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Earlier this week, Demi Lovato’s Complex spread dropped in all of its topless, knife-wielding glory. On Friday (Oct. 2), Vanity Fair released another type of shoot—makeup-free, nude, and totally unretouched.
Vanity Fair photographer Patrick Ecclesine writes how the spontaneous shoot came about and the rules Demi set forward for it: super-sexy, but no makeup, no fancy lighting, no retouching, and no clothing.

In a behind-the-scenes video from the shoot, Demi explains, in her own words, why she decided to do it, saying, “When I think of confident, I think of many things, but one feeling in particular is feeling comfortable in your own skin. There was something incredible about the idea of no makeup whatsoever, no clothes, and no retouching. You know, that says—I never would’ve thought I’d get to a point in my life where I’d feel comfortable doing that.”

As the first season of the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2016 (FIWC 2016) officially kicks off, players now have even more motivation to qualify for the Grand Final with the news that it will be held in New York City.
The 2016 Grand Final location lives up to the tradition of hosting the tournament’s decisive showdown at memorable and iconic destinations around the world, with previous events held in Munich, Rio de Janeiro, Dubai and Madrid.
Speaking about the competition’s penultimate event, reigning FIWC Champion Abdulaziz Alshehri from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said: "Being part of the Grand Final in New York is a dream come true for me. I am deeply grateful to have the chance to defend my title in this amazing city."
Joining Alshehri in New York City will be 30 competitors who qualified online as well as the winner of the Host Country Qualifier. The 2016 Grand Final of the FIWC is the first time in the history of the tournament that players on dual platforms – the Xbox One and PlayStation®4 – will be able compete against each other to be crowned champion and take home USD 20,000 in prize money and an invitation to the prestigious FIFA Ballon d'Or annual awards ceremony.
“We are pleased to follow the recent announcement of the changes to the tournament structure for 2016 with this exciting news of the Grand Final location,” said Thierry Weil, FIFA Marketing Director. “I have no doubt this news will encourage even more people to register for the FIFA Interactive World Cup than ever before.”
Online qualifications will take place on the PlayStation and Xbox networks through the latest version of EA SPORTS™ FIFA 16. Players have the opportunity to compete in three seasons of the tournament, running from October through December 2015.

FORDHAM (WABC)  The Taxi and Limousine Commission has suspended the livery cab driver who lost control, hopped a curb in the Bronx, and hit four small children and a mother Wednesday. The accident happened on East Kingsbridge Road in the Fordham section just before 8 a.m. The most seriously injured is an 8-year-old girl, with injuries to both legs and internal bleeding, who is in critical but stable condition. Her younger brother, a 5-year-old, has injuries to his leg, chest trauma, cuts and bruises. Both have been stabilized at Jacobi Medical Center. Two other boys, ages 10 and 7, suffered minor injuries. The 33-year-old mother is in stable condition at the same hospital. One of the injured children is home from the hospital and talking to Eyewitness News. 10-year old Yohelfry Germosen is cut, bruised, limping and very sore, but knows he's very lucky to be alive. He said he doesn't remember much about the accident. The front bumper of the livery car hit him and pushed him forward. "I remember when a car was over me, when he came and throw me under, I don't remember anything more," he said. ("Did you black out, go unconscious?", we asked.) "I was like asleep," he said. ("When you woke up, what did you see?") "I was with my grandmother who woke me up and helped me get up and then the ambulance came," he said. He was treated and released from the hospital Wednesday afternoon. "To witness something like that, it's bad, it's something I don't want to see again," said eyewitness George Perez. Surveillance cameras captured kids heading to school, their parents by their sides, but in a split second it was evident from the look on their faces and body language that something was very wrong. "That's when I saw people flying in the air and so I ran," said Perez. The impact is too graphic to show, as the black car plowed into the five people. Nearby surveillance camera captured the taxi noticeably speeding just moments before it lost control. "He was waiting for his wife to come out of the store and the car just came so fast he didn't have a chance to get out of the way," said a translator for Antonio Acosta, the uncle of one of the victims. His nephew was among those hit. Antonio picked up the child who was bloody, but not seriously hurt. But another child was, a little girl who was pinned under the car. "She wanted her dad so this lady gave her a cell to call her dad and she tried and she looked at everyone and said, I forgot his number and that's when everyone broke down," said Perez. A woman was also hit, and two more boys. Nilda Guerrero held one's hand. "Miguel wake up, don't close your eyes, please tell me if your'e watching me, Miguel your little sister is going to be here soon, you're not alone," she said. The Uber driver, who was not injured, stayed at the scene. No charges have been filed at this time. Several people tried to help lift the vehicle and get it off of those who were trapped. "There were a lot of people trying to help, there was a lot of people really trying to do something, everyone was worried and scared," said eyewitness Victor Morales.

But there’s a lot that’s fishy. Every year, there is a noted spotting or two (he was relaxing at a resort in New Zealand last year, but others caught him on video in Cuba), or evidence of a new, more complex cover-up emerges. The quantity of distinct theories might seem to surpass those of any other public figure’s death — in most cases, people tend to stick to a few favorites. This week, one of the weirdest and most chilling to date materialized: a retired cop on his death bed wants to let the world know that ‘Pac paid him $1.5 million to help the rapper take his own life. ‘Pac also paid an extra $50,000 for a fake body to be transported to the morgue. He claims that Suge Knight and his posse were privy to the plot (of course they were). Because the man’s motivations for claiming such a thing are so obscure, this latest explanation has a “You can’t make this shit up” air that most ‘Pac narratives lack. We’ve heard about the FBI setting him up (there’s a whole book you can read about this stuff), the significance of the number 7 in ‘Pac’s art (oh you haven’t? Please check out this handy Tripod site for reference), the ambiguities surrounding his cremation, the fact that Machiavelli — after whom ‘Pac dubbed himself “Makaveli” — wrote about faking death to fool enemies in battle. But with this latest story, we’ve got sums of money being exchanged, and a living, breathing person taking responsibility for the charade. Could the machinations have been less cosmic than we thought? “I heard rumors that I died, murdered in cold blood/Traumatized pictures of me in my final states...” Some forum users are even more cynical; ‘Pac didn’t just do this to get away from fame. Unexplained Mysteries user “Alien Embryo” may have the key to the reason why we’ve lost so many of the greats: capitalistic greed. Lenin was right. “2pac had been talking about the Don Killumanati, One Nation and The Outlaw Immortalz LPs amd the Gridlockd and Gang Related, (name was changed to Criminal Intent) movies being completed for over a year before he died. Plus, almost every musician who died had unreleased material that would sell more if he/she was dead. Does that mean that Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Eazy E, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Biggie, Jimi Hendrix etc all faked there deaths?” But if you need more evidence that’s a bit more concrete, the proof is in the photos. A dominant and lengthy theory in the forum world concerns the disparity between Pac’s facial hair in the two last photos that were supposedly taken of him on the night he was shot. They are clearly different beards, no question — because of course…his military photo was superimposed on the photo of him in the car! Why would someone fake this? Well, who knows — this is just the tip of the iceberg of weird photo problems relating to the night of the murder. The shots of Pac’s crashed BMW after the shooting don’t match up — the damage appears to be completely different in each of them. Pac’s autopsy photo has his tattoos mixed up, and if you do your research (LIKE A REAL ‘PAC FAN WOULD) you would notice that it simply had to be generated from stills from the “California Love” video, one of the few times ‘Pac was captured on camera sleeping. Look, you can call me crazy, but even ‘Pac’s mom knows he’s still out there: It would be cool if any of the many Christ-related theories were true. They are inspired mostly by allusions in Pac’s lyrics and the cover of Makaveli (the nickname for 1996’s The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory), which features a painting of ‘Pac decked out on a crucifix. This shows that … he was planning this, right? Sacrificing himself (the media was getting to him) and then rising again, in due time, to reclaim the throne. But the proof is really in this pudding: mysteriously, the Makaveli album is credited to “SIMON” — that’s right, that’s the name of one of the apostles who saw Jesus rise again. Is “Simon” Suge, ‘Pac’s normal producer? Will Suge be the first to know when ‘Pac hitches a flight back from his New Zealand grass hut/mansion to claim all that record sales, documentary, and future biopic money? No. Because he’s doing just fine where he is, and will be for the rest of this millennium: the planet Yilamhar. Yeah, you’re damn right this is an anagram of “Hail Mary,” just like the ‘Pac song. Get it now? Reocities.com spits the seedy truth about Yilamhar, whose resident (“Space Heads”) put their favorite Earth rappers in trances (Big’s up there too), put chips in their heads and forced them to “kick out rhymes over wack beats”. It’s cool though, because at least they are paying him well, mostly in the “phattest honeys,” and they are going to give him eternal life when his time is up with them and he comes back down to Earth in 3000. Stop calling Young Thug, Future, and all these other Atlanta rappers “aliens”: When ‘Pac gets back everyone is going to be computers, and his new bangers will just be strings of code programmed into our heads full of characters no one has ever seen before. The most absolutely next-level code will be the sequel to “music,” and let me tell you, it’s going to be way better. Your computer brain won’t miss this “ooh, NPR First Listen Mumford and Sons” bullshit.

Paleontologist Mike Triebold first started digging up the bones of a previously unknown species of dinosaur in 2012, when he and his team started work in the Judith River formation in Montana. At first, they didn’t realize what they had on their hands; they assumed that the skeleton belonged to an avaceratops, so they nicknamed the specimen “Ava.”
Turns out Ava is in a league all her own. After finding an 85 percent-complete skeleton of the dinosaur, Triebold realized that this was no avaceratops. It’s not an example of the better-known triceratops, either — this dino roamed the earth 9 million years before the popular three-horned lizard, though they could be distant relatives.
 Four paleontology experts have confirmed that Triebold has stumbled upon an entirely new species. So what does Ava look like? “A fat pony with a big head and horns,”
That sounds a lot friendlier than anything Chris Pratt has ever had to wrangle. If we actually end up bringing dinosaurs back from the dead someday, maybe we should start with Ava.

All of this had a profound impact on Lil Mama. “It hurt,” she told Complex. “It took a lot of mental strength, spiritual strength, and physical strength, not to want to hurt others, not to want to hurt myself. A person could be damn near suicidal.” She explained that she lost a lot of work because of it. “A lot of people felt like they didn’t want to take a chance on me with certain things because it might have made Jay Z or Alicia Keys not want to work with them,” she said.
Lil Mama also apparently tried to involve another star in this: Beyoncé.
“As I’m walking, I stop, and I’m like—‘come on, come on, let’s go,’ to Beyoncé,” Lil Mama said. “And she’s like, ‘What?’ She couldn’t believe it. I was trying to celebrate the city. Now that I’m a woman, how crazy would it have looked if she walked up there? They would have been like, [Beyoncé’s] jealous, she can’t stand to see [Jay Z] with another woman. And here I am, someone who’s not in that state of mind, not thinking that way, just caught up in the moment. I look back and think, damn, she was right. I was tripping.”

Whether Drake and Serena Williams are friends, soul mates, dating, or something else, they’ve definitely been hanging out a bunch together these days: They were spotted at dinner not too long ago and Aubrey’s attended some of her tennis matches recently (and was even blamed by the Internet for Serena’s loss).

On Tuesday, he continued his support of her career when he sat front row at her HSN show during New York Fashion Week. Drizzy was sitting next to Anna Wintour, who he called his “bae” on Instagram.
But forget Anna, Serena’s the one who really got some love. After the show, as the two chatted, the tennis star put her hands on his arms, they laughed together, and Drake gracefully kissed her hand before they parted ways. 

The camera follows the bottle as it empties itself out over the carpet. It's a stylized way of representing the sexual violence taking place off-screen; alcohol becoming both reason and weapon, excuse and cover for what befalls Nessa within those walls. It's only later, when we see her groggy and bleeding out on the street, that we see the full extent of the assault.

Dance with death: Daredevil model swims with crocodiles
A fearless Italian model spent 10 hours in June swimming with crocodiles in a lagoon in the Gulf of Mexico - some 30 miles from the coast - which is home to over 700 American crocodiles.
In one extraordinary shoot, Roberta Mancino came face-to-face with a four-meter-long American crocodile.

Silva told Mic the teen was "cited to his mother for resisting arrest and for the Stockton municipal code for trespassing." The teen will appear in juvenile court to face the charges. Silva added that if civilians did not resist arrest, officers would not have to use force. However, because the video begins after the officer has already physically engaged with the teen, it's unclear how the interaction actually began. But based on the footage available and the onlookers' response to the incident, it seems possible there were other factors at play. "The kid got stopped for 'jaywalking' when he barely stepped out of the bus he was 2 feet away from the sidewalk when the cop stopped him for 'jaywalking,'" Edgar Avendaño, who witnessed and recorded the incident, wrote in a Facebook post with the video. "The cop was telling him to take a [seat] but the teen kept walking to his bus but the cop kept grabbing his arm & the kid took off the cop's hand off his arm so the cop took out his baton & that's when I started recording." However, Silva suggested, so far, the officers are not internally suspected of wrongdoing. "Everything is under review," he explained. "The preliminary investigation shows they were in the right." Avendaño posted the video to Facebook shortly after the incident. At the time of publication, it had over half a million views.

A 25-year-old transgender woman who is imprisoned at a Sao Paulo, Brazil, jail was attacked by police, who shaved her head and forced her to strip down before beating her, the Daily Mail reports. Veronica Bolina's face was left swollen and bruised. The woman is currently in jail for attacking a 73-year-old neighbor.
Pictures showing her face disfigured sparked outrage and concern for her safety as this is the third time she's been handled by officers in a violent way while being custody.

The police say other prisoners attacked Bolina when they saw her touching herself in a sexual manner and that officers attempted to stop the scuffle. The police add that she received the injuries while they were intervening.
Bolina has been moved to another facility where she has a cell to her self. The police say they are investigating the incident. In Brazil, police violence is an issue. There have been more than 11,000 people killed by law enforcement officers between 2009 and 2013, according to the Forum on Public Safety.

If these images did not leak online, who knows whether Bolina's story would have been heard and whether the prison would have been held accountable for her treatment.

Prosecutors in Novorossiysk also said they were pressing charges against the parents of one underage girl who was twerking with the others girls for "the failure to encourage the physical, intellectual, physiological, spiritual and moral development of a child."
This is a second twerking scandal in Russia in less than two weeks.
Investigators last week launched a probe into a dance school in the city of Orenburg after a YouTube video of female school girls dressed as bees and twerking in a sexually suggestive Winnie the Pooh routine sparked outrage. The dance school was temporarily shut down while officials in this southern city not far from the Kazakh border ordered an inspection of all dance schools in the region.

Zimbabwe has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to its beauty queens posing naked. For the second year in a row, the Miss Zimbabwe Trust has stripped the winner of the pageant of her crown over a nude photo scandal.

Emily Kachote, 25, was dethroned for "immoral behavior" after she admitted to posing nude for photos, which were leaked last month by her ex. The organization said in a statement Wednesday that she had violated an agreement in which contestants had to swear they have never posed naked, nor will they ever should they win.

Harare - Unlucky Miss Zimbabwe has been humiliated once again: she's been stripped of her title after nude photos of her were leaked, reported the Zimbabwean Herald newspaper.
Emily Kachote, 25, has shown "immoral behaviour", the Miss Zimbabwe Trust said in a statement.
Some Zimbabweans complained Kachote was "ugly" when she won the Miss World Zimbabwe contest in April.
"The Miss Zimbabwe executive board would like to inform the nation that it has decided to dethrone Miss Emily Kachote as Miss World Zimbabwe 2015," the statement said.
"Being in a relationship, sexual advances to anyone and any behaviour categorised as immoral by the Miss Zimbabwe Trust is grounds for instant disqualification and dethronement," the statement added.
Kachote, a financial advisor, had admitted the pictures, apparently leaked by an ex, were genuine. She said she'd hoped the man had deleted the pictures.
Last year's Miss Zimbabwe Thabiso Phiri was also caught up in a nude photo scandal. The Trust insists she resigned of her own accord.
"I wonder if they will even find a Miss Zimbabwe next year?" a reader of the official Herald online commented.

After a tumultuous rookie season and an off-season that included time in a rehab clinic, it looked like the Cleveland Browns were ready to move on from Johnny Manziel and turned to veteran journeyman Josh McCown to be their starting quarterback.
It was unclear when, if ever, Manziel would get another shot with the Browns. That shot came much sooner than anybody expected when McCown left the first half of Game 1 of the 2016 season with a head injury.
In came Manziel and he immediately reminded everybody just how exciting he can be on the football field when he has his head on straight.
On his first drive, Manziel scrambled for a 25-yard run when his pocket collapsed. The play was nullified by a penalty for a chop block, but the run was impressive and something few quarterbacks in the NFL can do.
After the penalty, Manziel then hit Travis Benjamin in stride down the left sideline.
Amazingly, for all Manziel has been through in the NFL, this was his first career touchdown pass and it was a beauty, going for 54 yards.