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The lone gunman who opened fire at a packed Louisiana movie theater had a history of "extreme erratic behavior."

Turns out you're not the only one letting a friend log into your Netflix account every once in a while. In fact, if you don't, you're in the minority.

Erica Schenk appears on the August issue of Women’s Running.

This article originally appeared on MIMI.
By Jessie Militare

Fitness magazines tend to perpetuate a thin, toned ideal on their covers and on their pages. But this minority body type doesn’t represent the thousands of women who read these publications. Women’s Running magazine is working to change that standard. The publication put plus-size model, Erica Jean Schenk, on its August cover, and the 18 year old looks great.

 

 

Schenk has been a runner for 10 years, and proves that there is more than one type of “fit” body. The teen also enjoys fast-paced swimming, volleyball, and barefoot beach runs. She told People that she wasn’t originally assigned to the cover, but rather an in-book feature about athletic brands that are broadening their size range. The cover was a welcome surprise.

 

 

“Honestly, I was astonished,” Schenk told People. “My family is overwhelmingly proud.”

People are praising the cover on Twitter and Instagram, and are happy to see a model that looks more like the average woman in such a visible place.

 

 

“This cover proves anyone can run,” Schenk says. “Don’t be afraid to be curvy and do what you love. You are not alone.”

I hope other pubs follow suit.

HOBOKEN, NJ—In a concerted effort to eliminate any possibility of perceived resentment or antagonism, local account manager Jessica Koerper reportedly cycled through a variety of non-threatening voice inflections in her head Friday before vocalizing a concern to her manager. “‘Why don’t we move this to next week?’—shoot, that’s too aggressive. ‘If we move this to next week, would that be okay?’—I guess that’s better,” Koerper reportedly thought to herself as she ran through more than a dozen combinations of intonations, vocal pitches, syntactical changes, and patterns of stressed words in order to avoid, as much as possible, giving her boss the impression that she’s actively working to undermine his authority and role within the company. “Maybe I’ll start off with the word ‘Hi,’ but that’s always tricky, because if it’s too casual he might think I don’t take his ...

Years ago, a friend introduced me to someone who asked what I did for a living. “I work on an online video series,” I said. It was hard work, it required lots of planning, researching and interviewing, and it was how I paid the bills. My friend chimed in, “She’s a vlogger,” then giggled. I didn’t quite understand what she meant, but I felt diminished.

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Ok, so narrowing down all of the beautifully shot movies in the world to a list of just 10 is absurd, but to their credit, the gang at Cinefix manage to mention more than 50 or 60 movies in their top 10 review. If you've only seen even a few of these, you're doing well.

Manhattan, Citizen Kane, The Fall, 2001, Hero, The Tree of Life. Damn.

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Some residents in Farmersville, Texas, are outraged over a plan to build a Muslim cemetery in their town. CNN's Ed Lavandera has more.

Seven years into his battle with cancer, Stuart Chapin is faced with a stark choice: saving his house or his life.

A newly-released voicemail from Sandra Bland shows a woman who was angry and baffled by her incarceration, but not suicidal, family and friends are telling authorities. [ more › ]

When looking for an ice cream topping, dessert lovers might notice that caramel and butterscotch syrups look and taste pretty similar.

The confectionaries are both made with melted sugar, but they use different ingredients. Caramel is a mix of white granulated sugar, heavy whipping cream, butter, and a dash of vanilla. Butterscotch, on the other hand, is made with brown sugar instead.

Butterscotch originally was just a hard candy. The suffix "scotch" is not related to alcohol, but to the method of cutting. Hard candy is difficult to break into clean pieces, so the candy is "scotched" (scored) to make it easy to cut later.

As for toffee, it has the same ingredients as butterscotch but is cooked longer. Toffee is cooked until the hard-crack stage, meaning there is a 99 percent sugar concentration.

Look: We want badly to tell you that yes, alcohol is clean. But it isn’t. It isn’t exactly dirty (though maybe it is a little dirty when we’re talking frozen daiquiris on Bourbon Street), but it can’t be considered clean. (Go here to catch up on what we mean by clean eating.)

One of our core principles to clean eating is to make sure you’re drinking enough water and are properly hydrated, and alcohol sort of defeats this. Plus, don’t forget the empty calories. That doesn’t mean alcohol can’t be a part of an overall clean approach to eating, however. It just means it needs to be enjoyed in moderation and that you can make smarter choices in the spectrum: Wine would be on the cleaner end of the clean eating scale versus something like, say, beer or a cocktail. You also know pretty much what you’re getting in a glass of wine from a calorie and ingredient standpoint compared to a beer, which can range all over the place calorically and isn’t required to disclose its calorie count on the label.

So, no, alcohol isn’t clean. But you can make smarter, smaller pours and still enjoy it as part of a healthful lifestyle. Cheers to that!

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“Vocal fry” among women has been a hot topic the past few years, even getting its own feature film mention with the movie In a World . It’s an especially hot topic in the public radio world, as a voice is all that listeners know their hosts by. There’s no face to judge, no reporter to tell she should change her hairstyle. It’s just what’s coming out of the speakers, and when listeners don’t like it, they don’t like it, okay?!

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It’s a normal part of human life to wonder about whether or not eating an excess of condiments could be lethal—specifically about the amount of ketchup it would take to not only disfigure you but take you to the big tomato patch in the sky. Well, your nightly wondering is over, and we’ve got an answer.

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If you’ve ever calculated how much weight you’ll lose by cutting out a certain number of calories a day, you know the most famous equation in dieting: 1 pound of fat = 3,500 calories. Too bad that equation is wrong.

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   Confession: I never watched Sharknado 2, so I’m obviously unable to watch this because I simply won’t be able to follow along.  theHowever, this screening looked like a total late ’90s hoot, given that all manner of random people are in it — and yet, all my favorites from the Read More ...

Zoë Kravitz is allegedly dating George Lewis Jr, the proprietor of the band Twin Shadow. Since their supposed union, as immutably declared by a couple of Instagram posts, the tabloids have been going bonkers asking whether or not we agree that George looks like YOU KNOW WHO....

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When you’re following a clean eating diet, eating out at restaurants can be challenging, to say the least. Whether you’re traveling or meeting friends for dinner, here are three tips for eating cleaner while dining out.

1. Study the menu ahead of time. Before I step foot in the door of a restaurant, I always try to check out the menu online ahead of time. If the full menu isn’t posted on their website, I check the restaurant’s Facebook or Twitter accounts for daily specials. Have a plan ahead of time, especially if you have special orders or questions about the menu. Avoid pasta, and look for dishes that are inherently wholesome, such as grilled seafood, veggie-packed omelets (sans cheese) or other egg-based dishes, and main dish salads. Here’s a guide on ordering clean at various types of restaurants, from fast casual to fast food burger joints. If you can’t find a clean entrée on the menu, order a couple sides (roasted veggies, side salad with vinaigrette, fresh fruit, maybe a whole grain?) and a cleaner appetizer, tapas style.

2. Choose the right restaurant. Seek out locally-owned restaurants that focus on fresh, local ingredients whenever possible. Ask the staff questions about ingredients used and what exactly is in a dish. Or, try one of these top 10 chain restaurants for clean eating.

3. Don’t stress. Aim to eat cleaner while dining out. Not every meal will be perfectly clean everyday, and that is OK. Do your best and make your next meal as clean as possible.

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What do you do when you want Jamaican beef patties (and you want them now), but you don't want to bake them? Make a mashup by turning them into tacos with a bright, fruity slaw. Read More

Sending the implicit message that minor league baseball is no place for grown men sadly trading on teenage glories, Pennsylvania’s State College Spikes made national news Monday when it issued a statement apologizing for an appearance by Corey Feldman at Sunday night’s game. Feldman, whose presence normally requires a $250 fee up front or being a girl in your underwear, had graciously waived those prerequisites in order to sing with his band of “Corey’s Angels” after the Spikes left the field. And it had all the makings of a classic American summer night: the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, and The World’s First All-Blonde Lingerie Model Female Band, standing in the vicinity of Corey Feldman while he performed. And perform he did, cavorting with his scantily clad women and delivering Michael Jackson-inspired dance moves, and generally proving that he was, indeed, Corey ...

Last night, Syfy premiered the third entry in the Sharknado franchise (yep, it’s now a bona fide franchise), aptly titled Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! It was patriotic and bloody, about 90 mildly fun minutes that included shark-related weather phenomena, gruesome deaths (and births), chainsaws (obviously), and its most implausible ending yet — which is certainly saying something — complete with audience #hashtag participation to set up the fourth movie. The flying sharks were the stars of the night, but a close second were all the celebrities giddily shilling themselves for a paycheck. Here are the 12 weirdest celebrity roles and cameos in Sharknado 3. 

Chris Jericho (Ride Operator) 

Lest you think I’d be blinded by my love for all WWE superstars, and especially Chris Jericho, let me be the first to say that he’s actually a pretty bad actor in this movie (and he’s usually not awful), with an barely-there stint as a ride operator who gets a gross death because he just can’t remember a lost phone.

Lou Ferrigno (Agent Banner)

In a delightfully cheesy movie full of delightfully cheesy lines, Ferrigno, best known for playing The Hulk, saying, “Don’t make me angry” is positively groan-worthy.

Mark Cuban (President of the United States)

Mark Cuban is actually kinda perfect for Sharknado 3 — this is a man who makes each of his lines a straight-faced declaration (“This is for America, baby!”), while donning multiple guns, watching a shark literally blow up above him, or dramatically diving out of a window. If there was a spinoff of just Cuban and Ziering doing tame B-movie stunts, I’d watch it.

Ann Coulter (Vice President of the United States)

OK, so she’s not exactly Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep, but Coulter is as acceptable an actress as you need in a movie like this. Her VP is also as expected — “I feel for the sharks, but they’re wrecking our schools, our hospitals, our roads…” — and Coulter is game for all the silliness, such as using the George Washington presidential portrait as a surfboard to surf down a staircase full of sharks alongside Mark McGrath.

Alexis Ohanian (Himself)

Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, plays himself because even more than sharks eating people, Sharknado 3 is about the Internet eating itself.

Jerry Springer (Manic Tourist)

My only gripe with Springer’s (oddly) much-hyped cameo is that it wasn’t long enough, though he certainly had one of the funniest deaths.

Kathie Lee and Hoda (themselves)

The women spend their first appearance on screen drinking wine, which is perhaps the only realistic thing in the entire movie. Later on, they smash those bottles to take on some sharks.

Penn and Teller (NASA Lieutenant Colonel Stylo and Major Caissier)

Why include two of the world’s most famous illusionists in a quick, unnecessary scene in which they are patrons at a diner chatting with Fin’s father? Well, why not?

David Hasselhoff (Gil)

Hasselhoff has a relatively significant role in Sharknado 3 as Fin’s father Gil, who was once in the NASA astronaut program and helps Fin lead a mission into space to, uh, destroy the sharks? Listen, the specifics in Sharknado 3 aren’t that important, but what is important is that Gil becomes yet another self-sacrificing character.

George R. R. Martin (Himself)

Sure, his very quick appearance as a theatergoer is silly, but he gets what’s coming to him after all the deaths he’s responsible for writing in Game of Thrones.

A bit of an annual tradition, Sonic will be celebrating National Hot Dog Day this Thursday, July 23, 2015 by offering both Chili Cheese as well as All-American hot dogs for $1 a piece.

The deal is good all day at participating Sonic restaurants and does not include footlong versions (i.e. you can only get the regular 6" versions for $1).

Sonic's Chili Cheese Coney comes topped with chili and shredded cheddar cheese, while the All-American Dog is topped with ketchup, yellow mustard, relish, and chopped onions. Both hot dogs are normally about $2.

Experts say there is almost no way that 2015 isn't going to be the hottest year on record.

When the summer heat is out of control and amazing produce is flooding the market, sometimes all we want are smart, easy ideas for how to make the most of it without breaking a sweat. Here, we make an incredibly delicious summer squash salad with fennel and dill that is way more than the sum of its parts. Read More

Recently, clean eating diets have become something of a hot trend for health-conscious consumers. This concept may seem confusing, so we’ve cleared the air by giving you Cooking Light‘s take on “clean eating.” It may also seem difficult at first, but with our step-by-step guide you will be able to transform any recipe into a clean recipe. Once you’ve made the transition and changes, our favorite pins will help clean your diet one plate at a time for a better and healthier life.

Donald Trump hits back at GOP presidential candidates while speaking in South Carolina.