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Monday, August 1, 2016

Shannen Doherty shaves head in cancer battle

Shannen Doherty on "Charmed": "Let it be"

Shannen Doherty posted a series of emotional photos Tuesday night on her Instagram showing her in the process of shaving her head Doherty. USA TODAY

The Arizona Republic , WXIA 2:52 PM. EDT July 21, 2016

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Shannen Doherty, best known for her 4-year stint in the original Beverly Hills, 90210 in the 1990s, has posted a series of emotional photos on Instagram that show her shaving her head as part of her ongoing battle with breast cancer.

The raven-haired star, who also spent 4 years on Charmed at the turn of the millennium and was on seven episodes of a Beverly Hills revival called 20210 in 2008 and 2009, shared six black and white photos in total, each showing a step of her cutting and shaving what had been shoulder-length tresses.

In the photo series are her mother and her friend Anne Marie Kortright, who helped her cut her hair and provided emotional support for the Memphis native who came to Hollywood as a child actress in the early 1980s.

PHOTOS: Shannen Doherty

The vast majority of responses on social media gave encouragement and praise. Many exchanged their own breast-cancer survival stories.

"They"re beautiful," said Doherty, 45. "But in the grand scheme of things, I would rather be alive, and I would rather grow old with my husband."

Doherty married her third husband, photographer Kurt Iswarienko, in 2011.

Although Doherty has been in treatment for breast cancer since March 2015, news of her diagnosis first came to light in August in a lawsuit against her former business management firm Tanner Mainstay. Doherty claims that her former business managers are responsible for making her condition worse because they did not pay her Screen Actors Guild insurance coverage for 2014, delaying her diagnosis and treatment.

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Source: http://www.11alive.com/news/shannen-doherty-shaves-head-in-cancer-battle-1/279102376

Sir Nick Faldo hails golf"s strength in depth after Jimmy Walker wins USPGA

Highlights | Robert Streb and Jimmy Walker lead at the PGA Championship

The same thing occurred in 2011 and before that in 2003 and on each occasion there was a rush to explain the phenomenon.

There is no doubt that theadvances in technology and sports science have made the marginsfiner. But that does not mean there has been a recession in drama. Indeed, in this post-Tiger Woods parity era, anything but.

Day eagling the 18th to force Walker to make a par, and the latter then inexplicably going for the par-five green in two before having to hack it out of thick rough and holing a nervy three-footer, was a fitting finale to a major campaign full of incident; from Spieths meltdown at Augusta, to Johnsons rules-rumpus breakthrough at Oakmont; to Stensons classic Open duel with Phil Mickelson.

Walker is a worthy member of the quartet. Theunassuming Texan waited 187 PGA Tour starts to win his first title, but four years later has six, including this major, to his name.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/golf/2016/08/01/sir-nick-faldo-hails-golfs-strength-in-depth-after-jimmy-walker/

Austin shooting on Sixth Street leaves 1 dead

Police Respond to Shooting Incident in Downtown Austin, Texas

At least one person is dead and another four injured in a shooting early Sunday morning in downtown Austin.

The shooter was still at large, Austin police said at a press conference just before 5 a.m. central time.

Police Chief of Staff Brian Manley said the shooting was reported at 2:17 a.m. on East Sixth Street, the heart of the citys downtown bar and music scene. The shooter reportedly fired into crowd, killing a woman in her 20s. Four other women were injured, and they are all expected to survive, Manly said.

A second shooting occurred nearby at 2:24 a.m. on Trinity Street, but police said the two shootings were not related. No one was injured in that shooting, and that shooter is in custody.

Although there were early reports of an active shooter situation, Manley said the two incidents are not related.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene to the Austin American-Statesman. There were just tons of people on Sixth Street and I see all of them jump toward the ground, Sam Vedamanikam told the Austin American-Statesman.

Source: http://fusion.net/story/331952/austin-shooting-sixth-street/

Kylie Jenner"s Kylie Cosmetics dodges "F" rating from the Better Business Bureau

KYSHADOW!!! KYLIE COSMETICS TUTORIAL - Chantel Jeffries

Kylie Cosmetics isnt a failure, at least according to the Better Business Bureau.The organization has changed an F rating it slapped on Kylie Jenners beauty brand to a no rating.

According to a post by Jenner on Kylie Cosmetics Instagram account Wednesday, the grade switch came after fans of the brand spoke out about the poor rating. Better Business Bureau has looked into the facts and changed the rating, explained Jenner. She added, Ive sold millions of lip kits and any complaint we have received to date has been addressed in a timely manner. Im sick and tired of people coming for my business. I love everything about Kylie Cosmetics and I will do anything in my power to protect and improve it every day.

The Better Business Bureau reported 134 complaints have been logged against Kylie Cosmetics, 70 of which involve delivery issues and 55 of which involve issues with a product or service. Six out of seven customer reviews of the brand on the organizations web site are negative. In an investigation of Kylie Cosmetics, the bureau was told by the brandthat its packages are being vandalized or stolen because they are highly recognizable. Kylie Cosmeticsrevealed it is taking steps to modify the packaging to combat the problem. As of June 23, complaints about Kylie Cosmetics continued. The bureau disclosed it is working with the brand to resolve them and that it will issue a new grade when a review is complete.

The Better Business Bureaus F rating was the latest setback in a string of controversies surrounding Kylie Cosmetics. Digital-beauty influencer and brand founderJeffree Star criticized Kylie Cosmetics lip-gloss wands, and beauty blogger Stephanie Nicole alleged Kylie Lip Kit formulas are identical to cheaper ColourPop formulas. Challenging claims like that of Nicoles, Kylie Cosmetics told the Better Business Bureau that its formulas are not shared by any other brand, according to the Bureaus web site. Kylie Cosmetics parent company, Seed Beauty, is a sister company to ColourPop.The brand was launched in 2015.

Despite its troubles, Kylie Cosmeticsdoesntappear to be slowing down. Itsproducts sell out quickly and, via Snapchat, Jenner teased the direct-to-consumerbrand is opening a store. To contain damage, Jenner has promptly addressed concerns about Kylie Cosmetics on social media. In her latest post about the Bureausrating, she concluded, I dont want to respond to the haters but you guys deserve an answer and to know the facts. I love you and apologize to anyone who felt the urge to complain and didnt receive the service they deserve.

The reaction from Kylie Cosmetics followers on Instagram, where it has five million of them, was mixed. Jennerspost on the brands Instagram account received nearly 65,000 likes, but it was also littered with tales of delivery hold-ups. As an example, afollower with the handle @lauraleewatts wrote, Your rating isnt low because people come for your business. It is low because your customer service is terrible, shipping is outrageously high and your company values speed over quality." A followerusing the handle @milliondollar_family countered, People say what they want. But everything about your line is perfection. I love the formula, the texture, the feeling going on and once it dries.Anothersupporterpointed out Kylie Cosmetics isnt alone in being given an F rating from the Better Business Bureau. With 14 complaints filed against its business, Anastasia Beverly Hills has an F rating.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/fashion/la-ig-kylie-cosmetics-20160707-snap-story.html

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, Kodak Black, 21 Savage & Denzel Curry"s XXL Freshmen Roundtable Interview

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Watch a new roundtable discussion from XXL, featuring Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, Kodak Black, 21 Savage and Denzel Curry.

If we"re talking "the new wave" (insert wave emoji), then generally, one of these five rappers is entering the discussion. All five are harbingers of a new sound in rap, sometimes met with criticism and confusion by an older generation, but generally met with acclaim if you"re talking to the youth that devour their music.

Lil Uzi Vert, Yachty, Kodak Black, 21 Savage and Denzel were all paired up in the latest XXL Freshmen Roundtable, which touches on fame and fans. Each rapper also goes on to describe what type of music they make, at least from their standpoint-- "I describe myself as a feel good rapper" Uzi says. Yachty tell us, "I make positivity music, the opposite of 21," with21 later chiming in, "I make murder music."

Watch the video above.

Source: http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/lil-uzi-vert-lil-yachty-kodak-black-21-savage-and-denzel-currys-xxl-freshmen-roundtable-interview-new-video.37993.html

Niantic Shuts Down "Pokmon Go" Tracking App, and Players Are in Revolt

[Gaming] WTF - Niantic Labs shuts down Pokevision and other third-party pokemon finding apps

Niantic, the studio behind Pokmon Go, isn"t too happy some of you have figured out how to find the rarest of pokmon with tracking apps like Pok Radar. In an interview with Forbes on Thursday, Niantic CEO John Hanke claimed he was "not a fan" of such tools and that players "might find in the future that those things may not work." The future, it seems, is now. Earlier today the popular tracking apps Pokevision announced that they were no longer offering their services for the time being, out of a desire to follow "Niantic and Nintendo"s wishes." More are expected to follow.

These apps essentially let players walk right up to the areas where they could find rare pokmon, taking some of the guesswork out of the game but also saving players from hours of sorting through the legions of pidgies and ratatas in the world. In Hanke"s words, they take "some fun out of the game" and he later groups them with a "cheating and spoofing."

But such projects have also been the stars of some of the more fascinating tales to come out of the the summer craze, such as the guy who hooked up Pokmon Go to IBM"s Watson artificial intelligence platform for the sake of finding rare battle pets. Barely a day of release had gone by before players were already tricking the app to respond to false coordinates in an effort to find rare beasts, and a group of Redditors figured out how to show all the rare pokmon in your area on Google Maps. It"s been one of those rare, beautiful occasions when programmers and the general public work and communicate hand-in-hand, possibly even inspiring some future programmers in the process.

John Hanke says it"s cheating. And let"s admit it, if only in the sense that a walkthrough for a game tells you exactly where to go, he"s kind of right. But the apps also provided a workaround for a feature that was always in the game but which never workeduntil the most recent patch, a set of tracks for guessing how far away a nearby pokmon would always show three paw prints, effectively rendering the tool useless. (Now the tracks don"t even show up at all.) Tracking sites, at their most innocent, allowed players to close those gaps.

Hanke"s attitude isn"t going over so well with the declining Pokmon Go faithful, through. Take player Jase Balridge, who said in a tweet this afternoon that Pokmon Go needs such tools because "spawns are way too random and appear in too inconvenient places to not have tracking." Consider Pokevision"s Yangcheng Liu, who tweeted that "You don"t invent Marco Polo, get 80M players to join, then remove the Polo part and expect people to keep playing."

The Pokmon Go subreddit now even has its own "Rage Megathread" aimed at Niantic, where people are venting their frustrations with eloquent statements like "AT LEAST YOU CAN WASTE 10 POKEBALLS FOR A f*****g 10CP PIDGEY, ONCE YOU"RE ABOVE LEVEL 20. ISN"T THAT FUN???"

Surely worst of all (from Niantic"s perspective, at least), players have figured out they can demand full refunds from iTunes because the app now "functions differently than expected." Still another Redditor claims the demand is making things tough at Apple as well:

Ouch. If you reverse your decision quickly enough Niantic, maybe there"s still time to catch "em all.

Source: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pokemon-go-tracking-app-poke-radar

$100000 Powerball ticket sold in Maine

Powerball Winners Score the Ultimate Jackpot

STATEWIDE (WGME) -- A ticket sold at Hannaford in Raymond, New Hampshire, matches all six numbers in Saturday night"s Powerball drawing and is worth $487 million, according to Powerball officials.

The winning numbers for the Powerball are 11-17-21-23-32 and the Powerball number is 5.

While the grand prize ticket was not sold in Maine, there are still plenty of Powerball payouts -- including one $100,000 winner.

According to Powerball, there are 11,155 winners in Maine.

Many matched the Powerball only, which is only worth a few bucks.

One ticket sold in Maine matches four numbers and the Powerball.

That play took the Power Play option which was x2 for Saturday night"s drawing.

According to Powerball, that ticket is worth $100,000.

No word on where in Maine it was sold.

Source: http://wgme.com/news/local/100000-powerball-ticket-sold-in-maine