A man in India has pushed a brand-new car into a river because he was upset his parents gifted him a BMW instead of a Jaguar for his birthday. The young man, only known as Akash, from northern India, was given a BMW M3 car by his mother and father. In an act of protest over not getting the vehicle he wanted, the man ditched the car, but later jumped into the river and joined drivers to try and save it. BMWs cost around 3.5 million rupees ($49,000) locally, while Jaguars are more expensive, costing about five million rupees ($70,000). Shocking footage shows the car floating away on the river in the northern Indian state before it gets stuck on a bank of tall grass. Akash, believed to be the son of a local landlord swims in and tries to rescue it, with the help of others. Police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The Emmys are taking a cue from the Oscars this year and going hostless. Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier made the announcement saying that his main reasoning for going without a host is to allow more time to \u201chonor\u201d the television shows to which the night is dedicated.<\/p>\n The Primetime Emmys will air September 22 on Fox.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n __________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n NATIONAL RELAXATION DAY\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 80\u00a0years ago\u00a0<\/strong>– In 1939,\u00a0“The Wizard of Oz”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0premiered\u00a0at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 50\u00a0years ago\u00a0<\/strong>– In 1969, the\u00a0Woodstock Music and Art Fair\u00a0opened for three days at Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York.\u00a0 Over\u00a0400,000<\/strong>\u00a0people attended.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 40 years ago\u00a0<\/strong>– In 1979,\u00a0“Apocalypse Now”<\/strong><\/em>, was released\u00a0. . . starring\u00a0Martin Sheen<\/strong>,\u00a0Marlon Brando<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Robert Duvall<\/strong>.\u00a0 Robert Duvall delivered the movie’s most famous line.\u00a0 “I love the smell of napalm in the morning!”<\/p>\n \u00a0______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n AUGUST 15th<\/sup>, 1946\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Songwriter Jimmy Webb turns 72 today. His country hits include “Highwayman,” by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson; and “Wichita Lineman” and “By The Time I Get To Phoenix,” by Glen Campbell. “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” was the third most performed song in the fifty years between 1940 to 1990.<\/p>\n Webb is the only artist ever to have received\u00a0Grammy\u00a0Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration.<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n RANDOM REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Payless stores have been closing down after they filed for bankruptcy in February.\u00a0 And this is the second story like this we’ve seen in the past few months . . .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A woman in northwest Arkansas named Carrie Jernigan recently took her kids to the mall to get new shoes.\u00a0 And Payless was having a liquidation sale.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Her daughter asked if they could buy a pair of Avengers shoes for her friend at school, who couldn’t afford shoes that fit.\u00a0 Then Carrie asked the cashier how much it would cost to buy ALL the shoes they had left.<\/p>\n There were about 300 pairs, and she won’t say how much they cost.\u00a0 But a woman in Kansas\u00a0did the same thing\u00a0recently, and got 204 pairs of shoes for 49 cents each.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Things got even more generous though.\u00a0 Because when Carrie came back with a truck to pick the shoes up, she found out the store had just gotten another shipment of another THOUSAND PAIRS of shoes.\u00a0 And she bought all those shoes too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She ended up with just under 1,500 pairs of shoes, and won’t say how much she spent.\u00a0 But\u00a0the total value of the shoes BEFORE her discount\u00a0was about $21,000.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Around 400 pairs were for adults, and she donated them all.\u00a0 The other 1,100 pairs were kids’ shoes.\u00a0 So she set up an event where parents can go get free shoes for their kids, just in time for the new school year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Jennifer Lawrence <\/strong>is\u00a029<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Ben Affleck <\/strong>is\u00a047<\/strong><\/p>\n Debra Messing <\/strong>is\u00a051<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0“Will & Grace”<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Entomologist: Keep Your Luggage in Hotel Tub<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Forget about putting your suitcase into your hotel room’s closet and don’t even think about throwing it onto your bed to unpack it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That’s what an insect expert says and the reason may make you cringe: It’s to avoid bringing home any unwanted guests. An entomologist says bedbugs that hide on hotel mattresses, couches, and other upholstered surfaces can easily crawl into luggage, and that even luggage racks that keep bags off the floor can have critters hiding out in the device’s legs if those legs are hollow. So where does she recommend hotel patrons stash their belongings?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the bathroom, preferably in the bathtub, as bedbugs are least likely to end up there; They have a hard time climbing slippery surfaces typically found in bathrooms, like glass and porcelain, and they can’t fly.<\/p>\n \u00a0________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Five Ways to Relax for National Relaxation Day<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n It’s National Relaxation Day today.\u00a0 So here are five ways to help yourself relax that are all backed by science . . .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n An Alaska man found a message in a bottle that had been tossed into the water by a Russian sailor 50 years earlier.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tyler Ivanoff said he was just north of the Bering Strait\u2014the northernmost point of the Pacific Ocean that separates North America from Asia\u2014when he found a bottle that contained a letter dated June 20, 1969. It was from a sailor aboard the Sulak, a fishing boat that reports say belonged to the Soviet Far East fishing fleet.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Judging from the photo Ivanoff posted, the letter was well-preserved\u2014despite being carried thousands of miles east through the Strait in half a century. “A heartfelt hello,” the letter said in cursive Russian. What followed was a request for the message recipient to report to the city of Vladivostok in eastern Russia. “We wish you good health, many years of life and happy sailing,” the sailor added.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last year an even more amazing discovery was done when a couple in Western Australia found the oldest known message in a bottle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thinking it would \u201clook good on a bookshelf\u201d Tonya Illman picked up an old-looking gin bottle while walking on sand dunes, only to discover a message inside that was written in German that was 136 years old.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Inside the bottle was a roll of paper dated June 12, 1886 from a German scientific experiment to try and map ocean currents.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n THURSDAY AUGUST 15TH<\/sup>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Jennifer Lawrence <\/strong>is\u00a029<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Ben Affleck <\/strong>is\u00a047<\/strong><\/p>\n Happy birthday to movie megastar Ben Affleck, he turns 47 years old today!\u00a0 Can you guess what Affleck movies these clips are from?<\/p>\n Debra Messing <\/strong>is\u00a051<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0“Will & Grace”<\/em><\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————————————-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Texas\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Toronto \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3<\/p>\n Detroit\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seattle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tim Hardin was supposed to take the stage first, but he freaked out and wouldn’t go on for the waiting massive crowd.\u00a0 Here’s Richie Havens remembering how they asked him to go on first, so he did, but even he was reluctant.\u00a0 It made him legendary in music history.\u00a0 Tim Hardin performed later, but wasn’t featured in the film or on the soundtrack album.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He\u00a0documented\u00a0the whole thing as if he were flying first class or in a private jet, which the captain even joked about.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n FGL’S TYLER HUBBARD AND WIFE PREPPING DAUGHTER FOR BABY BROTHER\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Florida Georgia Line<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0Tyler Hubbard<\/strong>\u00a0and his wife,\u00a0Hayley<\/strong>, will welcome their second child any day now. The baby, a boy they will\u00a0 name\u00a0Luca<\/strong>, will join their 20-month-old daughter,\u00a0Liv<\/strong>. Tyler tells us they’ve been trying to prepare Liv for the new addition:\u00a0[\u201cWe just try to talk about him a lot and kind of point out the fact that your baby brother\u2019s in mom\u2019s tummy right now and he\u2019s gonna be out soon, and just kind of talk to her in childlike phrases.\u00a0 We feel like it\u2019s pretty important and hopefully she can kind of know what to expect a little bit.\u00a0 I think she knows what\u2019s going on, so we\u2019ll see how the transition goes.\u201d]<\/p>\n Florida Georgia Line is currently in the middle of their\u00a0Can\u2019t Say I Ain\u2019t Country Tour<\/em>, with special guest\u00a0Dan + Shay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire, and Carly Pearce on the “Nashville Sisterhood”<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n WOMAN\u2019S DAY”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0has a story called the “Sisterhood of Country Music.” . . . and they talked to three generations of female singers,\u00a0Reba McEntire<\/strong>,\u00a0Miranda Lambert<\/strong>, and\u00a0Carly Pearce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Reba said, quote, “Many of us write together, we support each other.\u00a0 The camaraderie is special.”\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Carly Pearce added, quote, “Even on social media, we all champion each other.”\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Miranda remembers the early days when\u00a0Gretchen Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0encouraged her to call if she needed anything . . . and the time that\u00a0Faith Hill<\/strong>\u00a0reached out with a gift.<\/p>\n Quote, “Faith sent me a note one day with a bracelet that was like, ‘I wear this onstage, and when I get scared I just remember that I’m doing what I’m supposed to do.'”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Reba had\u00a0Barbara Mandrell<\/strong>\u00a0in her corner back in the day.\u00a0 Quote, “We were friends early on. \u00a0Barbara was a very energetic, loyal, determined, hardworking woman, and I learned a lot from her. \u00a0To just go and do your job, and be prepared.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n When Carly hit a tough patch early on, she got help from\u00a0Kelsea Ballerini<\/strong>, who was just getting her career on track.<\/p>\n Quote, “Kelsea’s taken me out on every one of her tours prior to me having any singles on the radio. \u00a0She talked about me in every interview. \u00a0And when\u00a0<\/em>‘Every Little Thing’<\/em>\u00a0happened, she sent a cake, flowers, and a card. \u00a0She is the perfect example of a woman who had no reason other than her pure heart.\u00a0 I’ll never forget that, and I hope to pay it forward someday.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n KEITH URBAN, BLAKE SHELTON TO HEADLINE ATLANTA FUNDRAISER FOR VETS, HOMELESS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Keith Urban, Blake Shelton, Eric Church<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Luke Combs\u00a0<\/strong>have all signed on to headline during an ATLive three-day benefit concert at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium to to help raise money for veterans groups and fight homelessness in the city.\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u00a0reports that Keith and Blake are set to perform on Friday, November 15th, while Eric and Luke will close out the event on Sunday, November 17th. 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