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Allie Sevdalis, 17-Year-Old Vlogger, Talks About Her Experiences With Anxiety On HuffPost Live (VIDEO)

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

Allie Sevdalis always knew she was more anxious than others, but her issues eventually came to a head when she was sitting in her high school lunch room and her friend wanted to go sit with another group of people.

“I physically could not get up to go because I was scared of what they would think of me,” the 17-year-old said in a HuffPost Live segment yesterday. “There wasn’t any logical reason why I was anxious about the whole situation, but I just couldn’t.”

This was Allie’s turning point when she decided to do something about her anxiety. Watch more in the clip above.

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Foods For Brain Health: 5 Yummy Ideas

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

No doubt we’ve written a lot about brain power here at the Huffington Post. We’ve written about how reading, writing and playing a wide assortment of games can lead to healthier brains later in life. We’ve covered how exercise and participation in new and complex activities also can boost your brain.

But what about diet? Certainly the Mediterranean diet has been associated with brain health and longevity.

To simplify things even more, we’ve come up with five top foods to enjoy for ultimate brain health. Check out our slideshow below. Have we missed anything? Let us know in comments.

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Far From The Mountaintop: Black America Still Reaching For MLK’s Dream

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

This article is the first in a Huffington Post series examining the state of Black America.

WASHINGTON — Elijah Cummings, 62 years old, has lived and seen the best — and the worst — of what this country means, offers and does to a black man. He knows the promise and pain of Black America.

His parents were Southern sharecroppers who moved to Baltimore for a better life. The budding civil rights movement was active in the city, and schools and public facilities became integrated when he was a boy. They were excellent, and he went on to become student body president at Howard University, earned a law degree and now serves as a Democrat in the House, representing the city in which he grew up.

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8 Cool Ideas To Turn Up The Style Heat In Your Kitchen

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

If kitchen design has you stumped or you simply need some inspiration, we have eight very cool ideas to consider. Adding a few pops of color, creating a unique island setup, or extending your dining outdoors are just a few of the ways you can update your kitchen with functional style.

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NH Republican Calls Women 'Vaginas' in Email

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By Ruth Brown New Hampshire state Rep. Peter Hansen is in hot water for referring to women as “vaginas” in an email sent on the state legislature’s internal listserv early this month, the Huffington Post reports. Following a colleague’s speech on a “stand your ground” gun bill, Hansen offered the following critique via…

From: http://www.newser.com/story/166396/nh-republican-calls-women-vaginas-in-email.html

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Lanza Beaten by Sandy Hook Classmates: Source

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By Evann Gastaldo The New York Daily News calls it an “exclusive” and the Huffington Post calls it a “possible motive”: As a child, Adam Lanza was bullied and even beaten by his fellow students at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a relative of Nancy Lanza tells the Daily News . Nancy Lanza was so…

From: http://www.newser.com/story/166368/lanza-beaten-by-sandy-hook-classmates-source.html

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WWE® Tops 100 Million Facebook Fans at WrestleMania

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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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WWE® Tops 100 Million Facebook Fans at WrestleMania

STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– WWE® (NYS: WWE) today announced it eclipsed 100 million Facebook fans across its network of pages during WrestleMania 29, further cementing itself as one of the most followed brands in the world.

WWE‘s Facebook network currently has more fans than the NFL and its 32 teams combined and MLB and its 30 teams combined. The main WWE Facebook page also has more fans than the NHL, The New York Times, ESPN, Pepsi, Burger King, NASCAR and CNN. Seventeen WWE Superstars rank in the top 100 most-followed athletes on Facebook, with John Cena ® (more than 14 million fans) as the third most-followed athlete in the U.S. behind only Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

To drive additional fan engagement, WWE launched “Superfan Showdown,” a Facebook app exclusive to the platform that allows fans from around the world to compete in fast-paced interactive trivia challenges, rapid-fire polls, mind-bending puzzles and much more. As fans go head-to-head, they earn points, climb the global leaderboard and accumulate “WWE cash” that can be spent to purchase exclusive virtual goods, including: limited edition badges, rare Superstar trading cards, and never-before-seen WWE video content.

WWE now has more than 150 million followers across all social media platforms while ranking in the top 20 most social companies according to the Dachis Groups Social Business Index. WWE is also one of only seven brands in the world to obtain a Klout score of 99 from Klout.com, which measures a brands’ social media influence on a scale from 1 to 100. The other six brands include YouTube, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Time, Associated Press and the Los Angeles Dodgers.


About WWE

WWE, a publicly traded company (NYS: WWE) , is an integrated media organization and recognized leader in global entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family friendly entertainment on its television programming, pay-per-view, digital media and publishing platforms. WWE programming is broadcast in more than 150 countries and 30 languages and reaches more than 650 million homes worldwide. The company is headquartered in

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Rand Paul Faces Skeptical Howard University Audience

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

WASHINGTON — Maya Cade, a Howard University freshman with a sunny disposition, was walking down 4th Street on the eastern side of campus Tuesday afternoon, texting with a friend about an unusual speech scheduled for the next day.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will on Wednesday become the first elected Republican office holder to speak on Howard’s campus in years. Cade, a political science major, ran into a friend on the sidewalk while talking to a Huffington Post reporter about Paul, a Tea Party-affiliated conservative.

“He’s coming today isn’t he?” asked her friend, who gave her name as Brittany.

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Immigration Reform March In Miami: Thousands Rally For Clear Path To Citizenship (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

Saturday thousands marched through Miami‘s Little Havana neighborhood and Downtown, imploring Congress to pass immigration reform with a real and inclusive path to citizenship for 11 million aspiring Americans.

Protesters held signs with “Marco Rubio Say Yes” and “Marco Rubio, Keep Families Together” directed at the Cuban-American Senator whose immigration platform is seen in opposition with the wishes of the Latin base in his hometown of Miami.

See photos from the protest below.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post

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10 Actors Injured While Filming

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By Evann Gastaldo Being an actor brings with it fame, fortune, and sometimes serious injuries. Huffington Post rounds up 10 of the latter: Robert Downey Jr. accidentally broke Halle Berry ‘s arm while filming Gothika . In a scene where he had to restrain her, RDJ just “twisted my arm the wrong way,” Berry… …read more

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Jeremy Irons: Gay Marriage Could Lead to Legal Incest

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By Evann Gastaldo Jeremy Irons has some interesting ideas about gay marriage. If it’s legalized, then “could a father not marry his son?” the Academy Award-winning actor asked in a Huffington Post interview. Sure, incest would presumably still be illegal, but in Irons’ view, “it’s not incest between men. Incest is there to… …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Newser – Home

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Man accused of using fake penis for drug test

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A St. Louis-area man is facing criminal charges alleging that he used a prosthetic penis to try to pass a drug test.

Authorities say 34-year-old Sydney Levin was submitting a urine sample last week as part of his probation when an officer allegedly spotted him using a prosthetic, known as a Whizzinator. The device has been advertised as way to pass drug tests by using someone else’s urine.

KMOV-TV (http://bit.ly/11SXafU ) reported that Levin, of Lake St. Louis, was charged last week with possessing a forging instrument. He was arrested and released after posting $25,000 bond, and pleaded not guilty on Monday.

Levin was on probation for possession of a controlled substance and felony stealing in 2009. Authorities say Levin’s probation required that he submit a urine sample as part of drug test.

Levin did not have a listed phone number. Court records show that he does not yet have an attorney.

In 2010, Gerald Willis of Los Angeles was sentenced to six months in federal prison for running a company that sold the Whizzinator to cheat on drug tests. Willis’ company disbanded, but the Whizzinator is still sold on the Web as a sex toy through a company called Alternative Lifestyle Systems of Long Beach, Calif. A message seeking comment from the company on Thursday was not returned.

In a video on the Huffington Post website earlier this month, High Times associate publisher Richard Cusick used the Whizzinator as an example of tricks people use to beat drug tests.

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Information from: KMOV-TV, http://www.kmov.com

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Barbara Walters Will Retire Next Year: Reports

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By John Johnson Looks like Barbara Walters is ready to call it quits after 50-plus years in the TV business. Deadline first reported that the 83-year-old was poised to announce that she would retire in May 2014, and everyone from Page Six to USA Today to the Huffington Post has confirmed the scoop… …read more
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The Weakest Link: Left Targets Justice Roberts–Again

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By Breaking News

John Roberts SC The Weakest Link: Left Targets Justice Roberts Again

It worked last time. Last year, when oral arguments in the Obamacare case seemed to go against the administration, the left targeted Chief Justice John Roberts with a series of attacks from President Barack Obama on down. The attacks may have worked, as Roberts apparently changed his vote and upheld Obamacare by effectively rewriting the legislation itself to define the individual mandate as a tax.

The attacks on Roberts last year included President Obama’s general–and bizarre–assertion that the Supreme Court could not overturn congressional legislation, as well as a direct attack on Roberts by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who admonished the Chief Justice about “the proper role of the judicial branch.” The left media joined in enthusiastically, bullying the Chief Justice into deferring to Congress and the President.

This time, the charge is being led by the left media, including Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post, who penned a front-page article attacking Roberts for his past rulings on race and discrimination. Roberts’s Obamacare decision, or his support for overturning most of Arizona’s allegedly discriminatory immigration law (another 2012 debacle) apparently earned no points from Grim, who castigates Roberts for ignoring race.

“Roberts has in the past been dismissive of the need for voting rights protections or affirmative action, viewing the world as without the sort of racism that might require such remedies,” Grim writes scornfully. He seizes on Roberts’s skepticism that the Defense of Marriage Act was motivated by anti-homosexual animus, pointing to a passage in the Congressional Record about the moral disapproval of homosexuality.

Grim makes use of a familiar left-wing tactic: casting moral disapproval of homosexuality as moral disapproval of gay people. Many supporters of traditional marriage are careful to distinguish between the two. Moreover, Roberts asked: “So eighty-four Senators–it’s the same question I asked before–eighty-four Senators based their vote on moral disapproval of gay people?” He was not denying that some might have acted out of animus, but doubting that all had done so.

Read More at breitbart.com . By Joel B. Pollak.

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Faulkner’s medal, writing up for auction

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When Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner’s works went on sale in 2010, auction house Christie’s said the collection of 90 items “was nearly a complete representation of Faulkner’s work,” according to the Huffington Post. But last year, Lee Caplin, executor of Faulkner’s literary estate, and others discovered a “treasure trove of these literary papers” in the Faulker family barn in Virginia. Now, the papers, which include a story Faulkner wrote in college, along with Faulkner’s Nobel medal, are going up for auction with Sotheby’s….

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Date:
3-28-13

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University

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Angela Bassett Talks ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ And ‘Waiting To Exhale’ Sequel

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

Theatergoers across the country provided extra security in guarding the nation’s most coveted residence this past weekend, as “Olympus Has Fallen” debuted #2 at the box office with an estimated gross of $30.5 million.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the two hour action flick centers around the rescue efforts surrounding the kidnapping of U.S. President Benjamin Asher (played by Aaron Eckhart), who is held hostage inside the White House following an abrupt terrorist attack.

During a recent interview with the Huffington Post, Golden Globe Award-winning actress, Angela Bassett opened up on her role in the film in addition to an update on the sequel to “Waiting To Exhale.”

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post