Survivor - Spoiler Alert Ponderosa 7 This is going to be so good. After the epic season 32 finale of Survivor, the first trailer for Millennials vs. Gen X aired. Who will rise above?Click to WATCH!
Season 33 of Survivor is going to pin millennials versus Generation X. This is going to be an epic battle of generations, and were not sure who will come out on top. Watch the first trailer and decide whose side youre on now!
Get ready, Survivor fans. Season 33 of Survivor will throw 20 new castaways together. Only one will be able to outwit, outplay and outlast the rest. But will it be a millennial or a castaway from Generation X?
The people of Generation X believe that the millennials dont have a clue, while the millennials think that Generation X has been brainwashed. Oh boy. This is going to get nasty.
You have contestants like Mari, who plays video games for a living. Gen X castaway David is clearly not a fan of the younger generation, and he believes Gen X should not be underestimated. We handed them the world that theyre just taking advantage of, he says in the trailer. David goes on and on about how millennials are entitled and whiny. He makes some valid points, though. Survivor is all about earning it, whereas maybe millennials feel like they deserve it, he notes.Burn.
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Google I/O 2016 is far from over and we have much more to cover, but after the blockbuster keynote from yesterday wrapped and we took the rest of the day to digest all that was announced, we want to know what impressed you the most.
Were you blown away by Google Home or Assistant? Does Daydream live up toall of your VR dreams? Are you ready to adopt Allo as your next messaging client and ditch Hangouts? Maybe you just care about the stable-enough Android N Developer Preview 3 that was released? Something else stuck out, perhaps?
Season 2 of the "Breaking Bad" spinoff "Better Call Saul," which premiered Monday night, has Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) showing flashes of his future alter ego, Saul Goodman. After initially rejecting a cushy job at the law firm Davis & Maine, Odenkirk"s character enlists Kim (Rhea Seehorn) to help him run a scam on a stock trader, tricking him into buying them expensive shots of tequila.
The scam brings the pair closer together, but eventually they abandon the rotten streak and McGill decides to take the law firm job. Sorry, no Saul Goodman after all. (He does flip a switch that says "Do not turn off," though. Yeah, pretty badass.) Still,while McGill was "breaking bad," there was a sneaky callback to the original show that you might"ve missed.
First, take a look at that stock trader that got scammed. Recognize him from anywhere?
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That"s Ken, the same guy who stole Walter White"s parking space in "Breaking Bad." It"s cool, though. Mr. White eventually blew up his car, so they"re all square.
But the Easter egg gets even better. Now, check out that tequila they made Ken buy ...
That"s Zafiro Aejo. "Better Call Saul" creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould confirmed on AMC"s live aftershow "Talking Saul" that it"s the same type of tequila Gus poisoned in "Breaking Bad," causing the deaths of Eladio Vuente and other members of the Jurez Cartel.
"Talking Saul" host Chris Hardwick also asked Gilligan if the name Zafiro Aejo was related to blue meth, which the writer also confirmed.
"Sapphire in Spanish, Zafiro Aejo, yeah," said Gilligan.
We salute all your "Breaking Bad" Easter eggs, sirs. Cheers to you guys.
"Better Call Saul" airs Mondays at 10:00 p.m. ET on AMC.
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"Breaking Bad" references in "Better Call Saul"
Mike"s love for Pimento
In one of the more light-hearted nods, viewers were reminded of Mike"s consistency when he revealed his snack of choice for his security job in episode nine, a throwback to series four of "BB.
Mike"s love for Pimento
In one of the more light-hearted nods, viewers were reminded of Mike"s consistency when he revealed his snack of choice for his security job in episode nine, a throwback to series four of "BB.
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The key fob
You can always rely on Reddit users to spot the most obscure details, can"t you? Here"s Walt"s key,. in the "BB" finale, and Jimmy"s in the first "Better Call Saul" episode. Sadly, the jury"s out what this tiny symbol could mean.
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Heisenberg"s coat and hat?
This could be a case of getting over-zealous in the hunt for clues, but this coat and hat hanging up in the courthouse look an awful lot like Heisenberg"s outfit.
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The Kevin Costner story
In series 3 of "Breaking Bad", viewers saw Saul telling Walt he could achieve anything, concluding with: "I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it." Well, in the final episode of the series, we finally got to see the woman who fell for Saul"s trick.
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Juan Tabo
Juan Tabo Boulevard is a pretty huge street in Albuquerque, but nothing happens in a Vince Gilligan show by accident. Jimmy"s address - where a real-life nail salon actually sits - is also the road that the one-time meth cook Gael Boetticher resided on. It also popped up in the first episode of "BCS", when the two skateboarders attempted their scam.
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The phonebox graffiti
Like many other scenes, this one at first seemed void of "BB" nods - but could the "Jpi" be Jesse Pinkman"s graffiti tag?The youngster would be around 15 years old in the "BCS" world, and while it might seem like we"re stretching things, the tag also appeared in an episode of "Breaking Bad". Hmmm...
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The Cadillac
One of the show"s first scenes sees Jimmy, a struggling wannabe, park next to this Cadillac. The link? This is the car Saul goes on to own, once he"s finally on top (and a fully-fledged dodgy lawyer...).
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Loyola"s
Jimmy"s meeting place of choice with the Kettlemans also appeared in "Breaking Bad", when Mike ate with Jesse, and then later met Lydia for a business meeting.
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Slippin" Jimmy fits in with Saul"s dodgy knees
Obviously, when "Breaking Bad" was created, the team had no idea that they"d later be working on "Better Call Saul". Writer Thomas Schnauz has revealed how some aspects of Jimmy developed, revealing that they remembered Saul"s arrest scene while thinking about Slippin" Jimmy. "We thought he must have taken a lot of bad hits on the ice of Chicago and he probably messed up his knees falling down all the time," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "When we did it in Breaking Bad, we didn"t have a reason that he had bad knees, but it"s nice when we can tie those threads together."
COLUMBIA A day after Missouri redshirt junior quarterback Maty Mauk was suspended indefinitely by the Missouri athletics department, members of the Missouri football team and Mauks father have come to his defense.
It started with redshirt junior linebacker Michael Scherer, who gave his support via Twitter around 10 a.m. Tuesday.
"Maty has been doing everything he can to be a better person," Scherer said. "No one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes."
Redshirt freshman wide receiver Kenyon Dilosa and redshirt junior defensive lineman Harold Brantley were among a number of other players who tweeted. The other players were in agreement that the video, which appears to show Mauk snorting a white substance, is old and that Mauk has been working to improve himself.
This is the third time in the past six months the Ohio native has been suspended fromthe team.
Mauks father, Mike Mauk, said Tuesday that he did not know how old the video was, but said his son has been "absolutely" clean since he was reinstated from his second suspension in December.
"I don"t really think there"s anything he"s going to say about it until we take care of things that we need to inside," Mike Mauk said.
Former Missouri offensive lineman Connor McGovern told SECCountry.com, a blog that works in conjunction with the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, that Mauks suspension is due to "bad luck." McGovern played with Mauk at Missouri for three seasons. He and former Missouri center Evan Boehm are in Mobile, Alabama, for the Senior Bowl.
"Hes got some things to fix that are bigger than football," McGovern said. "He doesnt make the best decisions all the time, but nobody does. He just happens to be a quarterback that makes some poor decisions and seems to get caught whenever he makes a bad decision. Theres a lot of people here, Im sure, that have made poor decisions. They just didnt get caught doing it."
The Missouri athletics department has yet to address Mauks status with the team since announcing the suspension Monday via a joint statement from Athletics Director Mack Rhoades and football coach Barry Odom. Mauk is listed as a student in the Missouri student directory, but the MU Registrars Office said Tuesday it cannot divulge information on whether or not a student is still enrolled at MU.
One of Maty Mauks teammates on the Missouri football team told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the video of Mauk appearing to snort a white powder is two years old and that the Tigers quarterback has since addressed his drug problem.
The teammate asked not to be identified by the Post-Dispatch, telling the paper that Mauk has been really turning things around since the end of the season and has been clean for a while.
The Post-Dispatch also reports, via multiple sources, that Missouri suspended Mauk for the first time last September because he failed a drug test.
The team suspected hed been using drugs and administered the test, leading to his suspension announced Sept. 29, Dave Matter writes.
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Missouri has suspended quarterback Maty Mauk for the third time in four months after a video of someone who closely resembles Mauk snorting a white powder was released online.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch was first to report the news.
We are currently gathering information regarding the video in question. This is an issue we take very seriously and one that will not be tolerated within our program. We will take the appropriate actions once we have all the facts. In the interim, Maty Mauk has been indefinitely suspended for the Mizzou football program, Missouri Athletic Director Mack Rhoades and Coach Barry Odom said in a statement that was released less than two hours after the video was posted.
Mauk, a fourth-year junior in 2015, played just four games last season after being named to the SEC all-freshman team in 2013 and starting all 14 games in 2014. He was suspended twice, once for violating team rules and then again after he was briefly reinstated. According to the Post-Dispatch, the second suspension was the result of a drunken dispute Mauk had outside a bar in Columbia, Mo.
Odom, the Tigers defensive coordinator last season who was promoted to head coach after Gary Pinkels retirement, reinstated Mauk in December and said he was expected to compete for the teams starting quarterback spot in spring practice.
In 2013, Mauk was arrested on four misdemeanor traffic offenses after he struck two parked vehicles while riding his motor scooter. Mauk and two female passengers fled the scene, later refusing to pull over and running a stop sign.
After spending the first 17 years of his Post career writing and editing, Matt and the printed paper had an amicable divorce in 2014. He"s now blogging and editing for the Early Lead and the Post"s other Web-based products.
The guy who prepared your tax return came through big time. Not only was he cheap, he got you ahuge refund, way more than you expected.
How did he do it? You"d know if you could take a look at your return, the one he had you sign inadvance. That"s odd, you don"t have any kids to deduct. And this company on your W-2 that took outtoo much tax? You never worked there.
The magic was fraud fictional dependents and employers, overstated credits and fake W-2s.
A favorite target of these unscrupulous tax preparers are low-to-moderate wage workers and theearned-income tax credit that benefits them, according to the Internal Revenue Service. By its ownestimate, the IRS said the error rate on earned-income tax credit returns can be as high as 27percent.
In 2014, about $18 billion in overpayments were sent out. Some were unintentional, some werecases of fraud.
For about seven weeks beginning in January 2011, Brandon Hamilton and Kenitha Ferguson operatedthe In and Out tax agency at 1687 Oak St. on the Near East Side. They processed more than 20fraudulent 2010 tax returns, according to a federal indictment. That was enough time to steal$132,000 in undeserved tax refunds, which they split between themselves and their clients,prosecutors said.
Hamilton pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court in Columbus to conspiring to defraudthe government. The maximum penalty is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Ferguson pleaded notguilty and was released on bond.
Prosecutors said In and Out advertised on Facebook, by word of mouth and through recruiters whowere paid to line up customers.
Hamilton might face prison. His clients might face a government lawsuit to recover theoverpayments.
"Each taxpayer is accountable for their own tax return," IRS Special Agent Craig Casserly said."As this case progresses, we would look at all the clients" tax returns."
Dan Brown, an assistant U.S. attorney who prosecutes IRS cases, said, "In the long run, theywill have damaged their clients, and the IRS will go after those clients for the money andpenalties."
The IRS operates "scheme development centers" across the country, where investigators look foranomalies such as an unusually large number of earned-income tax-credit filings in a certain ZIPcode, or from the same preparer, Casserly said.
The agency investigated 266 alleged cases of preparer fraud nationwide in fiscal year 2015. Ofthose, 204 defendants were convicted, and 80 percent of them went to prison. The average prisonterm was 27 months.
The arrest numbers could be higher if the agency had more agents, Casserly said. Congressionalbudget cuts have reduced the ranks almost 14 percent through attrition during the past five years.There are about 2,100 agents for the current fiscal year.
"Still, we are doing a good job of prosecuting these individuals," Casserly said, "and we thinkother people are seeing this and getting out of the (fraud) business."
There are several red flags that honest taxpayers should heed when seeking a preparer, Casserlysaid. Ask them for their required "preparer tax identification number," do not sign a blank returnand check the completed return for accuracy.
And make sure the government refund check is sent to you. If a preparer gets the check, he orshe could skim off some of the refund money for themselves.
"Look at the deductions. Do you actually have kids?" Casserly said. He said he knows of cases inwhich people who didn"t plan to file a return "loaned out" their children"s identities to taxpreparers.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida State University has settled a Title IX lawsuit with a former student who said the school failed to adequately investigate allegations that she was raped by former star quarterback Jameis Winston.
The settlement was announced a day before Winston"s accuser, Erica Kinsman, had been scheduled to give a deposition in the case. As part of the settlement, FSU is making a five-year commitment to sexual assault awareness and prevention. The university also has agreed to publish annual reports for the next five years about those programs.
Florida State said in a statement that it has formed a Sexual Assault Prevention Task Group, hired a full-time Title IX coordinator, added six positions to improve campus safety and required all incoming freshmen to complete an online course to make "more informed choices about s*x and relationships."
FSU President John Thrasher also noted that there have been more than 100 training sessions conducted on campus dealing with sexual assault and how to prevent it.
The settlement also calls for a $950,000 payment to Kinsman and her attorneys. A copy of the settlement says Kinsman"s attorneys will get $700,000 of that money, though they say that figure was inserted by the university and that they will receive far less for their fees.
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted, but Kinsman has spoken publicly about her case, including in a documentary.
Thrasher said in a press release Monday that the university settled to avoid spending millions on the lawsuit.
"Although we regret we will never be able to tell our full story in court, it is apparent that a trial many months from now would have left FSU fighting over the past rather than looking toward its very bright future," Thrasher said in the release.
Jim Ryan, a partner with Cullen and Dykman who deals in Title IX cases, said typical settlement amounts range from $250,000 to $500,000, but most are kept confidential.
Kinsman has said she was drunk at a Tallahassee bar in December 2012 when Winston and others took her to an apartment, where she says the quarterback raped her.
Winston has said the allegations are false and that he and Kinsman had consensual s*x. Prosecutors said there wasn"t enough evidence to win a conviction and that there were gaps in Kinsman"s story.
A lawsuit filed by Kinsman against Winston - and a countersuit he filed against her claiming she is trying to take advantage of his newfound wealth as the starting quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers - are ongoing and are not affected by the settlement.
A Title IX investigation by the Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Education also is ongoing. Title IX is a federal statute that bans discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. The department in 2011 warned schools of their legal responsibilities to immediately investigate allegations of sexual assault, even if the criminal investigation has not concluded.
Baine Kerr, one of Kinsman"s attorneys, told The Associated Press that the university wanted Kinsman to withdraw her complaint, but she refused. Kinsman will graduate this spring from another four-year university.
Melissa Ashton, who had been director of FSU"s victim advocate program until August, said in a deposition given this past summer that football players receive special treatment at the school. She said most of the estimated 20 rape victims she encountered during the past decade declined to press student conduct charges.
"My hope is that the federal investigation of my complaint by the Office of Civil Rights will produce even more positive change, not just at FSU, but across the country," Kinsman said in a statement.
The settlement comes as numerous other cases call attention to the need for reform at campuses across the nation, said Brett Sokolow, Executive Director of The Association of Title IX Administrators. Two other colleges, Michigan State University and the University of California, Berkeley have faced similar lawsuits accusing administrators of failing to adequately investigate reports of sexual assault.
"This case has raised awareness nationally because of the high-profile coverage and how starkly the systemic failures were chronicled in the media," Sokolow said.
Associated Press Writers Gary Fineout in Tallahassee, Florida, and Kareem Copeland in Salt Lake City, Utah, contributed to this report.
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