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The headlines are not kind: "German Manufacturing orders unexpectedly collapse"; "Euro zone PMI: Pace of overall September activity slower than first thought"; and the coup de grace, "European unemployment rate stays at 9.5%." The data coming into the final quarter of the year suggests the steady recovery in Europe is starting to slow. This is all the more worrying given the European Central Bank's commitment to continue buying 60 billion euros ($67.3 billion) of bonds every month in a bid to stimulate economic activity. So what has gone wrong? It's tempting to think that, perhaps like the fading glory of the Dowager Countess in the television series 'Downton Abbey' , Europe's past is more splendid than its future. That the distant sonic boom of technological triumphs like Concorde and France's high speed TGV are nothing more than the death-rattle of a continent that is no longer globally competitive and has lived beyond its means for far too long. As IMF Chief Christine Lagarde has recently pointed out, the euro area may struggle to find its swagger while it's still sitting on 900 billion euros of non-performing loans. However, away from trial-by-monthly-economic-data, there are reasons to be optimistic. Swagger may be an overstatement of the facts, but the European Union is starting to strut a little. Over the last 12 months the jobless rate has fallen in 22 European countries. The raw gross domestic product (GDP) data also points to an improvement . Second-quarter GDP increased in all 28 EU states except France where it stayed flat. And the consumer was a bright spot: household final consumption expenditure had a positive contribution to GDP growth in the euro area and the EU28. Whisper it quietly, but Europe's long ignored emerging markets are also getting their mojo back. The Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia and the Baltic states are set for 2-3 percent growth this year. It has been a long road to recovery, but this is one part of the world that has been a net beneficiary of falling oil and commodity prices. There is also good evidence of supply side economic improvement. European countries figured strongly in the top 25 in the recently released Global Innovation Index. Switzerland came first, followed by the U.K., Sweden and the Netherlands. Ireland was a notable performer, the small country devastated in the financial crisis of 2008, managed to leap from 11th place to eighth this year. In case you were wondering, the US came in fifth. Europe then clearly has world beating companies with world beating technology. These companies are also rewarding investors with higher dividend pay-outs and better earnings. The second quarter of 2015 was the best quarter for five years. Fingers are crossed that the third quarter will also deliver in spite of the weaker macro outlook. Analysts have pointed to the recovery in financial sector dividend payments as particularly encouraging. Don't crack open the champagne just yet. The fug of smoky fumes from a maladjusted small engine diesel Volkswagen is set to obscure some of the better news. Europe is grappling with a refugee crisis, the German automotive sector is facing significant fines, and Greece is still a problem postponed rather than solved. But investors would be premature to write-off Europe. Just like Downton's irrepressible Dowager Countess, Europe has an enduring ability to recover just as its obituary is being sent to the typesetters.
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Opposition candidates for one of Myanmar's smallest constituencies are being blocked from visiting the remote islands, a party spokesman said Sunday, just weeks ahead of elections billed as the country's freest in decades. Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy party says its has repeatedly tried to secure passage to the Coco Islands in the Andaman sea, raising concerns authorities are trying to prevent the party from making gains in the November 8 polls. "We've been trying to go there for more than a month -- since September 8 -- but we have not been granted approval," the NLD's spokesman Win Htein told AFP. The NLD wanted to send three candidates on Sunday by ferry but have not been given approval from the Yangon regional government, despite asking in writing for permission to travel. Although they are a few hundred kilometres from land the Coco Islands, which has a population of between 1,000-2,000, fall under Yangon's jurisdiction -- a legacy of British colonial administration. "It's obvious that they (the authorities) are trying to make it impossible for us to go there... they are trying every way to stop us," Win Htein added. Myanmar's election body said the NLD should have been given swift permission to travel to the islands. "According to campaign rules, when (someone) requests permission, they need to give permission right away," Thant Zin Aung, an official from the Union Election Commission in Yangon told AFP. Yangon's regional government could not be immediately reached for comment. Myanmar's election is being closely watched as the biggest test yet of reforms made since the military handed back some of its power to quasi-civilian rule in 2011. Suu Kyi's party is expected to make major gains, but the military retains a big influence through links with the ruling party. It is also gifted a 25 percent of parliamentary seats under the current constitution. The NLD swept polls in 1990 but the military ignored the result and tightened its grip on power.
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The Post's Bob Woodward, author of the new book, "The Last of the President's Men," talks to former Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield about a previously undisclosed top-secret memo updating Nixon on war developments.
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Lionel Messi has revealed that it is best to avoid conversing with Barcelona and Argentina teammate Javier Mascherano on certain days. Mascherano has published a book, co-authored with Nicolas Miguelez, entitled The 15 Steps of Leadership , in which he talks about his career and motivations. The book's preface was penned by four-time Ballon d'Or winner Messi, who opened up about the intensity of his club colleague and compatriot. "He has his days. Sometimes he comes in wanting to talk and make jokes, but he also has crazy days," Messi wrote. "When that's the case it's better not to talk to him. We see him there and no one dares to say anything." The 28-year-old was absent for Argentina's 2-0 defeat at home to Ecuador in the side's first qualification fixture for World Cup 2018 due to injury. In his stead, Mascherano took the captain's armband, and Messi admitted that he often relies on the help of his teammate to orchestrate the side. "Masche knows how to handle each situation. He is a very positive leader," he added. "At the World Cup in Brazil I had the armband, but he was by my side the whole time, fixing each error." Argentina will look to bounce back from its opening loss when the team travels to face Paraguay on Tuesday.
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Jurgen Klopp believes Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski would not have been the player he is now if it were not for his guidance at Borussia Dortmund. The recently appointed Liverpool manager coached Lewandowski at Signal Iduna Park between 2010 and 2014 and hopes to be equally important in the careers of some of his new club's promising youngsters. The Poland international joined Dortmund from Lech Poznan as a relative unknown and has since developed into one of the most sought-after attackers in the game, with the player currently in incredible form for Bayern. Klopp has highlighted his role in Lewandowski's development and hopes some of Liverpool's hot prospects can follow the same career path under his tutelage. "The biggest satisfaction you can get is when you take a player like Lewandowski from Poland, from a small club and watch him playing today," Klopp said. "The difference between that player and the player he is today is unbelievable. I'm not self-confident enough to think I have had the only role in his development, but of course I did play a big part. "We all know the best players of today. Tomorrow we don't know who it will be, so we can work on this. The will to improve is the most important thing for a Klopp player. Character." The manager also says young players should be excited to play for him. "When I manage a club, each young player should smile because the chance is bigger for them than it ever was," he said. "The door is pretty wide open and I don't care about experience. Experience is an important point, but not the most important. "Of course if a player is on a top level already and you can hold this for two or three years, then everything is perfect. But the young guns are very interesting. That's what I enjoy doing."
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SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- Lewis Hamilton took a huge step toward retaining his Formula One title by winning the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday as his main rival Nico Rosberg failed to finish. Hamilton can now win his third career title at the next race in Texas, while his Mercedes team retained the constructors' title after a season in which the silver cars have dominated almost every race. Hamilton started second behind Rosberg but took over the lead when his Mercedes teammate experienced a throttle problem that forced him to slow to a crawl and then come into the pits to retire. Hamilton then cruised to victory by 5.9 seconds over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, with Sergio Perez third for Force India, 17 seconds further behind. Hamilton's 42nd career win took him past his boyhood hero Ayrton Senna on the all-time list, and the defending champion said he had taken the time to enjoy his drive to victory. "I was really taking it in, just looking at the car," Hamilton said. "I don't know how many times I'll be in that position again, so really cherishing the moment and feeling really blessed. I love driving this car and I love where we are at the moment." It was Hamilton's ninth victory of the season and the 12th for Mercedes. With four races to go, Hamilton leads Vettel by 66 points and Rosberg by 73. For the second year running, Hamilton received his winner's trophy from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who also greeted the top three drivers ahead of the podium ceremony. Vettel was forced into a prolonged battle with his Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen early on, eventually passing the Finn in a tight move up the inside. "I think we both enjoyed it. Obviously, I came out in front, so I enjoyed it a little bit more than him," Vettel said. "He was giving me just enough room to survive, so it was a good battle." Mercedes' second straight constructors' title was only decided after the race when the stewards penalized Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen for crashing into Valtteri Bottas' Williams on the last lap. Raikkonen brought his damaged car across the line in fifth but was handed a 30-second penalty that dropped him to eighth. That gave Mercedes an unassailable 172-point lead over Ferrari in the constructors' championship, sparking celebrations in the Mercedes garage. Bottas and Raikkonen had both passed Perez for third and fourth place respectively, before Raikkonen attempted a poorly-judged move on the inside to take third from Bottas, spinning the Williams driver into the wall. Perez's third place was the best finish this year for Force India. "I'm going through a great moment in my career," Perez said. "I was confident going into the race (but) obviously not expecting a podium at all." Felipe Massa was fourth for Williams, with Russian driver Daniil Kvyat elevated to fifth by Raikkonen's penalty in a pleasing result for the home crowd. Felipe Nasr of Sauber and Pastor Maldonado of Lotus were six and seventh, ahead of the demoted Raikkonen. Jenson Button of McLaren took ninth, with Max Verstappen of Toro Rosso 10th after the original 10th-place finisher, Button's teammate Fernando Alonso, was handed a five-second penalty. Stewards ruled that two-time champion Alonso, who was celebrating his 250th career race, had exceeded track limits. Rosberg came into the race in second place in the title fight, but leaves in third with his title hopes almost extinguished. Following his retirement on lap 7, Rosberg said his throttle pedal had stuck on, leaving him worried about his safety. "I couldn't come off throttle any more, so I was doing all the corners with throttle on," he said. "I was trying to take my leg off the pedal but then my knee would come up and I couldn't steer any more." However, Rosberg refused to abandon his dwindling title hopes. "You just have to be realistic now. (The gap to Hamilton) is a lot of points. It doesn't change my approach, still pushing to the maximum and committed. Going for it mentally," he said. Hamilton has 302 points, Vettel is second with 236 and Rosberg has 229. No other driver is in contention. With a maximum of 100 points still available, Hamilton could retain the title at the next race in the United States on Oct. 25. Two major accidents brought out the safety car in the early stages. The fight for the lead on the first lap between Hamilton and Rosberg was almost immediately curtailed by a first-lap incident when Nico Hulkenberg's Force India span, collecting the Sauber of Marcus Ericsson. Both were left stranded, bringing out the safety car. On lap 12, Romain Grosjean lost control of his Lotus and hurtled into the barriers at high speed, wrecking the car. Despite the violence of the impact, Grosjean was uninjured. Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz Jr., who was only cleared to race by doctors on Sunday morning following a heavy crash in practice, started last. The Spaniard stormed through the field into the top 10, but his race ended late on when his brakes overheated.
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The United States on Sunday won their sixth Presidents Cup in a row by edging out the International team 15.5-14.5 in a day of high drama and emotion. Bill Haas brought tears to the eyes of his father, US captain Jay Haas, when he closed out the slender victory on the 18th hole of a nail-biting final singles match, beating hometown hero Bae Sang-Moon at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club in Incheon, South Korea. Fighting back his emotions, Haas senior said: "Yeah, I don't know if I'm going to get through this. I can't," and then burst into tears, his voice breaking. It was heartbreak for Bae and the huge home galleries watching as he fluffed a chip from short of the green attempting to win the hole and square the match, which would have given the Internationals a 15-15 tie and a share of the cup for only the second time. AFP
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Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner responds to the latest bans from the global soccer body, calling them an 'American witch hunt'
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Nesrin, a 20-year-old refugee from Syria, arrived in Bonn barely a month ago and is one of the few women willing to speak to journalists about her experiences during her hard and long journey to Europe. Her family traveled from Turkey to Greece, crossing the border to Hungary from Macedonia before finally arriving in Munich and being sent to Bonn aboard a special train. The most difficult part for her, she said, was being stranded in a Hungarian prison with hundreds of other - mostly male - migrants for several days. Coming from the most dangerous countries Most of the refugees coming to Europe have fled the Syrian civil war, a country which ranks 135th in the 2014 Global Gender Gap report. But it is not just Syrian refugees making the journey, women from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and several other African and Middle Eastern countries - all considered amongst the dangerous in the world for women - are fleeing to Europe. "It is particularly difficult to document crimes of sexual violence in the Syrian context," the FIDH (The Worldwide Movement of Human Rights) says in a briefing paper. "Survivors are generally extremely reluctant to talk about their experiences, due in particular to stigmatization and cultural, social and religious pressures," the organization adds. "It is very, very difficult for us," Nesrin tells DW. "I can't hold hands with a man and I cannot lie down in front of a man," she explains, adding that her culture is very conservative. "In Arabic society…if I don't talk to a man and don't give him signs, he won't bother me," she says, answering a question on whether she had any bad experiences traveling together in closed spaces with male refugees. "But we saw a lot of things," she says, refusing to divulge any more details. Women's safety in shelters At the refugee shelter in Bonn, Nesrin has to share a toilet with "at least 100 other people," including men, creating discomfort and a potential problem for her and the other female asylum seekers. Cramped accommodation, common toilets and rooms that cannot be locked from the inside have created an unsafe atmosphere for women and children, according to social welfare organizations like Pro Familia, the Paritätische Hessen, the Hessen women's council and the society of Hessian women's offices, who formulated their concerns in an open letter. "Women say that they and also children, have been raped or are exposed to sexual attacks," the groups write. Ensuring safety for these women is extremely important because most of them have been victims of violence, kidnappings and rape. There are no special rooms to keep women safe and also no laws to specially protect women asylum seekers from abuse, the group says, adding that if the situation remains unsolved, women could be exposed to new trauma. The organizations suggest separating accommodation for men and women and ensuring that men do not have access to women's areas. Women should also have access to help and to interpreters who will be able to communicate their problems effectively. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Nesrin is desperately waiting to get permanent accommodation and start school. Until then, "we will just have to manage," she says. Author: Manasi Gopalakrishnan, Bonn Editor: Jessie Wingard
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Do you want to give kids something other than candy for Halloween? Keri Lumm (@thekerilumm) has some healthy alternatives that kids will love!
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BEIRUT Intense fighting between insurgents and Syrian troops continued Sunday in the country's center amid new territorial gains for the government, backed by Russian airstrikes, activists and government officials reported. The fighting Sunday was on multiple fronts in the northern part of the central province of Hama and southern Idlib, a rebel-controlled province. A Syrian military official said his troops took over Tak Sukayk, a village in the northern part of the rural province of Hama, bordering the northwestern province of Idlib. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. The new territorial gain, following the government control of the nearby village of Atshan, came days after the government launched a wide-ranging ground offensive. That offensive was made possible by Russian airstrikes that began Sept. 30. The fighting is concentrated in Hama and the northern Idlib provinces, where a consortium of mainstream rebels as well as al-Qaida's branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, are operating. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group that relies on a network of activists on the ground, said the rebels advanced on a hill overlooking Atshan overnight. The group said the rebels shelled government troops in the newly seized villages. The Local Coordination Committees, another monitoring group, said government helicopters and suspected Russian jets struck at a third village, Tamanah, north of the newly government-controlled villages. Both the Observatory and the LCC reported there were also intense clashes and Russian airstrikes in rural Latakia, the coastal province that is a stronghold of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Observatory said there were Russian airstrikes there too. Russia, a key ally of Assad, has insisted its airstrikes are targeting the Islamic State group and other terrorists. But U.S. officials said this week that Russia has directed parts of its air campaign against U.S.-funded groups and other moderate opposition groups in a concerted effort to weaken them. ___ Associated Press writer Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria contributed to this report.
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Disappointing earnings report sets a somber tone for the earnings season
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With just one year left on his deal, Steven Stamkos revealed his desire to be paid like Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. Is he worth that kind of money?
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We've made it. It's only Week 6, and we've already reached the point in the season when the only thing that makes sense is chaos. Teams that were once thought to be dominant suddenly seem vulnerable. Programs that were once deemed to be doormats have shown flashes of brilliance. Good is bad, bad is good, and projecting the College Football Playoff field is something near impossible. Texas looked totally listless in a 50 7 defeat last week. This Saturday it stunned Oklahoma 24 17 in the Red River Rivalry. Washington State took a loss to FCS Portland State in Week 1. This weekend it took down Oregon in double overtime. Northwestern entered Saturday's game with the top-ranked scoring defense in the nation. It was thoroughly outclassed by Michigan 38 0 . Which brings us to TCU. The No. 2 Horned Frogs (6 0) escaped Kansas State with a 52 45 win. For most of Saturday, they played from behind. Their depleted defense which lost tons of talent during the off-season (linebacker Paul Dawson, cornerback Kevin White and safety Sam Carter, among others) and then more than half of their starters to injury in the early weeks of the 2015 campaign was exposed, allowing 364 yards of total offense, 239 on the ground. But they won. And in a season in which nothing is quite as it seems, that's the difference between remaining atop the rankings and being relegated to the middle of the pack. BOX SCORE: NO. 2 TCU 52, KANSAS STATE 45 Entering halftime TCU trailed 35 17. It launched its comeback with a 60-yard pick-six by senior safety Derrick Kindred, which cut the Horned Frogs' deficit to 11. An eight-yard, third-quarter scamper by senior tailback Aaron Green sliced Kansas State's lead to four, and TCU seemed poised to turn an upset bid into a blowout. But Kansas State, as it so often does, struck back. Sophomore quarterback Joe Hubener rushed for his fourth touchdown of the night, extending the Wildcats' advantage to 42 31. After TCU climbed back within five (its two-point conversion attempt following a score failed), Kansas State took over possession with seven minutes left and a chance to salt away the game. Yet that's when the Horned Frogs found a way to win. They forced a punt, scored a quick touchdown senior quarterback Trevone Boykin broke free and sprinted 69 yards to the end zone and then got the ball back with the scored tied at 45. Boykin hit wide-open senior receiver Josh Doctson for a 55-yard knockout punch of a score. Crisis, once again, averted. Let's make one thing clear: TCU is an extremely good football team. Boykin is a bona fide Heisman Trophy candidate, and Doctson should be considered the Biletnikoff Award favorite; the dynamic wideout now has made 50 catches for 877 yards with 10 touchdowns this season. Green is also far more electric than most fans outside of the Big 12 realize; he opened Saturday's scoring with an 86-yard kickoff return for a score and carried 11 times for 121 yards in the victory. Still, ever since losing a 61 58 thriller at Baylor last October, TCU has shown a knack for pulling out zombie-like triumphs. It probably should have fallen last November at West Virginia; somehow, it won 31 30. It was in danger of losing to lowly Kansas a few weeks later, but emerged 34 30. And on Sept. 26 of this year, it was on the verge of crumbling at Texas Tech. It won 55 52, thanks largely to an improbable tip and Green being in the right place at the right time. At some point, however, dramatic victories stop being the sign of good fortune and start being the sign of a team that knows how to win. That's where the Horned Frogs are now. They're talented but flawed with an unmistakable killer instinct. This season might not feature a singularly great team. It might showcase a lot of very good ones, which are differentiated by some combination of logic and luck and late-game magic. For the second time this fall, TCU found a way to win a game it easily could have lost. And while chaos has flattened the college football landscape, there's something to be said for the program that keeps standing.
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The Sharks beat the Ducks 2-0 on Saturday. Patrick Marleau scored both goals for the Sharks.
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Snails, man.
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Check out Saturday's Top 5 MLB Plays, which includes Addison Russell, Michael Conforto going deep and more
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Grab your best costume and your sweet tooth! Krystin Goodwin (@Krystingoodwin) has a few of the best looking candy corn themed desserts to celebrate Halloween!
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A representative of Stanford University said in an interview with a German newspaper that von der Leyen wrongly included the university's name on her CV. According to the German Defense Minister's website, von der Leyen spent time at Stanford from 1992 to 1996. A timeline on the website says she was an auditing guest in the Graduate School of Business in 1993, and had a residence with the Stanford Health Services Hospital Administration in 1995. However, a representative for the Palo Alto-based university told the newspaper Welt am Sonntag that von der Leyen had not completed any courses in which she had received an official diploma or certificate. Without such documentation, a person may not list the university as an academic qualification on a resume or CV, the representative said. A spokesperson for von der Leyen told the newspaper the defense minister had the proper documentation to back up her claims. However, these activities did not earn her any academic credit, making their inclusion on her CV dubious, the university spokesperson told the newspaper. Not the first time The interview comes as Von der Leyen is fending off accusations that she plagiarized parts of her dissertation thesis. The defense minister, who has denied the claims, requested that an independent panel review the thesis in an effort to have her name cleared. Stanford University is one of eight elite private universities known as the"Ivy League." It has been consistently ranked among the top five universities in the United States for years.
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Utah 30, Cal 24: Five things we learned Utah beat Cal 30-24 late Saturday night, and left more questions than answers in the wild Pac-12 race. Here's what we learned from the Utes' victory: HAYES: Love him or hate him, Utes need Wilson for best results 1 Devontae Booker, superstar We know very little about him, but it might be time to pay attention to the Pac-12's best tailback. Booker runs hard between the tackles and has terrific balance and vision, using cutbacks to pick up big chunks of yards. He is perfect for what Utah wants to do on offense: control the clock, dictate the tempo of the game and get some key play action throws. When Booker runs like he did against Cal (34 carries, 222 yards, 2 TDs), it makes everything in the Utah offense run smoothly, and makes the Utes a tough out every week. 2 Cal is for real Let's not undervalue Cal coming into a hostile environment, giving away six turnovers, and still having a chance to win on the final drive of the game. This program has come a long way under Sonny Dykes: from one win two years ago to playing straight up with the Pac-12 elite on the road. The Bears are much better on defense, and continue to create turnovers and get off the field something that wasn't happening the first two years under Dykes. This is a 10-win team. 3 The elite quarterback Don't let one game define Cal QB Jared Goff. He was facing a brutal pass rush, and Cal's receivers had problems separating all game. Two of Goff's five interceptions were tipped and one happened when a receiver gave up on a route. He was harassed into his worst game of the season, and looked more like the quarterback who was still adjusting to the game as a freshman. But make no mistake: the Utah defense will make a lot of quarterbacks look bad this fall. 4 Utah's underrated secret The offensive line. Not only does the unit pave the way for Booker, they've been solid all season in pass protection. QB Travis Wilson's struggles against Cal weren't because of pressure or breakdowns on the line of scrimmage. The line the left side with tackle Sam Tevi and guard Isaac Asiata is where it all happens for Booker will be the key for Utah's chances in the Pac-12 and the College Football Playoff. 5 Two-way star If there's one thing Utah lacks, it's elite speed on the outside. CB Cory Butler-Byrd, a junior college All-American last year, might be the guy to fill that need. Whittingham says Utah has to get Butler-Byrd, its starting corner, more involved in the offense. He caught his first pass of the season against Cal a 54-yard, perfectly thrown deep ball. The temptation of that speed on the outside is enough for Utah to use Butler-Byrd on both sides of the ball.
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A military statement said the Iraqi air force struck a convoy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in western Anbar province close to the Syrian border on Sunday. The fate of the militant leader, who has declared himself the leader of a Caliphate in areas it controls in Iraq and Syria, is still unknown, the statement said. The statement read, "Iraqi air forces have bombed the convoy of the terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while he was heading to Karabla to attend a meeting with Daesh commanders", using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
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The Iraqi Air Force has bombed the convoy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Iraq's western Anbar province, the Iraqi military said Sunday. The condition and location of al-Baghdadi were not known, the military said. It did not say when the strike occurred. The military statement said al-Baghdadi, 44, had been heading to Karabla, near the Syrian border, to attend a meeting with ISIL commanders, Al Arabiya and other media outlets reported. "The location of the meeting was also bombed and many of the group's leaders were killed and wounded," the statement said. Iran's Fars news agency said several Arabic-language media outlets in Iraq have quoted "informed military sources" as saying al-Baghdadi had been killed and that no one in the convoy survived the attack. Reuters, however, cited hospital officials and Karabla residents as saying al-Baghdadi was not among the dead. Also Sunday, the Combined Joint Task Force that coordinates the international effort against the Islamic State said it had staged 24 airstrikes on ISIL in Syria and Iraq on Saturday. The strikes conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve "further limits the group's ability to project terror and conduct operations," the task force said in a statement. The Islamic State has taken control of a large swath of Iraq and Syria in brutal fighting. Dominated by Sunni Arabs from Syria and Iraq, the group claims religious, political and military authority over Muslims worldwide as it attempts to build a state ruled by strict Sharia law. The U.S. designated Baghdadi a terrorist four years ago, authorizing a $10 million reward for information leading to his death or capture. There have been reports in the past that al-Baghdadi had been attacked or even killed, including last November, but he reportedly retains his iron grip on ISIL. The Islamic State's No. 2 leader, Ahmad al-Hayali, reportedly was killed by a U.S. airstrike in August, U.S. officials have said. Al-Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz, was killed in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. The National Security Council said Mutazz, al-Baghdadi's deputy, "was a primary coordinator for moving large amounts of weapons, explosives, vehicles and people between Iraq and Syria." Al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed "caliph" of the Islamic State, made news in the U.S. in August when the family of Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker who died in February while being held by the Islamic State, claimed their daughter had been repeatedly raped by the ISIL leader. Mueller, 26, from Prescott, Ariz., was taken captive in Syria in August 2013 while leaving a Spanish Doctors without Borders hospital in Aleppo. Al-Baghdadi brought her to live at the home of Abu Sayyaf, a Tunisian in charge of oil and gas revenue for the group, counterterrorism officials said. The details of Mueller's treatment were initially reported by several Yazidi girls who were held at the house, including a 14-year-old and her sister who managed to escape in August 2014. The sisters' version has been corroborated by U.S. officials. According to the accounts by the Yazidi girls, many Yazidi women passed through the Sayyaf house on the way to being given as "presents" to Islamic State fighters. They said rape was a "reward" for military victories. The Yazidis are an ancient religious sect, based mostly in Iraq, that has faced savage treatment from ISIL.
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On a bizarre play in bottom of the seventh inning of the Dodgers' 5-2 win over the Mets in Game 2 of the NLDS on Saturday, Dodgers baserunner Chase Utley upended Ruben Tejada at second base in an effort to break up a potential play. Utley was initially called out on the play, but a replay review ruled Utley safe when it was determined that Tejada never touched second base. Only neither did Utley: His hard, late slide appeared to be aimed directly at the Mets' shortstop and not at all toward the bag. Check it out: Your browser does not support iframes. Tejada broke his fibula on the play and will miss the rest of the postseason, and the official call extended the Dodgers' half of the inning long enough for the L.A. club to score the game's deciding runs. Though it is rarely enforced in that situation, MLB's interference rule states that if a player "deliberately interferes" with an opponent with "obvious intent" to break up a double play, the "umpire should call out the runner for interference and also call out the batter-runner because of the action of his teammate." A double play should've been called as a result of Chase Utley's "slide." pic.twitter.com/7nw2UCFLL0 Jared Diamond (@jareddiamond) October 11, 2015 Again, it's not a rule that is frequently enforced. But a survey of current and former MLB players on Twitter suggests most of them just like the overwhelming majority of readers polled by this site seem to believe Utley's slide was dirty and calls for an adjustment to the way the rules are written and enforced. If that was a superstar shortstop we would have a Tulo Rule being enforced tomorrow Justin Upton (@JUST_JUP) October 11, 2015 When your back leg lands pass the bag, it's dirty. Alex Cora (@ac13alex) October 11, 2015 Utley should be suspended until Tejada is healthy. In rugby they call it a duty of care for opponent. should be adopted by baseball. Will Rhymes (@willrhymes) October 11, 2015 You change the rule at home, how do you not change the rule at 2nd? Glen Perkins (@glenperkins) October 11, 2015 Utley has always been a dirty player… Howard Johnson (@20Hojo) October 11, 2015 Haha, my wife said "someone went to media training." What a response!! https://t.co/hUgSUHMfRl Dillon Gee (@DillonGee35) October 11, 2015 Since when was starting your slide past the bag OK? I get that you're playing hard but that was not a slide, that was a dive! #cmonman Dalton Pompey (@DaltonPompey) October 11, 2015 Not at all. Don't agree with the slide. It was Late. RT @DrHietanen : @middlebrooks so you would start a slide past the base? Interesting. Will Middlebrooks (@middlebrooks) October 11, 2015 If you tell Utley to teach kids to slide on second base? Would he teach them the way he slided tonight? Pedro Martinez (@45PedroMartinez) October 11, 2015 But one of Utley's former teammates, outfielder Shane Victorino, came to his defense: Always called him one of my toughest teammates…Utley showing why I always called him a winner!!! #MLBPlayoffs Shane Victorino (@ShaneVictorino) October 11, 2015 Never wanna see anyone get hurt but I have seen worse but the magnitude of this one will bring up a lot of debate for sure!!! #MLBPlayoffs Shane Victorino (@ShaneVictorino) October 11, 2015 So, too, did former Dodgers utilityman and current Dodgers broadcaster Jerry Hairston Jr.: Clean play by chase. Touch bag with the left hand. Hard nosed play. Can't pirouette around the bag in the #postseason #TheShow #MLB Jerry Hairston, Jr. (@TheRealJHair) October 11, 2015 Hey @rickmitch87 HATE see players injured. HAVE to protect yourself around the bag that's rule #1. Chase did his job. This isn't Chess! #MLB Jerry Hairston, Jr. (@TheRealJHair) October 11, 2015 Except… Hey @TheRealJHair remember this? http://t.co/yDsBNgpyi7 Pretty much the same play. Dirty when it's against u but not when it's ur team? Brad Ziegler (@BradZiegler) October 11, 2015
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A sustainable energy project in Northern Ireland is proving controversial, as Andy Martin reports.
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Turkey started its official mourning period on Sunday after the twin blasts at a peace rally of leftist and pro-Kurdish activists in the capital the day before killed at least 95 people and wounded hundreds of others in what was the country's deadliest attack in years. The death toll is likely to rise, with dozens of people still in intensive care. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu declared three days of mourning on Saturday after the attacks, suggesting that Kurdish rebels or "Islamic State" (IS) group militants were to blame. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the bombings, which Davutoglu said bore "strong signs" of having been carried out by one or more suicide attackers. Leaders from around the world have condemned the attacks. German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed "sadness and dismay," calling the attacks "particularly cowardly acts that were aimed directly at civil rights, democracy and peace." "It is an attempt at intimidation and an attempt to spread fears," she said, adding: "I am convinced that the Turkish government and all of Turkish society stands together at this time with a response of unity and democracy." US President Barack Obama, in a telephone call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was reported to have pledged continued US support to Turkey in the fight against terrorism. And NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said there could be "no jusitification for such a horrendous attack on people marching for peace...All NATO allies stand united in the fight against the scourge of terror." Fraught situation The attacks come at a tense time for Turkey, which is currently embroiled in fresh offensives against rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that have left hundreds dead. Saturday's peace rally was to have called for an end to the renewed violence and for increased democracy in Turkey. Following the attacks on Saturday, the PKK issued a statement that it was halting hostilities to allow the country's November 1 election to proceed in peace. The government, however, said late on Friday it would continue its operations against the group until it disarms. The upsurge in violence in recent months was triggered by a bombing attack in July on activists supporting the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the town of Suruc in which more than 30 peole were killed. The PKK has accused Ankara of supporting 'IS' jihadists suspected of being behind that attack, and resumed violence against security forces, breaking a two-year ceasefire. The HDP leader, Selahattin Demirtas, also blamed Ankara for involvement in Saturday's attacks, saying they had been carried out by a "murderous state." Erdogan has been accused by many of increasing tensions with the Kurds in a bid to bring voters back to the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, after it lost its majority in a June election after a decade of single-party rule owing largely to gains by the pro-Kurdish party. Tens of thousands of people marched in Istanbul and other Turkish cities on Saturday evening to denounce the bombings, and there were also protests in Paris, Strasbourg and Marseille in France, and Zurich in Switzerland.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. West Virginia clawed its way back from a listless first half and a multi-possession hole to get even with Oklahoma State late in the fourth quarter of a game it seemingly had to win to avoid a potential tailspin. With its back firmly against a wall, it had responded, and done so resoundingly. It just came up a few plays short. The Mountaineers (3-2, 0-2 Big 12), trailing by two touchdowns in the third quarter, fought back but were unable to get past the No. 21 Cowboys, who notched a 33-26 overtime victory Saturday night at Milan Puskar Stadium. BOX SCORE: NO. 21 OKLAHOMA STATE 33, WEST VIRGINIA 26, OT The loss is West Virginia's second in a row, putting it in a dire position as it prepares for two top-five opponents, No. 3 Baylor (Oct. 17) and No. 2 TCU (Oct. 29), in the next three weeks. "We challenged them, and we came out in the second half and played a lot better," Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen said. "We were at a point where we could win. At the end of the day, it was not good enough." Without star safety Karl Joseph, who will miss the rest of the reason after injuring his knee in practice last Tuesday, the Mountaineers' defense performed admirably, holding a Cowboys (6-0, 3-0) team averaging 483 yards and 42 points per game to 362 yards and 33 points. Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph, who entered the night sixth among Football Bowl Subdivision players in passing yards, was flustered for a good portion of the game, completing only 50 percent of his passes and throwing three interceptions. But its offense was too inconsistent and dug West Virginia too deep of a hole to recover. Wendell Smallwood was impressive once again, rushing for 147 yards and a touchdown while playing through an ankle injury that kept him out of practice this week. But a lack of a run game beyond him, with only 108 yards from four other players, and an erratic showing from quarterback Skyler Howard largely stifled coach Dana Holgorsen's attack. Much of that could be tied to carelessness, as a team that breezed through its first three games with a lack of turnovers two in all has unraveled in the past two games, with a combined nine giveaways in losses to Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. The errors against the Cowboys, just as they were against the Sooners, were costly. Pinned inside his team's own 10 in the first quarter, Howard, lined up in the shotgun formation, received a snap, but just as he was about to tuck the ball in and step back, he collided with Smallwood and the ball popped loose. Oklahoma State's Emmanuel Ogbah fell on top of it in the end zone to give the Cowboys a 7-0 lead. That would only mark the beginning of West Virginia's woes. At the very end of their first quarter, and on the first play of its drive, Ogbah stripped Rushel Shell on what would have been a five or six yard gain and Oklahoma State again recovered, this time on the West Virginia 28. A one-yard touchdown run from Rennie Childs barely one minute later doubled the Cowboys' lead. And that wouldn't be the last of the self-inflicted wounds. On the Mountaineers' next drive, Smallwood, their most reliable offensive threat for much of the night, fumbled at the Oklahoma State 7, denying West Virginia of points on its most promising drive of the night up to that point (though it would record a safety minutes later). "If I could put one person on the bench because of it, I would," Holgorsen said. "It was three different people. We work it every day, twice a day. We preach it. We talk about it. We just have to do a better job." The sloppy play didn't completely disappear, but as the third quarter began, the Mountaineers' once-anemic offense suddenly found some life. Facing a fourth and seven on the Oklahoma State 40, Howard connected with freshman Jovon Durante for an 11-yard gain. Seconds after Durante went to the ground, West Virginia snapped the ball and handed it off to Smallwood, who scampered 29 yards through a rattled defense for its first offensive points of the game with 12:44 remaining in the quarter. Though Oklahoma State tacked on another touchdown three minutes later, the Mountaineers quickly answered, getting a 48-yard touchdown pass from Howard to Shelton Gibson. After mustering only 147 total yards in the first half, West Virginia logged 144 on its first three drives of the quarter. The Cowboys pushed their lead to 26-19 in the fourth quarter, but from there, the Mountaineers cobbled together what, at the time, seemed like their most important drive of the season. Behind Howard's arm, West Virginia marched 68 yards in 2:45, punctuated by a three-yard run from Howard that ultimately forced the game into overtime. On Oklahoma State's first drive, with a fourth and one at the 2, backup quarterback J.W. Walsh ran up the middle for a score to put the Cowboys up seven. The Mountaineers drove to the Oklahoma State 4, but a seven-yard loss from Shell forced a fourth-and-goal from the 11. "They had nine people in the box," Holgorsen said. "That is one more than us. They had one extra guy. I could have thrown one-on-one on the outside, but I did that on the previous play, and they have corners that can cover pretty good. I decided to try to give the run. "It was our game plan to run the ball on third down, and we didn't really want it to be third and six on the six-yard line in overtime against a stacked box, that's typically when we do something with the pass option that we have off of it. We did it twice in overtime, and we weren't successful either time. I had to give the run game another chance. That's kind of why we were in the position that we were in." After evading a pass rusher, Howard was unable to connect with Daikiel Shorts in the back left corner of the end zone. Craig Meyer: [email protected] and Twitter @CraigMeyerPG.
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Justin Timberlake Justin Timberlake wants to host the Oscars next year. The 'Mirrors' hitmaker, who has taken the last few months off to bond with his five-month-old son Silas, is reportedly eager to make a splash when he returns to the spotlight and thinks hosting the prestigious awards ceremony on February 28, 2016 is the perfect platform for him. A source close to the 34-year-old star, who is married to actress Jessica Biel, said: "Justin is campaigning hard with producers and is billing himself as the total package. He's playing up the fact that he's a singer, dancer and actor. Plus he bridges the gap between old and young." The former 'N Sync star is confident he will be able to entertain the star-studded audience, as well as millions of viewers worldwide. The insider told Star magazine: "Justin says he's not scared that so many hosts, like Neil Patrick Harris, ended up bombing. "Producers are starting to agree that his confidence may just be the magic touch." But he may have some stiff competition, as Neil, who hosted the ceremony earlier this year, recently admitted he is eager to do it again. The former 'How I Met Your Mother' star said: "I knew what I was getting into. It's a beast, but I'd love to do it again if I was asked!"
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Sunday's presidential election in Guinea pits incumbent President Alpha Conde against opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo and six other rivals, who are vying for the favor of the country's six million voters. The pre-election violence that has marred the run-up to the poll continued right up to the last day, with clashes in the capital, Conakry, between members of the ruling party Rally of the Guinean People and opposition parties. Dozens were injured as the two sides threw rocks at each other. On Friday, seven people were killed in more fighting in the country's southeastern Banankoro district. Much of the unrest in Guinea is considered to stem from political rivalry between the Malinke and Fulani ethnic groups. Conde, who belongs to the Malinke group, defeated Diallo, a Fulani, in a run-off at the country's first democratic election in 2010 after years of military rule. Post-election unrest likely The election on Sunday is going ahead despite calls from the opposition for it to be postponed amid alleged problems with electoral lists and the distribution of voter cards. The Constitutional Court - and Conde - rejected all calls for the vote to be delayed, and the Independent National Electoral Commission said more than 90 percent of voter cards, which are necessary to cast a ballot, had been handed out. The incumbent president's rivals have all vowed to challenge the results, fuelling fears that there could be even more violence in the days to come. The ballot is being monitored by an African Union observer mission and a 72-member European Union delegation. Some 19,000 police and security force members have also been deployed to ensure the ballot is held peacefully. Results are expected on Tuesday at the earliest. Widespread poverty Conde, 77, has campaigned on what he says is an excellent record for the five years he has been in power, citing among other things an overhaul of the army and judiciary and the construction of a hydroelectic dam. However, the country remains one of the world's poorest, despite possessing large resources of the aluminium ore bauxite. Half of its population live below the poverty line as defined by the United Nations, and many lack access to electricity or running water.
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Hey, you, with the mismatched socks and the disheveled hair. Looks like you had a rough morning. Again. Listen, we've all been there. Sometimes you accidentally sleep through your alarm. And sometimes you've got no good excuse at all (because 45 minutes spent scrolling through Oprah's Instagram doesn't count). For your sanity, we've rounded up seven brilliant tricks that'll spare you precious morning minutes. And the best part of all? You don't have to skip the essentials (like breakfast) or even pare down your beauty routine (save your banana peel for whiter teeth). RESIST THE URGE TO EMAIL Step away from the smartphone (or the laptop). It might seem counterintuitive, but checking email first thing is actually one of the least productive things you can do, because it usually leads to other a.m. pitfalls like texting and endless Instagram scrolling. The trick to staying out of your inbox? Keep your phone in airplane mode until you're actually in the office (or safely seated on your commuter train). EMBRACE SMARTER SKIN CARE So you can't turn back the hands of time (so what?), but you can give your skin a boost in an instant. Enter Elizabeth Arden's new SUPERSTART Skin Renewal Booster . It targets the outermost layer of your skin to restore a healthy appearance and fortify its natural ability to repair and renew. The result: a smoother, more resilient and radiant complexion. Just apply a few pumps to your freshly washed face before your serum or moisturizer--it works with them to boost the efficacy of your existing beauty routine (so you don't need to add layer after layer of annoying stuff to that pretty mug of yours). Super-smart start, indeed. MAKE YOUR BED (WHILE YOU'RE STILL IN IT) You slept through your alarm, but you're still committed to being tidy (we heart you). See our trick for making your bed in 60 seconds, before you get out of it. WHITEN TEETH WITH A BANANA PEEL The easiest way to hide the stress of a frenzied morning is behind a big, flashy smile. Skip the chemical-laden whitening strips and grab a banana peel. Rub the stringy side of the peel directly onto your teeth to create a paste. Leave it on for ten minutes (while you get dressed, frantically look for your keys, etc.) and then work in the paste with a dry toothbrush. Brush your teeth as usual to remove the banana goop, then give the world a toothy grin that says "I've got my entire life together." BANISH WRINKLED CLOTHES (WITHOUT AN IRON) So you're running late to your 9 a.m. presentation, and you just realized your smartest work ensemble is a hot mess of wrinkles. Don't panic. Lay your creased duds flat on a counter and cover with a damp towel, then gently press down and smooth out the crumples with just your hands. EAT A HANDFUL OF NUTS By now you know better than to skip breakfast, but if you seriously do not have time (even for instant oatmeal), then you should make do with a handful of nuts. Time and again studies keep pointing to nuts as your pantry's all-star for protein, fiber and brain-boosting nutrients. And you need only ten grams (that's about five walnuts, nine almonds or 12 pistachios) to reap all the tasty benefits. TRY THE COCONUT OIL 1-2-3 TRICK Yeah, we know: Enough already about coconut oil. But trust us, this little miracle of nature will be your new lifeblood in the morning. First, stir a teaspoon of the oil into your a.m. coffee (for the heart-healthy fats). Then rub the oil onto your arms, legs and torso (to moisturize yourskin). And finally, slick flyaways back into a high ponytail (for strong, shiny locks). Seriously, what can't it do?
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The Seattle Seahawks offensive line has struggled so much this season that Russell Wilson may have no choice but to lose weight in order to increase his speed. This is not a joke, but rather the grim reality the defending NFC champions face. CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora reports that Wilson is focusing on shedding pounds and improving his speed as a way to combat the additional pressure he's facing in the pocket this season. The Seahawks offensive line has been a much-maligned unit under head coach Pete Carroll for the last several years, but it appears to be worse than ever through the first four weeks of the 2015 campaign. The low point may have come during Monday night's win over the Detroit Lions when Wilson was under duress all night long. La Canfora pointed out that center Drew Nowak , a converted defensive lineman, had up to 20 poor snap exchanges with Wilson Monday. Nowak is one of three former defensive linemen who are playing on the interior of Seattle's O-line. This offseason, the Seahawks shipped All-Pro center Max Unger to the New Orleans Saints in exchange for tight end Jimmy Graham . Graham has struggled to mesh with Wilson so far this season, catching 18 passes for a paltry 174 yards in four contests. The Seahawks have failed to replace Unger. It's been a down year for Wilson on the whole -- he's only thrown for 979 yards through the first quarter of the schedule. He's in the first year of an $87.6 million extension he signed over the summer. If Nowak's struggles persist in Sunday's game against the Bengals , Seattle could consider making a personnel change. Though that wouldn't be a panacea, it could be the first step towards finding a solution that doesn't include Wilson dropping a significant amount of weight in the middle of the season.
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Of the five NFL undefeated teams playing on Sunday, who is most likely to lose? The guys make their pick. Will the Seahawks knock off the Bengals?
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Washington State football has been a roller coaster. There are ups and downs, frustration and jubilation, and on Saturday night we saw something special. This team is frustrating. It's talented, it's explosive, and it's inconsistent as all hell. The Washington State Cougars are a roller coaster. From game to game and drive to drive, we watch, waiting for it all to fall apart with a sinking feeling. And when it doesn't, well … you beat Oregon. In Autzen. In double overtime. By pulling a win squarely out of your backside. By never giving up. We all fall victim to moments of frustration and pessimism, myself very much included. We curse and swear off football. Yet we keep coming back to watch, waiting and hoping to see something special. You saw something special tonight, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Washington State going on the road and beating Oregon -- finally beating Oregon after coming close over and over again -- is something to remember. It doesn't matter what came before it or what will come after it. Beating Oregon, whether the Ducks are down or not, is incredibly special. There was fight, from both the offense and defense. Washington State backed itself into a corner multiple times on Saturday night and kept freaking swinging. The Cougs came out of the gates swinging with an early touchdown. After falling behind by halftime, they came right back out swinging after the half. And when the clock wound down to zeroes, the Cougars swung one more time, as hard as they could, and delivered a blow to tie the game and force overtime. Even after Oregon scored quickly to take the lead in overtime, the Cougs kept on fighting. Luke Falk destroyed himself to tie it back up, then powered through for the go-ahead score. And that defense? How bout that defense stiffing up time and again, picking up the slack as the offense hit a lull. And oh by the way, 50-74for 505 yards and five touchdowns with no interceptions is one hell of a game. Be proud of what Falk did at Autzen. Be proud of what every single one of those players did. This team is going to make mistakes and have a slim margin for error. But it has potential. It has talent and explosive playmakers on both sides of the ball. And it did something on Saturday night that's been almost unfathomable for about a decade. It doesn't matter that this isn't the same Oregon powerhouse. Having been in Pullman as a student the last time Washington State beat Oregon, and on the field in celebration, there is something absolutely special about beating the Ducks. We've suffered through what feels like nine years of almost. There was no almost in Autzen on Saturday night. Cherish what you just saw. Don't worry about next week or the week after that, or how the season may turn out. Live in the moment and enjoy the living hell out of this. When the rollercoaster pulls back up next week, hop into the seat, strap yourself in, throw your hands up and ride the thing again. The twists and turns, the frustration and jubilation: it's all worth it. We'll all be here next week, riding the ride again. That's what we do, in hopes of seeing something like we saw on Saturday night. Is all the frustration and all the almosts worth it? You're damn right it is.
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Novak Djokovic crushed his age-old rival Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-2 to seal his sixth China Open title and extend his amazing unbeaten run at the Beijing tournament. The world number one underlined his superiority in men's tennis as he thrashed a fading Nadal for his 29th win at an event he also won in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Djokovic won three of the four Grand Slam finals this year and shows no signs of slowing down at the end of the season after losing only 18 games in his romp to the Chinese title. In the longest rivalry in men's tennis history, Djokovic moves to 22 won, 23 lost -- but with seven victories out of their last eight meetings. AFP
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Every hockey fans knows about Jack Eichel and Connor McDavid, but who are some other young guns to keep an eye on this season?
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If a tree falls in the woods, but no one is around to snap it... did it happen?
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France captain Thierry Dusautoir insists Sunday's match against Ireland in Cardiff isn't crucial.
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Even though battling climate change was added as one of the new sustainable-development goals during the recent session of the United Nations General Assembly, the organization's definition of a refugee has remained focused on people escaping persecution, excluding climate change as a factor. But sea levels have continued to rise around the globe -- a phenomenon scientists have attributed in part to climate change -- and representatives of several low-lying island countries in the Pacific and Indian oceans, including Kiribati, have been meeting this weekend to discuss options for relocating their populations and finding the financial resources to do it. While conflict and wars in the Middle East and North Africa have largely driven the current refugee crisis in Europe, experts have indicated a burgeoning global migration movement could be in play with coastal cities and countries especially susceptible to the effects of climate change. "It's only set to get worse," said Maxine Burkett, an associate professor of law who focuses on climate change at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's William S. Richardson School of Law. She said the compounded effect of all factors were important. "In the next generation or two, it's possible the majority of the island [of Kiribati] will have to be evacuated." Estimates have indicated that between 665,000 and 1.7 million people in the Pacific alone could be displaced or forced to migrate by 2050 because of the effects of climate change associated with rising sea levels. These levels could rise by as much as 16 inches from 1990 to 2090, according to estimates on the high end. Forecasts of this nature have led experts to warn that the island countries of Kiribati, located in the central Pacific about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii, and the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, could disappear within the next 30 to 60 years. And the nation of Tuvalu, sited midway between Australia and Hawaii, could be gone in the next 50 years. Before the meeting where leaders were scheduled to discuss how and where to move climate-change migrants in a dignified way, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands linked climate change with genocide. "Displacement of populations and destruction of cultural language and tradition is equivalent in our minds to genocide," Tony de Brum said this week. "People must know that climate change can be reversed if we do it now." Leaders of states such as Kiribati and Tuvalu have been critical of the great emissions of greenhouse gases that have contributed to the melting of polar ice caps and the rise of sea levels that threaten their islands. During the next 30 to 60 years, some of the atolls in their countries could be submerged completely underwater or become uninhabitable because of salination and the related property damage. This threat could ultimately make Kiribati the world's newest former state. As a precaution, Kiribati, with a population of in excess of 100,000, has already bought land on Fiji more than 1,000 miles away at a cost of over $8 million. "We would hope not to put everyone on one piece of land, but if it became absolutely necessary, yes, we could do it ... It's basically going to be a matter of survival," Kiribati's President Anote Tong told the Associated Press last year. Even Fiji has been forced to move its own citizens from low-lying areas. The cost of relocating three villages was about $2 million. But with an estimated 45 other communities likely to need resettling in the next 10 years, the government doesn't have sufficient funds to continue such making such moves, the South Pacific island nation recently warned. The Maldives has constructed an artificial island and created a sovereign wealth fund that could be used to buy land elsewhere. In contrast, Tuvalu, with a population of a little more than 10,000, has left the decision about whether to migrate to its citizens, with some of them taking advantage of an agreement with New Zealand that allows 75 people to emigrate there every year. "The government doesn't push people to leave, and it doesn't have any plans for migration for climate change. Our policy is to save Tuvalu," said Aunese Makoi Simati, Tuvalu's permanent representative to the U.N. He noted that the Tuvaluan community has grown in New Zealand in recent years with older migrants offering jobs to newer ones as part of the arrangement between the two governments. There are now several thousand Tuvaluans in New Zealand. A comparison between the millions of people who fled their homes because of the Syrian Civil War and those doing likewise in the expected, eventual exodus of natives of low-lying nations due to climate change is well-founded, according to one migration expert. "We use the language of migrants and refugees to capture what is happening in Europe," said Saskia Sassen, a sociology professor at Columbia University in New York. "But what we see in Europe is the most extreme form of a much larger trend that we can describe overall as a loss of habitat." In addition to the increased sea levels, islands in the Pacific and Indian Ocean are now faced with a lack of arable land due to the salination of soil. Big cyclones and typhoons have also wreaked havoc in recent years. "The big question: Who, then, is responsible for the people and for the small island states that are most severely affected?" asked Kathleen Newland, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute. "Relocation seems to be the only possibility." Newland argued that now is the time to set up standard operating procedures for larger states, especially the neighboring countries of Australia and New Zealand, which could eventually have to take in climate refugees. A citizen of Kiribati who applied to be a climate change refugee in New Zealand was denied asylum in September, with the court saying his request did not measure up to the standard of "serious harm" required of refugees. Climate change has posed a unique situation to international governance. "Can you still maintain your statehood?" Burkett asked. "We may have to contemplate the definition of a state," with the world potentially seeing governments without sovereign territory in the coming decades. Global climate change talks have been scheduled for December in Paris, France, with the aim of agreeing on keeping global warming below two degrees Celsius. Tuvalu has pushed for a goal of 1.5 degrees. Now is the time to discuss coordination and plan in advance for what could be the next refugee crisis, said Simati, the Tuvalu U.N. representative who has witnessed small islets disappearing in his native land. He hopes global leaders will commit to an ambitious target in Paris. "In the future, if we don't address climate change, other kinds of migrants will join the influx to other more developed countries," he said, referencing the current situation in Europe.
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Who won the skeleton beauty contest? No body. The only thing better than a scary Halloween costume : a hilarious one! If you want to stand out from all the spooky makeup and sexy starlet getups, try one of these oh-so-punny picks. Photo: bethbuford / wonderlandlifex / keithisgross /Instagram 1. In a Pickle. Delicious and hilarious what could be better? Photo: amylgoldstein/Instagram 2. Cereal Killers. Classic pun, terrifying costumes. Photo: turtleyenoughfortheturtleclub/Instagram 3. Green With Envy. If you can finagle your significant other into doing a punny Halloween costume with you , but they don't want to get too crazy, this super simple idea is perfect. Photo: leroykate/Instagram 4. Bee-yonce. Dressing up as a celebrity is old news not to mention it never turns out the way you envisioned it. Instead, make like this girl and do a bee-utiful pun instead! Photo: omgskr/Instagram 5. Formal Apology. Say you're sorry the right way: with an LBD and beauty pageant sash on. Photo: lenawritessongs/Instagram 6. Jack in the Box. Whether you decide to rep your favorite fast food or the actual toy, this is a clever and super cheap option you can easily pull off at the last minute. Photo: keithisgross/Instagram 7. Fantasy Football. All football players should have to wear fairy wings at least once, just to make this pun a reality. Photo: marymba6212/Instagram 8. Spelling Bee. Clearly, bee-themed costumes are where it's at in the pun department. Photo: argleblather/Instagram 9. Black-Eyed Peas. Ouch! Thank goodness those bruises are fake. Photo: mad_irene/Instagram 10. Freudian Slip. You might have to explain this to some people, but for the ones who get it right away, your costume will be the best thing about any costume party. Photo: wonderlandlifex/Instagram 11. Netflix & Chill. This guy's photo went totally viral this week after he became the epitome of the online dating term "Netflix and chill." Handsome and funny? We give him two thumbs up. Photo: ar_cooper/Instagram 12. French Kiss. PDA is generally awkward and uncomfortable for everyone around you unless, of course, you are dressed up as two rock-and-roll Frenchmen, in which case your kissing will be totally tolerated. Photo: michelevankooijk/Instagram 13. Spice Girls. Show off your girl power while simultaneously displaying your pun power. Photo: kels.vmn/Instagram 14. Life of the Party. Because that's exactly what you are, isn't it? Photo: bethbuford/Instagram 15. Holly Go-Frightly. At every Halloween party, there are at least five Marilyn Monroes, two Betty Pages, and one Audrey Hepburn . Change up the game by going as something completely different (and totally spooky). Photo: lazzadee/Instagram 16. Banana Split. First of all, if you're capable of doing a split, we are jealous. Second, this is adorable the only thing that would make it better is this actual banana split in her hands. Yum! Photo: ashleymoyer26/Instagram
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The Swedish royal family made their way to the Royal Chapel in Stockholm's Drottningholm Palace for Prince Nicolas's christening on Sunday. Princess Madeleine and her husband, Christopher O'Neill, welcomed their son on June 15, and she shared pictures of their newest addition just a few days after he was born. For the special occasion, the little one wore the christening gown once worn by Prince Carl Philip, who became his nephew's godfather. Although the day was all about Prince Nicolas, his older sister, one-year-old Princess Leonore, also made an adorable appearance alongside the rest of the royal family. Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel, who are expecting their second child, posed for pictures with their daughter, three-year-old Princess Estelle. Meanwhile, Prince Carl Philip attended the ceremony with his wife, Princess Sofia, just a few days after their trip to Dalarna, and King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia were on hand to celebrate their grandchild. Keep reading for all the best pictures of Sweden's royal family at the christening!
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) These are uncertain economic times. Again. Strange. By many measures the U.S. is in the best shape since the end of the Great Recession. Unemployment is at a seven-year low. Inflation-adjusted incomes are up. Consumers are spending more. Car sales are at a 10-year high. Gasoline is pretty cheap. And the housing market has perked up after years of malaise. But unease is growing. It all began with a stock market selloff at the end of summer triggered by a slowdown in the giant Chinese economy. The latest dent in the outlook came after the poorest two-month stretch of U.S. job creation in three years. The U.S. added the fewest jobs in August and September since mid-2012. The slowdown in hiring stems in part from the hit taken by manufacturers and energy producers. A surging dollar is suffocating exports while a plunge in oil prices has forced drillers to eliminate jobs and reduce spending. The strong dollar and cheap oil are also keeping inflation well below the 2% mark the Federal Reserve thinks would be more suitable for the economy. The latest batch of economic reports this week probably won't offer a sunnier view. Retail sales were probably just so-so in September, though that's not entirely a bad thing. Gas prices at the pump fell about 8% last month and that will hold down overall sales. Still, Americans aren't exactly rushing to spend. They are eating out more and splurging on new cars, but holding the line on purchases of other goods and services. "Consumers are much more cautious these days," said Jeremy Lawson, chief economist of Standard Life Investments. Surveys of manufacturing executives, meanwhile, are likely to show that companies remain under intense pressure from the strong dollar. That's raised concerns about a slowdown in production in the third quarter as firms seek to reduce inventories to prevent them from piling up in warehouses. Inflation, for its part, tumbled in September as the strong dollar cut the cost of foreign goods and oil prices fell again. Good news for U.S. households, to be sure, but low inflation has proven to be a double-edged sword. If that's not enough, a sudden leadership vacuum in the Republican-led House of Representatives has boosted the odds of a government shutdown or more gridlock in Washington that unnerves businesses and consumers. Companies could put off hiring and investment decisions if another political showdown looks likely, depressing growth at a time when the U.S. can't expect much help from the rest of the world. Given all these concerns, it's no wonder the Fed chose to leave its benchmark interest rate near zero in September. Now many on Wall Street think the central bank will wait until next year before raising rates for the first time in a decade. "The Fed is more concerned about the global economic slowdown and likely to keep interest rates lower for even longer," economists at Wells Fargo contend. The Fed itself has also become more pessimistic. Although top central bankers still insist the economy is on solid ground, the Fed staff trimmed its projections on how fast the U.S. economy will grow in the next three years. Hardly good news for an economy that last topped 3% growth in 2005. For all the progress in the past few years, the U.S. is still stuck in the slowest recovery since the end of World War Two.
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A skit on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" mocked the gun control debate and used the slogan "Guns, we're here to stay." Gun control was also discussed during Weekend Update.
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On his 16th birthday, Robert Holbrook tagged along on a drug deal in hopes of making a quick $500. Instead, he became an unwitting accomplice to murder and received a mandatory sentence of life without the possibility of parole. In the quarter century that has passed since making that fateful choice, Holbrook has earned his high school equivalency diploma, taken paralegal courses and had some of his writings published. But not even the Supreme Court's decision in 2012 banning mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders has given him a second chance. "He deserved to be punished for his stupidity and poor choices," says his sister, Anita Colón, "but certainly not for the rest of his life." Holbrook's plight is shared by some 2,000 men and women serving prison time in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Louisiana, Alabama and a handful of other states with mandatory sentencing laws that did not treat the court's 2012 ruling as retroactive. Some have been imprisoned since they were 13 with no prospect of ever getting out until now. On Tuesday, the justices will consider a case brought by Louisiana inmate Henry Montgomery, who was a 17-year-old playing hooky from school when he shot a sheriff's deputy nine days before John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. Montgomery, now 69, has been in the state prison system ever since. For the court, the case is a logical extension of its juvenile justice jurisprudence. In 2005, it barred the death penalty for those whose crimes were committed before they turned 18. In 2010, it prohibited life without parole for non-homicides. Two years later, it blocked all future mandatory life sentences, even for murder. "Such a scheme prevents those meting out punishment from considering a juvenile's lessened culpability and greater capacity for change," Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the 5-4 majority. Since then, it's been left to state courts or legislatures to decide whether the sentences of those previously locked away for life should be reconsidered. Hundreds of them were imprisoned in the 1980s and '90s, when the battle against juvenile crime peaked; some date back to the 1950s. Fourteen state supreme courts have said the ruling must be applied retroactively. Seven others, as well as four federal appeals courts, have said it does not. The court's decision, expected before the term ends next June, could mean the difference between freedom and dying behind bars for people like Trina Garnett , who was 14 when she set a fire that killed two people in Chester, Pa., nearly 40 years ago. Quantel Lotts was the same age in 2000 when he accidentally shot and killed his stepbrother during a robbery in St. Louis. Damien Jenkins was 17 in 1992 when he was involved in a drive-by shooting in Alabama. All are serving mandatory life sentences. They are represented by Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., and the lawyer who won the 2012 Supreme Court case Miller v. Alabama that declared mandatory life sentences for juveniles unconstitutional. Stevenson likens it to imposing "a permanent, unchanging sentence on someone who is going to change." Even family members of juvenile homicide victims have registered their hope that the court will grant a reprieve to the men and women responsible. Sharletta Evans, one of 11 such relatives to file a brief with the high court, has forgiven the 14-year-old who shot and killed her 3-year-old son through a car window four days before Christmas in 1995. She created a non-profit in Colorado dedicated to connecting offenders and victims in search of healing. Not everyone adopts such an empathetic attitude. Michigan and 15 other states have urged the justices not to make Miller retroactive, so that people such as James Porter who murdered a woman and her four children in 1982, when he was 16 are not given a chance for a new sentence. "The convictions for these state prisoners span more than five decades," the states' brief says. "Thus, the considerations of finality weigh heavily here. Any retroactive application of Miller would challenge the settled expectations of victims that these violent murderers would never be subject to release." 'ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL DOESN'T FIT' The choice Henry Montgomery made on Nov. 13, 1963, was to skip school. He was hiding in some bushes when Sheriff Deputy Charles Hurt discovered him. Unfortunately for them both, Montgomery had a gun. The 42-year-old white officer he shot was assigned to Montgomery's majority-black community, and he served it well. He started a "junior deputy" program for boys there and would stop by the home of an illiterate woman to read her son's letters from Vietnam and write her letters back. Hurt left behind a widow and three children, ages 6 to 11. Montgomery left behind his adolescence. He was sentenced to death, then had the sentence overturned and was given life without parole. After being sent to the state penitentiary at Angola, one of the most dangerous in the country, he helped start a boxing team, worked in the silkscreen department and counsels other inmates. "One-size-fits-all doesn't fit," his lawyer, Marsha Levick of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, says. "The notion that one penalty fits all increasingly offends our sense of justice." George Toca spent three decades at Angola after being convicted at 17 of accidentally killing his best friend during a botched robbery. A seventh-grade dropout who weighed 125 pounds, he had to be placed in solitary confinement for his own safety. There he met Montgomery, by then a longtime inmate. "It's hard to describe waking up with a life sentence, being sentenced to die there in prison," says Toca, who was freed earlier this year after pleading to a lesser charge of manslaughter. At the time, his lawsuit against mandatory life without parole was to be the one heard by the Supreme Court, but questions had been raised about his possible innocence. He also had earned a bachelor's degree in Christian ministries from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary while doing time, along with certificates in carpentry and horticulture. The state of Louisiana argues that re-sentencing Montgomery more than 50 years after the crime is impractical. For one thing, the state's brief says, virtually everyone involved in the original trial is dead. For another, Hurt's children "would be forced to publicly relive the anguish of having been deprived of a father for the better part of their lives." One of those children is Becky Wilson, 61, of Hope, Ark. She recalls a peaceful childhood until her father was killed , followed by years of dysfunction as her mother tried to raise three children on $50 a week. Montgomery, she says, "wasn't the only one that received a life sentence. My mom received a life sentence. My brother and I received a life sentence." Wilson says she has "no bad feelings" toward Montgomery today. "I have totally forgiven him. My heart breaks for him," she says. "But I do believe he got a fair sentence." While few things deserve a life behind bars, she says, "I do believe that murder is one of those things." 'HOW LONG DOES THAT MEAN?' Holbrook falls into the category of locked-away killer who didn't actually kill. But because he was among five defendants who entered a house in which a woman was killed, he was judged culpable and convicted of first-degree murder. "He kind of got caught up in the appeal of having money in his pocket," recalls Colón, his big sister, "He was hanging with a bad crowd, if you will." When he was convicted in 1990 and sentenced to life, she says, the family presumed that meant 20 or 25 years once other factors were considered. "We didn't even understand that 'life' meant life," Colón says. "We all thought, 'How long does that mean?'" Only after the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that such sentences were unconstitutional did Pennsylvania amend its law. The new minimum sentence for juvenile killers older than 14: 35 years. For those previously sentenced, it's still life. Now living at the State Correctional Institute at Greene in Waynesburg, about 60 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, Holbrook is hopeful that the new Supreme Court case will offer the chance for a new sentence. Most other states, his sister notes, have done away with mandatory life without parole. "They don't just lock them up," she says, "and throw away the key." Follow @richardjwolf on Twitter
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Americans dumped 262 million tonnes of municipal trash into landfills in 2012, according to a new study published recently in Nature Climate Change. That's more than double the EPA estimate for that same year. "That's metric tonnes," says engineer Jon Powell, an author on the study, "If we're thinking US short tons, it's about 289 million tons." Powell tallied up his numbers on trash using census data, Department of Commerce data and other business activity information. He also set out to estimate the amount of methane a noxious greenhouse gas generated by Americans' waste. Stinky trash decomposing in landfills is full of organic material being broken down by bacteria. This decomposition creates methane. The EPA requires landfills of a certain size to put in engineered systems to capture and destroy the methane. However, according to Powell, the systems aren't always performing as well as they could. "That difference that we found between sites that are closed and sites that are open was about 17 percentage points. So essentially what that number tells us is that there's some extra room for us to improve the way that we're collecting gas at our open sites," Powell says, adding, "Let's say a site is generating 2,000 cubic feet of landfill gas every minute. If we're only collecting ... 50 percent, we're leaving about 2.5 megawatts of electricity equivalents really on the table." Landfills get a bad rap, but Robin Nagle from the New York City Department of Sanitation, and author of the book " Picking Up ," says landfills should be more celebrated. "If we still had open dumps, cities would be very difficult places to live," Nagle says. "[The invention of landfills] was a revolutionary change, although not one that's generally celebrated. Although it should be." A little known fact of American's relationship with trash, is how many of our cities are built on top of landfill. "We built a lot of [New York] city on top of garbage. Quite literally. Approximately 20 percent of the larger metropolitan region is built on fill," Nagle says, adding, "[That's] fully 33 percent of Manhattan south of 14th Street. So we're walking on trash pretty much every day." "Sanitation is, in my very strongly argued opinion, the most important uniformed force on the streets of the city," Nagle adds. "If sanitation is not there, we don't really have a city that we can live in." This article is based on an interview that aired on PRI's Science Friday with Ira Flatow.
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Aaron Rodgers' 5 worst statistical games Howie Day lyrical genius and turn-of-the-century singer-songwriter offered this infinite wisdom in his hit song "Collide": Even the best fall down sometimes. Even Aaron Rodgers can succumb to this law of human gravity. Though the Packers quarterback is almost universally considered the league's best quarterback, he has bad days, too. Sunday was one of them, despite a 24-10 victory over the Rams. MORE: Scoreboard | Week 5's worst performers Rodgers threw an interception at Lambeau Field for the first time since 2012 . Then he threw another one tossing two picks in Green Bay for the first time since 2010. Then he lost a fumble. The quarterback acclaimed for his ability to take care of the ball, this Sunday, suddenly had a bad case of the giveaways. All that was missing was a Publishers Clearing House check delivered directly to the Rams defense. Rodgers finished with stats merely-mortal quarterbacks can actually comprehend: 19 of 30 passing, 241 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. But Rodgers has had worse days. Here are the top 5 instances of Rodgers lowering himself to human standards and showing us his worst. 1 Dec. 14, 2014 Passer rating: 34.3 QBR: 12.4 Rodgers may have had a streak of interception-free football at Lambeau Field, but it was just last season when the Packers quarterback had a turnover spree on the road. The Packers lost to the Bills 21-13 in a stunning upset that saw Rodgers throw two interceptions, completing just 17 of 42 passes for 185 yards. Before that game, Rodgers had thrown just three interceptions on the season . 2 Sept. 28, 2008 Passer rating: 55.9 QBR: 13.4 Thrice has Rodgers thrown three interceptions in a game. Two of those games came against the Buccaneers because of course they did. The first happened in 2008, when the Green Bay lost to Tampa Bay 30-21. Rodgers barely completed half of his passes at 14-for-27 and tallied 165 yards, two touchdowns and those three picks. And it wasn't just interceptions that came in threes that day; Tampa Bay racked up three sacks against the Pack. 3 Nov. 8, 2009 Passer rating: 57.6 QBR: 59.8 Rodgers' second Tampa Bay nightmare came the next season, when for some reason the Packers once again traveled to Buccaneer country. And once again, Rodgers threw two touchdowns and three interceptions. He did rack up more yards this time with 266 but suffered an even worse completion percentage, finding receivers on just 17 of his 35 passes. Rodgers got sacked six times double the behind-the-line punishment he suffered in 2008. 4 Nov. 24, 2008 Passer rating: 59.8 QBR: 64.1 The only other time Rodgers threw three interceptions, he did it in Brett Favre bayou country. Facing the Saints in New Orleans in 2008, the Packers lost big like, 51-29 big. And while Brees put on a 20-for-26, 323-yard, four-touchdown passing clinic, Rodgers struggled. Rodgers finished the game having completed 23 of 41 passes for 248 yards. Once again, the touchdown:interception ratio read 2:3. To his credit, Rodgers did also rush for a touchdown in the game, but also got away with a fumble recovered by his own team. 5 Oct. 31, 2010 Passer rating: 59.7 QBR: 26.7 On Halloween in 2010, it's possible a mediocre quarterback wore an Aaron Rodgers costume and fooled us all. Much like Sunday's win against the Rams, Rodgers proved he could win ugly against the Jets in 2010. The Packers prevailed 9-0, but his passing stats were hardly the key ingredient. Rodgers completed less than half of his passes against Rex Ryan's defense (at 15-for-34), getting just 170 yards through the air and five yards on the ground.
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Worst of NFL Week 5: These teams, players and others had a bad day Sunday There are goats not to be mistaken with G.O.A.T. in nearly every game or athletic competition. They are the players, teams, officials, TV networks or sports organizations that make bad decisions or bad calls to cost them big-time or bring scorn upon their very being. MORE: Week 5 scoreboards | Worst NFL moments, ever | Q uestionable QBs Here's a look at the worst peformances Sunday during Week 5 of the NFL season. And not all of them are players, teams and coaches. Even NASCAR makes a rare appearance. 1 Nick Foles Before Rams fans get too smug watching Sam Bradford struggle for the Eagles, a reminder that their piece of that strange trade puzzle also looks like a bad fit: Foles not to be outdone by Aaron Rodgers getting intercepted in Green Bay for the first time since 2012 threw two picks in the Rams' first five possessions; the rest of those possessions ended in a punt. Foles was simply awful, completing just 11 of 30 passes for 141 yards, with one touchdown and four interceptions. His early pick-six staked Green Bay to a 14-0 lead. The Packers won 24-10. 2 Kirk Cousins Cousins was having a decent game and looked like he might lead the Redskins to an upset victory over the undefeated Falcons. After the Falcons rallied to take the lead, Cousins drove the Redskins down the field to a tying field goal on the last play of regulation. Cousins then got first shot to win it. Instead, he threw a pick-six, his pass getting picked off by Robert Alford, who returned it 59 yards for the game-winning touchdown. Cousins finished 21-of-32 for 218 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. 3 Saints For a while, there was a good debate raging in the NFL. Who was worse, or most disappointing the Saints or Eagles? The verdict is in: the Saints. New Orleans dropped to 1-4 while the Eagles (2-3) turned things around with a 39-17 win. Drew Brees threw for 335 yards and two touchdowns but otherwise had an awful day for the Saints, who can't seem to win away from home. Brees also threw an interception and lost two fumbles as the Saints had four turnovers. 4 Sam Bradford We keep waiting on Bradford to justify Chip Kelly's decision to so aggressively trade for him. We keep waiting in vain. Bradford's Sunday got off to a rough start against the Saints. On the Eagles' first possession, Bradford missed badly on a fourth-and-7 throw to Riley Cooper. On Philly's subsequent possession, a promising drive ended in another bad Bradford throw. Once again throwing to Cooper, Bradford threw short and right, only to have Brandon Browner intercept the pass in the endzone. It didn't end there. In the first minute of the second quarter, Bradford once again threw a ball into the endzone. And once again, the wrong team caught it. This time, Delvin Breaux secured the interception as he stepped inside of wide receiver Miles Austin. The play put Bradford's three-possession statline at 11-for-16 passing for 106 yards and two picks. In fairness, Bradford further confused the issue with a 41-yard touchdown pass to Josh Huff to tie the game 7-7 in the second quarter. So all is not lost in Philadephia, the City of Bradfordly Love. Bradford wound up having a decent day in the Eagles' 39-17 win. Erase the two interceptions and he had a good day, completing 32 of 45 passes for 333 yards, two TDs and two interceptions. 5 Alfred Morris and Matt Jones Morris or Jones? Jones or Morris? That's been the question in Washington early this season as the Redskins tried to decide which running back to use. The answer early Sunday was neither. In the first half of their game against the Falcons, Morris had 6 carries for 13 yards, while Jones, a rookie, was 5 for 12. The duo continued to struggle in the 25-19 loss. Morris had 8 carries for 15 yards, while Jones was 11 for 20. 6 Marcus Easley Bishop Sankey was all set to be the first goat of the day Sunday when he fumbled the opening kickoff, appearing to give the Bills the ball at the Titans' 2-yard line. Not so fast. Bills' wide receiver and special teams player Marcus Easley let Sankey off the hook when he was called for being offsides, forcing the Bills to kick again and allowing the Titans to keep the ball. What could have been an easy Bills touchdown to open the game was wiped out. 7 Kam Chancellor/Seahawks defense The Seahawks defense had not allowed a touchdown since Week 2, shutting out the Bears and holding the Lions to a defensive touchdown. That changed in a hurry when they faced the 4-0 Bengals. Cincinnatti marched 86 yards in just seven plays, with TE Tyler Eifert scoring a 14-yard touchdown when safety Cam Chancellor failed to cover him. Channcellor missed the first two games of the season during a contract holdout. 8 Julio Jones Julio Jones was questionable this week with a hamstring injury, but was activated Sunday morning. Jones, who has been the league's most dominating wide receiver this season, got off to a slow start. He was held without a single catch in the first half as the undefeated Falcons trailed the Redskins 7-3 at the half. He had 2 catches for 29 yards in the fourth quarter when he redeemed himself sort of by falling on a fumble in the end zone for a touchdown. Jones wound up with 5 catches for 67 yards his worst performance this season. 9 Cleveland running backs The only backfield that was worse than the Redskins' early Sunday was the Browns duo of Duke Johnson and Isiah Crowell. The Browns trailed the Ravens 14-9 at the half. Part of the reason was Cleveland's inability to run the ball. At the half, Johnson had 4 carries for 5 yards, while Crowell had 4 carries for just 4 yards. Things got better in the second half marginally. Johnson finished with 9 carries for 22 yards and Crowell put together a solid second half stat line: 9 carries, 45 yards. But still. Bring back Ben Tate. It's not a sign of a good Sunday on the ground when Josh McCown has your only rushing touchdown. Then again, McCown's offensive onslaught led the Browns to a 33-30 victory, so what do we know? 10 Matt Ryan The 4-0 Falcons entered Week 5 with little to fear from 2-2 Washington. So much for that. Quarterback Matt Ryan entered Week 5 completing 67 percent of his passes, ranked fifth league-wide in Total QBR. Again, so much for that. Ryan's first 25 pass attempts coincided with a stymied Falcons offense. He completed 13 of those passes for 145 yards, but also coughed up two turnovers an interception and a fumble, for diversity's sake. The Falcons trailed Washington 7-3 after six offensive possessions, two of which ended on mishaps from our next contributor. Though Ryan rallied the Falcons to the go-ahead touchdown, he had his worst day of the season, throwing for 254 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions. 11 Matt Bryant Guys named Matt are having a bad day in Atlanta. While QB Matt Ryan has two turnovers, Matt Bryant has two missed field goals , having hit both uprights this Sunday. In the second quarter, Bryant hit the right upright from 38 yards out. In the third, he hit the left upright from 48-deep. His made 42-yard field goal which soared between the uprights with 7:07 remaining in the second quarter feels like a distant memory. Previously, Bryant had gone a perfect 6-for-6 this season. The last time he missed two field goals in a single game was against the Cowboys in 2012, when Bryant went 4-for-6 in a 19-13 Falcons victory. 12 Packers running backs Good thing the Packers didn't need their running game Sunday. Thanks to Aaron Rodgers salvaging a decent game, Green Bay held on for a 24-10 win over the Rams. The Packers got practically nothing out of its running game, however. Eddie Lacy had 13 carries for just 27 yards, while backup James Starks had 5 for 17. Rodgers wound up being Green Bays leading rusher with 8 carries for 39 yards. 13 NASCAR NASCAR hates starting its big Cup races at the same time as NFL games. In fact, it sets up its Chase for the Sprint Cup schedule to avoid that, with most of its playoff races starting around 2 or 3 p.m. ET after the 1 p.m. NFL kickoffs and before the 4 p.m. games start. But Sunday's Bank of America 500 started at 12:30 p.m. after it was postponed by rain Saturday night. No doubt driven by TV NBC televises both the NASCAR Chase races, and NFL Sunday Night Football the race went green just 30 minutes before the start of the 1 p.m. NFL games and was set up to conclude near the end of those games, or close to the start of the 4 p.m. games. NASCAR could have avoided that scenario by starting the race earlier Sunday morning 10 or 11 a.m. or by going back to a normal start time for Chase races 2 or 3 p.m. ET. Instead, all but die-hard NASCAR fans probably watched the start of the race, and then switched to the NFL. It will interesting to see the ratings for Sunday's race. 14 Marcus Mariota Mariota was having another nice game until his final possession. Mariota completed 21 of 32 passes for 187 yards, and added 47 yards rushing on 5 carries. Mariota could not get the Titans into the end zone, however, scoring just one touchdown on an Antonio Andrews 1-yard run and two field goals. After the Bills went ahead 14-13, Mariota was trying to drive the Titans into field-goal range when Mariota threw his only interception of the day. Mariota overthrew Kendell Wright, causing Wright to get blasted while Stephon Gilmore intercepted the pass. Despite a strong start by the rookie quarterback, the Titans fell to 1-3. 15 Baltimore Ravens defense When will the Ravens want to relive the road to 1-4, the Sunday that led to a 33-30, Browns-Ravens score? Nevermore. The Ravens led 21-9 with 7:47 left in the third quarter after Joe "Is he elite?" Flacco rushed for a touchdown. Then things fell apart and by things, we mean the Ravens defense and all expectations of Browns quarterback Josh McCown. McCown not exactly known for his speed rushed for a 10-yard touchdown. Then he passed for two more, all in the span of 14 minutes of game action. By the end, the Ravens allowed McCown to have a fantasy field day, as he finished the day with 457 yards passing, two touchdowns through the air and a touchdown on the ground. McCown entered Sunday with seven career rushing touchdowns. Before Sunday, McCown had never passed for 400 yards; his previous high was 398 as a Cardinal, ten years ago . 16 Greg Zuerlein Any semblance of a Rams comeback was stymied by the wayward kicking of Zuerlein, who missed three field goals in the second half as St. Louis lost 24-10 to the Packers. Zuerlein missed from 50, 53 and 63 yards, so it's not like the Rams gave him high-percentage chances. But with Nick Foles struggling to move the sticks, the Rams are counting on Zuerlein's big leg and he didn't have it on Sunday. He had made six of his previous eight field goals from beyond 50 yards, his longest coming from 60 yards back against the Seahawks in 2012. It's Zuerlein's second-career game with three missed field goals, having hit that number against the Dolphins in 2012, when he made two of five attempts. 17 Lions The 2015 Lions season has been an exercise in running head-first into an opponents' backside. They're always two steps behind. And with Detroit entering Week 4 at 0-4, we probably shouldn't have been surprised by a poor performance. But this? Good grief. Matt Stafford threw three interceptions and got benched for Dan Orlovsky one of the captains of the '08 Lions' 0-16 voyage. The Lions surrendered 35 points on the first eight Cardinals possessions. And the Lions line allowed for five QB hits and a 3.2 yards per carry rate through about three quarters. In other words, the Lions aren't just losing; they are laughable. 18 Brandon Weeden In a textbook example of regression to the mean, Brandon Weeden and the Cowboys can't score. Trailing the Patriots 20-6 through nearly three quarters, the Cowboys can't move the sticks. And that starts with the signal-caller. Weeden has completed 12 of 19 passes for just 74 yards; he has contributed -1 yards on the ground. The completion percentage is fine, the lack of turnovers ideal, but the yards per attempt quite poor. A Cowboys comeback will be difficult with such middling game management under center.
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Utah remained undefeated after picking up a 30-24 win over Cal on Saturday. Cal's Jared Goff threw five interceptions, while Utah's DeVontae Booker ran for 222 yards and two touchdowns.
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Nizaha's father with the new born The parents of three-year-old Nizaha Alaa Ahmed, who died after being locked inside a school bus in Abu Dhabi 12 months ago, have been blessed with the birth of a baby daughter. Dad Nazer Ahmed told 7DAYS that his wife, Nabirah Nazer, gave birth to the girl at 4.30pm on Tuesday, October 6. The birth comes a year after tragic Nizaha suffocated on the bus outside Al Worood Academy Private School, on October 7, 2014, after falling asleep and being locked inside. "God is great," says Ahmed. "God has blessed us with another beautiful girl. My wife smiles whenever she looks at the baby's face. "It's the first time I've seen such a big smile since the death of Nizaha." The proud dad, who also has a six-year-old daughter called Nazaha Asma, admitted that he and his wife "didn't expect we could get another baby this soon". He added: "This is a gift from God. And many thanks for the prayers from people of the UAE. They have been with us through the difficult moments and praying for us." Ahmed says both his wife and baby, who is yet to be named, are well and are back home after the normal birth at Corniche Hospital. "We are still thinking of a good name," the proud father said. "Maybe we'll name her 'Aaliya' (which means high social standing)," he said. New born with sister Nazaha Asma While the new baby brings joy to the family, Ahmed said Nizaha would always be in their thoughts. "She would be picnicking in the park with her big sister at this period of the year," he said. "Splashing in the paddling pool and playing hide and seek in the garden.She was a gorgeous, precious little girl. Our feelings are always going to be bittersweet I know that." But the 40-year-old dad, who works for Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (Adco), believes the new baby will do so much to help him and his wife heal the pain of losing Nizaha. "The new baby has brought joy and happiness in our lives and especially to my wife," he said. "My wife has been struggling to come to terms with the death of her small child. "I know she will never completely heal from the loss but at least the arrival of our new baby has made her very happy." Ahmed says he will always describe himself as a father of three. Nizaha fell asleep on the bus on the way to Al Worood Private Academy School on that tragic day last year. She died after the driver and supervisor failed to realise she was still on board when they left the bus. She was found dead hours later. In February, Abu Dhabi Misdemeanour Court sentenced the Pakistani bus driver and Filipina supervisor to three years in jail. A Lebanese school administrator received a suspended sentence and the owner of the bus company was jailed and fined for negligence. The jail sentences for the driver and the supervisor were reduced to six months and one year respectively on appeal. Al Worood was ordered to pay Dhs50,000 for negligence and endangering students' lives and pay blood money of Dhs100,000 to Nizaha's family. Prosecutors however challenged the sentences to the court of cassation and the final ruling is yet to be issued. [email protected]
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LSU RB Leonard Fournette was planning to auction his jersey for flood relief efforts in South Carolina, but the NCAA has ruled it a violation.
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Clemson's defense held Georgia Tech to only 71 yards on the ground and Deshaun Watson threw for 265 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Tigers topped the Yellow Jackets, 43-24. Wayne Gallman ran for 115 yards and 2 touchdowns as #6 Clemson improved to 5-0 overall and 2-0 in the ACC.
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Not every husband of a reality television star is a threat to Derek Fisher. A healthy, happy and engaged Carmelo Anthony is the best thing that has happened to Fisher, not only this week but since he became the Knicks' head coach. Granted, it is only the preseason, but Anthony's surgically repaired knee has not been an issue and his game appears to be in midseason form. Anthony has made 18 of 25 shots and has scored a combined 38 points in wins over Brazilian club Bauru and the Washington Wizards. "It's nice to just get back out there, man," Anthony said late Friday, after the win over Washington. "The most important thing is being healthy. When you're healthy, everything kind of falls into place mentally. There's a lot of clarity for me at this moment where I can just play ball and not worry about no tick tack injury or having surgery or things like that. I can just help my team." Anthony was limited to 40 games last season before being shut down following the All-Star Game in February. The forward's absence left Fisher without a proven scorer as the Knicks finished with a franchise-worst 17-65 record. Although team president Phil Jackson upgraded the roster over the summer, he failed to add another All-Star caliber player. Solid role players will help but the only thing that stands between the Knicks competing for a postseason berth and losing 50-plus games is having Anthony back to being a top 15 player and available for at least 70 games. Fisher understands as much as anyone the importance of having a healthy All-Star. With the Lakers, Fisher won championships as a supporting player to Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant. As a rookie head coach, Fisher struggled with Anthony in the lineup. Without Anthony, Fisher and the Knicks were a lost cause. On Friday, Anthony came out in support of Fisher, who has been embroiled in controversy for leaving on a cross-country flight after the fifth day of practice and getting into a physical altercation in Los Angeles with Memphis Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes. Fisher is reportedly dating Barnes' estranged wife, Gloria Govan, who once starred in the reality TV show "Basketball Wives." Fisher told the Knicks he needed to return home to see his children, yet on Saturday he ended up at the home that Barnes owns. Fisher then missed Monday's practice for what the Knicks originally said was a "personal issue." Fisher, though, explained that equipment problems with a private jet were the cause of his absence. Fisher has had his judgment come into question for leaving the team just five days into training camp and then missing a practice. An active player would likely have been fined or suspended for a similar offense. The Knicks have not taken disciplinary action, while Fisher disputed the notion that he is not fully committed to the job. Of course, it is uncommon for a coach in any professional sport to leave the team five days into training camp and miss a practice. That Fisher ended up getting into a fight with an active player's wife made it look even worse. FOLLOW THE DAILY NEWS SPORTS ON FACEBOOK. "LIKE" US HERE Jackson has yet to publicly address the issue. According to a source, Knicks players learned of the fight long before Fisher spoke with them as a group prior to the preseason opener. In fact, several players were aware of what happened to Fisher before Jackson was debriefed. Among NBA players, coaches and executives, the Fisher-Barnes altercation has become the talk of the league. And while Madison Square Garden officials have gone to great lengths to quash the story, they also fear that more sordid details could emerge. And having been well versed in crisis management over the years, the Garden is also aware that a quick start to the regular season would help change the narrative. "Whatever he's dealing with, he's going through, he's going on his own time," Anthony said. "He comes in here and it's Derek Fisher. He comes in here, he's kind of upbeat. He's not letting that come into our locker room. When you have that mentality as a leader then it trickles down to everybody."
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Clemson has weapons on both sides of the ball. That much was obvious Saturday in its win against Georgia Tech. MORE: Top 25 updates | Scoreboard | Cheerleader gallery Sure, the Yellow Jackets have been struggling, but the Tigers made that offense look pedestrian with a defensive front that created chaos and linebackers and safeties that cleaned up plays. Georgia Tech entered the game averaging 311.8 yards per game on the ground and managed just 71 yards on 42 attempts against Clemson. 1. Tech's a wreck Fighting to get back into the game, Georgia Tech scored on a long TD pass to cut the Clemson lead to 26-10 late in the first half. After the Tigers took over on their own 30 with 1:30 to play in the half, they began moving, but the Jackets gave them a boost. After a play was over, Tech's Patrick Gamble was called for a personal foul for extra shoving at the end of a play, moving the ball to the Tech 38. From there, Deshaun Watson calmly led Clemson to another TD an 8-yard pass to TE Jordan Leggett with 4 seconds left for a 33-10 advantage. Teams that are 2-4 and playing well below expectations make mistakes like that. 2. Seeing double Justin Thomas will be glad to get out of Clemson. On Saturday, orange was coming from all angles in the form of 270-pound ends Shaq Lawson and Kevin Dodd. Big and fast, Lawson and Dodd contained the slippery Thomas, forced him into quick pitches and short gains. The two lineman entered the game with a combined 14.5 tackles for loss and six sacks. 3. The other Freak What do you call a 6-5, 220-pound safety who hits like a linebacker and has the instincts of a cornerback? Jayron Kearse. The nephew of former Florida great and NFL standout Jevon "The Freak" Kearse, Jayron Kearse was disruptive from his safety spot Saturday against Georgia Tech. In the first half he collected three tackles behind the line of scrimmage when the Clemson interior lineman forced QB Justin Thomas to pitch wide and early. He was a nightmare to avoid the Tech backs couldn't and is another reason that Clemson's defense is good enough to win games on its own. 4. By air and land You know about Deshaun Watson. He can throw it and did Saturday against Georgia Tech with 265 yards and two TDs. He spread the ball around eight players caught passes. But the Tigers can also hurt you on the ground. Wayne Gallman is averaging more than 100 yards per game and ran for 115 Saturday with TD runs of 66 and 1 yards. The Tigers ran for 201 yards. 5. Playoff worthy Entering the season, you couldn't get past the Oct. 3 and Oct. 10 dates without thinking this might be where Clemson loses. But the Tigers beat Notre Dame last week and handled a disappointing Georgia Tech team on Saturday. The schedule is not that daunting from here out. Yes, there's the Nov. 7 game vs. FSU, but it's at home. That's the game everyone expected to decide ACC surpremacy anyway. As long as Clemson can avoid looking past any other games it plays road games against Miami, NC State, Syracuse and South Carolina the Tigers should be in great position to grab one of the four playoff positions.
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Baylor TE LaQuan McGowan... like you've never seen him before. See why his 18-yard touchdown pass in Baylor's 66-7 win over Kansas truly was poetry in motion.
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The nation already knew LSU running back Leonard Fournette was a terrific athlete, but found out a little about his character following the Tigers' 45-24 win Saturday. Fournette, who eclipsed 1,000 yards against the Gamecocks , offered to auction off his jersey to help provide for flood relief in South Carolina. MORE: College football Week 6 photos | Leonard Fournette's wait to turn pro should be least of NFL concerns Leonard Fournette auctioning off his game jersey to help with relief effort in South Carolina. #LSU pic.twitter.com/VwmV8wlPyZ Julie Boudwin (@Julie_Boudwin) October 10, 2015 But predictably, that won't be allowed, Fournette later said. #LSU RB Leonard Fournette says the NCAA will not allow him to auction his jersey for the SC flooding relief. "Violation," he said. Ross Dellenger (@DellengerAdv) October 10, 2015 "I want to to send my prayers, condolences and empathy to the people of South Carolina," Fournette said in the postgame interview. "What they are going through reminds me of what my people in New Orleans, Louisiana went through 10 years ago with Hurricane Katrina. I would like to auction off my game jersey, as is, to the highest bidder to help out with the relief efforts. People of Louisiana not only care, but know first hand what you, South Carolina, are going through." UPDATE: It can't be, can it? The NCAA has for once operated with logic. It will allow Fournette to sell the jersey for charity. Leonard Fournette can auction his jersey for SC flood victims. NCAA (@NCAA) October 11, 2015
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KABUL, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops during the Sunday morning rush hour in the Afghan capital, flipping an armoured vehicle on its side and wounding at least three civilians. Taliban insurgents fighting to topple the foreign-backed Kabul government claimed responsibility for the attack, which followed a series of bombings in the city in August. TV footage showed an armoured vehicle from a British convoy on its side as Afghan security forces cordoned off the street in the Joi Sheer neighbourhood. "It was a suicide bombing against a foreign forces convoy in a crowded part of the city and there are casualties," said Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the interior ministry. Danish did not specify whether there were casualties among the foreign forces but an interior ministry statement said three civilians had been wounded. The U.S.-led Resolute Support military coalition in Kabul confirmed that one of its convoys was struck by a bomb. "No casualties are reported at this time," said spokesman Colonel Brian Tribus. The Taliban said Sunday's attack killed a number of foreign troops. The group typically inflates casualty figures they inflict on Afghan and coalition forces. The attack came during a period of heightened tension following intense fighting between government troops and the Taliban around the northern city of Kunduz, which fell briefly to the Islamist movement at the end of last month. Fighting between government forces and the Taliban continues on the outskirts of Kunduz. (Reporting by Hamid Shalizi; writing by James Mackenzie; editing by Nick Macfie)
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The key to Utah's 30-24 victory over Cal: turnovers. Check out the Utes' defense as it intercepts Jared Goff, one of the most highly touted QBs in the nation, a stunning five times.
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INCHEON, South Korea (AP) -- The final hour when both teams thought they had it won. The clutch putt that turned a rookie into the hero. The stubbed chip that made the local star cover his face with both hands as if he wanted to hide. The Presidents Cup, packed with raw emotion and endless nerves, was unlike any other over the last 10 years. Except for the outcome. The Americans won for the sixth straight time Sunday when Chris Kirk made a 15-foot birdie putt to win his match in a stunning turnaround on the final hole, and Bill Haas provided a storybook ending with the winning point for his team and for his father. "A moment I'll never forget," U.S. captain Jay Haas said, so choked up when it ended that he couldn't speak. Haas used a captain's pick on his son, sent him off in the 12th and final singles match at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea and then saw Bill Haas hit all the right shots to hold off Bae Sang-moon for a 2-up victory. The 15-14 margin was the slimmest since the famous tie in South Africa in 2003. Not since 2005 has the Presidents Cup been decided by the final match. That's what the International team wanted when it demanded the number of matches be reduced (from 34 to 30). It almost got something even better -- the shiny gold trophy that again stays with the Americans. "Irrelevant of the outcome -- we obviously would have loved to have won -- we put on a show of golf this week," captain Nick Price said. The final session was not without its share of heartbreak. Anirban Lahiri, the first player from India to make the International team, battled Kirk shot-for-shot over the final hour holes and looked like a winner when he played a delicate pitch to perfection on the par-5 18th and had 4 feet for birdie. Kirk's chip ran 15 feet by. Based on the status of other matches still on the course, it looked like the International team would finally emerge a winner. And then Kirk made his putt on the final turn, and one of the most stoic players on the PGA Tour unleashed a fist pump. Moments later, Lahiri missed. His putt caught the right edge of the cup and spun out, and he dropped his putter over his back in disbelief. "I have to give credit to Chris for making that putt," Lahiri said. "These things are scripted, I guess, and I wasn't in the script this time." Neither was Bae, the only player under the Korean flag who was playing for the final time before he starts mandatory military service. When it became evident the Presidents Cup would be decided by his match with Haas, the American was 1 up and not giving away any shots. Bae holed a 10-foot putt on the 16th to halve the hole. He came within inches of holing a bunker shot on the 17th to halve the hole, which assured the Americans would do no worse than tie. Facing that tough chip below the 18th green, Bae hit it heavy and the gallery groaned as it rolled back to his feet. He crouched over that covered his face as his caddie, Matt Minister, placed a hand on Bae's shoulder to console him. Bae chipped about 12 feet by the hole, and when Haas blasted out of a bunker to 8 feet, Bae conceded the putt. "I wanted to make the winning point for the team, but at the end of the day, our team lost," Bae said. "So I was very sad and disappointed about it." The Americans had a one-point lead going into the decisive singles session, and for the longest time, appeared to be in control all day. They had early leads in nine matches. The International side had to have all the close matches go their way, and that's what happened. Marc Leishman took his first lead against Jordan Spieth on the 15th hole and made a 7-foot putt on the 18th for a 1-up victory. Hideki Matsuyama won the 18th hole with a birdie to beat J.B. Holmes. Two halves were just as critical. Louis Oosthuizen hit a splendid second shot to 12 feet for eagle on the 18th and tied Patrick Reed, and Thongchai Jaidee escaped with a half-point against Bubba Watson in the most unlikely scenario. Thongchai drove into the water and saved par, while Watson missed a 5-foot birdie putt. Phil Mickelson had an unbeaten record (3-0-1) for the third time in the Presidents Cup, trouncing Charl Schwartzel. Zach Johnson also went unbeaten in easily beating Jason Day, the PGA champion and No. 2 player in the world who failed to win a match this week. The shortest match belonged to Adam Scott, who won six straight holes against Rickie Fowler and ended it on the 13th green. Ultimately, though, the Americans were posing with the gold cup, just like always. The series now is 9-1-1 since the Presidents Cup began in 1994, though the International team headed home with belief they are getting closer. It might have found a stalwart in Branden Grace, who went 5-0 to join Shigeki Maruyama as the only International player to win all five matches. Scott now has played on more teams (7) of any player to have never won a Presidents Cup. He looked down the row at Grace, Matsuyama, Lahiri and Day and described them as the "future of this event." "They are the ones who are going to take it forward," Scott said. "I'm tipping that every one of them is going to be excited to make the 2017 team after getting a taste of how close this was today."
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Nepal's new prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli, tasked with rebuilding the quake-hit country and ending bitter constitutional protests, spent years in jail for trying to overthrow the king before becoming a tough-talking politician. Oli, chief of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) party, won a parliamentary vote to become prime minister on Sunday after last month's adoption of a new constitution. The 63-year-old is charged with steering the recovery from a massive earthquake that killed nearly 8,900 people in April and left more than half a million homeless. Oli also takes on the task of healing deep divisions over the new constitution. It was meant to end centuries of inequality in the impoverished nation but has sparked deadly protests in Nepal's southern plains, where ethnic minorities oppose plans to divide the country into seven federal provinces. Oli is known as a moderate within his party despite its communist leanings, and has vowed to work with other parties to develop the impoverished country. He is credited with pushing the constitution through parliament, after eight years of cross-party negotiations made little progress. Lawmakers were spurred by the quake finally to shelve their differences. But commentators say the veteran could struggle to appease the protesters, whose concerns he has publicly dismissed in the past. "He has his work cut out for him because he has been the reason why this divisive constitution went through," said political commentator Kunda Dixit. "You can't be a healer when you are the one who created the wound." - Tough talker - When he was 21, Oli was jailed for 14 years for leading a communist underground movement to overthrow King Mahendra's absolute rule. After his release from prison, he married party worker Radhika Shakya and joined the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). Known as a tough talker, he rose through the ranks to become deputy leader of the opposition in parliament in 1999. Oli lost the seat he had held since 1991 in parliamentary elections in 2008, when the former Maoist rebels entered politics and swept the polls with a wave of public support. But the Maoists, who abolished the monarchy, struggled to hammer out an agreement on the constitution and Oli bounced back in 2013, when fresh elections saw his party come a close second to the Nepali Congress. Commentators credit him with securing the cross-party deal in June on the long-delayed constitution. But they warn he may struggle to contain the anger still simmering across Nepal's plains, where protesters have enforced a blockade at a key border checkpoint, cutting off vital fuel supplies to the landlocked country. Oli, who secured his party's top job last year, openly scorned the protester's demands for a separate province and greater autonomy for their community. "Identity is a treacherous wordplay. It is a cunning game to ignite social disharmony in Nepal," he said. On Sunday he struck a more conciliatory note, telling lawmakers protesters' needs should be addressed. Oli must also work to repair ties with giant influential neighbour India which supplies all of the impoverished country's fuel. Oli accused India of deliberately blocking supplies to show its dissatisfaction with the constitution, a charge an angry New Delhi denied. Oli has vowed to move quickly to rebuild the country after his predecessor came under fire for letting months pass after the quake with no progress on reconstruction. Economist Bishamber Pyakurel said Oli's reputation as a decisive leader could be good news for Nepal's stuttering economy. Following the quake it is forecast to grow around three percent this fiscal year, the lowest level in eight years. "Out here, politics has always overshadowed economic concerns. We will have to see if Oli can take command and convince other parties... to prioritise issues of the economy and reconstruction," Pyakurel said.
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Unlike in NASCAR, Formula 1 races aren't automatically put under safety car conditions when there's debris on the track which created a dangerous situation late in Sunday's Russian Grand Prix. Carlos Sainz suffered damage to his rear wing, and a giant panel broke off and landed in the middle of the racing line, causing a huge problem for other drivers. To remove the debris, a marshal working at the corner had to quickly run on the track and retrieve the piece of wing while the race continued. A few weeks ago Vettel was forced to avoid a drunken fan that ran on the track in Singapore. Stop running in front of Formula 1 cars, people.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Everett Golson was supposed to be mostly a game manager and not much else. Dalvin Cook was supposed to be injured. FSU was more than happy to let those perceptions circulate throughout the week. Fact and fiction were blurred until Saturday night against Miami. Golson proved to be much, much more than a simple game manager, while Cook appeared to be healthy as No. 12 FSU (5-0, 3-0 ACC) downed the rival Hurricanes (3-2, 0-1 ACC) 29-24 in front of an announced crowd of 82,329 at Doak Campbell Stadium. BOX SCORE: NO. 12 FLORIDA STATE 29, MIAMI 24 It was FSU's sixth victory in a row against Miami. Cook and Golson each came up key late-game heroics after Miami took a 24-23 lead its first of the game with 10:02 remaining in the contest. First it was Golson who delivered. The graduate transfer quarterback completed a 20-yard pass on third-and-nine, zipping a pass to Miami native Bobo Wilson. The receiver was sandwiched between two Hurricanes defenders, but he held on to keep the drive alive. Golson then came up with another timely play on third down, this time picking up seven yards on a naked bootleg run while facing third-and-one. Not to be outdone, Cook broke off consecutive 23-yard runs, with the second scamper putting FSU ahead 29-24 with 6:44 remaining. The product of Miami Central High, for a second season in a row, came up with what proved to be a game-winning score against the Hurricanes. Cook, who was considered "day-to-day" due to a hamstring injury, appeared just fine. The sophomore running back finished with three total touchdowns and 222 rushing yards. FSU's depleted defense the Seminoles were without injured starting linebacker Terrance Smith and starting safety Trey Marshall, who was ejected in the first quarter for a targeting penalty held on as Miami tried to engineer a game-winning drive. Quarterback Brad Kaaya's pass on fourth-and-4 with 1:19 remaining was deflected at the line of scrimmage by defensive tackle Giorgio Newberry, sealing the win for Florida State. But it was Cook and Golson who stole the show. FSU took a 7-0 lead on a 72-yard run from Cook. The play started as a speed option, with Golson precisely pitching the ball to Cook before two Miami defenders collided with the quarterback. FSU coach Jimbo Fisher was reluctant to try too many option looks with the mobile quarterback through the Seminoles' first four games, but the game plan was much more aggressive Saturday and Golson responded to the challenge. Golson was 25-of-33 passing for 291 yards and a touchdown. He looked comfortable in the pocket while calmly delivering an array of passes around the field on short, intermediate and deep throws. It was a significant difference from how the quarterback looked in his last three games for the Seminoles. Fisher said earlier in the week that he was fine with Golson being a game manager, but the graduate transfer was dynamic Saturday. FSU's second drive ended in another score as the Seminoles went ahead 14-3, with Golson finding Cook streaking across the field. Cook caught the ball, burst past two Miami defenders as he churned up dirt while running down the sideline, then juked two more would-be tacklers to complete the 36-yard score. The Seminoles could have put the game out of reach in the first half, but faltered in the red zone. Roberto Aguayo made field goals of 22 and 32 yards, and the Seminoles were stopped on fourth-and-1 at Miami's 10. Miami narrowed the gap to 17-10 with a 58-yard touchdown toss from Kaaya to Rashawn Scott. Seminoles safety Lamarcus Brutus came over top for what could've been an interception, but the ball skirted off his outstretched hand and into Scott's hands. Miami's offense caught fire to start the second half. Kaaya led the Hurricanes on a methodical drive, picking converting on all three of his third-down passing attempts before throwing a one-yard touchdown pass to running back Joseph Yearby as Miami cut FSU's lead to 20-17. The Seminoles' defense, however, stepped up when needed by stopping Miami from scoring on its final two drives.
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Florida got a 21-3 win over Missouri on Saturday. Jalen Tabor scored on a 40-yard interception return to aid Florida. Image ID: 154022076
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ST. LOUIS - The Chicago Cubs won't publicly say it. They are confident, and brash at times, but they've got too much respect for the St. Louis Cardinals to utter the words out loud. Yet, they'll let you in on a little secret. They are just one victory away from reaching the National League Championship Series, and five wins from the World Series, after their 6-3 victory Saturday over the Cardinals. Oh, sure, the official statistics will show you that the NL Division Series is tied at 1-apiece, with the Series resuming Monday, where the Cubs will try to win their first postseason game at Wrigley since 2003. But who's kidding who? The Cubs can't help but feel they're up, 2-1, in this best-of-five series, with Game 3 being nothing more than a formality. You see, they've got Jake Arrieta on the mound Monday, and the only time he has lost since June 16, it took a no-hitter to beat him. Why, since Cole Hamels' no-hitter against the Cubs on July 25, the man has been unconscious. He is 11-0 with a 0.41 ERA since the end of July, which is the lowest ERA by a pitcher since the statistic was even invented. "You can't get ahead of yourself,'' Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo said, "but we are very confident. We are a different ball club with him on the mound. He sets the tone. "That's a great team though, they find ways to win against any pitcher, at any time.'' Still, on this night, the Cardinals couldn't beat Kyle Hendricks, and were shut down by the Cubs' shaky bullpen. Really, they beat themselves, with a five-run meltdown in the second inning that had the Cubs giggling, and the Cardinals moaning. The Cardinals threw the ball into the stands. And into right field. Made bonehead decisions. And were careless. The Cubs scored their first three runs without hitting the ball out of the infield, and then, just to show they could do something more than bunt, Jorge Soler hit a 407-foot homer off Jaime Garcia. Two Cardinals errors. Two Cubs sacrifice-squeeze bunts. A home run. Ballgame. The Cubs ranked next-to-last in the National League in sacrifice bunts. They didn't have their first one until June. They actually had only two games the entire season when they had two sacrifice bunts. Now, for the first time, they did it back-to-back, with pitcher Kyle Hendricks and shortstop Addison Russell. Hendricks, in fact, became the first Cubs pitcher to score a run on a sacrifice bunt in a postseason game since the 1906 World Series when Ed Ruelbach's bunt scored Joe Tinker. Yeah, back in the good ol' days of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. "That was fun, wasn't it?'' Cubs catcher David Ross said. "I was firing up the manager (Joe Maddon) after the first one, and then he did it again. I almost passed out I was yelling at him so much. "The manager pushed the right buttons, and we did the little things that we really haven't done all year, I'm sure it took them by surprise. "I don't know if I ever said, "The manager had a really good game. But I thought he had a really good game. Is that possible? Am I allowed to say that?'' Well, when you watched the power-hitting Cubs turn into bunting fools, hey, why not? It's an inning that could haunt the Cardinals all winter if they lose to the Cubs, and are eliminated in the first round. It all started when Starlin Castro led off with a single up the middle. Austin Jackson grounded out to shortstop Jhonny Peralta, but when he flipped to second baseman Kolten Wong to start the double play, Wong lost control of the ball, and threw the ball 30 feet wide of first baseman Brandon Moss, bouncing into the stands. Garcia evidently forgot that Jackson was now on second base. Jackson took a lead so large he was almost in the state of Kansas, strolling to third for the stolen base. Garcia then walked catcher Miguel Montero, bringing up Hendricks, who will be the answer to a trivia question one day: Who was the first pitcher to bat eighth in a postseason game? Maddon called for a squeeze, and Hendricks laid down a bunt right in front of the pitcher's mound. Jackson broke for home, and Garcia had an easy play at the plate. Yet, he didn't even look at Jackson. He started to throw to first, hesitated when he heard everyone yell, looked too late to home, and then threw the ball 20 feet over the head of Moss into right field, with Montero advancing to third and Hendricks to second base. The Cubs, figuring if it worked once, why not try it again, laid down another one with No. 9 hitter Addison Russell, scoring Hendricks. Dexter Fowler followed with a soft single, and Soler slammed him home. "It is hard to watch a club that's played so well defensively,'' Matheny said, "see a couple things happen that are kind of uncharacteristic for us. "But they do happen. We got to figure out ways to get around them.'' The Cardinals' blunders now leave them in a quandary with their starting rotation the rest of the series. They will go with Michael Wacha, who may be the sacrificial lamb, Monday in Game 3. They were planning on starting Lance Lynn in Game 4, until Garcia departed after two innings with stomach flu. Lynn was called into the game in the third inning and pitched an inning of relief. So if the Cardinals indeed lose Game 3, and officially fall down 2-1, they may have no choice but to turn to John Lackey on short rest. He threw just 86 pitches in his 7 1/3-inning shutout performance, but he's also 36 years old. "I don't think we rule out anything,'' Matheny said. "We'll figure things out when we get to that point.'' The Cubs will let the Cardinals stress about their pitching. They plan to leisurely show up at Wrigley Field on Sunday, with Maddon calling it "Breakfast at Wrigley,'' telling everyone they're invited. "We're going to have some breakfast at Wrigley,'' Maddon said, "enjoy our optional batting practice, watch some NFL football on the big screen, and then get ready for the next game.'' The Cubs, even with reliever Travis Wood, who pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings calling Saturday's game a "must-win,'' didn't even bother taking batting practice before the critical game. They're not even sure when they'll bother taking it again. If you're a Cub, batting practice is always optional. Only on this day, Fowler said, it wasn't even optional, with Maddon telling everyone not to bother even stepping onto the field until game time. Hey, when has Maddon ever done anything the conventional way? "We don't worry about what people think,'' Rizzo said. "We don't want to prove anybody wrong. "We want prove ourselves right. We know how good we are.'' And, oh, man, are they ever having fun showing it. "I just can't wait to hear that crowd at Wrigley,'' Rizzo said. "With Jake on the mound, it's already electric. And now that it's 1-1 coming in? Huge game. It's going to be electric. "I can't imagine how crazy it will be.'' Neither can anyone else. GALLERY: Cubs, Cards clash in NLDS
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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Mike Smith took a shot to the head in the first period. By the third period, he was doing the splits to turn away the Pittsburgh Penguins. Smith shook off a hard collision to stop 27 shots, Jordan Martinook scored his first career NHL goal and the Arizona Coyotes withstood a late flurry to beat the Penguins 2-1 on Saturday night. "He's just in a groove, stopping everything," Coyotes coach Dave Tippett said of Smith. BOX SCORE: COYOTES 2, PENGUINS 1 Smith was injured in the first period after being run into by teammate Brad Richardson, who was shoved from behind by Pittsburgh's Patric Hornqvist. Smith lay on the ice for a couple minutes, but stayed in and made some big saves down the stretch, including one while doing a split to stop Nick Bonino from close range. Smith has stopped 67 of 69 shots in two games. Tobias Rieder also scored for the Coyotes, who have won their first two games for the first time since 2009-10. Arizona beat the Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh in consecutive games both seasons. "It felt like a playoff game out there with all the energy," Smith said. "We just sort of picked up where we left off." Marc-Andre Fleury nearly matched Smith, stopping 37 shots, and Phil Kessel scored his first goal with Pittsburgh. But just like they did in Thursday's season opener, the Penguins had trouble getting pucks to go into the net. Pittsburgh has two goals on 55 shots through two games, both losses. "Right now it's loose-puck battles and work ethic," Penguins coach Mike Johnston said. "When you're playing a game like this, you know that's a pure staple of the game." Arizona's new-look team had an impressive debut Friday night, opening the season with a 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings despite getting off just 22 shots. Max Domi had a goal and an assist in his NHL debut and Smith was superb in goal, turning away 40 shots. The Coyotes had a short turnaround before playing their home opener against Pittsburgh, one of the NHL's most talented offensive teams. But for all their firepower, the Penguins fell flat in their opener, losing 3-0 at Dallas on Thursday. Kessel, Pittsburgh's latest sharpshooter, took six shots, but Sidney Crosby failed to get one off and the Penguins failed in 37 attempts against Antti Niemi. The first period had plenty of shots by both teams, but no goals. Those came in rapid succession in the second period. Rieder scored early after the Penguins knocked the puck into their own zone to negate an offside on Arizona. Anthony Duclair gathered the puck off the backboards and wrapped a pass around the goal to the slot, where Rieder one-timed a shot past Fleury. The Penguins answered 17 seconds later, when Kessel scooped up a neutral-zone turnover by Shane Doan and beat Smith to the stick side. Martinook put the Coyotes back up midway through the period, punching the puck past Fleury after a wild scramble in front that included five players hitting the ice at one point. "My goal was just a scrap at the net and I just shoveled into the goal," Martinook said. "It's not pretty, but that's what we've got to do." The Penguins cranked up the offensive pressure in the third period, peppering Smith with one shot after another. He made one tough save after another, including several during a flurry midway through, the highlight his stretch to get Bonino's shot with his pad. "We were able to generate some good chances later on, but it just took too long to generate those chances," Crosby said. NOTES: Pittsburgh D Olli Maatta played in his 100th career NHL game. ... Arizona D Zbynek Michalek was out with an upper-body injury and is listed as day to day. ... Doan turned 39 on Saturday and passed Roman Hamrik for 34th on the NHL's all-time games played list with No. 1,396. ... The Coyotes and Penguins meet again on Feb. 29 in Pittsburgh.
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PASADENA, Calif. I've been reading a good book lately. It's called Das Reboot: How German Soccer Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World. The author, Raphael Honigstein, tells the story of how the Germans completely rethought their approach to talent development starting in the late 1990s, refined it even more in the early 2000s and reaped the ultimate reward by winning World Cup 2014. Jurgen Klinsmann is a central figure in the tale whose voice appears throughout the book. When the German federation has trouble finding a suitable coach in 2004, Klinsmann gets the job and shocks the traditional German system by bringing in his American fitness gurus and introducing a technocrat's way of thinking when it comes to developing talent and exploring new ideas. In many ways, he's like a McKinsey consultant for soccer. • WATCH THE GOALS: Chicharito | Cameron | Peralta | Wood | Aguilar Klinsmann, you see, is a big-picture guy, a strategic thinker, someone who spent time at Mike Krzyzewski's annual course at the Duke School of Business. When he made his famous appearance on ESPN after the U.S. had been eliminated in World Cup 2010, he sounded most excited when talking about the future of U.S. Soccer. "The pyramid is upside-down," was his money quote, a direct shot at the way the U.S. develops its young players. All of the above suggests that Klinsmann was a perfect candidate to be this country's technical director, one of his two jobs for U.S. Soccer. Technical directors are big-picture guys, visionaries who can put together a long-term strategy. Klinsmann's attributes are a good fit for that description. But, in light of the U.S.'s men's national team's on-field direction in the 15 months since the 2014 World Cup, culminating in a fourth-place Gold Cup finish and in Saturday's 3-2 loss to Mexico in the CONCACAF Cup, it's fair to wonder if Klinsmann should also be the senior national team coach. Should he just be the U.S. technical director and stick with that? Klinsmann isn't in any danger of losing his U.S. coaching job right now at least according to his boss, U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati and as long as Klinsmann qualifies the U.S. for World Cup '18 he'll almost assuredly keep the coaching job through then. But the way the U.S. played against Mexico was emblematic of how it has played against most decent-to-good teams in recent history: Dropping deep, absorbing pressure, conceding possession and hoping to score on set-pieces or on the counter. That's not what Klinsmann promised when he took over in 2011, and it's not what he's being paid more than $3 million a year to do. Yes, he can only work with the U.S. talent that he has, but when you're being paid that much you're expected to do more than your predecessors who were being paid one-fifth that amount. Senior national team coach and technical director are demanding jobs for two people, much less one, and Klinsmann himself has said that at times the jobs are in direct conflict with one another. On Saturday, Klinsmann took gut-punches in both jobs. Klinsmann the Coach lost to Mexico for the first time in 11 career games as a player or coach. And Klinsmann the Technical Director saw the U.S. Under-23 team take a brutal (and deserved) 2-0 loss on home soil to Honduras with a berth in the 2016 Olympics on the line. The U.S. Under-23s, led by Klinsmann's handpicked coach Andi Herzog, his top senior team assistant, are now in real danger of missing the Olympics for the second straight cycle. The only way the U.S. can now qualify for the Olympics is by beating Canada on Tuesday and then beating Colombia in a one-game playoff in Rio de Janeiro next March. Given the importance Klinsmann has placed on making the Olympics, the U-23 loss on Saturday was almost as deflating as the defeat to Mexico later in the day. After the Mexico loss in the Rose Bowl, I asked a few U.S. players if they felt comfortable answering the question: Do you think Klinsmann is the right coach to lead the U.S. team moving forward? Several said they didn't feel comfortable answering, and you know what? That makes total sense. But Jermaine Jones and Clint Dempsey said they were willing to answer. "I always say that he's the right guy," Jones said. "I'm not the guy to jump on stuff that people say. If I go on Twitter now, I'm the guy who lost the game today. So this is something you have to take sometimes. We'll come back." "I'm comfortable with Jurgen being the coach," said Dempsey. "I've enjoyed my time playing under him. We fought hard tonight. Showed a lot of character, I thought, coming from a goal down two times. We just came up a little bit short." Klinsmann has had some good moments as the U.S. coach. World Cup 2014 has to be considered successful in the sense that the result is still what matters most for the U.S., and Klinsmann's team advanced out of an extremely difficult group. But second four-year cycles for national team coaches are notoriously difficult, no matter the country, and that has certainly been the case so far for Klinsmann. It's enough to make you wonder: Would Klinsmann the Technical Director want to keep Klinsmann the Coach right now if the coach wasn't the same person? Gallery: USA Mexico through the years
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The college football season went into overdrive in Week 6, and the drama started early with an upset of epic proportions as Texas downed Oklahoma. There were more surprises in store and a second huge upset. Statements were made and few players added to their burgeoning legends. We've got you covered from Thursday to Saturday night with the biggest takeaways from Week 6. 1. It's a Texas miracle! Texas pulled off a stunner on Saturday against Oklahoma (No. 10) that was a pure treat for those watching well, everyone but Sooners fans. The Longhorns won at home 24-17 thanks to a magical turnaround that illustrated why college football is so great . Heading into the game on a three-game losing streak, Charlie Strong's program was seen as a flaming pile of you-know-what, but somehow he got his players into otherworldly shape to sock it to the previously surging Sooners. From the start, Texas played with a confidence that had previously been absent this season. The team's defensive line took it to Oklahoma's offensive line, and the Sooners were unable to get any kind of running game established. Baker Mayfield was running for his life on many passing plays, and the team's offense suffered its worst performance of the season. The Red River Shootout was thought to be a dormant rivalry, with Oklahoma winning four of the last five contests against Texas. It's safe to say the rivalry has been renewed. Coach Strong sure looked happy hoisting the Golden Hat on Saturday, and he deserves all the credit in the world for rallying his players to greatness. Meanwhile, Bob Stoops and his players must find a way to regroup after this shocking defeat. 2. Steve Sarkisian probably won't be back at USC next season USC (No. 17) on Thursday night was beaten at home for the second time this year, as Chris Petersen's Washington Huskies took them down 17-12. The Trojans had previously been bested by Stanford at the Memorial Coliseum. Just as frustrating as the poor home record is their 1-2 conference record, which slid them into fourth place in the Pac-12 South heading into the weekend. The Huskies were the aggressors throughout the contest, and the defense dominated USC's normally potent offense. Trojans quarterback Cody Kessler suffered through his worst game of the season, totaling just 156 yards on 16-of-29 passing with no touchdowns and two interceptions. For Sarkisian, the loss represented probably the final straw, sealing his fate as a goner either sometime this season or at the end of the 2015 campaign. The two losses, combined with his unfortunate drunken faux pas in August, have likely sealed his fate. Already we're hearing the calls for Chip Kelly, who is struggling in his own right in Philadelphia as the head coach of the Eagles. Making matters worse was Sarkisian's ill-timed decision to go for a field goal, trailing 17-12 with less than four minutes on the clock on a 4th-and-9 a decision that could haunt him for a while. " I hate to admit to confusion , quite honestly," Sarkisian said, per SI.com. "I'm frustrated, that's probably a better word for me. I'm frustrated because I really believe in this team." Talent-wise, the Trojans are loaded, especially on offense. But they looked confused and were outworked in Week 6, which belies poor preparation for the battle. Poor preparation is directly linked to coaching, and at this point it seems clear Sarkisian's time in Southern California is coming to a close. 3. No. 1-ranked Ohio State still looks questionable as a true contender Ohio State might be the least impressive top-ranked team we've seen in the past decade. Not since Week 1 have we witnessed the electricity of this team playing at the top of its game. Instead, the Buckeyes have sputtered through miserable quarters of play, and they're doing it against teams they should be blowing out. Baylor is demonstrating what a top team should be accomplishing by blowing out lesser opponents. At this point, it's hard to imagine Ohio State keeping up with or stopping the Bears, who have been breezing through their schedule, one blowout win after another. Perhaps it's for this reason players on Maryland's sideline were reportedly calling Ohio State players, " spoiled, entitled and not No. 1 " during the game, according to the Big Ten Network sideline reporter. The final score of 49-28 doesn't tell the tale. Ohio State, on paper, should be absolutely pasting a relative cupcake like Maryland, which fell to 2-4 on the season. Imagine what Baylor would do to a team that gave up 45 and 48 points to the likes of West Virginia and Bowling Green? Things just aren't clicking like they should be right now for Ohio State. The Buckeyes won't really be tested until later in the season, but nobody should be surprised if they have already lost a game before they get to the Michigan State/Michigan gauntlet at the end of the season. A program like Minnesota could realistically stymie Cardale Jones and the offense the way it's been going lately. All that said, the wins do matter. And, if this team ever does start playing up to its potential, Urban Meyer and Co. could be hoisting the national championship trophy at the end of the season for the second straight year. 4. Georgia's season got a whole lot bleaker, and the loss to Tennessee stings, too First, let's just acknowledge the monumentally positive development for the Volunteers, who came alive in the second half to bury the No. 19-ranked Bulldogs 38-31. Quarterback Joshua Dobbs is maturing before our eyes and put forth a tremendous effort that accounted for all five of Tennessee's touchdowns. Now back to Georgia, which not only lost its second straight game but also lost the heart and soul of the Bulldogs offense, running back Nick Chubb. On the first play of the game for Georgia's offense, Chubb landed awkwardly and then was hit by a defender as he fell out of bounds. His knee was torqued in an unnatural direction, and from the looks of it he's done for the year. Thankfully for the Bulldogs, backup Sony Michel was phenomenal in Chubb's stead, but there just isn't any way to replace such a consistent, dynamic player. Hopefully for head coach Mark Richt, Michel will be able to continue performing at a high level in the weeks to come, because quarterback Greyson Lambert has been struggling to stay consistent as a passer since his record-breaking performance in September. 5. Deshaun Watson and the Clemson Tigers look like the real deal Many wondered if Clemson (No. 6) might suffer through a let-down performance in a potential trap game against a struggling Georgia Tech team. It was clear from the opening that the Tigers wouldn't be trapped, though, and sophomore quarterback Deshaun Watson took another big step in the right direction during the blowout win at home. Watson completed 70 percent of his passes for 265 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. He made smart decisions, barring the turnover, and complemented the team's rushing attack to perfection. Head coach Dabo Swinney has really done a fine job with this team, which looks like a legitimate playoff contender. Clemson's defense has been impressive of late, shutting down C.J. Prosise last weekend against Notre Dame and then keeping Georgia Tech's high-octane rushing attack completely hemmed in on Saturday to the tune of just 71 yards on 42 carries. With a surging defense and burgeoning young passer, the Tigers could be roaring come December. 6. LSU looks dangerous, and Leonard Fournette is the best player in the nation You have to give South Carolina credit for keeping Fournette frustrated for most of the afternoon. Unfortunately, all it took was one play the second play after halftime, at that for the best player in the nation to show why he's the clear front-runner to win the Heisman Trophy in December. Fournette saw a crease and hit it quicker than a jackrabbit, and he went 87 yards in the blink of an eye. The Gamecocks had some hope of competing with the No. 7-ranked Tigers, down by just one touchdown before Fournette closed the door. His score put LSU up by two touchdowns, and from that moment on South Carolina never had a chance. He finished with 158 yards on 20 carries and the electric touchdown, boosting his seasonal totals to 1,022 yards and 12 rushing touchdowns…in five games. In addition to Fournette's greatness, the Tigers saw freshman Derrius Guice break out with his best performance of the year. He rushed for 161 yards on just 16 carries and scored a touchdown of his own. Quarterback Brandon Harris was sharp as well, throwing two touchdowns and staying turnover-free. Granted, South Carolina has been atrocious this year and was playing a "home" game on LSU's turf, but the Tigers have been consistently showing up with excellent efforts every single weekend and look like a potential championship team. 7. Michigan is a steamroller right now The ease with which Michigan (No. 18) dispatched previously undefeated Northwestern (No. 13) on Saturday was stunning. The Wolverines thumped the Wildcats by a score of 38-0 at home. There isn't a defense in the nation that can compete with Michigan's outstanding unit right now, which has pitched three shutouts in a row. That's 12 straight quarters without allowing a single score. This is the first time since 1980 that the Wolverines have accomplished this feat, and through six games they are outscoring opponents by a score of 177-38 . #Michigan defense is legit. Northwestern only has 86 total yards midway through the second quarter. 21-0 Wolverines #NWvsMICH Sportsnaut (@Sportsnaut) October 10, 2015 It's safe to say the Harbaugh effect is a real thing. It's working so far, despite the fact that the coach simply cannot stop throwing tantrums on the sideline . His latest occurred when the Wolverines were up 31-0 over Northwestern on Saturday. What's truly remarkable about this run right now is that Michigan is doing all this despite some pretty mediocre play overall by quarterback Jake Rudock. Rudock wasn't bad on Saturday, but he didn't throw a touchdown, either. For the season he's thrown five touchdowns and six interceptions. Like he did in San Francisco and at Stanford before that, Harbaugh is cultivating a hard-nosed identity centered around defense and running the football. Next up for Michigan is Michigan State (No. 4), which continues to win ugly games. No doubt, it's going to get ugly next weekend in The Big House. 8. TCU keeps finding ways to win; Trevone Boykin is ridiculous For the second time in three weeks, TCU (No. 2) had to rely on Trevone Boykin to come through with some pressure-packed feats of greatness, which of course he provided in the 52-45 victory. Kansas State had the lead 42-31 heading into the fourth quarter, but Boykin took the game over to secure another win for the Horned Frogs. While Fournette is securely at No. 1 in the Heisman rankings right now, TCU's Boykin is nipping at his heels. He came up huge on Saturday night on the road against Kansas State, which gave the Horned Frogs all they could handle. Boykin did throw a couple of picks, but he also accounted for four touchdowns and 425 combined yards including a remarkable 69-yard rushing touchdown in the fourth quarter to put the Horned Frogs up for good. Trevone Boykin doing Trevone Boykin things. This 69-yard dash in the fourth quarter put #TCU up for good. https://t.co/ewrGius4em #TCUvsKSU Sportsnaut (@Sportsnaut) October 11, 2015 Kansas State did tie the game up at 45-45, but it didn't take long for Boykin to connect with stud receiver Josh Doctson for the game-winning touchdown pass. Doctson caught eight passes for 155 yards and hauled in both of Boykin's two touchdown passes. If these two playmakers continue to shine the brightest when the pressure is hot and heavy, then TCU has a great shot to earn the top spot in the rankings should Ohio State falter. 9. Program's sixth loss in a row to FSU may have sealed Al Golden's fate in Miami Even before the season began, there was a dark cloud following Al Golden, who has failed to build Miami back into a national powerhouse. The Hurricanes have been mired in mediocrity since his tenure began in 2011, compiling a record of 31-24, including Saturday night's near-miss, which just so happens to be the program's sixth loss in a row to FSU (five with Golden in charge). This can hardly be called a rivalry anymore, and fans are sick of watching a team that will never rise above slightly better than average. Saturday's 29-24 loss could be the final nail in Golden's coffin. Before the game, Andrea Adelson of ESPN had this to say about what losing this weekend would mean: "A sixth straight loss to the Seminoles will be met with a disdain that even the much-maligned Golden has yet to experience in South Florida with the majority of its schedule remaining (including a game against No. 6 Clemson on Oct. 24). Tension could reach combustible levels." You know its' bad when former Miami coach and program legend Jimmy Johnson speaks out against what's going on . Johnson says Miami isn't a "primetime" program any more, and he's right. Will we see a change of guard next year? Time will tell, but it sure looks like Golden's tenure in Miami is coming to an end. 10. Jared Goff humbled by Utah's stellar defense Heading into the game, everyone wanted to see if Goff could keep up his phenomenal play against a top team, which he hadn't had the opportunity to prove yet this year. Ultimately, he fell short in a humbling way with the worst performance of his 2015 campaign against the mighty No. 5-ranked Utah Utes. Goff's five interceptions sunk any chance Cal (No. 23) had of pulling off the upset, but he sure made things interesting in the end. The Bears had a shot to win the game with a touchdown and extra point, but they couldn't quite finish the deal in the waning moments. That Cal had a chance at all after Goff's five-turnover performance is a testament to his character. He never quit, which is a trait that will serve him well not only the rest of the way in 2015 but also beyond as he transitions into the NFL. On the other side, Utah quarterback Travis Wilson got off to a cold start and threw a couple of interceptions in the first half before bouncing back the rest of the way. Running back Devontae Booker was outstanding, rushing for 222 yards and two touchdowns. And we've already covered the team's smothering defensive performance. Utah once again proved that a compete team effort is worth more than individual glory during win No. 5 on the season. It will be interesting to see if the Utes can gain any traction in the polls heading into Week 7, being just outside the top four.
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Gravy Expectations Grandma Rose isn't speaking to Aunt Essie. Cousin Jim just converted to "Jediism." Ruffles threw up on the living-room rug. You have enough Thanksgiving woes without having to worry about the meal. That's why we always keep a copy of the genius book How to Repair Food close at hand. From fixing dry stuffing to thickening watery gravy, here are a few of the cleverest Turkey Day rehab tips. Gravy Expectations Grandma Rose isn't speaking to Aunt Essie. Cousin Jim just converted to "Jediism." Ruffles threw up on the living-room rug. You have enough Thanksgiving woes without having to worry about the meal. That's why we always keep a copy of the genius book How to Repair Food close at hand. From fixing dry stuffing to thickening watery gravy, here are a few of the cleverest Turkey Day rehab tips. Problem: The turkey won't be done on time. Solution: First, serve your guests more cheese and crackers. Then, increase the oven temperature, going as high as 450°F--but cover the turkey with aluminum foil first. Cook for no more than two minutes per pound of turkey weight. Remove the foil near the end to crisp up the skin. See our video for how to carve a turkey. Problem: The cranberry sauce won't jell. Solution: In homemade cranberry sauce, the jelling occurs as a reaction between the pectin and the sugar. The cranberry sauce must boil long enough for this to happen, so start by cooking it longer. If you reduced the amount of sugar in the recipe, add more, because sugar is necessary to get the sauce to thicken. Finally, it s a good idea to cool your cranberry sauce at room temperature, not in the refrigerator. As the sauce cools, the consistency will firm up somewhat. Problem: The stuffing is dry. Solution: Add a hot liquid (broth is the obvious choice, but apple juice can be interesting too) and mix until it s a consistency you like. Problem: You didn't make enough sweet potatoes. Solution: Sweet potatoes pair well with many fruits. You can mix chunks of sweet potatoes with chunks of apples (cooked, perhaps with some brown sugar) and puree them both, if you like. Or, you could layer them with bananas and some brown sugar and cinnamon, splash on some orange juice (rum even), and bake at 375°F until tender (about 45 minutes). Check out our recipe for sweet potato salad . Problem: The gravy is too thin. Solution: You need a thickener. You can stir in some arrowroot (1 tablespoon per cup of liquid) or cornstarch (1½ teaspoons per cup of liquid). In either case, dissolve it in a little cold water, add to your gravy, and stir over medium heat until the mixture boils and thickens. Cornstarch will need to be cooked for a few minutes to improve the taste. Problem: The green beans are turning gray. Solution: If your beans color is starting to fade as they simmer, either they re overcooking, in which case you should drain them right away and plunge them into ice water to stop the cooking, or there s lemon juice or vinegar in the water, in which case you should add a pinch of baking soda to balance the acidity. Check out our recipe for crispy green bean fries . Problem: The mashed potatoes lack fluff. Solution: Add a pinch of baking powder and keep fluffing. Check out our recipe for 20-minute mashed potatoes . Problem: The crust of the pumpkin pie is browning too fast. Solution: It s usually the edges that start browning first. Cover them with a thin strip of aluminum foil, shaped to fit.
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Was it dirty? Frame-by-frame look at Chase Utley's slide Was Chase Utley's slide dirty? It was the play that changed Game 2 of the NLDS -- and maybe the entire NLDS. The Los Angeles Dodgers' Chase Utley took out New York Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada as Tejada attempted to turn a double play. A violent collision occurred, and Tejada suffered a broken right leg. Some say it was a hard slide within the rules, but others argue that it was a dirty play. Here's a frame-by-frame look at the slide. Was Chase Utley's slide dirty? Utley collides with Tejada's right leg. Was Chase Utley's slide dirty? Utley makes further contact with Tejada. Was Chase Utley's slide dirty? An off-balance Tejada tumbles over Utley. Was Chase Utley's slide dirty? Both Utley and Tejada hit the ground hard after colliding. Was Chase Utley's slide dirty? Utley and Tejada look toward the umpire for a ruling on the play. Was Chase Utley's slide dirty Tejada is tended to by trainers soon after the collision but would not be able to stay in the game. Was Chase Utley's slide dirty? Tejada eventually sits up but is fitted with an air cast by medical personnel before a cart arrived. Was Chase Utley's slide dirty? Tejada is carted off the field, and the Mets announce soon afterward that he has a broken right leg.
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From extinguishing fires with sound to hydrogen-powered cars, the September issue of the BBC's Science Focus magazine details " 39 ideas about to change our world ." 1. Hydrogen-powered cars and refueling stations Fueled by the chemical reaction of hydrogen gas and oxygen, Toyota's Mirai goes on sale in late 2015, but is expected to remain expensive because for safety reasons as hydrogen gas must be stored in heavy-duty, high-pressure tanks, BBC Science Focus magazine reports . Therefore, scientists at the UK's Science and Technology Facilities (STFC) are developing a low-cost method of extracting hydrogen from ammonia. According to Professor Bill David, who leads the STFC research team, "a small amount of hydrogen mixed with ammonia is sufficient to provide combustion in a conventional car engine." "While our process is not yet optimized, we estimate that an ammonia decomposition reactor no bigger than a 2-liter bottle will provide enough hydrogen to run a mid-range family car," David said in a news release. Source: BBC Science Focus, Issue 285, September 2015 , Science and Technology Facilities Council 2. Nearly supersonic trains Propelled by compressed air and induction motors inside a vacuum tube, Elon Musk's Hyperloop passenger train concept is designed to travel at 760 mph faster than Japan's new maglev bullet train (374 mph). Earlier this year, Musk announced a 'Hyperloop pod competition' that would enable students and independent engineering teams to design and build a sub-scale pod for the train. From the more than 1700 teams that registered, 300 teams have just been selected to move to the next stage of the competition. The winner is expected to test out their pod designs on subscale Hyperloop test track. The BBC Science Focus magazine also reports that test runs are expected to begin in two years. Source: BBC Science Focus, Issue 285, September 2015 , Fortune, Tech Insider , Wired 3. Internet for everyone According to the Washington Post, Musk is waiting government approval to send 4,000 small satellites into low-earth orbit. The satellites are designed to beam a high-speed signal to everyone on the planet including remote regions where people do not currently have access to internet. The filing, made with the Federal Communications Commission in May, proposes tests starting next year, and Musk hopes the service could be up and running in a few years. Source: BBC Science Focus, Issue 285, September 201 5, The Washington Post 4. Self-driving semi-trucks Luxury car company Mercedes-Benz and automated vehicle technology company Peloton are looking to bring driverless cargo trucks to the road sooner than later. "Computers don't get tired and don't need comfort breaks," as the BBC Science Focus notes. Driverless trucks would also be cheaper as the smoother run would mean that less fuel would be needed and the trucks could drive directly behind each other to minimize wind resistance. Earlier this year, Daimler Trucks introduced the first ever self-driving semi-truck licensed to drive on public roads. According to Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard, a board member at Daimler, the truck's technology is still undergoing experiments, the AP reports. Source: BBC Science Focus, Issue 285, September 2015 , Peloton Technology , Associated Press 5. Fight fire with sound WATCH As wildfires have been multiplying over recent years and the trend is likely to continue in that direction, new technologies to combat fire are being invented and two students at George Mason University are at the forefront of the trend. The two students created a device that sends loud noises toward the flames. "At the right frequency, the fire simply dies out," the BBC Science Focus magazine notes . The pressure waves coming from the device cut off the oxygen supply to the fire as it disrupts the airwaves around the fire. Although not yet tested on large fires, the students are confident their technology works. "I'd like to see this applied to swarm robotics where it could be attached to a drone and that would be applied to forest fires or even building fires," one of the two students, Seth Robertson and Viet Tran said in a video interview. Source: BBC Science Focus, Issue 285, September 2015 , Youtube 6. Portable water treatment systems According to the UN, over 780 million people in the world do not have access to clean water and over 2 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation. In an attempt to remedy the situation, researchers in England have developed a portable mobile water treatment system. "The first stage of our project has resulted in the capacity to produce two cubic meters of drinking water in a 12 day period," said Professor Darren Reynolds , who is leading the research team. "This may not seem like a huge amount, but put into context, humans need a minimum of two liters of drinking water a day which is less than one cubic meter a year." Source: BBC Science Focus, Issue 285, September 2015 , UWE News , UN Water Amanda Macias contributed to this report.
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Sean Penn reportedly wants to rekindle his relationship with Charlize Theron. The 55-year-old actor is reportedly "still heartbroken" following his split from the 40-year-old actress, but she refuses to return his calls. A source said: "Sean's friends urged him to call her. He's called her a few times." The former couple, who were rumoured to have gotten engaged in Paris last November, ended their romance in June after 18 months together, but the 'Milk' star can't stop thinking about the South African-born beauty. The insider told InTouch Weekly magazine: "He usually gets over romances quickly, but the more time that passed, the more he thought about Charlize. His ego is taking a big hit." While Sean is struggling to move on, the Oscar winner, 40, who has five-year-old son Jackson, adopted another baby, a girl named August, in July. The actress is also currently working on new animation 'Kubo and the Two Strings' with Rooney Mara and Matthew McConaughey, having recently completed a string of films including 'The Last Face' and 'The Huntsman'.
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Bao Zhuoxuan, the 16-year-old son of a detained human rights lawyer, has gone missing in Myanmar on his way to the United States, a family friend told reporters. The friend, Zhou Fengshuo, told multiple news agencies that men who looked like police officers took Bao from the guesthouse where he'd been staying. He said Chinese police were most likely involved. "We're really worried now. He's just a 16-year-old boy," Zhou told the Associated Press news agency. Crackdown on human rights Bao's mother, Wang Yu (pictured), disappeared on July 9 during a crackdown on human rights lawyers in China. She was known for representing political activists, dissidents and marginalized voices, including a jailed woman's rights activist. Bao's father, also an activist, was detained later. According to Zhou, the 16-year-old was planning to travel secretly to the US, where he has family in San Francisco. He has said Beijing wants to use him as a political hostage against his parents. Beijing has faced staunch international condemnation for its suppression of free speech and its tendency to jail political dissidents. The government has been known in the past to target family members of activists.
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Florida's win over Missouri was anything but spectacular. Didn't matter. Florida came out of the gates against Missouri with all guns blazing, driving 75 yards for its first touchdown on an opening drive in nearly two years. Missouri responded with cannon fire of its own, driving into the red zone before settling for a field goal. From there, both teams bogged down and thanks to Florida's resilient defense and just enough additional production from its offense, the Gators came away with a 21-3 victory that felt more perfunctory than perfect. BOX SCORE: NO. 11 FLORIDA 21, MISSOURI 3 Against Missouri, perfunctory is plenty: The Gators got blown out by the Tigers at home in 2014, and had a deceptively lopsided game get ugly late on this same field in 2013. A defense that kept Missouri at bay for most of the night, pressuring freshman Drew Lock into misfiring on more than half of his throws and handing over two interceptions, with one of them turning into a Jalen Tabor pick-six. And with Florida's defense holding Missouri without a third-down conversion until the final minute of the game, it didn't matter that Will Grier (20-for-33 for 208 yards) was skittish again, or that Kelvin Taylor (28 carries, 99 yards, two touchdowns) lost effectiveness as the night wore on. This was a brutal, brutish win by a very good team, and it came over one that is probably decent and maybe good. Florida won because it controlled the clock and avoided mistakes and did nothing to lose and enough to win. And now Florida has its first 6-0 start under a first-year head coach since 1928, and a stranglehold on the SEC East. Boring can be beautiful.
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JERUSALEM An Israeli airstrike killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 2-year-old daughter in Gaza Sunday, a Gaza health official said, while in the West Bank, a Palestinian woman detonated an explosive in her car at a checkpoint, injuring an Israeli soldier and herself. The attack appears to mark the first use of explosives in the current round of violence following a series of stabbing and shooting attacks. The violence has unnerved a jittery Israel, and prompted the U.S. on Saturday to issue a fresh call for restraint by all sides. The wave of attacks began weeks ago in Jerusalem and has since spread to the rest of Israel, while violent protests have erupted in the West Bank and along the Gaza border where nine Palestinians were killed in clashes over the weekend. The Gaza border has been largely calm since the monthlong summer 2014 war between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas, which rules the coastal territory. In response to renewed rocket fire toward Israel, the military said it carried out airstrikes in Gaza targeting Hamas weapons manufacturing facilities. Ashraf Al-Kidra, a Health Ministry spokesman in Gaza, said a nearby home was struck, killing 30-year-old Noor Hassan and her infant daughter. He said four others were wounded, included Hassan's husband and son, in the strike in the southern Gaza strip. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, Israeli police say a 31-year-old Palestinian woman set off an explosive in her vehicle that lightly wounded a police officer and critically injured herself. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the police officer noticed the woman driving suspiciously and motioned her to stop. She then chanted "God is great" and detonated the bomb. On Saturday, Palestinians carried out two stabbing attacks in Jerusalem before being shot dead by police, while another two Palestinian youths were killed near the Gaza border fence, as a weeklong bout of violence showed no signs of slowing. 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 and have seemingly targeted Israeli soldiers and civilians at random, complicating efforts to predict or prevent the attacks. The violence, including an apparent revenge attack in which an Israeli stabbed and wounded four Arabs on Friday, has raised fears of a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising. There have also been multiple protests inside Israel from the country's own Arab minority, with masked demonstrators clashing with police forces. Since the latest wave of unrest began this month, eight Palestinians have been killed while carrying out attacks and 13 have been killed in protests and clashes in the West Bank and Gaza. The Red Crescent medical service says over 500 Palestinians have been wounded in violent protests in the West Bank, including about 100 from live fire. At the start of the month, Palestinians shot two Israeli settlers to death in front of their children in the West Bank. In a separate incident, a Palestinian wielding a knife killed two Israeli men and wounded a mother and toddler in Jerusalem before being shot dead. An Israeli motorist was previously killed when his car was pelted with stones on the eve of the Jewish New Year.
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Turkey's government said on Monday Islamic State was the prime suspect in suicide bombings that killed at least 97 people in Ankara, but opponents vented anger at President Tayyip Erdogan at funerals, universities and courthouses. The father of three men wounded in the blasts told Reuters one of his sons had described seeing one of the bombers carrying a bag on his back and one in his hand, and called out "stop" before the bomb detonated. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday's attack, the worst of its kind on Turkish soil, was intended to influence the outcome of November polls Erdogan hopes will restore a majority the ruling AK party lost in June. Officials say there is no question of postponing the vote. Two bombs struck seconds apart, targeting a rally of pro-Kurdish activists and civic groups near Ankara's main train station. "If you consider the way the attack happened and the general trend of it, we have identified Islamic State as the primary focus," Davutoglu told Turkey's NTV television. "It was definitely a suicide bombing...DNA tests are being conducted. It was determined how the suicide bombers got there. We're close to a name, which points to one group." The Haberturk newspaper has cited police sources as saying the type of explosive and the choice of target pointed to a group within Islamic State known as the 'Adiyaman ones', a reverence to Adiyaman province in southeastern Turkey. Turkey is vulnerable to infiltration by Islamic State, which holds swathes of Syrian land abutting Turkey where some two million refugees live. But there has been no word from the group - usually swift to publicly claim responsibility for any attack it conducts - over the Ankara bombing or two very similar incidents earlier this year. Opponents of Erdogan, who has led the country over 13 years, blame him for the attack, accusing the state at best of intelligence failings and at worst of complicity by stirring up nationalist, anti-Kurdish sentiment. The government, facing a growing Kurdish conflict at home and the spillover of war in Syria, vehemently denies such accusations. But the sheer range of possible perpetrators - from Islamic State and Marxist radicals to militant nationalists and Kurdish armed factions - highlights deep fissures running through Turkish society. At stake is the stability of a NATO country seen by the West as a bulwark against Middle Eastern turmoil. PROTESTS Hundreds chanting anti-government slogans marched on a mosque in an Istanbul suburb for the funeral of several of the victims, attended by Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the pro-Kurdish parliamentary opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which says it was the target of the bombings. Riot police with water cannon and armored vehicles stood by as the crowd, some chanting "Thief, Murderer Erdogan" and waving HDP flags, moved towards the mosque in the working class Umraniye neighborhood of Istanbul. Several labor unions also called protests. Hundreds of people, many wearing doctors' uniforms and carrying Turkish Medical Association banners, gathered by the main train station in Ankara where the explosions happened to lay red carnations but were blocked by riot police, a Reuters witness said. Lawyers at an Istanbul courthouse chanted "Murderer Erdogan will give account" as colleagues applauded, footage circulated on social media showed. Erdogan, accused by opponents of an increasingly authoritarian and divisive style, has overseen a purge in the judiciary of elements he believes to have been colluding with a U.S. based cleric-rival planning a coup against him. SYRIA SPILLOVER The HDP has put the death toll from the bombings at 128 and said it had identified all but eight of the bodies. Davutoglu's office has said 97 were killed. The bombs struck as hundreds gathered for a march organized by pro-Kurdish activists and civic groups to protest over a growing conflict between Turkish security forces and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in the southeast. The PKK is deemed a terrorist group by the United States and the EU as well as Turkey. Some 40,000 have been killed in the predominantly Kurdish southeast since the insurgency began in 1984. The father of three men wounded in the blasts said one of his sons, Abdulselam, described seeing one of the bombers carrying a bag on his back and one in his hand. He called out "stop" suspecting an attacker. "The bomber panicked. Selam got nervous and acted without thinking. Maybe he could have had the chance to get him arrested, but he shouted to the bomber," the father, Mehmet Ali Altun, told Reuters outside the hospital where his sons were being treated. The son, who had been questioned by police, declined to speak to media. The HDP accused Ankara of escalating violence to try to reduce its vote at Nov. 1 polls, restore an AK majority and pave the way for the more powerful presidential system Erdogan seeks. The Ankara attack revived memories of a similar bombing of a pro-Kurdish rally in the southeastern town of Diyarbakir and another in Suruc in July that killed at least 30 and was also attributed to Islamic State. There was no claim of responsibility and HDP says there was no proper investigation. "Our electorates feel under constant threat in every social space and political activity they attend," it said. In comments reflecting the murky entanglements that exist in Turkish political thinking, the HDP also accused the AKP of relying on radical groups including Islamic State as proxies to fight Kurds in northern Syria. The government strongly denies such suggestions. Tensions have further unnerved investors, many of whom have reduced their Turkey exposure in recent months because of the election uncertainty. The lira weakened to 2.95 to the dollar TRYTOM=D3 early on Monday, making it the worst performing currency among major emerging markets. AK Party spokesman Omer Celik told reporters the party was suspending its rallies until Friday. Demirtas said he no longer thought large rallies were possible amid the security fears but that it would be up to the HDP to decide. (Additional reporting by Gulsen Solaker, Orhan Coskun, Ece Toksabay and Ercan Gurses in Ankara; Writing by Nick Tattersall; editing by Ralph Boulton)
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Thousands of Australians joined rallies calling for the closure of Pacific island camps for asylum-seekers, just days after the government confirmed it was in talks with the Philippines to resettle detained refugees. Under Canberra's tough immigration policy, asylum-seekers attempting to reach the island continent by boat are turned back or sent to camps on Nauru or Papua New Guinea and barred from resettling in Australia even if found to be refugees. Chanting "free, free the refugees", the protesters on Sunday in Sydney, Melbourne and other cities said the government and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull should close the Pacific detention centres, which have been harshly criticised by rights groups. With Australia set to resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees amid the crisis in Europe, some demonstrators waved Syrian and Kurdish flags and said the government should move those held in the camps to the mainland. One asylum seeker, "Adbi", who has reportedly been held on Manus Island for more than two years, called on Turnbull to help the detainees. "They are traumatising us," Abdi said on a phone call broadcast to the Sydney crowd, adding that conditions at the Papua New Guinea facility were "indescribable". Medical professionals at the rallies also expressed fears a new law could block their colleagues working at the camps from speaking out if they had allegations asylum-seekers being abused. UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants Francois Crepeau last month postponed a visit to Australia due to restrictions on his access to detention centres and fears that people who spoke to him could face legal reprisals. The rallies came as doctors from the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne told the Sunday Herald Sun newspaper that children should be removed from the camps, in a move supported by lobby group the Australian Medical Association (AMA). "The detention centres are not suitable environments for the health of all detainees, but the effects on children are far worse," AMA president Brian Owler said in a statement. Some 1,589 asylum-seekers - 1,382 men, 114 women and 93 children are held on Manus Island and Nauru, according to immigration figures ending August 31. Canberra has struck a deal with Cambodia to accept refugees in exchange for millions of dollars in aid over the next four years, although only four asylum-seekers have so far opted to take up the offer. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said Friday that Australia was in talks with other countries, including the Philippines, to settle the refugees. The government has declared its hardline policy to deter boat arrivals a success, saying that it has been more than a year since a vessel carrying asylum-seekers has arrived in the country. Before the policy was introduced, boats were arriving almost daily, with hundreds drowning en route.
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Highlights of TCU's win over Kansas State.
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TEHRAN, Iran Iran successfully test fired a new guided long-range ballistic surface-to-surface missile, state TV reported on Sunday. It was the first such a test since Iran and world powers reach a historical nuclear deal. Iran's Defense Minister Gen. Hossein Dehghan, told the channel that the liquid-fuel missile "will obviously boost the strategic deterrence capability of our armed forces." He said the missile, named Emad or pillar in Farsi, was a technological achievement for Iran able to be controlled until the moment of impact and to hit targets "with high precision." The channel showed footage of the huge missile being launched in a desert area, but it did not elaborate on the range of the missile or the specifics of the test firing. This is the first test of a ballistic surface-to-surface missile by Iran since U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 in July, which endorsed a landmark nuclear deal reached between Iran and world powers. The resolution called on Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. Iran says none of its missiles are designed for that purpose. Since 1992, Iran has emphasized a self-sufficient and indigenous military production industry, producing missiles, tanks and light submarines. The government frequently announces military advances which cannot independently verified. The Islamic Republic already claims to have surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) that can hit Israel and U.S. military bases in the region.
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Venture outside at the crack of dawn in New York City and you may be astonished to come across one of the city's most bustling, if eclectic, social scenes: its dog community. Along the concrete pavements, the grassy park and the wood-chipped runs, neuroscience professors mingle seamlessly with canteen cooks, musicians exchange canine stories with attorneys, and graphic designers share minute details of recent business trips with struggling actors. But there is one thing the dog-owning-humans do not all agree on: where their dogs sleep. Crate or cage? Dog bed? In human's bed with human? The last, whether an American thing, a New York thing, or a simple modern-human-dog-loving thing, may seem outlandish to outsiders, but within the community it is an open secret. One fall morning, my Belgian photographer colleague and I climbed the Great Hill in Central Park to ask dogs and their humans where they had spent the night before. Anamaria Perez and Iggy, an Italian greyhound: 'I was adamant I would never let it happen' Anamaria Perez, a 30-year-old interior designer and first-time dog owner, admits that up until a couple of months ago, when she got Iggy, she was adamant she would never let a dog sleep in her bed. "I used to say, 'That's disgusting'. And now, well …", she laughs. Her resolve lasted about two weeks. After that, Iggy was allowed in her bed. "It's because I want to cuddle," she explains. But a few weeks into their new arrangement, Iggy was kicked back out. "I got grossed out. You see how dirty they get at the park, and even if you wipe their paws when you come in, you're not sure," continues Perez, who says her life has gained in structure and systematic early morning starts since Iggy entered it. "Your level of hygiene goes down when you have a dog." But then last week, the temperature dropped, and she says she could tell her dog was cold. "So now he's back in my bed, and we're back to cuddling." Lloyd Parker and Larry David, a silver labrador: 'He sleeps either in his crate in my bedroom or at the foot of my bed' "Larry does not sleep in bed with me," Lloyd Parker, 53, announces proudly. This is a habit Larry David had to unlearn. When he was a puppy being house trained over the course of two months by Parker's sister, she not only let him sleep in her bed she let him sleep on her head. Did he have any trouble imposing the new boundaries? None at all, Parker says. That is not to say his four-legged friend is not appreciated: on Sunday, Parker is throwing Larry David a birthday party in Central Park to which he kindly extended an invitation. "I think Larry deserves a little recognition on his first birthday." As I make to leave, Parker acts surprised. "What so you're not going to ask where Larry goes when I have company?" Well, since you breached the subject, I offer ... "Usually in the crate." Which, yes ... is in the bedroom. Parker takes a moment. "Sometimes, it gets a little awkward." D Mara Lowenstein and Charlie, a Havanese mix: 'He sleeps in my bed, usually on my head' When attorney D Mara Lowenstein adopted now seven-year-old Charlie four years ago, the Havanese mix was unbelievably traumatized, she says. She rescued him from a high-kill shelter where he was about to be put down. She says it was clear Charlie had never been properly housetrained. Lowenstein remembers her first night with Charlie vividly and describes with wide eyes and expressive gestures how he lay on his back, paws flapping, severely frightened. "At the time I was engaged, and my fiancé did not want the dog in the bed," she says. She could hardly bear it. "Now there's no more fiancé and Charlie sleeps in my bed, as close to me as possible. Often on my head." Adam Rodney and Ollie, a Bedlington terrier: 'In his own bed, not mine. I know because I bought a surveillance camera' When Adam Rodney, 30, first got Ollie, a Bedlington terrier who is now five months, he took to sleeping with the puppy on his living room couch ("so that he could be comfortable"). But when his back starting hurting, Rodney realized he had to go back to his own bed. "So I got him a doggie bed at the foot of my bed," Rodney, who works in music management, says. Rodney did not want to have Ollie in his own bed, but he was worried the puppy might sneakily be disobeying rules during the day, when Rodney was out of the apartment. "So I bought a home security camera to find out," Rodney says. Besides, he was also curious to know how Ollie occupied his days more generally. What did the device reveal? "It's just sad. He spends his day waiting for me by the door, sitting or laying down." No bad human bed-visiting tendencies then. Just devotion. That's terrible, I tell Rodney, a little heartbroken. "I know, but I think that's the life of a lot of dogs," Rodney, who is now thinking of returning the security camera, says. At first, people made fun of Ollie, Rodney says. "Kids on my Harlem block would make sheep noises when they would see us." But now everyone has come round. "All the ladies love him." Nicknames to emerge include "Bentley" and "the pimp of Harlem." Dorothy Newell and Luna, a border collie/papillon mix: 'Dogs need to know their number in the hierarchy of the house' Years ago, before having children, Dorothy Newell, a 60-year-old NBC news producer, and her husband used to have their dogs sleep in their bed, but that changed when they had twins. "Luna sleeps on the floor, but on a very nice pillow," she says. Newell, who as a young adult was a dolphin trainer for three years, says dogs need to know their position in the hierarchy of the household. "Once they know that, they are happy." Stopping them from sleeping on the human bed helps them figure out they are not top dog, she says. There have been times where the rule could have been revisited, though. "I suggested at one point to have Luna join us in bed, but my husband said no." Derek Epps and Roman, a pit bull: 'He sleeps in his own bed. Except sometimes on vacation. And on business trips' Derek Epps, 34, says that Roman, his one-and-a-half-year-old pit bull mix has his own bed, situated in front of the bed Epps shares with his wife. Sometimes Roman also likes to sleep in a leather recliner chair in the living room "the one piece of furniture he is allowed to climb up on". Epps, who works in marketing, appears firm about this. "It's a dog. It's an animal. Yes, you love them, but it's a dog. You have to have some kind of boundaries. And think about cleanliness. New York is full of germs. Think about the germs he is bringing into your bed." The firmness relaxes a little, though, when Epps travels for work or for pleasure and his wife is not around. "If I am in a hotel room and it's just me, then it's fine," Epps says, explaining that Roman then gets to sleep on the bed with Epps, albeit at the foot of it. This happens quite often. Epps takes Roman on business trips as much as possible when the journey can be done by car rather than plane. Nancy Nelson, and Kali, a black labrador: 'She sleeps on the rug underneath the bed. She's very timid" Kali, a one-and-a-half-year-old black lab, has just been "let out" of the crate, her owner Nancy Nelson explains, referring to the practice of keeping dogs in crates at night and while humans are out of the house sometimes used as a house training method. Since then, Kali has mostly migrated to sleeping on the rug, underneath the human bed. "She's very timid," Nelson says. When Kali was a younger puppy, Nelson says, she hardly moved from under the bed for shyness. As a special treat on vacation, Kali does have access to the human bed. "She seems to have oozed her way into that one," Nelson says. Last week, though Nelson was not on vacation, Kali took it a step further. "We had a thunderstorm night, so she jumped into bed with us. She gets nervous." Dave Wilson, 52, and Jessie, a Garden State terrier mix: 'In bed with my girlfriend and me' Jessie, a two-and-a-half-year-old terrier mix who was rescued in New Jersey, will typically start out in bed with Dave Wilson, 52, and his girlfriend. Later on, the dog may move around and go to her own bed. Wilson is the main caregiver for the dog, he says. His girlfriend used to be a cat person, but came round to the idea of a dog a few years ago when the couple dog-sat together for three weeks. As Jessie bops backwards and forwards, alternatively catching a yellow and then a pink Frisbee that Wilson continues to patiently pick up and throw, he admits Jessie sometimes gets in the way of intimacy. "Because she kind of feels like a kid, and she's always in the room."
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Turkish investigators worked on Sunday to identify the perpetrators and victims of Saturday's bomb blasts which killed at least 95 people in the capital Ankara, while Turks mourned the most deadly attack of its kind on Turkish soil. Two suspected suicide bombers hit a rally of pro-Kurdish and labor activists near Ankara's main train station three weeks before elections, fuelling unease in a country beset by conflict between state forces and Kurdish militants in the southeast.
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Washington State defeated Oregon 45-38 in double overtime on Saturday. Cougars QB Luke Falk threw for 505 yards and five touchdowns, including the wild game-winner in the second OT.
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For years America's gold-plated healthcare system has provided little bang for the buck. In 2013, the U.S. outspent 13 other high-income countries on medical care including Australia, Canada, Germany and Great Britain. Yet the U.S. had comparatively poor health outcomes, including a shorter life expectancy and greater prevalence of chronic conditions, according to a new study by the Commonwealth Fund . Related: 4 Simple Ways to Save Money on Health Care Based on the latest data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the study showed that the United States spent $9,086 per capita on health care coverage -- or 17.1 percent of Gross Domestic Product -- in 2013. That was an astounding 50 percent more in spending as a percentage of the overall economy than in France, the next biggest spender with 11.6 percent of GDP. Even so, the United States had far fewer practicing physicians than the median OECD country (2.6 versus 3.2 physicians per 1,000 population) and fewer hospital beds and fewer discharges per capita in the median OECD country. With the notable exception of a much lower than average mortality rate for caner, the comparative global picture remains disappointing for the U.S. "Time and again, we see evidence that the amount of money we spend on health care in this country is not gaining us comparable health benefits," Dr. David Blumenthal, president of the Commonwealth Fund, said in a statement. "We have to look at the root causes of this disconnect and invest our health-care dollars in ways that will allow us to live longer while enjoying better health and greater productivity." Of course, U.S. health care costs are not only inflated higher prices. Chronic diseases like obesity, alcohol and drug abuse, and gun violence can't be blamed on the health care industry. It's important to note that the study's data from OECD predates by a year the full implementation of the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act. So it begs the question: how well have things gone under Obamacare? Related: The Plot to Keep Health Care Prices from Consumers The Brookings Institute has published an analysis of its own. The Brookings' Hamilton Project study notes that through a series of reform and vastly expanded access to health insurance plan, Obamacare has begun to dramatically reshape the delivery and cost of health care services to Americans in important ways. While some of these reforms are still taking hold -- and the program obviously has suffered serious missteps and growing pains -- the number of uninsured Americans dropped to 33 million or 10.4 percent of the population in 2014, the lowest it has been in years. "The ACA's mandate and corresponding subsidies for individuals to purchase health insurance on the federal or state exchanges explain some of the decline, but other economic forces, such as an improving labor market, may also be a factor," the study says. Yet, with an estimated 35 million Americans still lacking health insurance and many more saddled with inadequate policies, "important gaps in the health-care safety net remain," according to the report. Related: Why Health Care Price Transparency May Not Work Here are some of the study's important findings: Spending on health-care varies greatly throughout the country. For instance, spending for the average Medicare enrollee in Miami is roughly 70 percent greater than in Minneapolis. Health-care spending has practically doubled as a share of GDP since the 1980s, but not due to consumers' out-of-pocket expenses. Several factors account for the growth in health-care expenditures, including the tilt in spending towards Medicare and Medicaid with an aging population. Millions of households with health insurance do not have enough cash on hand to pay out-of-pocket medical expenses in the event of a major health shock. Seniors on average are paying as much as 34 percent more than necessary for prescription drug coverage by choosing plans that are "not well-aligned with their needs." Among elderly consumers choosing from Medicare Part D prescription plans through private insurers, they often end up paying five percent to 34 percent more for prescription drugs than if they had done a better job of shopping for a plan. The percentage of American workers enrolled in conventional health insurance programs has declined from 73 percent to less than one percent over the past 30 years. That's because there has been a dramatic change in the types of employer-based health insurance plans being offered. Today, the preferred provider organization (PPO) health insurance plan is the most commonly purchased option and covers 58 percent of eligible employees. Finally, there has been a nearly 50 percent increase in the share of private sector workers who are offered a choice of health insurance plans during the past two decades. For instance, of the 116 million Americans who were working in the private sector in 2014, 56 percent were able to choose their health insurance plans from more than one employer-sponsored option. Top Reads from The Fiscal Times: Millions Face a 50 % Medicare Premium Hike If Obama and Congress Don't Act 8 Ways Your Health Care and Retirement Benefits May Change in 2016 14 Deadly Weapons Russia Has Sent To Syria
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches a massive torchlight parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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ROHNERT PARK, Calif. Police say a 49-year-old man has been arrested after a homemade bomb was found on the 18th fairway of a Northern California golf course. Rohnert Park police Sgt. Jason Krauss says the "acid bomb" capable of spraying debris across a radius of about 50 feet was found at Foxtail Golf Club. He said maintenance workers found the device made with a large water bottle along with a second one that had already detonated nearby. Krauss tells the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1LGT2e1 ) that a bomb squad moved the explosive device to the course's driving range and detonated it. The golf course and club house were evacuated, and no one was injured. Krauss says Kevin Hornbuckle of Rohnert Park was arrested on suspicion of possession and manufacture of a destructive device. ___ Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com
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Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI-BE) is likely to increase its offer for U.K. brewer SABMiller (SAB-GB) to £43-£44 a share ahead of Wednesday's deadline in an effort to clinch what could be the largest takeover of a British company, the Sunday Times reported. SABMiller last week rejected AB InBev's raised bid to buy the group for £42.15 per share in cash, which would have given it a value of nearly £68 billion ($104.22 billion). Citing sources close to AB InBev, the newspaper reported that Brussels-listed AB InBev is understood to be willing to move closer to £70 billion, but is prepared to walk away if SAB does not make some concessions. The previous cash proposal represented a premium of approximately 44 percent to SABMiller's closing share price of £29.34 on 14 September. The group said it expected most SABMiller shareholders to accept the higher cash offer. Altria , SABMiller's largest shareholder with a 27 percent stake, said it supported the proposal. The Sunday Times report can be seen here
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5 Ways to (Finally) Conquer Your Daily Routine Remember the last time you relaxed? Yeah...us, neither. Between morning conference calls and midnight online-shopping bouts, you're hard-pressed to find even the tiniest moment of Zen. That's why we're arming you with this primer on the five things to do every day to return sanity to your schedule. Click to discover a better daily routine. First Things First You know what makes exercise easy? When it doesn't require getting dressed. Heck, we don't even want to get out of bed. Hallelujah for this simple stretch that melts away stiffness, revives a cranky lower back, hips and legs, and can be done before you throw off your covers: Sit up in bed and cross your legs in front of you. Fold over as far as you can, extending and stretching your arms and dropping your head. Hold for 20 breaths, then switch the cross of your legs and repeat. A.M. Primer Your grandfather was right: When you've got a good thing going, it's best not to tinker with it. That's why we're hearty proponents of the good ol' coffee-and-newspaper ritual: Reach for your favorite mug and pour yourself a smooth, bold cup. We love Dunkin' Donuts Original Blend with a splash of milk (trés delish). Grab your go-to periodical (paper or tablet version, your choice) and take ten minutes to get informed and energized for the day ahead. This sacred ritual promises to keep you sane and a bit smarter. Be a wardrobe warrior You know we're huge fans of a pared-down closet (Marie Kondo, be our BFF, please). And you know you don't really need four black pencil skirts anyway. Simplify your morning routine by identifying your "weekday uniform." Not sure where to start? We love this method, which whittles down your closet to just 37 essentials (and ditches the rest). Simple. Walk it off Easy, free, available always. That's only half the beauty of an afternoon walk. The other benefits are physical: When you get away from your desk and take a 15-minute stroll, you invite fresh blood to flow to your limbs and brain, so you'll come back full of fresh ideas (and a renewed energy for those spreadsheets). Lie down with lavender Even after we've tucked ourselves in for the night, turning ourselves "off" doesn't always follow suit. That's where aromatherapy comes in. Try dabbing a drop or two of lavender essential oil behind each ear, or adding it to a spray bottle with water and spritzing your linens liberally. It's a cue to your body that your day is done (thank goodness) and you can now relax and recover.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah spent the last two weeks downplaying its rise to No. 5 in the polls. The Utes sent a message Saturday night that they have no plans on going anywhere but up. The team picked to finish fifth in the Pac-12 South is now the lone undefeated team remaining in the conference after a 30-24 victory over No. 23 California. "We don't feel pressure because we know what type of team we are," Utah defensive back Boobie Hobbs said. "We feel like we're the No. 1 team. We just want to show the world that we can play with the Alabamas, the LSUs. We've got the guys and we've got great talent." BOX SCORE: NO. 5 UTAH 30, NO. 23 CALIFORNIA 24 The Utes missed several opportunities to grab a sizable lead with erratic offense. Utah scored 17 of its 24 points off turnovers, but was held scoreless on two possessions after turnovers and settled for three on another. The seven-point halftime lead could have been much more had the Utes been able to put up more than three off two of Jarden Goff's interceptions and Daniel Lasco's fumble. Utah had a season-high six takeaways, picking off five of Goff's passes. Cal had one last possession and drove to the 21, but Hobbs knocked down Goff's fourth-down pass with 26 seconds left. Devontae Booker ran for a season-high 222 yards and two touchdowns and added a team-high 45 receiving yards for the Utes (5-0, 2-0 Pac-12). They sit alone atop to the conference and are firmly in the College Football Playoffs discussion. "My offensive line deserves credit, they made it happen for me and I wouldn't have over 200 yards without them," Booker said. "Every week, I know I'm the focal point of the offense. Whether it's receiving or running the ball or even blocking, I just got to do it all." Goff threw for 340 yards and two touchdowns. The Heisman contender couldn't overcome the ball-control issues that put the Golden Bears (5-1, 2-1) in a hole. The Utes entered the game with seven interceptions and Marcus Williams, Justin Thomas, Gionni Paul and Dominique Hatfield all picked off passes in the first half. Hatfield had another interception in the fourth quarter and Williams recovered a fumble. Utah quarterback Travis Wilson finished with 170 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. "I think we all wanted to win really bad, especially Jared," Cal coach Sonny Dykes said. "Sometimes when you want to win really badly, you might try and do a little too much." The first half took nearly two hours as the two teams combined for seven turnovers. The Utes missed several opportunities to grab a sizable lead with erratic offense. Utah scored 17 of its 24 first-half points off turnovers, but was held scoreless on two possessions after turnovers and settled for three on another. The seven-point halftime lead could have been much more had the Utes been able to put up more than three off two of Goff's interceptions and Daniel Lasco's fumble. Goff may have been a turnover machine with four first-half interceptions, which matched his season total from the first five games, but he never became tentative. The four interceptions were a career high and he had 30 minutes left to play. His first truly bad throw may have been the fourth-quarter interception to Hatfield when he threw off his back foot while being pressured. The Golden Bears were driving to tie the game. The five interceptions were the most for Cal it had five against Arizona State in 1998. "This is probably the worst game of my life," Goff said. "But it's going to have to be something I'm going to have to get better at and learn from. "They are one of the best defenses in the country for a reason." Utah quarterback Travis Wilson couldn't recapture the magic that led to a 42-point victory at Oregon two weeks ago. He finished with 170 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions.
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Facebook paid just £4,327 ($6,632) in taxes in the U.K. last year despite offering staff in London an average of £210,000 in pay and bonuses, the Sunday Times reported. The social network giant offered shares worth £35.4 million to its 362 London staff, pushing its British division into an accounting loss of £28.5 million last year, according to accounts for Facebook UK Limited. Its widening losses allowed Facebook to minimise its corporation tax bill in Britain, the newspaper reported. Facebook's tax payment is substantially less than that the U.K.'s revenue authority collects from the typical British worker. A single person earning £26,500 the average UK wage generates £3,180 in income tax and £2,213 in national insurance. The Sunday Times report can be seen here .
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President Richard Nixon believed that years of aerial bombing in Southeast Asia to pressure North Vietnam achieved "zilch" even as he publicly declared it was effective and ordered more bombing while running for reelection in 1972, according to a handwritten note from Nixon disclosed in a new book by Bob Woodward. Nixon's note to Henry Kissinger, then his national security adviser, on Jan. 3, 1972, was written sideways across a top-secret memo updating the president on war developments. Nixon wrote: "K. We have had 10 years of total control of the air in Laos and V.Nam. The result = Zilch. There is something wrong with the strategy or the Air Force." [ Read Nixon's 'Zilch' note to Henry Kissinger ] The day before he wrote the "zilch" note, Nixon was asked about the military effectiveness of the bombing by Dan Rather of CBS News in an hour-long, prime-time television interview. "The results have been very, very effective," Nixon declared. Nixon's private assessment was correct, Woodward writes: The bombing was not working, but Nixon defended and intensified it in order to advance his reelection prospects. The claim that the bombing was militarily effective "was a lie, and here Nixon made clear that he knew it," Woodward writes. Nixon's note, which has not previously been disclosed, was found in a trove of thousands of documents taken from the White House by Alexander P. Butterfield, deputy to H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, and not made public until now. Butterfield's odyssey through Nixon's first term is the subject of Woodward's book, " The Last of the President's Men ," to be published Tuesday by Simon & Schuster. Butterfield became a key figure in the Watergate scandal when he revealed to Senate investigators the existence of the White House taping system. The tapes captured Nixon's role in the coverup and marked a critical turning point in the collapse of his presidency. He resigned in 1974. Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposed the Watergate story in The Washington Post. The new book, based on the documents and more than 46 hours of interviews with Butterfield, offers an intimate but disturbing portrayal of Nixon in the Oval Office. Butterfield depicts Nixon, who died in 1994, as forceful and energetic, but also vengeful, petty, lonely, shy and paranoid. Butterfield felt deeply conflicted; he was proud to be serving but chagrined to be caught up in the underside of Nixon's presidency. "The whole thing was a cesspool," he told Woodward. [ Woodward and Bernstein: Nixon was far worse than we thought ] Butterfield, now 89, was in charge of preventing other Nixon staffers from leaving the White House with government documents, but he saw many, including the late Nixon counselor Arthur Burns, haul away boxes when they left. Butterfield anticipated writing a memoir, so when he left the White House in 1973, "I just took my boxes of stuff and left," he told Woodward, packing them into his and his wife's car. Woodward writes that the boxes contained everything from routine chronologies and memos to some top-secret exchanges with Kissinger and a few highly classified CIA bulletins. Butterfield acknowledged to Woodward that it was improper and wrong to remove them, and pledged to ensure that they will be deposited with a proper archive. Woodward, who wrote that he thought the Nixon story was over for him after his book on Mark Felt , the FBI associate director and secret source known as Deep Throat, said he was "shocked" at the existence of Butterfield's secret files. "So the story, like most of history, does not end," he writes. 'Shake them up!!' The Vietnam War had been all-consuming for Nixon's presidency. The antiwar movement was strong in the United States, and Nixon was under political pressure to end the conflict. The centerpiece of Nixon's approach was "Vietnamization": withdraw U.S. troops so the South Vietnamese could take over, and negotiate a peace settlement "with honor," avoiding anything that could be labeled a defeat. As ground troops withdrew, air power was one of Nixon's few remaining tools to pressure Hanoi. In late December 1971, Nixon ordered renewed bombing of North Vietnamese targets for five days. By early 1972, Nixon was on the verge of announcing his reelection campaign and taking his momentous trip to China. But he was worried about reports of a major North Vietnamese buildup, foreshadowing a possible offensive. On Jan. 2, 1972, in the CBS television interview, Rather asked Nixon, "On everyone's mind is the resumption of the widespread bombing of North Vietnam. Can you assess the military benefits of that?" Nixon reiterated what he had often said about the bombing, that it was "very, very effective," and added, "I think that effectiveness will be demonstrated by the statement I am now going to make." Nixon then announced that he would soon bring home more troops virtually removing any U.S. combat force in Vietnam. The next day, writing his private thoughts to Kissinger, Nixon added, "There is something wrong with the strategy or the Air Force. I want a 'bark-off' study no snow job on my desk in two weeks as to what the reason for the failure is." Nixon added that "otherwise continued air operations make no sense in Cambodia, Laos, etc. after we complete withdrawal Shake them up!!" Nixon underlined the last words twice. Woodward said he could find no evidence that the study was ever carried out. [ How Mark Felt Became 'Deep Throat' ] In another memo written a few months later, also found in the Butterfield files, Nixon complained to Kissinger that the military and bureaucracy were too timid. Nixon demanded action that is "strong, threatening and effective" to "punish the enemy" and "go for broke." Nixon may also have been frustrated at North Vietnamese resilience. Woodward cites CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and Pentagon memos showing that the bombing was not that effective because the North was getting more supplies than it needed to fight the ground war in the south, and could hold out for two years even if the bombing continued. Kissinger, in an interview, told Woodward he agreed with the conclusion that years of bombing North Vietnam had failed, and he recalled that Nixon was frustrated. "He was in the habit of wanting more bombing . . . his instructions most often were for more bombing," Kissinger said. Woodward writes: "The 'zilch' conclusion had grown over three years. In what way and when did he realize this? History may never know. Maybe Nixon never knew, never grasped the full weight of his own conclusion." Woodward concludes that while Nixon knew the bombing was militarily futile, he believed it would reap political rewards at home. After Nixon resigned, papers found in his hideaway office in the White House included a GOP polling study, commissioned in 1969, that showed that the American people would favor bombing and blockading North Vietnam for six months. Woodward cites the work of Ken Hughes of the University of Virginia's Miller Center to show that "the massive bombing did not do the job militarily but it was politically popular. Hughes argues with a great deal of evidence that the bombing was chiefly designed so Nixon would win re-election." The "zilch" note was followed in February by orders for intensified bombing of North Vietnam. On May 8, Nixon ordered the mining of Haiphong Harbor and bombing of key military targets. On Sept. 8, Nixon reported to Kissinger that poll numbers favored the bombing. "It's two-to-one for bombing," he boasted. On Oct. 16, just weeks before the election, Nixon recalled the May 8 decision to mine the harbor and told Kissinger, "May 8 was the acid test. And how it's prepared us for all these things. The election, for example." Kissinger replied, "I think you won the election on May 8." Nixon was reelected by a landslide in November. In that election year, the United States dropped 1.1 million tons of bombs in the Vietnam War, including 207,000 tons in North Vietnam alone, Woodward reports, citing Pentagon records. 'Deep, deep resentments' Before joining the White House, Butterfield was a 42-year-old U.S. Air Force colonel with an assignment in Australia. After Nixon's triumph in the 1968 election, Butterfield reached out to Haldeman, an acquaintance from their university years at UCLA. Haldeman then hired Butterfield as his White House deputy. Butterfield was an outsider, unlike many of the others around Nixon, and what he saw in the next four years left a vivid impression. When Butterfield was introduced to the president in the Oval Office by Haldeman, Nixon mumbled, cleared his throat and gestured. "No words came out, only a kind of growl," Woodward writes, based on Butterfield's recollection. Another time, also in the White House, Nixon dropped by a birthday party for Paul Keyes, a comedy writer and Nixon friend who had helped on the 1968 campaign. When Nixon entered the room, there was an unnatural hush. No one offered a handshake or a glass of wine. Nixon seemed at a loss. Keyes was wearing a solid green blazer. "Ah, ah, ah . . . uh," Nixon muttered, according to Woodward's account. "Then Nixon pointed down at the carpet, a worn, faded maroon. He spoke in a deep but barely audible voice. 'Green coat . . . red rug . . . Christmas colors.' He then wheeled around and strode out of the room to the Oval Office." Woodward says Butterfield felt that "Nixon was quickly becoming the oddest man he'd ever known." "It was if he were locked in his own deeply personal world, thinking, planning and churning," Woodward writes of Butterfield's impressions. Butterfield described Nixon as so lonely that he often took dinner by himself in the Old Executive Office Building, sitting with his suit coat still on, writing on his legal pad. "He was happiest when he was alone," Butterfield recalled. Nixon's relationship with his wife, Pat, was cold, Butterfield observed. At the Winter White House, a compound in Key Biscayne, Fla., she stayed in a separate house. On Christmas Eve 1969, Nixon walked through the Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House to wish employees a merry Christmas. The president discovered that some support staff employees had prominently displayed photographs of President John F. Kennedy and that one worker had two. Nixon was furious and ordered Butterfield to remove all photos of other presidents. On Jan. 16, 1970, Butterfield wrote a memo to the president, titled "Sanitization of the EOB," describing how all 35 offices displayed only Nixon's photograph. Butterfield learned that Nixon did not just have an "enemies list" with dozens of names, but also an "opponents list" and a "freeze list." One day Nixon exploded in anger after finding out that Derek Bok, then the president of Harvard University, was at the White House. "I don't ever want that son of a bitch back here on the White House grounds," he told Butterfield. "And you get those enemies lists, make sure everybody knows who's on them." [ Kissinger: the Dr. Frankenstein of foreign affairs, or just self-promoter? ] The president constantly scrutinized event invitation lists, striking names. Nixon organized a procedure with Butterfield so that during coffee after a state dinner, only a pre-selected group of five out of some 100 invited guests would get a chance to talk to the president. No one else could approach him. Butterfield told Woodward that Nixon was controlled by "his various neuroses, the deep, deep, deep resentments and hatreds he seemed to hate everybody. The resentments festered. And he never mellowed out." Butterfield did not know about the specifics of the Watergate break-in, but witnessed how Nixon's obsessions led to it. At one point, Butterfield was given the assignment to plant a spy in the Secret Service detail of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Nixon later mused that the spy a retired agent who was reactivated might find information that would "ruin him for '76," when Kennedy might be considered a possible presidential candidate. Butterfield knew the plan was illegal, and told Woodward that he was surprised at himself for going along with it. It fell to Butterfield to organize the White House taping system, installed at Nixon's behest in February 1971. Although Nixon endlessly explored and sifted his options on most issues, Woodward reports that "there was apparently no discussion about the merits or risks of such a taping system." It was installed over a weekend by the Secret Service while the president was out of town. Five microphones were put in the president's desk, on the top, concealed with a coating of varnish. The lights on the mantel in the Oval Office also carried microphones, a place where Nixon often took guests, including heads of state, to chat. The microphones were connected to voice-activated tape recorders behind a metal door in the basement. When the Watergate scandal broke, "I was thinking of the tapes the whole time," Butterfield recalled. "God, if they only knew. If they only knew. In a way I wanted it to be known. In the deep recesses of my brain, I was eager to tell." Woodward devotes several chapters to Butterfield's personal struggle over whether to reveal the secret taping system, which Nixon thought would never be made public. On the day of Nixon's departure from the White House, Aug. 9, 1974, Butterfield saw many White House officials and workers weeping in the East Room. "I could not believe that people were crying in that room," he told Woodward. "It was sad, yes. But justice had prevailed. Inside I was cheering. That's what I was doing. I was cheering."
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Barcelona attacker Neymar feels he, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez have proved that critics who claimed the three were not compatible were completely wrong. A number of former players and pundits questioned Barcelona's decision to bring in Suarez after the 2014 World Cup as they felt the Uruguay international did not fit the Catalans' style and could not play in the same team as Neymar and Messi. However, Barcelona's attacking trident - nicknamed MSN - impressed in 2014-15, scoring a combined 122 goals in all competitions as Barcelona won the Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey, and Neymar believes they have well and truly silenced their critics. "Some said we wouldn't get along well, but I knew they were wrong," Neymar told the official Barcelona website. "I think we surprised everyone. Before I came to Barcelona, they said I would be fighting with Leo and with other players as well. I knew that was not going to happen because those sort of things don't affect me. "Messi has helped me a lot since I joined Barcelona. And we have a friendship both on and off the pitch with Suarez. We are really happy with how things are going on the pitch."
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Demonstrators blamed the government for explosions in Turkey's capital that killed nearly 100 people. Julie Noce reports.
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Oklahoma State quarterback J.W. Walsh punched in a two-yard run to give the Cowboys a 33-26 lead. The defense then stopped the Mountaineers, breaking up a fourth down pass play to seal the win.
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Little Mix Little Mix "didn't hold back" with their new album. The girl group - comprising of Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards and Jesy Nelson - are gearing up to release their third LP 'Get Weird' in November and have teased fans can expect a "colourful" selection of songs on the album as a contrast to their second record which they thought was "quite dark" in comparison. Asked how their recent single 'Black Magic' compares to the rest of the album, Leigh-Anne said: "It fits really well. Perrie added: "It's a very good introduction to what the album is. The album is so pop, so colourful, very personality-driven. I think 'Salute' was quite dark and a bit R&B whereas this is just full on pop excitement, like, we just absolutely love this album. We didn't hold back at all, we just went for it." The singers also explained they decided to name their third record 'Get Weird' because they consider themselves to be "absolutely nuts" so thought the title was appropriate. Jesy joked to BANG Showbiz: "We're absolutely nuts ourselves and so are our fans and we want to spread that across the world." However, 23-year-old Leigh-Anne explained the name has a deeper meaning as it's about embracing your quirks. She added: "And it's just about literally being who you are, being yourself and loving who you are as well and not being afraid to show that."
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The United States edged the International team to win the President's Cup 15½-14½ Sunday despite winning just five of the 12 singles matches on the final day. The Internationals had a chance to force a tie, but a brutal finish to the 18th hole by Sang-Moon Bae resulted in Bill Haas clinching the Cup for the Americans. RELATED : US WINS PRESIDENTS CUP Trailing by one on the 18th, Bae had to win the hole to tie but he mishit his difficult third shot into the green on the par-5, and the ball nearly rolled all the way back to his feet. Bae had a chance to be a hero in his home country, but after his missing the green with his third shot and failing to hole out with his fourth, he conceded the hole and the Cup-clinching point to Haas. Bae was a captain's pick for the Presidents Cup, and the event was his last before beginning mandatory military service .
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Thousands of people gathered in Ankara on Sunday to mourn the victims of twin explosions that shook Turkey's capital the previous day, killing 95 people. (Oct. 11)
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TestDriveNow.com Video Preview of the all-new 2016 Ford Explorer Platinum by auto critic Steve Hammes.
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FALLBROOK, Calif. Amid severe drought, the water board in this Southern California town imposed restrictions on Fallbrook Brewing Co., just as the tiny brewer doubled capacity to meet demand for its craft beers. To cut monthly water use by about 10 percent, owner Chuck McLaughlin bought an extra 310-gallon tank to catch water used in the brewing process to reuse it for cleaning equipment. His new brewhouse includes a chiller that uses two-thirds less water than his old one. As a small business, there's no extra money to pay potentially thousands in fines if he exceeds the limit. So far, "it's been very close," said McLaughlin, whose brewery is run out of a former consignment shop in Fallbrook, a town of 30,000 people about 60 miles north of San Diego. California has more craft breweries small, independent beer makers that use traditional ingredients than any other state. More than 570 are in operation and another 240 are slated to open, according to the California Craft Brewers Association. Craft breweries contributed $6.5 billion to the state economy last year alone, producing 3.5 million barrels. A typical craft brewery uses up to 7 gallons of water to make 1 gallon of beer. Some in California have decreased that ratio to less than 5-to-1, but they are still being asked to cut back to meet the state mandate, which aims for California's overall urban water use to go down by 25 percent when compared with 2013. No other state in the drought-plagued West has taken such action. Breweries are digging wells, installing wastewater treatment plants and seeking exemptions from local water boards that control water use and can impose fines. Some are shelving planned expansions. If Mother Nature doesn't bring significant showers and snowstorms this fall and winter, some breweries may be forced to leave the state. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and other established California breweries, such as Stone Brewing Co., recently opened plants on the East Coast. But they say the motive was not the drought but to cut transportation costs to those markets. Still, "a lot of brewers are looking to open up new breweries and a lot of them have concerns over water availability in the state of California," said Cheri Chastain, Sierra Nevada's sustainability manager. "Drought has the potential to move a lot in the industry outside the state or prevent it from growing." Officials in the city of Chico told Sierra Nevada this spring to drop its water use by 32 percent. The nation's largest private craft brewery already had cut its usage by 25 percent and said further cuts would hurt production. The local water board agreed to exempt the water it uses to produce beer and asked Sierra Nevada to work toward reducing water used for its restaurant and landscaping by 42 percent. Bear Republic Brewing Co. has taken some of the most drastic measures. The company last year pulled out of 15 U.S. markets and four countries after the Northern California town of Cloverdale informed the brewery it did not have enough water to sustain it. But instead of moving, Bear Republic spent $466,000 to dig two wells for the town of 9,000 residents. It spent an additional $4 million on its own water treatment system, which uses electrically active microbes to purify wastewater, allowing the brewery to recycle up to 25 percent of the water it uses for equipment cleaning. "We have to make sure to protect our future, not only for the community but for our 157 employees who have a home here just packing up and leaving would be devastating to them," owner Richard R. Norgrove Sr. said. But he adds: "We also have to look to the outside world to see where we're going to build our long-term growth if we can't do it here." That could mean building a second plant where there is ample water. Stone Brewing Co. in Escondido is spending $1 million on expanding its $8 million wastewater treatment system installed in 2008 and aims to use only 3 gallons of water for every gallon of beer it produces. "We don't have any prediction on what's coming down, and we don't want to get penalized," said Pat Tiernan, chief operating officer. Tiny breweries like Fallbrook Brewing Co. can't afford those options. McLaughlin could find relief by moving his brewery to the neighboring city of Oceanside, whose water reduction target is 20 percent compared with 36 percent for the town of Fallbrook. Each district's reduction target is based on how much water that district used per person in 2013. But like many craft brewers, McLaughlin believes the local community is what makes his beers stand out. No stranger to water woes, the town was depicted in Frank Capra's 1952 film, "The Fallbrook Story," about ranchers fighting the federal government over water rights to a nearby river. Today it is best known for its annual avocado festival, where children outfit avocados with tiny wheels to race them in the "Avo 500." One of his brewery's most popular ales is a saison infused with local avocado-blossom honey. "'Be social. Drink local.' That's our motto," he said. "We wouldn't consider moving outside of Fallbrook. We'll just pray for rain maybe hire a rain dancer."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he's tired of questions about whether he's a socialist, asking why more people don't want Republicans to defend themselves as capitalists. "Look, when one of your Republican colleagues gets on the show, do you say, 'Are you a capitalist?'" the Democratic presidential candidate said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "Have you ever referred to them as capitalists?" The self-proclaimed Democratic socialist said he is ready to take on Wall St. and corporate America in the first Democratic primary debate on Tuesday. He said he wants to talk about his record in Congress of "standing up for working class families and the middle class" and his willingness "to take on virtually every aspect of corporate America." If elected president, Sanders said he will force Republicans in Congress to compromise by lining up "a million young people demonstrating and marching in Washington" to protest for affordable higher education. "I think we can do it," he said. "And I think that's what the bully pulpit is about. And that's what organizing effort's about. And that's what this campaign is about." Sanders pointed to his track record of going after Wall St. as a distinguishing characteristic between himself and Democratic primary front-runner Hillary Clinton. "Whose track record for the last 25 years has been to say to Wall St., 'You know what? We are going to have to break up the large financial institution.'" He also differentiated himself from the Democratic field by pointing out he has been opposed to the Keystone Pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from day one. "From day one, I opposed the Keystone Pipeline because I believe if you're serious about climate change, you don't encourage the excavation and transportation of very dirty oil," Sanders said. "That was my view from day one." Sanders also lauded Pope Francis for his efforts to raise awareness about climate change and poverty on his recent U.S. tour. The senator said he admires the social programs in nations like Denmark and Sweden, and he thinks "we can look to those countries" for guidance.
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Okay, we've got it. Work with us here for a moment. You can still go by what's happened on the field, and you have to it's only fair. Forget about what you believe, all that matters is what we can go by in head-to-head action, and it's still possible to put the pieces of the puzzle together. For example, Toledo is unbeaten. Toledo beat Arkansas, who beat Tennessee, who beat Georgia trust us, it still works out according to the head-to-head across the board. However, it does get sticky with some of the Pac-12 teams, with UCLA beating BYU, BYU beating Washington, Washington beating USC, USC beating Arizona State, Arizona State beating UCLA there aren't as many of those as you might think, so in that case, it has to come down to the rest of the schedules. This is all based on resume. This is as close to the pin as possible, with an explanation why for each spot this is what the College Football Playoff committee has to do. 1. Utah (5-0) This is really, really, really painful because Utah just doesn't look like the best team in college football, but the win over Michigan is gigantic now, the win over Cal makes it two victories over teams that haven't lost to anyone else, and the blowout win over Oregon is still a blowout win over Oregon, even if the Ducks have gone bye-bye. Throw in the win over a Utah State team whose only other loss it to Washington, and Utah has the best resume of the bunch. 2. Florida (6-0) Florida is unbeaten, it beat Ole Miss, who beat Alabama. Alabama is probably the strongest one-loss team in college football, and is probably the best team in the country, but that's a guess. However, the Gators have done enough with road wins over Missouri and Kentucky, and, again, that Ole Miss win is still the big piece in the puzzle. 3. Ole Miss (5-1) This is still the team that beat the team. The Alabama win is the gateway to just about everything else in the top five, but that's it. UT Martin, Fresno State, Vanderbilt and New Mexico State is as soft as it gets, but playing at Memphis up next is legit and the Texas A&M showdown to follow will be another huge step in figuring this all out. 4. Alabama(5-1) The Crimson Tide beat a solid Wisconsin team, destroyed Georgia, and slugged past Arkansas. It hasn't always been pretty, but when the defense turns it on, forget about it. Now the passing game is starting to come around. 5. Michigan (5-1) The wins over Oregon State, UNLV and Maryland are meaningless, but the blowout win over Northwestern and the 31-0 win over BYU are excellent at this point. Considering the only loss is to Utah on the road, Michigan, technically, could be No. 2, but let's not go crazy quite yet. If it beats Michigan State, it will be. 6. Clemson (5-0) Georgia Tech has hit the skids, but the blowout win a week after beating Notre Dame deserves enough respect to move up. Clemson has the combination now of a decent resume along with looking the part. 7. TCU (6-0) The Texas Tech win technically is strong, beating Minnesota is okay, and getting by Kansas State on the road is always excellent. However, now, the blowout win over Texas means everything considering what happened in the Red River Rivalry/Shootout/Showdown. 8. Baylor (5-0) The blowout over Texas Tech is the strongest win. Blowing away Kansas means nothing yes, Baylor will play a real team soon with West Virginia up next. 9. LSU (5-0) This is probably the biggest guess on the block considering beating Auburn and South Carolina is nothing but a brand name filler, and the win over Mississippi State came on a missed kick. Beating Syracuse and Eastern Michigan and struggling a bit doesn't help. The bigger games are coming soon. 10. Notre Dame (5-1) Beating an unbeaten Navy helps, and now, the blowout win over Texas is terrific. Would beating USC now mean much? Yeah, it's still beating USC, and the Fighting Irish could use another decent win. 11. Iowa (6-0) Illinois beating a now 2-4 Nebraska isn't that big a deal, so needing to fight for a win might not look great, but the win at Wisconsin is better than just about everything else the lower-ranked teams have done. 12. Texas A&M (5-0) The win over Arizona State is better than anything Ohio State has done, and the victory over Arkansas now looks better considering the fight the Hogs gave against Alabama. But now it's time to make a statement, and that means beating the Crimson Tide to kickstart the playoff talk. 13. Florida State (5-0) Florida State has beaten absolutely no one worth mentioning over than getting by Miami. Even with the Canes losing to Cincinnati, the win on Saturday is still stronger than anything Ohio State has done. 14. Ohio State (6-0) Seriously, Ohio State? You're going to sleepwalk for most of the game against a miserable Maryland? Beating Virginia Tech now seems a little bit better, but there's nothing on the resume. The Buckeyes are still the pick to get back to the national title game, but at some point, the excuses have to stop and the play has to be better. 15. Oklahoma State (6-0) This is a really, really shaky ranking, but the Cowboys did get by a Texas team that beat Oklahoma, and it survived Texas and Kansas State in tight battles. The wins might be way too close lately, but the Cowboys are 7-0 let's just skip the formality and count the home win over Kansas in two weeks. 16. California (5-1) Beating Washington State looks better now after the win over Oregon, and the win over Texas in the Lone Star State now looks fantastic. There shouldn't be a reward for a loss especially with the way Jared Goff played but if Utah deserves to be considered for the top spot, to come that close to pulling off the win on the road should bring the Bears some credit. 17. Northwestern (5-1) Duke's best win is over Georgia Tech, but it's still 5-1 with the only loss coming to Northwestern at home, and the Stanford wins still makes up for the blowout loss to Michigan. That might have been a brutally ugly day in Ann Arbor, but the Wildcats still have to be ranked ahead of the Cardinal. 18. Stanford (4-1) Considering Arizona just destroyed Oregon State, that win doesn't look so mediocre now. However, the USC win has lost its luster and the Northwestern defeat isn't as okay. 19. Michigan State (6-0) Michigan State, this is an absolute, you're-6-0-and-sort-of-have-to-ahead-of-Texas gift, considering it was a struggle to get past the two worst Big Ten teams Purdue and Rutgers. Coming so close to losing to Oregon now looks miserable, but the win over Air Force was okay. All will be quickly forgiven with a win over Michigan. 20. Texas (2-4) Okay, here's where you have to go by the body of work, with the win over OU screwing everything up for a slew of SEC teams including Georgia and Tennessee. Texas is 2-4, but those four losses are to Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Cal, and TCU, who have just two losses between them with one coming to Utah this week (Cal) and one to Clemson last week (Notre Dame). With the close losses to the Cowboys and Bears, combined with the win over Oklahoma, who beat Tennessee and West Virginia, theoretically, the Longhorns could be right behind Oklahoma State. For now, this is fine. 21. Oklahoma (4-1) The Tennessee win on the road is stronger now, and beating West Virginia is better than it might appear the Mountaineers' only other loss is to Oklahoma State but the Sooners have to be ranked behind Texas. 22. Wisconsin (4-2) Finally, Wisconsin has a decent win under its belt with the comeback victory over Nebraska, but it's still just a 2-4 Nebraska. The close losses to Alabama and Iowa keep the ranking from dipping further, but it's time to start destroying teams on the rest of a relatively light slate. 23. Boise State (5-1) This is where it gets really weird considering BYU, Boise State, Washington, UCLA, Arizona State and USC are all mixed together. Here's the call. Boise State gets the higher ranking out of the mix because it obliterated Virginia on the road, and UCLA won over the Cavaliers at home. Yes, Boise State lost to BYU, but that was on the road, too, and it came on a minor miracle play. So, to break the overall jam, Boise State beat Washington, who beat USC on the road, who beat Arizona State on the road. And it helps that the Broncos are playing phenomenally well right now. 24. Washington (3-2) The losses are to Boise State on the road and Cal. Beating Utah State by 14 is solid, and getting past USC on the road is great. The loss at Boise State could've gone either way at the end. 25. USC (3-2) It's Christmas in Southern California with this ranking, and it's only coming because the Trojans absolutely destroyed Arizona State on the road, and ASU beat UCLA, and UCLA beat BYU. This is a better team than it showed against Stanford and Washington. No. 26-128 College Football Rankings 26. Texas Tech (4-2) 27. Toledo (5-0) 28. Arkansas (2-4) 29. Tennessee (3-3) 30. Georgia (4-2) 31. Mississippi State (4-2) 32. BYU (4-2) 33. West Virginia (3-2) 34. Arizona State (4-2) 35. UCLA (4-1) 36. Arizona (4-2) 37. Memphis (5-0) 38. Temple (5-0) 39. Penn State (5-1) 40. Houston (5-0) 41. Indiana (4-2) 42. Kansas State (3-2) 43. Kentucky (4-1) 44. Missouri (4-2) 45. Cincinnati (3-2) 46. Auburn (3-2) 47. Miami (3-2) 48. South Carolina (2-4) 49. North Carolina (4-1) 50. Illinois (4-2) 51. Louisville (2-3) 52. Navy (4-1) 53. Minnesota (4-2) 54. Pitt (4-1) 55. Virginia Tech (3-3) 56. East Carolina (3-3) 57. NC State (4-2) 58. Duke (5-1) 59. Georgia Tech (2-4) 60. Nebraska (2-4) 61. Washington State (3-2) 62. Oregon (3-3) 63. Maryland (2-4) 64. Bowling Green (4-2) 65. South Florida (2-3) 66. Syracuse (3-2) 67. Wake Forest (3-3) 68. Boston College (3-3) 69. Georgia Southern (4-1) 70. Western Michigan (2-3) 71. Central Michigan (2-4) 72. Northern Illinois (3-3) 73. Ohio (5-1) 74. Virginia (1-4) 75. Air Force (3-2) 76. WKU (5-1) 77. Iowa State (2-3) 78. Utah State (3-2) 79. Louisiana Tech (4-2) 80. Oregon State (2-3) 81. Marshall (5-1) 82. Purdue (1-5) 83. Tulsa (3-2) 84. Southern Miss (3-3) 85. South Alabama (3-2) 86. San Diego State (3-3) 87. Hawaii (2-4) 88. Colorado (3-3) 89. Vanderbilt (2-3) 90. Colorado State (2-4) 91. Middle Tennessee (2-4) 92. San Jose State (3-3) 93. UNLV (2-4) 94. Nevada (3-3) 95. Rutgers (2-3) 96. Akron (3-3) 97. Kent State (2-4) 98. Rice (3-3) 99. Appalachian State (4-1) 100. Arkansas State (2-3) 101. Louisiana-Lafayette (2-3) 102. Massachusetts (1-3) 103. FIU (2-3) 104. Buffalo (2-3) 105. Old Dominion (2-3) 106. Ball State (2-4) 107. Fresno State (1-5) 108. Connecticut (3-3) 109. New Mexico (3-3) 110. UTSA (1-5) 111. UTEP (2-4) 112. Texas State (1-4) 113. Tulane (2-3) 114. Kansas (1-4) 115. ULM (1-4) 116. Army West Point (1-5) 117. Troy (1-4) 118. UCF (0-6) 119. Florida Atlantic (1-4) 120. SMU (1-5) 121. Eastern Michigan (1-4) 122. Charlotte (2-3) 123. Miami University (1-5) 124. Wyoming (0-6) 125. Georgia State (1-4) 126. Idaho (1-4) 127. North Texas (0-5) 128. New Mexico State (0-5)
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