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1 0.9 Not all the Standing Rock Sioux are protesting the pipeline STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N. D. -- Ask around and you'll hear stories (9.82/10) of pipeline protesters who've traveled great distances. They've come from Japan, Russia and Germany. Australia, Israel and Serbia. And, of course, there... 2016-10-29 19:36 7KB myfox8.com

2 3.6 Flawless Matsuyama retains three-shot lead in Shanghai (3.12/10) Oct 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Hideki Matsuyama turned in his first flawless round of the WGC-HSBC Champions on Saturday to head into the final day's play with a... 2016-10-29 10:30 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

3 3.7 Japanese championship second stage results and standings

(1.35/10) Oct 29 (Gracenote) - Results and standings from the Japanese championship Second Stage matches on Saturday Saturday, October 29 FC Tokyo 1 Vegalta Sendai 0 G... 2016-10-29 07:11 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

4 1.5 Nissan car plant investment brings pressure on ministers to reveal assurances Ministers are coming under renewed pressure to explain what assurances were given to the Japanese car giant Nissan that persuaded it to pour new investment i... 2016-10-29 17:18 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk

5 0.0 NASCAR Camping World Truck Texas Roadhouse 200 Lineup After Saturday qualifying; race Saturday At Martinsville Speedway Martinsville, Va. Lap length: 0.526 miles Car number in parentheses 1. (71) , , 96.254 mph. 2. (51) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 95.922. 3. (00) Cole Custer,… 2016-10-29 15:47 2KB wtop.com

6 1.8 Former Yankee Laird leads Nippon Ham to Japan Series title Former New York Yankees infielder Brandon Laird hit a grand slam in the eighth inning on Saturday as the Nippon Ham Fighters beat the Hiroshima Carp 10-4 to win the Japan Series in six games. 2016-10-29 14:42 1KB www.charlotteobserver.com 7 0.7 Melbourne Cup barrier draw sees Japanese horse Curren Mirotic draw unlucky 18 Japanese raider Curren Mirotic will have to defy all the odds to win the Melbourne Cup after being drawn in barrier 18 (pictured). The favourites will start from preferable gates on Tuesday. 2016-10-29 11:17 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

8 3.3 Urawa beats Jubilo to maintain 1st place overall in Japan The Urawa Reds beat Jubilo Iwata 1-0 Saturday to secure the J-League's second- stage title and maintain first place in the overall standings. 2016-10-29 08:42 1KB www.charlotteobserver.com

9 0.9 TIFFCOM: VR Lingerie Shows and a Zoetrope Simulation Get Tokyo Tryouts TOKYO – “This has been called the first year of virtual reality,” said Motoo Kawabata, a software producer at VR content maker PolygonMagic. At this year’s Tokyo Film Festival market (TIFFCOM,) whi… 2016-10-29 07:58 3KB variety.com

10 1.0 Fearing God's Wrath, Philippine President Vows To Stop Swearing MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has made a promise to stop swearing, saying God spoke to him during a flight from Japan on Thursday and warned him the plane would crash if he k... 2016-10-29 07:08 752Bytes article.wn.com

11 1.4 Wayne Gardner forced to pay nearly $4k to end his 12-day Japanese jail hell 1987 world motorcycle champion Wayne Gardner, known as the Wollongong Whiz during his racing career, has finally arrived back in Australia after spending nearly two weeks in prison in Japan. 2016-10-29 04:53 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

12 0.4 Correction: Zika-Florida story In a story Oct. 27 about efforts to control the Zika virus in Florida, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Miami Beach has been cleared of Zika-carrying mosquitoes. Miami Beach is still considered an active transmission zone. A corrected version of the story is below... 2016-10-29 04:41 1KB article.wn.com

13 0.5 Matt Hagan leads NHRA Funny Car qualifying in Las Vegas Matt Hagan topped Funny Car qualifying Friday in the NHRA Toyota Nationals, breaking the track time record with a 3.872-second pass at 329.18 mph in a Dodge Charger. "I think today was pretty cool because we had... 2016-10-29 03:29 1KB lasvegassun.com Articles

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1 /13 0.9 Not all the Standing Rock Sioux are protesting the pipeline (9.82/10) STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N. D. — Ask around and you’ll hear stories of pipeline protesters who’ve traveled great distances.

They’ve come from Japan, Russia and Germany. Australia, Israel and Serbia. And, of course, there are the allies, not exclusively Native American or indigenous, who’ve flocked here from all corners of the US.

Together they stand in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billion investment to move 470,000 barrels of domestic crude oil a day through four states. They’re fighting against what they see as corporate greed, an environmental threat and an assault on sacred land.

Demonstrating is their proud daily work.

The Standing Rock Sioux call this reservation home, and many are not on the frontlines of this months-long, and at times violent, protest. With no end in sight, what does it mean to them? And are they even united in their support?

The answer to that last question: Not even close.

Wishing they’d go home

No one makes this clearer than Robert Fool Bear Sr., 54, district chairman of Cannon Ball. The town he runs, estimated population of 840, is just a few miles from the action. It’s so close that, given the faceoffs with law enforcement, you have to pass through a police checkpoint to reach it.

It’s about time people heard from folks like him, he says.

Fool Bear has had it with the protesters. He says that more than two years ago, when members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe could have attended hearings to make their concerns known, they didn’t care. Now, suddenly, the crowds are out of control, and he fears it’s just a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt.

Go down to the camps, he says, and you won’t see many Standing Rock Sioux.

“It irks me. People are here from all over the world,” he says. “If they could come from other planets, I think they would.” The presence of all these people has become a downright nuisance to his community, he says. Given the roadblocks, residents of Cannon Ball are often forced to go more than 40 miles out of their way.

Not long ago, he found three teenage girls from , Canada, camped out inside his storage shed. A white woman from Spokane, , came to see him for help, saying she’d come here with nothing and her car had broken down. When he was at the casino recently, someone approached him about two young kids who were on their own because their parents had been arrested.

The situation has dissolved to madness, he says, and he wishes Dave Archambault II, the Standing Rock Sioux chairman, would speak up.

“If he had any balls, he’d tell [the protesters] to go home,” Fool Bear says.

And he’s not alone in feeling this way. Two women who listen in as he talks keep nodding in agreement, but they don’t want to speak.

Just look at a recent vote in the community for further proof that Fool Bear’s not the only naysayer. When protest organizers presented a request to build a new winter camp in Cannon Ball earlier this month, his community shot it down.

Of the 88 people who voted, he says 66 were against the camp, less than 10 were for it and the rest remained undecided.

Even though Fool Bear is against the protests, that doesn’t mean he’s not preparing to help people out, too. He anticipates opening the community gymnasium for people without beds come winter, and a growing pile of sleeping bags and blankets sits in his office.

Those protesters from Arizona, Georgia and California won’t know what hit them when the cold rushes in, he says.

A fight worth having

The tribal headquarters sits in the Sioux County seat of Fort Yates, nearly 30 miles south of the protests. Driving into the small town, population less than 200, a hand-painted sign announces, “Oil & water don’t mix!”

To hear it from those hanging out in Club Diamond Z, a bar and deli, Standing Rock Sioux support of the protests is universal. They can’t fathom how anyone would disagree.

Artist Roger Valandra, 61, says he travels north to join the protests once a week. A proud Vietnam Vet, he says the freedom to peacefully demonstrate was something he fought for, just like his nieces and nephews who’ve served in Iraq.

To feel suppressed by the nation he’s served offends him. He’s baffled by the flood of law enforcement from nearby states and North Dakota counties he’s never even heard of.

“Don’t they have enough to do?” he wonders.

Any violence, he says, was provoked by them. Valandra and those around him at the bar begin to rattle off the offenses, many of which they heard about through social media. They talk about tear gas, rubber bullets, sound cannons and concussion grenades. They speak about the elder who was beaten with a club, the horse that had to be put down, the boy whose wrist was broken. (CNN could not confirm these stories.)

The crackdown also maddens Valandra’s 25-year-old daughter, Elaina, who works here at “the Z,” as locals call it. She grew up believing racism didn’t exist; not anymore.

She brings up the recent acquittal of Ammon Bundy and six others, who occupied a federal wildlife refuge earlier this year.

“The Bundys were armed to the teeth, and they’re acquitted,” she says.

She pulls up a Facebook post, showing a photo of a number scrawled on a man’s arm after he was arrested Thursday and words likening the treatment to what Nazis once did. Online comments and the stereotyping of her people leave her stunned. She wants people to know this battle isn’t about race.

“It’s about water, not just native people,” she says. “We don’t get another Earth.”

Her father doesn’t question what will happen to the reservation’s water if the pipeline goes in. Just look at the track record of oil companies, he says, and understand that the problem will grow.

“When that water gets contaminated, it’s going to affect everyone from here all the way to the Gulf of Mexico,” he says.

He calls the pipeline a “moneyline” for billionaires who’ll never live on the land their desecrating. It’s just “greed at play,” he says, in a world where nothing is ever enough.

A shrug of indifference

Ten miles west of the protests, a man who doesn’t want to be named, for fear of retribution, admits he looks forward to the pipeline. It’ll mean fewer trucks barreling down these rural highways and fewer trains flying down the tracks.

Back at Cannon Ball, however, Carl Bruce, 52, isn’t afraid to say his piece. For this Standing Rock Sioux who has lived his life here, the pipeline doesn’t matter. If it breaks, he says he’d just work around it.

“Oh hell,” he says. “I can move north of the break and get my water over there.”

The pipeline is coming, like it or not, he says. The world may watch this ongoing battle and believe it’s a unifying force for his people, but Bruce just shrugs his shoulders and walks away.

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2 /13 3.6 Flawless Matsuyama retains three-shot lead in Shanghai

(3.12/10) Oct 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Hideki Matsuyama turned in his first flawless round of the WGC-HSBC Champions on Saturday to head into the final day's play with a three-shot lead over reigning champion Russell Knox. Starting the day with a three-stroke cushion after 19 birdies over the first two rounds, Matsuyama was again in impeccable form at the Sheshan International Golf Club, carding a four-under-par 68 to end the day 17-under for the tournament. The 24-year-old picked up just one shot in his first eight holes but birdies at the ninth, the par-five 14th and the last kept him ahead of the chasing pack at the $9.5 million event. "The first two days, making lots of birdies, it's a lot of fun," the world number 10 said. "But today, when you're in a position to win, playing smart and making no bogeys was very satisfying to me... I think the key for tomorrow's round will be not making any bogeys. " Knox, who won on debut last year, also carded 68, with American Daniel Berger a shot behind him in third place on 13-under after mixing eight birdies and three bogeys in his 67. "I'm not going to give up my title without a big fight tomorrow," said Knox. "The way Hideki played today, he's probably going to play similarly tomorrow. He's an extremely aggressive iron player, and when he's on, he's as good as anyone. I'm going to have to be foot down, be aggressive and try and catch him. " Italy's Francesco Molinari, who won at Sheshan in 2010, started with three birdies in a row and finished with a 68 to tie for fourth place with American Bill Haas (70), five shots off the pace. Haas put pressure on the leader with three birdies over his first six holes to cut Matsuyama's lead to a single shot but dropped a shot before and after the turn and picked up just one more birdie over the back nine. World number three Rory McIlroy also started strongly with birdies on the second, sixth and eighth holes but lost ground with three bogeys on the back nine to end up with a 70. The Northern Irishman has a share of eighth place on nine-under with five others, including British Open champion Henrik Stenson (67) and American Matt Kuchar, whose 68 included a hole-in-one on the shortened par-three 17th. (Reporting by Simon Jennings in Bengaluru) WGC-Champions Hideki Matsuyama remains Knox ready for round of his Matsuyama keeps 3-shot Tournament scores in box seat as Rory McIlroy life as he looks to chase lead at HSBC Champions dailymail.co.uk loses ground down Matsuyama article.wn.com independent.ie independent.ie

Rory McIlroy's WGC-HSBC Champions title challenge fades as Hideki Matsuyama takes a three-shot lead into the final round in Shanghai dailymail.co.uk

2016-10-29 10:30 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

3 /13 3.7 Japanese championship second stage results and standings (1.35/10) Oct 29 (Gracenote) - Results and standings from the Japanese championship Second Stage matches on Saturday Saturday, October 29 FC Tokyo 1 Vegalta Sendai 0 Gamba Osaka 3 Albirex Niigata 1 Jubilo Iwata 0 Urawa Reds 1 Kashima Antlers 0 Kawasaki Frontale 1 Kashiwa Reysol 1 Omiya Ardija 2 Sagan Tosu 2 Yokohama F-Marinos 2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 4 Avispa Fukuoka 1 Shonan Bellmare 1 Ventforet Kofu 0 Vissel Kobe 3 Nagoya Grampus Eight 0 Standings P W D L F A Pts 1 Urawa Reds 16 13 1 2 34 11 40 ------2 Kawasaki Frontale 16 11 1 4 33 21 34 3 Vissel Kobe 16 10 2 4 32 18 32 4 Gamba Osaka 16 9 4 3 28 20 31 5 Omiya Ardija 16 8 6 2 24 17 30 6 Yokohama F-Marinos 16 7 7 2 31 18 28 7 Kashiwa Reysol 16 8 3 5 28 23 27 8 Sagan Tosu 16 7 5 4 25 22 26 9 FC Tokyo 16 8 2 6 22 21 26 10 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 16 7 2 7 25 22 23 11 Kashima Antlers 16 6 2 8 24 23 20 12 Vegalta Sendai 16 6 2 8 19 22 20 13 Ventforet Kofu 16 4 4 8 14 26 16 14 Nagoya Grampus Eight 16 3 4 9 13 26 13 15 Albirex Niigata 16 4 0 12 14 23 12 16 Jubilo Iwata 16 1 7 8 15 27 10 17 Shonan Bellmare 16 2 2 12 9 28 8 18 Avispa Fukuoka 16 2 2 12 15 37 8 1: Championship play-off

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2016-10-29 07:11 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

4 /13 1.5 Nissan car plant investment brings pressure on ministers to reveal assurances Ministers are coming under renewed pressure to explain what assurances were given to the Japanese car giant Nissan that persuaded it to pour new investment into its Sunderland plant following the vote for Brexit. Two former business ministers who have negotiated with the company have said they believed it must have been told Britain would remain a part of the EU customs union or offered mitigation for any new post-Brexit tariffs that were imposed after leaving. Downing Street has insisted Nissan had not been offered any form of "compensation package" and that ministers had simply assured the company of the Government's determination to secure the best possible deal after the UK withdrew. However, the senior Labour MP Chuka Umunna, a leading supporter of the Open Britain campaign, has now written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood requesting the publication of details of the commitments "written or otherwise" which have been given to the firm. "There has been speculation that the Government may have suggested that public money could be used to compensate Nissan, be it in direct aid or through more indirect means. "Others have suggested that ministers may have given an indication about the UK's future role in relation to the customs union or single market," he wrote. "If either are true, they pose huge questions, most importantly what financial support was offered; whether any limit was placed on the public finance available; and whether the same assurances would be extended to other automotive-manufacturers and other sectors, including service sectors. "I am of, course, supportive of the Government's aim to protect our manufacturing base, but it seems extraordinary that the Government would reveal elements of its negotiating strategy to multinational companies when it is at the same time doing its best to keep Parliament and the public in the dark. " There has been intense speculation as to what the company has been promised after Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn announced on Thursday that the "support and assurances" it had received meant it would build the next generation Qashqai and the new X-Trail models in Sunderland. The move was hailed by No 10 as a "vote of confidence" in the UK in the wake of last June's referendum vote to leave the EU, securing 7,000 jobs at the plant and a further 20,000 in the wider economy. It came after Mr Ghosn met Theresa May in Downing Street earlier this month for talks on the company's future in the UK while Business Secretary Greg Clark has also been out to Japan to meet senior figures at the firm. However, the Liberal Democrat former business secretary Sir Vince Cable and Conservative ex-business minister Anna Soubry have both said they believed Nissan would not have gone ahead with the investment unless it had been assured the UK would either remain in the customs union or there would be mitigation for any new tariffs it faced. The Unite trade union said it would be pressing to ensure that whatever assurances had been given to Nissan would apply across the manufacturing sector. "Our members at car and other manufacturing plants across the country rightly are looking for the same job security that appears to have been secured at Nissan though government intervention and investment guarantees," said Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke. "We need similar arrangement across the manufacturing sector to protect workers and secure these crucial high skill, decently paid jobs. " For Labour, shadow business secretary Clive Lewis said: "The public, and the many other businesses and employees facing turbulent times ahead, have a right to know what Nissan was offered to stay in the UK. Secret backroom deals are unfair, unsustainable, and are no way to run an economy. "

2016-10-29 17:18 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

5 /13 0.0 NASCAR Camping World Truck Texas Roadhouse 200 Lineup 1. (71) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 96.254 mph.

2. (51) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 95.922.

3. (00) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 95.903.

4. (29) Tyler Reddick, Ford, 95.883.

5. (21) , Chevrolet, 95.854.

6. (4) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 95.743.

7. (9) William Byron, Toyota, 95.733.

8. (13) Cameron Hayley, Toyota, 95.651.

9. (11) Matt Tifft, Toyota, 95.295.

10. (24) Kaz Grala, Chevrolet, 95.266.

11. (88) , Toyota, 95.208.

12. (8) John H Nemechek, Chevrolet, 94.879.

13. (19) Daniel Hemric, Ford, 95.338.

14. (41) Ben Rhodes, Toyota, 95.333.

15. (20) Austin Hill, Ford, 95.261. 16. (18) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 95.218.

17. (23) Spencer Gallagher, Chevrolet, 95.184.

18. (33) Ben Kennedy, Chevrolet, 95.122.

19. (17) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 95.084.

20. (05) John Wes Townley, Chevrolet, 95.041.

21. (92) Cole Whitt, Ford, 94.581.

22. (63) Kyle Donahue, Chevrolet, 94.242.

23. (81) , Toyota, 94.101.

24. (98) , Toyota, 93.961.

25. (44) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet, 94.157.

26. (49) DJ Kennington, Chevrolet, 93.989.

27. (02) Austin Theriault, Chevrolet, 93.868.

28. (22) Justin Fontaine, Toyota, owner points.

29. (07) Kevin Donahue, Chevrolet, owner points.

30. (66) Joshua Reeves, Chevrolet, owner points.

31. (1) Josh White, Chevrolet, owner points.

32. (50) Travis Kvapil, Chevrolet, owner points.

33. (10) Brad Foy, Chevrolet, 93.258.

34. (45) Casey Smith, Chevrolet, 93.120.

35. (28) Kyle Soper, Chevrolet, 91.469.

36. (62) Donnie Levister, Toyota, 90.013. comments

For decades, even centuries, the ghost bridges of Maryland and Virginia were spectators to history, war and death. Unearth some of their forgotten secrets and ramble under their haunted spans with WTOP’s Dave Dildine as your guide.

2016-10-29 15:47 The Associated wtop.com

6 /13 6 /13 1.8 Former Yankee Laird leads Nippon Ham to Japan Series title Former New York Yankees infielder Brandon Laird hit a grand slam in the eighth inning on Saturday as the Nippon Ham Fighters beat the Hiroshima Carp 10-4 to win the Japan Series in six games.

The Fighters scored two runs in the top of the eighth to break a 4- 4 tie and Laird connected off Hiroshima reliever Jay Jackson to put the game out of reach.

Laird, who was named series MVP, led the Pacific League this season with 39 homers and hit three home runs in the six- game series.

The Pacific League champion Fighters won their third Nippon Professional Baseball championship and their first in 10 years.

The Central League champion Carp were bidding for their first Japan Series championship since 1984.

2016-10-29 14:42 The Associated www.charlotteobserver.com

7 /13 0.7 Melbourne Cup barrier draw sees Japanese horse Curren Mirotic draw unlucky 18 Japanese raider Curren Mirotic will have to defy all the odds to win the Melbourne Cup after drawing the unlucky barrier 18 for Tuesday's big race. No horse has ever won from that starting position since the race first installed barriers back in 1924. And as if that was not enough, Curren Mirotic is trying to become the oldest ever winner of the Melbourne Cup at the grand old age of nine. Only two horses, Toryboy in 1865 and Catalogue in 1938, have ever managed to win the prestigious prize aged eight and none have done it a year older. While it was bad news at the barrier draw for the $26 outsider from Japan, there was better luck for most of the favourites. Hartnell, currently paying $4.50 for the win, was drawn nicely at number 12 - right next to the well-fancied Oceanographer in barrier 11. The Godolphin trained horse booked the final place in the Melbourne Cup with an impressive victory in the Lexus Stakes at Flemington on Saturday. Another strongly-tipped horse, Caulfield Cup winner Jameka, will start from barrier two. Jameka's trainer Ciaron Maher was well pleased with his draw and said: 'I'm very happy with it. It's all up to Nick (jockey Nick Hill) now. 'I have just been rapt with her preparation, she is in super order, she's very bright and she works super. 'I would imagine she would be in the first eight horses out of the start. Nick has so much confidence in this horse, I'm sure he'll ride a positive race. 'Hopefully she has the same turn of speed she showed in the Caulfield Cup. 'To win the Melbourne Cup would mean everything to me. Growing up in Victoria, this race is everything, so it would mean the world.'

2016-10-29 11:17 Josh Hanrahan www.dailymail.co.uk

8 /13 3.3 Urawa beats Jubilo to maintain 1st place overall in Japan The Urawa Reds beat Jubilo Iwata 1-0 Saturday to secure the J-League's second-stage title and maintain first place in the overall standings.

Yuki Muto scored his 12th goal of the season in the 72nd minute as Urawa improved to 73 points, one ahead of Kawasaki Frontale which beat first- stage winners Kashima Antlers 1-0.

The overall points leader will be decided on the final day of the regular season on Thursday when Urawa hosts Yokohama F Marinos and Kawasaki faces Gamba Osaka. The team with the most points heads directly to the league championship final on Nov. 29 and Dec. 3, while the runners-up must face first-stage winners Antlers on Nov. 23.

In other matches, Gamba beat Albirex Niigata 3-1 and Omiya Ardija edged Kashiwa Reysol 2-1.

2016-10-29 08:42 The Associated www.charlotteobserver.com

9 /13 0.9 TIFFCOM: VR Lingerie Shows and a Zoetrope Simulation Get Tokyo Tryouts TOKYO – “This has been called the first year of virtual reality ,” said Motoo Kawabata, a software producer at VR content maker PolygonMagic.

At this year’s Tokyo Film Festival market ( TIFFCOM ,) which ended on Thursday, it was certainly the first year for VR companies – three altogether – to take booths and demonstrate their products. They also pitched products and services still in the development stage.

In PolygonMagic’s case, these included having visitors don a Samsung VR headset and watch an attractive young woman alone in a room showing off her new lingerie. This being 3DVR, the viewer felt that he (or she) was also in that room – an illusion that suggested all sorts of possible uses for the software, which Kawabata admitted “is exactly our intention.”

The company, however, does more than make slightly risqué content. It also shoots and edits VR film to clients’ specifications, develops VR applications and markets an eminently affordable 3D viewer — “only JPY1,000 ($10) at electronics stores in Japan,” Kawabata said.

“We are studying the production of films,” said Kawabata, “but VR filming is totally different from filming with a normal camera. Instead of a sequence of shots, you’re shooting in 360 degrees.”

At TIFFCOM, Kawabata and his colleagues met with buyers from all over Asia and North America. “We’ve had a lot of talk about partnerships and content production,” he said. “We’ll definitely be back next year.”

Also at TIFFCOM was 1-10 Holdings, a company that calls itself a “spatial entertainment agency.” Using VR technology, 1-10 produces installations, games and other content, as well as the artificial intelligence system for Softbank ’s Pepper robot and the ANATOMe 3D body scan system. “We can scan you in a second and animate you in 3D any way we want,” said communications director Michael Lam with a laugh not entirely sinister.

The company has a subsidiary that produces TV commercials and other video content, but 1-10 does not include it in its PR materials. “We are branding ourselves differently,” explained Lam. “But we can call on their expertise when we create video content using our own IP.”

One use of the technology that 1-10 is contemplating is a VR theater featuring music and live performers, but with audience viewing the show through VR headsets. The theater would be circular, but instead of facing the center, the audience would be facing outward and revolving as the show progresses.

The experience would be somewhat like being inside a Zoetrope, watching a live performance in a VR setting. “We would provide the technology and leave the contents of the show up to others,” explains Lam. “There are all sorts of creative possibilities.”

2016-10-29 07:58 Mark Schilling variety.com

10 /13 1.0 Fearing God's Wrath, Philippine President Vows To Stop Swearing MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has made a promise to stop swearing, saying God spoke to him during a flight from Japan on Thursday and warned him the plane would crash if he k...

2016-10-29 07:08 system article.wn.com

11 /13 1.4 Wayne Gardner forced to pay nearly $4k to end his 12-day Japanese jail hell Motorcycle racing legend Wayne Gardner has reacted with fury at having to pay his way out of his nightmare 12-day spell in a Japanese jail. Gardner landed back in Sydney on Saturday, but not before he was forced to hand over nearly $4,000 to secure his release after being arrested for allegedly assaulting three men in a road rage incident near Tokyo. The 57-year-old, who won the 500cc world championship in 1987, was in Japan to watch his teenage son Remy race in the Moto2 race at the Motegi circuit when they were involved in a minor traffic incident. According to reports, the car hired by the Gardners clipped a van occupied by a group of Japenese men who then gave chase. Wayne Gardner is alleged to have assaulted the trio during a subsequent confrontation, which he called a 'misunderstanding', and was then thrown into a police cell in Shimotsuke. The man known as the Wollongong Whiz during his racing career denied the accusations for nearly two weeks, but is believed to have finally admitted guilt and paid a significant fine in order to get himself out of custody. 'It's a stupid system, extortion was the name of the game,' Gardner said. 'I'm speechless about the whole thing, annoyed. To cut you off in communication when your son’s racing and they won’t tell you where he is or how he’s gone, has he crashed? It's horrendous how they treat you.' Gardner's son Remy, 18, had been detained briefly after the incident in Japan due to a driving licence violation, but was released in time to race at Motegi and is also in action this weekend in Malaysia.

2016-10-29 04:53 Neil Martin www.dailymail.co.uk

12 /13 0.4 Correction: Zika-Florida story In a story Oct. 27 about efforts to control the Zika virus in Florida , The Associated Press reported erroneously that Miami Beach has been cleared of Zika-carrying mosquitoes. Miami Beach is still considered an active transmission zone. 2016-10-29 04:41 system article.wn.com

13 /13 0.5 Matt Hagan leads NHRA Funny Car qualifying in Las Vegas

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Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 | 8:29 p.m.

Matt Hagan topped Funny Car qualifying Friday in the NHRA Toyota Nationals, breaking the track time record with a 3.872-second pass at 329.18 mph in a Dodge Charger.

"I think today was pretty cool because we had cloud cover," Hagan said. "The track was tight, it was good out there. The groove is very narrow so you have to watch what you're doing. All in all we had a good day and tomorrow is another day, so we come back out tomorrow and fight hard again and just try to scoop up as much points as we can. "

Leah Pritchett led in Top Fuel, Drew Skillman in Pro Stock, and Jerry Savoie in Pro Stock Motorcycle in the fifth event in the six-race NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship.

Pritchett had a 3.705 pass at 326.63 to break the track time mark, Skillman ran a 6.681 at 204.94 in a Chevrolet Camaro, and Savoie had a 6.904 at 192.66 on a Suzuki.

2016-10-29 03:29 Associated Press lasvegassun.com

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