back from Dubai, I'm obsessed with the kandura, a traditional white robe worn by Middle Eastern men. Read More... More on Dubai         Alex Geana: Oscar de la Renta, Resort 2012 May 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM   There's always something about an Oscar show. Some sequined dresses, which I adore, walk by. I keep thinking secret agents should wear the gowns when they throw down a red chip in a Moroccan casino or snoop at a black tie gala. Read More... More on Fashion         Megan Tady: Jon Stewart and Fast Moves at the FCC May 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM   Free Press has long warned that this merger would hurt the public, leading to higher prices, less competition, and worse programming. But Baker didn't seem deterred by this logic, and now it's clear why: she was auditioning for her future with Comcast. Read More... More on Jon Stewart         Theo Pauline Nestor: James Frey Took the Memoir Bullet May 17, 2011 at 3:11 PM   I don't think James Frey did the right thing. Ideally, he would have either published the book as fiction or as memoir with a hefty author's note. But it was 2001, and then 2003 and then 2006. It was the times, I'm telling you. It was the times. Read More... More on Oprah         Chris Norwood: Can a "Health" System Kill a Country? May 17, 2011 at 3:11 PM   The nation could achieve marked degrees of improved health and jolt employment in its collapsed communities by having local community groups train local residents as health educators. Read More... More on Health Insurance         Belinda Etezad Rachman: Arnold and Maria's next step May 17, 2011 at 3:11 PM   With the bombshell that Arnold had a baby 10 years ago... Read More... More on Arnold Schwarzenegger         Justin Snider: Of Bosses, Both Good and Bad May 17, 2011 at 3:11 PM   This is a key feature of many bad bosses: they don't know they're bad. In fact, they think they're good, and they think their underlings universally adore them. Read More... More on Business Travel         David Paleologos: Amidst Pundit Slams, Voters Coalesce Around Romney May 17, 2011 at 3:11 PM   With Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump out of the race, Mitt Romney moves one step closer to securing the front-runner position among likely and potential GOP presidential candidates. Read More... More on 2012 Speculatron             This email was sent to cbzvdani.delluve@blogger.com. Delivered by Feed My Inbox PO Box 682532 Franklin, TN 37068 Account Login Unsubscribe Here