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The company received an "€œF" rating from the Better Business Bureau on Thursday, the lowest possible rating given by the organization. Customers still feel misinformed about how they are charged for their rides, according to complaints at the bureau'€™s website, and say they are not able to receive adequate customer service when they try to complain about their fares.

“We know nothing about what the hearing process is going to be, the right to call witnesses, if there’s going to be witnesses called or if it’s going to be this third party interviewing all the people,” Clune said to USA Today. “We just have no details of what this is going to look like.” Clune said the university going with a third party is a “highly unusual process,” but it does address “some concerns” about the school’s ability to effectively and fairly come to a decision amid months of intense media scrutiny. Winston, who led FSU to an undefeated season and national championship last season, was never charged with a crime when a state investigation into the matter ended in late 2013. The No. 1 Seminoles are 5-0 in 2014 and will play Syracuse on the road Saturday.

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If you're gonna trip and fall on your back, best to do it when the quarterback through a hiiiiiigh-arcing lob of a pass:

That's Tech's Jakeem Grant, and that is aaaaawesome.

Flashy NYC lawyer now focus of rape investigation WVAH (Eds: APNewsNow. Will be updated. With AP Photos.) By JENNIFER PELTZ and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press. NEW YORK (AP) -- He's been an inescapable and expensive adversary of the New York Police Department for years, the publicity-loving ... and more »

Andreas Kolbe (2591067) writes For more than six years, Wikipedia named an innocent man as a key culprit in the 1978/79 Boston College point shaving scandal. The name Joe Streater was inserted into Wikipedia by an anonymous user in August 2008. The unsourced insertion was never challenged or deleted, and over time, Streater became widely associated with the scandal through newspaper and TV reports as well as countless blogs and fan sites, all of which directly or indirectly copied this spurious fact from Wikipedia. Yet research shows that Streater, whose present whereabouts are unknown, did not even play in the 1978/79 season. Before August 2008, his name was never mentioned in connection with the scandal. As journalists have less and less time for in-depth research, more and more of them seem to be relying on Wikipedia instead, and the online encyclopedia is increasingly becoming a vector for the spread of spurious information.

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Diagram in the form of a Sri Yantra of the Third Temple, prophesied by Ezekiel, which the Knights Templar wanted to build, 1922

Gustave Doré, Ezekiel’s vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, 1866

A Kegerator is sometimes used in a Man cave, or more rarely, a woman cave.

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If you look closely at the title, you can see Merida hidden in the letter B and Elinor hidden in the letter E.

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Last night Brianna Wu and her husband were forced to leave her home in response to a series of death threats — making her the third female developer in the past two months to be forced to deal with credible threats against her life.

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Marko is a barebones Markdown enhanced editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. It fully supports CriticMarkup syntax for things like highlights, comments and corrections. I also really like that it automatically escapes special characters as you type. It takes some getting acquainted with the functionality but as a free basic editor, it's pretty nice work.

An anonymous reader writes Buried toward the end of the must-watch keynote by Oculus VR's Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, was the announcement of a new research division within Oculus which Abrash says is the "first complete, well funded VR research team in close to 20 years." He says that their mission is to advance VR and that the research division will publish its findings and also work with university researchers. The company is now hiring "first-rate programmers, hardware engineers, and researchers of many sorts, including optics, displays, computer vision and tracking, user experience, audio, haptics, and perceptual psychology," to be part of Oculus Research.

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Gay rights groups are cautiously cheering a shift in tone from the Catholic Church toward homosexuals, encouraged that Pope Francis' famous "Who am I to judge?" position has filtered down to bishops debating family issues at a Vatican meeting this week. There is no discussion that church doctrine on homosexuality will change or that the Vatican will soon endorse gay marriage or even gay unions. It will not, as the Vatican's top canon lawyer made clear Thursday. But for the first time, a Vatican meeting is discussing gay and lesbian issues and how to provide better spiritual care to Catholic homosexuals. Day after day, bishops have spoken of the need to change the church's language about gays from words of moral condemnation and judgment to words of welcome and respect.

Fugitive US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, who was granted asylum by Moscow after revealing the extent of US government surveillance, has been joined by his American girlfriend in Russia, a documentary reveals.

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This  sick looking chair  made by  painter, sculptor, and woodcarver Vyacheslav Pakhomov. If the translation on his website is correct, it does seem to be available for purchase for the relatively modest sum of 230000 Russian Rubles, which translates to about $5,730 USD. Awesome!

New Comic Details the life of Facebook cofounder Sheryl Sanberg. via huffingtonpost

The life of billionaire Facebook executive and “Lean In” author Sheryl Sandberg has been distilled into a 32-page comic book set for release this week.

“Female Force: Sheryl Sandberg” will be available in print and digital versions, according to publisher Bluewater Production.

The publishing company’s “Female Force” line of biography-based comics has also spotlighted Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Melinda Gates, Martha Stewart and Madonna.

“Sheryl Sandberg is a hero to many women,” Bluewater said in a post about the comic at its website. “So becoming a comic-book superhero was the next logical step.”

Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg was the hero of a Bluewater comic book released about four years ago.

The Sandberg comic sets out to show “behind-the-scenes machinations” that resulted in Sandberg becoming a force for empowering business women, according to Bluewater publisher Darren Davis.

Art in the comic book is the work of Angel Bernuye, according to Bluewater.

“I found it quite a challenge, as it was necessary to distill her life to date into one comic,” Sandberg comic author Michael Frizell said in a release.

“Sheryl Sandberg’s accomplishments and sage advice could fill several issues.”

The 45-year-old former Google executive was catapulted onto the billionaire’s list by her stake in California-based Facebook, which saw its shares close at $76.80 on the Nasdaq exchange on Monday.

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The legendary Loukanikos, known for his fearless interventions during clashes with riot police in Athens between 2010-’12, has died at the age of 10.

Louki had retired from rioting in 2012 following a spell of ill-health. He was taken in by a loving family in whose presence he passed away today. Rest in peace, canine comrade!

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A party invitation last month from a white fraternity at Wake Forest University in which guests were allegedly encouraged to come dressed as black people has created discord on the campus, deepening frustration among some students and staff of color who see a pattern of hostility and unequal treatment.

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Due to the rise of the real-world terrorist organization, FX's animated spy comedy will write out the name 'ISIS.'

A man in Ankeny, Iowa was pulled over for not having his headlights on, but after the cop notices that he has a "Frisbee golf" bag in the car, he attempts to get the driver to admit he has weed on him using every single bullshit trick he knows.

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Police is distancing itself from the team after allegations that one of its officers became inappropriately involved with Ray McDonald's domestic abuse arrest.

The San Jose Police Department has suspended all off-duty security work with the San Francisco 49ers amid a growing controversy involving one of its officers and his involvement in the Aug. 31 domestic violence arrest of linebacker Ray McDonald, according to a report by the San Jose Mercury News.

The department currently has 17 officers employed as off-duty security personnel, and has taken criticism for becoming too connected to the team to effectively carry out the investigation.

It was recently revealed that Sgt. Sean Pritchard, who moonlighted for the 49ers' security detail, attended a party at the McDonald residence earlier in the night of McDonald's arrest, that he was reportedly called back to the scene by McDonald and that he was on location, in uniform before police arrived.

Sources told the San Jose Mercury News that Pritchard's involvement in the case stalled the investigation and was part of the reason it took a month to be presented to the District Attorney's Office. The case remains under review and no charges have been filed.

McDonald was arrested at his home after police responded to a domestic abuse call and found visible injuries to his pregnant fiancee.

Police also visited the residence twice in May, though no charges were filed in either call.