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Kyle Busch finally wins again at Watkins Glen

Driver Kyle Busch, center, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, at The Glen Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Driver Kyle Busch, center, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, at The Glen Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Kyle Busch celebrates in Victory Lane after winning a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, at The Glen on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Military personnel hold a large flag as fireworks go off during ceremonies before the start of a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at The Glen, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Kyle Busch (18) drives during a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at The Glen, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Clint Bowyer (15) leads a group of racers during a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at The Glen Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) ? There was no slipup on the final lap this time, so Kyle Busch's victory celebration at Watkins Glen International was as sweet as it gets.

Bumped aside a year ago by Brad Keselowski on the final lap as they sped around an oil-covered track, Busch held the reigning Sprint Cup champion at bay on a two-lap dash to the checkered flag Sunday.

Busch kept his foot on the accelerator a tad longer than usual during his postrace burnout, even sticking half his body out the window while smoke swirled all around and the tires kept churning.

"A big sigh of relief, just a deep breath. Whew!" said Busch, who also was victimized two years ago while leading on a green-white-checkered finish and finished third. "I was just trying to take it all in and figure it all out. The last couple of years here have been tough, and today it could have been tough again."

Keselowski finished second in this race for the third straight time, and challenged Busch on the final lap, pulling to his rear bumper at one point. There was no bump this time.

"We had a shot at it," Keselowski said. "I was going to have to wreck him to really get it, and I didn't want to do that. There's racing and there's wrecking. Those are two different things.

"Everybody defines them a little differently, and I guess that's the code you live your life by. If I was going to take out Kyle, it would have been wrecking in my mind, and there's a distinct difference."

Racing can be all about luck sometimes, and Busch couldn't get much luckier than he was on this day.

Polesitter Marcos Ambrose dominated the race, leading 51 laps, but his good fortune ? he was seeking his third straight Cup win at The Glen ? finally ran out just past the halfway point of the 90-lap race.

Crew chief Dave Rogers was planning to have Busch pit on lap 60, but his crew noticed fluid on the track and brought the No. 18 Toyota in a lap early. Busch was in the pits when a caution flew and Ambrose had to pit under yellow, losing his spot to Busch at the front.

"That was a game-changer right there," said Busch, who won from the pole in 2008 at The Glen.

Busch held on through a series of cautions over the final 28 laps. Ambrose, who restarted 12th, crashed late trying to make a run with an ill-handling car and finished 23rd. He entered the race with an average finish of second in five previous starts at Watkins Glen and also had won all three Nationwide races he'd entered at the storied road course in upstate New York.

"That's just the way it goes," Ambrose said. "We put on a strong showing. It wasn't our day, but we've had plenty of good days here."

The field didn't have to worry about five-time Watkins Glen winner Tony Stewart. The man known as Smoke is out indefinitely after breaking two bones in his right leg last Monday night in a sprint car race in Iowa. Stewart, who has undergone two surgeries, saw his streak of 521 consecutive Cup starts come to an end. Max Papis drove Stewart's No. 14 Chevrolet on Sunday and finished 15th.

Several drivers had stickers on their cars honoring Stewart with the message: "Get Well Smoke 14."

Martin Truex Jr. was third, followed by Carl Edwards and Juan Pablo Montoya. Clint Bowyer, Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch and AJ Allmendinger rounded out the top 10.

Jeff Gordon entered the race with momentum in ninth place in the points standings after a second last week at Pocono, but his day was ruined early with a wreck on lap 15. The four-time Watkins Glen winner finished 36th and dropped to 13th in the standings with four races to go until the Chase for the Sprint Cup title starts.

The top 10 drivers in points and the drivers from 11th to 20th with the most wins earn wild-card berths for the 10-race postseason. Kurt Busch moved into 11th place, just two points behind Truex and only four behind ninth-place Greg Biffle.

Ambrose was unchallenged for the lead through the first half of the race, building a margin of nearly 3 seconds over Kyle Busch, who started fifth and was up to second by lap 21.

Busch had been unable to close on Ambrose before a red flag flew midway through the race and was focused on the No. 9 Richard Petty Motorsports Ford in front.

"They're better," Busch said of Ambrose. "I'm trying to figure out where I'm getting beat. He's been driving away."

On the ensuing restart on lap 43, Ambrose again sailed clear of the field, building a cushion of 3.5 seconds over Busch as the final pit stops loomed.

The complexion of the race changed when Aric Almirola blew a right front tire and slid off course into a tire barrier, bringing out that fateful caution.

When the race restarted, Busch was in front with Keselowski third and Ambrose 12th, and the car that had dominated the race out front became just ordinary in traffic, unable to move forward. Nine laps after the restart and struggling, Ambrose had picked up only one spot and trailed Busch by nearly 10 seconds.

Truex managed to pass Busch on lap 65, but Busch banged past him in the Inner Loop seconds later and Keselowski followed into second. Keselowski stayed close for a while, but Busch began to pull away just as he had a year ago when oil spoiled his day.

"It was a really, really sticky situation last year, and it wasn't all Brad's fault," Busch said. "There was oil on the race track, but Brad's the one that spun us out. It eventually cost us being able to make the Chase. I figured maybe he could do some of the same again, but he kept it clean today."

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Oregon delays wide access to Obamacare insurance exchange

By Sharon Begley

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The online insurance exchange that Oregon established under President Barack Obama's healthcare law will not allow residents to sign up for coverage on their own when enrollment begins nationwide on October 1, state officials say.

The state is the first to say it won't be open for all comers by that date, raising concerns that other states running their own "Obamacare" exchanges might also be struggling.

The decision by Oregon, an enthusiastic supporter of the Affordable Care Act, gives ammunition to opponents who have warned of an Obamacare "train wreck."

Instead of enrolling in health insurance online themselves, at least through mid-October Oregonians will need the help of an insurance broker or an aide trained by the state to log on, Cover Oregon spokeswoman Lisa Morawski said on Friday.

They also will need assistance to see what policies are available, and to determine which federal subsidies they might be eligible for.

"This approach will give Cover Oregon the ability to iron out the technology, customer service and other internal processes during the first few weeks of October before consumers begin applying on their own," Morawski said. "It also will prevent the system from being overloaded in its first weeks."

Experts working with the state exchanges, as well as the Government Accountability Office and the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), have warned that the massive effort to build new online insurance marketplaces in all 50 states may not be ready by October 1.

Efforts to get people without health insurance to buy a policy through their state exchange, as required under the Affordable Care Act, have emphasized that the process would be fast and easy: log on, enter personal information such as address and income, and in real time the system would show you a list of available policies and tell you what they would cost after federal subsidies.

HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters said, "There will be a marketplace open in every state on October 1, where families can comparison shop for quality, affordable health coverage."

The delay, Cover Oregon chief information officer Aaron Karjala told Reuters, reflects "concerns about the capacity of the exchange as a whole, not just the technology but also the people."

"We're not worried about IT capacity," he said. "We have enough to run the stock exchange."

Instead, officials worry that too many people trying to enroll in coverage will phone the state's Obamacare call center, which has about 50 full-time employees and plans for up to 100 more.

About 550,000 state residents are uninsured.

"The largest choke point and the biggest constraint is the limited number of people in the call center," Karjala said. "People might need a lot of help" when they try to enroll, "which could mean fairly long calls."

Oregon has trained about 1,000 agents and about 800 community partners, Morawski said. Each will be given a secured account allowing them to log on to Cover Oregon and help someone buy insurance.

"This strikes me as something that most states probably would want to do, because they don't want bad stories in the press about how the exchange didn't work and people were disappointed - which is virtually inevitable in the early weeks," said Joe Antos of the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

"So this seems to be a pretty prudent move on Oregon's part. They can say they did everything in their power to avoid leaving Joe Public baffled by an admittedly complicated system."

(Reporting by Sharon Begley and David Morgan; Editing by Xavier Briand)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-delays-wide-access-obamacare-insurance-exchange-201315935.html

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iPhone 5S Champagne parts arrive upstream

This afternoon a new set of parts ? and therefor clues ? have arrived in the upstream iPhone parts market indicating a new color combination for the next-generation iPhone 5S. This device will be delivered with a body and set of specifications very similar to the iPhone 5, coming some time this year with what?s likely to be a next-generation processor and camera setup. Hardware appearing today suggests that a new option for coloring will be appearing as well, right in-between white and black with a rather unforeseen shade of Champagne.

While there?s a distinct possibility that these little bits of hardware could be created by the site to fool consumers into believing there?s a new version of the iPhone being delivered soon, the source that supplies these pieces has a history of doing nothing of the sort. These volume buttons come from Luna, aka ?Luna Commerce?, a self-proclaimed ?supplier from upstream.? They?ve appeared more than once quite recently in mainstream tech news due to their delivery of several ?iPhone 5C? parts as well.

Those volume and rotation lock parts showed this ?budget? iPhone to be working with at least four different color back panels: red, green, yellow, and blue. What we?re to believe here with the upcoming iPhone 5S is that Champagne will be joining the likes of the current iPhone?s standard black and white color choices.

Another bit to be wary of is the possibility that though the source suggests that this set of buttons is indeed ?official? as the rest of their future-release parts are, there?s always the chance that they?ve expanded beyond custom-made iPhone home buttons. Luna Commerce also plays host to a ?color your own iPhone? service which sells colorful glass backs and fronts to the iPhone 4/4S, as well as a variety of home button iterations.

So pay heed ? you may soon be seeing an iPhone on the high end with the strangest combination of metal rims and front/back colors you?ve ever seen. How real is the possibility of a Champagne iPhone? Just as real as the possibility of a red, green, yellow, or blue iPhone 5C.

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Movie review: Chennai Express starts well but goes off track quickly ...

By Suprateek Chatterjee

At some point during the third act of Chennai Express, the latest sure-to-be-a-moneyspinner from director Rohit ?Midas touch? Shetty, it becomes painfully apparent that part of the film is a tribute to Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, as re-imagined by Shetty. As you sit through the climax, which features Shah Rukh Khan getting beaten to a pulp by Parmeet Set?oops, I mean Nikitin Dheer (who plays love-interest rival Tangaballi), you?re already drawing parallels to DDLJ?s iconic final scene. Props for nostalgia value.

And then, the movie ends. The final words of Khan?s narrative voice-over are: ?Kyunki dilwale dulhaniya le jaayenge.? Groan. Captain Obvious called, he says hello.
This is Shetty?s mission statement ? to make sure that if there are two people in a theatre of 300 who didn?t get the joke/reference/pun he?s been hammering in, he?s going to make damn sure those two don?t go home confused. It?s almost like he?s paraphrasing a line from Paresh Rawal?s character in Andaaz Apna Apna and telling the audience: ?Director main hoon, joke idhar hai.?

Chennai Express

Every director belonging to the mainstream Bollywood brat-pack does this, of course, but it drives me especially nuts when Shetty follows suit. Because the guy really knows his craft, from a commercial cinema point of view. He knows his set pieces. He knows how to use a sweeping helicopter shot to make a moment seem grand and then follow it with a jerky, handheld shot so that it still seems gritty (so what if he?s taken a leaf out of Michael Bay?s book). He knows how to add a touch of quirkiness to everything. He?s good at being irreverent and taking pot-shots, especially at himself.

He just doesn?t know when to stop.

Chennai Express starts off on an agreeable note, with Khan (you know he?s called Rahul) narrating the back-story of his character: a 40-year-old man-child who handles his family?s mithai business. Orphaned at a young age, he has been brought up mostly by a doting, cricket-loving grandfather (a delightful cameo by the venerable Lekh Tandon). When Dadaji suddenly passes away, Khan must go to Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu (this is important because Shetty proceeds to treat all of South India as a single geographical entity) to scatter his ashes.

Along the way, he meets Meena (Deepika Padukone), who is the South Indian every woman ? basically, an attractive, doe-eyed version of Bhavana Balsaver?s character from Zabaan Sambhal Ke. She?s the daughter of a don and running away from home to escape an arranged marriage.

To be fair, the first act is tolerable and at times even enjoyable, especially if you go in with rock-bottom expectations (as I did). It has a whimsical, John Hughes-like quality to it; reminiscent of early ?90s Hollywood comedies like Home Alone and Mrs Doubtfire ? cheesy, but tolerably so. Khan hams, but every now and then he ad-libs and deadpans successfully. I found myself laughing out loud more than a couple of times, albeit with palm planted firmly on face. Padukone is actually quite good and far more consistent than Khan as an actor in Chennai Express. The pair have great chemistry and there are a few old-school Bollywood moments that work.

But trust good ol? Bollywood excess and relentless North-Indian-centric stereotyping to ruin the party ? although, if it?s any consolation, it could have been much worse. Since the material is slight and familiar, the story essentially ends up limping from gag to gag. Predictably enough, Chennai Express starts going off the rails around the one-hour mark and, towards the end, sputters and dies like Archie Andrews?s jalopy.

Shetty, of course, takes care to pull entire sequences out of his tried-and-tested bag of tricks (it?s a telling sign when the audience applauds at the first sign of a car turning turtle in slow motion) and saves the day every now and then. But all the shock and awe in the world can?t hide the fact that he is running out of ideas.

Suprateek Chatterjee is editor of Visual Disobedience, a community for emerging indie artists, and a freelance writer. In his spare time, he likes to compose music with his electro-rock band Vega Massive and his Twitter handle is @SupraMario.

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Source: http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/movie-review-chennai-express-starts-well-but-goes-off-track-soon-enough-1022253.html

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