Emily Ratajkowski posts t*****s photos on Instagram - UPI.com

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CANCUN, Mexico, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Emily Ratajkowski posted t*****s photos from her tropical getaway this week.

The 25-year-old model and actress shared the series of revealing posts on Instagram while vacationing with friends in Cancun, Mexico.

Ratajkowski posted one picture of herself and a friend standing t*****s in the water. It received 262,000 likes. She also shared a completely n**e photo of herself that received 534,000 likes.

The "Blurred Lines" music video star previously went t*****s in a selfie with Kim Kardashian in March. She and the 36-year-old reality star shared the picture after Kardashian faced backlash for her n**e selfie.

"We are more than just our bodies, but that doesn"t mean we have to be shamed for them or our sexuality. #liberated @kimkardashian," Ratajkowski wrote at the time.

Ratajkowski voiced similar sentiments about women"s sexuality in September after Tim Gunn called her Harper"s Bazaar Icons party dress "appallingly vulgar." The form-fitting dress featured a plunging neckline and cutouts with a sheer overlay.

"Western men in 2016: Want to ban women abroad from voluntarily covering themselves at the beach," the star tweeted, referencing the burkini controversy. "Then want women to cover up their "vulgar" bodies at home."

"Who controls women"s bodies in 2016? It"s 2016. Why keep trying to dictate what women can wear?" she added.

Ratajkowski came to fame after appearing in "Blurred Lines" with Robin Thicke, and has since starred in the movie We Are Your Friends. She is slated for the film Cruise and In Darkness with Natalie Dormer.

Source: http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2016/11/17/Emily-Ratajkowski-posts-t*****s-photos-on-Instagram/3881479403020/

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Cubs slugger Kris Bryant captures NL MVP award

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Chicago Cubs slugger Kris Bryant has been voted the National League MVP, capping off a historic season for the 24-year-old star.

Bryant received 29 of a possible 30 first-place votes.

• After making history with the Cubs this season, Kris Bryant added another honor by winning the National League MVP award.

• Angels outfielder Mike Trout was named the American League MVP, his second career MVP award by the age of 25.

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Washington Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy was the runner-up. Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager, who was the unanimous winner of the NL Rookie of the Year award on Monday, finished third.

"This year has certainly been one of the best years of my life," said Bryant, who is set to get married in January. "I mean, winning a World Series, now this. It"s just icing on the cake."

Voting by the Baseball Writers Association of America was completed by the start of the playoffs. The BBWAA has voted for the award since 1931.

Bryant was arguably the best offensive player on the best team in the game and showed exceptional defensive versatility by playing in both the infield and the outfield.

Kris Bryant is the first player ever to win college player of the year, minor league player of the year, rookie of the year and MVP in successive seasons.Photo by Rob Foldy/Getty Images

He hit .292 with 39 homers and 102 RBIs in just his second year in the majors, helping the Cubs to their first World Series title since 1908.

Bryant led the National League with a 7.67 WAR and was the only NL player in the top 10 in that category. He also ranked third in the NL in home runs (39), fourth in OPS (.939) and sixth in RBIs (102).

The 2015 NL Rookie of the Year, Bryant also led the league in runs scored with 121.

"Kris is just an impressive young man in every aspect,"" Cubs owner Tom Ricketts said. "[He] is very mature, professional, light-hearted, but serious at the same time. He"s just kind of a dream player for any organization.""

Bryant becomes the Cubs" first MVP since Sammy Sosa won the award in 1998. The once-forlorn franchise enjoyed its best run in decades and also had two of the season"s top MVP candidates, with Bryant"s teammate, first baseman Anthony Rizzo, finishing fourth in the voting.

"If it wasn"t for Anthony and his protection and guidance, I wouldn"t have won this award," Bryant said. "I mean, he texted me, and I said the same thing to him. I said, "If it wasn"t for you, I wouldn"t have been able to do this.""

Bryant joins Dustin Pedroia (2007-08), Ryan Howard (2005-06) and Cal Ripken (1982-83) as the only players to win Rookie of the Year and MVP honors in consecutive seasons. Ichiro Suzuki (2001) and Fred Lynn (1975) are the only players to win the awards in the same year.

He was the unanimous NL Rookie of the Year after he hit .275 with 26 homers and 99 RBIs last season.

Information from The Associated Press and ESPN"s Jesse Rogers contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18074910/chicago-cubs-slugger-kris-bryant-wins-national-league-most-valuable-player-award

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U of L makes flip book to promote Jackson

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Video | Flip through Lamar Jackson highlight flipbook Steve Jones, Courier-Journal

U of L distributed this Lamar Jackson flip book, which shows his hurdle play against Syracuse when you flip through the pages quickly, on Saturday night before the Wake Forest game. Nov. 12, 2016.(Photo: Steve Jones, Courier-Journal)

The Louisville football team has produced a book that sharp brings Lamar Jackson"s best video highlight of the season to life on printed pages.

In the press box before U of L"s game against Wake Forest Saturday night, every media seat had a copy of a mini flipbook - "Lamar Jackson, A Storybook Season." When you flip through the pages quickly, it shows a frame-by-frame replay of Jackson"s famous hurdle over a Syracuse defender en route to a touchdown run.

The flipbook is apparently U of L"s latest piece of promotional material for Jackson"s Heisman candidacy. Jackson is a heavy favorite to win the award.

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Source: http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2016/11/12/louisville-football-makes-lamar-jackson-flipbook/93730498/

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Stephen Hawking gives the world 1000 more years to support humans

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One of the world"s most famous scientists, Stephen Hawking, says our planet has an expiration date . Don"t freak out too much, though. It"s probably not going to affect you. Hawking said in a lecture at Oxford University he doubts humanity will last for another 1,000 years unless we can move on and inhabit Mars or another planet. SEE MORE: Scientists Really Want To Smash A Spacecraft Into An Asteroid The famed physicist said dwindling resources on our big blue planet mean we humans will eventually have to find another home. Hawking added that threats like nuclear war, climate change or artificial intelligence run amok a la "Terminator" could make humanity"s time on Earth even shorter. Fortunately, NASA"s been scanning the stars for a suitable replacement planet, and it"s found a few thousand potential candidates beyond our solar system. SEE MORE: If You Want To Live On Mars, Be Prepared To Build Your Own Society But until we have the technology to get people out that far, we"ll have to settle for our nearest not-quite-habitable neighbor, Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk hopes humans will arrive on the red planet by 2025 . Trending stories at Newsy.com Origami Might Actually Help Save Elephants Surgeon General Urges Public To See Addiction As A Disease When Animals Die In Masses, It"s Freaky But Not Unnatural

Source: http://www.nbc26.com/news/national/end-of-the-world-stephen-hawking-thinks-he-knows-when-it-is-coming

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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper not sticking around to serve in Trump administration

US intelligence director James Clapper resigns

Martin Mattshakreports:

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said today that he turned in his letter of resignation to President Barack Obama the night before and will not stay on through the presidential transition.

Clapper made the revelation during his opening statement in a rare open hearing of the House Intelligence Committee after the panel"s ranking Democrat, Adam Schiff, said he had heard rumors that the spy chief who took on the role in 2010 might stay on into the Trump administration.

So, guys we cant stand are resigning so that guys who scare the s**t out of us can take over.

Clapper recently was interviewed byWired:

Rather than worry whether his spies have gone too far, Clapper worries that leaders in Washington are ill-equipped to tackle the multiplying, metastasizing set of threats that face America. His annual appearances on Capitol Hillfilled with discussions about ISIS, cyberwar, North Koreas nuclear program, and new Russian and Chinese aggressionhave been so routinely pessimistic that he refers to his yearly global threat assessment as the Litany of Doom. Unpredictable instability has been a constant for this administration and will be, he says, for the next one too.

But in mere weeks, when a new presidential administration takes office, all those issues will be someone elses problem. For Clapper, the transition cant come soon enough. He has spent much of this year literally counting down the days he has left. Some mornings, when he briefs the commander in chief, known as Intelligence Customer Number One, President Barack Obama will ask him what the current tally is and then offer Clapper a fist bump.

Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/17/1600819/-Director-of-National-Intelligence-James-Clapper-resigns

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See Metallica"s Tribute to Lemmy Kilmister in "Murder One" Video Animation follows Lemmy from Liverpool until he ...

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Metallica titled "Murder One" in honor of late Motrhead rocker Lemmy Kilmister. "Murder One" was Lemmy"s nickname for his amp, and several Motrhead song titles also appear in the lyrics. The band enlisted animator Robert Valley (Gorillaz,Tron: Uprising series) to illustrate the clip. The video sets up Lemmy as the iconic rocker, an independent spirit steeped in the genre"s history.

The clip opens in 1975. "The members of the band Hawkwind drive off, leaving Lemmy stranded at the Canadian border. In Lemmy"s own words, he wasn"t kicked out for doing drugs, but for doing the wrong kind of drugs." Soon the action rewinds to Liverpool in 1962, "the birthplace of rock and roll." It follows Lemmy as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix and then getting dumped from his band Hawkwind, a crucial point that leads him to form his own group.

That group, Motrhead, was an important inspiration for Metallica. James Hetfield spoke about his admiration for Lemmy in an interview with Rolling Stone earlier this year. "He helped us a lot. He was unafraid. And he was a character. And he was himself He did his own thing to the last breath. No matter who you are, how could you not be inspired by that?"

Metallica released music videos for each track from their upcoming LP, Hardwired to Self-Destruct, starting Wednesday afternoon. The album, Metallica"s 10th, is out November 18th. The band will mark the release with a "Blackened Friday" event a twist on Record Store Day"s Black Friday at hundreds of independent record stores across the U.S. Fans participating in the midnight sale will be eligible to win items like limited edition vinyl slip mats and posters; the grand prize winner will receive the new album in a variety of formats, including the deluxe box set and a test pressing of the record.

In August, drummer Lars Ulrich spoke to Rolling Stone about Hardwired, detailing the album"s "simpler" songs. "We introduce a mood and we stick to it, rather than songs we"ve done where one riff happens and we go over here and then over there and it becomes a journey through all these different soundscapes," he said. "The songs are more linear. And by "less frenetic," I mean there are certainly less starts and stops in the songs. It cruises along a little bit more than the last record."

Go behind the scenes of Metallica"s raging "Moth Into Flame" video.

Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-metallicas-tribute-to-lemmy-kilmister-in-murder-one-clip-w450906

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MotorCity Casino Hotel Proudly Welcomes Faith Evans with Special Guest Ginuwine

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MotorCity Casino Hotel is proud to welcome Faith Evans with special guest Ginuwine to Sound Board on Friday, January 13 at 8:00 p.m.

Faith Evans is a multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning recording artist, songwriter, arranger, and record producer as well as a New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, and television producer.

Evans has a music career spanning two decades during which she released eight studio albums with over 18 million albums sold and more than 30 singles. She has performed on 20+ soundtracks, has had many guest appearances, and is a seven-time Grammy Award nominee; she won Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1998 for "I"ll Be Missing You," an homage to her late husband and hip-hop legend Notorious B.I.G.

Ginuwine is a singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He was the leader of the popular 90"s R&B group Jodeci before he debuted his solo album, Ginuwine: The Bachelor in 1996. The single, "Pony" peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was used in the film Wild Hogs, in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, and was featured the film Magic Mike.

Tickets ($65, $52 & $48) go on-sale Thursday, December 1, 2016 via Ticketmaster. To purchase tickets, please call Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available through the Sound Board Box Office Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and on show days. All events are ages 21 and older with valid photo I.D.

SOUND BOARD, an intimate live performance venue is located at MotorCity Casino Hotel. The venue features four bars and several private suites that are available to create an unforgettable live entertainment event. Free and convenient valet and self-parking are available.

Visit http://www.soundboarddetroit.com/ for more information about tickets, hotel packages, and Sound Board. Get in touch with us at 866-STAY-MCC or info@soundboarddetroit.com.

Source: http://www.broadwayworld.com/detroit/article/MotorCity-Casino-Hotel-Proudly-Welcomes-Faith-Evans-with-Special-Guest-Ginuwine-20161116

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