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So how does a Pulitzer Prize-winning media mogul like Arianna Huffington stay on top of her game? Apparently it helps to be an advocate not just for truth in journalism, but also for a better night’s sleep. Below, Arianna continues last week’s trend of relating more than Ten Things About Me.

What was your favorite TV show as a kid?
Growing up in Greece, we had a little black-and-white TV Office Visio Key, so I spent most of my time playing outside — it’s the ultimate reality show.

What qualities do you like in a person?
Empathy, fearlessness and humor.

What qualities do you dislike?
Multitasking — i.e., having dinner with someone and engaging with someone else on one of your devices.

What’s the single most important issue in the world today?
Being hyperconnected to everything and everyone, but disconnected from ourselves.

What would you be doing if you were not in your current job?
Trying to start up some other version of it.

What is your greatest achievement to date?
My two daughters.

iPhone, Android or BlackBerry?
BlackBerrys (four, to be precise). And oh, dear God, can someone please save BlackBerry?

If you could meet any historical or fictional person, who would it be?
William Shakespeare. On his birthday last week, I tweeted my feelings about him: “Whoever you were Server 2008 Key, there’s never been anyone like you.” And hardly a day goes by when we don’t unknowingly quote him.

What site/app do you check first when you wake up?
That’s not fair … HuffPost, of course.

Do you have a dog or cat or other pet?
I once shared ownership of a dog with my daughter Isabella. The dog was Oliver Pistachio Huffington Buy Windows 7 Product Key, and it was shorter than its name.

What’s your favorite mode of transportation?
I love trains.

What was the last book you read?
“What Money Can’t Buy,” by Michael J. Sandel.

Name your favorite guilty pleasure.
A single-shot Venti cappuccino with 2 percent milk and a green straw, followed by a second single-shot Venti cappuccino with 2 percent milk and a green straw, followed by a third …

What do you drive/ride?
A Toyota Prius.

Who was your biggest influence growing up?
My mother. She gave me unconditional love and unconventional wisdom. And the belief that if her children didn’t eat every 20 minutes, something terrible would happen to them.

Describe an ideal day.
An ideal day is any day that follows a good eight-hour sleep.

NEW YORK — Yahoo swept out Scott Thompson as CEO Sunday in an effort to clean up a mess created by an exaggeration about his education that destroyed his credibility as he set out to turnaround the long-troubled Internet company.

Ross Levinsohn, who oversees Yahoo’s content and advertising services, is taking over as interim CEO. He becomes the fourth person to run Yahoo in eight months.

Yahoo hired Thompson, the former head of eBay’s PayPal, in January to orchestrate a reversal. Though, Yahoo is one of the Internet’s most-visited websites, the company has struggled to grow in face of competition from the likes of Google and Facebook. The company’s difficulties have irked investors. Thompson took the helm as Yahoo’s fourth chief executive in less than five years.

Thompson’s abrupt exit after just four months on the job came as part of the latest shake-up on Yahoo’s board of directors, which has been in a state of flux for several months.

Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and four other directors who had already announced plans to step down at the company’s annual meeting later this year are leaving the board immediately. Three of the spots will be filled by activist hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, a disgruntled shareholder who dropped a bombshell that led to Thompson’s departure, and two of his allies, former MTV Networks executive Michael Wolf and turnaround specialist Harry Wilson.

Alfred Amoroso, a veteran technology executive who joined Yahoo’s board just three months ago replica watches, replaces Bostock as chairman.

The appointment of the new directors ends a potentially disruptive battle with Loeb, who was waging a campaign to gain four seats on the company’s board. Loeb wound up settling with three board seats and the satisfaction of ushering out Thompson, who antagonized Loeb in late March by telling him he wasn’t qualified for the board.

In a statement issued through Yahoo, Loeb said he is “delighted” to join the Yahoo board and promised to “work collaboratively with our fellow directors.”

Yahoo Inc. gave no official explanation for Thompson’s departure, but it was clearly tied to inaccuracies that appeared on Thompson’s biography on the company’s website and in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The bio listed two degrees — in accounting and computer science — from Stonehill College, a small school near Boston. Loeb discovered Thompson never received a computer science degree from the college and exposed the fabrication in a May 3 letter to Yahoo’s board. The revelation raised questions about why the accomplishment had periodically appeared on his bio in the years while he was running PayPal, an online payment service owned by eBay Inc.

Yahoo initially stood behind Thompson replica watches, brushing off the inclusion of the bogus degree as an “inadvertent error,” but harsh criticism from employees, shareholders and corporate governance experts prompted the board to appoint a special committee to investigate how the fabrication occurred.

Thompson, 54, spent much of the past week scrambling to save his job. He sent out a memo to employees to apologize for the distractions caused by news of the illusory degree and then sought to assure other Yahoo executives that he wasn’t the source of the inaccuracy. He blamed a Chicago headhunting firm, Heidrick & Struggles.

In an internal memo last week, Heidrick & Struggles denied Thompson’s accusation. “This allegation is verifiably not true and we have notified Yahoo! to that effect,” CEO Kevin Kelly wrote to employees. On Sunday, a spokesman for the firm declined to comment.

Thompson’s rapid downfall leaves Yahoo in turmoil amid a reorganization that had only just begun. Last month, Thompson laid off 2,000 employees, or 14 percent of the workforce replica watches, in the biggest payroll purge in the company’s history, and had started to identify about 50 services that he wanted to close or sell.

Now it falls to Levinsohn, who Thompson had promoted to a more prominent role last week, to get Yahoo back on track. He joined Yahoo 18 months ago when the company was still being run by Carol Bartz, who was fired in September because she hadn’t developed an effective turnaround plan.

Carlos Kirjner, a senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein suggested that Thompson’s previous job, as president of eBay’s PayPal, hadn’t prepared him for Yahoo.

“It is very different to be CEO of a growth company, making choices between opportunities, and to be CEO of a company in turnaround mode, whose parts are declining or losing share,” Kirjner said.

Thompson’s inaccurate resume might have been more forgivable at a company that was posting big returns for its shareholders, said James Post, a management professor at Boston University. But it’s likely that Third Point was looking for an excuse to get rid of Thompson, Post said.

“They’ve had expensive and talented investigators turning over every rock and pebble to find something they could use for leverage,” said Post, who specializes in corporate governance and professional ethics.

The resume fiasco has had a relatively limited effect on the stock price. Shares fell 1.6 percent to $15.15 on May 4, the day after Third Point unleashed the news about Thompson’s resume. They closed at $15.19 on Friday. They’re up from their $14.44 close on Sept. 8 when Loeb sent his first missive to Yahoo’s board urging changes at the company.

But long-term, shares have fallen. They’re down about 12 percent compared to a year ago. They’re down 46 percent from Feb. 1, 2008, when they soared almost 50 percent after Microsoft offered to buy the company for $31 a share. Yahoo’s board rejected the deal, saying it wasn’t enough. Four of the five directors who are leaving were on the board at that time. Yahoo’s stock hasn’t traded above $20 since September 2008.

“Yahoo has been embattled for such a long time that there are a lot of people prepared to believe the worst about that company,” Post said. “When you’re angry at the management and the board, when nothing’s going right and you’re losing money, it’s understandable that shareholders would adopt an ‘off with their head’ attitude.”

Brian Wieser, a senior analyst at Pivotal Research, said he believes Thompson’s ouster will be a positive move, removing an overhanging distraction and adding board members with new perspectives. Wieser said employees he’d talked to believed Thompson was showing a lack of appreciation for some of Yahoo’s business units, and that morale had degenerated even more during his tenure. “It was bad,” Wieser said, “and went to worse.”

Wieser said that Third Point is “exactly the kind of investor every company should want,” since the hedge fund is apparently trying to heal Yahoo, not break it up. “There are no barbarians at the gate here,” Wieser said. “They’re actually trying to help.”

Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 1, Episode 20 of ABC’s “Once Upon a Time,” entitled “The Stranger.”

After last week’s bait-and-switch with Mr. Gold (and the numerous clues leading up to this episode), it was fairly obvious that August’s true identity was Pinocchio — but knowing the truth didn’t really lessen the poignancy of Geppetto’s story. The pain of losing a loved one — especially a child — is a recurring theme on “Once Upon a Time” (Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC), and you’d have to be as heartless as Regina not to have been moved by Geppetto’s fierce love for his formerly wooden son and the loneliness that his Storybrooke alter-ego, Marco, clearly felt after living without a child for so many years.

Still, it was surprising to see a character we’ve previously known to be humble and unassuming, as earlier versions of Geppetto have been portrayed, acting in such a selfish way. While it’s completely understandable that any good parent would go to great lengths to ensure their child’s safety, his decision to send Pinocchio to our world instead of allowing Snow White to go with her daughter was inexcusable. How different would Emma’s life have been Tattoo Guns For Cheap, if Snow had been able to go with her and keep her out of the foster system? How different would the inhabitants of Storybrooke’s lives be now, if their savior had grown up knowing exactly who she was and what she had to do to break the curse?

While Geppetto had no way of knowing what his selfishness would cost at the time, he inadvertently made so many lives so much worse, especially after Pinocchio shirked his responsibilities and left Emma alone and unprotected in the Raskinds’ foster home even though he promised that he would watch over her. If there’s one thing that recent episodes of “Once” have illustrated, it’s that loving parents should never be separated from their children; if Rumplestiltskin had gone with Baelfire, the curse would never have been created in the first place, and if Snow had gone with Emma and Pinocchio had stayed with Geppetto, the curse would probably already have been broken. It’s a lesson that Emma has to learn all over again now in her desperate attempt to regain custody of Henry from a proven “sociopath.” Hindsight is 20/20, I guess.

These morality plays are what make “Once” so compelling, proving that even heroes are flawed and make bad decisions — a good lesson for the show’s younger viewers. As Marco pointed out to August later in the episode, it’s enough that he realized his earlier mistake and tried to fix it, just as Emma is now attempting to fix her relationship with Henry. We can’t always see a bad decision until it’s too late to turn back, but “Once” seems determined to prove that every mistake can be rectified if you’re strong enough to admit that you made one. Regina Best Tattoo Kits, on the other hand, just keeps taking one wrong turn after another, so consumed by anger and hatred that she’s incapable of admitting when she’s made a mistake or accepting Snow/Mary Margaret’s heartfelt apologies when she should just move on with her life.

Because of this, she made a misguided attempt to seduce David — trying to break Mary Margaret’s heart another way after the old “framing you for a fake murder” trick didn’t work. Since Mary Margaret is already feeling fairly betrayed by David, I do wonder how she would’ve reacted if Regina had succeeded; could she be any angrier with him than she already is? Regardless, I’m glad that the writers didn’t take David there; the guy has already made numerous terrible decisions on the show, but I do believe that he’s actively trying to make amends with Mary Margaret, and I think it would’ve felt like character assassination to make him sink that low.

Even though we saw August’s Pinocchio revelation coming, I did appreciate the way the show fleshed out his backstory and piled on the guilt for his abandoning Emma as a baby. I’m intrigued to see how his “disease” progresses from here. It’s obvious that he’s somehow turning back into a puppet while the curse is still active (although I wish we had more context for why this is happening when the wardrobe was supposed to protect him from the effects of the curse). But if Emma can’t see him returning to wooden form Top Tattoo Machines, what happens when he “dies”? I’m assuming only the people who know about the curse would be able to see him in puppet form, while people like Emma would simply see him as a dead man, similar to how Regina killed Graham when he’d obviously been living without his heart, thanks to the curse’s magic.

With only two episodes left, things are certainly escalating — I just hope we’ll somehow get a satisfying payoff even if the curse isn’t broken at the end of this season. When I spoke to Raphael Sbarge (who plays Jiminy Cricket/Archie Hopper), he promised a finale that will “blow people’s minds.” I’m looking forward to seeing what that will mean for the second season.

Did you like August/Pinocchio’s backstory and his tentative reunion with his father? What are your predictions for the season finale? Weigh in below!

“Once Upon a Time” airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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Rabbi Hecht told Brenner that after the meeting, Hein thanked his father for helping him better understand the situation and did not share any further thoughts with him on the subject.

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DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria’s government said voters turned out in large numbers on Monday for a parliamentary election it sees as central to its reform program, but opposition supporters denounced the exercise as a sham and reported more fighting between rebels and troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

In Washington, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the unrelenting bloodshed “totally unacceptable and intolerable.”

Ban said it was a priority for the United Nations to deploy a mission to supervise a ceasefire as soon as possible and he called on all factions to stop the violence.

The chairman of Syria’s Higher Committee for Elections, Khalaf al-Azzawi, said on state television that voting was proceeding “normally and quietly” across the country, which has been gripped for 14 months by the uprising against Assad’s rule.

State news agency SANA reported a big turn-out. Witnesses in Damascus said voting appeared to be patchy.

In one polling station, authorities said 137 people voted in the first three hours while foreign journalists saw only three cast ballots there over 40 minutes.

“All of this is a theatre show. The candidates are businessmen and pawns of strong people in power,” one man, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters near a polling station in the capital.

A shopkeeper across the road from the booth, said at first that the weather was too hot to vote. When pressed, he added: “I just want to say: with all this blood, what do you think will fix it? Elections? No.”

Some of those who did vote said they saw it as a chance to end the crisis, in which 9,000 people have been killed by Assad’s forces, according to the United Nations. The government says 2,600 security personnel have been killed by opposition forces.

Reem al-Homsi, a recent university graduate, said she voted because she wants what is best for her country.

“I want a normal life and I want a job,” she said.

State television aired footage from polling centers across the country, showing people ticking boxes on ballot papers. But despite heavy media coverage in recent days Herve Leger v neck sale, there has been little discussion of candidate policies or political leanings.

A 24-year-old man working for one candidate said that after four years of unemployment, he was just doing a job.

“I am here representing this businessman so I can take 3,000 lira ($50) home at the end of the day and go,” he said. “I hope this parliament will be able to provide me a job. Although, honestly, I am not confident.”

One elderly woman first claimed that she voted, seemingly fearing retribution for not participating in the government-led initiative. She later added: “Nobody wants to vote. Nobody.”

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The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy clashes between rebels and soldiers in the northern provinces, rebellious Hama city, and around the capital on Monday,

In the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, three dissidents were killed in a dawn raid by government troops and three others were killed by snipers on rooftops, the pro-opposition Observatory said.

The violence underlined the challenge of holding a credible poll and further complicates the task of U.N. observers monitoring a shaky ceasefire declared on April 12.

Assad dismisses the pro-democracy uprising as the work of foreign-backed “terrorists” and, counting on the diplomatic support of longtime ally Russia, says he will carry out his own reforms. But the ferocity of the crackdown has appalled people across the globe and many foreign governments have urged him to step down.

Since succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad in 2000, Assad has relied on a pliant parliament to rubber-stamp the will of his inner circle in the majority Sunni Muslim country.

The assembly currently does not have a single opposition member and official media said half the seats would be reserved for “representatives of workers and peasants,” whose unions are controlled by the ruling Baath Party.

Opposition figures are boycotting the vote, saying Syria’s revised constitution Buy Karen Millen Dresses, which allowed new political parties to be set up, has changed nothing.

Activist Musaab al-Hamadee said people were striking in Hama – a city with a bloody history of opposition to the Assads – and that activists were burning tyres in the streets.

In Qalaat al-Madeeq, a village in Hama province, video which activists say was filmed on Monday showed the streets completely deserted and shops shuttered.

“Today is the Syrian parliamentary poll and we say to you Bashar al-Assad that there are no people in Qalaat al-Madeeq voting. You’ve displaced people and killed women and children. We are on strike,” a man filming in Hama said off-camera.

Louay Hussein, a centrist activist who heads the Movement for Building a State, said the elections were “window-dressing” and would not shift the balance of power in Syria.

“It does not matter who votes. It is a forged election -against the will of Syrians with no popular participation. The Syrian parliament has no authority over a single intelligence officer. It has no power in the country at all,” he said.

Authorities say 14 million people are eligible to vote in the election for the 250-seat parliament.

(Additional reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman and Erika Solomon in Beirut; Writing by Oliver Holmes; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

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When Porsche decided to exercise its option to purchase more VW stock, its stake was raised to over 30%. That triggered a German law that required the low-volume luxury automaker to launch a bid for all outstanding public shares of Europe’s largest automaker. Usually when one company wants to take over another Tattoo Supplies, they offer a stock buyout price that is equal to or greater than the actual market value, but Porsche only offered 101 Euros, even though the stock is trading at about 112 Euros.

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Republican voters usually like to hear their candidates beat up the opposition, so the broad attack helps Romney in his effort to look like the party front-runner. But according to Romney insiders, the former Massachusetts governor is not just aiming at Clinton, Obama, and Edwards. His other, perhaps more salient target, is fellow Republican Fred Thompson. Like the Democratic front-runners, Fred Thompson has also never run anything, though he has pretended to run all kinds of things in his many films. Romney is laying the groundwork against Thompson now and plans to make the charge explicitly when the actor gets into the race.

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Meanwhile, lolling on the sidelines seems to be working nicely for Thompson. He’s second in national polls, in key early states like Iowa and South Carolina and in big states like Florida. As the dream candidate of conservatives who are disappointed with the current Republican field, Thompson threatens Romney’s efforts to cultivate social conservatives Cheap DKNY Dresses, so that’s why the former Massachusetts governor has been the most aggressive of the Republican candidates in going after him.

The Romney campaign was also thinking about Thompson when it produced its latest television ad about the depravity of modern culture. The ad is primarily an assault on the extended metaphor, but its purpose is to appeal to social conservative voters who think the country is on the wrong track. (This is also why Romney has picked a fake fight with Barack Obama over sex education.) The ad’s secondary function is to show Republicans that only Romney can talk about values. Thompson can compete with Romney in opposing abortion and gay marriage, but as a former actor, he’s compromised on the subject of cleaning up sex and violence in movies and television. “Why didn’t he speak out loudly about Hollywood when he was of Hollywood?” Romney may ask in a future debate.

To draw contrasts between their guy and Thompson, Romney allies are working behind the scenes, and even Thompson’s wife is fair game. June Bond, a Republican from Spartanburg, introduced Ann Romney at a recent rally as her husband’s starter wife and trophy wife “all in one.” This called up a loaded phrase for Thompson’s much younger second wife from a New York Times piece.

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It wouldn’t be worth the effort, even if it were feasible. There are thousands of influenza subtypes infecting people around the world, but very few are likely to make someone in the United States sick. Vaccinating people against a disease they’re never going to get is a risky proposition: We don’t know how the body would respond to a barrage of flu vaccinations. The patient might also develop a strong immune response to an insignificant strain, while skimping on antibodies for a nastier virus.

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