The real cost of video game fashion

The numbers are just an estimation.
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2 Van Gogh paintings recovered by Italian anti-Mafia police

Italian police have found two Van Gogh paintings that were stolen from an Amsterdam museum in 2002 hidden in a farmhouse near an organized crime syndicate’s Naples-area stronghold, investigators said Friday. The paintings, discovered without their frames, are in “relatively good condition,” the Van Gogh Museum said in a statement on its website. It said the two paintings are the 1882 work “Seascape at Scheveningen” and a later work, “Congregation leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen.” The earlier painting contains grains of sand that were stirred up from the beach as Van Gogh worked.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/2-van-gogh-paintings-recovered-by-italian-anti-mafia-police/2016/09/30/6d2a3968-86e9-11e6-b57d-dd49277af02f_story.html?source=Snapzu

World Bank to name and shame countries that fail their stunted children

EThe president of the World Bank has warned he will name and shame countries that fail to tackle the malnourishment and poor growth of their children, as part of a mission to rid the world of stunting. Jim Yong Kim, the former physician who heads the Bank, told the Guardian he would take to the podium at the World Economic Forum in Davos every year to point the finger at governments who failed to live up to promises to tackle a scourge affecting tens of millions of children.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/30/world-bank-name-and-shame-countries-fail-stunted-children?source=Snapzu

German mayor who wanted to accept more refugees beaten up 'in xenophobic attack'

A German mayor who wanted to accommodate refugees has reportedly been assaulted in a suspected xenophobic attack. Joachim Kebschull, 61, mayor of Oersdorf, was struck on the back of the head with a club or wooden beam on his way to a town hall meeting. Mr Kebschull lost consciousness and was taken to hospital, German newspaper Bild reports.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-mayor-beaten-up-anti-refugee-suspect-oersdorf-a7338996.html?source=Snapzu

Liam Fox: Brexit is a 'golden opportunity'

The UK's trade with the European Union will be "at least as free" after Brexit as it is now, Liam Fox says. The International Trade Secretary said it was in other countries' interests to avoid tariffs which he said would "harm the people of Europe". He also predicted the UK would be a standard-bearer for global free trade and that Brexit represented a "golden opportunity" to forge new links.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37504966?source=Snapzu

Lawmakers: Wells Fargo a 'criminal enterprise' like Enron

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is running "a criminal enterprise" and should be fired or even jailed, several members of Congress claimed. Rep. Michael Capuano on Thursday said the Wells Fargo (WFC) scandal and the people who lead the bank reminded him of "the guys who ran Enron," evoking a company that was found guilty of massive financial fraud.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/29/investing/wells-fargo-john-stumpf-hearing-congress/index.html?source=Snapzu

Obama: You may ‘disagree’ with Colin Kaepernick, but he has right to protest

The president discusses the quarterback's anthem protests at a town hall meeting held on a military base in Virginia.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/09/29/obama-you-may-disagree-with-colin-kaepernick-but-he-has-right-to-protest/?source=Snapzu

Egyptian MP Calls for Mandatory Virginity Tests for Admittance of Women to Universities

Egyptian member of parliament Elhamy Agina continued his recent string of controversial statements, this time calling for all women to undergo mandatory ‘virginity tests’ to ensure their virginity prior to being admitted to universities in Egypt. In statements to Youm7, Agina, who was previously disciplined for stating women must undergo female genital mutilation, called on the Minister of Higher Education to issue a mandate that would require him or his officials to review all virginity tests prior to providing female students with university cards.
Read more: http://egyptianstreets.com/2016/09/30/egyptian-mp-calls-for-mandatory-virginity-tests-for-admittance-of-women-to-universities/?source=Snapzu

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore suspended from office for remainder of term

Alabama’s top judge was suspended from the bench and removed from office without pay for the remainder of his term, the state’s Court of the Judiciary ruled Friday. This is the second time Roy S. Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has been effectively removed from office, following his ouster in 2003 over his refusal to obey judicial rulings ordering him to remove a Ten Commandments statue from the Alabama Judicial Building.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/09/30/alabama-chief-justice-roy-moore-suspended-from-office-for-remainder-of-term/?utm_term=.23e1f6d9bc6d?source=Snapzu

French guy calmly destroys everything in Apple Store with steel ball

Everyone gets annoyed at customer support, but this guy is taking it a bit too far. He took a steel ball to the Apple Store and started smashing things.
Read more: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2016/09/30/french-guy-apple-store-steel-ball/?source=Snapzu

The Artists and Their Alley, in Postwar France

From Brancusi to Ernst to Klein, the greatest painters and sculptors of the time once lived and worked together, sharing beds, a single toilet and their creative brilliance.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/t-magazine/art/impasse-ronsin-artists-montparnasse-constantin-brancusi.html?_r=0?source=Snapzu

More state election databases hacked than previously thought

Multiple law enforcement sources tell CBS News homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues that more U.S. state election databases have been hacked than previously thought. According to sources, a total of about 10 states have had their systems probed or breached by hackers, similar to what happened in Arizona and Illinois. CBS News has learned that government officials are increasingly concerned about Russian efforts to disrupt or influence the 2016 presidential election.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-state-election-databases-hacked-than-previously-thought/?source=Snapzu

20 Years Since Welfare's Overhaul, Results Are Mixed

Twenty years ago, welfare as Americans knew it ended. President Bill Clinton signed a welfare overhaul bill that limited benefits and encouraged poor people to find jobs. "We're going to make it all new again, and see if we can't create a system of incentives which reinforce work and family and independence," Clinton said at a White House bill signing ceremony. The goals were admirable: help poor families get into the workforce so they'd no longer need government aid. They'd get job training and support, such as help with child care.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2016/08/22/490245470/20-years-since-welfares-overhaul-results-are-mixed?source=Snapzu

Polish women to stage all-out strike next week

Women in Poland are to stage an all-out strike to protest the country’s plan to effectively ban abortions. Female workers across the predominantly Catholic country will take part in the action on Monday, in an effort to disruptively draw attention to attempts to restrict Poland’s severely limited abortion laws even further. Those taking part hope the strike will bring Polish society and the economy to a standstill.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/polish-women-strike-abortion-laws-restrictions-changes-economy-a7339141.html?source=Snapzu

USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'

The Editorial Board has never taken sides in the presidential race. We're doing it now.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/09/29/dont-vote-for-donald-trump-editorial-board-editorials-debates/91295020/?source=Snapzu

This 1,157-year-old library gets a facelift

How do you restore a 1,157-year old library? Very carefully.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/29/travel/worlds-oldest-library-al-qarawiyyin/?source=Snapzu

WATCH: Rosetta Crashes Into Comet, Bringing Historic Mission To End

The Rosetta spacecraft has been orbiting the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet for two years. Now it has lost contact with Earth forever.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/30/496042230/watch-rosetta-ends-mission-by-crashing-into-comet?source=Snapzu

Earth's CO2 levels just crossed a really scary threshold - and it's permanent

According to the latest figures, levels of atmospheric carbon have officially surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm), and there’s little hope of returning them to safe levels - the situation is now permanent.
Read more: http://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-co2-levels-just-permanently-crossed-a-really-scary-threshold?source=Snapzu

DNA breakthrough finally gives ‘a face to this crime.’ But can it solve a woman’s 1992 murder?

Whoever kidnapped, raped and stabbed Lisa Ziegert before dumping her body in a wooded area in southern Massachusetts left a sliver of DNA on the middle school aide’s corpse. For a quarter-century, that DNA was a dead-end — like all the other evidence in the case — as investigators scoured New England for Ziegert’s killer. The DNA did not match convicted felons or sex offenders in federal or state databases. It did not pan out as new investigative methods made better use of blood and tissue samples found at crime scenes.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/09/29/dna-breakthrough-finally-gives-a-face-to-this-crime-but-can-it-solve-a-womans-1992-murder?source=Snapzu

Bumblebee Set to Become Officially Endangered

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has proposed listing a species of bumblebee as an endangered species, the first bee species to be granted such federal protection in the continental United States. The rusty patched bumblebee - the workers of which can be identified by a small rust-colored mark on the middle of their second abdominal segment - was historically widespread along the east coast of North America, from Quebec down to Georgia, and across much of the midwest as far west as the Dakotas.
Read more: http://www.livescience.com/56312-bumblebee-species-may-become-endangered.html?source=Snapzu

Tax authorities in Denmark buy 'Panama Papers' evidence

Tax authorities in Denmark have paid 805,000 euros ($903,000) for evidence of tax evasion by its citizens in the so-called 'Panama Papers.' About 600 people could be implicated.
Read more: http://www.dw.com/en/tax-authorities-in-denmark-buy-panama-papers-evidence/a-35928320?source=Snapzu

Female chess players forced to wear hijab as governing body awards world championship to Iran

The world's top female chess players have reacted with horror after being told they must compete at next year's world championship wearing a hijab.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/29/female-chess-players-accuse-governing-body-of-sex-discrimination/?source=Snapzu

14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina adds to an archaeological mystery

A glimpse of the last people on Earth to colonize a continent without humans.
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/14000-year-old-campsite-in-argentina-adds-to-an-archaeological-mystery/?source=Snapzu

The FBI’s Hillary email probe is looking even more like a coverup

It’s bad enough that FBI Director James Comey agreed to pass out immunity deals like candy to material witnesses and potential targets of his investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server. But now we learn that some of them were immunized despite lying to Comey’s investigators. In the latest bombshell from Congress’ probe into what’s looking more and more like an FBI whitewash (or coverup) of criminal behavior by the Democratic nominee and her aides, the Denver-based tech who destroyed subpoenaed emails from Clinton’s server allegedly lied to FBI agents after he got an immunity deal.
Read more: http://nypost.com/2016/09/28/the-fbis-hillary-email-probe-is-looking-even-more-like-a-coverup/?source=Snapzu

Dose of Reality: The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In November 2012 voters in the states of Colorado and Washington approved ballot initiatives that legalized marijuana for recreational use. Two years later, Alaska and Oregon followed suit. As many as 11 other states may consider similar measures in November 2016, through either ballot initiative or legislative action. Supporters and opponents of such initiatives make numerous claims...
Read more: http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/dose-reality-effect-state-marijuana-legalizations?source=Snapzu

Police: Man killed by officer pointed vaping device

Activists dismayed by the police killing of an unarmed black man in El Cajon, California, demanded that authorities release video of the shooting and called for a federal probe.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/us/california-police-shooting/index.html?source=Snapzu

Another Tesla on autopilot crashes in Germany

A Tesla car whose driver said he was using the “Autopilot” driving assistance system crashed into a bus on a motorway in northern Germany on Wednesday.
Read more: http://nypost.com/2016/09/29/another-tesla-on-autopilot-crashes-in-germany/?source=Snapzu

Amazon’s Newest Ambition: Competing Directly With UPS and FedEx

Just before the morning rush hour on a recent Thursday, a brigade of vans rolled up to a low-slung warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport. Workers in bright green vests crammed some 150 Amazon.com packages into each truck before the fleet headed through the urban sprawl to customers’ doorsteps. This logistical dance wasn’t performed by United Parcel Service Inc., FedEx Corp. or the U.S. Postal Service, all longtime carriers for the online retailer.
Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-newest-ambitioncompeting-directly-with-ups-and-fedex-1474994758?source=Snapzu

Debunking the Myth of the ‘Real’ Robinson Crusoe

Alexander Selkirk was marooned on an island for more than four years. But his story was very different from the famous novel.
Read more: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/robinson-crusoe-alexander-selkirk-history/?source=Snapzu

The FCC is putting off a historic vote to disrupt your cable box

How you get your cable TV may be about to undergo a historic change.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/09/29/the-fcc-is-poised-to-disrupt-your-cable-box-heres-what-we-know-so-far/?source=Snapzu

Zits in high school may mean youthful looking skin in adulthood

Cells of past acne victims have longer telomeres, which may delay cellular aging
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/zits-in-high-school-may-mean-youthful-looking-skin-in-adulthood/?comments=1?source=Snapzu

Video of police shooting that killed 6-year-old autistic La. boy released

Prosecutors showed the tape in court to support their claim that one of the deputies had a pattern of using excessive force; Boy was killed, father injured in the 2015 shooting
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-of-police-shooting-that-killed-6-year-old-autistic-louisiana-boy-released-jeremy-mardis/?source=Snapzu

Donald Trump's company violated the U.S. embargo against Cuba

Through Trump Hotels, the GOP nominee secretly conducted business in Cuba, ignoring American laws. Later, he falsely told Cuban-American voters he would never spend money on the island so long as Fidel Castro remains in power.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/14/donald-trump-cuban-embargo-castro-violated-florida-504059.html?source=Snapzu

At Least 1 Dead, Up to 100 Hurt in Hoboken Train Crash

At least three people died and up to 100 were hurt, some of them critically, when an NJ Transit train crashed into the station in Hoboken at the height of Thursday's morning rush, leaving twisted piles of metal.
Read more: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Major-Train-Accident-in-Hoboken-Injuries-Reported-395249051.html?source=Snapzu

The Americas Are Now Officially 'Measles-Free'

The Americas are now free of measles, the first region in the world to achieve that goal, the Pan American Health Organization announced this week. The success is credited to the effectiveness of mass vaccination programs over the past 22 years. Yet measles remains a significant problem in other parts of the world, public health officials warn. There were 244,704 cases reported in 2015. And outbreaks could still pop up in the Americas if unvaccinated travelers spread the disease.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/09/28/495794364/the-americas-is-now-officially-measles-free?source=Snapzu

State in the dark: South Australia's major power outage

The entire state of South Australia was without power for several hours on Wednesday afternoon, with the region gripped by what could be one of the most extreme weather systems to hit in 50 years. A mass blackout began about 3.30pm Wednesday afternoon, plunging the city into darkness, grounding flights and causing havoc on the state's roads.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/state-in-the-dark-south-australias-major-power-outage-20160928-grqmn2.html?source=Snapzu

Study finds young men are playing video games instead of getting jobs

Danny Izquierdo, a 22-year-old who lives with his parents in Silver Spring, Md., has found little satisfaction in a series of part-time, low-wage jobs he's held since graduating from high school. But the video games he plays, including "FIFA 16" and "Rocket League" on PlayStation and Pokemon Go on his smartphone, are a different story. "When I play a game, I know if I have a few hours I will be rewarded," he said. "With a job, it's always been up in the air with the amount of work I put in and the reward."
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-video-games-jobs-emploment-20160923-story.html?source=Snapzu

U.S. Government To Pay $492 Million To 17 American Indian Tribes

The U.S. government has agreed to pay a total of $492 million to 17 American Indian tribes for mismanaging natural resources and other tribal assets, according to an attorney who filed most of the suits. In a joint press release by the Departments of Interior and Justice, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel said, "Settling these long-standing disputes reflects the Obama Administration's continued commitment to reconciliation and empowerment for Indian Country."
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/27/495627997/u-s-government-to-pay-492-million-to-17-american-indian-tribes?source=Snapzu

Indonesia Evacuates Hundreds of Tourists after Volcano Erupts

Indonesian rescuers on Wednesday evacuated hundreds of tourists from a volcano that erupted a day earlier and were searching for as many as 50 climbers.
Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-volcano-idINKCN11Y17X?source=Snapzu

Two Aleppo hospitals bombed out of service in 'catastrophic' airstrikes

Doctors are overwhelmed after attacks, as Unicef counts 96 children killed and 223 injured in city since Friday
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/aleppo-two-hospitals-bombed-out-of-service-syria-airstrikes?source=Snapzu

Scenes From New England’s Drought: Dry Wells, Dead Fish and Ailing Farms

The region is struggling to cope with a dry spell that climatologists say is not expected to abate before the end of the year.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/us/scenes-from-new-englands-drought-dry-wells-dead-fish-and-ailing-farms.html?source=Snapzu

Battered But Not Beaten Commodore C64 Survives Over 25 Years Balancing Drive Shafts In Auto Repair Shop

One common complaint in the twenty-first century is that nothing is built to last. Even complex, expensive computers seem to have a relatively short shelf-life nowadays. One computer in a small auto repair shop in Gdansk, Poland, however, has survived for the last twenty-five years against all odds.
Read more: http://hothardware.com/news/battered-but-not-beaten-commodore-c64-survives-over-25-years-balancing-drive-shafts-in-auto-repair-shop#32zvfvdYEzjBMf9w.02?source=Snapzu

Man who lived like badger gets spoof Nobel

Charles Foster also lived like a fox, rummaging the bins of east London for meat scraps in discarded pizzas.
Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/man-who-lived-like-a-badger-in-a-welsh-hole-gets-spoof-nobel-prize-10589065?source=Snapzu

Australian State Loses Power as Strong Storm Lashes Region

An entire Australian state lost power as a strong storm lashed the region Wednesday, causing traffic chaos, stranding people in elevators and prompting police to warn residents to stay inside.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/australian-state-loses-power-as-strong-storm-lashes-region/2016/09/28/25712ff2-8561-11e6-b57d-dd49277af02f_story.html?source=Snapzu

Trump showed he's no commander in chief: Max Boot

The GOP nominee's debate responses on national security issues have to be read to be believed.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/09/27/trump-clinton-debate-nuclear-codes-commander-in-chief-max-boot/91167896/?source=Snapzu

In historic first, Ariz. Republic backs a Democrat for president, citing Trump’s ‘deep character flaws’

Breaking with 126 years of history, the newspaper hit Trump for "a stunning lack of human decency."
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/28/for-first-time-ariz-republic-backs-democrat-for-president-citing-trumps-deep-character-flaws/?source=Snapzu

Mythbusting Ancient Rome – the emperor Nero

The image of a crazed and capricious Emperor Nero is immortalised in popular culture: from fiddling while Rome burns to having a sexual relationship with his mother. The historical evidence, however, is rather different.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/mythbusting-ancient-rome-the-emperor-nero-65797?source=Snapzu

Caught on camera: Texas transit cop resigns after train station baton beating

A Texas transit cop resigned on Monday after a train station camera captured the officer repeatedly beating a man with a baton two weeks ago, authorities said. Metro Police Department Chief Vera Bumpers said in a statement that a review board concluded that the officer, identified only as J. Warren, used excessive force in the Sept. 14 encounter. "The board recommended termination of the officer," Bumpers said.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/caught-camera-texas-transit-cop-resigns-after-train-station-beating-n654821?source=Snapzu

Russia's new education minister wants to mandate Soviet-era farm labor for students

Russian Education and Science Minister Olga Vasilieva called for a return to mandatory farm labor for school children, according to Russian state-operated news agency RIA Novosti via The Moscow Times. Vasilieva said that students should be placed in "agricultural brigades" and forced to clean schools "like we always used to do." It is one of the first signals from Vasilieva, who was appointed by Russian president Vladimir Putin on August 9, on how she aims to govern her post.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-education-minister-olga-vasilieva-calls-for-farm-labor-2016-9?source=Snapzu

Exclusive: How one Amazon "catfishing" scam made millions of dollars

Emma Moore could have been the health and weight loss guru you spent your life looking for. You might be forgiven for not knowing her work -- after all, she has a common name, one that she shares with other similarly successful authors on Amazon. Until this week, she had dozens of health, dieting, cooking, and weight loss ebooks to her name. She published over a dozen ebooks on Amazon this year -- five ebooks alone this month. And Moore would even work with other authors -- like Nina Kelly, Andrew Walker, and Julia Jackson -- who have all published about a dozen ebooks each this year as well.
Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/article/exclusive-inside-a-million-dollar-amazon-kindle-catfishing-scam/?source=Snapzu