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While walking the red carpet at the premiere of his new film 'Trumbo,' John Goodman looked markedly leaner than when he appeared at a press gala last year.
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Matt's got 8 wins under his belt, but what will he do when he runs out of fingers after his 10th win? Joel McHale and Reggie Watts have an idea on 'The Soup.'
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Jurgen Klinsmann realizes the Rose Bowl might feel like enemy turf when his U.S. men's soccer team takes the fabled field Saturday night. That's because the Americans are hosting Mexico in a one-game playoff between the last two Gold Cup champions. El Tri might be the most popular sports team in the Los Angeles area outside the Lakers, and the sold-out stands are guaranteed to be filled with a majority of green-clad fans roaring for the home team's painful defeat. The prospect doesn't bother the U.S. players or their coach, who knows that the evening is seen by many as a referendum on his four-year tenure. Klinsmann is more excited by the chance to maintain the Americans' recent superiority in their biggest rivalry - and maybe even turn a few heads in the crowd. ''We have a sold-out crowd, and we have a lot of guests coming in that live here but maybe wear the green jersey first,'' Klinsmann said Friday before training. ''Hopefully by the end of the game they pull that jersey off and have the red, white and blue underneath it on. This is our goal. We want to win over a lot of our Mexican friends. We won already a lot of them over the last four, five years, and we want to keep on doing that.'' Klinsmann's sunny optimism was reflected by his players, who have a chance to end a summer skid with a sweet victory over a Mexican team bouncing back from a rocky summer under steady interim manager Ricardo Ferretti. Klinsmann shrugged when asked about recent comments by U.S. career scoring leader Landon Donovan, who suggested Klinsmann should leave his job if Mexico wins. Klinsmann dropped Donovan from last season's World Cup team. ''It was no problem at all for me if people express their feelings and bring across their thoughts,'' Klinsmann said. ''In my time, I had 20 coaches, and there never was a perfect one.'' For all of Klinsmann's imperfections during the most statistically successful four-year run by an American coach, he is perfect when facing their biggest rivals. The U.S. is 3-0-3 against Mexico since the 2011 Gold Cup loss that led to the departure of former U.S. coach Bob Bradley. Several American players remember the wildly pro-Mexican crowd at the Rose Bowl for that defeat four years ago, but they don't see this matchup as redemption. ''We already exorcised those demons a long time ago,'' goalkeeper Tim Howard said. ''Since Jurgen has come in, things have been good. We're confident, but we know how good they are as well. I think we have the edge, but we've got to go in and prove it.'' The winner gets a trophy and CONCACAF's spot in 2017 Confederations Cup, an eight-team tournament matching confederation champions in Russia one year before the World Cup. Yet the future reward means less to both teams than the chance to earn bragging rights in North America. ''I don't think that any of the players going on the field feeling 90,000 people will even think one second about next summer or two summers further down the road,'' Klinsmann said. ''You just live for this moment. You want to play your game, and then at the end of the day, you want to hold up a trophy.'' The stakes will feel enormous in front of the frenzied crowd, but they're actually a bit debatable. That CONCACAF trophy is a shiny trifle - and while the Americans might go two summers without a major international tournament if they can't qualify for the Confederations Cup, the extra rest also might benefit them heading into the 2018 World Cup. The U.S. would have already booked Confederations Cup berth with a Gold Cup victory earlier this year, but the Americans crashed out in the semifinals against Jamaica. The Americans have won just one of their last four games, but Klinsmann chose a veteran-laden roster that senses more opportunity than pressure. ''It's nothing compared to the World Cup, or a World Cup qualifier,'' DaMarcus Beasley said. ''But whenever you play your rival, that makes it special.'' Earning supremacy in the rivalry is the only undeniable stake Saturday, and that's plenty. A victory also would be a welcome signpost for the U.S. team's progress in the four years since Mexico dominated the field and the stands at the Gold Cup. ''There's no doubt the game continues to grow in an amazing way in our country,'' U.S. captain Michael Bradley said. ''I think days like (Saturday) are special for everybody involved.'' NOTES: Klinsmann revealed the midfielder Alejandro Bedoya ''got sick'' and can't play due to a fever. Bobby Wood will replace Bedoya, who plays professionally in France with FC Nantes.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Brenden Motley and Isaiah Ford had apparently heard enough about how missed opportunities had put Virginia Tech in a hole. The pair teamed up for three second-quarter touchdown passes Friday night, pulling the Hokies out of a 10-0 hole and leading them to a 28-13 victory that was like a soothing salve on open wounds suffered this season, and a few festering one from recent seasons, too. "We really needed to beat a good football team," coach Frank Beamer said. "I hope we can take this and build on it." The Hokies (3-3, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) avoided a three-game losing streak and their third home loss in four games by putting together their best offensive quarter of the season against FCS-level competition. Their defense was impressive, too, after a slow start. The stars were Motley, the backup forced into action since the opening week, and Ford, who draws plenty of defensive attention. "It's like basketball when you can't miss," Ford said with a wide smile. "I couldn't not get open, and `Mot' was finding me." The pair hooked up on touchdowns of 27, 5 and 2 yards in the quarter. "The opportunities are always there," Motley said. "In the second quarter, we just started to convert on them" The scoring drives came on three successive possessions, the last ending with 18 second left in the half. Ford became the first Hokies receiver with three touchdown catches in a quarter in Beamer's 29 seasons. NC State (4-2, 0-2) lost its second straight league game after starting the season by beating four lesser opponents. The Wolfpack led 10-0 after just 16 minutes, but were outgained 156-2 in the second quarter. They managed just 125 yards of offense after the first 15 minutes. "I just think we got a little undisciplined in how we were playing," linebacker Airius Moore said. Motley, who has been filling in while injured starter Michael Brewer recovers from a broken left collarbone, got his fifth start when Brewer was cleared to practice, but not play in a game. Motley was 14 of 28 for 158 yards and ran for 44 yards on nine tries. Travon McMillian added his first career touchdown with a 59-yard run in the fourth quarter for the Hokies. Virginia Tech also ended Wolfpack quarterback Jacoby Brissett's streak of attempts without being intercepted at 241. Adonis Alexander did the honors, picking off a pass with 1:20 remaining. Brissett was 12 of 25 for just 113 yards. He was sacked four times. "I have to do a better job of getting the ball out of my hands faster, making more plays in the passing game," Brissett said. The Hokies, needing badly to reverse a trend that had seen them lose six of their last seven home games against teams from the Power Five conferences, and eight of their last 10, finally found some offensive consistency they had been lacking after falling behind. Motley hit McMillian for 19 yards and Cam Phillips for 14 yards on consecutive plays early in the second quarter. Three plays later, on third-and-6, Motley hit Ford from 27 yards, a touchdown making it just 10-7. The defense began the next series with a sack, forced a punt, and the offense drove methodically downfield again. Motley's 5-yard pass to Ford made it 14-10 Hokies with just fewer than 6 minutes left in the half, and a third-down sack by Woody Baron on third down on the Wolfpack's next series gave the Hokies another chance before halftime. Motley hit Phillips for 17 yards on third-and-6, threw incomplete toward Bucky Hodges on another third-and-6, but a tripping penalty gave Virginia Tech an automatic first down. On third-and-goal from the 2, he found Ford for the third time, making it 21-10. Brissett and Jumichael Ramos teamed on an 8-yard touchdown pass early in the second quarter for the Wolfpack. --- Follow Hank on Twitter: www.twitter.com/hankkurzjr ------ The AP's college football page: www.collegefootball.ap.org
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He's back everyone! The man who many thought shouldn't be allowed back onto the field on an NFL team. The dominant defensive lineman that was arrested on domestic violence charges. The man who is known for his big mouth as much as his play on the field. Greg Hardy will make his first start for the Dallas Cowboys this upcoming Sunday when they take on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. Why is this such a big deal for the Cowboys you ask? Well all "off the field" issues aside, the Cowboys are very thin on the defensive side of the ball and the addition of Greg Hardy is going to be huge if they have any hope of slowing down the high powered offense of the Pats. This non-existent pass rush of the Cowboys will be revamped this week. Hardy brings speed, power and an overall intimidation factor to the team which will only help those like Jeremy Mincey, Demarcus Lawrence and Tyrone Crawford. This is exactly what the Cowboys need before they go into the bye week. Dallas has struggled significantly on defense the last two weeks. It has been reminiscent of previous seasons where the other teams have some fun playing "backyard football" with the quarterbacks and the receivers going off for ridiculous numbers. The secondary still has playmakers in Claiborne and Carr, but that doesn't matter if the quarterback has all day to sit back and pick them apart. This absolutely cannot happen with Tom Brady. The man is incredible. He is well known for his ability to step back, find the receiver and get the ball out within less than 3 seconds. He can spread the ball around too. This will make it extra difficult for the Cowboys and this is exactly why the Cowboys need Greg Hardy's help on the line. If Brady has to move out of the pocket, he will have to go through his third and fourth reads before trying to make a pass. Although he still may make some plays, it is our only hope of stopping them. Besides his ability to play on the field, Hardy brings an excitement that is lacking by the others on the team. Sure the Cowboys have some leaders on the defense. Sean Lee is a stud. The linebacker who is coming back from a concussion in this past week's game is one of those leaders that simply leads by example. He's a "quiet killer" which is the exact opposite of Greg Hardy. Hardy has a mouth on him and is exciting to be around. They need someone to get them hyped and ready to play once again. Don't be surprised if a few scuffles happen along the way on Sunday. He's been known to try and get under the skin of the opponents and it could prove to be beneficial for the Cowboys. The team should be extremely excited to get him back. Worst case scenario on Sunday is that we go into the bye week in second place in the division. That's totally fine because it means that we are getting healthy again and we are one week closer to the return of Dez Bryant and Tony Romo. If the Cowboys wish to make the playoffs they will need to have some playmakers do their thing on the field. Hardy could be that one guy and when this defense is totally healthy just imagine this lineup: Greg Hardy, Randy Gregory, Tyrone Crawford, Demarcus Lawrence, Jeremy Mincey, just to name a few. This group of guys could change what once was a weak defensive line into a force to be reckoned with for the remaining three quarters of the season.
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NFL teams released their final Week 5 injury reports Friday, and the most surprising decision came in Seattle with the news that star running back Marshawn Lynch has been ruled out for the second straight week with a hamstring injury. With Lynch's backup, Fred Jackson, also injured (he was listed as questionable), the Seahawks will again turn to rookie Thomas Rawls to shoulder the load. Elsewhere, Baltimore's Steve Smith (back), Buffalo's LeSean McCoy (hamstring) and Detroit's Eric Ebron (knee) were all ruled out while Alshon Jeffrey (hamstring) is questionable for Chicago. MORE: Best photos from Week 5 | NFL Week 5 picks Here are the five most impactful injuries heading into Week 5: Sammy Watkins The second-year Bills wide receiver appears to have bounced back from a calf injury that kept him out of last week's loss to the Giants and could make his return Sunday against the Titans. He was listed as questionable. After the calf injury kept him sidelined again Wednesday at practice, Watkins returned to the field Thursday to take part in individual drills. He made it clear earlier this week that he would test the injury before his playing status was ultimately decided, though his participation in drills was a positive sign he could be good to go. Coach Rex Ryan said Thursday that Watkins is close to returning, but his availability for Sunday in Tennessee is "a reach." If he does prove to be ready, the Bills will gladly welcome back a key component to the team's offense that will be ready to attack a susceptible Titans defense, especially with running backs Karlos Williams (concussion) and LeSean McCoy (hamstring) ruled out . DeSean Jackson The Redskins receiver returned to the practice field this week and said his comeback against the Falcons on Sunday is "possible" if he continues to improve. Jackson has been sidelined since Week 1 after suffering a hamstring injury while attempting to catch a deep pass against the Dolphins. He attributed the injury to missing preseason with a sprained AC joint in his shoulder. It was initially reported in Week 1 that Jackson would miss about three to four weeks, so he's past due to make his return. Washington could certainly use a boost from its No. 1 wideout as the team visits Atlanta with the hope of handing the undefeated Falcons their first loss of the season. The Redskins could also receive a key reinforcement from cornerback DeAngelo Hall, who sustained a Grade 2 tear in a toe on his right foot Week 3 against the Giants. Alshon Jeffery After a limited performance in practice this week, the Bears wideout will look to add some dimension to Chicago's struggling passing game Sunday in Kansas City. Jeffery hasn't played since his underwhelming five-catch effort in the season opener at Green Bay, where he injured his hamstring. He also suffered a calf injury Aug. 12 that kept him out for the entire preseason. If Jeffery is ready to make his highly anticipated return this week, he'll complement quarterback Jay Cutler nicely against a Chiefs secondary that has surrendered an NFL-worst 10 touchdown receptions to opposing wideouts this season. Eddie Royal, who figures to see the most targets if Jeffery can't play, also is questionable to play Sunday. Jeremy Hill With the Seahawks rolling into Cincinnati, the Bengals will need their top running back at his best to maintain their undefeated record. Hill was limited in practice this week because of a knee injury but there has been no indication he is in danger of being ruled out this week. Although he had only had nine carries last Sunday against the Chiefs, he scored three touchdowns and successfully completed a two-point conversion. If Hill isn't 100 percent, the Bengals will rely on Giovani Bernard to carry the bulk of the workload in the backfield. Seattle hasn't allowed a running back to score this season, but Cincinnati could be up for the challenge if all backs are on deck to balance the Bengals' potent passing game. Julius Thomas The Jaguars tight end participated in limited practice sessions this week but isn't optimistic he will be ready to play Sunday against the Buccaneers. Thomas caught passes for the first time since injuring his hand Aug. 14 and undergoing surgery Sept. 1 , though he has not yet been fully cleared to play. The former Bronco, who signed a five-year, $46 million deal to make him the NFL's highest-paid tight end, originally suffered the injury in Jacksonville's first preseason game and hasn't gone through a full workout at practice since. He did, however, participate in two weeks of side-field work and one week of practice in which he ran routes in team drills. Despite making strides toward his return, Thomas will likely sit out this Sunday and make his debut at home against Houston next week, which could prove effective against a disappointing Texans defense. Omnisport's Jordan Heck contributed to this report.
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Most of the time, 1965 G.T. 350 clones are copies of the street G.T. 350 with an R-model bumper added, but those clones aren't even close to a real R-model modifying a 1965 fastback into a G.T. 350 "Competition" (Shelby American's original catalogued name for an R-model) is no quick fix. What is the legacy? The 1965 G.T. 350 R-model was turnkey ready on the showroom floor to go out and win in SCCA B-production road racing, but that didn't stop racers from modifying them to their liking for even more dominance on the track, meaning that there are very few R-models that have been left in 100 percent as-delivered-to-the-showroom condition. Brandon Badel's intent with his R-model clone was to go for the "Day One" build, meaning as Shelby American delivered the cars brand new to Ford dealerships, and started gathering parts for the build 29 years ago. It started with a real R-model that he saw at a show. Brandon was all over the car, taking 60 pictures of it to get his clone as close to Day One reality as possible. As he gathered parts and the years rolled by, Brandon eyeballed and photographed as many original R-models as he could find. The problem was, most R-models have been raced and modified through the years, so their original "Day One" formula today is very clouded. Of course, racing history trumps a non-racing history with these R-models racing history makes an R-model more valuable so there is no incentive for owners of racing R-models to return their rides to Day One delivery status. This is why Badel was "kind of disappointed" as he studied R-models. He was having a hard time finding a "time capsule kind of car." "The Harris Connor G.T. 350R was considered to be the least-raced, most original car," Badel said. He tracked down this original (now owned by Irwin Kroiz) at Bob Perkins' shop in Wisconsin. Perkins labeled this Shelby, "The best R-model on the planet, period, with original paint before restoration, a great car, the only one with all virgin sheet metal." Apparently, floorpans are a big deal on an R-model because these cars have no carpet. One of the first parts Badel bought was a set of those weight-reducing Plexiglas side windows with aluminum frames, saying that he got the last set made. "You can buy reproductions of those today, but they are not made like they were originally." Apparently, Badel got the side windows from the same manufacturer that made them for Shelby American. The list of changes Shelby American made for their R-model is long and costly, such as the magnesium bolt-on wheels, the flame-resistant interior, and the plastic rear window with that little opening for air, one of the most intriguing features to Badel. Content that he had the parts necessary for his Day One G.T. 350R clone, Badel finally started the build a couple of years ago. He supplied the fastback and the money and his longtime friend Jim Woods "ran around learning all the details to get the car right." Mike Pullian at Mike's Restoration in the little town of Royston, Georgia, did the physical work. Almost three decades later, Badel showed the car for the first time at the MCA show in Savannah in October of 2014, and we got to see the car at the All-Ford Nationals in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in June of 2015 where it really stood out. Our first thought was, "Is this car a real R-model? Why the number 61 on the side?" Badel answered, "That was the number on my football jersey," and the B stands for B-Production. Then when we heard about the Day One objective, we wanted to know how close to it Badel got. "We had to make a few decisions along the way," he said, "decisions between building a track car and a totally correct replica." For you see, Badel likes to drive and not just show his Mustang, so if a component was easily changed, they opted on the side of performance. For example, the dual point distributor might look stock, but a hidden MSD box pumps up the spark. And on the suspension, yes they went with over-ride traction bars and over-sized drum brakes per stock, as well as Koni shocks and the limiting loop to keep the axle from dropping too far, but they used aftermarket control arms up front. In regards to the engine Badel said, "We modernized the internals of the engine [still a 289 Hi-Po like Shelby used] to make it more bulletproof." The car looks like a brand-new Day One Shelby R-model, but racers just can't resist improving a little here and a little there. Regardless, we have not seen a 1965 Mustang G.T. 350 Competition clone that looked so close to Shelby American's Day One build of this iconic turnkey race car. 1965 Mustang/Shelby G.T. 350 R-Model Replica Exterior Covered air vents R-Model front valance Fiberglass hood with cold-air intake plenum and custom reliefs at Monte Carlo bar bolts Painted rocker panel stripes (as done by Shelby) Reshaped and rolled front wheel openings Rolled rear wheelwells American Racing Torq Thrust wheels (R-Model) Goodyear Racing tires (R-Model) Interior Spare tire hold-down relocation Plexiglas rear window (R-Model) Sliding Plexiglas side windows Shelby-style rollbar R-Model instrument cluster R-Model steering wheel Custom removable side intrusion bars Shelby race seat (driver side) Heater delete Radio delete Cigarette lighter delete Hidden MSD ignition box Custom Hurst shifter with original-style 1965 shift handle Trunk Custom fuel tank with hidden cell R-Model electric fuel pump Trunk-mounted battery Trunklid retaining pin and lanyard Engine Compartment Oversize Galaxie radiator (as on original R-Models) R-Model oil cooler Export brace with cowl reinforcement (G.T. 350 style) Monte Carlo bar 331ci race engine, 12.5:1 CR with the following external details: Aviad aluminum oil pan (R-Model style) R-Model valve covers Shelby Hi-Rise intake manifold Holley double pumper carb disguised as Shelby Le Mans carb Tri-Y headers and side exit exhaust Replica dual-point distributor Correctly detailed alternator with oversize pulley (K-code/Shelby) Undercarriage Override traction bars and covers Trimmed/modified rear axle bumper mounts Oversize 10x2.5 Fairlane station wagon rear drum brakes (R-Model) Aluminum Top Loader transmission Subframe connectors Driveshaft Loop Stiffened and lowered rear springs Axle travel-limiting cables Front brake cooling ducts Aluminum driveshaft, detailed to appear to be steel Shock absorbers detailed as 1965 Koni shocks (G.T. 350) Street or track front suspension including: Adjustable strut rods Adjustable upper and lower control arms Roller bearing spring perches Aluminum brake calipers Drilled brake rotors 1970 drum brake spindles Stiffened and lowered coil springs Oversize sway bar Follow MSN Autos on Facebook
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It's official: Taylor Swift is the new Queen of Instagram. The "Wildest Dreams" singer collected 50 million followers on Thursday, making her profile the most popular account on the photo-sharing platform. "50 million followers!!" the 25-year-old wrote about the milestone. "Thanks so much guys. I'm pretty sure this is just because I have cute cats though." Swift beat out social media titans Kim Kardashian, who currently has 48.4 million followers, and Beyoncé, who has 47.5 million followers, for the top honor. To put things into perspective, Swift now has more Instagram followers than the combined population of Canada and Greece.
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Michael Froman, the negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, defends the agreement against criticism that it will hurt the American economy.
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When you open a savings account, be sure to pay attention to how often interest is accrued. Specifically, a savings account that pays interest more frequently will end up paying you more than one that pays less frequently, even with the same interest rate. Here's what you need to know about how banks pay interest on savings accounts. What are the options? Technically, a bank could choose to calculate and pay interest at any interval it wanted to. However, in practice, there are only a few methods of compounding interest that are actually used: Annual compounding -- Interest is calculated and paid once a year. Quarterly compounding -- Interest is calculated and paid once every three months. Monthly compounding -- Interest is calculated and paid each month. Daily compounding -- Interest is calculated and paid every day. Why does it matter? To illustrate why this matters, consider a simple example of a savings account with a 4% interest rate (wouldn't that be nice?). Now, compounded annually, a deposit of $10,000 would produce $400 in interest during the first year. However, if the bank chose to compound quarterly, instead of paying 4% at the end of the year, interest would instead be paid at 1%, four times each year. So, after three months, an interest payment of $100 would be given. Now, after another three months, interest would be calculated at 1% of the new balance of $10,100, or $101. The cycle repeats in three more months, and so on. After a year, here's what the account looks like. Quarter Starting balance Interest Ending balance 1 $10,000 $100 $10,100 2 $10,100 $101 $10,201 3 $10,201 $102.10 $10,303.10 4 $10,303.10 $103.03 $10,406.13 Sure, it's only $6.13 more than our annual compounding example, but it's still more money. In other words, a faster rate of compounding effectively makes an interest rate higher -- in our case 4.06% vs. 4%. How can you calculate your savings account's interest? The general formula for determining the effects of compound interest is: In the formula, "t" refers to the amount of time in years, "r" refers to the interest rate expressed as a decimal (so 4% would be 0.04), "n" is the number of times interest is compounded each year, and "P" is the principle, or the amount of money you start with. For example, if I put $10,000 in a savings account for five years at 4% interest compounded monthly, my account balance would be: What do banks actually do? It depends on the bank. Most banks pay interest monthly, but the compounding interval can vary. Just to name a few examples, Bank of America and Wells Fargo compound interest daily. Chase , on the other hand, compounds and pays monthly. The best way to find out how often your savings interest is calculated is to check with your bank. This article is part of The Motley Fool's Knowledge Center, which was created based on the collected wisdom of a fantastic community of investors based in the Foolsaurus . Pop on over there to learn more about our Wiki and how you can be involved in helping the world invest, better! If you see any issues with this page, please email us at [email protected] . Thanks -- and Fool on!
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The Callaway Corvette C7 GT3-R simply oozes menace. The result is something that looks like it was drawn from of the ink of a Batman comic. The Callaway Corvette C7 GT3-R simply oozes menace. Departing from the cleaner lines of the General's C7.R, Callaway's GT3-R is drenched in sharp carbon-fiber flares and creases, with massive exhaust vents flanking every rear-facing surface possible. The result is something that looks like it was drawn from of the ink of a Batman comic, and there's plenty of buttons and gadgets inside to keep even Mr. Wayne busy. We think this would be the ideal Batmobile, but we might be a little biased. Callaway is touting that their FIA-legal C7 GT3-R 6.2L V8 will throw more than 600 hp at the X-Trac six-speed sequential gearbox, which makes us all giggly inside just thinking about; this is the engine philosophy we should have seen in the Z06: tons of naturally aspired horsepower. "We wanted to set another milestone in our company's history with our new design, developing and constructing a future-proof vehicle that will be produced from 2016 and used for many years to come," said Ernst Wöhr and Giovanni Ciccone, managing partners of Callaway Competition. In fact, Callaway claims that the C7 GT3-R has exceeded performance expectations set by the development team. The C7 GT3-R replaces Callaway's outgoing Z06.R, and will be campaigned first by an in-house team, sponsored by Whelen Engineering the guys who make every hot rodder's worst enemy: police light bars and sirens. Follow MSN Autos on Facebook "As a small, privately owned team lacking the finances and human resources of the big automotive groups, we knew from the outset that approaching a project of this magnitude would be very daring," Wöhr and Ciccone continued. "Therefore, first and foremost, we have to thank our employees and partners who have made it possible to finally set the C7 GT3R on its wheels. Everyone has given more than 100 percent, and we truly can't thank them enough. We can be proud of our performance to date and are confident we will be rewarded with good results in the many races ahead." We'll see the Callaway Competition C7 GT3-R hit the track in 2016 in a wealth of different GT-class racing series. For now, check out the gallery of this bare-carbon C7 GT3-R. We swear, it's safe for work.
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Taylor Swift Taylor Swift still hasn't forgiven Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for poking fun at her love life. The 25-year-old singer, who previously dated Harry Styles, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal and is currently in a relationship with Calvin Harris, thinks the comediennes were being "rude" when they joked about her being a serial dater while presenting the 2013 Golden Globes, but admits they inspired her to write her hit 'Blank Space'. She said: "You know, you're sitting at an awards show, and you know there's gonna be a joke about you being a serial dater in the monologue, and you're just sitting there like, I'm 22, and this is rude. But instead of writing a song like, 'It's so rude, stop picking on me,' I kind of sat back and thought about how complex this character was that they'd drawn up for me. And I just thought, 'This is amazing.' I need to write a song from this girl's perspective. If you want to play this way, we can play this way, and I just decided to be her for one song." The 'Wildest Dreams' singer was bitterly disappointed when her last album 'Red' lost out on the Album of the Year prize to Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' at last year's Grammy Awards and consoled herself with junk food. She told Grammy Pro: "I remember not going to after-parties. I went home and I cried a little bit, and I got In-N-Out Burger and ate a lot."
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In honor of 'The Walking Dead' returning to TV we're making a burning zombie cocktail that will leave your staggering around like the undead! Pour 1.5 oz white rum and dark rum into a glass. Top with equal parts of pineapple and cranberry juice. Add ice, stir, then strain into another glass. We here at the Savory are professionals so for added effect we floated 151 proof rum on top then lit it on fire. Please don't do this if you don't know what you're doing and NEVER drink a lit cocktail.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Two nights after the Chicago Blackhawks lost at home in their championship banner-raising season opener, Jonathan Toews helped them spoil the New York Islanders' Brooklyn debut. Toews scored on a power play at 1:49 of overtime to give the Blackhawks to a 3-2 victory over the Islanders on Friday night, giving the defending Stanley Cup champions their first win of the season. With the Blackhawks awarded an extra skater after a slashing penalty on the Islanders' Nick Leddy during the 3-on-3 overtime, Patrick Kane sent the puck toward the middle of the net from the right side and Toews tapped it in while fighting off a defender. "That was a heck of a play by Johnny," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. "That line was dangerous again, they got something going." Kane and Artem Anisimov also scored for the Blackhawks and Corey Crawford stopped 34 shots. Crawford improved to 4-0-1 in his career against the Islanders and helped Chicago bounce back from the opening loss to the New York Rangers on Wednesday night. John Tavares and Marek Zidlicky scored for the Islanders. Thomas Greiss, starting in place of the injured Jaroslav Halak, finished with 32 saves. "It would have been nice obviously to get a win but I think we played well," New York winger Matt Martin said. "Took a little bit to find our legs and get into it, but it's our first game as a full group, I mean we played a pretty hockey team there tonight who already had a game under their belts." With the Islanders trailing 2-1 after two periods, Zidlicky tied it at 1:18 of the third as he snapped a wrist shot from the left side inside the blue line past Crawford, who was being screened by Mikhail Grabovski. It drew a roaring ovation from the sellout crowd, followed by their usual chants of "Yes! Yes! Yes!" "Good crowd, still a loud building, so it was fun," Islanders center Frans Nielsen said of the team's first game at the Barclays Center, their new home after spending their first 43 years at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. Grabovski had a chance on a 2-on-1 break later in the period, but had his wrist shot stopped by Crawford a little more than 8 minutes in. Teuvo Teravainen had shot go off the goalpost with about 6 minutes to go for Chicago, and Tavares had a slap shot that deflected wide of the net with about 15 seconds left in regulation. The Blackhawks went ahead late in the second. Toews fought off a defender behind the net and backhanded the puck to Kane, who snapped it home from the right side for his first goal of the season with 4:49 remaining. Tavares had tied it at 5:22 of the second with the Islanders' first goal in Brooklyn. Johnny Boychuk was in the right corner and passed it back to Tavares at the side of the net, and the Islanders' captain skated toward the middle, had his initial shot deflect back to him and he then put the rebound past Crawford. After the Blackhawks were whistled for having too many men, Anisimov gave them the lead with 6:32 left in the first. After a turnover by Brock Nelson, Anisimov skated down the center of the ice, moved to the right and backhanded the puck past Greiss for a short-handed score. "That was a big goal for us," Quenneville said. "First time we had the (penalty) kill all year and we score short-handed. You score short-handed on the road you usually have a good night. It turned out to be a big factor in the game." The Islanders received a rousing ovation when they skated onto the ice, gathered in a circle around the team logo on center ice and raised their sticks. After that there was a video tribute to honor Al Arbour, their former coach who died in August at the age of 82. Arbour was 740-537-223 in 19 seasons with the Isles and led them to four consecutive Stanley Cup titles from 1980-83. The Islanders are honoring Arbour by wearing a patch that says `AL' on the left shoulder of their jerseys. The teams conclude their home-and-home series Saturday night in Chicago. NOTES: ... Tavares has now scored a goal against every NHL team except for Los Angeles. ... In addition to Halak, out with an undisclosed upper body injury, F Steve Bernier and rookie D Ryan Pulock were scratches for the Islanders. ... D David Runblad and RW Kyle Baun sat out for the Blackhawks. .... Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Long Island native and music legend Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley, performed the national anthem before the game. ... Islanders greats Bryan Trottier, Mike Bossy, Bob Nystrom and Billy Smith took part in the ceremonial puck drop.
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How Building a 1969 Camaro Inspired This 1970 Mid-Engine Mach I Mustang Bobby Johnson built this mid-engine 1970 Mach I Mustang after the reaction he got from his previous build, a 1969 Camaro. He thought the complexity and quality of his red Camaro would draw accolades and attaboys. But before all of you Ford lovers pipe up with sarcastic comments, be aware that his Camaro was radical with late-model Corvette Z06 driveline and suspension. It was essentially a Z06 Corvette hiding under a 1969 Camaro. Says Johnson, "It was way more difficult than this Mustang." He included all of the features of the then-new Corvette like mega-adjustable heated and cooled seats, all of the original electronics, and a lot more. "It took me four months just to wire the thing," he says. "Rust makes me tired just looking at it." Bobby Johnson But the sad part for Johnson, and the reason he took the approach he did with this Mustang, was that for as absolutely stellar as the Camaro was, it looked like just another red 1969 Camaro. "A guy would have to look real hard to even begin to see how involved it was, most everyone just passed it by," Johnson says. If he's building an incomparable shrine to the Chevy brethren, said brothers should at least take notice right? He needed an adrenaline shot to the heartbeat of America. He wants his passion for building unique, exciting cars to stand out. Follow MSN Autos on Facebook Johnson likes to build those "different" cars in his 8,000 square-foot shop at his house in Georgia that is, when he's not working all day running his paint and body shop. "I work 14-hour days, starting in the body shop and then coming home to work on a project," he says. "My wife and daughter are into horses, while building a car every 15 to 18 months is what I like to do, so the whole family has their own extracurricular activities." A busy family is a blissful family. A recap of Chrysler's 90-year history of luxury car innovation Bobby's Mach I started coming together in his head about the time his Camaro was evaporating into the crowd, around 2006. "I bought the drivetrain out of a wrecked 2006 Ford GT and was looking for a car to put it into." Going mid-engine with the 5.4L supercharged V8 and six-speed manual sure was different, but obviously required a radical reworking of the 1970 Mustang. "This was a real nice, original car in fact, I used to change the oil for the owner when I was 16," Johnson says. An older gentleman had owned it for decades, but when he became ill he offered to sell it to Johnson, and that's when combining the GT driveline and Mustang coalesced. To some, cutting up a nice 1970 Mach I is like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre with sheetmetal but Johnson is pragmatic about it. "When you start with a nice car, you end up with a nicer car." And he does virtually all of the work himself, so it saves him time from having to put aftermarket panels onto it. And Johnson's most compelling reason? "Rust makes me tired just looking at it." Johnson built a jig for the car onto a surface plate in his shop to hold the drivetrain and C6 Corvette front suspension, and then built a new square-tube frame around those components. He wanted to retain as much of the original look of a 1970 Mach I as possible, but with a functional 1969 quarter-panel vent and a lift-up hatch to reveal its hidden, mid-engine magnificence nesting inside. The only concession he made was adding 2 inches to the wheelbase at the rear to give him a little more legroom up front for what would now be a two-seater. "I drive my cars, and I wanted to be comfortable in long-distance situations," he says. That part, he nailed. With more than 6,000 miles on the ticker, he says it drives fantastically, is comfortable for his 6-foot, 4-inch frame, and he is easily able to drive Power Tour type 400- to 500-mile daily hauls. In fact, we first noticed the car at our 2015 'Tour. Once he built the frame, he added a rollcage and then placed the Mustang's shell over the fabricated chassis. And we do mean shell. To mate the body to the newly fabbed frame, he first cut out the entire floor and cowl. From there, he welded the body to the structure and then filled in the floor and cowl panels, as well as creating a bulkhead behind the front seats to isolate the engine. He kept the bottom of the body relatively flat, in keeping with the race-car-type construction of the chassis. You Won't Believe This Engine Is 60 Years Old! Though Johnson was able to use carbon-fiber pieces throughout the car, the majority of what looks to be carbon fiber are actually aluminum sheets dipped into the hydrographic vat to replicate carbon fiber. He created a driveshaft tunnel that mimics what a front-engine car has, but instead of a spinning driveshaft, he packaged the hoses leading from the standard location Avco aluminum radiator to the engine out back. He also snaked some electrical lines through it as well. He built out the suspension from the Ford GT's transaxle using C6 Corvette hubs with axles fabbed to slightly narrow the track width from a stock GT, so as to fit within the Mustang's narrower footprint. Up front Johnson incorporated a Stiletto aftermarket rack-and-pinion that steers C6 Corvette spindles on C6 A-arms, also with a narrower track width than a production C6. Phat Racing coilovers were used front and rear, as were Wilwood 14½-inch discs and six-piston calipers. The Evod one-off wheels are 18x10s up front and 18x12s in the rear, from a design by Eric Brockmeyer resembling Cobra and McLaren wheels from the 1960s. Bridgestone tires are 235/35R20 in front and 345/40R20 out back. Johnson says for better brake feel he uses electric hydroboost on all of his builds because it works so well, and the one used for his Mach I was scavenged from a 2003 Mustang Cobra. Once the new front and rear bulkheads were made, Johnson adapted a 2000 Mustang dash inside and used Spearco seats that copy the original 1970 Mustang pattern, stitched by Sammey Freeman. The rest of the interior is stock, including the door panels, headliner, and miscellaneous pieces. Seven Cars That Should Have Never Made a Comeback One of the easier modifications was creating the hatch. Johnson welded in the rain channels and machined the hinges. Gas shocks aid opening and closing. Because of the way the rear of the top is constructed, it lent itself to this seemingly difficult modification. Says Johnson, "It's fun listening to 'experts' tell their friends how rare the hatchback option was." For the record, there was no hatchback Mustang from its inception in 1964 up to 1974, when the Mustang II debuted the feature. Once the Mustang was back together, Johnson performed the minor bodywork that was necessary to hide some of the changes he made and then painted the entire car in PPG 2008 Shelby Mustang yellow. Johnson says he uses PPG products exclusively at his shop and on his own personal projects. Ride in Biff's Back to the Future Ford Coupe, yes the poop car The larger wheels and lower stance help to hide the 2-inch wheelbase extension, and without the hatch up, it's hard to know what has just pulled up next to you at a stoplight but you know better than to try a speed contest just from the sound it makes idling. "It's fun listening to 'experts' tell their friends how rare the hatchback option was." Bobby Johnson This isn't the first 1969 1970 Mustang with a mid-engine conversion HOT ROD has featured. Both Johnson's 1970 and Terry Lipscomb's 1969 were started and completed at the same time and were mutually exclusive, so neither builder knew of the other's similar state of mid-engine mindset. And both are completely different in terms of their overall approach to the mid-engine madness. At the 50th anniversary of the Mustang in Charlotte, Johnson's Mach I was chosen as one of the top 10 Mustangs of the event, and it has also won its fair share of trophies at other events Johnson has attended. 100 Ugliest Cars of All Time Concludes Johnson, "Every time anyone builds a car, he wants to do something different or better than the previous build it's just human nature." This car is a byproduct of that mindset. How Rare Is a 1970 Mach I? Total 1970 Mustang production was 190,727 units, of which a tad more than 20 percent were 63C Mach Is. All were Sportsroof or fastback body styles none of the 40,970 units made came in coupe or convertible versions. Engine options spanned from the 351 Windsor two-barrel engines, up to the "drag pack" 428ci Super Cobra Jet engine.
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INCHEON, South Korea Branden Grace delivered two big shots in gathering darkness Saturday that kept the International team within one point of the Americans going into a final day at the Presidents Cup that finally has some drama. The Americans had a 9-8 lead with 12 singles matches remaining, the smallest margin going into Sunday in 10 years at this event. That's what the International team wanted -- and needed -- in the Presidents Cup. The Americans have won the gold trophy five straight times, and the lone International victory was in 1998 in Australia. "We need to win," Louis Oosthuizen said. "This is huge for us." The South Africa duo of Grace and Oosthuizen have been the driving force for captain Nick Price. They became the first International tandem to go 4-0 in team matches. Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker in 2009 are the only U.S. team to do that. Jordan Spieth also won two matches Saturday, making two clutch putts in morning foursomes, and holing a bunker shot in the afternoon fourballs. Spieth was 8 under on his own ball. The only drama was whether to finish. They played the final hole in the dark, to avoid having to return to complete it Sunday morning. Phil Mickelson and Zach Johnson never trailed in their fourballs victory at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea. Bae Sang-moon and Hideki Matsuyama, who earned a key half-point in the morning, had the shortest match of the week when they beat Jimmy Walker and Chris Kirk, 6 and 5, in fourballs. Bae is playing his final event before his mandatory military service starts in South Korea. "One of the best matches I ever played," Bae said. The singles matches were moved up one hour because of rain in the forecast, with Oosthuizen facing Patrick Reed in the opening match. U.S. captain Jay Haas put Spieth in the ninth match against Marc Leishman, passing on a chance to put Spieth against Jason Day. "I don't know if it was a make-or-break the Presidents Cup if they played or didn't play," Haas said. Suddenly, finally, the Presidents Cup doesn't need a special match to be compelling. Haas wanted Spieth in the No. 9 slot because historically that's about where it's decided when the matches are close going into the final session. Day is in the 10th spot against Zach Johnson. On the longest day of the week -- two sessions of four matches -- this could have gone either way. The last three morning matches all went to the 18th hole. Spieth and Dustin Johnson won the last two holes for a 1-up win over Day and Charl Schwartzel, while Matsuyama made birdie on the last hole for a halve, and Bubba Watson missing a 5-foot birdie on the 18th that would have given his side a win. The teams split both sessions. The pivotal match belonged to Grace and Oosthuizen, who were all square with the big-hitting American duo of Watson and J.B. Holmes. Grace was left of the green on the 16th when he chipped in, raising his arms before the ball even reached the cup and sharing a bear hug with his longtime South African friend. Oosthuizen had a chance to end it on the par-3 17th -- the first time the South Africans played that hole in competition all week -- but he missed a 6-foot putt when it was so dark he couldn't see the line. The four players could barely see the 18th green because of the darkness. Oosthuizen hit into the water, and it was so dark that Grace didn't even know it. From 263 yards with a chilly wind in his face, he blasted a 3-wood that narrowly cleared a bunker and settled on the edge of the green. "I haven't seen the shot, so I don't know where it finished or how it got to where it did," Grace said. "Just remarkable to pull a shot off like that." Holmes and Watson, needing to win the hole to earn a halve, both missed the green and Grace rolled his eagle putt to tap-in range to close it out. "The chip-in on 16 and the second into 18 showed he's a world-class player," Oosthuizen said. "No moment is too big for him." Oosthuizen said they went to Price after they won their opening match Thursday and offered to split up, knowing both were playing well and thinking perhaps they could bring another International player along. Price chose to keep them together, and it paid off. "They've been the stars of our team," Price said. The Americans still have the lead, though the Presidents Cup has been so lopsided since 2005 that it almost feels like an International lead. History is still against the International team. No team trailing going into the last day has ever won. Still, the vibe was strong for the International team and the Americans could sense it, too. "To me, it kind of feels like we're losing just because of what's gone on the last two days," Zach Johnson said. "But our first day was substantial. So yeah, you knew it was going to be tight going into Sunday regardless of what happened."
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Adam Levine Adam Levine is helping Joe Pesci record new music. The Maroon 5 frontman reportedly formed a bond with the 72-year-old Oscar-winning actor at a charity gold event several years ago and is mentoring the 'Goodfellas' star in the studio. A source close to 'The Voice' USA star said: "They hang out and play music. Joe is really focused on music now. He's really inspired. "They kicked around some songs and recorded some stuff together." While the pair have already recorded a number of tracks, they haven't decided whether to release them in the future. The insider told Us Weekly magazine: "It was just a thing they did while having fun." Adam's close pal Jonah Hill, whose brother Jordan Feldstein manages the 'Moves Like Jagger' hitmaker and his group, is also friends with Joe and previously claimed the legendary actor once put his fingers up his butt. He said: "I love Joe Pesci. I mean who doesn't? He's the best. 'Goodfellas' is my favourite film of all time and his performance is my favourite." But recalling their bizarre encounter at a 'Wolf of Wall Street' premiere, he said: "He goes, 'You're great in the movie, kid, I'm really proud of you.' And I'm like, 'Thank you, your acting means so much to me.' And he goes, 'Here's what I want you to do: I want you to go buy a helmet.' And I go, 'okay...' He goes, 'I want you to keep the helmet next to your bed and then every night, I want you to go in the bathroom and put the helmet on -- every night,' And if ever the helmet doesn't fit, it's because too many people are going up here.' And he puts his fingers in my ass!"
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LOS ANGELES Another October, another long, slow, painful walk for Clayton Kershaw from the pitching mound into his personal hell. The crowd stood. Kershaw slumped. The crowd roared. Kershaw winced. The crowd quieted. Kershaw collapsed on the bench. We've been here before and it never gets any easier. We've seen this before and it never makes any more sense. For a third consecutive postseason Friday, the best pitcher on the planet stumbled in the biggest moment of his season and this time, even an attempted rescue by Manager Don Mattingly couldn't save the pitcher, the moment or the game. RELATED: DeGrom outduels Kershaw; Mets beat Dodgers 3-1 In a controversial but proper decision, Mattingly lifted Kershaw after he walked the bases loaded with two out in the seventh inning of the National League division series opener against the New York Mets at Dodger Stadium. Pedro Baez took the ball, gave up a two-run single to David Wright, and the Mets took a 3-0 lead that eventually became a 3-1 win that puts the Dodgers' postseason on the brink just hours after it began. But, yes, you read that right. Mattingly made the right call in lifting Kershaw after he had thrown 113 pitches in steamy heat. He made the right call after Kershaw had walked three of the five batters in faced in the seventh. He made the right call because if the Dodgers have learned anything from the last two postseasons, it is they cannot stand by helplessly and watch their ace wilt while their season wilts with him. Were you not watching last October against the St. Louis Cardinals? Were you not watching in October of 2014 against those same Cardinals? In two late collapses last season against the Cardinals, Kershaw succumbed after throwing 110 and 102 pitches. The previous season, he was left alone to absorb a shelling while throwing 98 pitches. In all three games, there were cries that Mattingly should have swallowed his pride and risked alienating his ace and gone to the bullpen. From the moment Mattingly angered Kershaw by pulling him late in the season against the Arizona Diamondbacks, it was obvious this season's Dodgers, from the front office to the dugout, would heed those cries. Yes, Kershaw had been his usual dominating self in the first six innings Friday with 11 strikeouts and only four allowed hits, his effort marred only by Daniel Murphy's fourth-inning homer. But in that sixth inning, the signs of potential collapse were everywhere. He threw four balls in five pitches to Lucas Duda, who only had two career hits against him in 12 previous at-bats. He was ahead 0-and-2 to Ruben Tejada, but then lost him to a walk. Then he was ahead 1-and-2 to Curtis Granderson, yet also stumbled and walked him to load the bases. Up stepped Wright, who had already battled Kershaw to a walk in a 12-pitch at-bat in the first inning. Warming up in the bullpen was Pedro Baez, who had allowed one run in his previous eight appearances with nine strikeouts. Mattingly had ignored that bullpen the previous two years, but he wasn't going to do it again. "Going into that inning, we kind of looked at what his pitch count was, and kind of thought ... if we got back to Wright ... felt like that was going to be a spot ... thought we were going to make a move there," said Mattingly. Kershaw didn't fight this time. Kershaw knew. "I put myself in that spot so not much room for arguing when you put yourself in that situation," said Kershaw. Even the Mets, while thrilled to get Kershaw out of the game, weren't that happy about suddenly seeing the energy of Baez. "Normally you'd be pleased to get Kershaw out of the game," said Wright. "But then you look up at a guy throwing 100 (mph) and you're not too pleased." Should he have brought in hotter reliever Chris Hatcher? Perhaps, but the point is that Mattingly did the right thing in lifting Kershaw, and the awful outcome doesn't change the fact that their ace was cooked. "He had walked three guys in an inning," said Mattingly, adding he "was kind of out of sync there." To be fair, the entire team was out of sync Friday against the hair-raising fastball of the Mets' Jacob deGrom. Rookie Corey Seager struck out twice and popped out with a runner in scoring position. Rookie Joc Pederson flied out with two guys on base. Adrian Gonzalez struck out three times before finally delivering a one-run single. The Dodgers now face a must-win Game 2 on Saturday night with their 2015 ace on the mound, Zack Greinke. If they lose, they would face an elimination game Monday in New York with Brett Anderson facing the Mets' ace Matt Harvey. No, Kershaw can't pitch on two days' rest. At this point, both he and the Dodgers can only hope he can pitch again, period, a man and a team continuing their search for October redemption.
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For the launch of the iPhone 6S, I elected to buy the T-Mobile version from Apple instead of the AT&T one, because I was planning on paying full price for the phone and the T-Mobile one comes unlocked out of the box. (I don't plan on leaving AT&T, necessarily, but an unlocked phone is easier to use internationally and has a higher resale value.) I suspect there are some folks out there who did the same. What you may not have known, though, is that using this version of the phone on AT&T sets off a weird chain of events that you'll want to be aware of. First off, there's the consideration that AT&T has a special version of the 6S that includes support for the WCS band , which will eventually lead to faster LTE in some markets. ( PC Magazine 's Sascha Segan does a good job breaking down what that means here .) When you buy the T-Mobile version and use it on AT&T, you won't be able to take advantage of WCS. This is a relatively minor consideration, because WCS is just now rolling out and won't have a dramatic impact; it's something to think about, though. Bear with me, there's a lot going on here But when you drop an AT&T SIM into the T-Mobile iPhone, some unpleasant things happen on the back end. AT&T's systems appear to automatically de-register you from Voice over LTE (VoLTE), which means you will drop to 4G whenever you make or receive a call and you won't be able to use HD Voice . AT&T is aggressively expanding its VoLTE footprint right now, so it's arguably more important than the WCS issue. And here's something else: AT&T's systems tie VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling together, which means that if your account isn't registered for VoLTE service, you won't be able to use Wi-Fi calling, either. Some iPhone users (myself included) are seeing this message when they try to enable it through the Settings menu: The reason, most likely, is that your account isn't set up for VoLTE. But how did that happen? It's my understanding that AT&T certifies phones for Wi-Fi calling (and, by association, VoLTE) on a per-SKU basis; the AT&T models were obviously certified on day one, but the unlocked T-Mobile versions are not as of yet. They're going through certification at present, though and barring any hiccups, they should be ready soon. I believe that once that happens, you'll be able to enable Wi-Fi calling without issue. In the meantime, you can call in to AT&T's customer service line if you like, but in my experience, they aren't well-prepared to deal with this error, and they don't understand what causes it when you call in. To make matters worse, the customer service team can't turn on VoLTE on your account themselves if you're using an uncertified device it requires that a special trouble ticket be filed. As of yesterday when I spoke to AT&T's tech team, the backlog for dealing with these trouble tickets was 11 days , I was told. If you're using a certified phone like the WCS-enabled model of the 6S, though, it's not a problem at all. "Any care rep can correct VoLTE provisioning as long as the user has a capable SIM and AT&T certified device," an AT&T spokesperson tells me. If you haven't yet purchased your iPhone 6S, the good news is that Apple is now selling unlocked iPhones that support WCS . I'm hearing that these new SIM-free models should simply work out of the box, unlike the T-Mobile ones. Again: none of this should affect you if you bought your iPhone directly from AT&T, or you bought the AT&T model from Apple. Otherwise? It's a little complicated.
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Well, things just went from awkward to uncomfortable! Justin Bieber's dad, Jeremy Bieber responded to his son's nude photos and it's bad on every level.
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Anubis, a 5-year-old Rhodesian ridgeback, is recovering from an emergency bullet-removal surgery.
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SeaWorld has been approved for a $100 million tank expansion of it's orca habitat. The deal comes with a condition from the California Coastal Commission, which calls for a ban on breeding whales at SeaWorld facilities. Are whales being protected?
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Russia has agreed to resume talks with the US on air safety during Syria bombing campaigns, says the Pentagon. The talks "are likely to take place as soon as this weekend," said press secretary Peter Cook. There have been concerns that there could be an accidental clash as the two countries pursue separate bombing campaigns over Syria. The US and its Nato allies have been alarmed at violations of Turkish air space by Russian jets. The US and Russia conducted talks on air safety via video conference on 1 October, but US officials had complained that they had heard nothing from Moscow since then. Earlier this week, Pentagon officials said they had had to carry out at least one "safe separation" manoeuvre to avoid a US jet coming too close to a Russian aircraft over Syria. They said this happened after 1 October, without giving a specific date. Talks are likely to deal with how much separation there should between US and Russian aircraft and which language and radio frequencies crews should use for communications. Russia has also launched rocket strikes from warships in the Caspian Sea. There have been concerns that Russia is targeting opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, rather than Islamic State positions. US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter on Friday accused Russia of running "fundamentally flawed" operations in Syria which would "inflame the civil war and therefore extremism". But Moscow has denied claims that its week of strikes have mainly hit non-IS targets.
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Mazda is recalling 14,270 3 sedans and hatchbacks for fuel tanks that can leak, the company said Friday. The problem affects certain 2015 and 2016 models, and as such, Mazda dealers have been ordered not to sell any cars in inventory until the repairs are complete. According to Mazda, gasoline may flow into the evaporative emissions control (the charcoal filter canister that seals vapors from the tank) due to a faulty shut-off valve. This can result in a leak if too much fuel goes into the canister. Dealers will replace the fuel tank and charcoal canister starting this month if the valve is defective or there are fuel leaks. Otherwise, 3 owners will be sent happily on their way home without repairs. Related link: The 16 safest small cars money can buy Recall filings have not yet been posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Mazda reports no injuries or accidents related to the problem. Follow MSN Autos on Facebook
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Now that Facebook's ubiquitous "Like" feature is gone, users of the social media platform are reacting to the new expressive suit of emojis. Dubbed, Facebook Reactions, the latest instant reply feature for the social media service now lets users choose from a few emotive icons to express how they feel towards a post. Though users can't "dislike" what they see, they can now show that it makes them angry. The six-refined reactions are Facebook's response to years of user demand for parity in the "Like" feature. However, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has never been comfortable with the idea of disliking posts, as he felt it was not so social. Instead the company has matured it's expressive replies with emotive faces and icons such as a familiar thumbs-up or a heart.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship lamented a push by his board to cap his salary at $12 million, called the group "so unappreciative," and said at least a quarter of his wealth was tied up in his company's stock, according to phone calls he secretly recorded in his office. On Friday in Charleston federal court, prosecutors played back four calls and a memo from 2009 the first round of several they'll present to a jury in Blankenship's criminal trial. Blankenship faces charges of conspiring to break mine safety laws and lying to financial regulators about safety practices at Upper Big Branch Mine, in southern West Virginia. A 2010 explosion killed 29 miners there in the worst mine disaster in four decades. Prosecutors have hand-picked recordings to make a case that the wealthy coal baron prioritized profits over safety at his mines, had huge windfalls when Massey did well, and lost millions after the mine explosion. They are also looking to paint Blankenship as a micromanager who was closely involved with Upper Big Branch's day-to-day operations. Talking to a girlfriend in one phone call, Blankenship told her he saved the company $70 million and bragged the stock value was over $3 billion. He said the board was "so unappreciative." "They talk about all my pay being in stock and all of it being on options and none of it being in cash," Blankenship said in the call. "Finally I said I can't go to the grocery store and buy groceries with options." Blankenship secretly had recording devices installed in his office at Massey. On Friday, an FBI agent testified that Alpha Natural Resources produced the recordings through a subpoena. The company used them in a Delaware Chancery Court case in which the now-bankrupt coal producer, which bought Massey, was ordered to pay Blankenship's criminal defense legal fees. One of the recordings that garnered the most attention in Alpha's case is set to be played in Blankenship's trial. "Sometimes I think if it weren't for (the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration), we'd blow ourselves up," Blankenship says in the recording. He said in one call that a quarter or more of his wealth was in Massey stocks, adding that he doesn't have as much money as he should. "As I said earlier, I'm very conservative on diversity and that's one reason I don't have as much money as I should have because I'm always too conservative," Blankenship said in the recording. In a dictated memo played for the jury, Blankenship said capital spending without approval would be grounds for termination. On Friday, Blankenship's former executive assistant at Massey, Sandra Davis, testified that it was Blankenship's voice on the recordings. Davis said Blankenship would dictate his memos and she would transcribe them. Prosecutors are also leaning on plenty of memos to contend that Blankenship knew his mines needed safety improvements, but wouldn't spend the money to address them. In another call, Blankenship says Massey has "got a lot of money," about $800 million in the bank. Blankenship's attorneys said 21 phone recordings shouldn't be played for the jury. Judge Irene Berger tossed three recorded conversations that had to do with stocks. Blankenship's attorneys contend that the former CEO focused on safety and did not think breaking regulations was a smarter business plan than fixing health hazards, despite his reputation as a tough boss and divisive public figure.
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One of the best parts of Halloween is the treats. Lindsey Granger stopped by Sokerbit candy store in Los Angeles to talk to trick-or-treaters and customers about their favorite candy tactics.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Unrest that erupted several weeks ago at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site spread Friday to Gaza in the form of deadly border clashes with Palestinian protesters, as Israeli security forces struggled to contain a wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks against civilians and soldiers. For the first time since the current violence began, clashes broke out along the Gaza border after Palestinians in the territory ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas rolled burning tires and threw rocks at Israeli troops on the frontier. Six Palestinians were killed and a dozen were wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The Israeli military said "More than a thousand rioters infiltrated the buffer zone engaging the forces at the security fence. Rioters reached the security fence, hurled a grenade, rocks and rolled burning tires at Israeli forces ... threatening to breach the fence and storm the adjacent communities." It said troops fired warning shots and then fired at main instigators to prevent their advance. Recent days have seen a series of attacks by young Palestinians wielding household items like kitchen knives, screwdrivers and even a vegetable peeler. The youths had no known links to armed groups who have targeted Israeli soldiers and civilians at random, complicating security efforts. The violence, including the first apparent revenge attack by an Israeli, raised fears of the unrest spiraling further out of control. The unpredictability and brutality of the assaults, coupled with the young age of some of the attackers, have shocked Israelis and raised fears a new Palestinian intifada or uprising could be underway. In Jerusalem, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded a 14-year-old Israeli with a vegetable peeler Friday before being arrested. In another attack near the entrance of Kiryat Arba, a West Bank settlement, a Palestinian was shot dead by a police officer after he attacked him with a knife and tried to seize his weapon, police said. In northern Israel, a 29-year-old Arab-Israeli woman was shot and wounded while trying to stab people at a bus station in the town of Afula, where another stabbing had taken place the day before, police said. Gaza-based Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh applauded the recent Palestinian stabbing attacks across Israel at a speech at Friday prayers, labeling it as an intifada. Israeli officials have said the violence is not on that scale for now, but rather is of the kind unleashed periodically over the decades. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called it a "terror wave." He and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas have tried to lower tensions in recent days but both appear unable to contain the unrest. Veteran commentator Ben Caspit told Channel 10 that Israel is on the "seam line" between the violence spreading and containment. One of the challenges is that there is no clear identifiable enemy, with about half of "the lone-wolf" attackers coming from east Jerusalem and the rest from the West Bank. The acts are independent, spontaneous moments of rage, he said, noting the stabbings with the vegetable peeler and one involving a screwdriver the day before. Household items are used as weapons because guns can be harder to get for Palestinians unaffiliated with militant groups. Not much can be done from an intelligence agency point of view to prevent spontaneous attacks by an individual who "decides to take a screwdriver and stab the first Jew that passes by," said Yuval Diskin, Israel's former internal security chief, in an interview with Channel 2 TV. Video on social media Friday showed the moments when Israeli security forces shot and wounded an Arab woman at the Afula bus station. Police said the woman, who wore a long robe and Islamic headscarf, had pulled a knife to stab a soldier and posed an "immediate threat." The video showed the woman surrounded by several members of the security forces with their guns drawn. Israeli media said security personnel called to her in Arabic and Hebrew multiple times to put the weapon down and that she had waved it while yelling, "Death to police." The police later released video of a long-bladed kitchen knife they said she had used. The woman was shot in her lower body and treated at a hospital. A Palestinian stabbing attack had occurred in the same city a day before. Protests spread late Friday to northern Israel where scores of people from the country's Arab minority clashed with officers in protests linked to the unrest with the Palestinians. Arab citizens make up some 20 percent of Israel's population. They enjoy full citizenship rights but have long complained of discrimination in housing, jobs and other areas of society. They often identify with Palestinian nationalism. The latest unrest began about three weeks ago, when Palestinians repeatedly barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, hurling stones, firebombs and fireworks at police. It was fueled by Palestinian allegations that Israel plans to change the delicate arrangement at the hilltop compound, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Israel has adamantly denied the allegations and accused Palestinian leaders of inciting the violence and spreading lies over the shrines in east Jerusalem. Abbas gave a hard-line speech at the U.N. last month, saying Israelis desecrate the holy site with their "dirty feet." Non-Muslim visitors are only allowed to enter the site at specific hours and are banned by police from praying there. Many Muslims view these visits as a provocation and accuse Jewish extremists of plotting to take over the site. Israel has promised to ensure the delicate arrangement at the site and insists it will not allow the status quo to be changed. The fate of the hilltop site is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is revered to Jews as the Temple Mount, site of the two biblical Jewish temples, and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, where they believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. The attacks initially were confined to east Jerusalem and the West Bank both territories captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 war and claimed by the Palestinians for a future state but spread to Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities this week. What began as Palestinians throwing rocks and firebombs at passing cars and police has morphed into a deadly shooting and knife attacks by Palestinians on Israeli civilians and soldiers. In what appeared to be the first revenge attack amid the violence, an Israeli man stabbed and wounded four Arabs in the southern Israeli city of Dimona, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. After his arrest, the assailant said he acted in retaliation for the numerous Palestinian attacks, Israeli media reported. The attacker is a "mentally ill man," said Dimona Mayor Beni Bitton, telling Channel 10 that two of the victims worked for City Hall, and that passers-by quickly provided first aid to the wounded Arabs. Netanyahu "strongly condemned the harming of innocent Arabs," saying that anyone who resorts to violence will be brought to justice. In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby referred to the Palestinian attacks on Israelis as "acts of terror." Kirby said he had no details on the Israeli attack when asked. It was mostly quiet Friday at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israeli police banned men under 45 from the compound while women of all ages entered freely. The age limit has been imposed intermittently because authorities believe that younger Palestinians are mostly involved in the violence. Five Palestinians have been killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis over the past week, while another three Palestinians were killed in protests and clashes in the West Bank. The Red Crescent medical service says over 500 Palestinians have been wounded in violent protests in the West Bank since the weekend, including about 100 from live fire. Last week, Palestinians shot two Israelis to death in front of their children in the West Bank. In a separate incident, Palestinians killed two Israeli men and wounded a mother and toddler in Jerusalem. __ Associated Press writer Mathew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dave Meyers, the star forward who led UCLA to the 1975 NCAA basketball championship as the lone senior in coach John Wooden's final season and later played for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, died Friday. He was 62. Meyers died at his home in Temecula after struggling with cancer for the last year, according to UCLA, which received the news from his younger sister, Ann Meyers Drysdale. He played four years for Milwaukee after being drafted second overall by the Los Angeles Lakers. Shortly after, Meyers was part of a blockbuster trade that sent him to the Bucks in exchange for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The 6-foot-8 Meyers led UCLA in scoring at 18.3 points and rebounding at 7.9 in his final season, helping the Bruins to a 28-3 record. He had 24 points and 11 rebounds in their 92-85 victory over Kentucky in the NCAA title game played in his hometown of San Diego. Meyers Drysdale also played at UCLA during her Hall of Fame career. Meyers assumed the Bruins' leadership role during the 1974-75 season after Bill Walton and Jamaal Wilkes had graduated. Playing with sophomores Marques Johnson and Richard Washington, Meyers earned consensus All-America honors. Meyers made the cover of Sports Illustrated after the Bruins won the NCAA title. ''One of the true warriors in (at)UCLAMBB history has gone on to glory,'' Johnson wrote on Twitter. ''Dave Meyers was our Captain in `75 and as tenacious a player ever. RIP.'' Johnson recalled in other tweets how Meyers called him `MJB' or Marques Johnson Baby when he was a freshman, and later in the NBA, Meyers was nicknamed ''Crash'' because he always diving on the floor for loose balls. As a junior, Meyers started on a front line featuring future Hall of Famers Walton and Wilkes. Meyers was a reserve as a sophomore on the Bruins' 1973 NCAA title team during the school's run of 10 national titles in 12 years under Wooden. The team went 30-0 and capped the season by beating Memphis 87-66 in the championship game, when Meyers had four points and three rebounds. In 1975, Meyers, along with Elmore Smith, Junior Bridgeman and Brian Winters, was traded to Milwaukee for Abdul-Jabbar and Walt Wesley. During the 1977-78 season, Meyers was reunited with Johnson on the Bucks and averaged a career-best 14.7 points. He missed the next year with a back injury. Meyers returned in 1979-80 to average 12.1 points and 5.7 rebounds in helping the Bucks win a division title. Born David William Meyers, he was one of 11 children. His father, Bob, was a standout basketball player and team captain at Marquette in the 1940s. The younger Meyers averaged 22.7 points as a senior at Sonora High in La Habra, California. Meyers made a surprise announcement in 1980 that he was retiring from basketball to spend more time with his family. He later earned his teaching certificate and taught sixth grade for several years in Lake Elsinore, California. He is survived by his wife, Linda, whom he married in 1975, and daughter Crystal and son Sean.
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North Korea's capital Pyongyang was holding a massive military parade on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party. A cavalcade of tanks, armored vehicles and assorted ballistic hardware was to move through the city's Kim Il-Sung Square, along with thousands of marching troops, in an attempt to show off the nuclear nation's military strength. At 11:30 local time (0300 GMT) the parade was delayed for a few hours because of overnight thunderstorms. Supreme leader Kim Jong-Un has put in a first appearance at the ceremony, saluting his honor guard and waving to soldiers taking part in the parade. It's not known if he will speak at any of the day's events. There have been reports that the secretive country has invested in new cutting-edge weaponry for the occasion. North Korea's most popular all-female Moranbong Band will later also take to a stage that has been set up on a river running through central Pyongyang for a late-night concert. Pyongyang transformed Months of preparation have gone into Saturday's celebrations, involving a mass mobilization of state and military personnel. Reports say the capital has been given a comprehensive makeover -- its streets lined and decorated with giant posters, red banners and national flags. The posters display the numerals "10-10," in reference to the ruling party's official October 10 birthday. Tens of thousands of people have been streaming through the city's streets, including many foreign tourists and media. However no world leaders will be in the audience, although ally China is sending a senior Communist Party official. Satellite imagery suggests the military parade could be the country's biggest ever. Nuclear tensions While the celebrations will likely be lauded by the country's deferential state media, Western newspapers have highlighted the ruling party's seven decades of repression, abductions, murder and nuclear brinkmanship. On Thursday, the US said North Korea had the capability to launch a nuclear weapon at Washington. In recent years, Pyongyang has fired several test rockets in a standoff with its neighbors over its nuclear program. mm/jm (AP, Reuters)
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Take a look at Friday's craziest moments, including Chris Colabello's unassisted double play and Jason Heyward's solid catch.
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RoboHon (" Robot Phone ") is the cutest smartphone ever: a ( familiar looking ) robot frame that fits in your pocket. It can take calls, dance, project photos, maps and more. It's a 'bot with a smartphone inside. Yes,some will snort at the idea of a phone with a two-inch touchscreen, but it's certainly an original notion -- unashamedly so. That said, is it innovative? Is there a point to it all? Does it really fit in your pocket? We'll know better when it launches here in Japan early next year. For now, here's a closer look in person, answering at least one of those questions. In a battle of specs, Sharp's new phone isn't going to win.It's running special kind of smartphone software build atop Android, there's a touchscreen, camera and 4G LTE, but it's such a curiosity as to almost belong in a separate category all of its own.The touchscreen is very small and pretty basic: there's only space for four icons on each homescreen. Sharp's spokesman tells us this is because the primary method of using RoboHon is by talking to it: the touchscreen is a secondary interface. (You'll still need it to confirm actions, take calls, and use it in noisier places.) Soft buttons are bigger and icons are huge. It could well help the RoboHon appeal to that increasingly huge subsection of Japanese smartphone shoppers: the elderly. There's already a range of Swarovski crystal accessories. Seriously. Picking up the robot-phone, it feels almost like a toy, but in a good way. It made me a little bit excited to play with it. For some reason, I just plain wanted to keep. There's a leatherish covering on both the soles of the robot's lil' booties and his ears. And like many other plainer smartphones, there's already a range of Swarovski crystal accessories. Seriously . The emblem on the front its chest doubles up as a clip, securing it as you slide it (ridiculously, adorably) into your jacket or trouser pocket. The arms and legs are articulated to walk and even offer up a dance if you ask politely enough. You'll also have to brush up on your polite Japanese, because that's all it understands at the moment. It does have a pretty decent conversational grasp, accepting different wordings and directions as needed. Voice directions encompass almost everything that the robot can do: taking photos, calling people, taking memos, responding to text messages and even projecting photos and video from the tiny Pico projector lodged inside its head. Including token peace-sign photos of Engadget editors that should know better. Sharp hasn't announced a price yet, but it's unlikely to be cheap. Then again, there's also nothing else quite like it.
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If Rockets center Dwight Howard truly is Superman, balky knees must be his Kryptonite. After a 2014-15 regular season in which Howard missed 41 games with various ailments, the eight-time All-Star recently revealed that his lingering knee problems reared their ugly head again during the playoffs in a much more serious way. On Thursday, Howard appeared on SportsRadio 610 and told Mike Meltser and Seth Payne of Mad Radio that he played in the Western Conference Finals against the Golden State Warriors on torn ligaments in his knee. "I basically was playing with a torn MCL and meniscus," Howard said per Garrett Heinrich of CBS Houston . "I never said anything about it, I tried to cover it up saying it was a sore knee, but I was in pain the rest of the series. "You never know if you will ever make it back to this moment," Howard continued. "Sacrifice your body, your mind, your spirit for your teammates and for the city and hope for the best. And when we lost, it was like, I gave everything I had. And it hurt, but we can make up for it this season." For a player who has received a reputation around the league for being a bit of a cream puff, both from former teammates and competitors alike, if Howard is indeed telling the truth about his hobbled Conference Finals state, he definitely deserves commendation for a incredibly gritty performance on one leg. It's especially so considering that it came against the eventual champion Warriors and while drawing a matchup with Andrew Bogut, one of the most physical centers in the Association. Coming that close to an NBA Finals berth, especially in the barbaric Western Conference, is not an opportunity that comes around everyday, and Howard recognized that and left it all out on the hardwood for his team. Still, for a big man who will be 30 in December with a long recent history of durability issues directly tied to his knees, it wasn't exactly the wisest decision for Howard. Perhaps he took a page out of the book of Rockets head coach Kevin McHale who fought through a broken foot in the 1987 postseason during his playing days with the Boston Celtics. Still, McHale paid the price as his career was cut short after just 13 seasons, and he still walks with a noticeable limp now, nearly three decades later. As Howard enters his 12th NBA season, it's worth wondering how many years he has left in the tank. Howard has certainly looked to be on the back-nine of his career for a couple of years now and with revelations like the one he made on Thursday, it could only be a matter of time before the body of the three-time Defensive Player of the Year breaks down completely.
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Your 9 Worst Coffee Habits Your 9 Worst Coffee Habits If you consume coffee often, you've probably developed your "own way" to enjoy this versatile drink. However, no matter how you like your coffee, there are a few habits no one should be practicing when they drink it. Why add unnecessary fats and sugars to a drink that doesn't need it? Or, why spend money on pricy fancy coffee to wake up in the morning when you can probably make it better yourself before you leave home? Believe it or not, there are ways to sip on your morning cup without feeling any guilt. In order to stop your worst coffee habits, you have to be able to identify them first. Think you're sipping coffee like a pro? Take a look at 9 of the worst coffee habits and see if any apply to you. Adding Whipped Cream Coffee isn't hot chocolate , so there's no need to treat it as if it were. Even if you're enjoying a non-traditional coffee drink, whipped cream is for dessert. It doesn't belong in your coffee. Adding Sugar Just as a salad becomes less healthy when you add dressing , coffee becomes less healthy when you add sugar. Putting sugar in anything can have dire consequences, and coffee is no exception. Buying it, Not Making it Have you ever stopped to calculate how much you spend on coffee each month? If not, we suggest you do so the number can be staggering. Invest in a high quality coffee or espresso maker and prepare it at home in the mornings. This will save you a lot of money, even if you still need an afternoon pick-me-up at your corner coffee shop. Depending on Creamers If the only way you can drink coffee is with creamer , you might not love coffee as much as you think. Depending on the brand and flavor you're using, many creamers take away from coffee's natural flavor and add extra calories. If you insist on sticking to creamed coffee, take a look at our list on which ones to avoid. Drinking It Before Bed Slurp down a cup of coffee before you hit the hay and you'll be tossing and turning all night. We can understand why the idea sounds appealing, for a warm drink can provide a relaxing and smoothing aroma. If you need to sip on something hot before you go to sleep , try decaf instead. Overloading on Caffeine Drinking coffee regularly isn't a bad thing. In fact, it provides many health benefits . However, a caffeine overload can happen and it isn't good for the body. If you drink coffee on a regular basis, be sure to practice balance. Splurging on the Venti The more you drink coffee you drink, the quicker you'll become dependent on caffeine . If you need a cup of coffee to get your day started, that's fine, but we suggest starting with a smaller size. That way, you can ease your way throughout the day and enjoy another cup later, rather than gulping down a Venti and crashing in the afternoon. Splashing in the Syrup Syrup is one of the only sweeteners that isn't available in a healthier alternative. Even the " low calorie " or "nonfat" alternatives are still full of sugar . Making it a Mocha If your favorite way to drink coffee is in mocha form, you might as well be gulping down a milkshake. Your average, grande (medium) Starbucks caffè mocha contains a whopping 350 calories. Now ask yourselves, mocha maniacs is it really worth it?
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The Israeli military says Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have fired a rocket into southern Israel, amid a sharp increase in tensions. A statement said sirens were triggered in Israeli communities near the border but the rocket landed in open countryside and no-one was hurt. Earlier, six Palestinians were shot dead near the border fence with Gaza. There has been a spate of attacks and confrontations between Palestinians and troops in recent days. The military statement said the rocket was believed to have landed in a field not far from the border early on Saturday. Gun and knife attacks by Palestinians have left four Israelis dead and many wounded since last weekend, while at least three Palestinians have been killed during clashes with security forces in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas which runs Gaza, said a new intifada - or uprising - was under way, although the BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem says the scale of violence does not yet amount to that. Can Israel and the Palestinians contain spiralling violence? Palestinian medical sources said the six Palestinians were shot dead and many others wounded in two separate incidents in Gaza on Friday when Israeli troops opened fire. The Palestinians had been protesting in solidarity with Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The Israeli military said more than 1,000 rioters had massed at the border fence, throwing a grenade and rocks, and rolling burning tyres at Israeli forces. After firing warning shots, troops fired towards the "main instigators" to disperse the riot, a military statement said. In Israel on Friday, police reported an apparently "nationalistic" attack by an Israeli, who they say stabbed two Israeli Bedouins and two Palestinians. The attack in the southern city of Dimona was apparently in retaliation for stabbing attacks on Israeli Jews this week. The suspect was arrested. On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he "strongly condemned the harming of innocent Arabs" and vowed to bring to justice anyone who breaks the law. Shortly afterwards, an attacker was shot dead after stabbing an Israeli policeman near Hebron. In Jerusalem, a 16-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israeli was stabbed and wounded. A Palestinian suspect fled but was caught by police. An Israeli policeman, meanwhile, was injured and his assailant shot dead near the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, close to Hebron. Separately, a Palestinian woman was shot and wounded after trying to stab a guard at a bus station in Afula, northern Israel, police said Violence between Israelis and Palestinians have risen since clashes erupted at a flashpoint holy compound in East Jerusalem last month. An Israeli couple were shot dead in the West Bank in front of their four children, while two more Israelis were killed in a stabbing in Jerusalem's Old City days later - the first in a spate of stabbings of Israelis in the city, northern and western Israel and the West Bank. Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded and at least three, including a 13-year-old boy, shot dead in clashes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the same period. Five of the Palestinians who apparently carried out the stabbings have been killed. Israel has increased security across the country and imposed temporary restrictions on Palestinians seeking to enter the Old City of Jerusalem.
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Austin Police Lt. Brian Moon told BuzzFeed News that Shia LaBeouf was originally stopped after walking in the street before was then taken to jail. "He'll have to spend a minimum of four hours in jail," Moon said. Jail records also showed that LaBeouf, 29, was booked into jail Friday evening. According to TMZ, LaBeouf was taken into custody outside a bar. Witnesses reportedly described him as intoxicated. They also said the Transformers actor had been with a woman earlier in the evening. Images from the scene appeared to show LaBeouf standing with his hands behind his back in front of a police car.
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Lightning struck twice for Kei Nishikori as the defending Japan Open champion was ambushed by "shoeless" Frenchman Benoit Paire in an explosive semi-final. Paire, playing in a pair of badly torn sneakers following a forlorn dash to buy some new ones, won a nail-biter 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 to prove his first-round win over Nishikori at the US Open six weeks ago was no fluke. Top seed Stan Wawrinka awaits his close friend in Sunday's Tokyo final after the French Open champion produced a clinical 6-4, 7-6 win over Luxembourg's Gilles Muller. Nishikori's bid for a third Japan Open crown in four years came to a shuddering halt as Paire roared back from dropping a whirlwind first set in just 20 minutes. AFP
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ANKARA, Oct 10 (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed in explosions on Saturday outside the main train station in the Turkish capital Ankara where people were gathering for a peace march, Dogan news agency reported. A Reuters reporter at the scene saw at least 15 bodies covered by flags, with bloodstains and body parts scattered on the road. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Pravin Char)
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The Rangers beat the Blue Jays 6-4 in 14 innings on Friday. Texas scored two runs in the top of the 14th to take a 2-0 series lead over Toronto.
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10 Signs You Should Get Your Thyroid Checked According to The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists , thyroid disorders affect at least 30 million Americans and half of them are undiagnosed. Robin Miller, medical doctor and integrative medicine specialist, said that women are 10 times more likely than men to experience thyroid problems. Change in Appetite One of the worst effects of hyperthyroidism is that, if have too much of the thyroid hormone flowing through the body, you're hungry all the time. Your taste and smell can also be affected if your thyroid is underactive, which in turn can affect your appetite. Depression Hypothyroidism can affect your mood directly. If your body does not produce enough of the thyroid hormone, your levels of serotonin, or the "happy hormone" in the brain, may be low. Disrupted Sleep If you are falling asleep at your work desk every day and it is extremely difficult for you to wake up in the morning, hypothyroidism could be the cause, because it slows down all of your bodily functions. If you cannot sleep, hyperthyroidism could be causing rapid pulse and anxiety, which can wake you up in the middle of the night. Dry Skin Dry skin is not always a result of the change of seasons or forgetting to use lotion. Dry and itchy skin can be due to a slow metabolism, which is what happens when the thyroid hormone production is limited. Exhaustion Although it may be hard to pinpoint a thyroid disorder from increased tiredness , exhaustion does occur from not having the right amount of the thyroid hormone in your body. According to Miller, fatigue from thyroid disorders is obvious when you get a full night of sleep, but still have no energy. Fuzzy Brain When your sleep is not sound and you experience fatigue throughout the day, it's no wonder you are unable to concentrate . Cognitive function is affected when you have a thyroid disorder. According to Miller, many women think that it is a sign of menopause, when really it's a thyroid problem. High Blood Pressure We hear of high blood pressure all the time but did you know that it can be the result of both hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism? A rise in blood pressure can be due to both too much and too little of the thyroid hormone pumping through the body. High Cholesterol When your body possesses high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol , there is possibly a link to hypothyroidism. The LDL cholesterol, or bad cholesterol in the body, can be due to an underactive thyroid. Irregular Bowl Movements The digestion process slows down when you have a disruption in the thyroid hormone production. According to Miller, the motility in your gut is gone and in other forms of the disorder, an overactive thyroid gland can cause diarrhea. Weight Gain If your diet hasn't changed and your exercise routine is sound, your weight gain could be attributed to a thyroid disorder. An underactive thyroid can make you gain weight, despite your active lifestyle and healthy diet, according to Miller.
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Just when it looked like the Golden State Warriors were going to ignore Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers' comments about their championship run being lucky, Klay Thompson decided to respond and lash back at the Clippers. "That sounds pretty bitter to me," Thompson told ESPN.com . "If we got lucky, look at our record against them last year. I'm pretty sure we smacked them." The Warriors won the season series with the Clippers decisively, 3-1. The Clippers had a chance to meet the Warriors in the Western Conference finals, but blew a 3-1 series lead against the Houston Rockets, who then lost to the Warriors in five games. Rivers suggested that the Warriors got lucky on their way to the NBA Finals because they didn't have to play the Clippers or the San Antonio Spurs, the two perceived biggest threats to the Dubs in the West. "Didn't they lose to the Rockets?" Thompson said. "So that just makes me laugh. That's funny. Weren't they up 3-1, too? Tell them I said that, too." The Warriors also released their promotional schedule for the 2015-16 season, and what do you know, they're giving their fans replica championship rings on Nov. 4 , their first matchup with the Clippers. Golden State receives its actual championship rings on Oct. 27 in the season-opener against the New Orleans Pelicans -- so it'd be logical to give away replica championship rings on that night, too -- but it appears as if the team wants to rub it in the face of their southern California rival. The bad blood between the Clippers and Warriors is only going to continue, spilling over into this season now. While the rivalry tamed down a bit in the second half of last season, and with the teams failing to meet again in the playoffs, this could be the spark that the matchup needed. "I wanted to play the Clippers last year, but they couldn't handle their business," Thompson said.
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North Carolina's men's basketball team will wear black for the first time in the program's history this season. The Tar Heels, who rarely stray from their classic Carolina Blue and White, unveiled an all-black uniform this afternoon. They'll wear it against UCLA Dec. 19 in Brooklyn. UNC basketball will wear @jumpman23 black uniforms for the first time vs. UCLA in Brooklyn… http://t.co/5nUB2MX51n pic.twitter.com/lqdvI251cv Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) October 9, 2015 Watch @marcuspaige5 & team react to the new @Jumpman23 Black & Carolina Blue unis to be worn vs. UCLA on Dec. 19th pic.twitter.com/FhhGvFauMg Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) October 9, 2015 Like the new look, Tar Heel fans?
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INCHEON, South Korea Jordan Spieth made 7-foot putts on the final two holes to complete the biggest comeback all week and allow the Americans to escape with a split of the foursomes matches Saturday morning in the Presidents Cup. The Americans had a 7 1/2-6 1/2 lead going into the four matches of fourballs in the afternoon. The lead could easily have belonged to either team during a final hour at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea that featured clutch putts and big blunders. The only match that lacked any drama was Louis Oosthuizen and Branden Grace, the International juggernaut this week. They stayed undefeated for the week in a 3-and-2 victory over Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed. Spieth and Dustin Johnson were 3 down at the turn to Jason Day and Charl Schwartzel and still two holes behind when Schwartzel came up short and into a creek with a wedge from the 14th fairway. It was the first of two big mistakes by Schwartzel. Johnson hit his tee shot to 7 feet on the par-3 17th, and Spieth poured in the putt to square the match. Both teams missed the fairway, and Schwartzel tried to reach the green from a bunker. He missed it so badly that the ball barely left the ground, smacked into the base of the lip and stayed in the bunker. The International team made bogey. Spieth, however, played overly cautious with a wedge that left Johnson a 30-foot putt that was extremely fast at the hole, and he ran it 7 feet by. Spieth had to make that par putt for the win, and one of golf's best putters left little doubt. "We could have made it a little easier from 90 yards out. I could have gotten us below the hole," Spieth said. "But man, what a comeback we had there. That was a great fight. And it was a huge point in The Presidents Cup." The Americans lost chances to pick up wins in the other two matches. Bubba Watson and J.B. Holmes looked a like a sure winner when Watson hit the green on the par-5 18th shot with his second shot, while the International team had to lay up and Leishman's third shot with a wedge was some 30 feet short. Holmes ran the long eagle putt about 5 feet by the hole, and Scott was furious with himself when his birdie putt that seemed to be the best chance for a halve ran about 8 feet by the hole. Leishman made his putt for par, and Watson missed the 5-foot birdie putt for the win. The Americans had control of the other match, too, going 1 up on the par-3 17th when Bae Sang-moon's touch chip failed to reach the green, allowing Bill Haas and Matt Kuchar to go 1 up heading to the 18th. Hideki Matsuyama hit his second shot to about 25 feet for a certain birdie. Haas went over the green with his second shot, and Kuchar's chip wasn't strong enough and failed to reach the green. The International team won with a birdie for a half-point. For the fourballs session, U.S. captain Jay Haas kept Watson and Holmes together for a fourth straight match, while Johnson sat out the session and Spieth was with Reed, his partner from the Ryder Cup. Scott had his fourth partner in four matches, this time going with Anirban Lahiri.
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HALTERN AM SEE, Germany Weeks before he was supposed to fly to Barcelona, Spain, for a student exchange program with his 10th-grade Spanish class, Steffen Strang realized that he would miss a home game of the soccer team he followed religiously. Maybe, he told his mother, he should stay home. The response Dagmar Strang gave to her 16-year-old son has echoed in her head since March 24, the day he was supposed to have returned on a Germanwings flight bound for Düsseldorf. "I told him he wasn't going to stay home because of a stupid game I called it that, 'stupid,' " she said, sitting in her dining room beside framed pictures of Steffen, her only child, as a baby asleep in his stroller, as a young boy perched on her lap and as a teenager standing between his mother and father, Jürgen Strang, on a cruise ship heading to Norway. "I told him this could be a chance to make a lifelong friend, to go out and experience the world," Mrs. Strang said, shaking her head, struggling against the thought of "What if?" Steffen's final text message to her, after boarding the flight: "We are sitting on the plane. I can't wait to see you." The Strangs are one of the families in this leafy town in western Germany struggling to come to terms with the holes in their lives since a Germanwings co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, sent Flight 9525 into a fatal descent , taking their sons, daughters, siblings and spouses with him. The 16 students and two teachers from Haltern am See were the largest known organized group on the flight. Sign Up For NYT Now's Morning Briefing Newsletter While some of the families of the 150 onboard the flight have broken Germany's culture of privacy and discreet suffering to speak to reporters, those in Haltern had stayed silent, closing ranks and their doors while coping with their grief. But in June, after Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, offered about $50,000 to the families of the 72 German victims onboard in addition to the $56,000 in immediate financial assistance that was provided to each family after the crash the Haltern group wrote an open letter to Lufthansa calling the offer "insulting." And some of the families let a reporter into their homes. Lufthansa's offer is $28,000 per passenger for pain and suffering, with $11,000 more for emotional damages to each immediate family member excluding siblings. In several interviews, families in Haltern explained why the offer seems emblematic of what they see as Lufthansa's efforts to make the matter go away quickly, without fully explaining how a suicidal pilot came to be alone at the controls over the French Alps on the morning they were preparing to welcome the group home. "I feel they are not taking the responsibility, not acknowledging that one of their own employees knowingly did this," said Oliver, whose wife, Sonja Cercek, 35, a Spanish teacher at the Joseph-König Gymnasium, had organized the exchange with the Barcelona high school. Lufthansa and Germanwings have acknowledged that Mr. Lubitz had a bout of severe depression in 2009 while training to be a pilot. But they have revealed little about their subsequent oversight of him and whether anyone in authority knew of the risk he potentially posed to passengers. The airlines say they are fully cooperating with the investigations of Mr. Lubitz by German prosecutors. Under German law, only individuals can be prosecuted, not companies, and public prosecutors are more limited in their ability to investigate. Heinz-Joachim Schöttes, a spokesman for Germanwings, said the payments for the victims' pain and suffering "is just a part" of the compensation offer. Additional commitments include a trust fund valued at up to 15 million euros, or $16.9 million, for educational costs and any other projects proposed by family members. Nevertheless, the families of the Haltern victims and those of more than 50 other victims are meeting on Saturday to discuss filing a lawsuit in the United States, where Mr. Lubitz was training when he was granted a leave to recover from depression. Elmar Giemulla, a German lawyer representing many families here, said he believed that in addition to additional compensation allowed under United States tort laws, a suit could help uncover more information about the extent of Lufthansa's knowledge of Mr. Lubitz's condition and how he could have been considered flight-worthy. Henrik Drüppel, 19, is not eligible for emotional damages from Lufthansa because under its formula, as the brother of a victim, he is not considered next of kin. Yet, he said, he has struggled with the realization that he will never again come home to find his sister, Lea, 16, at the piano, where she would compose ballads and record them on her phone. Desperate to hear his sister's voice one last time, Mr. Drüppel went through her room and questioned her friends in search of a recording. Finally he found her old cellphone in a living room drawer with 300 recordings she had made. "Can you hear me? Can you see me? I'm here still waiting for you," she sings in a song she wrote two years ago. He cannot count the times he has played that recording, a living link to the vivacious sister who loved their dog, spending afternoons with her family and performing in musicals at a community theater. "Part of me died on that plane," Mr. Drüppel said. The families say that Lufthansa's response immediately after the crash was "exemplary," as Mr. Strang put it. But since then, they say, they have experienced a sense of broken trust. Several said they felt betrayed by the airline, a company steeped in tradition that has prided itself on more than 50 years of selecting and grooming pilots in a rigorous process that includes medical and psychological assessments. "They owe us an explanation of how they allowed a sick monster to sit in the cockpit," Mrs. Strang said, her voice breaking. She said she could not sleep at night or make it through the day without medications. Mrs. Strang quit her job as a sports teacher when Steffen was born, devoting herself to the child she and her husband feared they would never have. They remained close even as he grew from a contented, good-natured child to a conscientious, outgoing teenager with an easy way around strangers. "He was like that, always saying 'please' and 'thank you,' and still wanting to spend time with us, joining us for breakfast on the weekend," his mother said. The pictures show a tall, blond boy with sparkling eyes and an easy smile. He was full of energy, his mother said, but from an early age displayed a patience that made him excel as a fisherman. "He told me, 'When I hit puberty, I promise not to be stupid,' " Mrs. Strang said. "He kept his promise." The Strangs are haunted by thoughts of how their son spent his final 10 and a half minutes, from when Mr. Lubitz programmed the Airbus to descend to an altitude of 100 feet until it crashed into the mountain. "Steffen had flown many times," said Mr. Strang, a mechanic who refurbished a scooter as a present for his son's 15th birthday. "He was smart. He would have known if something was amiss." Everyone places their trust in the airline, pilot and crew when they board a plane, said Oliver, 41, whose wife, Sonja, was known by students for being as fair as she was demanding. He asked that his last name, which is different from that of his wife, not be published for privacy reasons. "The breach of that trust, through their pilot and the decision he made, I have the feeling they just want to avoid that," he said. Oliver and Mr. Strang said that from the moment Lufthansa used a text message to inform the families on May 21 that the return of their relatives' remains would be delayed, they have felt shunted aside by the airline. Lufthansa defended the decision to communicate via text message, saying it was preferred by some of the families and was the fastest and most efficient way to reach the 1,000 people they needed to inform. Like the Strangs, Oliver is troubled by thoughts of his wife alone on the plane. Both he and Sonja's father, Josef Cercek, recalled that she did not like to fly. But Sonja's mother had died of breast cancer at 38, and Sonja was haunted by a sense of life's brevity, they said. She wanted to see as much of the world as she could, and maintain her connections with Spain, a country she fell in love with as a student and returned to each year. "She was a curious person, the opposite of a couch potato," Oliver said, sitting in their rooftop apartment decorated with photos of their travels: Spanish beaches and soccer games, posing with a police officer in Manhattan. They were married last October and planned to honeymoon on the West Coast of the United States, but they wanted time to explore so they put off their trip until the school year ended. "We were supposed to fly on July 4 and get there in time to join the celebration," he said. Mr. Cercek, 71, says he is focusing on the future, though he misses the daughter he raised alone after his wife died when Sonja was 7, believing that she would want him to carry on. That, along with knowing that Sonja sat on the flight beside a student who adored her, has made his grief bearable, he said: "I like to think that at the end, she wasn't alone."
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EAST HAMPSTEAD, N.H. Despite his single-digit poll numbers and the dominance of another tough-talking candidate, Chris Christie is hearing a clear message from influential Republicans in the early voting states of New Hampshire and Iowa: Keep going. What he's not hearing are enough commitments. With Donald Trump still commanding the field and several other rivals apparently rising, the New Jersey governor has been quietly chugging along, holding nearly 30 town hall meetings in New Hampshire, for example. "Maybe he's the tortoise in this race," said Donna Sytek, a former speaker of the New Hampshire House whose support Christie is courting heavily. "He's authentic," she said. "He's not scripted. He'll tell you a story from his own experience that illustrates these serious issues." After he visited her hometown of Salem, Sytek told Christie he is in her 'top three.' She received a text back from Christie saying he'd prefer to be her No. 1. Still, Sytek hasn't committed. She's received phone calls from Jeb Bush, attended several events with Carly Fiorina and likes Marco Rubio and John Kasich. This is Christie's conundrum. Many top Republicans in early states are urging him to stick with it, but few are willing right now to give him endorsements that could bring credibility and momentum to his campaign. Christie's supporters say his poll numbers, low as they are, give them reason to hope he can catch on in early states. In a September CNN/WMUR New Hampshire Primary Poll, for example, half of likely GOP primary voters said they had a favorable opinion of the governor, up from 31 percent in June. Christie adviser Mike DuHaime says that shows the campaign's long-haul strategy is making headway in a chaotic, quickly evolving race. Christie has repeatedly dismissed his placement in the horse race, with so much time left before voting. "People in New Hampshire know that they don't have to decide right now," Christie said after a campaign event at a lumberyard during a recent three-day campaign swing. "We're going to continue to work to gain their trust and to gain their support and that's what campaigns are all about." Buoyed by a well-reviewed second debate performance and in response to voters' desire for an outsider candidate, Christie has subtly tweaked his message. He's changed the slogan of his town hall meetings from "Tell it like it is" to "Our Country, Our Presidency." And he has increasingly distanced himself from Washington, saying that he is the consummate outsider by virtue of being a Republican in Democrat-heavy New Jersey. He's also signaled plans to spend more time in Iowa. Last month, six influential Republicans in Iowa announced their support for Christie. In New Hampshire, his campaign is steadily rolling out lists of support from activists. The lists often lack big names, but several Republican leaders are behind him, such as Merrimack County Sheriff Scott Hilliard and Wayne McDonald, a former state party chairman. Hilliard, who joined Christie in July, said he's lobbying other law enforcement members to get behind Christie. Over lunch recently, he handed Christie a list of names and numbers and Christie began calling them. "The governor's ready to work for it," Hilliard said. Beverly Bruce, Mitt Romney's 2012 finance director in the state, held a house party for Christie in late August. She's not signing on with anyone yet but said that crowd gave him positive reviews. "Very influential people were very impressed with the thoughtfulness and thoroughness from the answers of the questions that were asked," she said. "People came up to him and to me and said, 'He's got my support.'" Jeb Bradley, the state Senate majority Leader, is another Republican receiving the full-court press from Christie and his team, which means personal phone calls and lunches. Bradley, who could run for governor next year, says Christie is working "exceptionally hard." "I haven't endorsed anybody, but he's certainly one of the top candidates that I'd want to see," Bradley said. GOP strategist Mike Dennehy, who led John McCain's 2000 primary victory here, said Christie is running one of the best campaigns in the state. "I would be one of those people to say 'Do not get out of the race,' if he has enough money to continue running," Dennehy said. Christie's campaign is one of the few that has yet to release fundraising details for the third quarter. His finance chairman, Ray Washburne, said last month that fundraising was going well, especially after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker left the race. Christie said: "I'm traveling, we're advertising, I'm paying bills. We're doing fine." Still, Fergus Cullen, a former state party chairman, said it's not a good sign that more people aren't committing to him. "When voters go see him, instead of being hooked and saying 'I think I found my person,' they're making plans to go see another candidate," Cullen said. Christie says he's not worried yet. "I love when they say yes, but I don't mind the courting," Christie said. "If they're not around in January, then I'll start to get a little nervous." ___ Colvin reported from Newark, New Jersey.
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On May 24, 2014, my fiancé, Andy, and I got married in New York City. Seven days later, we hopped on a plane with two carry-on suitcases and two one-way tickets to Paris. We had just pressed pause on our careers, sublet our apartment, moved all of our things into storage. The only plan was to have no plans at all and we ended up traveling for 394 days through 25 countries, stopping in nearly 100 destinations. Over the next few weeks, come along on this crazy journey to learn more about how we did it packing, plotting, budgeting and see some of the tens of thousands of photos we took along the way. As our Paris chapter concluded, we still didn't have a solid plan for what we wanted to see in Europe and for how long. We had to start thinking a bit more long-term and began to plot out destinations into a calendar. That framework shifted constantly, but it helped us to start budgeting our time. Sometimes our destination and direction was dictated by the cost of flights. If it was cheaper to backtrack or book a connecting flight, we did it. (That was why we ended up going from New Zealand back to Southeast Asia and finally onto Brazil.) We eventually decided to just start moving northeast, so we booked a high-speed train from Paris to Amsterdam. We usually took turns researching the upcoming country and deciding where to go, what to see, and how we'd do it all. Sorting those logistics took up so much time it became our full-time jobs. (Not that I'm complaining, it was a pretty epic day job!) Whenever we weren't sight-seeing, we were researching, making reservations, and planning transportation. I love the romantic idea of going wherever the wind takes you (and we definitely did that to a degree) but I love having a confirmed bunk with my name on it for a 15-hour overnight train ride from Agra to Varanasi, India even more. All of this sounds daunting, but traveling across the globe was honestly so much easier than I ever expected. We're incredibly fortunate to have had technology on our side. We used Airbnb every chance we could, and Booking.com became our go-to for hotel reservations, because they both have amazing cancellation policies. Kayak and Hipmunk are great for comparing flight prices. We shared Google calendars and spreadsheets with our families that outlined where we were staying in every country. We used our currency converter app daily. We even tried an app that could take a photo of any written text and translate it into English, which only worked 40% of the time but provided endless entertainment. And because we actually turned off our mobile service, and only used our phones when we caught free Wi-Fi, I couldn't live without the offline map app called Ulmon. (I even liked it better than Google's offline map.) With our Ulmon map guiding the way, we arrived in Amsterdam and made our way to De Pijp, the neighborhood we'd be staying in for the next three days. We met our lovely Airbnb hosts and immediately set out to explore the city. After two weeks in Paris, leaving the city was kind of surreal. It was the longest I'd stayed in any one place on a trip. We were just getting used to our new life of professional people-watching and picking up baguettes on our way home at the end of the day. Even when we arrived in Amsterdam, we were still in auto pilot saying oui and merci to everyone we interacted with. We found this to be a recurring theme throughout our journey. It's surprising how quickly you can adapt to new cultures, and when it's constantly being switched up you find yourself stumbling over what language to speak and what currency you should be using. For the record, our language skills do not exceed "yes," "no," "thank you," and "toilet." After 15 minutes out the door, I was already blown away by our new destination. Over a quarter of Amsterdam's surface is covered in waterways. It has over 60 miles of canals with three main canals that radiate out from the center in concentric rings. Go Google an aerial view of the city now and see what I mean. Pretty impressive. These canals are lined with trees, charming brick houses, and colorful houseboats. It felt like a quaint, friendly village more than a concrete metropolis. The first thing you really notice about the city is the bikes. It seems like they're covering every inch of it… And they rule the road. Unlike New York, the common jay walker in Amsterdam does not have some invisible force field around them. Boldly walking to the street or bike lane and assuming traffic will move around you is not advised. Bikes trump humans. We quickly joined the crowd and rented bikes for the duration of our stay. If you want to look like a local go with the leisure bike classic shape, slightly tattered, bell on the big U-shaped handlebars. Right around this time of the year, people from all over the world start gathering together to watch this strange sport where men kick around a ball with their feet. I think they call it "football," but they obviously mean soccer. The 2014 World Cup had begun as we started our trip, and we felt its presence strongly in every country we visited. Although I know the U.S. has its fair share of soccer fans, there's absolutely no comparing our passionate for this sport to the rest of the world. How did we get so out of the loop? Here, flags for the Holland football team line the downtown streets. I've heard that there's over 2,500 houseboats on the canals of Amsterdam. It was fascinating to see how people set up these floating little worlds. Some looked as if they had multiple stories, and many residents had figured out how to have terraces and gardens on their floating estates. Did you know that Heineken was established in Amsterdam in 1864? We actually didn't go into this old factory because it's been turned into the "Heineken Experience," which I read is a bit of an amusement park... But we did head over to Browerij 't IJ, a famous local brewery located at the base of a windmill, to sample its beers and snack on sheep's milk cheese, salami, and smoked ossenworst. Bikes, bikes, bikes, bikes, bikes... This is the famous Rijksmuseum, the national museum of Holland, housing art and history from the Middle Ages to today. It's a spectacular space, but I think people are even more in love with the "I amsterdam" sign in the front of building. Selfies galore. Sigh. De Pijp, which translates to 'The Pipe,' is a trendy, multicultural neighborhood and home one of the city's most famous markets, Albert Cuypmarkt. Packed with shops, cafes, bars and restaurants, the neighborhood's international vibe reminded us of being in home sweet New York. Andy was on a mission to find the best pickled herring in Amsterdam. We sampled the goods at Albert Cuypmarkt and the famous Stubbe's Haring food stand perched on the canal. This is the traditional approach bun, pickles, onions, miniature flag of the Netherlands? You may have think you've had a Stroopwafel before, but you really haven't until you've eaten one hot off the waffle iron in the streets of Amsterdam. This glorious treat is made up of two very thin waffles glued together with a caramel-like syrup. Yum. I read glowing reviews about the restaurant De Kas, so I was surprised when we were able to secure a day-of reservation for two. I honestly think it was that World Cup game. We were the only people in the city not watching it.The restaurant is located in a set of old greenhouses that date back to 1926. They grow their own vegetables and herbs onsite. The food was so fresh, so unique, so colorful and beautifully prepared. And if you can't tell by the pic, the ambiance was just as good. After dinner, we wandered the canals at night. It's a scene that's hard not to love. Then we made our way over to the Red Light District. This was such a strange experience. It's fame has very much made it a tourist attraction, but at the same time, it's business as usual… as it's been for hundreds of years. Because of this, you see families pushing strollers mixed in with the questionable characters who are actually there to buy sex. There are ice cream stands next to the rows of one-room cabins where half dressed prostitutes dance in the windows. It was a study in contrasts. The more you explore the city, the more you start to notice that the buildings seem to be leaning forward. My initial thought was that they've been sinking over time, but apparently they were intentionally built this way. The city is prone to flooding and these buildings have very narrow staircases. In order to move their large possessions to a higher floor, they installed a beam protruding from the roof with a hook. They would hang a wheel and rope and hoist their furniture up to the top floor. Now I think this building is leaning because it's over 300 years old. Fair enough. No really, there are a lot of bikes. Want to follow along on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure? Check R29 every Thursday and Saturday for the latest installment of the series!
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European soccer executive Platini will join world soccer chief Sepp Blatter in fighting lengthy bans. UEFA president Michel Platini has appealed his 90-day suspension imposed by FIFA amid the ongoing corruption investigation involving world soccer's governing body. MORE: U.S. vs. Mexico, 9:30 p.m. ET Saturday | Three keys for U.S. | Three keys for Mexico Platini and FIFA president Sepp Blatter were suspended Thursday, with Blatter accused of making a "disloyal payment" to Platini in 2011. Both men deny any wrongdoing. Blatter appealed his suspension on Friday . He also allegedly signed an "unfavorable" contract with the Caribbean Football Union in 2005 that market experts claim handed over World Cup television rights for a fraction of their market value. South American soccer leaders backed Platini's appeal. "The presumption of innocence is a fundamental right that has to be considered," CONMEBOL, the organization's acronym, said in a statement on its website. "Mr. Platini has not been found guilty of any charge, therefore the provisional ban jeopardizes the integrity of the electoral process to the FIFA presidency, of which Mr. Platini is a candidate." Platini had been in the running to replace Blatter as FIFA president but his bid appears in doubt following the week's events. Reports suggest FIFA's Executive Committee could postpone the elections scheduled for February 2016. FIFA confirmed Friday an extraordinary meeting would be held later this month, during which a possible postponement is likely to be discussed.
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Slack While you may have aspirations of starting your career in the tech world at a place like Google or Facebook, the best place to launch your career and ultimately maximize your net worth long term may actually be at mid-sized tech companies that are gaining momentum. At least that's what Wealthfront, an online financial investment management company, suggests . Companies like Warby Parker and Slack may not have revenue in the billions like Google just yet, but they already have a cult following and billion-dollar valuations that will likely project them to even bigger and better things. Why wouldn't you want to be on board for the ride? To help you find these promising tech companies, Wealthfront just released its 2016 Career-launching Companies List , which includes 136 companies with revenues between $20 million and $300 million that are on a trajectory to grow at a rate in excess of 50% over at least the next four years. Below are an unranked sampling of some of the great companies to consider applying to. For the full list, head over to Wealthfront . Birchbox is a beauty and grooming retailer based in New York City. Birchbox Bonobos is an e-commerce driven clothing brand based in New York, New York. Courtesy of Bonobos Blue Apron is a grocery delivery service company based in New York, New York. Blue Apron BuzzFeed is a social news and entertainment site based in New York, New York. Thomson Reuters Credit Karma offers free credit reports out of its headquarters in San Francisco, California. Credit Karma Eventbrite is an online events marketplace based in San Francisco, California. Courtesy of Eventbrite Evernote is a cross-device personal digital workspace based in Redwood City, California. Boonsri Dickinson GoFundMe is a crowd-funding platform for life events based in San Diego, California. Screenshot Via GoFundMe Hootsuite is an enterprise social media relationship platform based in Vancouver, Canada. Hootsuite Instacart is a grocery delivery service based in San Francisco, California. Instacart Luminosity offers online brain training programs out of its headquarters in San Francisco, California. Glassdoor/Lumosity Minted offers crowdsourced graphic designs and content out of its headquarters in San Francisco, California. Screenshot NastyGal is an online fashion destination that sells vintage clothing, shoes, and accessories based in Los Angeles, California. Nasty Gal via Vimeo NerdWallet is a personal finance content site based in San Francisco, California. NerdWallet Pinterest is a social bookmarking site that visually showcases user interests based in San Francisco, California. Business Insider / Jillian D'Onfro POPSUGAR is a content publication network specializing in entertainment, fashion, parenting, fitness, and food based in San Francisco, California. YouTube/FastCompany Postmates is an urban delivery service based in San Francisco, California. Postmates/Courtesy of Melia Robinson Rent The Runway offers designer dresses and accessory rentals out of its headquarters in New York, New York. Glassdoor/Rent The Runway Slack offers enterprise communications software out of its headquarters in San Francisco, California. Slack SnapChat is a photo and video messaging app based in Los Angeles, California. Youtube/Snapchat SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform for musicians and listeners based in San Francisco, California. Courtesy of Soundcloud Squarespace offers consumer-focused online publishing tools out of its headquarters in New York, New York. Daniel Goodman / Business Insider Upwork is an online staffing marketplace connecting freelancers with jobs based in Redwood City, California. Glassdoor/Upwork WordPress is a content management platform for blogs and websites based in Houston, Texas. Flickr Warby Parker is an online eyewear retailer based in New York, New York. Collin Hughes
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Western-backed rebels in Syria have been bombarded by Russian jets, US officials said, as Washington scrambled to come up with a response to Moscow's moves in Syria. Over the past week, Russia, an ally the Syrian government, has directed parts of its air campaign against US-funded groups in a concerted effort to weaken them, the officials told the AP news agency on Saturday. According to Russian foreign ministry on Friday, over 200 fighters were killed since its aerial campaign began last week. Russian officials have insisted they are bombing Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters and other "terrorist groups". But Al Jazeera's sources in Syria reported Russian air strikes in the suburbs of Idlib, Hama and Latakia all areas that have no ISIL presence and that are controlled by western-backed Free Syrian Army fighters and other rebel groups. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank tracking Moscow's strikes, also said the majority of targets were not ISIL, showing that "Russia's main objective in the Middle East is not the anti-ISIL fight". 'Narrow options' US Republican Representative Mike Pompeo, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, said the Russians "know their targets, and they have a sophisticated capacity to understand the battlefield situation". "They are bombing in locations that are not connected to the Islamic State (ISIL)" group, he told AP. On Friday, Washington announced it was abandoning a failed Pentagon effort to build a new ground force of "moderate" rebels after it had emerged over the past weeks that a $500m programme meant to train thousands of fighters had not fulfilled its objective. Just over 50 fighters were trained. Instead, the Pentagon said it would provide military equipment to existing groups. The administration had already ruled out the possibility of providing rebels with surface-to-air missiles that can down aircraft, fearing such weapons would end up in the wrong hands. Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, said the US should consider establishing a no-fly zone that allows rebels a safe place from which to operate. A no-fly zone would require the US military to be ready to engage in air battles with the Syrian government, something it is not prepared to do. In recent months, opposition factions, including western-backed groups, began to make progress in Syria's south and northwest, US officials said. Over the summer, rebels seized territory on the al-Ghab plain, in northwest Syria's Idlib and Hama governorates. The plain is a natural barrier between areas controlled by Sunni Muslims and the Alawite sect to which President Bashar al-Assad and his loyalists belong. The capture of the al-Ghab plain was seen by the rebels as a breakthrough toward weakening the Alawites. Those and other gains put Damascus, the capital, at risk, US officials said. US-Russia talks The US-led coalition continued to launch daily airstrikes against ISIL fighters in Syria. It has been pushing for an agreement with Russia on safety precautions in order to make sure no collisions or other incidents would happen between the two countries in the crowded skies over Syria. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said on Friday that a second round of talks between the two countries about the plan could take place as soon as this weekend. Russian planes last weekend crossed into Turkish airspace, triggering an immediate protest from Turkey and a vow from NATO that it will defend its member nation. A Russian aircraft also came within a few kilometres of an American drone. The Russians have complained about the narrow scope of the US talks, and Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov said Moscow wants broad discussions on international cooperation with the US-led coalition fighting ISIL.
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Organizers are planning about 20 anti-Muslim rallies this weekend across the USA, putting officials at many mosques on high alert and prompting many community leaders to urge Muslims to take precautions in case demonstrations turn violent. The goal of the Global Rally for Humanity, which is asking supporters to create a Facebook page for each protest planned, is to gather a group in front of every mosque in the country in part to counter a Nation of Islam rally in the District of Columbia to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. The number of mosques in the United States has risen from about 1,200 in 2000 to 2,100 five years ago, according to a study from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research titled The American Mosque 2011. Though the group's Facebook page lists no contacts, the Chicago-based Center for New Community identified Phoenix activist Jon Ritzheimer as the architect of the plan, and he has posted several videos on YouTube promoting the protest, according to the Montgomery-Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center. In May, when Ritzheimer staged a heavily armed protest outside the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, he had said he wanted to see similar rallies nationwide. "We've never had this many events targeting mosques in this kind of national way," Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in a conference call earlier this week. "This is widespread in a way that these things have not been before." The demonstrations underscore a growing anti-Islam movement in the U.S., which has been exacerbated by rhetoric on the presidential campaign trail and the refugee crisis in Europe, she said. "In one of their emails, they said they were going to bring 3,000 people to Washington, D.C., in front of our mosque, and they instructed them to bring their weapons," said Ibrahim Mumin, director of community relations for Masjid Muhammad mosque. "Well, we consider that kind of a threat." Officials at the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country's largest Muslim advocacy group, are urging Muslims to request police presence Friday and Saturday at their houses of worship to deter any violence and are asking them to take video of any protesters without provoking them. More than a dozen Muslim organizations announced Friday that they are launching a voter-registration campaign with an initial goal of signing up 20,000 new voters the Super Tuesday presidential primaries March 1. The voter-registration events will take place at mosques and Islamic community centers nationwide and will be open to the non-Muslim public, Council on American-Islamic Relations officials said. Though almost three dozen anti-Islam events were planned in cities across the country, several have been canceled, said Kalia Abiade, advocacy director at Center for New Community. Others have restricted access to their Facebook pages. Global Rally for Humanity's national Facebook page had about 2,000 "likes" as of late Friday afternoon. And individual rally pages had fewer than 100 people who said they would be attending local events. In Dearborn, Mich., where more than 40% of the population is of Arab descent, rally organizers originally were planning to protest outside the Islamic Center of America but were not able to get permits. They now plan to rally near Dearborn's City Hall. "As we have learned from experience in the past, the best way for the average person in our community to handle these incidents is to ignore them," Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly wrote Friday on the city's website. "The demonstration is not really a forum for honest dialogue, and anything that intensifies emotions will only intensify conflict." Dearborn has seen several anti-Islam protests in the past five years. Its annual Arab Festival was canceled in the past two years because tensions with anti-Islam groups resulted in higher insurance costs. In lawsuits, some Christian groups have accused the city of not respecting free-speech rights. In Florence, Ky., police Capt. Tom Grau said his department will treat the rally "like any other protest." On Saturday, police will meet with those gathering outside the Islamic Center of Northern Kentucky, and officers will tell the demonstrators what they can and can't do. Then Florence Police will provide extra patrols. In Phoenix, Usama Shami, president of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, said typically his mosque has no activities planned on Saturday mornings. During prayer services Friday, community leaders planned to make an announcement to say a demonstration is planned and they should remain vigilant, he said. "When you have angry people with guns, you always worry that a loose cannon will do harm," Shami said. In the Dallas area, Alia Salem of CAIR's Dallas-Fort Worth chapter said her group has alerted mosques and police in the area to the protests but credits those of all faiths for supporting area Muslims during times of trial. "Despite all of these attempts to unnerve the Muslim community and make them fearful and afraid, it never ends up amounting to anything except we become closer," she said. Contributing: Daniel González and EJ Montini, The Arizona Republic; Garrett W. Haake, WUSA-TV, Washington; Terry DeMio, The Cincinnati Enquirer; and Jobin Panicker, WFAA-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) assailed the foreign policy of President Obama in an interview Friday, calling the commander in chief "delusional." "I mean, Syria is on fire, Iraq is on fire, Egypt is under martial law, Yemen is on fire, Lebanon is on fire with Hezbollah and Hamas shooting rockets into Israel, and he has put Iran on the path to nuclear weapons," Christie said on Fox News Radio's "Kilmeade & Friends ." "That's leadership?" the 2016 GOP presidential candidate added. "That's success?" "If he thinks that's successful foreign policy then maybe he should do all of us a favor [and] start building his library now and leave office early." Christie added that he finds Obama's repeated defense of his decisions in Syria disheartening, given the deteriorating situation there. "It's a success that 250,000 people have been murdered at the hands of their own government?" he asked, citing Syrian President Bashar Assad's fight with rebel factions. "It's a success that millions of people are running for their lives to other countries in the Middle East and Europe?" Christie also asked, referencing the ongoing flood of refugees fleeing Syria. The Pentagon announced on Friday it is scrapping its $500 million program to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels for combating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The major policy shift follows reports last week that Russia is escalating its air strikes in Syria on behalf of Assad's government. Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have repeatedly clashed over Syria's civil war. Putin has taken steps to prop up Assad, who is a long-time ally of Russia. Obama, meanwhile, has repeatedly stated that Assad's government is no longer legitimate.
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Immerse yourself in the gorgeous landscapes, creepy atmospherics and mysterious stories of these popular hidden object games for Windows 10.
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U.S. equities moved higher again on Friday the eighth gain in nine days as investors continue to warm to the idea of no interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this year. The session was relatively quiet, with a number of Fed officials filling the headlines with speech excerpts. Overall, folks are waiting for the Q3 earnings season to heat up next week before placing the big bets. In the end, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2%, the S&P 500 gained 0.1%, the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.4%, and the Rfussell 2000 gained 0.2%. Gold gained more than 1%, crude oil added 0.2% to close at $49.51 a barrel, and the U.S. dollar lost 0.5%. Technology stocks led the way with a 0.5% gain while energy stocks were the laggards, down 0.7%. Alcoa (AA) lost 6.8% after reporting weaker-than-expected results on Thursday night. Gap (GPS) lost 5.3% after reporting inline September comp-store sales, but results from Banana Republic and Old Navy disappointed. United Airlines (UAL) gained 6.6% after increasing Q3 margin guidance to 16-17% from 13.5-15.5% previously. The upward momentum continued in the wake of the Thursday afternoon release of the September Federal Reserve meeting minutes, which reinforced the notion that policymakers remain concerned about a number of factors including too-low inflation, global financial turbulence and the ongoing drag on net exports and corporate earnings from a strong dollar suggesting rate liftoff isn't likely to happen this year. 7 Blue-Chip Stocks for a Santa Claus Rally Currently, futures market odds put the first rate hike in March 2016. In comments today, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said he expects the Fed policy rate to be below 1% in late 2016 and expects inflation below 2% by the end of 2018. He added that headwinds on inflation were unlikely to subside before the middle of 2016, adding further evidence to the early to mid-2016 rate liftoff window timing. Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker, a policy hawk, talked up the strength of the labor market and the growing risk of continuing with monetary policy at full stimulus. He added that inflation could quickly return to the Fed's 2% target once the impact from lower energy prices and raw material input prices fade. And finally, Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer reminded everyone the Summary of Economic Projections following the September Fed policy meeting showed 13 of 17 officials forecast a rate hike in 2015; although, it must be said, this came before the release of a very soft September payroll report last Friday. Fischer added that the Fed is paying increasing attention to international events (read: the situation in China) and while their mandate is based on U.S. economic performance, they don't want to do damage to the global economy. Add it all up, and it looks like the Fed is going to wait until the New Year before tightening policy clearing the way for an epic end-of-year Santa Claus rally. Anthony Mirhaydari is founder of the Edge and Edge Pro investment advisory newsletters. Free two- and four-week trial offers have been extended to InvestorPlace readers. More From InvestorPlace 7 Top-Rated Stocks Under $10 Can Apple Pay REALLY Be the Next Catalyst for AAPL? The post Stocks Post Best Week in a Year appeared first on InvestorPlace .
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If you've made red wine your go-to adult beverage because you think it's the healthiest alcohol or because you associate beer drinking with Homer Simpson, fraternity parties and a bloated gut it's time to rethink your drink. Swedish research has found that beer may protect your heart. The study, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, followed 1,500 women for nearly 50 years, charting their intake of beer, wine, and spirits and their ensuing incidence of heart attacks, stroke, diabetes and cancer. By the end of the study, the women who drank beer "moderately" which the researchers defined as once or twice a week at most were 30% less likely to suffer a heart attack compared to both heavy drinking and abstainers. "This study suggests that when consumed a couple of times a week, beer may lower heart attack risk more so than wine," says Andrea Giancoli, RD, an L.A.-based registered dietitian and beer enthusiast. "We don't know yet if there are 'magic' ingredients or compounds in beer. But beer does contain a complex of nutrients that may possibly play some role in helping avert atherosclerosis, the hardening of the arteries that can lead to heart attack and stroke, if and that's a big IF it's consumed in moderation and responsibly." (Looking to take back control of your health? While it's really too early to make any specific recommendations, these findings echo earlier studies, including one in 2013 from the Greek Harokopio University, showing that beer increased the flexibility of arteries; and one in 2011 in the European Journal of Epidemiology in which beer came out ahead of wine in terms of cardiovascular protection wine was 31% protective at 21 g a day, and beer was 42% protective at 43 g a day. Key nutrients might make beer a heart-healthy choice if you drink moderately. According to the USDA, that's one 12-ounce bottle of beer a day for women, two for men. "Just don't save up all seven drinks for Friday night," Giancoli says, "or you'll overload your body, erase any potential health benefits, and possibly even cause damage." Check out these other health perks it's associated with, and our suggestions for the brews that deliver: It's linked to lower kidney stone risk. Beer is up to 93% water, by some estimates. "It's heads and tails above wine in terms of water content," Giancoli says. "You get a lot more fluid, so it's more hydrating, and that may have some protective effect." Beer can also have a diuretic effect, which may be why beer drinkers seem to have a lower risk of kidney stones than those who go for the harder stuff. It's been speculated that hops may also slow the leak of calcium from bones, which is linked to kidney stones. In a 2013 analysis, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that regular beer swillers had a 41% lower risk of developing kidney stones. Brew to buy: Go for the lighter beers, which have the most water. Giancoli suggests Samuel Adams Light Lager and Pacifico, a Mexican pilsner, both great-tasting drinks that have less than 140 calories. Beer may contribute to bone strength. Silicon, or orthosilicic acid, may fortify the skeleton. When a team at the University of California, Davis, analyzed 100 commercial brews, they found that the hoppier beers were a significant source of dietary silicon, which helps promote bone formation. Two beers may provide as much as 30 mg of the nutrient most people get 20 to 50 mg per day. An earlier study from Tufts Medical Center showed that men and postmenopausal women who drank 1 to 2 drinks a day had greater bone mineral density in their hips and spine than non-drinkers. Hoppy beers, like pale-colored malts have more silica than the darker brews. Brew to buy: India Pale Ale (IPA), with 41.2 mg of silicon, per the Tufts study. Drinkers have a lower risk of type 2 diabetes. Since drinking beer increases the production of bile, it can help us digest fatty food more efficiently. In a 2011 study from Harvard School of Public Health, middle-aged men who upped their beer habit to one or two glasses per day saw their risk for type 2 diabetes fall by 25% over four years. The researchers chalk up the effect to improved blood glucose levels and increased levels of adiponectin, a hormone that boosts insulin sensitivity. Brew to buy: Michelob ultra amber, a red beer that's low in calories (114) and carbs (3.7 g). ...And lower cholesterol levels. Though you won't find this info on the label the USDA Nutrient Database lists beer's fiber content as zero a Spanish study confirmed that beer contains beta-glucans, a type of soluble fiber that's been shown to lower cholesterol. Dark brews may contain up to 3.5 grams of soluble fiber per liter and lagers contain up to 2. "The darker the beer, the more fiber it may have," Giancolo says, so choose stouts and porters to fiber up. Brew to buy: Guinness Draught, a traditional Irish stout with 3-plus grams of fiber, compared with the 2 grams or less found in lighter beers. There are actual nutrients in there. Beer contains calcium, magnesium, selenium, phosphorus, iodine, potassium and heart-healthy B vitamins B6, B12 and folate. "A regular beer has about 3% of the recommended adult intake of vitamin B-12, making this beverage one of the very few plant sources of this important nutrient," Giancoli says. "That's good news for vegetarians." One 12-ounce brew also provides around 12.5% of your daily dose of B6. Brew to buy: Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus, a Belgian beer loaded with raspberries and extra vitamin C for a crisp fruity flavor and big antioxidant punch, or Lambrucha, a tart lemony beer that's combined with kombucha tea for extra vitamins B and C. Beer could help prevent sun damage. Thanks to barley and hops, beer also contains phytonutrients, namely ferulic acid. This plant compound is a powerful antioxidant that may scavenge free radicals in the body before they can start causing oxidative damage. While there are phytonutrients in other foods we eat every day tomatoes, corn and rice bran, for example research shows that we absorb it better from beer. Brew to buy: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, which is heavy on the hops, so it has more phytochemicals, or Japanese Green Tea IPA, grown with a variety of French and Japanese hops.
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If I learned anything from Lena Kaligaris, my favorite character in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants , it's that a single trip can majorly change your life. Time and again in my personal experience this has proven true in a tangible way - perhaps most profoundly when it comes to romantic relationships. Travel has a way of bringing out the extremes in people, from the worst parts of their character to the absolute best. For this reason, traveling as a couple can be the ultimate test of a relationship; it helps couples discover the realest aspects of one another. Here are 13 other reasons why traveling as a couple should be a major priority in romantic relationships: 1. It puts you both out of your comfort zone: If you're traveling somewhere new to both of you, the experience becomes extremely immersive. Sure, you can learn a lot about a boyfriend when he shows you around his hometown, but the true discoveries about his character will come when you're each out of your element! Whether it's a language barrier that you have to tackle together, a missed train in a foreign country, or a declined credit card when you're trying to make your way home, the challenges you'll experience together will be an amazing bonding experience. 2. It gives you the chance to ask tough questions: Long drives in the car, airplane trips, train rides, hikes, and sailing excursions are a wonderful time to have deep discussions. Don't be afraid to ask him about his childhood, future goals, or past girlfriends during these moments! 3. It's a great opportunity for compromise: Planning trips can be a polarizing experience; for example, you might discover that your boyfriend has a serious love of history museums that doesn't really allow for your desire to explore every used bookstore in the city. When situations like this arise, it's important that you and your significant other find a compromise that pleases both of you. It might mean skipping the museums and bookstores altogether for a riverboat ride, or perhaps mapping out a couple of bookstores to visit on the walk to the museum he's dying to see. 4. It gives you insight into their preparation style: Observing your boyfriend as he plans, packs, and saves money for your trip together can give you a major peek into the way he handles important undertakings. If organizing a trip to the Grand Canyon is enough to make him frantic and irritable, how will he handle a wedding ? 5. You see them in their least flattering moments: There's nothing quite like the realization that your boyfriend doesn't allow food in his new car, enjoys tuning in to political talk radio on long stretches of road, and gets terrible indigestion after eating Taco Bell. 6. You'll see how they really treat others: Ask any flight attendant, and they'll agree: traveling can bring out some people's shocking personality traits. The combination of exhausting jet-setting and culture shock can bring out some deeply hidden character flaws, so pay close attention to how he acts toward waiters, flight attendants, hotel guest service representatives, and other service personnel during your time on the road together. 7. New experiences together trump old, tainted ones: You may have visited Tahiti with your ex, but the disastrous breakup definitely spoiled that memory. Traveling with your new significant other is a great way to leave negative experiences in the past and create new memories. 8. Financial cooperation is an important lesson: If things are serious with your partner, traveling can be a wonderful way to practice the type of financial cooperation that is necessary for marriage and/or cohabitation. Setting a budget and sticking to it can be quite tough, so let this trip be a practice run for your life together! 9. Traveling gets you out of your "couple bubble": It can be easy to get into a regular routine with your significant other, whether it's grabbing takeout every Wednesday or deciding on a Netflix movie every night. This has its benefits, but it's always healthy to break out of such routines every so often! Let travel be the game-changer, allowing you both a break from the everyday monotony that can become stifling at home. 10. They might just surprise you: Did you know that your boyfriend speaks conversational Mandarin, or that he is well-versed in Thai folklore? These are the types of fun discoveries that can happen while abroad with your partner, and make traveling that much more exciting. 11. It'll help tackle the "kids" question (and other important life decisions): You and your significant other may find that travel is something you deeply enjoy and that you want to do more of it together. If that's the case, it is important to discuss life decisions that may hinder your travel goals, such as having kids or adopting a fourth cat. 12. You'll probably argue, and that's not a bad thing: As awesome is traveling with a companion can be, it also has the potential to drive you crazy. You and your significant other may find yourselves griping during the trip , but you can use it as practice in problem-solving, communication, apologizing, and giving personal space! 13. It's fun: The very best part of traveling with your partner is, of course, the incredible amounts of fun that you can have together. Seeing the world as a couple is an indescribable experience that can bond you unlike anything else, which is one of the most important reasons for you to travel with your significant other.
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Glen Dodd's 160-mph '48 Plymouth won't win any car shows, but it'll clean house on many cars that can. OK, consider this a poke in the eye to the readers who took issue with our cover feature on the Derelict '52 Chrysler/DeSoto wagon. While we'll take some deserved heat for calling it a beater when it should have been labeled a rat cruiser, the fact remains that Icon 4x4's driver was one of the coolest, most functional cars we've driven in a long time, even if it didn't have pretty paint and the latest 20-inch wheels. Get over it. Are rat rods just un-pretty hot rods with minimal attention to fit and finish as a trade-off to get the things on the road and enjoy them, or are they a conglomeration of junk held together with bubblegum welds, wood screws, and coat hanger spiderwebs put together strictly to draw attention to themselves? Since the popularity of the trend has made the label all-encompassing, like Kleenex and Band-Aid, it's probably a bit of both at this point. Because of the generic use of the term, the Derelict and this car, Glen Dodd's '48 Plymouth business coupe, will no doubt be called rat rods, even though they really aren't. They're just not pretty by the standard definition. Follow MSN Autos on Facebook Glen is a longtime competitor in the One Lap of America race, running the event for more than 20 years with co-drivers Mike Stein (17 years) and Charles Lovelady (10 years). In that time, Glen has developed a reputation for not only being a fierce competitor, but for also building clean, detailed race cars in his Carolina Rod Shop, located in Piedmont, South Carolina. This car is not a show-stopper, but it was built to race, not win beauty contests. "We placed Third in our class (Early American) both years we ran this car," Dodd says. "We would have won, but it rained a lot both years, and those wide tires just kept coming around on the wet tracks. When it was dry, we would win. When it was wet, we lost." Glen's wife bought the Plymouth as a Christmas present for him 3 years ago because they had one when they got married back in 1956 (if you're in the middle of doing the math, Glen is 73 years old), and she wanted Glen to restore it for old time's sake. "The floors were gone, the inner fenders and rockers were rotted away, and the body was rusty," Glen says. "I told her I could find one for $8,000 and it'd be done, but I'd have twice that in restoring it." More classic cars on MSN Autos The last owner also threw in the towel on a restoration, but not before sanding the body to bare metal and pushing it outside, letting it sit for five years while it grew a thick coat of hairy surface rust. "I just sanded the rust down with a 7-inch grinder and got rid of the high spots," Glen says with a laugh. "BASF told me they were developing a paint to go right over rust. We just blew it off and wiped it down with lacquer thinner before shooting the clear." So yeah, the rust brown paint is really brown rust. "It's held up really well. It only came off where I peeled off the stickers." Glen built floors, rockers, and a complete trunk before fabricating a rollcage, finishing the interior with carpet, insulation, a simple sound system, race harnesses for the track and three-point shoulder harnesses for the road, and a sideways-mounted jump seat in the back for the third man. Early in his racing endeavors Glen realized there was no need to reinvent the wheel, so other than an '06 Dodge Magnum, his six One Lap cars have employed Corvette suspensions and small-block Chevy engines. He started with the original '48 frame and adapted a complete ZR1 front suspension, while the Vette's aluminum, Dana 44 based, 3.73-geared IRS was grafted on after kicking the rear framerails inboard a couple of inches. The Corvette also gave up its sway bars, coilovers, 14-inch/two-piston front and 13.5-inch/single-piston rear disc brakes, master cylinder, and power booster. Its 17x9.5 and 17x11.5 wheels tucked under the fenders without narrowing anything, Glen tells us, "but I stretched the wheelbase back a couple inches, so I redid the rear wheel opening," moving it back and recutting the radius to make tire changes possible. BFGoodrich 285-40ZR17s are currently at the corners, but for hot laps he runs 275/40ZR17s and 315/35ZR17s there's plenty of room inboard. Power is from a '99 Camaro LS1 topped with a Magna Charger, backed by the Camaro's six-speed. It's ugly, but nimble, fast, and reliable, going more than 50,000 miles without incident. The same can't be said for Glen, however, who was forced to miss the '10 One Lap because he was being put back together after falling through a skylight on the roof of his shop. The fall was good for a full set of broken ribs, four holes in each lung, a broken sternum, broken pelvis, bruised heart, and dislocated shoulder and he hit something on the way down that poked a hole in the back of his noggin. He shouldn't have even made it to the hospital, but once there they gave him two days. One year to the day later, he was hitting 100 mph showing us what the Plymouth can do. "It took me 90 days to get my license back," he tells us. Most people leave the hospital after something like that with a prescription for really good pain meds, but Glen left with a prescription for a driver's test. "If you think the DMV is bad, you haven't seen anything," he says. Apparently, a driving test from the hospital for a septuagenarian patched together with bailing wire and JB Weld is a grueling, all-day affair, though he passed it handily. We can only imagine what they'd think if he showed up in the Plymouth to take the test. Chances are they'd have ordered a psych exam.
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The burger, which hit stores on October 1, is available only in Germany, and only for seven weeks. It features a 100 percent organic beef patty - in German, "bio" means organic, thus the name: McB. This in itself has sparked criticism, with some crying deceptive advertising. Yet, organically produced beef is certainly better for the environment than conventional beef. The McB was also released on the heels of another new McDonald's Germany offering: a veggie burger. Are these signs that the fast food chain is going green? Not fully organic Joyce Moewius, a press officer with the German Association of Organic Farmers, criticized McDonald's Germany as profiting off the valuable organic label - without offering a truly organic burger. "Organic has a high reputation - McDonald's Germany is trying to improve its image," Moewius told DW. "The rest of the burger stays conventionally produced, unfortunately," she added. European Union organic standards include not just use of organic - and regionally sourced - feed. There is a whole range of considerations for livestock, including welfare of the animal, minimizing pollution from waste, and limited use of antibiotics. Hans Hahne, a businessman who runs 14 McDonald's franchises in the Cologne/Bonn region, emphasized that the patty is indeed the only organic ingredient. "The first segmentation for organic was the beef, as that's the piece that's most important to people," he told DW. At one of his McDonald's franchises in Bonn, Germany, Hahne demonstrated how the organic beef patty must be separately stored and cooked. "The quarter-pounder patty is completely round, and the organic or 'bio' patty has an irregular shape," Hahne said. It would have been logistically difficult - and expensive - to maintain separate organic lettuce, tomatoes, buns and so on, McDonald's said in its defense. "Even down to the ground pepper - that's a grown vegetable that we also would have to look at," said Hahne. Why Germany? McDonald's Germany spokesperson Philipp Wachholz described the move as a response to consumer trends. "Veggie and organic are very big trends in Germany, and we are just responding to those trends," Wachholz told DW. "People would also like to have meat from the region here in Germany," he added. All the organic beef for the McB was sourced in Germany and Austria. Stephanie Töwe, a sustainable agriculture campaigner with Greenpeace Germany, also sees the move as a response to public sentiment - not only in Germany, but across Europe as well, over the past decade or so. "People want to know: Where is my food coming from, who is producing it - they talk about social standards, about ecological standards, about animal welfare standards," Töwe told DW. The market has changed - especially in Germany, Töwe said. The greater diversity of products - including more eco-friendly offerings - is pushing the fast-food company to develop itself, she believes. "I think McDonald's realized if it really wants to survive the next 40 years, it has to change, to become greener," Töwe said. Big players influence market More broadly, the new McDonald's Germany products are the more recent end of a long development. And such changes can have broad impact - take, for example, the soy moratorium. In response to a Greenpeace report on deforestation in the Amazon, in 2006 McDonald's stopped sourcing chicken feed from newly cleared rainforest. At the beginning of this year, a study found that this policy had drastically reduced Amazon deforestation in the soy sector, from 30 percent to 1 percent. "Of course, big players can have an influence on the market," Moewius said. If the organic McDonald's burger were to become established, this would increase demand of organic commodities on a large scale, and could promote organic agriculture in the EU. McDonald's Germany said that depends on customer response. "Until now, the first feedback is positive," Wachholz said. "A lot of McDonald's markets are watching our promotion very closely right now," he added - indicating potential for expansion beyond Germany. And success for a burger, of course, also depends on how it tastes. To get a truly rounded report, this reporter had to bite in. The verdict? The fresh lettuce and somewhat heartier bun made an appealing impression. Although the meat was perhaps a bit dry, the special sauce brought it all together. Lovin' it? Not sure about that. But all in all, pretty good. Author: Sonya Angelica Diehn, Bonn, Germany Editor: Carla Bleiker
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The Britain-based war monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the conflict via a network of sources in Syria, said Friday that "Islamic State" ("IS") fighters were within a few kilometers of the northern edges of Aleppo. "IS has never been so close to the city of Aleppo, and this is its biggest advance towards [it]," Observatory spokesman Rami Abdurrahman told the AFP news agency. The monitoring group said several villages close to the city had already been seized from rival insurgents by "IS" since Thursday night. Aleppo is Syria's largest city and before the war was the country's commercial capital. Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are positioned just outside Aleppo, in the Shiekh Najjar industrial district. Army cook Mozzafar, 32, who was near Shiekh Najjar, said while civilians in northern parts of Aleppo had moved further south in anticipation of violence, the army was not afraid. "We have the Russian army and planes to protect us," he told AFP by phone. "We think 'IS' is clever enough not to attack the Syrian army because there would be a huge reaction from Russia." Battles on many fronts Russia has carried out its most intense raids in Syria so far in its 10-day air and sea bombing campaign. The Russian Defense Ministry said it had hit more than 60 "terrorist targets" in the past 24 hours. In total, Russia reported killing about 300 militants. Citing intercepted radio communications, the Russian military reported killing two high-ranking Islamic State field commanders. The "IS" gains have been made despite the Russian airstrikes. The Russian air and sea campaign, which Moscow said targeted "Islamic State," has also struck other anti-Assad groups, some of which are backed by Western and Gulf Arab nations and themselves have been fighting against "IS." Western leaders have accused Moscow of focusing more on boosting its ally Assad, whose forces have launched a ground offensive against rebel groups, than battling IS. "Daesh has exploited the Russian air strikes and the preoccupation of the (rebel) Free Syrian Army in its battles in Hama, and advanced in Aleppo," one rebel commander with fighters in the region said, using an alternative name for "IS." Separately, a senior Iranian general, Hossein Hamedani, was reported to have been killed near Aleppo late Thursday. Which party is responsible for his death remains unclear. The war in Syria began in 2011 as an uprising against Assad's rule but quickly escalated into a multi-faceted conflict involving government troops and a host of rebel groups including extremist groups like "IS," Kurdish forces, and Western-backed rebels. Assad's key allies include Russia and Iran, while the United States, Saudi Arabia and several Gulf Arab states have backed the rebels. The US has been carrying out airstrikes against "IS" in Syria and Iraq for the past year. Washington is due to overhaul its program for training Syrian rebels. The fighting has killed some 250,000 people and forced about 4 million Syrians to flee their country. se/sms (AFP, AP, Reuters)
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Fix Managing Editor Aaron Blake runs down the top five contenders for House Speaker John Boehner's job now and says why they might - or might not be the one to win.
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What does Miss Universe 2012 think of the sexy Donald Trump costume? Plus, find out her party plans and what costumes she might wear
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After USC fell to Washington on Thursday, speculation began that Chip Kelly could replace Steve Sarkisian as the Trojans head coach if their struggles continue. Are you buying the rumors?
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This young Chicago Cubs fan went above and beyond with a crazy real haircut bearing the image of star pitcher Jake Arrieta this week. Endless props to that barber. A night after chucking a complete-game shutout against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League Wild Card Game, the 29-year-old caught wind of the 'do: Wow, that is pretty awesome. https://t.co/YJukNKYj8n Jake Arrieta (@JArrieta34) October 9, 2015 [Twitter, h/t BSO ]
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An Italian adult movie star is opening a school that intends to help students learn how to better perform on camera in porno flicks. Patrick Jones (@Patrick_E_Jones) explains.
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General Electric Co (GE.N) is in advanced talks to sell a specialty finance portfolio, worth more than $30 billion, to Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N), according to a person familiar with the matter, as the industrial conglomerate returns to its roots. Wells Fargo has so far outbid other parties for General Electric's vendor financing, commercial distribution finance and direct lending assets, the person with direct knowledge of the situation said on Friday. A deal could be announced by the time Wells Fargo publishes its third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, the person added, cautioning that the negotiations were ongoing and could still fall apart. The source asked not to be identified because the matter is confidential. GE and Wells Fargo representatives declined to comment. The sale of the loans would leapfrog GE well past its target of shedding about $100 billion worth of finance assets by the end of this year. The company unveiled its latest divestment agreement on Monday - for its North American corporate aircraft financing portfolio - bringing its total deals to date related GE Capital to $97 billion. GE announced in April it would sell off some $200 billion in GE Capital financing assets as it focuses more on its manufacturing of industrial goods, setting off a series of transactions for the U.S. conglomerate. GE Capital's commercial distribution finance offers lending to dealers and manufacturers of durable goods, such as boats, recreational vehicles and off-road vehicles. Direct lending provides asset-based loans and equipment leasing to a range of mid-size and larger companies. Vendor finance allows larger networks of equipment dealers networks to offer third-party financing to buyers of equipment such as office imaging, construction, material handling and technology. GE's overhaul attracted fresh attention earlier this week, when activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management revealed it had taken a $2.5 billion stake in the company. Wells Fargo's CFO John Shrewsberry told Reuters in a July interview that portions of GE's Commercial Loans and leases portfolio would "fit nicely" with Wells Fargo's businesses. With this transaction, Wells Fargo would add more interest-bearing assets to its already large lending portfolio. Since GE has begun to sell its finance assets earlier this year, Wells Fargo has also agreed to purchase both GE's railcar leasing business and purchased a portion of commercial real estate loans worth $9 billion. (Reporting by Mike Stone in New York; Additional reporting by Lewis Krauskopf and John Tilak in Toronto; Editing by Leslie Adler, Bernard Orr)
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It would be hard to find a place and time that better encapsulates the United States in 2015 than Friday in this tiny timber town 180 miles south of Portland. President Obama flew in on Marine One shortly after noon on a condolence mission to this grief-stricken community, where he met privately with victims of last week's mass shooting at Umpqua Community College. Nine dead. Nine injured. "Mourning in Roseburg," read the headline in Friday's Register-Guard. Marine One was met by a phalanx of demonstrators outside of Roseburg Regional Airport, some carrying holstered pistols, most waving signs with similar messages: "United We Stand...Obama We Fail." "Can you hear me now? Go Home!" "Don't Mess With My Guns!" The president's visit to Oregon came only hours after an 18-year-old freshman at Northern Arizona University opened fire on a group of students after a parking lot altercation, leaving one dead and three injured. Meanwhile, a gunman outside a Texas Southern University dorm shot a student to death and injured another person later Friday morning. "I've obviously got very strong feelings about this," Obama said after meeting with families of those killed last week in Roseburg. "We're going to have to come together as a country, but today is about the families," the president said. "What we're doing now is not working," said Lackey, one of the few demonstrators who showed up to support Obama. "We have to do something to get guns out of the wrong hands. This slaughter has to stop." Don Moody, an aircraft machinist who drove five hours from Seattle to wave a sign at Obama's arrival, couldn't agree more. "The Second Amendment Protects the First," read his sign, which was festooned with two tiny American flags. "It comes down to this," Moody said. "We don't want quantity of guns. We want quality of guns-in the right hands at the right time." Local officials say the president is welcome, but that sentiment is not universal. Some residents in this conservative timber town about 180 miles south of Portland have accused the president of using the Oct. 1 rampage to justify gun control. On Friday morning the autumn sun was already heating up the asphalt in front of the Roseburg Regional Airport as dozens of sign-carrying demonstrators took their places before the touchdown of Obama's Marine One helicopter at the local airport. A small group of sixty-something activists struggled with three 4-foot by 8-foot panels, each with a single word. The small crowd around them tried to help, but agreement was hard to come by. Should it be "Go Home Obama" or "Obama Go Home"? Rick Breen, a retired Army veteran, carried two signs. The smaller one said simply, "Go Away." The larger one rested on the pistol sticking out of his jeans pocket. "We stand with Sheriff Hanlin," it said, referring to John Hanlin, the Douglas County law enforcement head who is a staunch gun rights believer. Gun rights, Breen said, was the second reason he drove some two hours from Brooks, Ore., to be here Friday. The main reason, he said, was "to let Obama know he's not welcome here." "It viscerally offended me that he uses something like this to pursue his own ulterior motives - destroying this country, undermining America," said the 62-year-old, who said he bought his first gun when he was 16 with proceeds from his paper route. "I only wish a student had been armed," he said. "We could have stopped that murderer in his tracks. I carry legally. I have a concealed weapons permit. We believe in the law. Criminals do not believe in the law. That's as basic as you can say it." On the day of the Umpqua shooting, Obama, visibly frustrated, appeared in the White House press room. "There's been another mass shooting in America - this time, in a community college in Oregon," he said. "That means there are more American families - moms, dads, children - whose lives have been changed forever." Obama urged Americans to tighten gun laws, but didn't sound hopeful. "What's become routine ... is the response of those who oppose any kind of common-sense gun legislation," he said. "Right now, I can imagine the press releases being cranked out: We need more guns, they'll argue. Fewer gun-safety laws. Does anybody really believe that?" On Friday, the president's motorcade traveled from the airport to Roseburg High School, where he spent about an hour meeting with family members of the victims of last week's shooting, which authorities say ended when gunman Christopher Harper-Mercer, already wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police, took his own life. A chain link fence at the edge of campus had been turned into a shrine to the victims, the school, the community, the peace that was shattered just over a week ago. Red, white and blue bunting fluttered in the breeze, and a sign exhorted passers by to "Pray for Roseburg." Hunting is popular in Douglas County, and so are guns. Obama's mention of gun control on the same day as the college shooting sparked some of the opposition. Roseburg city officials have said the president is welcome and disputed media reports to the contrary. "Since the announcement that President Obama may be in the Roseburg area on Friday to meet with the families that lost loved ones at Umpqua Community College, news outlets have been announcing that the president was not welcome in Roseburg. These announcements have included alleged quotes from community leaders," the city said in a statement. "Unfortunately, individuals have been claiming to be speaking on behalf of the city of Roseburg .... We wish to be clear that Mayor [Larry] Rich, City Council President [Tom] Ryan and the Roseburg City Council welcome the president to Roseburg and will extend him every courtesy." The Douglas County Commissioners said they looked forward to Obama's visit. "Regardless of our differences with the president on policy issues, we await the president's arrival and look forward to his show of support for a community who is grieving and whose heartache is immeasurable - especially the families of those killed," the commissioners said in a statement. MORE ON OREGON SHOOTING: 'Daddy, he began to shoot': A daughter's account of Oregon rampage Oregon sheriff wrote, 'Gun control is NOT the answer,' and residents agree Oregon shooter killed himself after he was injured in police shootout, authorities say
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How much does your smart home know about you? That was the question that Charles Givre, a data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, set out to answer in a recent experiment. Givre has an account on Wink , a platform designed to control, from a single screen, his Internet-connected home devices, such as door locks, window shades and LED lights. He wanted to learn what could be learned from his usage behavior. It turned out it was a little too much. Last week, at a big data conference in New York, Givre presented his results. By accessing his Wink account, he (or anyone with his login information) could identify his social media accounts, the names of his devices (like "Charles's iPad) and his network information. An app that monitors his grill's propane tank recorded the tank's latitude and longitude, thus revealing the exact location of his house. From his Nest thermostat, he could figure out when his house was occupied and when it was not. The goal of his experiment, Givre said, was not to demonstrate security flaws in his devices, but to document the wealth of information that they amass through everyday use. To access his usage history, some accounts required verification keys; others only asked for Givre's email address and password. He wrote programs to "ping" his devices to gather new information about what was going on in his home in real time, and to find patterns there. He noted that his smart devices seemed to transmit information securely on its way to the companies' servers, "but most of the interesting stuff was in the cloud anyway." As the trend toward networked "smart homes" and "connected cars" continues, security precautions are more important than ever. The Federal Trade Commission put out a report this year with best practices about how companies should notify their customers about data retention. Device makers say that customers can opt in or out of sharing their personal information with developers and third-party apps. But customers may not always be aware of just how much information their devices are collecting about them in the first place. The account for Givre's " Automatic " device, which plugs into his car and tracks its trips and performance, included his car's vehicle identification number (VIN), with which accident and ownership history is easily accessible. He had also hooked his Automatic account to the web-based service IFTTT ("If This Then That"), which connects smart devices with shortcuts and triggers like "when the 'Automatic' device senses my car is home, turn on the lights." Interconnectedness, while convenient, is a trade-off. This portion of the experiment demonstrated how someone could "leapfrog" from one less-secure account to other accounts with more sensitive information. IFTTT collected his individual car trips in spreadsheets including times, locations and even the exact routes he had taken and protected this information only with an email address and password. "If you were to start aggregating this over time, you could get a frighteningly accurate picture of pretty much where I am at any given time of day," Givre said. In fact, this data could also help build a character profile of someone. At the conference, Givre showed a graph of his car-trip frequencies by day of the week; there was a noticeable lack of activity on Saturdays. Why could that be? "I don't roll on Shabbos," Givre said, quoting " The Big Lebowski ." When asked about Givre's findings this week, a spokesperson from Wink emphasized that each customer can only access his or her own account information. "Users should not share their passwords with others or grant access to untrusted applications," he wrote. A spokesperson from Nest wrote, "Customers have complete control" over what types of information developers would have access to, "and can stop sharing at any time." Buckley Slender-White, a spokesperson from Automatic, said Givre's car's VIN was only accessible to the app because Givre had opted to share it. As to Automatic's sending his car trip information to IFTTT, Slender-White said, "importantly that data is only accessible to the user and any app that they explicitly grant permission to." Wink , Nest and Automatic address security and privacy concerns on their websites and suggest best practices to keep account information safe. (Attempts to reach the grilling app and IFTTT were unsuccessful.) Smart home devices are part of an industry called the Internet of Things, which attaches data-collecting sensors to objects in order to track, measure or remote-control them. While the technology involved is not new, the industry is still young. Last summer, Ben Kaufman, the founder of Wink's former parent company Quirky, told The New York Times that the Internet of Things is "still for hackers, early adopters and rich people." But the industry continues to grow. "I think consumers need to understand that their relationship with their devices is fundamentally going to change," Givre said.
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Reality star Kim Kardashian and the original queen bee, Beyonce, are officially dethroned! Ladies and gentlemen bow down to the new Instagram queen, Taylor Swift. The pop sensation is reaching a new milestone & checking in at 50 million followers on the social media platform. After the 25-year-old snagged the top spot, she took to Instagram humbly thanking her fans for all of their love and support. Check out the video to find out if Taylor Swift's throne will ever be taken.
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They say athletes want to be musicians, musicians want to be athletes and NBA bloggers want to get out of their mothers' basements. And if that's true, then former Cavalier Daniel "Boobie" Gibson is doing everything he can to hold true to that stereotype. Here's more from Troy L. Smith of Northeast Ohio Media Group : Gibson joined Power 105's "The Breakfast Club" radio show in New York City Friday morning to announce he was leaving the NBA to pursue a career as a rapper. To be clear, Gibson hasn't played in the NBA since a stint with the Cavs during the 2012-2013 season. Thus, some people on Twitter are suggesting the NBA actually quit Gibson before he could quit the NBA. "I'm gonna give up my NBA career to start rapping," Gibson said on air. The response from "The Breakfast Club" host Charlamagne Tha God was somewhat comical: "Who you think a better rapper, you or Birdman?" Charlamagne asked Gibson. Gibson then dropped some lyrics that were more of a spoken word: "My biggest competition is reflection." Now, we turn to more important issues, like what the heck is Gibson's name going to be? Is he going to stick with Boobie? Is there going to be come kid out there who's going to get to say, "You know, this new rapper, Boobie, is pretty good?" Or maybe he'll go another route, completely detaching his rap self from his former basketball self. He could also just combine them, go with something like "3points" or "Point God" and call it a day. "Hey man, you hear about this new rapper, 3points?" Yeah, that'll work just fine. MORE NEWS: Want stories delivered to you? Sign up for our NBA newsletters.
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House Republicans described the mood as "good" inside the closed-door members' meeting Friday morning despite the fact that less than 24 hours earlier, lawmakers were reportedly in tears over the news that Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was withdrawing from the race for speaker. "Heh heh!" Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, trilled when asked whether he thought the uncertainty over the leadership vacuum in conference would be resolved by close of business Friday, when the House adjourns for a weeklong recess. After a day of chaos, there was reassurance that Speaker John A. Boehner had pledged to maintain his hold on the gavel for as long as it takes for members to select a successor. "[Boehner] said he prayed a lot," Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told reporters. Momentum also appears to be growing around the large-scale effort to draft Ways and Means Chairman and 2012 vice presidential candidate Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin to serve in the No. 1 House GOP leadership slot. Ryan has consistently said he isn't seeking the job he left Friday's meeting telling reporters he had "nothing more to add" and members said he didn't speak up inside the conference regarding his potential candidacy. "Chairman Ryan appreciates the support he's getting from his colleagues but is still not running for Speaker," Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement Friday. Still, sources say the pleading from colleagues might ultimately be too great to ignore, with Republicans on and off Capitol Hill insisting he's the only viable option given McCarthy's decision to step aside. Even Rep. Jason Chaffetz said he would drop his bid for speaker if Ryan decided to run: "If Paul Ryan gets in the race, of course I would support him." Dozens of House Republicans across the ideological spectrum expressed confidence Ryan would provide the necessary leadership to bridge divides inside a deeply fractured conference his establishment ties and institutional sentimentalism lend him credibility, but his staunch fiscal conservatism makes him a friend to the far right. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., one of the HFC members who led the charge to depose Boehner before the Ohio Republican announced he would resign at the end of this month, said he had good feelings about Ryan: "I don't want to speak for anybody else, but he certainly has always been one that is open to having a good, rigorous debate." But there is still no guarantee Ryan would be able to succeed in giving everybody want they want, especially the 40 or so members of the House Freedom Caucus, which has endorsed another speaker candidate, rank-and-file Florida Rep. Daniel Webster. In an interview with NPR early Friday, HFC member David Schweikert, R-Ariz., said Ryan would only get his group's support if he embraces its demand for great participation by conservatives in policy and legislation. In particular, Schweikert said, any new speaker must promise not to use the Rules Committee to stifle consideration of conservative amendments on the House floor. Conservatives have been urging candidates to promise to decentralize the speaker's power over the Steering Committee, which sets committee assignments. The HFC and other hard-liners have also asked speaker candidates to submit to a variety of ideological purity tests relating to raising the debt limit, impeaching the IRS commissioner and putting all 12 appropriations bills on the floor under open rules. Meanwhile, the same conservative outside groups that were griping Thursday over the possibility of a future "Speaker McBoehner" let it be known on Friday they didn't think Ryan would be much better. "Paul Ryan is the Absolute Worst Choice For Speaker," the Conservative Review declared in the headline of an epic takedown of the lawmaker, who author Daniel Horowitz said "used his leverage and respect to sabotage conservatives on every last budget fight of our time." Ryan might not be willing to cater to those demands or submit to a litmus test, especially if he's reluctant to serve as speaker in the first place. There are also members who don't believe Ryan is the panacea, and what needs to happen before a speaker gets elected is a massive overhaul of the conference rules. "I'm of the course that I want to see a change of the culture of Washington, D.C.," said freshman Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., also a member of the HFC. "I think the way you do that is not who you elect, it's the process, it's the procedure." Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington and Policy Chairman Luke Messer of Indiana held a meeting open to all members on Wednesday to start discussions about how lawmakers envisioned a more open, inclusive political environment. Rules Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told reporters Friday morning he would lend a hand in that effort. That exercise could be a painful one, though, with many different ideas about how to maintain a sense of structure and order while also giving more members a voice in the legislative process. Other speaker candidates, albeit long shots, are also emerging to complicate the pool Reps. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia and Darrell Issa of California for the time being. And members are still holding grudges that could make it more challenging for the conference to come back together. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., one of two members to resign from the HFC in the course of a few weeks over disagreements with the group's hard-line strategy, blamed his former allies for creating chaos. "Everything that they've promised to accomplish they've not only failed to advance conservative principles, they have become an active obstruction to achieving those principles," he said. According to a source in the room Friday morning, Boehner urged his members to try and keep it together. "Don't start erecting walls between us as members. We all came here to help advance the conservative cause," he said. "I hope the discussion today can focus on how best we can work together to do that. To truly listen to each other. Not speak for the sake of hearing your own voice. But to truly listen to each other and have an open mind about how we can come together. &ellipsis; It's up to the people in this room to listen to each other, come together, and figure this out." Matt Fuller, Warren Rojas, Ellyn Ferguson and Lindsey McPherson contributed to this report Related: Why Did Kevin McCarthy Step Aside? McCarthy Shocks Conference by Dropping Speaker Bid (Video) With No Plan, Republicans Sputter Over What's Next HFC Looks for Leverage in Speaker's Race See photos, follies, HOH Hits and Misses and more at Roll Call's new video site. Get breaking news alerts and more from Roll Call in your inbox or on your iPhone .
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Three young transients used a handgun that was stolen from an unlocked car to rob and kill a backpacking Canadian tourist in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and then a yoga instructor two days later on a hiking trail north of the city, authorities said. The handgun was reported stolen on Oct. 1 from the Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood in San Francisco, police commander Toney Chaplin said on Friday. "We believe the same weapon was used in both crimes," Chaplin said, adding that it appears robbery was the motive in the two killings. The body of Audrey Carey, 23, was found Oct. 3 in Golden Gate Park. She had been shot in the head. Yoga instructor Steve Carter, 67, was discovered dead on Monday near a popular hiking trail in Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge. He had been shot multiple times while walking his dog. Authorities identified the suspects as Morrison Haze Lampley, 23; Sean Michael Angold, 24; and Lila Scott Alligood, 18. They were being held without bail in Oregon, and it was unclear if any of them are represented by a lawyer. They were arrested Wednesday at a soup kitchen in Portland, Oregon. San Francisco police say the stolen gun was recovered during the arrest, and they believe it's the weapon used to fatally shoot Carey and Carter. San Francisco police also said the suspects were in possession of Carter's car and some of Carey's camping gear was found inside it. Valerie Chapman, administrator of St. Francis Church in Portland, said she had to admonish the three for smoking in a no-smoking area just outside the dining hall. Some of the regular diners told her the three suspects were asking if anyone wanted to buy a Volkswagen Jetta station wagon, Chapman said. "We serve low-income and homeless people, many of them with mental illness," Chapman said. "It's not the smartest place to sell a car." The suspects waived extradition proceedings in Portland and will be returned to the San Francisco Bay Area to face charges in the shooting deaths, Marin County sheriff's Lt. Doug Pittman said. He declined to say how they will be transported but said they will not return this weekend. "They can't go anywhere until we come get them," he said. He has described the suspects as drifters and said none of them has a known address. Records show Portland police arrested Lampley on suspicion of possessing a weapon in a park in 2010 and graffiti-related crimes in 2012. He was sentenced to time served in the weapons case and never showed up in court for the graffiti charge, the records state. In 2012, he pleaded no contest to carrying a concealed 5-inch knife in Mountain View, California, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. In May, he was charged in San Diego County with the unlawful selling or receiving of a stolen vehicle, a felony, and with stealing a dog, a misdemeanor, the newspaper said. He pleaded guilty to the felony charge and was sentenced to time that he had already served. San Francisco detectives spotted similarities in the shooting deaths of Carey and Carter, including the locations in wooded areas. The agency collaborated with Marin County, which traced the three suspects to Portland using the navigation system in Carter's car. Investigators are trying to piece together how the trio and the homicide victims met up. They're also trying to determine how long the suspects had been in San Francisco and how they got to Marin County. Carey had left her native Quebec and was on a solo backpacking trip when she was killed after the first day of a music festival in Golden Gate Park. Her body was found near the site where the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is held each year on six stages spread throughout the park. Tens of thousands of fans stream into the park each year to watch the free music performed by dozens of bands over three days. It's unclear if the suspects or Carey attended the festival because there are no tickets to the free event, San Francisco police spokesman Albie Esparza said. Investigators believe Carey may have camped in the park. A hiker found Carter's body Monday evening, and he was still holding the leash of his wounded dog. The Doberman pinscher was turned over to the Marin County Humane Society and is expected to recover. Followers credited Carter with improving their romantic relationships by teaching tantra, a philosophy of meditation, yoga and sexuality famously embraced by rock star Sting. In July, police said a stolen gun was used by a Mexican national in the U.S. illegally to kill Kate Steinle as she walked along San Francisco's waterfront. The gun was previously reported stolen from the car of a U.S. Bureau of Land Management agent in downtown San Francisco. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez has pleaded not guilty to murder in the case. ___ Steven DuBois contributed reporting from Portland.
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Since the Fourth of July, when she was severely burned on 65 percent of her body during an ATV accident, 15-year-old Baylee Hoaldridge of Spanish Fork, Utah, has been confined to a hospital burn unit, in constant pain and fighting infections as she struggles to heal. The sophomore had to miss the first day of class at Timpview High School and get-togethers with her softball team, but her classmates had big plans to include her in the school's homecoming activities. Last month, Timpview's fellow students surprised Baylee by electing her homecoming princess, then decorating the lobby outside the burn unit at the University of Utah Hospital with flowers, banners and balloons. When Baylee was wheeled downstairs, 30 of her school friends presented her with a crown, then all wept openly. "She's so loved by so many she's the kind of person everyone wants to be around," Holly Lewis, 16, tells PEOPLE. "Even though Baylee is in pain now, she still has a smile on her face. Everyone wanted to come together to help her." "That room was filled with so much love and support it was overwhelming," adds Baylee's best friend, Rachel Gardner, 17. "It had been a long time since I'd seen Baylee smiling because she was truly happy. It was a humbling experience." It was on July 4, during a family outing in the foothills near Mona, Utah, that everything changed in an instant for Baylee. The Polaris Razor ATV she was riding on with her father, B.J. Hoaldridge, and two other relatives, tipped over and immediately burst into flames. When everybody except Baylee had escaped the ATV, her dad burned his arm holding the teen's face away from the flames as he desperately worked to undo her seat belt and get her out of the four-seater. "When she got out, she had to roll on the ground because her shorts and T-shirt were on fire," B.J., a 40-year-old network marketing manager, tells PEOPLE. "And she was burned so badly that for the first five weeks, she had to be sedated. Baylee was in a fight for her life." With Polaris Industries Inc. announcing on Oct. 4 that it was recalling 53,000 ATVs because tank vent lines may have been installed incorrectly in 2015 models, leading to small fires, the Hoaldridges are now considering legal action. "A vehicle like this should not catch fire and erupt into flames simply because it tipped on its side," attorney Paxton Guymon tells PEOPLE. "Baylee's burns have severely compromised her immune system. She's still fighting to survive this tragedy." Twice, Baylee went into septic shock and almost died from infection, says her mother, Nicole Hoaldridge, 39, a homemaker with three other children, "but she rallied each time. Every single day, they have to take off her dressings and clean her wounds and it's extremely painful. But Baylee doesn't give up, even though she knows it's going to be a long road. She wants to get back to her life." Baylee has endured 20 skin grafting surgeries, says her father, with another dozen or so to go. Her colon had to be removed due to infection, he says, so to reduce the risk of further infections, doctors covered her wounds with cadaver tissue and pig skin. "From her bra line on down, she is completely burned," B.J. tells PEOPLE. "But she's an inspiration. Thousands have been touched by her fighting spirit." With more than 15,000 people now following her fight on her "Be Brave Baylee" Facebook page, the Hoaldridges have also started a GoFundMe account, which has brought in more than $34,000 thus far to help pay Baylee's mounting medical bills. After voting for Baylee as homecoming princess, her classmates at Timpview High School also organized a 5k race for Oct. 10 to help her family with hospital costs. "When people come together for something good, they can change lives," says Sydney Schiess, 17, a Timpview senior who helped organize Baylee's homecoming surprise. "Baylee can barely speak, but her radiating smile is genuine. Her personality of faith, perseverance and kindness is stronger than any physical limitation." Touched by the students' compassion, B.J. Hoaldridge says he knows their actions have given his daughter strength to keep fighting. "They've shown us that there are great young men and women out there in the world who have giving hearts," he says. "Baylee's not out of the woods, but one day this will be behind her. And when she looks back, she'll remember every one of these kids who took the time to show her the meaning of love."
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Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch is a man of few words, until it comes to his commercial acting. Leigh Scheps (@LeighTVReporter) has the video that proves Marshawn Lynch is hilarious when he actually speaks.
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U.S. airman Spencer Stone's condition was upgraded Friday from serious to fair after a late-night fight that left him with three stabs wounds. (10/9/15)
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PANOLA, Ala, - It is about an hour and 10 minutes to Tuscaloosa, the nearest big city to this little knot of houses and churches in the Alabama pines. For the hundreds in this poor county who do not have a car or a friend with the spare time, someone can usually be found who is willing to give a ride. For a fee, of course. "You want to get to T-town, it's at least $50," said William Bankhead, 56, sitting in front of a boarded-up building that was once Panola's general store. "We're a long ways from a place." As of last week, Tuscaloosa is the nearest location where a person here can get a driver's license, after the state decided to stop providing services at 31 satellite locations around the state. The fallout from this decision has been widespread: national politicians and civil rights advocates have condemned Alabama for shuttering the locations, many of them in the state's majority black counties, just a year after requiring that people show photo identification at the polling locations. Sign Up For NYT Now's Morning Briefing Newsletter State officials, saying the critics are acting on bad information, insist that the closings have no effect on access to photo ID. "They didn't make it harder to vote," said John Merrill, the Alabama secretary of state, who on Thursday met with the Rev. Jesse Jackson to discuss the issue. "They just made it harder to drive." Here in rural and poor Alabama where obstetricians are rare, dialysis centers far apart, grocery stores few and decent jobs scarce this is little consolation. The concerns most often heard here, one of the poorest areas in the country, are about the routine consequences: the day-to-day transactions, the morass of court fines, the jail time that awaits if one is caught driving without a license and the necessity of transportation in a place where Alabama's modest state services seem to be receding year by year. People are more likely to speak of the ability to get by than the ability to vote and the way cutbacks seem invariably to fall on those on the bottom. "All this stuff has been cut back to the bare bones," said John Jackson, a veteran of the civil rights movement who for 30 years was the mayor of White Hall in Lowndes County. "It hurts the poor before it hurts anybody else." The national uproar over the access to licenses has centered almost exclusively on its effect on voting. With no early voting and no online registration, Alabama already was one of the least convenient states in which to vote even before it began requiring photo ID. Driver's licenses are the most commonly used form of identification. United States Representative Terri Sewell, a Democrat, has demanded a federal investigation, pointing out that the satellite license locations are being terminated in eight of the 10 Alabama counties with the highest percentages of black voters. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democratic candidate for president, called the move "a blast from the Jim Crow past." But in a public letter to Ms. Sewell, Gov. Robert Bentley, a Republican, called the criticism ill-informed, saying that closing the satellite locations was the least disruptive of bad options given steep budget cuts and insisting that "no additional transportation burden" would be placed on people who needed voter ID. Previously, he said in the letter, license examiners would travel up to three times a week to the county seats where there are no permanent motor vehicle offices. The examiners, usually setting up in county government buildings, would give tests and issue permits and licenses, conducting about a thousand transactions a year at each location. Tests now will be given and new driver's licenses issued in fewer places. But, officials said, people can still renew their licenses and, with the same documents required to get a driver's license, can obtain free photo IDs in all of the county seats where the license examiners worked. Critics remain wary. Moreover, said State Representative Darrio Melton, a Democrat based in Selma, "It's a lot more than voting. IDs impact lives. You need ID in an encounter with law enforcement even if you're not driving." Getting around is already difficult for older adults and the poor in rural Alabama, one of the few states that set aside no funding for public transportation. There seem to be few services left to eliminate in poor, rural areas, but something is usually found come budget time. "Rural Alabama always takes the brunt of the cuts," said State Senator Gerald Dial, a Republican, lamenting that this budget which he considered a major improvement over an earlier and far more austere version that was vetoed by the governor cuts funding for services for the elderly like Meals on Wheels. What hurts in rural areas generally is all the more painful in the Black Belt, a broad band across southern Alabama named for its rich soil. The Black Belt counties, nearly all of them majority African-American, are scattered with dying towns, few job opportunities and bad health. Still, they were again hit by the funding cuts: three of the five state parks slated to close are here. Officials with the Bentley administration, who had warned of potentially deeper cuts, blame the legislature for not finding more revenue. But in Alabama, the poor tend to get squeezed when it comes to cutting services and raising revenue alike. Corporate tax breaks are generous and the timber and farming interests that own so much Black Belt land enjoy substantial property tax discounts. At the same time, income taxes kick in for households far below the poverty level, while the local and state sales tax burden is among the highest in the United States, and Alabama, unlike nearly every other state, imposes its full sales tax on groceries. With such volatile funding on the state level and so little tax revenue locally, Black Belt schools are chronically underfunded. "Whenever there are funding cuts it may give a cold to most of the schools, but it gives us pneumonia," said Daniel Boyd, the superintendent of Lowndes County's public school system, which has been short of textbooks since 2008. And so the schools struggle, people move out, the tax base dwindles and more services are cut. This time around, it is the driver's licenses. "It's going to be a problem," said Carolyn Shields, who was discussing the cutbacks with her sister Caritha in front of Caritha's mobile home in the tiny community of Geiger. With people from several counties now having to go to Tuscaloosa, the lines will likely be longer, they said, meaning a whole day off work maybe two, if the wait is especially long. More young people will probably just drive without licenses, as plenty around here already do, they said. The sisters said they were not sure about the effect one way or another on voting. For them, the main consideration was whether places like this could remain at all. "Before long," Ms. Shields said, "there won't be nothing here."
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Former Hurricanes defenseman taken into custody by Cary police Former Carolina Hurricanes defenseman and TSN hockey analyst Aaron Ward was arrested Friday by Cary police on charges of assault on a female and interfering with emergency communications. Ward, 42, was taken into custody at his home in Cary at approximately 2:45 p.m. Friday. When contacted by Canes Country on Friday afternoon, Cary police had no additional comment on the situation. According to WRAL's Jeff Gravley, Ward's wife placed a 911 call to police Friday afternoon. Ward spent five seasons with the Hurricanes, winning the Stanley Cup with the organization in 2006. Comments on this post will remain closed as this is an active investigation.
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Business publications owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., including The Wall Street Journal and Barron's, found evidence of hacking to their systems going as far back as 2012, the company warned Friday. Company officials said the breach was "likely part of a broader campaign involving a number of other victim companies." In a letter to customers Friday, William Lewis, CEO of News Corp.'s Dow Jones unit, warned of "unauthorized access to our systems" from August 2012 to July 2015 that may have affected at least 3,500 credit cards. Dow Jones runs The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and online financial publication MarketWatch . Lewis' letter said there is no evidence any information has been stolen. The focus of the attack appears to have been to obtain "contact information such as names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of current and former subscribers in order to send fraudulent solicitations," the CEO warned. "Out of an abundance of caution, we are notifying you that we recently determined there was unauthorized access to our systems," the letter said. "To date, our extensive review has not uncovered any direct evidence that information was stolen, and we have taken steps to stop the unauthorized access." Lewis said law enforcement recently warned Dow Jones of the breach, which the company has been investigating since late July. He said the company is working with law enforcement and warned that other businesses may have been targeted. "We understand that this incident was likely part of a broader campaign involving a number of other victim companies," the letter said. The Wall Street Journal and its weekly sister publication, Barron's , are popular among financial professionals, including Wall Street traders and brokerage houses. The WSJ has total daily average circulation of 2.3 million, according to 2014 data from the Alliance for Audited Media. Murdoch is executive chairman of News Corp., along with his son Lachlan. Follow USA TODAY business reporter Kaja Whitehouse on Twitter @kajawhitehouse
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The resolution, which the council approved on Friday, can be militarily enforced under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter. By approving the British-drafted document, Security Council provided international backing for the EU initiative to stem the flow of refugees from Libya to the European coast. Earlier this week, EU-members sent several warships to international waters off the coast of Libya with orders to board and search smuggler's boats, arrest human trafficking suspects and transport any migrants to Europe. The resolution provides UN authorization for one year and asks for the refugees found on the ships to be "treated with humanity and dignity." Hope for Libya British UN Ambassador Matthew Rycroft welcomed Friday's decision, saying that smugglers must not be allowed to "profit from others' despair." "Action against smugglers on the high sea won't solve this crisis alone," he said. "But it will send a message that people cannot profit from this evil trade with impunity. It will save lives." The original draft of the resolution would also allow the EU forces to sink smugglers vessels after seizing them. The final document, however, says that action on disposal must be taken "with due consideration of the interests of any third parties who have acted in good faith." The EU also initially wanted a naval operation in Libyan territorial waters and along its coast, but Libya objected. The north African country is only beginning to overcome a power struggle between two governments, making political action difficult and leaving a power vacuum used by the smugglers. Venezuela express doubts Despite initial doubts from Russia and several African countries on the Security Council, the resolution passed with 14 votes in favor. Venezuela abstaining from the vote, with its UN ambassador, Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, stating that the humanitarian crisis should not be solved by military action. "The resolution that has been adopted authorizing use of force in our opinion is a disproportionate action, which sets a dangerous precedent for the treatment of this topic in the future," he said. While the EU naval mission aims to curbing the influx of migrants coming across Libya, it does not apply to the so-called Balkan route, where refugees sail from Turkey to Greece. dj/sms (dpa, Reuters, AP, AFP)
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Mike Carlson/Getty The 2015-2016 NHL season began last night, and it didn't take long for the league's new 3-on-3 overtime format to come into effect. The Flyers and Lightning played to a 2-2 tie after regulation, and the overtime period that followed was an absolutely bonkers, insanely fun few minutes of hockey. Because 3-on-3 allows for so much more open space on the ice, the 5-minute period is completely end-to-end, featuring odd-man rushes, breakaways, and a ton of scoring opportunities. It's exhausting even to just watch. The Lightning hit the post as a result of a 2-on-1 at the very start of the period. Mike Carlson/Getty The play continued, which caused a penalty shot. Mike Carlson/Getty The overtime lasted jut 2 minutes and 17 seconds in total, and featured eight shots. That's a lot! "Crazy," Lighting winger Ryan Callahan said of the new format afterwards. "I was having a heart attack on the bench." "Lunacy for 2:17," Lightning coach Jon Cooper added. With all three players attacking, quick turnovers leave nobody in position to get back and defend. Goalies are basically on their own. Mike Carlson/Getty It's still much too early to decide whether or not the 3-on-3 system is a fair one, or objectively better for teams than the old 5-on-5 method, or even how teams will handle it will teams prefer forwards who can play good defense or defensemen who can score? What is clear, even after just 2:17, is how much fun it is. Watch the full video below: Youtube Embed: http://www.youtube.com/embed/MRwuOb9wmqU Width: 560px Height: 315px NOW WATCH: NEW RESEARCH: 96% of the brains in an NFL study tested positive for disease
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The United Kingdom is ready for robot-on-robot warfare. A new anti-drone weapon system called the "Anti UAV Defense System," which was developed by Blighter Surveillance Systems, Chess Dynamics, and Enterprise Control Systems Ltd, is a combination radar, camera, and jamming system all built into device. Here's how it works. First, the radar identifies and tracks the flying drone. Then, once the drone is within camera range, the electro-optical camera follows the drone, keeping it in focus at all times. Finally, the jamming device attacks it: Three antennas send out a radio frequency signal to the targeted drone, trying to cut it off from its original controller. In seconds, the jammed drone stops in the air and then crashes to the ground. Like this: The radar can find drones up to five miles away, even ones as small as 15 square inches. This is good, because the system seems to mostly work on small, commercial drones, and not the high-flying Predator-types used by militaries. A brochure about the system says it "may be used in remote or urban areas to prevent UAVs being used for terrorist attacks, espionage, or other malicious activities against sites with critical infrastructure." If the system works, maybe the White House should invest in one. Another drone crashed nearby earlier today . Watch a video of the system below: [ BBC ]
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In an interview published on Friday, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said 493 attacks had been recorded against asylum-seeker shelters this year. That is more than double the number of attacks for the whole of last year. "We are seeing a massive rise in xenophobic attacks against asylum seekers," de Maiziere told newspapers of the Funke media group. "This is a disgrace for Germany." Worryingly, two-thirds of the attacks were carried out by local citizens who had no previous criminal record, de Maiziere said. A third of the alleged offenders were already known to the police - due to right-wing extremist offenses or for other reasons. "I find this growth in the number of people who are using violence, alarming," de Maiziere said, adding that hate mail, insults and foul language were fuelling the violence. He added "That's why we must fight to ensure that there are some things you just do not say and do." He also warned against what he called a "clandestine acceptance" of the violence. "Until a short time ago I did not believe that someone could trust themselves to say such things in public. It's crossed the line of what could be considered civilized," the minister said. Unprecedented influx Despite the warm welcome given by many Germans to people fleeing war, violence and poverty, the country is showing signs of struggling to cope with an unprecedented influx of desperate people seeking asylum. Some 800,000 people are expected to apply for asylum in Germany this year alone. The figure is more than four times the number of people who came last year. As the height of the movement in September, some 10,000 people were reported to have entered the country on peak days. In a piece written for the news magazine "Spiegel," Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, both of grand coalition partner party the Social Democrats, wrote that the current situation was not sustainable. "We cannot, in the long term, take in and integrate more than a million refugees each year," they wrote. "Despite the unparalleled preparedness to help shown by Germans, we need to do what is possible so that the numbers of people migrating to Germany is reduced again." se/jm (KNA, epd, AP, dpa)
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U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy is out. What now? At least a dozen lawmakers have been mentioned as possible replacement candidates. At least 12 names have been floated as possible replacements for Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, after Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced suddenly Thursday that he was dropping out of the race. Few of the candidates being mentioned have broad appeal among the severely divided majority. They include Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah; Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Fla.; Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.; and Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore. Paul Ryan is the pick of the moment. Just one problem. He doesn't want to do it. The Wisconsin lawmaker spoke with Boehner on Thursday, but Ryan has repeatedly said he's not interested in the post. Ryan, the 2012 vice presidential nominee and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is an easy favorite among rank-and-file Republicans, partly because his conservative credentials haven't been fully tested by the messy challenges of leadership or the time-consuming job of fundraising. Ryan released a statement Thursday saying he was disappointed in McCarthy's decision to drop out, and that he is "the best person to lead the House." "While I am grateful for the encouragement I've received, I will not be a candidate," Ryan added. But by Friday, Ryan was said to be seriously considering the job. Should Ryan take over the gavel, he'd be inheriting the same dysfunction fueled by a rebellious conservative minority that forced Boehner to announce his early retirement just two weeks ago and then doomed McCarthy's bid to replace him. And that might not be a desirable resume-builder for someone with presidential ambition and the potential to mount a future bid. The leadership vacuum is throwing the speaker's election timeline into doubt. Boehner had said he plans to step down Oct. 30. With no clear front-runner now in the race for speaker, here are some key dates and how some could change: Oct. 8: Republicans held a closed-door candidates forum to begin the nomination election process. This is where McCarthy announced he was dropping his candidacy, a stunning decision that left some of his colleagues in tears. Leaders then abruptly canceled the nomination election. Oct. 19: The earliest House Republicans can expect to hold the next nominating election, since the House is on recess next week. Oct. 29: The previously scheduled date for a floor vote on a House speaker. This date has been thrown into doubt with the latest power struggle. Elections for majority leader, McCarthy's current job, and other lower positions were initially scheduled for this date but postponed when it became clear McCarthy would face a challenger. Oct. 30: The date Boehner had previously said he'd step down. Boehner is now saying he will remain in office until a replacement is selected, which he said Friday he still hopes will be by the end of the month. Nov. 5: Deadline to raise the debt limit before the federal government risks default, according to Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew. Dec. 11: Government funding expires. President Barack Obama has said he won't sign another stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, like the one passed earlier this month. How could this all shake out? It's still unclear who will emerge as a front-runner for speaker in the next few days. Any candidate would need to receive 218 votes from their fellow members to be elected. There's no real deadline for a new speaker to be selected, since Boehner has said he'll stay in office until his successor is picked. With a potentially ugly leadership fight looming, some have called for Boehner's replacement to be an interim leader who could try to temporarily stabilize the party. But others say a permanent speaker should be chosen soon to move the party ahead quickly before the 2016 election. Some of the Republicans mentioned as possible caretaker candidates, however unlikely, include Rep. John Kline, a retiring Minnesotan, and Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, who is close to Boehner. There has been so much angst this week about who will replace Boehner that some have even suggested picking someone who's not in the House of Representatives as speaker. According to the Constitution, the speaker does not have to serve in the House. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., each received one vote for the job in January's election. Who led the challenge to McCarthy's candidacy? Leaders of the influential House Freedom Caucus, a conservative bloc of Republican members, helped force out Boehner and opposed McCarthy's run for speaker. The group, which includes members who voted against Boehner earlier this year in one of the biggest defections from an incumbent in a century, includes about 40 members, but they can potentially swing more than 50 votes. The group threw its support behind Rep. Daniel Webster of Florida late Wednesday, but several of its members said they wouldn't necessarily stick with their endorsement and are considering all options as the leadership race continues. Webster won 12 votes when he challenged Boehner for speaker in January. What does the speaker of the House do and why do we need one? Aside from setting the rules of the House of Representatives, the speaker of the House is also third in line for the presidency, after the vice president. Day to day, the speaker is responsible for leading the chamber and managing negotiations with party leaders and the White House on key legislation. A speaker also has prerogative over important committees including the intelligence panel and select committees such as the Benghazi investigation that got McCarthy into trouble. The speaker coordinates with the national party as well, selecting the speaker for the weekly address and working with others to choose a State of the Union response candidate. Despite the fact that the speakership comes with a great deal of power and some nice perks a cushy office, prime seating for the State of the Union, and more budget for staff few Republicans have admitted they want the job. If the Republicans don't find a consensus leader soon, it could stall progress on other congressional action, including an upcoming Nov. 5 deadline to raise the debt limit, budget negotiations and the renewal of the federal highway program. In December, the federal government could risk another shutdown if Congress fails to approve funding to keep agencies open. What's next for Kevin McCarthy? McCarthy has said he'd like to remain as House majority leader, and rules allow him to remain through the congressional session. That dashes hopes of several other Republican lawmakers who had hoped to move up the leadership ladder or make a run for the job.
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10 Cars More Practical Than Their Crossovers/SUV Counterparts 10 Jacks-Of-All-Trades You Should Consider Crossovers continue to gain popularity because they're perceived as more practical vehicles than smaller cars. However, that's not always true a handful of crossovers are less practical than wagons and hatchbacks. Not everyone wants a jacked-up, car-based crossover. Some buyers prefer not to sacrifice fuel economy and handling. Additionally, some cars have a more useful interior layout than their crossover counterparts, and their load floors are much lower, making it less of a hassle to load your Ikea purchases into your vehicle. Sure, wagons and hatchback are not popular, but they continue to exist for a reason. Here are 10 crossovers and SUVs with less practicality than you'd guess at first glance and 10 jacks-of-all-trades you should consider instead. Follow MSN Autos on Facebook Nissan Juke The Nissan Juke is fun to drive and compact enough that it's easy to zip around city streets. But this mini crossover sacrifices everything to the gods of driving fun, so it doesn't have a lot of space for gear. Cargo space is limited to 10.5 cubic feet with the rear seats up and 35.9 cubic feet with them down. Passengers seated in the second row are essentially crammed in a claustrophobic space with small rear windows and a low roofline. Related Link: Research the Nissan Juke Mazda3 If you don't like the Juke's resemblance to a robotic frog, consider the Mazda3 in the hatchback body style. It offers more useful space for people and gear than the Juke despite its swoopy exterior styling. The Mazda3's handling is also at the top of its class, and the optional 184-hp, 2.5-liter inline-four doesn't sacrifice fuel economy in the name of driving fun. Related Link: Research the Mazda3 Fiat 500X Evoking the same adorable cuteness as the 500 hatch, the Fiat 500X offers a higher ride height and more room than the city car that inspired its exterior design. There's a good deal of space inside 18.5 cubic feet behind the rear seats and up to 50.8 cubic feet with the seats folded and a false cargo floor with hidden storage. However, that's about as much space as in compact hatchbacks, and it's merely mid-pack in the small crossover segment. Additionally, rear-seat passengers won't have much space, especially when the 500X is equipped with the optional panoramic sunroof, and the second row doesn't fold completely flat. R elated Link: Research the Fiat 500X Fiat 500L For maximum usable cargo and passenger space combined with the Fiat brand's quirky Italian charm, the 500L is the right car for the job. Essentially a tall hatchback, the 500L offers up to 68 cubic feet of cargo space, which is more than in larger crossovers such as the Ford Escape and Mazda CX-5. The 500L also offers an adjustable false floor, like the 500X, and even more flexibility than its crossover sibling thanks to its taller height and boxier shape. Related Link: Research the Fiat 500L Audi Q3 Essentially a hatchback on stilts, the Audi Q3 has less cargo space and flexibility than compact hatchbacks. At 16.7 cubic feet with the rear seats up and 48.2 with them down, the Q3 doesn't have much of an advantage over a conventional hatchback, let alone a wagon, when it comes to hauling gear or people. Related Link: Research the Audi Q3 Volkswagen Golf SportWagen Forget #Dieselgate for now and realize that even without the torquey diesel engine, the Volkswagen Golf SportWagen is an excellent car. Featuring a crossover-slaying 66.5 cubic feet of cargo space with the rear seats folded, the long-roof Golf breaks the mold, giving you an expansive interior for the family, up to 36 mpg on the highway, and plenty of smiles from behind the wheel. Should you need all-wheel drive, a ruggedized version called the Alltrack will also arrive in 2016 as a 2017 model, giving you more space than that Q3 ever will along with four-season traction. Related Link: Research the Volkswagen Golf BMW X4 Another example of a vehicle created to fill a niche, the BMW X4 is a called a Sports Activity Coupe because of its sloping roofline. That swooping, turtlelike exterior also means there's not much space in there: only 17.7 cubic feet of cargo space behind the second row and 49.4 cubic feet with the seats folded. Related Link: Research the BMW X4 BMW 3 Series Sports Wagon Although smaller in stature, the 3 Series Sports Wagon is more practical than the similarly priced X4 thanks to it having a more traditional shape. Behind those rear seats is 17.4 cubic feet of cargo space that's expandable to 52.9 cubic feet, giving the 3 Series Sports Wagon comparable space in a more usable interior package. Add to that the car's engaging driving dynamics, excellent handling, and good fuel economy, and you get a well-rounded package that's perfect for family duty, road trips, and tearing up canyon roads. Related Link: Research the BMW 3 Series Chevrolet Trax A latecomer to the mini crossover game, the Chevrolet Trax's diminutive size makes it great for the city. However, its interior space isn't the most efficient; you only have up to 48.4 cubic feet of cargo space. Additionally, the Trax is relatively narrow, diminishing its practicality even more and giving you less space for your gear. Related Link: Research the Chevrolet Trax Subaru Impreza Subarus, with the exception of the BRZ, are built with sensibility and practicality in mind, and the Impreza especially in hatchback form is no different. Offering 22.5 cubic feet behind the rear seats and up to 52.4 cubic feet with them folded, the Impreza has one of the most generous interiors in the compact class, giving it the ability to haul more than some small crossovers. Additionally, the standard all-wheel-drive system means all-weather capability isn't an extra-cost option. R elated Link: Research the Subaru Impreza Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe Following BMW's lead in the crossover coupe niche, Mercedes-Benz introduced the GLE Coupe for those who think the CLS-Class needs to get jacked up and look like an attack armadillo. Although it has up to 60 cubic feet of cargo space, the GLE Coupe's shape renders that moot because that sloping roofline cuts into rear visibility and interior capacity. Related Link: Research Mercedes-Benz Models Mercedes-Benz E-Class Wagon Despite having less maximum cargo capacity than the GLE Coupe at 57.4 cubic feet, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Wagon has more usable space because it doesn't have a swoopy roofline and its body is a little bit boxier at the back. Should you need to haul on the road and take the family along, there's the completely bonkers E63 AMG S Wagon with its 577-hp, twin-turbo V-8 to turn your car into a family-hauling, luggage-carrying cruise missile. Just be sure to strap your loved ones in tight, and don't scare the children. Related Link: Research the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Jeep Renegade Retro-styled and filled with character, the Jeep Renegade offers a lot of funk and some mild off-road capability (this is a Jeep after all) in the Trailhawk variant. However, despite its boxy shape, the Renegade doesn't have the most space in its class, and it's only able swallow up to 50.8 cubic feet of gear, less than some compact hatchbacks and wagons. Related Link: Research the Jeep Renegade Kia Forte5 Among compact hatchbacks, the Kia Forte5 offers the most space for passengers and cargo thanks to its expansive interior. With up to 56.4 cubic feet of space for gear, the Forte5 makes some crossovers especially the new breed of fun-size ones seem impractical. Add to that an available 201-hp, turbo inline-four, and you've got the power to haul an impressive payload of shopping and flat-pack furniture. Related Link: Research the Kia Forte5 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport One of the first small crossovers to hit the U.S. market, the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport is now one of the oldest and least spacious in its class. Although it has a maximum cargo capacity of 49.5 cubic feet, the Outlander Sport can't compete with class rivals and some compact hatchbacks, meaning you don't really get much for the puffed-up appearance. Related Link: R esearch the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport Honda Fit Think of the Honda Fit as the subcompact hatchback that's mastered interior space sorcery. It's more spacious than any other car of its size and small crossovers such as the Outlander Sport. With up to 52.7 cubic feet of cargo space and the flexibility of the Magic Seats, you have plenty of options for carrying your gear, friends, or both. Add to that the Fit's fun-to-drive personality, and you have an excellent all-around vehicle. Related Link: Research the Honda Fit Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class Even though it's marketed as a crossover, consider the Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class as a tall hatchback with sporting pretentions. Despite that hatch in the rear, the GLA isn't very good at carrying gear or people because of its cramped interior. Sure, it has up to 43.6 cubic feet of cargo space, but that room is less usable than in a traditional hatchback. Related Link: Research the Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class Volkswagen Golf GTI Instead of picking a crossover with sporting pretension, consider the original hot hatch, the Volkswagen Golf GTI, over the GLA-Class. The GTI offers an excellent blend of practicality, fuel economy, a well-built interior, and world-class driving dynamics, plus up to 52.7 cubic feet of cargo space, for the price of an entry-level GLA. Should you need your hatchback to be even quicker, consider the 292-hp Golf R, which is the most powerful Golf to date. Related Link: Research the Volkswagen GTI Mini Countryman As the first Mini with four doors, the Countryman offers more practicality without sacrificing the quirkiness and character that's part of the brand's identity. However, with each new Mini model growing larger, the Countryman has become less viable, and compared with similarly sized crossovers, it has less space even with the rear seats down. In fact, even the new four-door hatchback nearly matches the Countryman's maximum cargo capacity of 42.2 cubic feet. Related Link: Research the Mini Countryman Mini Clubman There's no reason to call the Mini Clubman a small hatchback anymore; instead, it should be known as the Mini of wagons because it essentially is one now that it has four actual doors and is 14 feet long. In comparison to the Countryman, the new Clubman offers up to 47.9 cubic feet of space, so it offers more room for all your gear and then some. Follow MSN Autos on Facebook
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Manu Ginobili is one of the most unpredictable guards in NBA history. But he's rock solid as arguably the league's all-time funniest Twitter personality. @theborisdiaw @manuginobili you better bring a copy to me next week.. Tiago Splitter (@tiagosplitter) October 9, 2015 And sometimes teammates, past and present, are victimized (in good faith) by his humor. The latest example is Atlanta Hawks center Tiago Splitter, who injected himself into a conversation between Ginobili and Boris Diaw about Diaw's new children's book. @tiagosplitter @theborisdiaw $4.61 on Amazon, right Bob? Do you have Prime, Tiago? 😉 Manu Ginobili (@manuginobili) October 9, 2015 Then, out of nowhere, Ginobili dropped this heat rock. MORE NEWS: Want stories delivered to you? Sign up for our NBA newsletters. He may not be one of the league's premier talents anymore, but nobody's tweets are funnier. Nobody.
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Democrats are selling a hat in their official store that mocks GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump's campaign slogan. The headwear boasts the phrase "America is already great" and costs $28 for a blue baseball-style cap. "America is already great, so we printed up this union-made hat right here in America, which is great," the Democratic Party's official store said in its product description for the hat . "Wear it with pride when you're telling your friends about 67 straight months of private-sector job growth under President Obama, historically low uninsured rates and progress protecting our environment that will keep America beautiful (and great) for generations to come," the store's summary added. The Democratic Party's official store is selling the hat as part of its "GOP debate party gear" collection. Other items for sale include a "GOP Debate Bingo" game, T-shirts bearing President Obama's face alongside the phrase "Like a boss" and pro-Democrat bumper stickers. Trump has frequently made campaign appearances wearing a bright red baseball cap bearing his "Make America Great Again" motto. He has repeatedly vowed he is personally reversing the nation's fortunes since launching his presidential campaign last June.
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With so many spins it's hard to make something like that look good, but 18 year-old Keita Inamura lands this stylish switch backside 1620 no problem.
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The former England captain David Beckham's phone was hacked by News of the World journalists, the paper's former head of news has admitted for the first time. In an interview with Channel 4 News on Friday, Greg Miskiw said Beckham's voicemails were accessed "routinely, all the time, over and over again". Miskiw also spoke of his regret at the hacking of murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone and described the culture at the now-defunct newspaper saying that failure to "get the story" would soon be followed by the sack. And he said that hacking had gone on at other newspapers, which had thus far not been brought to light. "We hacked David Beckham's phones routinely, all the time, over and over again," Miskiw said. But he added that one of the paper's most high profile stories when it claimed that Beckham had had an affair with his assistant, Rebecca Loos, a claim he has always denied had not come from hacking Beckham's phone. "The [Rebecca Loos] story, we had to track all these phones. From recollection, I don't think we got anything of any significance from doing Beckham's phones [for it]," he said. Beckham has long believed that he was a victim of phone hacking and, in 2013, News Corporation, which owned the News of the World, settled a case with the former footballer's father out of court. But no one connected to the company had hitherto publicly admitted that Beckham's phones were hacked. Miskiw, nicknamed the "prince of darkness" because of his connection to the so-called dark arts, said he was "devastated" when he heard that his colleagues had hacked Milly Dowler's phone. "I was in Florida at the time and I lay down on my bed and stared at the fan for a couple of hours thinking: 'How awful.' It was like a scene out of a movie. I was just absolutely devastated." Asked what he would say to Milly's father, he said: "What could I say other than that I am terribly sorry it happened? It was more than a misjudgment, it was an appalling thing to do." But Miskiw insisted that he was not responsible for the closure of the News of the World , which was shut down by management in 2011. The paper, he said, had "brought itself down. Or News International [News Corporation's former UK arm, now called News UK] brought itself down by reacting the way they did." He added: "If they had decided from day one to grasp the nettle and say 'Right, there is a handful of journalists who are doing this, we are going to get rid of them,' the News of the World would still be running now." Miskiw was a news editor at the paper, an influential job that required him to coordinate its news coverage and to be responsible for its news reporters. He was also responsible for bringing the convicted phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire to the paper. "You were in a bubble at the News of the World , where the objective was very simple: just get the story. Just get it. No matter what, no matter how. That is what was expected of you. "And, if you did not and you did not do it once, or twice, or three times, and you failed, you would be out of the door," he said. Along with the paper's former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, Miskiw was jailed for six months in July 2014 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages. The pair served 37 days each in total. Spokespeople for News UK and Beckham declined to comment on Friday.
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We look back at Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords' top Mustangs of 2015. 'Stangs include a 2005 Ford Mustang GT, 1986 Ecoboost, and more. Every year since 2006, we at Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords have gathered around the office to go through every issue of the calendar year and determine what the top 10 featured Mustangs were. It's not an easy job. Inevitably we end up arguing until someone, if not everyone, is red in the face. When it comes to the iconic pony car, there's a more than one way to have fun in them. Whether you hit the strip, tear up the autocross, or simply cruise your Mustang down the highway to car shows, we all have our own ways of playing with our pride and joy. From the beloved four-eyed Fox to the all-new S550 Mustang, we all drool over every generation of the late-model Mustang. Despite the vast differences in the build philosophy, each of these cars has one thing in common: the passion each owner poured into their car. That's something that many deep pocket luxury-car owners will probably never understand, but to us, it's second nature. As you can guess, emotions run high when we're dealing with the best of the best Mustangs. After quite a bit of deliberation, we narrowed down our field and were able to sort through all our jaw-dropping featured Mustangs until we ended up with the 10 most beautiful, most pristine, most powerful, and most gnarly Mustangs of the year. Each one of these cars has stood out and made a resounding impression on our staff. Some of them will no doubt inspire you to turn wrenches on your very own pony project, and hopefully this year's cream of the crop will move you to finish that lingering garage project build you've been itching to make progress on. In no particular order, let your dreams run wild and enjoy the top 10 Mustangs of 2015! Follow MSN Autos on Facebook 2010 Ford Mustang GT: Project Blue We just can't keep our eyes off of Krysta Elyse's gorgeous Grabber Blue Mustang GT. Krysta is no stranger to the Mustang world. She has even been competing in NMRA True Street alongside her father since 2011. As a radio personality for Heels on Wheels and In the Pits Media, Krysta knows her way around the sport. So it's no surprise that her Grabber Blue Stang is one heck of steed. With the help of Justin's Performance Center (JPC) out of Millersville, Maryland, Krista converted the stock GT into a proud pony that is now raising awareness for autism, a cause near and dear to her heart. Blue being the color for autism awareness, it was a perfect fit for the car. Project Blue is powered by a built 4.6L short-block by Mustang Performance Racing complete with a Paxton Novi 2000 supercharger with a Tial Q-series 50mm blow-off valve and a Paxton air-to-air aftercooler. A set of CNC-machined, ported RGR Stage 1 heads with Comp Cams Stage 2 Blower camshafts and Ferrara stainless steel valves helps this Mustang get down the track with 606 rwhp and about 550 lb-ft of torque. Krista's best pass in Blue was an 11.4-second quarter-mile run at 126 mph, but her plans involve pushing the Mustang deep into the 10-second territory. Krysta wanted to prove that it was possible to make a Three-Valve just as competitive as a new 5.0L. In our opinion, that's just what she did. 2005 Ford Mustang GT There's no question that the S197 Mustang was designed for enthusiast to reminisce or live out the glory days of the hopped-up muscle car craze of the 1960s. With killer retro good looks and a stout 4.6L Three-Valve V-8 engine under the hood, the 2005 Mustang GT was likely the biggest hit of the year. Unfortunately, the V-6 Mustang left a lot to be desired for most nostalgic Mustang fans. Luckily that wasn't enough to deter Page Stevens and Jim Francis from building their own retro Stang with a special touch. Stevens was a Ford enthusiast for decades. Current owner John Francis was the general manager of a local Ford dealer at the time and has been a friend of Stevens for years. It wasn't long before the two bench-raced ideas and came up with the fantasy of swapping a Boss 429 engine into the S197. Larry Kalsch soon began assembling a wicked 525-cube Boss engine while the guys at C&C Motorsports worked their magic on the full hemispherical chambered cylinder heads in Francis' Mustang. The 13:1 compression-ratio Boss Hemi put out 758 hp and 660 lb-ft of torque at the flywheel, and since Stevens has a penchant for road racing, it was only natural to back up the Boss with a Richmond five-speed with a 1:1 top gear. Needless to say, this Mustang is packing some serious heat with a vintage attitude. 1986 Ford Mustang SVO 2.0L EcoBoost While we are big fans of horsepower and loud gnarly V-8 engines, Ford's new line of EcoBoost engines has made us a bit envious of the great power and awesome fuel economy that the small turbocharged engines bring to the table. The 1986 SVO Mustang was a new breed of Mustang that featured four-wheel disc brakes and a 205hp turbocharged four-cylinder engine and was backed by a stout T5 five-speed manual. Will and Kelly McLearran have always been fans of the beloved SVO Mustang, so when Kelly needed a new daily driver, the SVO was the natural choice. Unfortunately, Kelly was diagnosed with breast cancer, but rather than avoid it, she decided to use her diagnosis as a way of bringing awareness to the disease. She decided that drag racing would be a great platform to get the message out and formed Quarter Mile for a Cure. Having owned an SVO in the past, Will had always lusted after another SVO in his life. His quest came to an end thanks to fellow Southern Arizona Mustang Club member who purchased a donor car to pluck the engine out of. Since he had no use for the SVO, he donated the car to Will and Kelly. Naturally, they decided to put their own spin on the SVO by swapping in a 2.0L Focus ST EcoBoost crate engine. As you can see, this Gotta Have It Green SVO Mustang is truly green and everything in between. 2003 Ford Mustang Cobra Is World's Quickest Terminator What does it take to get your car onto the pages of Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords ? A great build with serious accolades come to mind, but there's nothing quite like a great story behind all the madness. For Frank Yee, one heck of a story chronicles how he ended up with the world's quickest Terminator Cobra. In May 2008, Yee was the first person to pilot a Terminator into the 9s with a stock blower. He ran 9.83 at 137 mph with a ported stock blower, ported heads, cams, a solid-rear axle, and a 4R70W and at full weight, no less. That's not where it ended. Fast-forward to the 2014 NMRA All Ford World Finals and Yee was back in the Cobra and made the fateful pass that lit up the board with an 8.1 at 175 mph. With Yee being no stranger to the world of drag racing, his extensive automotive knowledge lead him to open VooDoo Racing Innovations in 2006. VooDoo has been building some of the baddest street/strip cars in Nevada ever since. While Yee wouldn't give up all his tricks, it's safe to say that he spins his Terminator well over 8,000 rpm. The combination uses big boost, high compression, and big lobe cam specs, which leads to an aggressive top-end charge. In its current state, the car makes over 1,300 hp at the wheels thanks to a healthy motor combo built in-house. The motor was built to handle high rpm and big boost thanks to a Garrett GTX 94mm snail pushing the speeds on the big end. 1 of Just 6 Fox-Body Saleens Ever Built in Bright Calypso Green When it comes to great-handling Mustangs, there's nothing quite like a Saleen. They're built to cruise and pounce with lightning reflexes. What you see here is Tom Rice's incredibly rare, one-of-six Fox-body Mustangs in Bright Calypso Green to wear the name Saleen. Rice was no stranger to Mustangs that can carve corners and handle the curves like a champ. As an owner of two highly sought after SN95 Mustangs, a pair of Saleen S351 Mustangs, Rice was used to attacking the winding roads while sitting in plush Recaro seats. All it took was one look at this Bright Calypso Green 1993 Saleen Mustang for Rice to be absolutely struck. Once he got behind the wheel, he was hooked. The icing on the cake was that this Saleen also featured a recently installed 392ci Ford Racing crate engine with AFR 185cc cylinder heads and a Comp Cams XE282 cam; this gave the old horse a lot more power under the hood. The factory Recaro seats in the Fox Saleen made Rice feel right at home behind the wheel, and the Tremec T56 swap allows him to quickly row through the gears. With a little elbow grease, Rice was able to take the car to a whole other level to give it its show-quality killer good looks as well as a host of suspension modifications to up the ante. LS7HNTR, A 1,000hp Twin-Turbo Terminator Cobra Vanity plates are thing of pride in the automotive world. Some people use them to profess their love of their car to the world, while others, like Fredrick Kyle, use it as a declaration of war against the competition. As you can probably guess, Kyle isn't afraid to leave mystery to the imagination when it comes to his 1,000hp Twin-Turbo Terminator Cobra. The 2003 Mustang Cobra wasn't always a Bow Tie killer, but since the last engine build, this Terminator has executed every single mark without mercy. The flawless midnight finish might make some believe that this Cobra is all show, but they would be dead wrong. A beefed up Teksid aluminum block was stuffed with 10:1 JE pistons and Manley rods and topped with a set of new ported heads with aggressive blower cams to work with the HP Performance Twin-Turbo kit. From the True Forged three-piece Chicane wheels wrapped in Toyo Proxes R888 rubber to the pair of TiAL 55mm blow-off valves hiding just inside the grille, this car is a hungry predator ready to strike. One look under the hood and you'll know why Kyle dubbed his car "LS7HNTR." With a plate like that, you better be fast or you'll end up the laughing stock at the strip. Luckily with the help of Racers Edge Tuning, Kyle was able to make this snake-bitten pony gallop a lot faster, but he's not even close to being done. His grandiose plan is to have the quickest IRS street-driven Cobra in the country. This 2015 EcoBoost Mustang Runs Deep Into the 11s at 119 mph in the Quarter-Mile Who doesn't love an underdog story, especially when it ends triumphantly? It's easy to empathize with the hero who has to fight the odds. That's why we think Brad Gusler's 2015 EcoBoost Mustang deserves being on our list. How can you not admire the four-popping pony that runs the quarter-mile well into 11-second territory? While many enthusiasts wonder if a four-cylinder engine can really get the job done on the strip, Gusler's 2.3L EcoBoost Mustang is sweeping the world of NMRA racing and proving it every step of the way. After only three days of owning the EcoBoost, Gusler enlisted the help of Watson Racing to begin the car's transformation into an NMRA killer. The small engine is fed with 116-octane race fuel via an Aeromotive Cobra Jet fuel pump, while a 55mm Precision Turbo pushes the boost through a JPC air-to-water intercooler. The final combination was custom-tuned through an SCT Livewire TS Performance programmer. Despite running a stock automatic transmission, this S550 Mustang is able to get off the line in quite a hurry. On the first shakedown run, the EcoBoost managed an 11.77 at 117.6 mph. The itch to go faster was still there, so they increased the boost by 2 pounds and ran an 11.19 at 119 mph. Needless to say, the underdog EcoBoost Mustang is now on the prowl for the 10s. Father-Son Fox-Bodies: 1993 Ford Mustang Cobra & 1992 Notchbacks It takes one hell of a car to convince a diehard Bow Tie guy that life is better on the Blue Oval side. For Gary Schreffler Sr., all it took was lining up against his wife's 1993 Mustang LX coupe. He never thought much about Fords until he lined up his 1979 Stingray Corvette against his wife's Fox-body Mustang and got lit up when the light turned green. That was all it took for Gary Sr. to switch to the dark side. He started by modifying his wife's LX with gears, exhaust, and a few other mods, and before long it was less of a daily driver and more of a performer. Gary Sr. and his son bought Mom another daily driver and turned her little stock coupe into an all-out drag car that eventually ran 9.80s with an R-block based 347ci and a Vortech YSi supercharger. As it turns out, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Gary Jr.'s first Fox-body started off fairly mild and quickly morphed into wild. Junior's car began with a V-8 swap and soon ended up receiving a healthy 418ci stroker swap that made 750 hp with a 250-shot of nitrous from a Fogger system. After selling his wife's LX, Gary Sr. yearned for another Fox and eventually picked up a sweet 1992 notchback that he quickly tore apart and built from the ground up. This father-son race duo is living the dream, wrenching and racing a trifecta of Summit White ponies that are clean enough to eat off. A 1993 SVT Cobra Backed by Insane Nascar Power There's nothing like a wicked engine in a Fox-body Mustang to make a red-blooded gearhead's heart skip a beat. You might be familiar with Matt Snow of Snow Performance fame because you've either used one of his Water/Methanol injection kits or have been spanked by one in the past. The car is nicknamed NASCobra for a very good reason: The engine bay was stuffed with a small-block 358ci Yates/Elliot NASCAR Winston Cup motor with Ernie Elliot modified Yates C3 heads and a large solid roller cam with Jesel rockers. Built by Leonard Vahsholtz of Woodland Park, Colorado, this NASCAR truck series engine is an 8,000-rpm motor converted to fuel injection and fed by a F2 ProCharger with a max of 21 psi of boost. Power is routed through a Tremec TKO five-speed manual back to a Moser 9-inch rear stuffed with 3.73 gears. The combination is good for 1,000 hp and 864 lb-ft of torque to the rear tires on pump gas. This is one Cobra that feels right at home whether it hits the streets, a road race, a dyno shootout, or a dragstrip. It dominates all! Highly Modified 2012 Grabber Blue Ford Mustang Mustangs are notorious for being rolling examples of automotive modifications, largely thanks to a huge following as well as the extensive aftermarket support of our favorite car. While we're not saying the factory doesn't get it right the first time, there is always room for improvement. For Ashton Stander, it's just another day at the office. You see, his grandfather founded Hillbank Motor Corporation back in 1955, and when the company expanded to motorsports division, he began to take on project cars and modify them until he grew bored of them and sold them off. Fortunately he ended up picking up this Grabber Blue 2012 Mustang you see here and took it further than any other project before. The build plan called for a car that was comfortable on the street but could still destroy the competition on the track. Under the hood of this beast you'll find a factory 5.0L Coyote topped with a Vortech V-3 supercharger that pumps out a tire-shredding 650 hp and 498 lb-ft of torque. Stander and Hillbank Motorsports set the chassis up to handle race track duties via a full White Line suspension. TSW wheels reside at all four corners wrapped in massive Toyo rubber to help the GT stick on the track. Make no mistake, this car is no one-trick pony. It has turned a 1:35 lap time at Willow Springs. One thing's for sure, this daily driven track/show car is anything but boring. Honorable Mention: 1986 Ford Mustang GT Was a Decade in the Making We can all remember our first car, but if your first was a Mustang, chances are you've long since kissed it goodbye. It's hard for a performance-based V-8 car to survive the trials and tribulations of a young speed junky. Luckily, Ricky Daniels' Mustang did not suffer the all-too-common fate of most teenagers' Stangs. His father handed him the keys of this silver four-eyed Fox GT when he was 17, and he was immediately hooked. The Mustang soon underwent a series of modifications that took it from street car to track terror courtesy of a blower. After a small taste of the other forced induction in a friend's turbo Mustang, Daniels stepped it up and slapped an HP Performance turbo kit on his Four-eyed GT and backed the engine up with a built C4. After accidentally dipping into the high 10s without a cage, Daniels was kicked out of the track. An 8.50-certified cage was built soon after, and the silver Stang was back on the track. The Mustang is now motivated by a 363ci stroker motor with an Eagle crank and CP pistons. A set of Edelbrock Victor Jr. heads complemented with Comp Cams Pro Magnum rockers works in unison with a massive lift Comp Cams solid-roller. A 94mm Custom Racing Turbo pushes the peak power to 1,400 rwhp at 28 psi of boost. A BTE Powerglide with a custom PTC converter backs up all that power while being consistent at the strip. Daniels has run a best of 8.62 at 165 mph in the quarter-mile on just 18 pounds of boost and 28x10.5 slicks. Making 165-mph passes in your first car is unlikelier than finding unicorn tears, but Daniels has bigger plans in the future of his faithful horse.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Heavy rain returned to parts of South Carolina on Saturday as thousands continued digging out and cleaning up from last weekend's deluge that left behind disastrous flooding. Here's a look at developments Saturday in the still-evolving disaster: MORE RAIN Thunder, lightning and a couple of inches of extra rain spread across storm-torn Columbia. While smaller creeks were likely to swell again, the precipitation wasn't expected to add to the flooding of major rivers and lakes, Gov. Nikki Haley said. "It's an anthill compared to what we've been through," she said. The flooding has caused 20 dams to burst and nearly 100 more are being monitored to make sure they hold, Haley said. Saturday's rainfall brought October's total precipitation in the capital to 12.75 inches breaking the previous record of 12 inches in 1959 with 21 days left in the month, the National Weather Service said. The city had gotten 1.25 inches of rain between midnight and mid-afternoon Saturday, weather service spokesman Al Moore said, with up to 2 inches in the western Piedmont. More showers were expected overnight, he said. TIME TO MOVE Debra Prior left her home outside Georgetown with the help of an amphibious vehicle after the roads around her became impassable. She said it was hard to see her neighborhood emptying out. "These are people that you have grown up with and they have been here for years. And we have never experienced anything like this in our life," she said. The worst of the coastal area's flooding appeared to be over after the Black River crested overnight and water levels dropped 5 inches, Georgetown County spokeswoman Jackie Broach said Saturday. The nearby Waccamaw River crested Friday and began to recede. STILL CAN'T MOVE About 13 miles of Interstate 95, one of the East Coast's main highways linking Maine to Florida, remained closed, forcing long-distance travelers to take a 168-mile detour through Columbia. The problem is with about 18 small bridges over the Black and Pocotaligo rivers and surrounding swampland in Clarendon County, state Transportation Secretary Christy Hall said. A contractor was expected to start work Saturday shoring up washed-out foundations under some of the bridges, Hall said. There was no estimate when the stretch of interstate, which normally carries an average of 30,000 vehicles a day, could reopen. In the meantime, travelers who would normally drive 74 miles between Interstate 26 to Interstate 20 must take a 168-mile detour. HELPING WHERE THEY CAN J.T. Pollack was one of more than 150 volunteers who spread across Columbia on Saturday to help those whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the storm. Pollack had been gutting waterlogged houses for two days to help restore hope to his community. "My friends lost their cars, their homes were damaged. I've never been through anything like this," the 27-year-old volunteer with Operation Blessing said. Pollack joined a dozen other volunteers at the home of an elderly couple whose home was engulfed in a foot of water. Jan Hulbert, whose husband suffers from blood cancer, began to cry as she talked about the volunteers helping her dispose of the debris and sift through files, heirlooms and water-damaged belongings. "They are so wonderful," she said. ___ Associated Press Videojournalist Johnny Clark in Georgetown and Adam Beam in Columbia contributed to this report.
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Liability is one of the biggest question marks surrounding autonomous vehicles, and Volvo plans to step up and claim full accountability for its self-driving cars. There remains plenty of mystery about when you'll be able to (safely and legally) doze off or read a book while riding in a self-driving car. But perhaps the bigger question is liability: if your self-driving car is in a crash, who is on the hook for damages? Can you even be held liable for damages your car inflicted while you were recording a Vine of yourself scarfing down an Egg White Delight McMuffin? Yet it doesn't seem to be a big question for Volvo, as it announces that it will accept full liability for whatever happens when one of its self-driving vehicles is operating in autonomous driving mode. That includes both accidental crashes and incidents in which the autonomous software is hacked by a third party. Follow MSN Autos on Facebook You might be wondering why Volvo would do such a thing. The main reason is to grease the wheels of legislation surrounding autonomous vehicle. According to Volvo president and CEO Håkan Samuelsson, it's about setting a legal framework that's clear and consistent enough for automakers to test, develop, and sell autonomous vehicles. "The absence of one set of rules means car makers cannot conduct credible tests to develop cars that meet all the different guidelines of all 50 US states," Samuelsson will say at an autonomous vehicle seminar tomorrow in Washington D.C. "If we are to ensure a smooth transition to autonomous mobility then together we must create the necessary framework that will support this." Volvo perhaps hopes that if it can sidestep miles of legal red tape by accepting full liability, others might follow suit and pave a quicker path to self-driving cars. After all, existing tort-liability system is flexible enough to cover autonomous cars, and accident victims are extremely likely to go after automakers with deep pockets for product liability suits rather than individuals with auto insurance policies with lower limits. This is also a likely indication of Volvo's supreme confidence in its technologies, as well as its desire to remain a global leader in auto safety. It continues to stand by its goal to have zero deaths or injuries in new Volvos by 2025. Already by 2017, it will have started its autonomous Drive Me program, in which 100 drivers in Gothenburg will ride in autonomous Volvo XC90s over a 31-mile stretch, without any requirements to pay attention. Clearly Volvo is making strides in the right direction, but the gears of change tend to turn slowly with issues like these. Expect lots more debate to come.
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America is leading the Internationals at the Presidents Cup, and Phil Mickelson's belly could be the reason why.
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Organizing your home never seems like a simple or enjoyable task. But with a few smart purchases and some creative executions, you can get each room in your home under control and have it stay that way. Continue on to discover these clever products that make organizing your space a cinch. Happy Hanging Organizing your home never seems like a simple or enjoyable task. But with a few smart purchases and some creative executions, you can get each room in your home under control and have it stay that way. Continue on to discover these clever products that make organizing your space a cinch. Armed with a curtain rod, a few S-hooks, and some creative planning you can turn any space or span of wall into a multifunctional organization station. Whether it's to hang cups and utensils in the kitchen or a handy way to hold shoes in a closet-less bedroom, this inexpensive hack will get things organized and off the countertop or floor in no time. Available at IKEA , $9.99. Follow us on Twitter. Label Love The best-kept secret to ensure that every room stays organized lies in the magic of the label maker. This handy machine allows you to label virtually anything, making basement storage boxes full of holiday supplies, containers of items in the pantry, and even files containing important paperwork so much easier to identify, put to use, and swiftly return. Available on Amazon ; $29. Follow us on Twitter. Hook, Line, and Sinker For the Shakers of Early America, cleanliness and organization were vitally and spiritually important. With pared-down simplicity central to their religion, you can bet that the Shakers developed more than one way to conquer clutter. Among their hallmarks, none has stood the test of time better than the peg rail. Hundred of years later, it remains as effective and versatile as ever, providing an easy, within-reach storage solution for miscellaneous belongings in virtually any room. Available at Peg and Rail ; starting at $18 (depending on size and style). Follow us on Twitter. A "Crate" Idea A fixture of tag sales and flea markets, vintage wine boxes are a versatile storage favorite frequently used in the mudroom, basement, or garage and even sometimes under the bed or in the closet. Easier to obtain are unfinished wooden crates affordably sold online or at your local home improvement center. Available in different sizes, these catchall crates are easily customizable. You can paint, oil, or stain each one, according to your preference, or you can even add caster wheels for portability. Available at The Home Depot ; starting at $10 (depending on crate size). Follow us on Twitter. If the Shoe (Pocket) Fits... Let's face it: The best kind of storage happens behind closed doors, and these back-of-the-door organizers are no exception. With possibilities that go far beyond stashing shoes, many crafty homeowners repurpose the deep pockets to fit cleaning supplies, toiletries, spools of yarn, Barbie dolls, or whatever collection they have in bulk. Available at The Container Store ; $20. Follow us on Twitter. Divide and Conquer Whether you're staring down a sock drawer or rooting for a pen, drawer dividers can help you find what you need. Add them to a dresser to keep belts and ties organized, or inside a bathroom vanity to separate the first aid items from personal hygiene products. In whatever room you use these handy helpers, they're sure to make everyday activities easy while minimizing clutter in the process. Available at The Container Store ; from $6. Follow us on Twitter. Magnetic Magic Magnetic knife holders have cleared many drawers overflowing with cutting utensils using one basic principle: vertical space. Once you master the art of organization via magnetic strips in the kitchen, you'll quickly find that this trick is applicable just about anywhere. Hang a magnetic knife rack in the garage to corral screwdrivers and screws, above the craft table to keep scissors at arms' length, or even in a boy's bedroom to hold a line of Hot Wheels to keep them from being stepped on. Available on Amazon ; $24. Follow us on Twitter. Peg It Up From the far reaches of the garage and into Julia Child's modern kitchen, pegboard is an all-American storage staple. Pegboards have traditionally been used to keep workshop tools organized and in plain sight, but now they can serve as a decorative organizer for a multitude of uses. One idea: Try hanging a sheet of painted pegboard over a desk to make room for office supplies, crafting necessities, or even a holiday wrapping station. Available on Amazon; $28. Follow us on Twitter.
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A 30-year-old Canadian woman was recently groped on a bus in London, but thankfully a stranger intervened to embarrass her attacker. She didn't get a chance to thank him in person, so now she's asking for the Internet's help to track him down.
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