When Dr. Sitaram Emani, a cardiac surgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital, heard about the baby from Springfield with the failing heart, he knew he could help.

But Emani quickly realized there was no room for the boy at the overcrowded hospital. Under sedation, the boy waited for weeks until Emani could fix the holes in his heart.

It’s a story that doctors and executives at Children’s, the region’s dominant pediatric care center, tell again and again: They don’t have enough beds, surgeries are being delayed, patients are being turned away and sent to other hospitals. And it’s why executives say they need to complete a $1 billion expansion of their Longwood Medical Area campus, a project that would create an 11-story tower with more room for doctors and nurses to treat more patients.

Yet the hospital’s message has been undercut recently by a group opposed to the proposal for reasons that have nothing to do with surgeries or beds. They object to the plan to build the tower over the Prouty Garden, a tranquil refuge for countless sick and dying children and their families. And many have emotional stories to tell.

“The hospital is out of touch. I don’t think they totally see what they’re going to lose,” said Beecher Grogan, whose daughter, Lucy, liked to wiggle her toes in garden’s grass before she died from leukemia at age 12.

How do you put a price tag on a place where two generations of sick children escaped their hospital beds?

“They should absolutely build a building,” Grogan said, “but anywhere but there.”

The group Friends of the Prouty Garden, a group backed by an anonymous donor, has raised enough money to take out full-page ads in the Globe and hire a lawyer and public relations firm. Its online petition to preserve the garden has nearly 14,000 signatures, and it has the backing of some prominent physicians, such as Dr. T. Berry Brazelton.

Hospital executives may have been caught off guard by the backlash, but now they’re trying to defend their case. They say they examined at least nine scenarios before settling on the plan to build over the Prouty Garden. All of the other options were too costly, would take too long to build, or would be too far from the hospital’s other facilities, resulting in inefficiencies and higher costs, they say.

“We looked at the cost-effectiveness, we looked at the time it would take, we looked at what it would bring us in terms of patient care,” said Dr. Kevin Churchwell, the chief operating officer at Children’s. “When we put it all on the grid, the building that we’re going to build really fit the best.”

The debate will play out at a public hearing Thursday afternoon before the Department of Public Health. State regulators are reviewing whether the hospital’s proposed expansion is appropriate, as they do with all major capital projects. They have also asked Children’s, one of the state’s priciest hospitals, to pay for an independent study that shows what effect the project will have on health care costs.

The Prouty Garden at Children’s Hospital.

To soften the blow of eliminating the Prouty Garden, executives are planning to build three green spaces into their expanded campus: a rooftop garden, an outdoor garden, and indoor gardens that can survive the winter and bring a little peace to children too sick to go outside.

Rising patient numbers — not just from Massachusetts, but from other states and countries where Children’s is seeking growth — have made the hospital a crowded place. And the numbers continue to grow as Children’s cements its reputation as a place for treating the world’s smallest and sickest patients. The hospital admitted more than 24,349 patients in the year ended Sept. 30, up 1.8 percent from the previous year.

All but four of the hospital’s 404 beds were full on Wednesday, and 50 children were being treated in the emergency room. In the neonatal intensive care unit, tiny babies slept in cribs crammed into a small room, surrounded by supply cabinets, as clinicians and family members shuffled by. Parents who wanted privacy with their sick newborns were out of luck.

Children’s executives say the expansion project, the largest proposed by a Massachusetts hospital, will change all of this. It will add dozens of beds and eliminate room-sharing, an inconvenience that also puts patients at greater risk of catching infections. In the new space, each patient — even newborns — will have a private room.

“It’s not just adding beds,” chief executive Sandra L. Fenwick said. “It’s adding the right kind of space, the right technology, the right environment.”

In addition to building the tower in Longwood, hospital officials are planning to renovate existing buildings, construct an outpatient building in Brookline, and add inpatient hospital beds to a facility in Waltham.

In total, the project is pegged at $1.5 billion and is scheduled to take five years to complete.

Prouty Garden supporters say the hospital doesn’t have to choose between the garden and the expansion project.

The half-acre garden is the “soul” of the hospital, they say, a place that provides the kind of healing that’s not possible within hospital walls.

Children’s executives don’t buy that description. On a hospital building next to the Prouty Garden, a sign taped to a door says: “The soul of Boston Children’s Hospital is our people and our children.”

“With growth,” the sign reads, “we will have a greater capacity to heal.”

Summary: The hospital says it needs more room to treat sick children. Opponents say want the Prouty Garden preserved.


The people of Bhutan will have to wait for their first chance to vote after astrologers convinced their absolute monarch that the stars were stacked against democracy.

King Jigme Singye Wangchuck has been slowly pulling his isolated mountain state into the modern world and has declared his desire to relinquish some of his powers.

A draft constitution has been drawn up and elections were toÂ have been heldÂ for the country's first parliament.

But royal astrologers believe that the stars will not be favourably placed until 2008 for the country, wedged between India and China, to take the plunge and abandon royal rule.

A palace official, who asked not to be named, said: "The king took their advice very seriously. That's the reason why he has decided to hold the first democratic elections in the kingdom in 2008."

A referendum on the new constitution will now be put to the country's 700,000 people early in 2008, and if it is passed elections will be held before the end of that year.

The draft keeps the king as the head of state, but parliamentÂ - consisting of two houses, a 75-member National Assembly and a 25-member National Council - would have the power to impeach him with a two-thirds majority vote.

In 2001, Wangchuck, who became king in 1972 at the age of 16 after the death of his father, initiated the drafting of a new constitution, a document he made publicÂ last March.Â Â Â Â

In December he announced that he would also hand over the throne to his son, Crown Prince Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, in 2008.

More than 100,000 Bhutanese of Nepali-origin living in refugee camps in eastern Nepal on the border with India have rejected the draft constitution and their leaders have vowed to defend their rights, by force if necessary.

"The king took their [astrologers] advice very seriously. That's the reason why he has decided to hold the first democratic elections in the kingdom in 2008" Â Â Â A palace officialIn the early 1990s, the king stripped hundreds of ethnic Nepalis of their citizenship and threw them out of the country after they complained of racial discrimination and campaigned for democracy.

"The king took their [astrologers] advice very seriously. That's the reason why he has decided to hold the first democratic elections in the kingdom in 2008" Â Â Â A palace official

Â Â Â A palace official

Tens of thousands joined them in exile and have been inÂ refugee camps in forests that are also home to Maoist guerrillas near Nepal's border with India.

The refugees say they were ignored when officials prepared the draft constitution, and are campaigning for their right to return to the country and vote in elections, as well as constitutional protection for their customs and religion.

Bhutan has remained untouched by most modern influences, with a limited number of foreign visitors allowed each year.

Television arrived in 1999 and the internet a year later.

Whether the king will pay them as much attention as he has paid his astrologers remains to be seen, with talks over their fate stalled since 2003.

Summary: The democratic march in the Himalayan <?xml:namespace prefix =


Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris

03/07/2016 AT 07:00 PM EST

has been diagnosed with Lyme disease.

, whom she married in December 2012, announced her tick-borne illness on

Sunday, telling her 2.8 million followers that she recently found out.

"If you have EVER GONE HIKING, please get tested for #LymeDisease. The best lab to do this is called 'Igenex' they are based out of Palo Alto. I was diagnosed a few days ago and have a long road ahead of me," Hefner, 29, captioned a photo of vial of ticks.

The former Playboy playmate of the month also added that she could not recall a specific incident when she was bit by a infected blacklegged tick.

"Supposedly you get it from ticks but I have absolutely no recollection of being bit or having a rash or ANYTHING," Hefner wrote. "Most importantly there are SO MANY of you carrying Lyme that don't even know you have it. Probably because the ticks can be the size of specs."

Though she has a "long road ahead of" her, Hefner is using her platform to educate others.

If you have EVER GONE HIKING, please get tested for #LymeDisease. The best lab to do this is called "Igenex" they are based out of Palo Alto. I was diagnosed a few days ago and have a long road ahead of me. Supposedly you get it from ticks but I have absolutely no recollection of being bit or having a rash or ANYTHING. Most importantly there are SO MANY of you carrying Lyme that don't even know you have it. Probably because the ticks can be the size of specs. I always thought of ticks to be big and noticeable. The symptoms are vast and when it has been left untreated for a long time can turn into MS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Dementia and ALS. Symptoms can range from sore muscles, sore back, sore neck, anxiety, fatigue, heart palpitations, muscle twitches, bladder pain, vision or hearing problems, swollen lymph nodes, flu like symptoms, brain fog, memory problems. Having just one of these could mean you have Lyme. Please please get tested. It is a disease so many people are living with and is becoming an epidemic. I always thought I was a hypochondriac. Doctors told me it was just "stress" or "all in my head" but I finally figured it out and you can too. Lyme is also related to syphilis and can be sexually transmitted and also passed from mother to child during pregnancy. #LymeDisease #lymewarrior please tag some friends to raise awareness for this illness not many people know about

A photo posted by Crystal Hefner (@crystalhefner) on Mar 6, 2016 at 10:01pm PST

Add @crystalhefner wife, wife of @Playboy's @hughhefner to the list of those with #LymeDisease. We wish her the best.

"I always thought of ticks to be big and noticeable," she continued. "The symptoms are vast and when it has been left untreated for a long time can turn into MS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Dementia and ALS."

Adding, "Symptoms can range from sore muscles, sore back, sore neck, anxiety, fatigue, heart palpitations, muscle twitches, bladder pain, vision or hearing problems, swollen lymph nodes, flu like symptoms, brain fog, memory problems. Having just one of these could mean you have Lyme. Please please get tested."

Hefner is the latest celebrity to reveal her Lyme disease diagnosis publicly.

as well as her children

have all shared their stories of battling the disease.

In closing, Hefner concluded her post by urging fans and followers to get tested and understand the symptoms. "It is a disease so many people are living with and is becoming an epidemic. I always thought I was a hypochondriac. Doctors told me it was just 'stress' or 'all in my head' but I finally figured it out and you can too. Lyme is also related to syphilis and can be sexually transmitted and also passed from mother to child during pregnancy. #LymeDisease #lymewarrior."

Summary: "I was diagnosed a few days ago and have a long road ahead of me," Hefner announced on Instagram


04/07/2016 AT 09:10 AM EDT

has returned to London as she and ex-husband

continue to battle over the

Touching down at Heathrow Airport early Wednesday, the 57-year-old pop star donned all black and covered her eyes with a pair of dark, Wayfarer-style sunglasses.

Rocco is living with his father in London – after he reportedly refused to fly back to New York to be with his mother late last year. In March, a New York Supreme Court judge said the teen could continue staying with Ritchie while his parents work to find a solution outside of court.

A U.K. High Court judge ruled last month that the custody case must be determined

The British judge also urged the famous exs to reach an agreement together outside of court. The next hearing is tentatively scheduled in New York for June 1.

Madonna and Guy Ritchie first began

in December, and filed legal cases in both U.K. and U.S. courts.

throughout the ordeal, facing speculation over her physical and emotional health – rumors a source

"She continues to be a pillar of strength even as she has shown a more vulnerable side," the source said. "It's unfair that both men and women feel they need to give their opinions on the kind of parent they 'feel' Madonna should be because she isn't like most parents: Not every parent can work as hard as she does without being put under a microscope, and most parents don't have outrageous stories about them made up by the media on a daily basis."

Summary: Madonna's son Rocco remains in London with his father Guy Ritchie while the former couple tries to reach a custody agreement outside of court


Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose in March, with the Treasury Department revealing for the first time in four decades how much Saudi Arabia owns.

In its latest report, Treasury said Monday that total holdings increased 0.8% to a record $6.29 trillion. The figure climbed even though China, the largest holder of Treasury debt, trimmed its portfolio by 0.6% to $1.24 trillion.

For the first time since 1974, when the government began releasing data on foreign ownership of Treasury securities, the report broke out ownership for specific countries that it had always lumped together such as “oil exporting nations” and “Caribbean banking centers.”

The report showed that Saudi Arabia in March held $116.8 billion in Treasury debt, down 2.5% from February.

A Treasury spokesperson said that the decision to start listing Saudi Arabia’s holdings separately was not linked in any way to recent warnings from the government of Saudi Arabia. Last month Saudi Arabia said that it could begin selling off its U.S. investments if Congress passes a law allowing the country to be held responsible in U.S. courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The break-out of the investments held by Saudi Arabia makes the country the 13th largest foreign holder of Treasury securities. The Cayman Islands, which previously was included in a grouping of Caribbean banking centers, ranks No. 3, behind China and Japan. It held $265 billion in March, up 3.9% from February.

Treasury spokesperson Whitney Smith said de-grouping certain countries is an effort to make the data more useful.

“We concluded that it was consistent with transparency and the law to disclose the data in a disaggregated fashion,” Smith said in a statement.

The new report showed that Japan, the second largest foreign holder of debt, increased its holdings by 0.4% to $1.14 trillion in March.

The $6.29 trillion in total foreign holdings of Treasury debt was a modest 1.9% higher than a year ago.

Of that total, 65% is held by foreign governments, primarily central banks.

The national debt now stands at $19.16 trillion. With the federal budget deficit projected to grow over the next decade, the United States will need to see continued strong foreign demand for Treasury debt to help finance its growing borrowing needs.

Summary: For the first time in more than 40 years


Apple chief Tim Cook met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, concluding a four-day trip to India that could set the stage for Apple’s expansion plans in one of the world’s fastest growing smartphone markets.

Modi and Cook met for an hour in central Delhi and discussed Apple’s plans for its India business, including the possibility of manufacturing and retailing in the country.

Apple APPL is looking to expand its retail presence in India and is pursuing a license to set up its own stores, which could start to open as early as next year.

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Government officials say India is keen to get Apple to start making products in the country in what would be a boost for Modi’s “Make in India” manufacturing push.

“Every aspect of business was discussed. Now it’s for Apple to talk about their plans,” a close aide of Modi said.

Cook’s first official visit to the country comes at a crucial time as Apple looks for new growth markets after posting its first-ever decline in iPhone sales.

More than 100 million smartphones were sold in India last year and sales are expected to grow 25% this year, but Apple only has about a 2% share of the market.

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The company has been pushing the Indian government to allow it to import refurbished phones in the country, but that application was turned down earlier this month.

A second source aware of the meeting said Cook asked Modi to reconsider the company’s plans to import refurbished phones—a strategy seen key for Apple to make affordable iPhones available in a country where most smartphone sell for less than $150.

In an interview with NDTV channel on Friday, Cook said Apple plans to import second hand phones and refurbish them at a facility in India.

Cook spent most of the week meeting heads of India’s largest companies, including telecom operator Bharti Airtel and lender ICICI Bank, but also took out time to visit a temple, dine with Bollywood stars and watch cricket.

India’s Modi Launches $15. Billion Fund for Startups

Apple also announced plans to expand a software development center it recently opened in Hyderabad and launched a program for local developers working on its iOS platform.

Modi and Cook also discussed cyber-security and data encryption, a government statement said.

Apple has been at the centre of a debate on the role technology companies play in protecting data that led to a much-publicised dispute between Apple and the FBI over a phone linked to a shooting in San Bernardino, California.

Summary: India may have rejected Apple's refurbished smartphone bid, but Cook and Modi had plenty to discuss.


When Donald Trump told the Associated Press earlier this week that he’d narrowed his list of potential running mates to “5 or 6,” he refused to reveal who they were, except to say that he wasn’t ruling out New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and that his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was running the VP vetting effort with a group that included former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson and himself.

Now we have more names.

In an interview with Greta van Susteren on Fox News on Tuesday night, he suggested he was considering former Arizona governor Jan Brewer and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin. And now Bloomberg reports that Trump’s campaign has been giving a close look at former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Trump has been asking his advisors about Gingrich during conversations at the Trump Tower in New York, according to Bloomberg.

Rick Tyler, who was an aide to Gingrich for 12 years in Congress and also worked with the former House Speaker during his 2012 presidential bid, told Bloomberg that he was “confident” that the 72-year-old Gingrich was being considered and thought he could act as a kind of senior policy advisor to Trump, in the way that Dick Cheney did with George W. Bush.

While not publicly campaigning for the job, Gingrich has been an outspoken cheerleader for Trump while others—i.e. current House Speaker Paul Ryan—have been less enthusiastic. When asked why he thought Trump would be a good president in an interview with TIME published this week, Gingrich gave this response:

I think he has the potential to be an extraordinarily dynamic president who shakes up a bureaucratic city that badly needs to be shaken up. I think that the bureaucracies in Washington have gotten the attitude that they run the country, not that the country runs them. And I think in a free society, that’s very unhealthy.

He also gave some suggestions as to what he thought Trump should look for in a VP:

I think there are three characteristics: Is it a person who could actually be president if something happened to the president? Are they compatible in their ideas and attitudes, could they work together as a team? And third, do they do at least a little bit to help win the election. I think you think of them in that order and they have to pass each of the three tests.

Gingrich offered some candidates he would eye, with this in mind: Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.); Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa); and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin.

But when he was asked if he would take the job himself, Gingrich got cagey. “I’m not going to get into that. I think that’s very unlikely,” he said. “There are many good potential candidates.”

Still, if Trump does sign up Gingrich, they’ll have at least one thing in common (besides preternaturally buoyant hair): they’re both on their third attempt at marital bliss.

Summary: Newt Gingrich as Dick Cheney II?


Photo: Paul Chinn Paul Chinn, The Chronicle

Pedestrians carry umbrellas on Market Street in light rain in San Francisco, Calif. on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. After a day of record heat, the Bay Area was gearing up for rain this weekend, forecasters said.

Pedestrians carry umbrellas on Market Street in light rain in San Francisco, Calif. on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. After a day of record heat, the Bay Area was gearing up for rain this weekend, forecasters said.

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, April 07, 2016, at 01:00 AM EDT shows an upper level low approaching the Baja Peninsula with a large area of precipitation that is riding northwestern Mexico. This shield of rain will shortly move into southern California and Arizona as this low continues to progress. Mostly clear skies and fair weather are dominating the Pacific Northwest, the Great Basin, and the Intermountain West due to a building high pressure ridge that is firmly in place over these regions. (NOAA/Weather Underground via AP)

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, April 07, 2016, at 01:00 AM EDT shows an upper level low approaching the Baja Peninsula with a large area of precipitation that is riding northwestern Mexico. This

Florencia Guzzetti, visiting from Buenos Aires, lies down on a pier in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Wednesday, April 6, 2016. A handful of spring heat records are expected to be broken on Wednesday but then temperatures will fall and the weekend is forecast to be wet. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Florencia Guzzetti, visiting from Buenos Aires, lies down on a pier in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Wednesday, April 6, 2016. A handful of spring heat records are expected to be broken on

Robert and Christina Langdon brought their sons, twins Killian and Dillon, 2, and Teague, 6, to play in the sand at San Gregorio State Beach in San Gregorio, Calif. on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Predictions of El Nino-driven storms delivering heavy amounts of rain this season failed to live up to expectations.

Robert and Christina Langdon brought their sons, twins Killian and Dillon, 2, and Teague, 6, to play in the sand at San Gregorio State Beach in San Gregorio, Calif. on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Predictions of El

Christina Langdon (right) visits San Gregorio State Beach with her family, including son Dillon, 2, in San Gregorio, Calif. on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Predictions of El Nino-driven storms delivering heavy amounts of rain this season failed to live up to expectations.

Christina Langdon (right) visits San Gregorio State Beach with her family, including son Dillon, 2, in San Gregorio, Calif. on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Predictions of El Nino-driven storms delivering heavy

A woman walks her dog along the shoreline at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, Calif. on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Predictions of El Nino-driven storms delivering heavy amounts of rain this season failed to live up to expectations.

A woman walks her dog along the shoreline at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, Calif. on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Predictions of El Nino-driven storms delivering heavy amounts of rain this season failed to

Rain on the way as Bay Area temps tumble from record highs

After a day of record high heat in the Bay Area, temperatures dropped 20 degrees in parts of the region on Thursday ahead of what’s expected to be a rainy weekend, forecasters said.

In San Francisco, temperatures were expected to reach high 67 degrees on Thursday — a 20 degrees below the high on Wednesday, said Mark Strudley, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Monterey. By early Friday morning, a round of showers is expected to move into the Bay Area and will likely continue through the weekend, according to Strudley.

By the end of the weekend, parts of the region are predicted to get around a quarter of an inch of precipitation after the series of scattered showers, he said.

The record temperatures on Wednesday included the Oakland Airport which reached 82 degrees, eclipsing the record of 80 set in 1962. San Rafael tied its record of 87 degrees.

Areas farther down south from the Bay Area could see thunderstorms during the weekend.

Hamed Aleaziz is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: haleaziz@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @haleaziz

Summary: Rain on the way as Bay Area temps tumble from record highs  After a day of record high heat in the Bay Area, temperatures dropped 20 degrees in parts of the region on Thursday ahead of what’s expected to be a rainy weekend, forecasters said.  By the end of the weekend, parts of the region are predicted to get around a quarter of an inch of precipitation after the series of scattered showers, he said.


David Fynn stars as Brett, a gay bartender in NBC's comedy "Undateable."

Fynn began his training at the Webber Douglas Academy in London. His theater credits include "She Stoops to Conquer" at the National Theatre in London, for which he received an Evening Standard nomination for best newcomer; "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the Donmar Warehouse, for which he received both a Broadway World nomination for best actor in a musical and a WhatsOnStage nomination for best ensemble; "After the Party" in London's West End and "Mojo" for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

In addition to appearing on many of the UK's biggest television comedies including "The Inbetweeners," "Peep Show," and "Life's Too Short," directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, Fynn has recurring roles on "Big Bad World" and "Pete versus Life" with Rafe Spall.

Fynn is also an accomplished dramatic actor, having had roles on dramas such as "Dr. Who," "Sherlock," HBO's "Game of Thrones" and the BBC's "Mayday" and "Spooks."

His film work includes "Look of Love" starring Steve Coogan and directed by Michael Winterbottom, "Leap Year" with Amy Adams and "Deviation." Fynn won the best actor award for the short "Amazing People: The Man with the Wobbly Hand" at both the Margate Comedy Film Festival and the Sitcom Trials in London.

He directed a sellout run of "Thunderer" at the Edinburgh Festival and won the Dark Chat Award for best director.

Summary: Meet David Fynn on NBC.com.


Roger Clemens insists that he trains more vigorously now than he did as a young major leaguer. At least one of his old pitching coaches has a hard time believing it. Bill Fischer recalled one of Clemens' starts in 1989, when he lasted only one-third of an inning, departed the mound in anger and immediately returned to work. "He got his wife out of the stands at Fenway, took a bucket of balls and drove around until he found a city field that was empty," says Fischer, the Red Sox pitching coach from 1985-91. "He brought his spikes, threw 125 balls at the backstop and made her pick them up. I asked him what he was doing. He said he didn't get enough work in the game.

" Clemens, now 36 and a Yankee, has found a way to address that problem. At an age when most successful major league pitchers are in the twilight of their careers and when most power pitchers must learn to adjust their styles, Clemens remains one of the game's hardest throwers - largely, close observers believe - because he trains and prepares for his starts with greater zeal than anyone in the history of the game. "Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of pitchers in the game could not complete his program," says Al Nipper, Clemens' former teammate and another former pitching coach in Boston. "No way. They couldn't keep up with him. He'd kill them.

" Brian McNamee would agree. As the Blue Jays strength and conditioning coach, he worked closely with Clemens last year in Toronto and marveled at the pace the pitcher kept. "He goes about his workouts with the same intensity as he goes about the games," McNamee says. "He does a lot of necessary things a lot of pitchers might be afraid to do, especially younger pitchers. He has those four days (between starts) and he goes at it.

" And on the days that Clemens pitches? "He will do more before he goes out to start warming up," McNamee says, "than some guys do all week.

" Clemens notes proudly that he was "clocked three or four times last year at 100 mph," and scouts say he often throws 96. Addressing his uncanny ability to throw so hard for so many years, Clemens acknowledges that "a lot of it has to do with conditioning. You figure out how to include your legs with your arms to remain a power pitcher.

" Maintaining such power is not nearly as easy as Clemens makes it seem. Few pitchers in history have thrown with exceptional velocity past age 35, as Clemens has. Nolan Ryan did it. Randy Johnson, 13 months younger than Clemens, has done it. Tom Seaver says he did so "to a degree" but he never had more than 200 strikeouts after age 34. Seaver recalls that he began to lose his power in his "mid-30s, right about where Roger is.

" Once able to throw "75 or 80 fastballs a game out of 130 pitches," Seaver says his heat gradually dissipated until, at age 38 or 39, his per game supply of fastballs was down to "10 or 15 ... where I felt I could throw it right past somebody.

" Seaver points to a game he pitched for the White Sox against the Red Sox with Carlton Fisk catching in 1985 as evidence of the concessions he had to make as he got older. He had runners on second and third with one out in one of the late innings, with Mike Easler and Tony Armas due to bat. Seaver threw six straight fastballs, struck out both hitters and escaped the inning. "I walked into the dugout and told Pudge, 'Don't expect that pitch anymore,' " Seaver says. "He asked me where that came from. I said 'I don't have any more. I had a few. I was saving them.

' " Clemens, a teammate of Seaver's in Boston for half the 1986 season, remembers how Seaver pumped up his fastball a few times each game, a concept that still seems foreign to Clemens. Asked if he could feel a difference in his fastball now compared to 10 years ago, the only five-time Cy Young Award winner said, "Not really. When my legs are strong and right, I can get behind a ball and turn it loose.

" How does he do it? Longtime Clemens watchers point to a combination of factors: naturally sound mechanics that minimize strain on his right arm; exceptional lower body strength; good nutritional habits; and the determination to undertake a more difficult training regimen each year. "I think it was nature that made him so good early," Yankees pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre says. "I think it's his work and conditioning that keep him that way.

" Clemens offers the public only a glimpse of his physical regime. He acknowledges that he runs three or three-and-a-half miles three times between his starts, and that he strengthens his right hand by manipulating it in a bucket of rice, just as Steve Carlton once did. Clemens reveals only generalities about the year-round daily workouts he conducts with only a two-week break after the season. "When I was 29 or 30, I waited and I got more and more sore," Clemens says. "I went zero to 80, but it took time to recover.

" By speaking in such broad strokes, Clemens suggests that his conditioning program lacks real form. In fact, he adheres to a detailed routine that makes his workouts as purposeful as his time on the mound - and the results are every bit as impressive. McNamee, a Queens native who has a master's degree in exercise physiology, worked with Clemens last season to update an already rigorous training schedule. Together they created a rotating five-day regimen aimed at building total body strength, but particularly the legs, abdomen, groin and arm. "Four days go very quick between his starts," McNamee says. "... The day off was the day he pitched.

" Throughout Clemens' workouts, John Cougar Mellencamp usually blared in the exercise room. "He's a creature of habit," McNamee says. Though he has refined his workouts in recent years, Clemens' habitual sweat sessions began long ago. Nipper, who joined the Red Sox rotation at almost the same time Clemens did in 1984, recalled that they used to run four or five miles through downtown Boston on days when one of them wasn't preparing to pitch. They likewise ran all the stadium stairs in each ballpark they visited. "His mindset was 'I want to prepare myself to pitch 15 innings every single start,' " Nipper says. Clemens had to rededicate himself to training following a four-year span in Boston from 1993-96, when he was a combined 40-39. Nipper, his pitching coach the last two of those years, recalled that Clemens had "some groin problems and mechanically, he got into a rut.

" "He was trying to protect his groin," Nipper says. "His drop step was different. He wasn't getting back and getting balanced like he had been. His fastball didn't have the juice it had. He had to do something to keep up with the workload, so he got much stronger in his lower half.

" So much stronger, Fischer believes, that Clemens' fastball actually had more oomph the past two years in Toronto than it did during his final four years in Boston. "He said, 'Hell, throwing a fastball is what I do,' " Fischer says. Gordon Lakey, the Phillies' director of major league scouting, has watched Clemens pitch at every level since high school. While serving as a special assistant to Blue Jays GM Gord Ash late in 1996, Lakey recommended that the club offer Clemens the four-year contract he was seeking, in part because of how well he still threw his fastball. Lakey estimated that Clemens threw between 75 and 80% fastballs in his first few major league seasons, along with a decent slider and curveball, and that he threw 65% fastballs the last few seasons, complemented by a devastating forkball that "made hitters look in two planes.

" Perhaps as much as his fastball, Clemens' knowledge of hitters and outstanding command have fueled the career resurrection that resulted in his two Cy Young Awards the past two years. But what Lakey called "his gift of power" continued to set him apart. Where will it end? McNamee suggested that Clemens' unparalleled work ethic could allow him to push beyond commonly accepted limits of physiology for middle-aged men. "I told him I'd like to see him get 300 wins and then become a closer and get 300 saves," McNamee says. "He could do it. But he says, 'I'm a starting pitcher. That's how I'm built.

'" Clemens also is built with a couple of physical flaws that eventually may undermine his work. Lakey acknowledged that Clemens was prone to hamstring and groin problems that someday could cut his power, but added that he did not anticipate Clemens breaking down. Clemens' recent stay on the DL with a strained hamstring - he returned to the lineup yesterday in a 10-2 drubbing of the White Sox in which he set the American League record for consecutive wins with 18 - could be somewhat of an omen. The injury had stopped him from pitching, curtailed his all-important workouts and heightened his irritation. "He enjoys all of it," Fischer says. "If he can't do it all, that's when he'll retire.

" Roger Clemens' durability almost invites scientific study, and he apparently agrees. For more than a decade, Clemens has been keeping careful records about how his body functions. Clemens hopes his journals will benefit someone other than himself. With the help of his sister, Brenda, Clemens said he is attempting to develop a computer program that could improve the way amateur pitchers - from Little League through college - keep track of their physical conditioning. Clemens regularly makes detailed journal entries about his strenuous physical conditioning. He reviews computer files that help him structure his workouts. "I can go back and look at last year before the All-Star break and see that I was feeling weak for two weeks," Clemens says. "I thought my strength was down. I thought my leg strength was down. So I squatted for 10 days. Then I noticed my performance, my leg strength was better. "I review it sometimes weekly, sometimes just once a month. I'll program a certain weight that I know I should be at. I'll watch that, as far as my running program. How I felt when I lifted. How I felt if I benched or did some curls and how it affected my arm. There's all kind of things I can break it down to.

" Clemens said he began keeping a journal in 1988 as an extension of books many pitchers keep on hitters. Ex-Red Sox teammate Dwight Evans encouraged Clemens to think seriously about the impact of nutrition on performance, and Clemens said he "started really monitoring all that I do, everything from how I felt to when I ate.

" LET'S GET PHYSICAL Roger Clemens' workout regimen according to Brian McNamee, the Blue Jays strength and conditioning coach: DAY 1 (following a start): "Navy SEAL drills," McNamee called them. For 35 minutes, he kept Clemens in constant motion, performing cardiovascular drills, upper body, lower body and explosion exercises, with no breaks between. DAY 2: Clemens performed an indoor session, consisting of 25 minutes on an exercise bike, 25 minutes on a treadmill and 400 of what McNamee called "power abs," abdominal exercises that he developed for the pitcher. DAY 3: Clemens began with a three-and-a-half mile run, continued with two sets each of 25 repetitions of side shuffles, power abs, and stair climbers. The workout concluded with 50 line drops, in which Clemens would face McNamee and run backwards until McNamee would drop a ball. Clemens would run forward, pick up the ball, return it and begin again. DAY 4: During batting practice, Clemens ran 15 sprints, followed by 24 hours of what McNamee called "complete shutdown" in advance of his start. DAY 5 (start): In perhaps the most surprising part of his schedule, Clemens undertook a battery of exercises beginning about an hour before a game. At the SkyDome, he would run five to 10 of the stadium ramps and do exercises in a prone position with five or 10-pound dumbbells. Clemens performed resistance exercises with surgical tubing for his pitching arm, shoulder shrugs using 40- or 50-pound weights, five minutes of full-body stretching, more power abs - "to induce fatigue," McNamee said - and concluded by standing before a full-length mirror and going through his delivery five to 10 times.


This story has been updated to add comment from Yelp.

A Yelp employee who wrote a blistering post online about her low pay was fired, and has even got her ex-CEO responding on Twitter.

A customer-service rep named Talia Jane, who worked for the company’s food delivery arm Eat24, wrote an open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelmann on Friday explaining how she could not afford to pay groceries, had stopped using her heater, spent 80% of her income on paying rent in San Francisco, and was “balancing all sorts of debt and trying to pave a life for myself that doesn’t involve crying in the bathtub every week.”

“Your employee for your food delivery app that you spent $300 million to buy can’t afford to buy food. That’s gotta be a little ironic, right?” she added.

Even as she posted her letter online, however, Jane seemed to understand that the repercussions of her post could involve her job.

might lose my job for this so it'd be cool if u shared so i could go out in a blaze of…..people knowing why i got fired?

— Lady Murderface (@itsa_talia) February 20, 2016

Her premonitions proved correct, as shortly after, she was let go by Yelp yelp for what she terms as a violation of their internal “terms of conduct.”

the HR lady & my manager straight up told me that the letter violated Yelp's "Terms of Conduct" and that's why they had to let me go.

— Lady Murderface (@itsa_talia) February 20, 2016

The incident drew a series of responses from Stoppelmann, who addressed her concerns by acknowledging the high cost of living in San Francisco, while rebuffing any allegations he was the one who fired Jane.

1/5 Late last night I read Talia's medium contribution and want to acknowledge her point that the cost of living in SF is far too high.

— Jeremy Stoppelman (@jeremys) February 20, 2016

2/5 I have been focused on this issue, backing anti-NIMBY group SFBARF and speaking out frequently about the need to lower cost of housing.

— Jeremy Stoppelman (@jeremys) February 20, 2016

3/5 I've not been personally involved in Talia being let go and it was not because she posted a Medium letter directed at me.

— Jeremy Stoppelman (@jeremys) February 20, 2016

4/5 Two sides to every HR story so Twitter army please put down the pitchforks. The reality of such a high Bay Area cost of living is…

— Jeremy Stoppelman (@jeremys) February 20, 2016

5/5 entry level jobs migrate to where costs of living are lower. Have already announced we are growing EAT24 support in AZ for this reason.

— Jeremy Stoppelman (@jeremys) February 20, 2016

A Yelp spokesperson told Fortune that the company would not comment on personnel matters. However, the spokesperson did echo both Jane and Stoppelmann’s comments on the standard of living in San Francisco. “We agree with her remarks about the high costs of living in San Francisco, which is why we announced in December that we are expanding our Eat24 customer support team into our Phoenix office where will pay the same wage.”

Summary: Her open letter got her ex-CEO to respond.


Katt Williams says a Georgia shopkeeper caused the fur to fly Monday when he dropped a racial slur during a confrontation that led to the comedian's arrest.

"He used the N-word on the last day of black history month," Williams said in a video interview posted Tuesday on TMZ.com.

The entertainer, whose real name is Micah Williams, was arrested on a battery charge in Georgia on Monday after the staffer at Leslie's Pool Supplies in Gainsville told cops Williams punched him around 11:30 a.m.

Williams, 44, was booked and released in time to make a separate court hearing Tuesday for an unrelated criminal case in southern California.

KATT WILLIAMS ARRESTED AFTER PUNCHING GEORGIA STORE EMPLOYEE

It was outside the Tuesday hearing that Williams said the store employee was to blame.

"He thought that when he was having a conversation with me that I was in his pool store to rob it," Katt told TMZ. "When I put 30 items on the counter, he then thought it was just a ploy to distract him."

Williams claimed he put fifteen $100 bills on the counter in an apparent gesture to prove he didn't need to shoplift, and the store employee allegedly scooped up the cash and put it in his pocket.

When Williams asked for his money back, the unidentified man told him he was new to the job, didn't care about losing it and wanted Williams to leave, the comedian claimed.

"I said, 'I can't get out of the store without my packages or without my money,'" Williams told TMZ. "He said, 'Oh, you can get out the store, or you can go to jail.'"

That's when the employee allegedly used the N-word, Williams claimed.

The interview excerpts posted on TMZ didn't include a denial from Katt that he punched the man, but they elaborated on Williams' decision to go outside and wait for cops while lying on the ground.

"So Katt Williams did what Katt Williams had to do as a black man that is self-employed. And Katt Williams went out to the middle of the street and assumed the position so that the hard-working police officers that ran up on him with nine police cars and guns drawn understood that they weren't dealing with a criminal," Williams said, referring to himself in the third person.

"This is my 19th visit to Atlanta, and I'm not from there. Now Georgia no longer gets the comedy of Katt Williams," he said.

A female employee who answered the phone at the pool supply store Tuesday referred questions to an executive at the company's corporate office in Phoenix.

A message for the executive was not immediately returned Tuesday.

Gainesville police have confirmed Williams was on the ground with his hands behind his back when police arrived.

A store employee told officers that Williams was in the store with two women and threw a pair of goggles during the fight, Sgt. Kevin Holbrook said.

Williams then went behind the counter and punched the employee at least once, the alleged victim told police.

Williams was booked into jail at 1:34 p.m. and faces a misdemeanor battery charge, authorities said.

The stand-up comic has a long history of run-ins with the law, including arrests for inciting a bar fight and leading cops on a bizarre street chase while driving a three-wheel motorcycle.

His Tuesday case in Los Angeles County Superior Court stems from a 2014 fight with a man near LAX Airport.

Williams also is charged alongside co-defendant Suge Knight in a case involving the alleged robbery of a high-end camera from a press photographer in 2014.

He has pleaded not guilty in that felony case.

Summary: Comedian Katt Williams says his arrest for punching a shop employee started when the comedian was called a slur.


The first season of the US TV series The Strain ended with The Master, source of New York’s vampire infection and one of the oldest vampires in existence, escaping our human heroes again. And he did so by scampering across roof-tops in full daylight – something vampire lore says most bloodsuckers can never do. We were all left wondering: what fresh hells, what weird mutations of the vampire rules will season 2 bring?

The series is based on the collaborative novels of screenwriter Chuck Hogan and major horror and science-fiction film director Guillermo del Toro. The Strain does a neat update and twist on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Instead of Count Dracula’s entry via a spectral boat, we get a plane-load of (un)dead plague victims in New York. Instead of Dracula’s lair in Piccadilly, just a stone’s throw from Buckingham Palace, The Master nests in the old tunnels under New York’s Freedom Tower. Instead of Stoker’s vampire hunter Van Helsing, we have the cantankerous Abraham Setrakian, who first encountered The Master in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. And instead of Stoker’s Christian band of brothers who come together to expel the evil from the British Empire, we have a mixed group of antsy New York immigrants – Ukrainians, Jews and Hispanics, men and women.

The Strain is just the latest mutation of the vampire formula established by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which appeared in Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee year of 1897. The first major adaptation was FW Murnau’s expressionist masterpiece, Nosferatu(1922) – Stoker’s widow sued the studio behind the film for breaching copyright. But Dracula isn’t the only source of the vampire myths. The Strain owes much of its power to an even older tradition of vampire stories in the West that stretches back another 150 years.

The word ‘vampyre’ first appeared in English in the London Journalin March 1732. This awkward word had been transported directly from confused reports about a bizarre incident on the far-flung edges of the Hapsburg empire. In Medreyga, a village in rural Hungary, peasants had created a disturbance by demanding the body of their recently deceased neighbour, Arnold Paul, be dug up. It had been a month since his death and burial. They claimed to the local authorities that his unquiet corpse was menacing them and causing local livestock to waste away in the fields at night. The word they used for this ambivalent creature, stuck between life and death, was ‘vampyre’.

On opening the grave, it was alleged that the body of Arnold Paul was witnessed by reliable Hapsburg agents to appear perfectly fresh and undecayed, and also bloated with fresh blood that frothed from the mouth. The peasants pinned the body in the grave with a stake through the heart and then burnt the remains, just to be sure.

A few years later, a Benedictine monk, Augustin Calmet, gathered a lot of similar accounts together in a large tome subtitled Concerning the Vampires of Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. It is from these marginal territories that vampires emerge. Dracula’s castle in Transylvania on the very edge of Europe, was where the light of Christendom flickered feebly against the dark unknown of the Ottoman Empire beyond.

Stories of vampires in the 18th Century functioned largely to mock the superstitions of stupid peasants. This reassured a sophisticated metropolitan culture, who circulated these narratives in their new-fangled newspapers and magazines, that London, Paris or Vienna had overcome the tyranny of Medieval beliefs. The cities were full of rational, enlightened citizens who no longer believed such things.

Voltaire thought the silly fashion for these uncanny stories was over. How wrong he was

In Paris, the rational philosopher Voltaire began his entry on vampires in his 1762 Philosophical Dictionary: “What? Is it in our 18th Century that vampires still exist?” He confidently predicted that although Western Europe “had been infected with vampires for five or six years” in these sensational accounts, “there are now no more.” The silly fashion for entertaining with these uncanny stories was over. How wrong he was.

The peasant vampire of Eastern European folklore was a ponderous corpse that disturbed the peace but was relatively easy to destroy. The seductive, corrupting aristocratic vampire arrived in 1819 with a short story by William Polidori published with much sensation in the London press. Lord Ruthven is the title character of The Vampyre, a bloated, lustful beast who preys on young women, particularly terrifying because he does so in the most exclusive salons of society. The vampire has moved from the folkloric margins of the peasantry to fuse with the melodramatic image of the aristocratic libertine.

The added spice was that William Polidori had been briefly appointed as personal doctor to the most notorious aristocrat in England, Lord Byron. The legendary poet had been hounded out of England for his scandalous sex life. During that exile, Polidori had been present at the famous evening at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in 1816 when Byron and his guests Percy and Mary Shelley told ghost stories to each other. The literary vampire was born alongside Baron Frankenstein’s monster. Soon after this occasion, Byron summarily fired his doctor.

The vampire as a louche devil who corrupts through sex and money as much as through his bite

There is more than a dash of Byron in Lord Ruthven. Some gossip-mongers even assumed that The Vampyre, which appeared anonymously at first, was either a portrait of Byron or an actual confession by the debauched lord. If Polidori had wanted revenge on his boss, this rather backfired. The story only increased Byron’s notoriety and sales. The Vampyre was reprinted and dramatized widely across Europe, but often without Polidori being credited. The doctor died soon afterwards, a failed writer.

The vampire as a louche devil who corrupts through sex and money as much as through his bite has never quite gone away. It was this vision that inspired a long-running 1840s serial, Varney the Vampire, or The Feast of Blood, in which the genre was twisted around to include debauched aristocratic women who bathed in the blood of virgin girls to keep an eternal youth. The most famous literary version of this was Sheridan Le Fanu’s feverish short story Carmilla from 1872, the narrative that launched a thousand scurrilous lesbian vampire fantasies. Le Fanu was also a newspaper editor who gave Bram Stoker his first writing job. The first version of Draculawas set in Styria in Austria, where Le Fanu’s Carmilla had taken place.

The Strain shows that the vampire haunts the world’s centres of power. A hundred years ago it was imperial London: now it is the financial and political powerhouse, New York, where The Master’s invasion is aided by the Stoneheart Corporation, run by Wall Street execs seeking eternal life. Almost as soon as the vampyre was named in print in English, it was put into service as an allegory for the ‘blood-suckers’ of bankers and usurers in the City of London. The Strain again borrows from tradition.

The show is also clearly related to the ‘zombie apocalypse’ genre, the first season showing the slow beginnings of a disease outbreak that is a scientific, viral rendering of the old supernatural infection. In the first season, we watched New York decline steadily into chaos and riot, the undead massing in the sewers and killing openly on the streets. In a country that currently simmers with racial tension and fears the consequences of growing economic inequality, it is clear the makers of The Strain trade on this apocalyptic anxiety. If there is a worry that the series sometimes uses imagery of invading vermin that comes from a tradition of demonising the immigrant poor, the story is also working to assemble a multicultural band of heroes who will restore a vision of America as a melting pot. This vision, of a group of disparate individuals banding together to take down an implacable foe and succeeding, is also embedded in two hundred years of vampire stories. Perhaps that’s why vampire tales endure – in the eerie shadows where bloodsuckers creep there is a vision of doom, but also of hope as well.

Roger Luckhurst is a professor at Birkbeck College in London. He has edited the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Dracula and his new book, Zombies: A Cultural History, is out in August 2015.

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Summary: US TV series The Strain features an epidemic of the supernatural beings that have captivated audiences since Dracula. But vampires long predate Bram Stoker, writes Roger Luckhurst.


's son Joseph Baena is moppin' up the highway now ... because he just got his driver's license!

, rolled up to the DMV in Bakersfield yesterday in the brand spankin' new Jeep Rubicon Arnold gave him for XMAS.

Joseph passed muster and drove out a full-fledged driver.

On the ride home ... mom rode shotgun.

Finally ... something to do in Bakersfield.

Summary: Arnold Schwarzenegger's son Joseph Baena is moppin' up the highway now ... because he just got his driver's license!16-year old Joseph Baena and mom,…


Dear Donald Trump and Ted Cruz: Your wives are not political props.

This all started Tuesday as voters in Utah and Arizona were going to the polls, when Trump tweeted, then erased, and then tweeted again a missile against Cruz: “Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”

Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2016

Trump was referring to a Facebook ad of a risqué shot of a nude Melania Trump lying on some furs that was featured years ago in GQ,complete with a tagline: “Meet Melania Trump. Your next First Lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.” The ad, run by an outside group backing Cruz, was clearly meant to target Mormon voters in Utah leery of Trump’s three marriages, his most recent to supermodel Melania, 26 years his junior.

Cruz won Utah with 69% of the vote; Trump came in third with 14% after Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 16% — which is perhaps why on Wednesday Trump retweeted a supporter’s tweet which showed a snarling Heidi Cruz’s face next to a gorgeous shot of Melania with this tag line: “No need to ‘Spill the beans,’ the images are worth a thousand words.”

Cruz defended his wife on Twitter and at a press conference called Trump a “sniveling coward” for attacking women. “Donald does seem to have an issue with women. Donald doesn’t like strong women,” Cruz said. “Real men don’t try to bully women. That’s not an action of strength. That’s an action of weakness. It’s an action of fear. It’s an action of a small and petty man who is intimidated by strong women.” Though, notably. When repeatedly pressed, Cruz refused to rule out supporting Trump, who has a lead of 274 pledged delegates, if he becomes the eventual nominee.

The latest exchange is just another example of Trump’s small hands tizzy, says Kelly Dittmar, a scholar at Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics. “Instead of responding to the attack on Melania from the anti-Trump PAC by calling it out for the misogyny it represents, Trump played into the same type of objectification of women by endorsing a response that placed his wife’s — and Heidi Cruz’s — value in appearance alone,” Dittmar said. “This back-and-forth is yet another display of both men seeking to reinforce their masculinity in different ways, whether by — in Trump’s case — competing to be the candidate with the hottest wife, or — in Cruz’s case — by embodying the role of protector and defender of his family.”

Indeed, Cruz — who notably did not call for the Melania ad to be taken down — is no stranger to using his wife as a political prop. When he first announced his candidacy for president, he spent more time talking about Heidi’s baking talents than he did her highly successful Goldman Sachs banking career.

Cruz, seeking to burnish his social conservative credentials, buries his wife’s success behind her role of mother and supporter, says Michelle Swers, a professor at Georgetown University who studies women in politics. “In this anti-Wall Street climate her association with Goldman Sachs will be questioned,” Swers says. “As more women are in the workforce the careers of potential First Ladies will be scrutinized.”

A March Reuters/Ipsos poll found that half of all women had a “very unfavorable” view of Trump, up from 40% in a similar survey conducted in October. And a December Quinnipiac poll found both Trump and Cruz underwater with women in favorable/unfavorable standings.

A Republican presidential candidate has not won the women’s vote since Ronald Reagan. George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush only won the White House by mitigating the loss of women, who turn out on average 10 percent more than male voters, to the single digits. That gap would likely prove more difficult to close if Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee fielded by either party.

Especially if the Republican debate on women is limited to who’s prettier and how good a baker one’s wife is.

This article was originally published on Time.com.

Summary: The latest chapter in the GOP macho race.


Ex-Playboy Playmate Holly Madison is opening her doors and inviting you into her home -- if you've got enough dough to cover the rent.

TMZ has learned the centerfold is renting out her Beachwood Canyon home in the Hollywood Hills for $7,500 per month. The 4 bedroom, 3 bath pad has awesome city and canyon views ... and guest quarters under the main residence.

Holly decided to rent -- through realtor Jon Grauman at The Agency -- since she and her husband, Electric Daisy Carnival founder Pasquale Rotella ... are now living in schmancy Hancock Park.

Summary: Ex-Playboy Playmate Holly Madison is opening her doors and inviting you into her home -- if you've got enough dough to cover the…


Froome, who succeeded Wiggins as winner of the yellow jersey in 2013, did not receive a share of the 2012 champion's £1 million bonus payment from Team Sky, according to passages in David Walsh's new book, Inside Team Sky, as reported in The Times. While the discussion of bonuses remains largely within the team, some riders reportedly received €30,000.

The 12 months between Wiggins' and Froome's victories were defined by the power struggle for the leadership of Team Sky at this year's Tour de France, a battle that ended only when Wiggins was forced to withdraw from the race through injury after pulling out of the Giro d'Italia.

In an extract from Inside Team Sky, Brailsford discussed his "goal harmony" strategy for ensuring that Wiggins would ride in support of Froome in the 2013 race. Banking on Wiggins' professionalism, he expected the defending champion to agree in principle to serve as Froome's domestique.

"Then I would say, 'OK, if you don't follow team orders we will agree to fine you three or four months' wages,'" Brailsford told Walsh. "This will be a significant amount of money, maybe as much as a few hundred thousand, and I believed it would concentrate Brad's mind. I was then going to turn to Chris and say: 'Right, Chris, if Brad goes against team orders, I'm going to give you that money.'"

The meeting never took place, and the matter of the bonus money was not addressed until the World Championships in Florence, where the British road race team anchored by Froome, and featuring Wiggins, retired in ignominy.

"That was a matter for Bradley and Chris and it is now sorted," Bralisford said of the bonus payment, although Froome's manager and fiancée Michelle Cound believes issues between the pair are far from resolved.

"I don't believe Brad ever intended to pay Chris the bonus," she told The Times. "I think the reason he did is because he knew it was coming out in the book.

"Brad paying Chris really doesn't mean that much. It's about a lot more than the sum of money."

Summary: Chris Froome did not receive Tour de France bonus payments from 2012 winner   Bradley Wiggins until Team Sky intervened


It is not a hovercraft, a helicopter backpack or a teleportation pod.

The mystery transportation device being developed by the award-winning inventor Dean Kamen — the subject of continuous fevered speculation since provocative clues and predictions surfaced in media reports last January — is not hydrogen- powered, a favored theory in Internet discussions. Nor does it run on a superefficient Stirling engine (yet).

But if the public's collective yearning for Jetsonian travel technology must remain unrequited this week, at least the speculators will have their curiosity satisfied.

Mr. Kamen plans to demonstrate today a two-wheeled battery-powered device designed for a single standing rider. Its chief novelty lies in the uncanny effect, produced by a finely tuned gyroscopic balancing mechanism, of intuiting where its rider wants to go — and going there.

The device, the Segway Human Transporter, better known by its former code- name, Ginger, can go up to 12 miles an hour and has no brakes. Its speed and direction are controlled solely by the rider's shifting weight and a manual turning mechanism on one of the handlebars.

"You might ask, `How does it work?' " said Mr. Kamen, mounting one of the devices last week on a test track at his company's headquarters in Manchester, N.H. "Think forward," he said, inclining his head ever so slightly and zooming toward a reporter. "Think back," he continued, effortlessly reversing course.

Tilt sensors monitor the rider's center of gravity more than 100 times a second, signaling to the electric motor and wheels which way to turn and how fast.

Mr. Kamen says the much anticipated unveiling comes now because he has had time to file for crucial patents on the technology and is ready to test it publicly.

The United States Postal Service, the National Park Service and the City of Atlanta plan to begin limited field tests of the devices early next year. Amazon.com ( news/quote ) and several companies that make parts for the Segway, including GE Plastics and Michelin North America, plan to use the devices to try to save money by reducing the time it takes employees to move around corporate campuses and large warehouses.

At an average speed of 8 miles an hour, or three times walking pace, Mr. Kamen says the Segway can go 15 miles on a six- hour charge, for less than a dime's worth of electricity from a standard wall socket.

It is easy to see how the transporter tickled technology industry luminaries like Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer ( news/quote ), and Jeff Bezos, chairman of Amazon.com, when Mr. Kamen showed them an early model of the Segway. John Doerr, a partner in the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has invested $38 million in Mr. Kamen's efforts, the largest single investment in the firm's history.

The names and positive pronouncements of all three — Mr. Jobs reportedly said the device could be as significant as the development of the personal computer — were invoked in a supposedly secret proposal for a book to be written by Mr. Kamen and Steve Kemper, a journalist. But excerpts of the proposal, which won a $250,000 contract from Harvard Business School Press, were reported in January by Inside .com, which is now defunct.

The leaked proposal, which referred to the Segway cryptically as "It," set off a tidal wave of conjecture that led to several hundred media reports, tens of thousands of Internet postings and the question in the minds of some observers as to whether Mr. Kamen had set out a deliberate strategy to whip up public interest in his creation.

Mr. Kamen says he was mortified by the leak and that his reason for maintaining his silence in the face of so much speculation was to protect his company's intellectual property as it filed hundreds of patent claims. He suggests the level of interest is a sign of the actual hunger for a transportation choice that fills the niche between walking and driving.

The recipient last year of the National Medal of Technology, awarded by President Bill Clinton, Mr. Kamen, 49, has made millions of dollars creating medical devices including the first insulin pump and the first portable kidney dialysis machine.

Typically, Mr. Kamen sticks to research and development with his company, DEKA Research and Development, and licenses his inventions for others to market. But for the Segway, which grew out of his work on a motorized wheelchair that can climb stairs (code-named Fred), Mr. Kamen decided in early 2000 to form his own company to produce and market it.

A college dropout, Mr. Kamen has collected a total of about $90 million for the start-up, Segway, with Credit Suisse First Boston Private Equity and Kleiner Perkins as the lead investors. He retains majority control of the company, whose headquarters are in a complex of former mills about 10 minutes from his hexagonal-shaped home, which has a machine shop in the basement and two helicopters in the garage.

The decision to start the company was based largely on his personal attachment to the idea, Mr. Kamen said. Not one to shrink from sweeping statements, he argues that the Segway could cause cities to be redesigned, help wean the world from oil dependence, compress time and space for pedestrians and raise productivity for corporations and government agencies.

"Nothing has happened at the level of the pedestrian to improve transportation since we invented the sneaker," Mr. Kamen said. "We think if you could integrate the Segway technology into cities it would be a universal win for everybody."

That is a big if. The Segway is meant to be ridden on sidewalks, and many municipalities ban motorized devices on sidewalks. The machines weigh 65 pounds, and although they may be able to zip in and out of elevators and offices, going up and down stairs is a different matter. The device can be put in "follow mode," which helps propel it up and down, but there is still lifting to be done. Each one comes with a computer encoded on-off key protected by 64- bit software encryption to deter thieves or joyriders. But locking the machine to a parking meter or lamppost is far more awkward than doing the same with a bicycle.

Then there is the price. When the first models are expected to be available to consumers in about a year, they will cost about $3,000.

"I don't want to sound like a Ginger-slammer," said Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif., "but it's about $2,000 too expensive and 40 pounds too heavy."

Even if some consumers are taken with the devices, skeptics say the social resistance to them may pose an even greater problem.

"The big question is: Will pedestrians consider them socially acceptable on the sidewalk?" said Sheila Lynch, executive director of the Northeast Advanced Vehicle Consortium, a nonprofit organization that sponsors alternative transportation projects. "I've seen a lot of promising transportation innovations, and a lot of them aren't around anymore. I thought electric bikes would be a no- brainer, and they're not doing so well."

Even though scooters are much cheaper and faster, Mr. Kamen says that the Segway, which riders stand on facing forward, feet side by side, will have much broader appeal than scooters, which require an ability to balance and brave street traffic.

But Gary Bridge, Segway's senior vice president for marketing, is acutely aware of the need to develop a code of "Segway etiquette" before introducing the device to consumers. When Mr. Kamen invited a reporter to play on the Segway, Mr. Bridge reminded him, "We don't play, we ride."

"The last thing we want is to be seen as the snowboard," Mr. Bridge added.

To avoid such associations, the first field tests of the devices are set to take place over the next few months with government agencies and corporations. The United States Postal Service, for instance, plans to try 20 units on mail routes in Concorde, N.H., and Fort Myers, Fla., starting in January. The agency hopes the devices can reduce reliance on trucks and enable mail carriers to cover more ground.

And the City of Atlanta plans to use several dozen starting in February in an effort to reduce emissions and traffic congestion in its downtown area, where many employees drive three or four miles to work.

"The idea of being able to extend somebody's willingness to be on foot from a couple of blocks to four miles makes a lot of sense for us," said Michael Dobbins, commissioner of planning development and neighborhood conservation for the City of Atlanta, who wrote Mr. Kamen a letter after reading a newspaper article about "It" earlier this year.

Ultimately, Mr. Dobbins said, other commuters may want to use the device in conjunction with public transportation.

As for whether the Segway can ever hope to live up to the hype of Ginger and It, innovation experts say it is too soon to tell.

"This seems like a machine that wants to serve humans, and maybe that's his real breakthrough," said Arthur Molella, director of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. "But in terms of a conceptual breakthrough, we're going to see it as a breakthrough only if a whole lot of people use it."

t is not a hovercraft, a helicopter backpack or a teleportation pod.

The mystery transportation device being developed by the award-winning inventor Dean Kamen — the subject of continuous fevered speculation since provocative clues and predictions surfaced in media reports last January — is not hydrogen- powered, a favored theory in Internet discussions. Nor does it run on a superefficient Stirling engine (yet).

But if the public's collective yearning for Jetsonian travel technology must remain unrequited this week, at least the speculators will have their curiosity satisfied.

Mr. Kamen plans to demonstrate today a two-wheeled battery-powered device designed for a single standing rider. Its chief novelty lies in the uncanny effect, produced by a finely tuned gyroscopic balancing mechanism, of intuiting where its rider wants to go — and going there.

The device, the Segway Human Transporter, better known by its former code- name, Ginger, can go up to 12 miles an hour and has no brakes. Its speed and direction are controlled solely by the rider's shifting weight and a manual turning mechanism on one of the handlebars.

"You might ask, `How does it work?' " said Mr. Kamen, mounting one of the devices last week on a test track at his company's headquarters in Manchester, N.H. "Think forward," he said, inclining his head ever so slightly and zooming toward a reporter. "Think back," he continued, effortlessly reversing course.

Tilt sensors monitor the rider's center of gravity more than 100 times a second, signaling to the electric motor and wheels which way to turn and how fast.

Mr. Kamen says the much anticipated unveiling comes now because he has had time to file for crucial patents on the technology and is ready to test it publicly.

The United States Postal Service, the National Park Service and the City of Atlanta plan to begin limited field tests of the devices early next year. Amazon.com ( news/quote ) and several companies that make parts for the Segway, including GE Plastics and Michelin North America, plan to use the devices to try to save money by reducing the time it takes employees to move around corporate campuses and large warehouses.

At an average speed of 8 miles an hour, or three times walking pace, Mr. Kamen says the Segway can go 15 miles on a six- hour charge, for less than a dime's worth of electricity from a standard wall socket.

It is easy to see how the transporter tickled technology industry luminaries like Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer ( news/quote ), and Jeff Bezos, chairman of Amazon.com, when Mr. Kamen showed them an early model of the Segway. John Doerr, a partner in the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has invested $38 million in Mr. Kamen's efforts, the largest single investment in the firm's history.

The names and positive pronouncements of all three — Mr. Jobs reportedly said the device could be as significant as the development of the personal computer — were invoked in a supposedly secret proposal for a book to be written by Mr. Kamen and Steve Kemper, a journalist. But excerpts of the proposal, which won a $250,000 contract from Harvard Business School Press, were reported in January by Inside .com, which is now defunct.

The leaked proposal, which referred to the Segway cryptically as "It," set off a tidal wave of conjecture that led to several hundred media reports, tens of thousands of Internet postings and the question in the minds of some observers as to whether Mr. Kamen had set out a deliberate strategy to whip up public interest in his creation.

Mr. Kamen says he was mortified by the leak and that his reason for maintaining his silence in the face of so much speculation was to protect his company's intellectual property as it filed hundreds of patent claims. He suggests the level of interest is a sign of the actual hunger for a transportation choice that fills the niche between walking and driving.

The recipient last year of the National Medal of Technology, awarded by President Bill Clinton, Mr. Kamen, 49, has made millions of dollars creating medical devices including the first insulin pump and the first portable kidney dialysis machine.

Typically, Mr. Kamen sticks to research and development with his company, DEKA Research and Development, and licenses his inventions for others to market. But for the Segway, which grew out of his work on a motorized wheelchair that can climb stairs (code-named Fred), Mr. Kamen decided in early 2000 to form his own company to produce and market it.

A college dropout, Mr. Kamen has collected a total of about $90 million for the start-up, Segway, with Credit Suisse First Boston Private Equity and Kleiner Perkins as the lead investors. He retains majority control of the company, whose headquarters are in a complex of former mills about 10 minutes from his hexagonal-shaped home, which has a machine shop in the basement and two helicopters in the garage.

The decision to start the company was based largely on his personal attachment to the idea, Mr. Kamen said. Not one to shrink from sweeping statements, he argues that the Segway could cause cities to be redesigned, help wean the world from oil dependence, compress time and space for pedestrians and raise productivity for corporations and government agencies.

"Nothing has happened at the level of the pedestrian to improve transportation since we invented the sneaker," Mr. Kamen said. "We think if you could integrate the Segway technology into cities it would be a universal win for everybody."

That is a big if. The Segway is meant to be ridden on sidewalks, and many municipalities ban motorized devices on sidewalks. The machines weigh 65 pounds, and although they may be able to zip in and out of elevators and offices, going up and down stairs is a different matter. The device can be put in "follow mode," which helps propel it up and down, but there is still lifting to be done. Each one comes with a computer encoded on-off key protected by 64- bit software encryption to deter thieves or joyriders. But locking the machine to a parking meter or lamppost is far more awkward than doing the same with a bicycle.

Then there is the price. When the first models are expected to be available to consumers in about a year, they will cost about $3,000.

"I don't want to sound like a Ginger-slammer," said Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif., "but it's about $2,000 too expensive and 40 pounds too heavy."

Even if some consumers are taken with the devices, skeptics say the social resistance to them may pose an even greater problem.

"The big question is: Will pedestrians consider them socially acceptable on the sidewalk?" said Sheila Lynch, executive director of the Northeast Advanced Vehicle Consortium, a nonprofit organization that sponsors alternative transportation projects. "I've seen a lot of promising transportation innovations, and a lot of them aren't around anymore. I thought electric bikes would be a no- brainer, and they're not doing so well."

Even though scooters are much cheaper and faster, Mr. Kamen says that the Segway, which riders stand on facing forward, feet side by side, will have much broader appeal than scooters, which require an ability to balance and brave street traffic.

But Gary Bridge, Segway's senior vice president for marketing, is acutely aware of the need to develop a code of "Segway etiquette" before introducing the device to consumers. When Mr. Kamen invited a reporter to play on the Segway, Mr. Bridge reminded him, "We don't play, we ride."

"The last thing we want is to be seen as the snowboard," Mr. Bridge added.

To avoid such associations, the first field tests of the devices are set to take place over the next few months with government agencies and corporations. The United States Postal Service, for instance, plans to try 20 units on mail routes in Concorde, N.H., and Fort Myers, Fla., starting in January. The agency hopes the devices can reduce reliance on trucks and enable mail carriers to cover more ground.

And the City of Atlanta plans to use several dozen starting in February in an effort to reduce emissions and traffic congestion in its downtown area, where many employees drive three or four miles to work.

"The idea of being able to extend somebody's willingness to be on foot from a couple of blocks to four miles makes a lot of sense for us," said Michael Dobbins, commissioner of planning development and neighborhood conservation for the City of Atlanta, who wrote Mr. Kamen a letter after reading a newspaper article about "It" earlier this year.

Ultimately, Mr. Dobbins said, other commuters may want to use the device in conjunction with public transportation.

As for whether the Segway can ever hope to live up to the hype of Ginger and It, innovation experts say it is too soon to tell.

"This seems like a machine that wants to serve humans, and maybe that's his real breakthrough," said Arthur Molella, director of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. "But in terms of a conceptual breakthrough, we're going to see it as a breakthrough only if a whole lot of people use it."

Summary: The award-winning inventor Dean Kamen demonstrated his hotly anticipated mystery creation: a two-wheeled, battery powered device designed for a single standing rider.


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Taylor Swift couldn't help but get gushy over her main squeeze.

On Sunday at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Sunday, Swifty scooped up the Best Tour Award for her record-breaking tour for 1989 and as she thanked all her fans, she made sure to thank her No. 1 fan, boyfriend Calvin Harris.

"I think my favorite part was the camaraderie of all the artists," she said in her acceptance speech. "I'm so thankful to everyone who donated their time to surprise my crowds."

Taylor Swift gushes over boyfriend Calvin Harris at iHeartRadio Music Awards

Taylor Swift, left, hugs Calvin Harris, after she was announced as the winner of the female artist of the year award during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on Sunday, April 3, 2016, in Inglewood, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzellol/Invision/AP)

Taylor Swift accepts the award for female artist of the year during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on Sunday, April 3, 2016, in Inglewood, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzellol/Invision/AP)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Taylor Swift accepts the award for 'Female Artist of the Year,' onstage during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artists Justin Timberlake (L) and Taylor Swift attend the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 2, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Singer Taylor Swift accepts the Best Tour award onstage at the iHeartRadio Music Awards which broadcasted live on TBS, TNT, AND TRUTV from The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Taylor Swift (L) winner of the Best Tour award and Justin Timberlake onstage during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artists Taylor Swift (L) and Selena Gomez hug during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Taylor Swift (L) winner of the Best Tour award and Justin Timberlake onstage during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Taylor Swift walks onstage to accept the award for Female Artist of the Year during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: (L-R) Actress/singer Serayah, singer Taylor Swift and actress/singer Selena Gomez attend the iHeartRadio Music Awards which broadcasted live on TBS, TNT, AND TRUTV from The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Taylor Swift attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

Singer-Songwriter Taylor Swift arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala (Met Gala) to celebrate the opening of "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" in the Manhattan borough of New York, May 2, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

She then thanked Calvin Harris, who won the award for dance artist of the year earlier in the evening. "I had the most amazing person to come home to when the spotlight went out and the crowds were all gone, so I want to thank my boyfriend Adam," she said, referring to Harris' real name, Adam Wiles.

While Swift got gushy about Calvin, Justin Timberlake got gushy about Swift. The "Suit and Tie" singer introduced Swift's award and made sure to recognize her tour's incredible achievements.

"Some people are out here to build walls, not naming any names," Timberlake joked to the crowd as he talked about Swift, eliciting groans from the audience. "Oh, shut up. You're not even old enough to vote," the singer jokes before adding, "Taylor chooses to bring down walls."

Swift also snagged the award for Female Artist of the Year while Harris snagged Dance Artist of the Year.

Check out all the red carpet arrivals:

Taylor Swift gushes over boyfriend Calvin Harris at iHeartRadio Music Awards

Me-ow! Taylor Swift, 26, channeled catwoman in a super skintight black sequined jumpsuit with a thick accent belt and matching platform booties.

(Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

Bombshell babe! Selena Gomez, 23, knocked it out of the park in a sexy red jumpsuit with a buckled cutout at the waist that flaunted her fit physique. Simple sandals and a black wrap choker added a touch of retro flair to her stunning ensemble.

(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

Zendaya, 19, stunned in a tailor red and black suit with tapered pants and an oversized jacket -- and nothing but a sheer bra top underneath. Edgy styling, including a blunt-cut bob, sleek pointy booties and rings on every finger, completed her knockout ensemble.

(Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

🎶Jason Derulo 🎶 switched it up in a simple black outfit topped with a sleek red jacket with a black zipper and metallic embellishments at the shoulders.

(Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

Welcome to the '60s! Keke Palmer, 22, looked straight off the "Hairspray" set (you know the scene!) in a flirty baby blue sequined halter dress and metallic heels.

(Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Rising stars Jack Lawless, JinJoo Lee, Joe Jonas and Cole Whittle of DNCE rocked their typically funky ensembles to the show. Lawless donned a red sweatshirt with cutout details, Lee donned a two-piece leopard set, Jonas opted for a striped tee and leather moto jacket, and Whittle went with a funky one-piece zip-up.

(Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Big Sean, 28, looked like he rolled out of his leather armchair, put out his cigar before heading over to the iHeartRadio Music Awards. The rapper rocked a very robe-like plaid knee-length jacket layered over a denim jacket an slouchy pants.

(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

Demi Lovato, 23, donned black slacks with an offbeat, black and white asymetrical jacket. A sleek bob and dramatic makeup completed her look.

(Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

Justin Bieber went the casual route in distressed denim, a Rangers jersey and sneakers. Also, we hope those dreads aren't permanent.

Kat Graham, 26, was part-flamenco dancer, part-matador in an off-the-shoudler ruffled top and ultra-flared black pants. Pin curls added to her Spanish-inspired getup.

(Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

Comedian Iliza Shlesinger, 33, rocked a catwoman-approved leather legging and revealing, caged tank top. Leather booties completed her superhero-esque ensemble.

(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

Singer Kayla Brianna rocked an ultra-daring gold moto jacket and nothing underneath. She paired the sexy top with a pair of black gauchos and lace-up heels.

Wiz Khalifa, 28, was fashionably relaxed in a soft, unbuttoned pink short-sleeved buttondown, distressed black denim and black loafers.

(Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Model Karrueche Tran, 27, channeled serious '90s vibes in a red leather minidress with pom-pom shoulders paired with a very 2000s poof hairstyle.

(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

"Team" rapper Iggy Azalea, 25, donned a retro-looking blue pleated pant and funky one-shouldered crop top.

Julianne Hough, 27, rocked an adorable '60s-esque white minidress with a fun cutout neckline. A glam updo and thick liner completed her mod look.

Singer Cody Simpson, 19, looked effortlessly cool in a white tee, denim shirt and leather pants.

"Waves" singer Mr. Probz, 31, looked comfortable in slouchy sweats and a soft, oversized blazer. A top hat was a nice touch!

(Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Wowzas! Former "Dancing with the Stars" pro Cheryl Burke, 31, flaunted her fab physique in a plunging white jumpsuit.

(Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Boy Epic attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Meghan Trainor (R) and Gary Trainor attend the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Actress Laura Marano attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Singer Nick Fradiani attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: (L-R) Drummer Mike Wengren, singer David Draiman guitarist Dan Donegan of Disturbed attend the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Radio personality Elvis Duran attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: TV personality Renee Bargh attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: (L-R) Musicians Tomas Slemenson, Matt Rey, Juan Pablo Casilla, Hector Rodriguez and Ismael Cano of the band 'LOS 5' attend the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Hozier attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

Sabrina Carpenter attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: TV personality Kelly Osbourne attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Actress Olivia Holt attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Dancer Sharna Burgess attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Singer Jhene Aiko attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist That Poppy attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Radio personalities Bobby Bones (L) and Amy Brown attend the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: TV personality Sibley Scoles attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Actress Meagan Good attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Musician Nile Rodgers attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: TV personality Mercedes Javid attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Chris Brown attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: DJ Caroline D'Amore attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: recording artist Diplo attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Musician Pete Wentz attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Omarion attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Rapper 2 Chainz attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Internet personality Bethany Mota attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Dancer Derek Hough attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

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INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Chris Daughtry attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artist Fetty Wap poses in the press room during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Actress/singer Serayah attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Summary: The '1989' singer just couldn't help but recognize the special person she gets to come home to after she's out of the spotlight.


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- Illinois State Police are issuing a deadly warning: drug dealers are now counterfeiting

. The fake pills, sold on the street, contain a mixture that could be deadly.

says Xanax is one of the most abused prescription medicines by people with addictions.

Sheriff Rohlfing says, "We want the public to be aware. We want everyone to know the current dangers of this drug trend."

A photo comparison from the

shows just how talented drug dealers are. Real Xanax is on the left. The counterfeit is on the right.

"These counterfeit pills are created and made with a pill press so it actually says Xanax on it, just like the prescription medication."

The sherriff explains that the fake pills contain a lethal dose of fentanyl, which is much stronger than morphine.

Pharmacists like Steve Wightman says it's sad that medicine created to help people is being turned into look-alike killer.

Wightman says, "You got all this good medicine and people of any age are trying to make money. They're trying to...I think it's ridiculous."

Police say the fake "Xanax" has been found in 21 states so far, but not Missouri or Illinois. Law enforcement officials feel it's only a matter of time before it does.

Summary: Police are issuing a deadly warning: drug dealers are now counterfeiting Xanax, a popular treatment for people who have anxiety.