Hilarious CCTV footage has emerged from China of a scooter crashing into a car when a pillion rider tried to enact the classic "I'm Flying!" pose from Titanic. In the footage, captured on a security camera in Guizhou Province earlier this month, the female passenger can be seen stretching her arms out on the unsteady scooter before the collision. According to local reports, there were three people on the scooter - a male driver and two female passengers - who are alleged to have been drinking heavily. They escaped serious injuries with only a few grazes.
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Saturday, April 25, 2015
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Ex-NBA player who made $60 million explains what really happens to your money when you sign an 8-figure contract
(Getty Images)Josh Childress, a former NBA player who has made more than $60 million in his career after graduating from Stanford, is now playing professionally in Australia.
In a recent interview with Grit Media, Childress was asked how professional athletes go broke.
Even though he's making less money now than he did when he played in the NBA, Childress says he has been able to avoid the financial problems that some other athletes have faced.
Childress, who was the sixth pick of the 2004 NBA Draft and signed a four-year rookie contract worth $11.7 million, says the first mistake athletes make is overestimating how much money they have.
"The first mistake is, people say, 'Okay, I've got $11 million,'" Childress said. "You've got five [million dollars after taxes] over four years. So that million-dollar house that you thought you had $11 million, that you had $10 million more, that house then becomes more expensive. Most guys buy their mother a house or a car or something. They buy themselves a car. You've got a 2-to-4% agent fee. You got the NBA escrow. So that check gets eaten up."
Childress says that another big factor is the influence of veteran players who make a lot more money.
"Some of my veterans spent a little more than others," Childress explained. "If those are the guys taking you under their wing, that's what you get used to. So that's how you think it has to be and that's how you think the life is and you get caught up in that and you end up spending way more than you should."
Childress says he did fall into a similar pattern in his career, but was able to keep his spending in check.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
5 things to know about Tax Day: For most, it's not that bad
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the deadline for filing income tax returns, a day long associated with the dread of rushing to fill out complicated forms and, perhaps, making a payment to Uncle Sam.
Five things to know about Tax Day:But for most, it's not that bad. Aside from the complicated forms, tax season generates $300 billion in tax refunds each year, a significant boost to the U.S. economy.
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MAJORITY OF TAXPAYERS GET REFUNDS
The IRS has received more than 99 million tax returns as of April 3, and about 78 percent of them have qualified for refunds. Average refund: $2,815.
The IRS expects to process 150 million returns by the end of the tax season. So far, more than 90 percent have been filed online.
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CHANCES OF GETTING AUDITED SLIM
Last year, the IRS conducted the fewest number of tax audits in a decade, and the number could be even lower this year, said IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
Koskinen blames budget cuts. Congress has cut the agency's budget by $1.2 billion since 2010.
The number of audits dropped even as the number of tax returns went up. As a result, fewer than 1 percent of tax returns were audited last year.
But rich people beware: Your chances of getting audited go up as your income rises. Last year, the IRS audited 7.5 percent of returns filed by taxpayers making more than $1 million.
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APRIL 15 ISN'T MUCH OF A DEADLINE IF YOU'RE DUE A REFUND
The IRS doesn't like to talk about it, but penalties for filing late federal tax returns apply only to people who owe money. The penalty is a percentage of what you owe. If you owe nothing, there is no penalty.
But it doesn't make much sense to file late if you are owed a refund. And beware — if you have unpaid taxes, the late fees add up quickly.
The failure-to-file penalty is generally 5 percent of your unpaid tax bill for every month, or part of a month, you are late. It kicks in on April 16. In general, the maximum penalty is 25 percent of your original tax bill.
There also is a penalty for failing to pay your tax bill, separate from the penalty for failing to file at all, but it's much smaller. That's because the IRS wants you to file a return even if you don't have enough money to pay your bill.
The failure-to-pay penalty is 0.5 percent of your unpaid taxes for every month, or part of a month, you don't pay.
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HEALTH LAW MAKES TAX DAY MORE COMPLICATED FOR SOME
This was the first tax season that regular folks grappled with the complicated connections between President Barack Obama's health care law and the tax system. For about three-quarters of taxpayers, all they had to do was check a box on their tax return indicating they had health coverage for all of 2014.
For the rest, there was some head-scratching.
This was the first year uninsured people faced fines collected by the IRS. And those who got tax credits to help pay premiums last year had to file a convoluted new form to show they got the right amount.
The Obama administration fumbled when the Department of Health and Human Services sent out tax reporting forms with erroneous information on premiums to hundreds of thousands of people. Officials disclosed the problem and set about correcting the mistakes.
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LOOKING AHEAD
The end of tax filing season doesn't mean everyone can relax. Tax preparation company H&R Block says many people who received tax credits to help pay for health insurance premiums apparently are unaware that they need to file a return.
If they don't, they may not be able to renew their tax credits this fall for health coverage in 2016.
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Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar contributed to this report.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
What Happens When You Drink 16 Glasses Of Iced Tea A Day
(Photo: Rafa Irusta/Getty Images)
When a 56-year-old Arkansas man went to the hospital last May complaining of weakness, fatigue, and body aches, at first his doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him. Tests revealed he was in kidney failure, and yet he had no history of kidney problems, nor did anyone in his family. After some prodding, the man finally admitted he was in the habit of consuming sixteen eight-ounce glasses of iced tea, every day. The case was described this week in a letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Black tea, which was this man’s preferred variety, is high in oxalate, a chemical compound that can contribute to kidney problems. This is likely what caused this man’s health problems, as he was consuming between 3 and 10 times more oxalate than the average American does daily.
By all means, drink tea — black tea, in particular, has been linked to a decreased risk of cancer and heart disease, to name just a couple of its health benefits. But maybe don’t down a gallon a day, as this man’s kidney issues were, according to the authors of the letter, “almost certainly due to excessive consumption of iced tea.”
By Melissa Dahl
Monday, April 13, 2015
A toddler disc jockey fascinates South African fans
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At first it seems like a fluke — a 2-year-old playing with the knobs and buttons of a sophisticated music system. Yet, the tiny boy is in control of the big beat of the bass-heavy house music. He is South Africa's youngest disc jockey, DJ AJ.
At a shopping mall appearance, a crowd gathers around the young boy as he bops his head to the beat, his large headphones slipping off. Adults whip out their cellphones to capture the moment while children just stare.
Oratilwe Hlongwane is still learning to put together words but the toddler is already able to select and play music from a laptop and has become a viral phenomenon on South Africa's social media.
His mother, Refiloe Marumo, credits his father's decision to buy an iPad for his then unborn son. Glen Hlongwane planned to download educational apps to speed up his child's education. Hlongwane, a gymnastics coach and aspiring DJ, also downloaded a disc jockeying app for himself.
At about a year old, DJ AJ learned how to manipulate the gadget. Not satisfied with number recognition games, he began to fiddle with his father's DJ app.
The parents were blown away when their son, still in diapers, repeated what he had learned on the app on actual DJ equipment, playing with sound effects and bouncing between songs. A cellphone video of him playing went viral and now DJ AJ has nearly 25,000 Facebook fans.
His newfound fame has brought special appearances and sponsorship deals many older DJs dream of.
But celebrity has also brought some criticism as some accused his parents of abuse and profiting from their child's precocious ability.
"I'm not going to exploit my kid," said his father. DJ AJ's parents will not allow him to play in clubs or at parties.
Hlongwane and Marumo are adamant that they will not force their son to be a DJ when he grows up, but say they believe his affinity for electronic equipment will probably decide his future.
Hlongwane said: "I can see a future Bill Gates here."
Vin Diesel Sings to Paul Walker at the MTV Movie Awards
If hearing Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth perform “See You Again” — their ode to love and friendship — at the end of Furious 7 didn’t get you emotional, perhaps watching Vin Diesel himself sing the song to his late pal Paul Walker will finally move your stone-cold soul.
The hulking Furious 7 star appeared early on at Sunday night’s MTV Movie Awards, where he thanked the show’s producers for playing “See You Again” as he walked on stage. And after reminding fans that the last time he was at the show he was “with my brother Pablo” — a reference to Walker, who died in 2013 in a single-car crash — Diesel crooned a bar of the song himself.
Furious 7 and Walker are obviously still on everybody’s minds, as the film won the box office once again with a huge $60 million weekend.
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French 'Spiderman' scales Dubai skyscraper
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A French climber has scaled one of Dubai's tallest skyscrapers, relying on just chalk and sticky tape on his fingertips to help him up the 75-storey high Cayan Tower in the emirate's glitzy marina area.
Alain Robert, 52, completed climbing the 1007-foot (307 meter) high structure in just 70 minutes on Sunday. He had no harness and little space for his feet on the ledges of the tower, which twists as it ascends.
Robert, who is often described as "The French Spiderman," is no stranger to scaling tall buildings.
In 2011, he climbed the world's tallest tower in Dubai. Using a rope and harness to comply with organizers' requirements, it took him just over six hours to scale the 2,717-foot (828 meter) tall Burj Khalifa.
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